Why not begin the week with something beautiful?
Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Preludes, Book 1, No. 2 (“Voiles”); Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (1920-1995), piano, live (studio performance)
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musical thoughts
When he plays something it sounds like he’ll never play it again.
—Miles Davis, speaking of Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
(I’m taking a break—back in a while.)
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Gyorgy Ligeti (1923-2006), Trio for Violin, Horn, and Piano (1982); Tomas Major (violin), Zora Sloka (horn), Denes Varjon (piano), 2009
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reading table
This World is not conclusion.
—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), #373 (Franklin)
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Vijay Iyer Trio (VI, piano; Stephan Crump, bass; Marcus Gilmore, drums), live, New York, 2015*
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random sights
other evening, Chicago (Columbus Park)
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*Set list (courtesy of YouTube):
01:54 Geese
08:16 Break Stuff
13:24 Mystery Woman
20:28 Libra
26:18 Break Stuff (Reprise)
30:55 Starlings
35:46 Chorale
41:13 Work
50:22 Our Lives
58:58 Hood
1:11:00 Taking Flight
1:24:19 Countdown
1:31:22 Becoming
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Albrecht Maurer (violin), Mat Maneri (viola), Lucian Ban (piano), “Irreverence” (L. Ban), live (recording session), Germany (Cologne), 2013
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random sights
yesterday, Chicago (Columbus Park)
Some music you listen to—some you inhabit.
John Luther Adams (1953-), Red Arc/Blue Veil (2001); Kirsten Volness (piano), Nick Gleason (percussion), live (studio performance), New York, 2014
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
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road to the World Series
[W]hen we’re playing these games that are very meaningful in September and October, I want them to go out there and play the game as though it were March 15, June 15, August 15 and then hopefully October 15. Don’t ever change the way you play the game.
Sometimes it’s enough—more than enough—to be beautiful.
Frederic Chopin (1810-1849), Nocturne in B-flat minor (Op. 9, No. 1); Artur Rubinstein (1887-1982), piano
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road to the World Series
Don’t ever let the pressure exceed the pleasure.
Once I enter this world, I never want to leave.
Morton Feldman (1926-1987), For Philip Guston (1984); Either/OR (Richard Carrick, piano/celesta; Margaret Lancaster, flutes; David Shively, percussion), live, Philadelphia, 2015
drum fest
day four
Kidd Jordan (tenor saxophone), Dave Burrell (piano), William Parker (bass), Hamid Drake (drums), live, New York, 2014
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musical thoughts
Imagine living in a drumless world.
Today, our sixth anniversary, we revisit our first post.
One left Cuba after the revolution, the other stayed. Here they play together: pianists—father and son—Bebo and Chucho Valdes.
tonight in Chicago
These folks will be playing in Millennium Park, headlining the first night of the Chicago Jazz Festival.
Butler, Bernstein & the Hot 9,* live, France (Clermont-Ferrand), 2014
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art beat
Lee Friedlander (1934-), New Orleans, late 1950s
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*Henry Butler (piano, vocals), Steven Bernstein (trumpet), et al.
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