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2018

Tuesday, October 23rd

like nobody else

Rahsaan Roland Kirk (tenor saxophone, clarinet, etc. [1935-1977]) and the Vibration Society (Dick Griffin, trombone; Ron Burton, piano; Vernon Martin, bass; Jerome Cooper, drums; Joe Texidor, percussion), live, Paris, 1970

 

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lagniappe

random sights

yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.

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All the people at the controls are opportunists or gangsters. The sweetness of reason died out of our public life with FDR. There doesn’t even seem to be a normal intelligence at work in the affairs of the nation.

—Tennessee Williams, letter to publisher James Laughlin, April 9, 1947

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2018

Tuesday, October 16th

what’s new

Fay Victor’s SoundNoiseFUNK (FV, vocals, compositions; Joe Morris, guitar; Sam Newsome, soprano saxophone; Reggie Nicholson, drums), live, New York, 10/13/18

 

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I can’t tell you – but you feel it –
Nor can you tell me –

—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), from 164 (Franklin)

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2018

Wednesday, October 3rd

what’s new

One-word review: Wow!

Ingrid Laubrock (tenor saxophone), Brandon Lopez (bass), Francisco Mela (drums), live, New York, 9/30/18

 

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random sights

other day, Elmhurst, Ill. (Prairie Path)

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2018

Saturday, September 29th

tomorrow night in Chicago

He’s playing at the Hyde Park Jazz Festival.

Jason Moran (piano), “Thelonious” (T. Monk), live, Minneapolis, 2009

 

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2018

Wednesday, September 26th

sounds of Chicago

Muhal Richard Abrams (1930-2017), piano, “Young at Heart” (Young at Heart/Wise in Time, 1974)

 

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I’m finite – I cant see –

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This timid life of Evidence
Keeps pleading – “I don’t know” –

—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), from 725 (Franklin)

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2018

Thursday, September 20th

alone

Matthew Shipp (piano), live, New York, 9/13/18

 

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random sights

other day, Oak Brook, Ill. (Dean Nature Sanctuary)

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2018

Tuesday, September 11th

voices I miss

The way a bass should sound—fat, dark, bottomless.

Malachi Favors (1927-2004), live, New York, 2001

 

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2018

Thursday, September 6th

alone

Kris Davis (piano), live, Chicago, 2018 (excerpt)

 

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random sights

other day, Maywood, Ill.

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2018

Thursday, August 30th

Saturday in Chicago

They’re playing, with bassist William Parker and drummer Bobby Kapp, at the Chicago Jazz Festival.

Ivo Perelman (tenor saxophone) & Matthew Shipp (piano), live, New York, 2013

 

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2018

Wednesday, August 29th

Friday in Chicago

They’re playing at the Chicago Jazz Festival.

Chris Speed Trio (CS, tenor saxophone; Chris Tordini, bass; Dave King, drums), live, Italy, 2015

“All of Me” (G. Marks, S. Simons)

 

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“Argento” (C. Speed)

 

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Light was on its way
from nothing
to nowhere.

—Rae Armantrout (1947-), from “Accounts”

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