Thursday, December 10th
sounds of New York
Jaimie Branch’s Fly or Die (JB, trumpet, compositions; Lester St. Louis, cello; Anton Hatwich, bass; Chad Taylor, drums), live, New York, 2018
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jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: jazz
2020
Wednesday, December 9th
sounds of New York
Marc Ribot (guitar), Jay Rodriguez (tenor saxophone, flute), Nick Dunston (bass), Chad Taylor (drums), live New York, 2019
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other day, Chicago
2020
Monday, December 7th
Need a break from bleakness?
Why not begin the week with something exuberant?
“A Night in Tunisia” (D. Gillespie); Emmet Cohen Trio (EC, piano; Russell Hall, bass; Kyle Poole, drums) featuring Bruce Harris (trumpet) and Patrick Bartley (alto saxophone), live, published 10/25/20
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other day, Chicago (Columbus Park)
2020
Saturday, December 5th
sounds of Chicago
The Bridge: Separatist Party (Ben LaMar Gay, cornet; Fred Jackson, alto saxophone, flute; Marvin Tate, vocals; Mike Reed, drums, keyboard; Jakob Heineman, bass; Nolan Chin, piano, keyboard), live (performance starts at 13:00), Chicago (Constellation), last night
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reading table
Even this mountain
moss grows flowers all its own—
thus nature bestows—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), translated from Japanese by Sam Hamill
2020
Friday, November 27th
what’s new
How strange, and surprising, this word seems today—”fun.”
Emmet Cohen Trio (EC, piano; Russell Hall, bass; Kyle Poole, drums) featuring Cyrille Aimée (vocals), “La Vie En Rose” (E. Piaf, et al.), live, published 11/6/20
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In cherry blossom
shadows, no one, really, is
a stranger now.—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), translated from Japanese by Sam Hamill
2020
Wednesday, November 18th
sounds of New York
Seraphic Light (Daniel Carter, trumpet, saxophone; Matthew Shipp, piano; William Parker, bass), live (dedicated to visual artist Marilyn Sontag, Carter’s longtime partner), New York, 2018
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2020
Wednesday, November 11th
two takes
“Crepuscule with Nellie” (T. Monk)
Susan Alcorn (pedal steel guitar), live, Baltimore, 11/6/20
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Thelonious Monk (piano), live, Paris, 1969
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other day, outside Chicago (Salt Creek Trail)
2020
Monday, November 2nd
Hop on this train; you won’t want to get off.
Steve Coleman and Five Elements (Steve Coleman, alto saxophone; Jen Shyu, vocals; Jonathan Finlayson, trumpet; Tim Albright, trombone; Reggie Washington, bass; Tyshawn Sorey, drums), live (performance begins at 2:10), France (Amiens), 2005
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gathering dewdrops—
each one
the life of a daughter—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue
2020
Friday, October 30th
sounds of Chicago
Dustin Laurenzi’s Natural Language (DL, tenor saxophone; Jeff Swanson, guitar; Mike Harmon, bass; Charles Rumback, drums), live, Chicago (Constellation), 10/10/20
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2020
Thursday, October 29th
timeless
Charles Mingus Sextet (CM, 1922-1979, bass; Eric Dolphy, 1928-1964, alto saxophone; Clifford Jordan, 1931-1993, tenor saxophone; Johnny Coles, 1925-1987, trumpet; Jaki Byard, 1922-1999, piano; Dannie Richmond, 1931-1988, drums), “So Long Eric” (C. Mingus), live, Norway (Oslo), 1964
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