sounds of New York
Tim Berne’s Dilated Pupils (TB, alto saxophone; David Torn, guitar; Ryan Ferreira, guitar; Craig Taborn, keyboards; Ches Smith, percussion), live (performance begins at 7:00), New York, 2013
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sounds of Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of Congo)
Konono No. 1, “Mama Na Bana,” live, Belgium (Spa), 2012
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sounds of Colombia
Kombilesa Mí, live (“I Tando Pa Palenge,” “I A Piyá Bó,” “Kumo Kusa Tá,” “Los Peinados,” “Asina Gue,” “Ma Nduse,” “Ata Uto Begá”), published yesterday
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sounds of Amsterdam
Jeff Kaiser (trumpet, laptop), Michael Moore (clarinets), Michael Vatcher (percussion), live, Amsterdam, 2009
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art beat: yesterday, Art Institute of Chicago
Barbara Kruger (1945-), fragment from the exhibit Thinking of You/ I Mean Me/ I Mean You
sounds of Chicago
Fresh Palette Ensemble (Hamid Drake [MCOTD Hall of Fame], drums, percussion, voice; Michael Zerang, drums, percussion; Joshua Abrams, bass; Jason Adasiewicz, vibraphone; Aoki, taiko drums; Tatsu Aoki, shamisen, conduction; Zahra Glenda Baker, voice; Angel Bat Dawid, voice, clarinet, keyboards; Mai Sugimoto, reeds), live (performance begins at 13:30), Chicago, last night
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Being & Becoming (Peter Evans, trumpets, compositions; Joel Ross, vibraphone; Nick Jozwiak, bass; Savannah Harris, drums, percussion), live, Cologne (Germany), 8/28/21
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sounds of New York
Being & Becoming (Peter Evans, trumpets, compositions; Joel Ross, vibraphone; Nick Jozwiak, bass; Savannah Harris, drums, percussion), New York, streamed 6/29/21
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It is in no sense
essentialthat this crown of leaves,
sifted by windas if turning over
some problem,is a gray-green
brightening into rust-redat the tips
or that its equivocations
fill this instantto the brim.
—Rae Armantrout (1947-), from “Making”
sounds of Chicago
Hunter Diamond (tenor saxophone, percussion, clarinet) and Mike Reed (drums, percussion), live (performance begins at 21:30), Chicago, last night
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sounds of New York
Erica Dicker (violin), Dennis Sullivan (percussion), live, New York, 9/17/21
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sounds of New York
“Love in Outer Space” (Sun Ra [1934-1993]), Francisco Mora Catlett’s AfroHorn (FMC, drums; Ahmed Abdullah, trumpet, vocals; Sam Newsome, soprano saxophone; Alex Harding, baritone sax; Bob Stewart, tuba; Rashaan Carter, bass; Aruán Ortiz, piano; Román Díaz, percussion), live, New York, 2018
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