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2022

Wednesday, November 16th

sounds of New York

Sylvie Courvoisier Chimeara (SC, piano, compositions; Nate Wooley, trumpet; Christian Fennesz, guitar, electronics; Drew Gress, bass; Kenny Wollesen, drums, vibraphone), live (performance begins at 19:00), New York, last night

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A bird is organized so that it is unnecessary
to assume an immeasurable substance
inside its body that remains after its death.

—Nachoem M. Wijnberg (1961-), from “Analysis and Organization” (translated from the Dutch by David Colmer)

(Taking a break.)

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2022

Saturday, October 29th

sounds of New York

Being & Becoming (Peter Evans, trumpet, piccolo trumpet; Joel Ross, vibraphone; Nick Jozwiak, bass; Michael Shekwoaga Ode, drums), “Body and Soul” (1930; J. Green, et al.), live, New York (Sisters, Brooklyn), 8/25/22

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random sights

this morning, Oak Park, Ill.

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There are things
We live among ‘and to see them
Is to know ourselves’.

—George Oppen (1908-84), from “Of Being Numerous”

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2022

Friday, October 28th

what’s new—and old

Andrew Bird (feat. Phoebe Bridgers), “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain” (Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886), published yesterday

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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.

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2022

Monday, October 24th

what’s new

The Crossing, live, Washington, D.C., published today: Shara Nova (1974-), from “Titration” (“Turn Ya Head,” “Safety in Peril or Calm,” “I’m So Mad I Could Spit Nails,” “Pulses”), 2022

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In the small beauty of the forest
The wild deer bedding down—
That they are there!

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

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(Taking a break—back in a while.)

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2022

Thursday, October 20th

sounds of Leeds

NikNak (DJ/Turntablist), live (We Out Here Festival), Leeds (England), 2021

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the rain falls
that had not been falling
and it is the same world

—George Oppen (1908-1984), from “Of Being Numerous”

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2022

Monday, October 17th

timeless

Les McCann (1935-, piano, vocals) and Eddie Harris (1934-1996, tenor saxophone), “Compared to What” (G. McDaniels), live, Montreux Jazz Festival (Switzerland), 1969

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random sights

other day, Chicago

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If you want to rob a bank, it really is best to start with a small one because then you might remember what you wanted to say once you’re inside.

—Nachoem M. Wijnberg (1961-), from “Can You Ask Your Banker, or Another Banker Who’s Still Awake, to Quickly Get Some Cheap Money, but a Great Deal, Not a Little?” (translated from the Dutch by David Colmer)

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2022

Monday, October 10th

like nothing else

“Old Man Dancing” (Carla Bley, 1936-): Chet Doxas (clarinet, tenor saxophone), Carla Bley (piano), Karen Mantler (keyboard), Steve Swallow (bass), 2020

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random sights

yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.

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This is the point in prefaces where I customarily say something nice about my wife. This time, however, I can’t think of anything that even comes anywhere near doing her justice. Her name is Susan Patek Booth.

Berkeley, California
May 3, 1997

—Stephen Booth (1933-2020), from Precious Nonsense: The Gettysburg Address, Ben Jonson’s Epitaphs on His Children, and Twelfth Night (1998)

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Today, Thelonious Monk’s birthday, it’s all Monk, all day at WKCR (Columbia University).

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2022

Wednesday, October 5th

never enough

Sometimes, as happened yesterday when I stumbled upon this, music increases the amount of available oxygen.

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II, excerpt (Prelude and Fugue No. 3 in C-sharp major); Christine Schornsheim (harpsichord), published 10/4/22

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We are here to listen.

—W. S. Graham (1918-1986), from “The Greenock Dialogues”

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2022

Sunday, September 11th

timeless

“Quartet of unidentified incarcerated men at Cummins State Farm (now Cummins Unit), Gould, Arkansas, recorded by John A. Lomax on May 21, 1939, under the auspices of the Archive of Folk Song, Library of Congress. Photo of baptism at Cummins, 1953, from the University of Arkansas-Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture.”—Alan Lomax Archive, YouTube

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Bats have no bankers and they do not drink
and cannot be arrested and pay no tax
and, in general, bats have it made.

—John Berryman (1914-1972, MCOTD Hall of Fame), from Dream Song #63

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2022

Thursday, September 8th

more

Camila Nebbia (tenor saxophone), Michael Formanek (bass), Vinny Sperrazza (drums), live, New York (Downtown Music Gallery), 8/28/22

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random sights

other day, Chicago

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Life is not made for meetings;
like stars at opposite ends of the sky we move.

—Tu Fu (aka Du Fu, 712-770), from “Presented to Wei Pa, Gentleman in Retirement,” translated from the Chinese by Burton Watson (The Columbia Book of Chinese Poetry, 1984)

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