Tuesday, June 7th
like nobody else
Leroy Jenkins Gut Band (LJ [1932-2007] violin, compositions; Brandon Ross, guitar; David Wong, bass; Newman Taylor Baker, drums), live, New York, 2000
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: New York
2016
Wednesday, June 1st
sounds of New York
Sandbox Percussion, live (excerpts from S. Reich, “Drumming”; A. Weiser, “Anatomy of a Drum Roll”; S. Reich, “Music for Pieces of Wood”), New York (Washington Square Park), 2014
2016
Monday, May 9th
gathering of birds
Oliver Lake & Alto Madness (Oliver Lake, alto saxophone, compositions; Darius Jones, Bruce Williams, Anthony Ware, alto saxophones; Pheeroan AkLaff, drums), live, New York, 2014
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday morning, Chicago (Columbus Park)
2016
Friday, April 8th
sounds of New York
Some of the most kinetic, exciting, enlivening sounds I’ve heard in a while.
Farmers by Nature (Craig Taborn, piano; William Parker, bass; Gerald Cleaver, drums), live, New York, 4/4/16
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lagniappe
art beat: yesterday at the Art Institute of Chicago
Martin Puryear, Maquette for Bearing Witness (1994) (Multiple Dimensions, through May 1st)
2016
Wednesday, April 6th
sounds of New York
Oliver Lake and the FLUX String Quartet, live, New York, 2014
2016
Tuesday, April 5th
sounds of New York
The 12 Houses, live, New York, 3/6/16
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lagniappe
reading table
The process is fearless.
2016
Monday, April 4th
sounds of New York
Vijay Iyer Sextet,* live, New York, 2015
*****
lagniappe
art beat
Bruce Davidson (1933-), Palisades, N.J., 1958
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*VI, piano, compositions; Graham Haynes, cornet; Steve Lehman, alto saxophone; Mark Shim, tenor saxophone; Matt Brewer, bass; Marcus Gilmore, drums.
2016
Thursday, March 10th
sound and space
John Luther Adams (1953-), Sila: The Breath of the World (2014), live, New York, 2014 (performance begins at 4:45)
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lagniappe
reading table
We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.
—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), letter to cousins Louise and Frances Norcross, 1872
2016
Sunday, March 6th
old school
Sensational Gospel Eagles (Greenwood, S.C.), live
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lagniappe
art beat
William Klein (1928-), 3 Kids + Harmonica, New York, 1955
2016
Friday, March 4th
sounds of Chicago (and Springfield)
Never underestimate the power of idiosyncrasy.
Daniel Knox, live, Paris, 2015
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lagniappe
art beat
William Klein (1928-), Brooklyn, 1955
