Saturday, February 9th
more
Tim Buckley (1947-1975) with Lee Underwood (guitar), Carter C.C. Collins (percussion), “Sing a Song for You” (T. Buckley), live, Amsterdam (Dutch TV), 1968
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: miscellaneous percussion
2019
Thursday, February 7th
sounds of the Netherlands
Binkbeats (drums, percussion, bass, electronics) feat. Niels Broos (keyboards), “Little Nerves,” live (studio), Netherlands (Utrecht), 2017
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2019
Monday, January 28th
sounds of New York
Marilyn Crispell (piano), Mark Helias (bass), Tyshawn Sorey (drums, percussion), live, New York, 2014
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lagniappe
random sights
this morning, Oak Park, Ill.
2019
Saturday, January 12th
This I could listen to all day.
Morton Feldman (1926-1987, MCOTD Hall of Fame), For Philip Guston (1984); Claire Chase (flute, alto flute, piccolo), Steven Schick (percussion), Sarah Rothenberg (piano, celesta), live, Houston (Rothko Chapel), 2013
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random sights
today, Oak Park, Ill.
2018
Tuesday, October 23rd
like nobody else
Rahsaan Roland Kirk (tenor saxophone, clarinet, etc. [1935-1977]) and the Vibration Society (Dick Griffin, trombone; Ron Burton, piano; Vernon Martin, bass; Jerome Cooper, drums; Joe Texidor, percussion), live, Paris, 1970
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
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reading table
All the people at the controls are opportunists or gangsters. The sweetness of reason died out of our public life with FDR. There doesn’t even seem to be a normal intelligence at work in the affairs of the nation.
—Tennessee Williams, letter to publisher James Laughlin, April 9, 1947
2018
Wednesday, October 10th
this weekend in Chicago
Saturday night they’re playing at the University of Chicago.
Thomas Meadowcroft (1972-), Walkman Antiquarian (2013); Yarn/Wire, live, New York, 2013
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2018
Friday, August 3rd
serendipity
Just stumbled upon this—it’s improved my day immeasurably.
Tan Dun (1957-), Elegy: Snow in June (1991); Third Coast Percussion and Joshua Roman (cello), live, Seattle, 2015
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lagniappe
random sites
other day, Monhegan Island, Maine
2018
Saturday, July 14th
what’s new
Nate Wooley (trumpet), Michael Foster (tenor saxophone), Brandon Lopez (bass), Ben Bennett (percussion), live, New York, 6/21/18
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lagniappe
random sights
last night, Oak Park, Ill.
2018
Saturday, June 9th
street sounds
Dario Rossi (percussion), Amsterdam, 2015
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lagniappe
random sights
last night, Oak Park, Ill.
2018
Wednesday, May 23rd
3n
day two
Trio Da Kali (Hawa Kassé Mady Diabaté, vocals; Mamadou Kouyaté, bass ngoni, vocals; Fodé Lassana Diabaté, balafon), live (studio), Seattle, 2017
“Eh Ya Ye”
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“Kanimba”
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“Guede”
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“Dissa”
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reading table
the morning light is in us
—Peter Gizzi, from “Lullaby”
