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2023

Saturday, February 4th

like nothing else

Live (performance begins at 4:30), New York and San Diego, 2/2/23

New York: Fay Victor (voice), Ingrid Laubrock (saxophone), Patricia Brennan (vibraphone)

San Diego: Michael Dessen (trombone), Joshua White (piano), Mark Dresser (bass), Gerald Cleaver (drums)

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lagniappe

random sights

other day, Oak Park, Ill.

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reading table

We are the main character in the story of our life, and we claim our story is absolutely true, but it’s always edited, if not entirely false.

—author Aleksandar Hemon (1964-, interview), New City, February 2023

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2023

Saturday, January 28th

never enough

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Partita No. 1 in B-flat major: Maria João Pires (piano), live, Portugal (Évora), 1987

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random sights

other day, Oak Park, Ill.

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2023

Monday, January 23rd

like nothing else

DJ Spooky (AKA Paul D. Miller: turntables, electronics, interview) + Matthew Shipp Trio (MS, piano, interview; William Parker, bass; Guillermo Brown, drums), live, France (Seine-Saint-Denis), 2003

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random sights

yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.

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2023

Thursday, January 19th

more

Morton Feldman (1926-1987, MCOTD Hall of Fame), Palais de Mari (1986): Sabine Liebner (piano), 2007

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random sights

last night, Chicago

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2023

Tuesday, January 17th

like nobody else

Morton Feldman (1926-1987, MCOTD Hall of Fame), For Bunita Marcus (1985): Sabine Liebner (piano), 2007

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reading table

Ultimately the air / Is bare sunlight where must be found / The lyric valuables.

—George Oppen (1908-1984), from “From Disaster”

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2023

Monday, January 9th

never enough

What better way to begin the week?

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Fifteen Three-Part Inventions: Boris Giltburg (1984-, piano), 2020

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art beat: yesterday, Smart Museum (University of Chicago)

Lucio Fontana (1899-1968), Concetto Spaziale, Attese (Spatial Concept, Expectations [1960]), detail

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2023

Wednesday, January 4th

sounds of New York

Mark Turner Quartet (MT, tenor saxophone; David Virelles, piano; Ben Street, bass; Paul Motian, drums), live (“Crepuscule With Nellie” [T. Monk], “Dance of the Infidels'” [B. Powell], “Conception Vessel” [P. Motian], “Song for Balkis” [B. Hart], “Sonnet for Stevie” [M. Turner], “Mumbo Jumbo” [P. Motian]), New York (Village Vanguard), 2011

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lagniappe

random sights

other day, Oak Park, Ill.

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2022

Wednesday, December 28th

sounds of Chicago

Sonny Boy Williamson II (AKA Alex or Aleck Miller, 1912-1965) with Hubert Sumlin (guitar), Sunnyland Slim (piano), Willie Dixon (bass), Clifton James (drums): “My Younger Days” (S.B. Williamson), live, 1964 European tour

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random sights

yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.

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2022

Saturday, December 24th

never enough

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Piano Partita No. 2 in C minor: Martha Argerich (1941-, piano), live, Germany (Görlitz Synagogue, Lausitz Festival), 10/13/20

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radio

Again it comes, one of my favorite musical events of the year: all Bach, all the time, until 11:59 p.m., December 31st—Bachfest 2022, WKCR (Columbia University).

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2022

Friday, December 23rd

what’s new: sounds of Chicago

Hamid Drake (drums and percussion [MCOTD Hall of Fame]) & Michael Zerang (drums and percussion) with Mark Feldman (violin), Josh Berman (cornet), Mabel Kwan (piano), Kent Kessler (bass), Zahra Glenda Baker (voice), et al., live (performance begins at 32:30), last night, Chicago (Constellation)

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lagniappe

random sights

this morning, Oak Park, Ill.

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