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2023

Saturday, April 22nd

Happy (101st) Birthday, Charles!

Charles Mingus Sextet (CM, 4/22/1922–1/5/1979, bass, compositions; Eric Dolphy, 1928-1964, alto saxophone; Clifford Jordan, 1931-1993, tenor saxophone; Johnny Coles, 1925-1987, trumpet; Jaki Byard, 1922-1999, piano; Dannie Richmond, 1931-1988, drums), live, Belgium,* Norway,** Sweden,*** 1964

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radio

All Mingus, all day: WKCR-FM (Columbia University).

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This poem is not addressed to you.
You may come into it briefly,
But no one will find you here, no one.
You will have changed before the poem will.

—Donald Justice (1925-2004), from “Poem”

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* “So Long Eric,” “Peggy’s Blue Skylight,” “Meditations on Integration”

** “So Long Eric,” “Orange Was the Color of Her Dress, Then Blue Silk,” “Parkeriana,” “Take The ‘A’ Train”

*** “So Long Eric” (performance and rehearsal), “Meditations on Integration” (performance and rehearsal)

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2022

Friday, April 22nd

Happy 100th Birthday, Charles!

Charles Mingus Sextet (CM, 4/22/1922–1/5/1979, bass, compositions; Eric Dolphy, 1928-1964, alto saxophone; Clifford Jordan, 1931-1993, tenor saxophone; Johnny Coles, 1925-1987, trumpet; Jaki Byard, 1922-1999, piano; Dannie Richmond, 1931-1988, drums), (live, Belgium,* Norway,** Sweden,*** 1964

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radio

All Mingus, all day (tomorrow, too): WKCR-FM (Columbia University).

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random sights

other day, Oak Park, Ill.

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*”So Long Eric,” “Peggy’s Blue Skylight,” “Meditations on Integration”

**”So Long Eric,” “Orange Was the Color of Her Dress, Then Blue Silk,” “Parkeriana,” “Take The ‘A’ Train”

***”So Long Eric” (performance and rehearsal), “Meditations on Integration” (performance and rehearsal)

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2021

Wednesday, September 8th

voices I miss

Lester Bowie (1941-1999, trumpet, MCOTD Hall of Fame) and Brazz Brothers, live, Norway (Ålesund), 1992

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random sights

other day, Oak Park, Ill.

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2021

Thursday, April 29th

sounds of Norway

Sinikka Langeland (kantele, voice), “Eye of the Blue Whale” (S. Langeland), published 4/28/21

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random sights

yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.

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It is hard to believe of the world that there should be
music in it . . .

—William Bronk (1918-1999, MCOTD Hall of Fame), from “The Nature of Musical Form”

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2020

Tuesday, February 4th

alone

Sigurd Hole (bass), “Eg veit I himmelrik ei borg” (“I Know a Castle in Heaven” [Norwegian folk song]), live (studio), New York, 1/31/20

 

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random sights

yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.

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In a Station of the Metro
by Ezra Pound (1885-1972)

The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
petals on a wet, black bough.

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2017

Saturday, May 20th

In Oslo in December each sound is clear and distinct, or that, at least, is what I imagine.

Transitory Meeting of Minds,* live, Oslo, 12/5/16

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*Dré Hočevar, drums, interaction; Christian Balvig, piano, electronics; Michal Wróblewski, alto saxophone; Jean Dousteyssier, clarinets.

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2017

Wednesday, February 8th

not the same old stuff

Maja S. K. Ratkje, live (performance begins at 1:30), Norway (Kristiansand), 2013


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Happy (106th) Birthday, Elizabeth

From the few states I have seen I should now immediately select Florida as my favorite. I don’t know whether you have been here or not—it is so wild, and what there is of cultivation seems rather dilapidated and about to become wild again. On the way down we took a very slow train from Jacksonville here. All day long it went through swamps and turpentine camps and palm forests and in a beautiful pink evening it began stopping at several little stations. The stations were all off at a tangent from the main track and it necessitated first going by, then stopping, backing up, stopping, starting again—with many puffs of white smoke, blowing of the whistle, advice from the loiterers around the station—all to throw off one limp bag of mail.

—Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), letter to Marianne Moore, January 5, 1937

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2016

Saturday, July 16th

sounds of Oslo, Amsterdam, and Chicago

What if your office sounded like this?

Paal Nilssen-Love Trio (PNL, drums, percussion; Ab Baars, clarinet, shakuhachi, tenor saxophone; Ken Vandermark, tenor saxophone, clarinet), live, Oslo, 2011


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random sights

this morning, Chicago (Columbus Park)

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The flowers seem not to know—this park’s in one of the city’s most violent neighborhoods (Austin).

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2015

Thursday, September 10th

sounds of Norway

Maja Ratkje (voice, electronics) & Lasse Marhaug (electronics), live, Norway (Oslo), 2012


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Fragile the minutes. / Fragile the line between wonder / and woe.

—Linda Gregerson, “Pajama Quotient” (The Selvage)

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2015

Thursday, July 16th

In the right hands, a drum kit can be a kinetic orchestra.

Paal Nilssen-Love, live, Norway (Høvikodden), 2010

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The jane is zoned!

—John Berryman (1914-1972, MCOTD Hall of Fame), Dream Song 2

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