tonight outside Chicago
She’ll be performing in a 400-seat hall (Northwestern University)—can’t wait.
Frederic Chopin (1810-1849), Nocturne in C-sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 1; Maria João Pires (1944-, piano), live, Belgium (Brussels), 2021
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random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
joy, n. a source of keen pleasure or delight. E.g., listening to singer Eddie Jefferson.
Eddie Jefferson (1918-1979), live (with Richie Cole, alto saxophone; John Campbell, piano; Kelly Sill, bass; Joel Spencer, drums), Chicago (Jazz Showcase), 5/6/79 (days later, he was dead, shot outside a Detroit jazz club)
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art beat: other day, Des Moines, Iowa (Des Moines Art Center)
Marsden Hartley (1877-1943), Mont Sainte-Victoire (detail)
4n
Charles Lloyd (1938-, alto flute) with Jason Moran (piano), Larry Grenadier (bass), and Brian Blade (drums), “Booker’s Garden” (C. Lloyd), live, Santa Barbara, Cal., 2023
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random sights
other day, Chicago
alone
Víkingur Ólafsson (1984-, piano), live, Washington, D.C., published 3/28/24: J.S. Bach, Goldberg Variations, Aria, Variation No. 1; Jean-Philipe Rameau (arr. Ólafsson), “The Arts and the Hours”; Béla Bartók, Three Hungarian Folksongs from Csík; Sigvaldi Kaldalóns (arr. Ólafsson), “Ave Maria”
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art beat: other day, Des Moines, Iowa (Des Moines Art Center)
Edward Hopper (1912-2004), Automat (1927), detail
like nothing else
Raül Refree (guitar, piano, electronics) and Núria Andorrà (percussion, vibraphone), live (“Lo que esconden,” “Fandangos Negros,” “Ramírez 11012017,” “Montaña Vacías,” “Todo el mundo quiere irse ya”), France (Rennes), 12/7/23
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random sights
other day, Chicago
timeless
Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931, piano, composition), “In a Mist,” rec. 1927 (New York)
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other day, Oak Park, Ill.
timeless
No one ever died from too much beauty.
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor (Op. 25); Fauré Quartet, live, Tokyo, 2014
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Marta Warelis (piano), Wilbert de Joode (bass), Onno Govaert (drums), live, Amsterdam, 2021
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other day, Oak Park, Ill.
never enough
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Contrapunctus I-XIV; Daniil Trifonov (1991-, piano), live, published 2023
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
(quietly) stunning
Morton Feldman (1926-1987, MCOTD Hall of Fame), Palais de Mari (1986); Igor Levit (1987-, piano), 2020
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Igor Levit, playing and talking
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