trumpet festival
day two
Marcos Balter (1974-), Landscape of Fear (2015); Ryan Muncy (soprano saxophone) & Peter Evans (piccolo trumpet), live, New York, 2017
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Chicago (Columbus Park)
trumpet festival
day one
Nate Wooley Quartet (NW, trumpet, compositions; Chris Pitsiokos, alto saxophone; Brandon Lopez, bass; Dre Hocevar, drums), live, New York, 2016
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Chicago (Garfield Park Conservatory)
old school
Rev. Campbell and His Wonder Boys, “Home Don’t Seem Like Home No More”
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lagniappe
reading table
my dead mother—
every time I see the ocean,
every time . . .—Kobayashi Issa, 1763-1827 (translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)
two takes
“Things Have Changed” (B. Dylan)
Bob Dylan, live
*****
Bettye LaVette, 2018
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lagniappe
reading table
An Entertainment for W.S. Graham for Him
Having Reached Sixty-Five
by W.S. Graham (1918-1986)
What are you going to do
With what is left of yourself
Now among the rustling
Of your maybe best years?
This is not an auto-elegy
With me pouring my heart
Out into where you
Differently stand or sit
On the Epidaurus steps.
What shall I say to myself
Having put myself down
On to a public page?
Where am I going now?
And where are you going
Tricked into reading
Words of my later life?
Let me pretend you are
Roughly of my age.
Are you a boy or a girl?
And what has happened to you?
Look at the chirping various
Leaves of Mr Graham’s
Spanking summer. Where are
You at? I know my face
Has changed. My hair has blanched
Into a wrong disguise
Sitting on top of my head.
Beside each other perched
On the Epidaurus steps.
Where am I going to go?
Shall I rise to follow
The thin sound of the goats
Tinkling their bells?
timeless
Marvin Gaye (1939-1984), “What’s Going On” (M. Gaye, A. Cleveland, R. Benson), “What’s Happening Brother” (M. Gaye, J. Nyx Jr.), live, Chicago, 1972
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
more
Julius Eastman (1940-1990), Stay on It (1973), live, Switchboard Music Festival, San Francisco, 2016*
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lagniappe
random thoughts
The paper clip in my desk drawer will outlive me.
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*Annie Phillips, bass clarinet; Jeff Anderle, clarinet; Aram Shelton, alto saxophone; Alisa Rose, violin; Hannah Addario-Berry, cello; Helen Newby, cello; Dominique Leone, piano; Mark Clifford, vibraphone; Jordan Glenn, drums.
sounds to inhabit
Julius Eastman (1940-1990), Crazy Nigger (1979); pianists Joseph Kubera, Todd Moellenberg, Brendan Nguyen, and Richard Valitutto, live, Los Angeles, 2017
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
sounds of the Netherlands
Whenever I hear him, I want to hear more.
Ab Baars (shakuhachi, clarinet, tenor saxophone), live, Netherlands (Utrecht), 2016
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
In a country that continues to coarsen, delicacy grows ever more precious.
John Luther Adams (1953-), there is no one, not even the wind (2017); Emerald City Music, live (world premiere), Seattle, 9/15/17
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
old school
Brother Smith, “I’ll Sing Again,” live, Elba, Ala., 1998
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
music clip of the day 