Thursday, June 13th
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Tyshawn Sorey (1980-), Nebulae (2018); PRISM Quartet and Tyshawn Sorey (percussion), live, New York, 2018
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jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: miscellaneous percussion
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
Tuesday, April 9th
sounds of New York
Tyshawn Sorey (drums), Graham Haynes (trumpet), Brandon Ross (guitar), Val-Inc (AKA Val Jeanty, electronics, percussion, turntables), live (studio), New York, 2018
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random sights
yesterday, Chicago
2019
Monday, April 8th
Why not start the week with a trip to Haiti?
Val-Inc (AKA Val Jeanty), live (studio), Haiti (Le Studio, Port-au-Prince), 2018
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musical thoughts
Sounds shape reality.
—Val Jeanty
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
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random sights
Oak Park, Ill, this morning
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random thoughts
March!
2019
Saturday, February 9th
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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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random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
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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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
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