Sunday, October 7th
back to church
Who needs instruments?
“Look Where He Brought Me From,” Mt. Carmel Primitive Baptist Church, Ideal, Ga., Easter Sunday, 2011
**********
lagniappe
random sights
July 22, 2018, Monhegan Island, Maine
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
2018
Saturday, October 6th
My kind of “genius.”
Vijay Gupta, violinist, educator, social-justice advocate, 2018 MacArthur Fellow, talking and playing
***
**********
lagniappe
musical thoughts
Filled with music, we’re free of all else.
2018
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
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
**********
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
**********
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
**********
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
