Saturday, July 27th
timeless
Percy Mayfield (1920-1984), “Life Is Suicide” (P. Mayfield), 1951
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Sunday, July 21st
timeless
Pilgrim Travelers, “I’ve Got a Mother Gone Home,” 1951
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Saturday, July 20th
what’s new
Sylvie Courvoisier (piano, compositions), Chimaera, with Christian Fennesz (guitar, electronics), Nate Wooley (trumpet), Wadada Leo Smith (trumpet), Kenny Wollesen (vibraphone, drums), Drew Gress (bass), Nasheet Waits (drums), live, Amsterdam, 7/13/24
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Sunday, July 14th
testify!
Pilgrim Jubilees, “Too Close to Heaven,” live, Georgia (Albany), 1980s
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Friday, July 12th
sounds of Chicago
Fred Moten (voice, words)/Brandon Lopez (bass), live, Chicago, 6/5/24
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Cut down, yes
But rooted still
What stumps compress
No axe can kill—Samuel Menashe (1925-2011), from “Survival”
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Wednesday, July 10th
sounds of New York
Being & Becoming (Peter Evans, trumpet; Joel Ross, vibraphone, electronics; Nick Jozwiak, bass, electronics; Michael Shekwoaga Ode, drums), “My Sorrow Is Luminous” (Yanka Dyagileva, 1966-1991), live, New York, 2023
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A Word that breathes distinctly
Has not the power to die—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), from 1651 (Franklin)
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Sunday, July 7th
This guy, even after 50 years, I never tire of hearing.
Just one note and I’m hooked, again.
Vernard Johnson (1948-, alto saxophone), “Holiness Is What I Long For,” live, Louisville, Ky., 2017
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Saturday, July 6th
two takes
“Crying” (Roy Orbison, Joe Melson)
Roy Orbison (1936-1988), 1961
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Julian Lage (1987-, guitar), live, Chicago, 2022
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Sunday, June 30th
MCOTD Hall of Fame
Today he is being inducted into the MCOTD Hall of Fame, where he joins drummer Hamid Drake (1955-); saxophonists Henry Threadgill (1944-) and Von Freeman (1923-2012); trumpeter Lester Bowie (1941-1999); gospel singer Dorothy Love Coates (1928-2002); composer Morton Feldman (1926-1987); poets John Berryman (1914-1972), William Bronk (1918-1999), and Wislawa Szymborska (1923-2012); and photographer Helen Levitt (1913-2009).
Blind Willie Johnson (1897-1945), “Trouble Will Soon Be Over” (1930)
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Friday, June 28th
sounds of Chicago
Chaka Khan (1953-), live (“Tell Me Something Good,” “What Cha’ Gonna Do For Me,” “Stay,” “Sweet Thing,” “Through the Fire.” “Ain’t Nobody,” “I’m Every Woman”), live, Washington, D.C. , 6/11/24
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other day, Chicago (Fred Hampton, 1948-1969)*
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*Chaka Khan, Wikipedia entry: “She joined the Black Panther Party after befriending a fellow member, activist and Chicago native Fred Hampton in 1967.[16] At the age of 13, she was given the name Chaka Adunne Aduffe Hodarhi Karifi by a Yoruba Babalawo during a naming ceremony.[3] In 1969, she left the Panthers and dropped out of high school, having attended Calumet High School and Kenwood High School (now Kenwood Academy).[17] She began to perform in small groups around the Chicago area . . .”
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