Wednesday, October 28th
tonight in Chicago
These guys will be playing at Elastic Arts.
Nate Wooley (trumpet), Paul Lytton (percussion), live, Austria (Wels)
2012
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music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: trumpet
2015
Tuesday, October 27th
More Wadada.
Wadada Leo Smith (trumpet), Louis Moholo (percussion), Steve Noble (percussion), live, London, 2010
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
Listening to live music, as I was over the weekend (hearing this guy with a quartet Saturday night, then by himself Sunday afternoon), reminds one, repeatedly, that this moment is irretrievable.
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2015
Saturday, October 24th
tonight in Chicago
They’ll be playing at the University of Chicago.
Wadada Leo Smith’s Golden Quartet (WLS, trumpet; Anthony Davis, piano; John Lindberg, bass; Pheeroan akLaff, drums; with Jesse Gilbert, video artist), “Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 381 Days” (W. L. Smith), live, Spain (San Sebastian), 2014
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lagniappe
art beat: yesterday at the Art Institute of Chicago
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), A Red Plum Branch against the Summer Moon
c. mid-1840s
2015
Saturday, October 17th
tonight in Chicago
This drummer—one of my all-time favorites—will be playing at Constellation with this crack quartet.
William Parker Quartet (WP, bass; Hamid Drake, drums; Rob Brown, alto saxophone; Lewis Barnes, trumpet), live, 2013
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2015
Saturday, September 19th
voices I miss
Lester Bowie’s New York Organ Ensemble (LB [1941-1999, MCOTD Hall of Fame], trumpet; Frank Lacy, trombone; James Carter, tenor saxophone; Spencer Barefield, guitar; Kathy Farmer, organ; Famoudou Don Moye, drums), live, Spain (Madrid), 1992
Time for just one?
Try “Somewhere” (L. Bernstein, S. Sondheim), 11:45-.
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lagniappe
art beat
Vivian Maier (1926-2009), Chicago (Maxwell Street), 1967
2015
Thursday, September 3rd
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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lagniappe
art beat
Lee Friedlander (1934-), New Orleans, late 1950s
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*Henry Butler (piano, vocals), Steven Bernstein (trumpet), et al.
2015
Friday, July 17th
timeless
Otis Redding (with Booker T. & the M.G.’s, Sam & Dave), live, 1967
2015
Wednesday, July 15th
One. One. Then two.
Nate Wooley (trumpet), Ken Vandermark (saxophone), live (studio performance), Pittsburgh, 2015
2015
Wednesday, June 17th
not like this, not like that
Nate Wooley, “Polychoral for trumpets and 8-channel audio”; Nate Wooley & Peter Evans (trumpets), live, New York (Knockdown Center), 2015
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
In 1915 no one had heard an electric guitar. In 2065 sounds we’ve never heard will be commonplace. What will they be?
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