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2020

Monday, January 6th

like nobody else

Art Ensemble of Chicago (Roscoe Mitchell, 1940-, reeds, flute, percussion; Joseph Jarman, 1937-2019, reeds, flute, percussion; Lester Bowie, 1941-1999, trumpet, flugelhorn, MCOTD Hall of Fame; Malachi Favors, 1927-2004, bass, percussion, vocals; Don Moye, 1946-, drums, percussion), live, Germany (Hamburg), 1991

 

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random sights

other day, Oak Park, Ill.

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Culture’s beginnings:
from the heart of the country
rice-planting songs

—Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), from Narrow Road to the Interior (translated from Japanese by Sam Hamill)

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2020

Sunday, January 5th

timeless

Soul Stirrers (featuring Sam Cooke [1931-1964]), “Jesus, Wash Away My Troubles” (S. Cooke), 1956

 

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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.

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2020

Saturday, January 4th

timeless

Sarah Vaughan (1924-1990), “Misty” (E. Garner, J. Burke), live, Sweden (Stockholm), 1964

 

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random sights

other day, Oak Park, Ill.

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welcoming in loads
of new year’s rain . . .
trashy house

—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue

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2020

Friday, January 3rd

never enough

I could listen to him play Bach all day, all week, all month.

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, excerpt (Prelude and Fugue No. 1 in C major); Sviatoslav Richter (1915-1997, piano), live, Austria (Innsbruck), 1974

 

(This recording—all four-plus glorious hours—is available on Spotify: search “Richter, Bach, Innsbruck.”)

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other morning, Chicago (Columbus Park)

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2020

Thursday, January 2nd

sounds of London

Brilliant Corners, London, 2019

 

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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.

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2020

Wednesday, January 1st

sounds of Paris, Havana, and all over

Cami Layé Okún (DJ), live, Paris, 2019

 

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2019

Tuesday, December 31st

sounds of Nigeria and Chile

Newen Afrobeat, “Upside Down” (F. Kuti), live, Chile (Santiago), 2015

 

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random sights

this morning, Oak Park, Ill.

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2019

Monday, December 30th

never enough

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), French Suites (Nos. 1-6); András Schiff (piano), live, Germany (Leipzig), 2010

 

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radio

The annual Bachfest on WKCR (Columbia University) continues through midnight New Year’s Eve.

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other day, Oak Park, Ill.

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2019

Sunday, December 29th

back to church

Swanee Quintet, “Prayer Changes Things,” live, 2011

 

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You think you care what this book is about, but really you care how it sounds.

—Joe Moran, First You Write a Sentence (2018)

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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.

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2019

Saturday, December 28th

sounds of outside and inside

This I could listen to all day.

Cool Maritime (AKA Sean Hellfritsch), from Sharing Waves, 2018

 

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The bush warbler
in a grove of bamboo sprouts
sings of growing old

—Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), translated from Japanese by Sam Hamill

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other day, Oak Park, Ill.

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