voices I miss
Geri Allen (1957-2017, piano), Charlie Haden (1937-2014, bass), Paul Motian (1931-2011, drums), “Lonely Woman” (Ornette Coleman), 1988
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lagniappe
reading table
passing through one day—
they let me listen
to their phonograph—Taneda Santoka (1882-1940), translated from the Japanese by Burton Watson
Happy Birthday, Thelonious!
Thelonious Monk (10/10/1917–2/17/1982, piano, compositions) with Charlie Rouse (tenor saxophone), Butch Warren (b), Frankie Dunlop (drums), live (TV show: “Evidence,” “Blue Monk,” Just a Gigolo” [L. Casucci, J. Brammer, I. Caesar], “Ba-Lue Bolivar Ba-Lues,” “Epistrophy”), Tokyo, 1963
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random sights
other day, Copper Harbor, Michigan (Lake Superior)
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radio
Today it’s all Monk all day at WKCR (Columbia University).
alone
Marta Warelis (piano), live, New York, 5/11/23
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random sights
other day, Chicago
like nothing else
Love in Exile (Arooj Aftab [vocals], Vijay Iyer [keyboards], Shahzad Ismaily [electronics, bass]), live (“Eyes of the Endless”), Washington, D.C., 2023
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art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago (Van Gogh and the Avant-Garde: The Modern Landscape)
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), By the Seine (1887), detail
sounds of Chicago
Listening to this last night, it seemed as if I could listen to it, happily, forever.
Jimmy Yancey (1894-1951, piano), “How Long Blues” (c. 1940, Chicago)
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random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
sounds of New York
Matt Mitchell (1975-, piano), live, New York, 7/23/23
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art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago (Van Gogh and the Avant-Garde: The Modern Landscape, through 9/4/23)
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), View of the Pont d’Asnieres (1887), detail
sounds of Ukraine
Valentin Silvestrov (1937-), Elegies & Pastorales;* Evgeny Gromov (1973-, piano), live, Kyiv, 8/27/23
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*Three Pastorales, op. 24 (2004) for Iya Sergeevna Tsarevich
1. Larghetto 00:05
2. Andantino 01:56
3. Larghetto 03:27
Five Elegies, op. 35 (2004)
1. Grave 05:04
2. Andante 8:05
3. Allegro 11:08
4. Adagio 12:14
5. Allegretto 15:46
Four Pastorales, op. 156 (2005) for Alexander Knaifel
1. Andante 18:10
2. Moderato 20:54
3. Andante 22:30
4. Animato 25:17
Two Pieces, op. 96 (December 2007) for Virko Baley
1. Elegy 27:20
2. Pastorale 29:48
Three Pieces, op. 102 (May 2007) for Laura Reinila
1. Elegy 32:08
2. Waltz 35:01
3. Elegy 36:52
Two Pieces, op. 115 (February 2008) Boris Arkhimovich in memoriam
1. Pastorale 38:32
2. Elegy 41:32
Three Pastorales, op. 150 (2008)
1. Allegro vivace 44:57
2. Andante 46:58
3. Animato 48:40
Two Elegies, op. 165 (2010) V. M. Vorobyov in memoriam
1. Allegro 50:58
2. Andantino 52:48
Four Pastorales, op. 129 (2009)
1. Moderato 54:35
2. Allegretto 55:53
3. Moderato 57:19
4. Andantino 58:35
Two Elegies, op. 267 (2016)
1. Animato 1:00:01
2. Moderato 1:01:28
Three Pieces, op. 268 (2016)
1. Pastorale 1:04:01
2. Elegy 1:05:12
3. Waltz 1:07:55
Two Pastorales (May 2023, Berlin) for Yaroslav Hodyna
1. Moderato 1:09:04
2. Moderato 1:11:11
voices I miss
Geri Allen (1957-2017, piano) & Timeline (Kenny Davis, bass; Kassa Overall, drums; Maurice Chestnut, tap percussion), live, South Korea, 2011
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lagniappe
random sights
this morning, Oak Park, Ill.
never enough
Alfred Brendel (1931-, piano), live, England (Snape, Suffolk), 2000: Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), Piano Sonata in E-flat major (Hob. XVI/49, L.59); Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Piano Sonata No. 14 in C minor (K.457, 21:40-)
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random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
alone
John Cage (1912-1992), The Perilous Night (1944) for prepared piano; Benjamin Kobler (piano), live, Germany (Cologne), 3/14/22
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random sights
other day, Chicago (Lurie Garden)
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