Tuesday, October 24th
what’s new
Anouar Brahem (oud, vocal) with Django Bates (piano), Dave Holland (bass), Jack DeJohnette (drums), “Blue Maqams,” 2017
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Category: piano
2017
Wednesday, October 18th
more
Thelonious Monk Quartet (TM, piano; Charlie Rouse, tenor saxophone; Butch Warren, bass; Frankie Dunlop, drums), “Evidence” (T. Monk), live, Tokyo, 1963
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lagniappe
art beat
Berenice Abbott (1898-1991), Fifth Ave., Nos. 4, 6, 8, New York, 1936
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Monday, October 16th
What better way to start the week?
Thelonious Monk Quartet (TM, piano; Charlie Rouse, tenor saxophone; Butch Warren, bass; Frankie Dunlop, drums), “Epistrophy” (T. Monk), live, Tokyo, 1963
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lagniappe
art beat
Berenice Abbott (1898-1991), Red River logging project, California, August, 1943
2017
Monday, October 9th
drum festival
day one
Dafnis Prieto Sextet (DP, drums; Peter Apfelbaum, tenor saxophone; Alex Sipiagin, trumpet; Roman Filiu, alto saxophone; Manuel Valera , piano; Johannes Weidenmueller, bass), “Back and Forth” (D. Prieto), live, East Lansing, Mich., 2017
2017
Wednesday, October 4th
like nobody else
Ran Blake (1935-), Above the Sadness, trailer
2017
Thursday, September 28th
never enough
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Piano Sonata No. 12 in F major (:07-), Fantasia in C minor (22:42-), Sonata No. 14 in C minor (39:54-); Friedrich Gulda (1930-2000), live, Germany (Munich), 1990
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lagniappe
random sights
this morning, Oak Park, Ill.
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2017
Sunday, September 24th
Bumping into something wonderful you never heard before—something you didn’t even know existed—can lift up your entire week, as this did mine when I encountered it the other day (WFMU, Sinner’s Crossroads, 9/21/17 [archived]).
Theotis Taylor, “If I Could Just Hold out until Tomorrow,” live, Atlanta, c. 1976
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Thursday, September 21st
never enough
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1
András Schiff (piano), live, London, 9/7/17
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lagniappe
reading table
Cold night: the wild duck,
sick, falls from the sky
and sleeps awhile.—Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), translated from Japanese by Robert Hass
2017
Thursday, August 24th
never enough
Frederic Chopin (1810-1849), Prelude No. 15 in D flat major (“Raindrop”); Friedrich Gulda (1930-2000), piano
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lagniappe
reading table
dragonfly—
flying two feet,
then two feet more—Kobayashi Issa, 1763-1827 (translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)
2017
Thursday, July 27th
voices I miss
Some musicians suck up oxygen; others increase the available supply.
Jaki Byard (piano, 1922-1999), live, Berlin, 1965
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lagniappe
art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), Bullfinch on camellia branch, early 1830s
