Tuesday, February 15th
sounds of New York
Tomas Fujiwara’s 7 Poets Trio (TF, drums, compositions; Patricia Brennan, vibraphone; Tomeka Reid, cello), live, New York, 2019
**********
lagniappe
random sights
a while ago, Ireland (Dingle Peninsula)
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: vibraphone
2021
Thursday, December 23rd
sounds of Chicago
Fresh Palette Ensemble (Hamid Drake [MCOTD Hall of Fame], drums, percussion, voice; Michael Zerang, drums, percussion; Joshua Abrams, bass; Jason Adasiewicz, vibraphone; Aoki, taiko drums; Tatsu Aoki, shamisen, conduction; Zahra Glenda Baker, voice; Angel Bat Dawid, voice, clarinet, keyboards; Mai Sugimoto, reeds), live (performance begins at 13:30), Chicago, last night
**********
lagniappe
random sights
other day, Chicago
2021
Saturday, December 18th
more
Being & Becoming (Peter Evans, trumpets, compositions; Joel Ross, vibraphone; Nick Jozwiak, bass; Savannah Harris, drums, percussion), live, Cologne (Germany), 8/28/21
**********
lagniappe
random sights
a while ago, Ireland (Dingle Peninsula)
2021
Monday, December 13th
sounds of New York
Being & Becoming (Peter Evans, trumpets, compositions; Joel Ross, vibraphone; Nick Jozwiak, bass; Savannah Harris, drums, percussion), New York, streamed 6/29/21
**********
lagniappe
reading table
It is in no sense
essentialthat this crown of leaves,
sifted by windas if turning over
some problem,is a gray-green
brightening into rust-redat the tips
or that its equivocations
fill this instantto the brim.
—Rae Armantrout (1947-), from “Making”
2021
Tuesday, September 21st
alone
Patricia Brennan (vibraphone, electronics), “Magic Square” (P. Brennan), 2020
**********
lagniappe
random sights
other day, Chicago
2021
Saturday, September 18th
like nobody else
This I return to again, and again, and again.
Morton Feldman (1926-1987, MCOTD Hall of Fame), For Philip Guston (1984); S.E.M. Ensemble, 2000
**********
lagniappe
random sights
a while ago, Ireland (Dingle Peninsula)
2021
Tuesday, August 3rd
sounds of New York
Tomas Fujiwara’s 7 Poets Trio (TF, drums, compositions; Patricia Brennan, vibraphone; Tomeka Reid, cello), live, New York, 2019
#1
*****
#2
**********
lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Chicago
2021
Saturday, March 27th
sounds of New York
Joel Ross Quartet (JR, vibraphone; Immanuel Wilkins, saxophone; Rashaan Carter, bass; Marcus Gilmore, drums), live, New York, 12/9/20
**********
lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Chicago (office, Monadnock Building, painting by Gerard Fortuné)
*****
reading table
cartography is the strangest science today
as morning alters the fittings of the hour to form
shapes wholly new.–Xiao Yue Shan, from “in love as in tourism” (Poetry, 4/21)
2021
Monday, February 8th
Why not start the week with something small, quiet, beautiful?
Patricia Brennan (vibraphone), “Solar” (P. Brennan), live (studio), New York, 2018
**********
lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Chicago
*****
reading table
Only thing
the thief left behind—
moon in my window.—Ryokan (1758-1831), translated from Japanese by Kazuaki Tanahashi
2021
Monday, January 25th
Why not begin the week with something beautiful?
John Luther Adams (1953-), The Farthest Place (2001); Robin Lorentz (violin), Amy Knoles (vibraphone, marimba), Bryan Pezzone (piano), Barry Newton (bass), 2002
**********
lagniappe
random sights
other day, Chicago
music clip of the day 