sounds of New York
Lily Maase and the Suite Unraveling (LM, guitar, compositions; Jeff Tobias, tenor saxophone, keyboards; Nick Millevoi, bass; Tyshawn Sorey, drums; with guests Val Jeanty, electronics, and Chelsea Baratz, tenor saxophone), live, New York (The Stone), 3/12/19
“Made to Be Broken”
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“Life at Stylus Point”
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yesterday, Chicago
sounds of New York
Tyshawn Sorey (drums), Graham Haynes (trumpet), Brandon Ross (guitar), Val-Inc (AKA Val Jeanty, electronics, percussion, turntables), live (studio), New York, 2018
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yesterday, Chicago
Why not start the week with a trip to Haiti?
Val-Inc (AKA Val Jeanty), live (studio), Haiti (Le Studio, Port-au-Prince), 2018
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musical thoughts
Sounds shape reality.
—Val Jeanty
sounds of Chicago
Carrie Robinson, “Power to Live Right,” live, Chicago (Maxwell Street), 1965
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yesterday, Forest Park, Ill.
another take
Here’s the original.
The Jaynetts, “Sally, Go ‘Round the Roses” (L. Stevens & Z. Sanders, or A. Spector), 1963 (Billboard Hot 100, #2)
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reading table
as if it just spotted
a star
the pheasant cries—Kobayashi Issa, 1763-1827 (translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)
voices I miss
Tim Buckley (1947-1975), “Sally, Go ‘Round the Roses” (Z. Sanders & L. Stevens, or A. Spector; T. Buckley), live, c. 1973
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We dream – it is good we are dreaming –
It would hurt us – were we awake –—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), from #584 (Franklin)
basement jukebox
Professor Longhair (AKA Henry Roeland “Roy” Byrd [1918-1980], piano and vocals), “Tipitina” (R. Byrd), 1953
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basement jukebox
Solomon Burke (1940-2010), “Cry to Me” (Bert Russell AKA Bert Berns), 1962
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Looking back now, in the late autumn of life—or is it early winter?—I am convinced that art and the erotic are as closely entwined as a pair of lovers lying in each other’s arms.
—John Banville (1945-), Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir
basement jukebox
Earl King (1934-2003), “Come On, Parts I & II” (E. King), 1960
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other day, Forest Park, Ill.
3 x 2 x X = ?
Tomas Fujiwara (drums, composition) with Gerald Cleaver (drums), Mary Halvorson (guitar), Brandon Seabrook (guitar), Taylor Ho Bynum (cornet), Ralph Alessi (trumpet), “Blueberry Eyes,” live (studio), New Haven, Conn., 2017
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