passings
Antoine Dominique “Fats” Domino Jr., February 26, 1928-October, 24, 2017, singer, songwriter, piano player
“Don’t You Hear Me Calling You” (A. Domino, D. Bartholomew), 1954
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lagniappe
random sights
this morning, Oak Park, Ill.
thank God (or Whatever) for radio
Four Tet (aka Kieran Hebden) with guest Tyondai Braxton, live, New York (The Lot Radio, Brooklyn), 2017
what’s new
Anouar Brahem (oud, vocal) with Django Bates (piano), Dave Holland (bass), Jack DeJohnette (drums), “Blue Maqams,” 2017
sounds of New York
Blue Turf (Nels Cline, guitar; Jim Campilongo, guitar; Jerome Harris, bass; Jim Black, drums), live, New York, 2016
old school
Lee Williams and The Spiritual QC’s, “Running for My Life,” “Let’s Get Down,” live, c. 2010
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lagniappe
reading table
The autumn chill becomes part of me
in the bedroom I step on a comb
that belonged to my dead wife—Yosa Buson, 1716-1784 (translated from Japanese by W.S. Merwin and Takako Lento)
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Thelonious Monk Quartet (TM, piano; Charlie Rouse, tenor saxophone; Butch Warren, bass; Frankie Dunlop, drums), “Just a Gigolo” (I. Caesar, L. Casucci), “Bolivar Blues” (T. Monk), live, Tokyo, 1963
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lagniappe
art beat
Berenice Abbott (1898-1991), Designer’s Window, Bleecker Street, New York, 1947
what’s new
Magically Inclined (Sean Sonderegger, tenor saxophone, compositions; Curtis Fowlkes, trombone; Kamala Sankaram, voice; Harvey Valdes, guitar; Shawn Lovato, bass; Joe Hertenstein, drums), “anyone lived in a pretty how town” (words by E.E. Cummings), live, New York, 10/15/17
tomorrow night
They’re playing at the University of Chicago—Bartok and Ligeti.
Wolfgang Rihm (1952-), String Quartet No. 13
Arditti Quartet, live, London, 2012
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Thelonious Monk Quartet (TM, piano; Charlie Rouse, tenor saxophone; Butch Warren, bass; Frankie Dunlop, drums), “Evidence” (T. Monk), live, Tokyo, 1963
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lagniappe
art beat
Berenice Abbott (1898-1991), Fifth Ave., Nos. 4, 6, 8, New York, 1936
sounds of Seattle
Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio, live, Seattle, 2017
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lagniappe
art beat
Berenice Abbott (1898-1991), Pine and Henry Streets, New York, 1936
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