One of my favorite musicians of all time died over seventy-five years ago at the age of twenty-five.
Charlie Christian (1916-1942, guitar) with Cootie Williams (trumpet), Johnny Guarnieri (piano), Dave Tough (drums), et al., “Waitin’ for Benny” (full session), live (studio), New York, 1941
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art beat: yesterday, Intuit (Chicago)
Robert Johnson, City, 2018
what’s new
Joanna Mattrey (viola, stroh violin), live, New York, 4/8/19
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I made my way to the sofa, where I battled against cancer once more by lying there staring straight ahead. I had such great resistance to thought that I didn’t even worry.
—Colm Toibin, “‘It’s curable,’ he said,” London Review of Books, 4/18/19
sounds of Ecuador and all over
Nicola Cruz, live (The Lot Radio), New York, 2018
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along the mountain road
somehow it tugs at my heart—
a wild violet—Matsuo Basho, 1644-1694 (translated from Japanese by Makoto Ueda)
sounds of New York
Lake Street Dive, “Musta Been Something,” live, New York (Retrofret Vintage Guitars, Brooklyn), 2018
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it is spring!
a hill without a name
in thin haze—Matsuo Basho, 1644-1694 (translated from Japanese by Makoto Ueda)
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”
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“Life at Stylus Point”
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yesterday, Chicago
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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yesterday, Chicago
sounds of Chicago
Curtis Mayfield (1942-1999), “People Get Ready” (C. Mayfield), with Taylor Dane (vocals), David Lindley (steel guitar), David Sanborn (alto saxophone), et al., live (TV show), New York, 1989
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yesterday, Bellwood, Ill.
sounds of New York
Right now, in the midst of a noisy criminal trial, nothing seems more appealing than something peaceful, something quiet.
Jürg Frey (1953-), Extended Circular Music No. 7; Singularity, live, New York, 2018
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I don’t know anything about consciousness. I just try to teach my students how to hear the birds sing.
sounds of New York
We Free Strings,* live New York, 1/18/19
*Melanie Dyer, viola; Charles Burnham, violin; Gwen Laster, violin; Alex Waterman, cello; Ken Filiano, bass; Michael Wimberly, percussion.
