Thursday, July 7th
alone
György Ligeti (1923-2006), Étude No. 13 (L’escalier du diable / The Devil’s Staircase); Pierre-Laurent Aimard (1957-, piano), 2017
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill. (Oak Park Conservatory)
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: piano
2022
Monday, June 13th
never enough
Yesterday afternoon, feeling in a bit of a funk before visiting a client in jail, I stumbled upon this and within moments, it seemed, the air began to lighten.
Miles Davis Quintet (MD [1926-1991], trumpet; Wayne Shorter [1933-], tenor saxophone; Herbie Hancock [1940-], piano; Ron Carter [1937-], bass; Tony Williams [1945-1997], drums), live, Stockholm (Sweden), 1967
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Chicago
2022
Saturday, June 11th
what’s new
Tyshawn Sorey Trio (TS, drums; Aaron Diehl, piano; Russell Hall, bass), live New York, 5/24/22
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
2022
Thursday, 6/9/22
alone
Sun Ra (1914-1993, piano), live (performance begins at 5:00), Venice (Italy), 1978
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2022
Thursday, June 2nd
never enough
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor (Op. 31, No. 2; 1801-02; “The Tempest”); Maria João Pires (1944-, piano), live, published 2018
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lagniappe
reading table
In this world
we walk on the roof of hell,
gazing at flowers.—Kobayashi Issa, 1763-1827 (translated from Japanese by Robert Hass)
2022
Sunday, May 22nd
testify!
Aretha Franklin (1942-2018, voice, piano), “Rock of Ages” (A. Toplady), live, Detroit (New Bethel Baptist Church), 2016
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
2022
Wednesday, May 18th
sounds of New York
Kris Davis Trio (KD, piano, composition; William Parker, bass; Jeff “Tain” Watts, drums), live, New York, 2019
#1
*****
#2
(Awaiting the release of Part 3.)
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Columbus Park, Chicago (black-crowned night heron)
2022
Tuesday, May 17th
timeless
Lee Konitz (1927-2020, alto saxophone), Bill Evans (1929-1980, piano [25:33-]), Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen (1946-2005, bass), Alan Dawson (1929-1996, drums), live (“What’s New,” “All the Things You Are,” “Detour Ahead,” “My Melancholy Baby”), Paris, 1965
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2022
Saturday, May 14th
like nobody else
Lennie Tristano (1919-1978, piano), live (“Darn That Dream,” “Lullaby of the Leaves,” “Expressions,” “You Don’t Know What Love Is,” “Tivoli Gardens Swing,” “Ghost of a Chance,” “Imagination,” “Tangerine”), Copenhagen, 1965
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
2022
Friday, May 13th
like nobody else
James Booker (1939-1983, piano, vocals), “True” (L. Cottrell, D. Albert), live, Montreux, Switzerland, 1978
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
music clip of the day 