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2016

Thursday, January 7th

passings

Paul Bley, pianist, November 10, 1932-January 3, 2016

Live, 1970s?

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With Charlie Haden (bass), live, New York, 2000

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With John Gilmore (tenor saxophone), Gary Peacock (bass), Paul Motian (drums; or Billy Elgart, side 2, tracks 2-3), Turning Point, rec. 1964/1968

Side 1

Side 2

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Live, Norway (Oslo), 2008

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reading table

I held a Jewel in my fingers –
And went to sleep –
The day was warm, and winds were prosy—
I said ”Twill keep” –

I woke – and chid my honest fingers,
The Gem was gone –
And now, an Amethyst remembrance
Is all I own –

—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), #261 (Franklin)

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2016

Saturday, January 2nd

sounds of Chicago and Switzerland

Need a jolt?

Easel (Christoph Erb, tenor saxophone [Switzerland]; Fred Lonberg-Holm, cello, electronics [Chicago]; Michael Zerang, drums [Chicago]), live, Moscow, 2015

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musical thoughts

Note to self: Listen, always, as if it was the first time—and the last.

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random sights

this morning, Oak Park, Ill.

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2015

Tuesday, December 29th

This guy takes me places no one else does.

Tim Berne’s Snakeoil (TB, alto saxophone; Oscar Noriega, clarinet; Matt Mitchell, piano; Ches Smith, drums, vibraphone), “Small World in a Small Town” (T. Berne), live, Brazil (Sao Paulo), 2015

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art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago

Joan Mitchell (1925-1992), City Landscape, 1955

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2015

Thursday, November 26th

two takes

Lee Morgan (trumpet) with Wayne Shorter (tenor saxophone), Harold Mabern (piano), Bob Cranshaw (bass), Billy Higgins (drums), “Yes I Can, No You Can’t,” 1966

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S. Mos, mash-up (Tupac Shakur, “Holler If Ya Hear Me” [1993]), 2011

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reading table

And everything turns and turns
and the unknown turns into the song
that is the known, but what in turn
becomes of the song is not for us to say

—Mark Strand (1934-2014), “The Webern Variations,” excerpt

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2015

Friday, November 20th

Milford Graves (drums, vocals) with Amiri Baraka (words), Roswell Rudd (trombone), Charles Gayle (tenor saxophone, piano), William Parker (bass), live, New York, 2013

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As you get older, you ain’t afraid to say something.

—Milford Graves

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art beat: yesterday, Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago)

Douglas Ewart, George Lewis, Douglas Repetto, Rio Negro II, 2015 (The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now [through Sunday])