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Monday, December 21st

Why start the new week with the same old stuff?

Julia Wolfe (1958-), Believing (2001); Bang on a Can All-Stars, live, South Korea (Tongyeong International Music Festival), 2014

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art beat

Regular readers may recognize this drawing, which was posted last year. The artist is a client of mine, Walter Unbehaun, a seventy-something bank robber whose story is told in the January issue of GQ magazine (Kathy Dobie, “The Curious Case of the Homesick Bank Robber”). This drawing makes an appearance:

[H]e’d created a strong bond with his lawyer. He considered ‘Rich’ a friend, giving him two finely wrought pencil sketchings. One was of an ancient and deeply wrinkled Peruvian woman, the other of a plump African woman wearing glasses.

Walter Unbehaun, African Preacher (Kankakee County Jail, 2014)

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2015

Monday, November 30th

sounds of Chicago

More from Living Chicago Blues, Vol. 1 (1978).

Jimmy Johnson Blues Band, “Feel Like Breaking Up Somebody’s Home”

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2015

Sunday, November 22nd

old school

Jackson Southernaires, “Walk Around Heaven,” live, Jackson, Miss., 1990s

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random sights

this morning, Oak Park, Ill. (son’s dog, Roscoe)

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2015

Saturday, November 21st

sounds of Mali and France

Amadou & Mariam with guest Bertrand Cantat, live, France (near Belfort), 2012

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We dream – it is good we are dreaming –
It would hurt us – were we awake –

—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), #584 (Franklin), excerpt

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Wednesday, November 4th

two takes

“I Never Learnt to Share” (J. Blake)

Spektral Quartet (arr. Chris Fisher-Lochhead), live, Chicago, 2015

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James Blake, live, Berlin, 2011

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musical thoughts

When we’re full of music, we’re free of everything else.

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random sights

yesterday, Chicago (Columbus Park)

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2015

Thursday, September 17th

tonight in Chicago

These guys are playing at Constellation.

São Paulo Underground (Rob Mazurek, cornet, electronics; Mauricio Takara, percussion, cavaquinho, electronics; Guilherme Granado, keyboards, electronics, vocals), live, Italy (Pisa), 2012

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2015

Tuesday, September 15th

never enough

Miles Davis (1926-1991), live, England (Isle of Wight Festival), 1970*

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random thoughts

What would it be like to live in a world where the sky was always the same?

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*With Gary Bartz, saxophones; Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea, keyboards; Airto Moreira, percussion; Dave Holland, bass; Jack DeJohnette, drums.

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2015

Friday, July 3rd

only rock ‘n’ roll

Mick Collins (Dirtbombs) with Don Was Detroit All-Star Revue (DW, bass; Randy Jacobs, guitar; Luis Resto, keyboards; Terry Thunder, drums), “Stop,” live, Detroit, 2008

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Bruce Davidson (1933-), New York (Brooklyn), 1959

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2015

Friday, April 3rd

There are all kinds of grooves.

Dengue Fever, “Ghost Voice,” “Tokay,” “Girl from the North,” “No Sudden Moves,” live (studio performance), Seattle, 2/10/15

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Life is full of uncertainties and evil, but sometimes a good meal is enough to get you through even the worst of it.

—Melanie Rehak, Bookforum, April-May, 2015 (reviewing Mystery Writers of America Cookbook: Wickedly Good Meals and Desserts to Die for)