Wednesday, October 30th
what’s new
Robert Glasper (keyboards, vocals) with T3 (vocals), Chris Dave (drums), et al., J Dilla Tribute, live, New York, 10/25/19
**********
lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: miscellaneous keyboards
2019
Tuesday, August 27th
sounds of New York
Craig Taborn (piano, electronics), Cory Smythe (piano, electronics), “X’s and Y’s,” live, New York, 2018
**********
lagniappe
reading table
SHOE FROM THE WAVES
oh he got a shoe from the waves
—Robert Grenier (1941-), A Day at the Beach (1984)
2019
Monday, May 6th
soundtrack to a dream
Why not begin the week with something new?
Christopher Trapani (1980-), Writing Against Time (2014); Yarn/Wire, live, New York, 2014
2019
Saturday, April 20th
timeless
Wailers (Bob Marley, vocals, guitar; Peter Tosh, vocals, guitar; Bunny Wailer, vocals, percussion, et al.), “Stir It Up” (B. Marley), live (studio), London, 1973
2019
Wednesday, April 10th
sounds of New York
Lily Maase and the Suite Unraveling (LM, guitar, compositions; Jeff Tobias, tenor saxophone, keyboards; Nick Millevoi, bass; Tyshawn Sorey, drums; with guests Val Jeanty, electronics, and Chelsea Baratz, tenor saxophone), live, New York (The Stone), 3/12/19
“Made to Be Broken”
***
“Life at Stylus Point”
**********
lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Chicago
2019
Friday, March 1st
what’s new
The Pedrito Martinez Group (PM, percussion, lead vocals; Sebastian Natal, electric bass, vocals; Jhair Sala, percussion, vocals; Issac Delgado Jr., keyboards, vocals), “Tuvé Una Revelación,” live, Washington, D.C., 2/20/19
**********
lagniappe
random sights
Oak Park, Ill, this morning
*****
random thoughts
March!
2019
Wednesday, February 20th
Feel like floating?
Brian Eno, Thursday Afternoon, 1985 (Jonathan Jolly, video, 2014)
**********
lagniappe
reading table
Nothing in the cry
of cicadas suggests they
are about to die—Matsuo Basho, 1644-1694 (translated from Japanese by Sam Hamill)
2019
Thursday, February 7th
sounds of the Netherlands
Binkbeats (drums, percussion, bass, electronics) feat. Niels Broos (keyboards), “Little Nerves,” live (studio), Netherlands (Utrecht), 2017
**********
lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2019
Saturday, February 2nd
what’s new
Quinsin Nachoff’s Flux (QN, tenor saxophone, composition; David Binney, alto saxophone; Matt Mitchell, piano, keyboards, modular synthesizer; Nat Wood, drums; with guest Jason Barnsely, 1924 Kimball theatre organ), “Bounce,” video by Lee Hutzulak, 1/14/19
**********
lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2019
Wednesday, January 23rd
out of this world
DJ Carl Craig and drummer Francisco Mora play Sun Ra, live, Paris, 2018
