this weekend in Chicago
Saturday night they’re playing at the University of Chicago.
Thomas Meadowcroft (1972-), Walkman Antiquarian (2013); Yarn/Wire, live, New York, 2013
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
like nobody else
James Booker (piano, vocals [1939-1983]), live, France (Nice), 1978
more
Jürg Frey (1953-), Klavierstück Arrangement Nr. 1-3 (1991); Keiko Shichijo (piano), live, c. 2011
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lagniappe
reading table
On a journey, ill:
my dream goes wandering
over withered fields.—Matsuo Basho, 1644-1694 (translated from Japanese by Yoel Hoffmann; Japanese Death Poems, Yoel Hoffmann, ed.)
Need a break from the incessant noise?
Jürg Frey (1953-), Canones Incerti (2010), Jürg Frey (clarinet), et al., live
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baseball
Baseball is such a perfect game in some ways that it takes 162 to decide nothing.
—Cubs manager Joe Maddon on the Cubs/Brewers tie
tomorrow night in Chicago
He’s playing at the Hyde Park Jazz Festival.
Jason Moran (piano), “Thelonious” (T. Monk), live, Minneapolis, 2009
sounds of Chicago
Muhal Richard Abrams (1930-2017), piano, “Young at Heart” (Young at Heart/Wise in Time, 1974)
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lagniappe
reading table
I’m finite – I cant see –
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This timid life of Evidence
Keeps pleading – “I don’t know” –—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), from 725 (Franklin)
more
John Cage (1912-1992), Sonatas and Interludes, for prepared piano (1946-48), excerpts; James Tenney (piano), live, West Hollywood, Calif., 2002
#1
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lagniappe
random sights
last month, Chicago (Columbus Park)
otherworldly
This I could listen to all day.
John Cage (1912-1992), Three Dances for Two Prepared Pianos (1944-45); Seba Ali (piano) and Jacqueline Ching-Ling (piano), live, Stony Brook, N.Y., 2015
alone
Matthew Shipp (piano), live, New York, 9/13/18
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Oak Brook, Ill. (Dean Nature Sanctuary)
alone
Morton Feldman (1926-1987, MCOTD Hall of Fame), Palais de Mari (1986); Jesse Myers (piano), live, Seattle, 2018
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lagniappe
art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago
Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011), First Stone (print, artist’s proof), 1961
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