Saturday, August 27th
timeless
Fats Waller (1904-1943), “I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter” (F. Ahlert & J. Young), 1935
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: jazz
2016
Monday, August 22nd
wake up!
Albert Ayler (1936-1970), live, Europe, 1966
2016
Thursday, August 18th
tonight in Chicago
These guys will be playing at Elastic.
Dave Rempis (saxophones) & Tim Daisy (percussion), live, Copenhagen, 2014
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lagniappe
random sights
this morning, Chicago (Columbus Park)
2016
Wednesday, August 17th
passings
Bobby Hutcherson, vibraphonist, January 27, 1941-August 15, 2016
“Herzog” (R. Hutcherson), live, France (Antibes), 1969*
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
Speaking in recent years, Mr. Hutcherson was fond of citing a bit of insight from an old friend. “Eric Dolphy said music is like the wind,” he told The San Francisco Chronicle in 2012. “You don’t know where it came from, and you don’t know where it went. You can’t control it. All you can do is get inside the sphere of it and be swept away.”
—New York Times obituary, 8/17/16
radio
WKCR-FM (Columbia University) is featuring his music until 3 p.m. (EST).
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*With Harold Land (tenor saxophone), Stanley Cowell (piano), Reggie Johnson (bass), Joe Chambers (drums).
2016
Thursday, July 21st
sounds of New York
Dre Hocevar Large Ensemble (DH, drums, composition), live, New York, 2015
2016
Saturday, July 16th
sounds of Oslo, Amsterdam, and Chicago
What if your office sounded like this?
Paal Nilssen-Love Trio (PNL, drums, percussion; Ab Baars, clarinet, shakuhachi, tenor saxophone; Ken Vandermark, tenor saxophone, clarinet), live, Oslo, 2011
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lagniappe
random sights
this morning, Chicago (Columbus Park)
The flowers seem not to know—this park’s in one of the city’s most violent neighborhoods (Austin).
2016
Saturday, July 2nd
MCOTD Hall of Fame
Henry Threadgill (1944-, composer, alto saxophonist, flutist, bandleader, 2016 Pulitzer Prize winner), playing and talking, 2010
2016
Tuesday, June 21st
never enough
Thelonious Monk Quartet (TM, piano; Charlie Rouse, tenor saxophone; Larry Gales, bass; Ben Riley, drums), “Rhythm-a-Ning” (T. Monk), live, London, 1966
2016
Friday, June 17th
Feel like floating?
Chick Corea (piano) & Gary Burton (vibraphone)
Live, Washington, D.C., 6/13/16
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lagniappe
random sights
other morning, Chicago (Columbus Park)
2016
Sunday, June 12th
sounds of Chicago
Windy City Spiritualaires with Willie Clayton, “I’m Gonna Run On,” live (music starts at 4:05-), Birmingham, Ala., 2000
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lagniappe
yesterday on Chicago’s south side
Treme Brass Band, Washington Park
