Wednesday, August 3rd
alone in Ukraine
Anton Webern (1883-1945), Klavierstück (1925); Antonii Baryshevskyi (1988-, piano), live, Kyiv (Ukraine), 2017
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, outside Chicago
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: piano
2022
Tuesday, July 26th
voices I miss
Ed Blackwell (1929-1992, drums, percussion) with Mal Waldron (1925-2002, piano), Charles Rouse (1924-1988, tenor saxophone), Woody Shaw (1944-1989, trumpet, flugelhorn), Reggie Workman (1937-, bass), live (“The Git Go” [M. Waldron], excerpt), New York (Village Vanguard), 1980s
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random sights
yesterday, Chicago (Columbus Park)
2022
Wednesday, July 20th
sounds of New York
Lukas Ligeti Quintet (LL, drums, percussion, compositions; Shoko Nagai, piano; Darren Johnston, trumpet; Travis Sullivan, alto saxophone; Michael Bates, bass), live, New York, 7/15/22
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reading table
The pure products of America
go crazy——William Carlos Williams (1883-1963), from “To Elsie” (1923)
2022
Monday, July 18th
alone
This I return to, again and again.
Morton Feldman (1926-1987, MCOTD Hall of Fame), Palais de Mari (1986); Aki Takahashi (1944-, piano), 1996
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yesterday morning, Copper Harbor, Michigan (Lake Superior)
2022
Tuesday, July 12th
another take
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Goldberg Variations, excerpt (Aria); Peter Serkin (1947-2020, piano), live, Japan (Hiroshima), 2017
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reading table
A butterfly
flutters past—my body feels
the dust of ages—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), translated from the Japanese by Sam Hamill
2022
Monday, July 11th
never enough
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Goldberg Variations; Evgeni Koroliov (1949-, piano), live, Germany (Leipzig), 2008
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random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
2022
Sunday, June 10th
Aretha testifies!
Aretha Franklin (1942-2018), “Climbing Higher Mountains” (with Rev. James Cleveland [1931-1991, piano, vocals]; Southern California Community Choir), live, Los Angeles (New Temple Missionary Baptist Church), 1972
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other day, Oak Park, Ill. (Oak Park Conservatory)
2022
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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other day, Oak Park, Ill. (Oak Park Conservatory)
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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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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other day, Oak Park, Ill.
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