Sunday in Chicago
They’re playing at the Chicago Jazz Festival.
Jaimie Branch’s Fly or Die (JB, trumpet, compositions; Tomeka Reid, cello; Jason Ajemian, bass; Chad Taylor, drums), live, Toronto, 2017
“theme 1,” “. . . meanwhile,” “theme 2”
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“theme nothing”
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lagniappe
random sights
this morning, Oak Park, Ill.
sounds of Chicago
Ben LaMar Gay (vocals, cornet, composition), “Muhal,” 2018
more sounds of Shreveport
Pastor Brady Blade Sr., Brian Blade & The Fellowship Band (Brian Blade, drums, et al.), Hallelujah Train, Shreveport Symphony Orchestra, “Amazing Grace,” live, Shreveport, La., 2017
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Monhegan Island, Maine
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reading table
The present
must be kept empty
so that anything
can happen:—Rae Armantrout (1947-), from “Empty”
sounds of New York
Fay Victor’s Mutations for Justice (FV, vocals, compositions; Jaimie Branch, trumpet; Luke Stewart, bass; Michael Vatcher, drums), live, New York, 2018
This drummer, Michael Vatcher, will be playing tonight in Chicago, at Constellation, with cornetist Josh Berman and bassist Jason Roebke.
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Chicago (Art Institute, South Garden)
only rock ‘n’ roll
Idles, “Danny Nedelko,” 2018
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Chicago (Art Institute, South Garden)
what’s new
Erykah Badu, live (“Rimshot,” “Green Eyes”), Washington, D.C., 8/15/18
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Monhegan Island, Maine
this weekend in Chicago
Saturday night he’s playing at Constellation.
Craig Taborn, piano
Live, Macedonia (Skopje), 2015
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Live (playing and talking), Belgium (Antwerp), 2016
what’s new
Tower of Power, live, Washington, D.C., 8/13/18
more
Kaija Saariaho (1952-), Cloud Trio (2009); Chartreuse (Myra Hinrichs, violin; Carrie Frey, viola; Helen Newby, cello), live, Los Angeles, 2016
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lagniappe
reading table
Walking in Mountains in the Rain
by Wang Wei, 699-759 (translated from Chinese by David Young,
Five T’ang Poets, 1990)In this quick cloudburst
air thickens, the sky comes downdark mountains
flashes of lightningout at sea new clouds
have just started to form
and this small brook I straddle
is a river in flood somewhererags and blankets of mist
hang on these slopes and cliffsthen the clouds open and vanish
rain patters off
and moonlight silvers
that whole reach of river
foothills to oceanand even from this black mountain
I can hear boatmen singing.
Aretha’s father
Rev. C. L. Franklin (1915-1984), “I’m Going Through” (Parts I & II), 1968
