Sunday, January 5th
timeless
Soul Stirrers (featuring Sam Cooke [1931-1964]), “Jesus, Wash Away My Troubles” (S. Cooke), 1956
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
2020
Saturday, January 4th
timeless
Sarah Vaughan (1924-1990), “Misty” (E. Garner, J. Burke), live, Sweden (Stockholm), 1964
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
*****
reading table
welcoming in loads
of new year’s rain . . .
trashy house—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue
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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lagniappe
other morning, Chicago (Columbus Park)
2020
Thursday, January 2nd
sounds of London
Brilliant Corners, London, 2019
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2020
Wednesday, January 1st
sounds of Paris, Havana, and all over
Cami Layé Okún (DJ), live, Paris, 2019
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
2019
Tuesday, December 31st
sounds of Nigeria and Chile
Newen Afrobeat, “Upside Down” (F. Kuti), live, Chile (Santiago), 2015
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lagniappe
random sights
this morning, Oak Park, Ill.
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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lagniappe
radio
The annual Bachfest on WKCR (Columbia University) continues through midnight New Year’s Eve.
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random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
2019
Sunday, December 29th
back to church
Swanee Quintet, “Prayer Changes Things,” live, 2011
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lagniappe
reading table
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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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
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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lagniappe
reading table
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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random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
2019
Friday, December 27th
what’s new
Los Lobos, “¿Dónde Está Santa Claus?”, “Llegó Navidad,” “Christmas and You,” “It’s Christmas Time in Texas,” live, Washington, D.C., 12/18/19
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lagniappe
reading table
Along my journey
through this temporal world, people
new-year-house-cleaning—Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), translated from Japanese by Sam Hamill
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
music clip of the day 