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2020

Tuesday, December 15th

sounds of Chicago

Little Rootie Tootie (Juli Wood, tenor saxophone; Dustin Laurenzi, tenor saxophone; Katie Ernst, bass; Greg Artry, drums) playing Thelonious Monk, live (performance begins at 13:00), Chicago (Constellation), 12/12/20

 

MVP?

The drummer (Greg Artry): he lifts everybody.

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random sights

other day, Oak Park, Ill.

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farewell! farewell!
hands waving
in the mist

—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue

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2020

Monday, December 14th

alone

Why not begin the week in an abandoned French castle?

Hélène Vogelsinger, “Reminiscence,” live, France, published 11/5/20

 

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other day, Chicago

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Because there is no me
and because I feel
how much there is no me.

—Anna Swir (1909-1984), “A Double Rapture” (translated from Polish by Czesław Miłosz and Leonard Nathan)

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2020

Sunday, December 13th

another take

“Mary Don’t You Weep” (trad.), Caravans (feat. Inez Andrews), 1958

 

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other day, Chicago (Columbus Park)

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The Star’s whole secret – in the Lake –
Eyes were not meant to know.

—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), from 450 (Franklin)

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2020

Friday, December 11th

more

Ela Minus, live (“Porch Song [by Jesse and Forever]/Jamaica”), New York, 2016

 

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yesterday, Chicago (Columbus Park)

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Who has not found the Heaven – below –
Will fail of it above –
For Angels rent the House next ours,
Wherever we remove –

—Emily Dickinson, 1609 (Franklin)

Happy (belated) birthday, Emily (b. December 10, 1830).

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2020

Sunday, December 6th

two takes

“Oh Mary Don’t You Weep” (aka “Mary Don’t You Weep,” trad.)

Huntsville Police Department Blue Notes, live, Huntsville, Ala., 2008

 

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Swan Silvertones (feat. Claude Jeter), 1958

 

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other day, Oak Park, Ill.

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My travels haven’t changed me a bit
My eyeballs are still where they were before—
right beneath my eyebrows

—Ryokan, 1758-1831 (translated from Chinese by Ryuichi Abe and Peter Haskell, Great Fool: Zen Master Ryokan)

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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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random sights

other day, Oak Park, Ill.

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Even this mountain
moss grows flowers all its own—
thus nature bestows

—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), translated from Japanese by Sam Hamill

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2020

Friday, December 4th

sounds of Colombia

Ela Minus, live (studio), Colombia (Bogota), published 9/10/20

 

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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.

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On the street corner
the blind musician dances,
fan held high overhead

—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), translated from Japanese by Sam Hamill

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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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other day, Chicago (Columbus Park)

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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

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2020

Sunday, November 15th

three more takes

“The Storm Is Passing Over” (C. Tindley, D. Vails)

Unidentified church and lead singer, 2011

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Randall Nunn, 2016

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Mt. Mary Primitive Baptist Church, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., 2011

 

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random sights

yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.

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Clear sky—
the way I came by once
I now go back by.

—Gitoku, 1754 (translated from Japanese; Yoel Hoffmann, Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death (1986))

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2020

Sunday, November 8th

sounds of Detroit

Detroit Mass Choir, “The Storm Is Passing Over” (C. Tindley, D. Vails), live, Detroit, 2001

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yesterday, Chicago

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No matter how hard
I try, I can’t stop thinking
of my old village

—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), translated from Japanese by Sam Hamill

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