Thursday, November 1st
what’s new
Aruan Ortiz (piano), Melanie Dyer (viola), Michael Attias (alto saxophone), live, New York, 10/8/18
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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
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jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: saxophone
2018
Wednesday, October 24th
like nobody else
This world is not my home . . .
—Sun Ra (1914-1993)
Sun Ra Arkestra (SR [keyboards, vocals], John Gilmore [tenor saxophone, clarinet, vocals], et al.), live, Spain (San Sebastian), 1985
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Appalled: by all the dead: Henry brooded.
—John Berryman (1914-1972 [MCOTD Hall of Fame]), from Dream Song 21
2018
Tuesday, October 23rd
like nobody else
Rahsaan Roland Kirk (tenor saxophone, clarinet, etc. [1935-1977]) and the Vibration Society (Dick Griffin, trombone; Ron Burton, piano; Vernon Martin, bass; Jerome Cooper, drums; Joe Texidor, percussion), live, Paris, 1970
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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
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All the people at the controls are opportunists or gangsters. The sweetness of reason died out of our public life with FDR. There doesn’t even seem to be a normal intelligence at work in the affairs of the nation.
—Tennessee Williams, letter to publisher James Laughlin, April 9, 1947
2018
Tuesday, October 16th
what’s new
Fay Victor’s SoundNoiseFUNK (FV, vocals, compositions; Joe Morris, guitar; Sam Newsome, soprano saxophone; Reggie Nicholson, drums), live, New York, 10/13/18
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I can’t tell you – but you feel it –
Nor can you tell me –—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), from 164 (Franklin)
2018
Wednesday, October 3rd
what’s new
One-word review: Wow!
Ingrid Laubrock (tenor saxophone), Brandon Lopez (bass), Francisco Mela (drums), live, New York, 9/30/18
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other day, Elmhurst, Ill. (Prairie Path)
2018
Saturday, September 22nd
more
Miguel Zenón (alto saxophone, composition) and Spektral Quartet, “Viejo” (Yo Soy La Tradición), 2018
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other day, Chicago (Columbus Park)
2018
Monday, September 16th
this week in Chicago
They’re playing Thursday at Constellation and Friday at Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center (benefit for Puerto Rico).
Miguel Zenón (alto saxophone, compositions) and Spektral Quartet (Yo Soy La Tradición, 2018)
“Milagrosa”
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“Promesa”
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Playing and talking
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other day, Oak Brook, Ill. (Dean Nature Sanctuary)
2018
Saturday, September 1st
what’s new
Miguel Zenón (alto saxophone, composition) & Spektral Quartet, from Yo Soy La Tradición, 2018
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this morning, Oak Park, Ill.
2018
Thursday, August 30th
Saturday in Chicago
They’re playing, with bassist William Parker and drummer Bobby Kapp, at the Chicago Jazz Festival.
Ivo Perelman (tenor saxophone) & Matthew Shipp (piano), live, New York, 2013
2018
Wednesday, August 29th
Friday in Chicago
They’re playing at the Chicago Jazz Festival.
Chris Speed Trio (CS, tenor saxophone; Chris Tordini, bass; Dave King, drums), live, Italy, 2015
“All of Me” (G. Marks, S. Simons)
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“Argento” (C. Speed)
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Light was on its way
from nothing
to nowhere.—Rae Armantrout (1947-), from “Accounts”
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