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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

Wednesday, November 18th

More from the composer we heard Monday.

Georg Friedrich Haas (1953-), I Can’t Breathe (In Memoriam Eric Garner) (2014); Marco Blaauw (trumpet), live, Germany (Cologne), 2015

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art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago

Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946), Two Towers (New York), 1907 (Alfred Stieglitz and the 19th Century, through 3/27/16)

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Wednesday, October 28th

tonight in Chicago

These guys will be playing at Elastic Arts.

Nate Wooley (trumpet), Paul Lytton (percussion), live, Austria (Wels)

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Tuesday, October 27th

More Wadada.

Wadada Leo Smith (trumpet), Louis Moholo (percussion), Steve Noble (percussion), live, London, 2010

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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.

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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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art beat: yesterday at the Art Institute of Chicago

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), A Red Plum Branch against the Summer Moon
c. mid-1840s

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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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random sights

yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.

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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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art beat

Vivian Maier (1926-2009), Chicago (Maxwell Street), 1967

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Tuesday, September 15th

never enough

Miles Davis (1926-1991), live, England (Isle of Wight Festival), 1970*


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random thoughts

What would it be like to live in a world where the sky was always the same?

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*With Gary Bartz, saxophones; Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea, keyboards; Airto Moreira, percussion; Dave Holland, bass; Jack DeJohnette, drums.

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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art beat

Lee Friedlander (1934-), New Orleans, late 1950s

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*Henry Butler (piano, vocals), Steven Bernstein (trumpet), et al.

Friday, July 17th

timeless

Otis Redding (with Booker T. & the M.G.’s, Sam & Dave), live, 1967