Saturday, October 7th
what’s new
Meshell Ngdegeocello, “The Atlantiques” (with Jeff Parker [guitar], Josh Johnson [saxophone], et al.), published 10/3/23
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Copper Harbor, Michigan (Lake Superior)
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: miscellaneous keyboards
2023
Wednesday, September 13th
timeless
Returning to a record after years away, both you and it are new.
Miles Davis (1926-1991, trumpet), In a Silent Way (with Wayne Shorter [1933-2023], soprano saxophone; John McLaughlin [1942- ], electric guitar; Chick Corea [1941-2021], electric piano; Herbie Hancock [1940-], electric piano; Joe Zawinul [1932-2007], electric piano, organ; Dave Holland [1946-], bass; Tony Williams [1945-1997], drums), 1969
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lagniappe
reading table
nothing left of the house
I was born in
fireflies—Taneda Santoka (1882-1940), translated from the Japanese by Burton Watson
2023
Tuesday, September 12th
like nothing else
Love in Exile (Arooj Aftab [vocals], Vijay Iyer [keyboards], Shahzad Ismaily [electronics, bass]), live (“Eyes of the Endless”), Washington, D.C., 2023
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art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago (Van Gogh and the Avant-Garde: The Modern Landscape)
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), By the Seine (1887), detail
2023
Wednesday, April 26th
voices I miss
C’est Trois (Jaimie Branch [6/17/83–8/22/22], trumpet, keyboards; Luke Stewart, bass; Tcheser Holmes, drums), live, New York, 6/23/22
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Chicago
2023
Saturday, April 8th
sounds of Buenos Aires
Juana Molina (1961-, voice, guitar, keyboards, electronics, compositions) with Diego López de Arcaute (drums, percussion), live, Buenos Aires (CCK [Centro Cultural Kirchner]), 2022
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random sights
yesterday, Chicago
2023
Saturday, February 25th
sounds of New York
D’Angelo (vocals, keyboards) with Questlove (drums), covering “Tell Me if You Still Care” (S.O.S. Band, 1983), live, New York (Brooklyn Bowl), 2013
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2022
Tuesday, December 20th
voices I miss
(Jaimie Branch [6/17/83–8/22/22], trumpet, keyboards; Luke Stewart, bass; Tcheser Holmes, drums), live, New York, 6/23/22
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lagniappe
reading table
Talk is a way of not looking.
—Ann Lauterbach (1942-), from “Then Suddenly”
2022
Monday, December 5th
like nobody else
John Zorn (composition, alto saxophone, direction) with Marc Ribot (guitar), Kenny Wollesen (vibraphone), Jamie Saft (keyboards), Trevor Dunn (bass), Cyro Baptista (percussion), Joey Baron (drums): “Karaim,” France (Marciac), 2010
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random sights
this morning, Chicago
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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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
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reading table
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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radio
Today, Thelonious Monk’s birthday, it’s all Monk, all day at WKCR (Columbia University).
2022
Thursday, August 11th
like nobody else
Sun Ra (1914-1993, Fender Rhodes electric piano), live (“Love in Outer Space,” “Haverford Impromptu #1,” “Rhapsody in Blue,” “St. Louis Blues,” “Space is the Place / Over the Rainbow,” “Haverford Impromptu #2”), followed by Walt Dickerson (1928-2008, vibraphone), Haverford College (Pennsylvania), 1980
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random sights
other day, Chicago
music clip of the day 