Friday, October 5th
what’s new
Many do a lot with a lot, few so much with so little.
Juana Molina, “Sin Dones,” live, Barcelona, 9/14/18
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
2018
Thursday, October 4th
like nobody else
James Booker (piano, vocals [1939-1983]), live, France (Nice), 1978
2018
Wednesday, October 3rd
what’s new
One-word review: Wow!
Ingrid Laubrock (tenor saxophone), Brandon Lopez (bass), Francisco Mela (drums), live, New York, 9/30/18
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Elmhurst, Ill. (Prairie Path)
2018
Tuesday, October 2nd
more
Jürg Frey (1953-), Klavierstück Arrangement Nr. 1-3 (1991); Keiko Shichijo (piano), live, c. 2011
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lagniappe
reading table
On a journey, ill:
my dream goes wandering
over withered fields.—Matsuo Basho, 1644-1694 (translated from Japanese by Yoel Hoffmann; Japanese Death Poems, Yoel Hoffmann, ed.)
2018
Monday, October 1st
Need a break from the incessant noise?
Jürg Frey (1953-), Canones Incerti (2010), Jürg Frey (clarinet), et al., live
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lagniappe
baseball
Baseball is such a perfect game in some ways that it takes 162 to decide nothing.
—Cubs manager Joe Maddon on the Cubs/Brewers tie
2018
Sunday, September 30th
back to church
Elder Nathan Rolle, “This May Be My Last Time,” live, Thomaston, Ga., 2010
2018
Saturday, September 29th
tomorrow night in Chicago
He’s playing at the Hyde Park Jazz Festival.
Jason Moran (piano), “Thelonious” (T. Monk), live, Minneapolis, 2009
2018
Friday, September 28th
keep on dancing
Abi Shanti-I (DJ), live (music starts at 9:10), London, 8/9/18
2018
Thursday, September 27th
basement jukebox
“Can I Change My Mind” (B. Despenza, C. Wolfolk)
Alton Ellis (1938-2008), 1969
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Tyrone Davis (1938-2005), 1968
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lagniappe
reading table
How lonesome the Wind must feel Nights –
—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), from 1441 (Franklin)
2018
Wednesday, September 26th
sounds of Chicago
Muhal Richard Abrams (1930-2017), piano, “Young at Heart” (Young at Heart/Wise in Time, 1974)
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lagniappe
reading table
I’m finite – I cant see –
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This timid life of Evidence
Keeps pleading – “I don’t know” –—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), from 725 (Franklin)
