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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yesterday, Chicago
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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this morning, Oak Park, Ill.
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)
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)
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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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
alone
Ran Blake (1935-, piano), “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” (H. Arlen, Y. Harburg), live, yesterday
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timeless
David S. Ware Quartet (DSW, 1949-2012, tenor saxophone; Matthew Shipp, piano; William Parker, bass; Guillermo E. Brown, drums), live (Vilnius, Lithuania), 2007
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sounds of Chicago
Otis Spann (1924, or 1930, to 1970; piano, vocals), “Ain’t Nobody’s Business if I Do,” live, 1966
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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
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Art Blakey & The New Jazzmen (AB, drums; Freddie Hubbard, trumpet; Nathan Davis, tenor saxophone; Jaki Byard, piano; Reggie Workman, bass), “Crisis” (F. Hubbard), live, Paris, 1965
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