this week in Chicago
They’re playing Thursday at Constellation and Friday at Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center (benefit for Puerto Rico).
Miguel Zenón (alto saxophone, compositions) and Spektral Quartet (Yo Soy La Tradición, 2018)
“Milagrosa”
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“Promesa”
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Playing and talking
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Oak Brook, Ill. (Dean Nature Sanctuary)
More from Aretha’s homegoing service.
Smokey Robinson, “Really Gonna Miss You,” live, Detroit, 8/31/18
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Brook, Ill. (Dean Nature Sanctuary)
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reading table
Your path is at your feet whether you realize it or not.
—painter Agnes Martin, 1912-2004 (Arne Glimcher, Agnes Martin: Paintings, Writings, Remembrances, 2012)
basement jukebox
Otis Rush (1934-)
“All Your Love (I Miss Loving),” 1958
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“I Can’t Quit You Baby,” 1956
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“Double Trouble,” 1958
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lagniappe
found words
Actor we forgot was married to a model
—AOL
what’s new
Tom Waits (vocals) and Marc Ribot (guitar), “Bella Ciao (Goodbye Beautiful),” 9/12/18 (Marc Ribot, Songs of Resistance 1942-2018)
basement jukebox
Aretha Franklin, 1942-2018
“I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)” (R. Shannon), 1967
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“Do Right Woman, Do Right Man” (C. Moman, D. Penn), 1967
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“Respect” (O. Redding), 1967
sounds of Argentina
Juana Molina, “Cosoco,” New York, 2017
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Chicago (Columbus Park)
voices I miss
The way a bass should sound—fat, dark, bottomless.
Malachi Favors (1927-2004), live, New York, 2001
sounds of Iceland
Why not begin the week with something beautiful?
Anna Thorvaldsdottir (1977-), Heyr þú oss himnum á (2005); Hljómeyki chamber choir, 2005
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lagniappe
random sights
this morning, Bellwood, Ill.
More from Aretha’s homegoing service.
Jennifer Hudson, “Amazing Grace,” live, Detroit, 8/31/18
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lagniappe
reading table
The World Contracted to a Recognizable Image
by William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)at the small end of an illness
there was a picture
probably Japanese
which filled my eyean idiotic picture
except it was all I recognized
the wall lived for me in that picture
I clung to it as a fly
two takes
“Livin’ on a Prayer”
August Greene (Common [vocals], Robert Glasper [piano], Karriem Riggins [drums], et al.), live (backstage, Tonight Show), 8/13/18
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Bon Jovi, 1986
