Monday, November 18th
What better way to begin the week?
Thelonious Monk (1917-1982, piano), “Don’t Blame Me” (J. McHugh, D. Fields), live, Denmark, 1966
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Category: piano
2019
Saturday, November 16th
sounds of Chicago
Andrew Hill Combo (AH [1931-2007], piano; Von Freeman [1923-2012], tenor saxophone, MCOTD Hall of Fame; Laurdine “Pat” Patrick [1929-1991], baritone saxophone; Malachi Favors [1927-2004], bass; Wilbur Campbell [1926-1999], drums), “Down Pat” (L. Patrick), 1956
If political races were decided by musical pedigree, the new entrant in the Democratic presidential field would be unbeatable.
Laurdine Kenneth “Pat” Patrick Jr. (November 23, 1929 – December 31, 1991) was an American jazz musician and composer. . . . known for his 40-year association with Sun Ra. His son, Deval Patrick, was governor of Massachusetts.
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other day, Oak Park, Ill.
2019
Saturday, November 8th
3n
John Escreet Trio (JS, piano, compositions; John Hébert, bass; Tyshawn Sorey, drums, vibraphone), live, Amsterdam, 2014
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Listen carefully,
Neither the Vedas
Nor the Qur’an
Will teach you this:
Put the bit in its mouth,
The saddle on its back,
Your foot in the stirrup,
And ride your wild runaway mind
All the way to heaven.—Kabir (15th century), translated from Hindi by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
2019
Tuesday, November 5th
sounds of Chicago
Howlin’ Wolf (AKA Chester Burnett, 1910-1976) with Hubert Sumlin (1931-2011, guitar), et al., live, Chicago, 1971
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2019
Friday, October 25th
sounds (and sights) of Chicago
Daniel Knox (vocals, piano) with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, “Gone Old Days” (D. Knox), live, Chicago, 2019
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Thursday, October 24th
can’t wait
They’re playing Sunday afternoon at Chicago’s Symphony Center—Beethoven, Shostakovich, Franck, Kurtág.
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Scherzo (from F-A-E Sonata); Christian Tetzlaff (1966-, violin), Lars Vogt (1970-, piano), live, Germany (Bremen), 2015
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Thursday, October 17th
lucid, adj. clear, transparent, luminous. E.g., Víkingur Ólafsson playing Bach.
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Aria variata (alla maniera italiana) in A minor; Víkingur Ólafsson (piano), live, Berlin, 2018
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[B]y the latest count, there are 70 million persons displaced from their homes worldwide.
—J. M. Coetzee, “Australia’s Shame” (review of No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison by Behrouz Boochani), New York Review of Books, 9/26/19
2019
Tuesday, October 15th
This I could listen to for a long time—it breathes.
Tyshawn Sorey Quartet (TS, percussion, composition; Taylor Ho Bynum, cornet; Aaron Stewart, tenor saxophone; John Escreet, piano), “Acts,” live, Amsterdam, published 2010
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Thursday, October 10th
serendipity
John Cage (1912-1992), Amores (1943, for prepared piano and percussion trio)
Some sounds, heard in the middle of the night, can make you feel grateful to have ears.
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this morning, Oak Park, Ill.
2019
Thursday, October 3rd
sounds of Ukraine
day four
How about something quiet, delicate, beautiful?
Valentin Silvestrov (1937-), Post-scriptum (1990); Movses Pogossian (violin), Alexei Lubimov (piano), live, Los Angeles, 2016
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Floating on a Marsh
by Wang Wei (701-61), translated from Chinese by David Young
Autumn
the sky huge and clear
the marsh miles from farms and houses
overjoyed by the cranes
standing around the sandbars
the mountains above the clouds in the distance
this water
utterly still
in the dusk
the white moon overhead
I let my boat drift free tonight
I can’t go home.
