Thursday, July 1st
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Caroline Shaw & Sō Percussion, “Lay All Your Love on Me” (ABBA), live, Philadelphia, published 6/25/21
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this morning, Oak Park, Ill.
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2021
Saturday, June 26th
like nothing else
Caroline Shaw & Sō Percussion, “To the Sky” (lyrics by Anne Steele, 1717-1778), video by Robert Edridge-Waks, published 3/19/21 (Let the Soil Play Its Simple Part, 6/25/21)
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other day, Chicago (Columbus Park)
2021
Monday, May 24th
sounds of New York
Why not begin the week with something new?
Ches Smith (drums, percussion), Craig Taborn (piano), Mat Maneri (viola), Bill Frisell (guitar), live, New York, 5/21/21 (performance begins at 10:30)
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Saturday, April 17th
sounds of Chicago
Hamid Drake (drums, percussion, voice; MCOTD Hall of Fame [right]) and Michael Zerang (drums, percussion [left]), live, Chicago (Constellation), last night (performance begins at 7:00)
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2021
Saturday, April 3rd
never enough
Guitarist Pete Cosey? Miles gave him a lot of space, as he had pianist Bill Evans. And just as the Miles of Kind of Blue is unimaginable without Evans, so too with Cosey here.
Miles Davis Septet (MD [trumpet, organ, compositions], Dave Liebman [soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, flute], Pete Cosey [guitar, percussion], Reggie Lucas [guitar], Michael Henderson [bass], Al Foster [drums], Mtume [aka James Foreman, James Mtume; conga, percussion]), live, Stockholm, 1973
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2021
Tuesday, March 30th
sounds of New York
Strictly Missionary (Chris Pitsiokos, alto saxophone; Wendy Eisenberg, guitar; Richard Lenz, bass; Kevin Murray, drums; Nick Neuberg, percussion), live, New York (Valentino Pier; Red Hook, Brooklyn), 3/27/21
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Thursday, March 25th
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Lou Harrison (1917-2003), Song of Queztecoatl (1941); Third Coast Percussion, live (studio), 2014
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2021
Thursday, March 11th
like nobody else
Lou Harrison (1917-2003), Concerto for Violin with Percussion Orchestra (1959); Todd Reynolds (violin), Third Coast Percussion, John Corkill (percussion), 2018
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I’d have to be really quick
to describe clouds—
a split second’s enough
for them to start being something else.— Wislawa Szymborska (1923-2012, MCOTD Hall of Fame), from “Clouds” (translated from Polish by Clare Cavanagh and Stanislaw Baranczak)
2021
Thursday, February 11th
sounds of Paris
Edgard Varèse (1883-1965), Ionisation (1931); Ensemble Intercontemporain (Susanna Mälkki, direction), live, Paris, 2012
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In the mountain’s shadow
my grass hut’s
so cold
I’ll be up burning firewood
all night long—Ryokan (1758-1831), translated from Japanese by Burton Watson
2021
Saturday, January 30th
sounds of New York
Soul of Freedom (Luke Stewart, bass, percussion, vocals; Jaimie Branch, trumpet, percussion, vocals; Devin Brahja Waldman, alto saxophone, percussion, vocals), live, New York, 1/28/21
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Ghost I house
In this old flat—
Your outpost—
My aftermath—Samuel Menashe (1925-2011), “Here”
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