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2023

Friday, March 17th

tonight in Chicago

They’re playing at Constellation.

Dave Douglas (trumpet) and Elan Mehler (piano) with Dominique Eade (vocals), John Gunther (reeds), et al: “If There Are Mountains” (D. Douglas with words by Santoka Taneda [1882-1950], translated from the Japanese by John Stevens: “If there are mountains, I look at the mountains; / On rainy days I listen to the rain. / Spring, summer, autumn, winter. / Tomorrow too will be good. / Tonight too will be good.”), studio, 2020

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random sights

other day, Oak Park, Ill.

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2023

Saturday, March 11th

sounds of South Korea

파란노을 (Parannoul), 우리는 밤이 되면 빛난다 (We Shine at Night), 1/10/23

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random sights

other day, Chicago

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reading table

[T]here’s a lot of fun to be had in the gaps between ideas.

—John Ashbery (1927-2017), from “My Philosophy of Life”

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2023

Saturday, February 4th

like nothing else

Live (performance begins at 4:30), New York and San Diego, 2/2/23

New York: Fay Victor (voice), Ingrid Laubrock (saxophone), Patricia Brennan (vibraphone)

San Diego: Michael Dessen (trombone), Joshua White (piano), Mark Dresser (bass), Gerald Cleaver (drums)

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random sights

other day, Oak Park, Ill.

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reading table

We are the main character in the story of our life, and we claim our story is absolutely true, but it’s always edited, if not entirely false.

—author Aleksandar Hemon (1964-, interview), New City, February 2023

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2023

Tuesday, January 17th

like nobody else

Morton Feldman (1926-1987, MCOTD Hall of Fame), For Bunita Marcus (1985): Sabine Liebner (piano), 2007

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Ultimately the air / Is bare sunlight where must be found / The lyric valuables.

—George Oppen (1908-1984), from “From Disaster”

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2023

Friday, January 13th

sounds of London (and Kingston)

Pinty Ricketts (DJ), playing “Big Big Boss” (Johnny Moore [1960s]), London (The Night Owl), 12/4/22

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reading table/passings

The more I read, the less I understand.

—Charles Simic (May 9, 1938–January 9, 2023), from “Serving Time” (New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012)

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2023

Thursday, January 12th

more

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), The Musical Offering: Le Concert des Nations (Jordi Savall, cond.), published 2018

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Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful / thing in the world

—George Oppen (1908-1984), from “Route”

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2022

Thursday, December 29th

never enough

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Violin Sonata No. 3 in C major, 3rd Movt. (Largo): Christian Tetzlaff (1966-, violin), Berlin, 2013

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It’s good now and then
to go out snow-viewing
until I tumble

—Matsuo Basho (1644-94), from “The Knapsack Notebook” (translated from the Japanese by Sam Hamill)

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2022

Monday, December 26th

untying imaginary knots

Josh Berman Quartet (JB, cornet; Ben Goldberg, clarinet; Devin Hoff, bass; Jordan Glenn, drums), live, San Francisco (Red Poppy Art House), 2009

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This is on a day
when I want to say all kinds of things three times,
and: silence, silence, silence,
as if it were music,
someone else’s who doesn’t know it.

—Nachoem M. Wijnberg (1961-), from “I Love Life” (translated from the Dutch by David Colmer)

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2022

Wednesday, December 21st

timeless

Gil Scott-Heron (1949-2011) And His Amnesia Express, “The Bottle” (G. Scott-Heron, B. Jackson), live, Jamaica (Reggae Sunsplash), 1983

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The hollow of morning
Holds my soul still
As water in a jar

—Samuel Menashe (1925-2011)

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2022

Thursday, December 8th

alone

Antoine Tamestit (1979-, viola), Paris, 5/16/20: Max Reger (1873-1916), Solo Suite No. 1 in G-minor (1915)

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You would want to be an awful fool not to know that we only bloom once.

—writer Colm Toibin (1955-) quoting writer John McGahern (1934-2006), from a conversation shortly before his death (London Review of Books, 1/27/22)

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