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Category: piano

Tuesday, August 15th

sounds of Ukraine

Valentin Silvestrov (1937-), Klavierstücke (piano pieces); Evgeny Gromov (1973-, piano), live, Kyiv, 8/13/23

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Monday, August 14th

alone

Morton Feldman (1926-1987, MCOTD Hall of Fame), Last Pieces for piano (1959); Benjamin Kobler (piano), live, Germany (Cologne), 3/14/22

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yesterday, Chicago

Saturday, July 22nd

passings

Tony Bennett, singer, August 3, 1926–July 21, 2023

With Bill Evans (1929–1980, piano), “Lucky to Be Me,” “My Foolish Heart,” “When in Rome,” “We’ll Catch up Some Other Time,” “A Child Is Born,” “Make Someone Happy,” “Together Again,” 1976

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other day, Oak Park, Ill.

Wednesday, July 19th

sounds of New York

Bumped into this last night: enthralled from the first note.

Cory Smythe (1977-, piano) & eddy kwon (1989-, violin), live, New York (Target Margin, Brooklyn), 12/9/22

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Monday, July 17th

Why not begin the week with something quiet, delicate, spacious?

Magnus Granberg (1974-), “Holde Träume, Kehret Wieder!” (Sweet Dreams, Come Back!): Nattens Inbrott quartet (MG, piano, et al.), live, Stockholm, 2021

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Sunday, July 16th

timeless

Arizona Dranes (1889 or 1891-1963, vocals, piano), “Lamb’s Blood Has Washed Me Clean,” rec. 1926 (Chicago)

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other day, Chicago (Alexander Calder [1898-1976], Flamingo [1973], detail)

Saturday, July 8th

sounds of all over

Omar Sosa (piano, vocals), Seckou Keita (kora, vocals), Gustavo Ovalles (percussion, vocals), live, Washington, D.C., published 7/5/23

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yesterday, near Kankakee, Ill. (heading home after meeting with clients at a downstate prison)

Tuesday, July 4th

timeless

Horace Silver Quintet (HS [1928-2014], piano; Bill Hardman [1933-1990], trumpet; Bennie Maupin [1940-], tenor saxophone; Johnny Williams [1908-1998], bass; Billy Cobham [1944-], drums), “Song for My Father” (H. Silver), live, Copenhagen, 1968

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Saturday, July 1st

This recording, the moment it ends, I want to hear it again.

Alfred Brendel (1931-, piano), 1984: Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), Adagio in F, H.XVII No. 9

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other day, outside Chicago

Tuesday, June 27th

alone

Ran Blake (1935-, piano), “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” (H. Arlen, Y. Harburg), live, yesterday

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