What better way to start the week?
Thelonious Monk Quartet (TM, piano; Charlie Rouse, tenor saxophone; Butch Warren, bass; Frankie Dunlop, drums), “Epistrophy” (T. Monk), live, Tokyo, 1963
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lagniappe
art beat
Berenice Abbott (1898-1991), Red River logging project, California, August, 1943
three takes
“I Won’t Be Back” (AKA “Sweepin’ Through the City”)
Caravans (feat. Shirley Caesar, 1938-)
Live, Boston (Boston University), 1960s
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Recording, 1962
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Shirley Caesar
Live, Tulsa, Okla., 2001
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lagniappe
reading table
They end their flight
one by one—
crows at dusk.—Yosa Buson, 1716-1784 (translated from Japanese by Robert Hass)
sounds of Chicago, Amsterdam, Vienna
Made to Break (Ken Vandermark, tenor saxophone, compositions; Tim Daisy, drums; Jasper Stadhouders, bass; Christof Kurzmann, electronics), live, Macedonia (Skopje), 2016
“Dial the Number”
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“Theme”
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lagniappe
reading table
Offering
by W.S. Merwin (1927-)Saturday morning and the trades
are back trading out of the east
offering their samples of cloud
each the only one of its kind
and each of them changing even
as it is offered only once
without a word except the one
sound of hushing to say that this
is all happening in secret
this unrepeatable present
only today for the lucky one
what’s new
St. Vincent, “Pills” (Masseduction, 10/13/17)
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lagniappe
reading table
A crow
has settled on a bare branch—
autumn evening.—Matsuo Basho, 1644-1694 (translated from Japanese by Robert Hass)
mesmerizing
John Luther Adams (1953-), Four Thousand Holes (2010)
Taka Kigawa (piano), Chris Graham (percussion), live, New York, 2017
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lagniappe
reading table
This road—
no one goes down it,
autumn evening.—Matsuo Basho, 1644-1694 (translated from Japanese by Robert Hass)
drum festival
day three
Tony Allen (drums, vocals) & Band, live, Luxembourg, 2011
drum festival
day two
Hamid Drake (MCOTD Hall of Fame, drums), Sylvain Kassap (clarinets), Benjamin Duboc (bass), live, France (Pantin), 2016
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lagniappe
reading table
I haven’t died before, so I sometimes get a bad case of beginner’s nerves, but they soon pass.
—Cory Taylor (1955-2016), Dying: A Memoir
drum festival
day one
Dafnis Prieto Sextet (DP, drums; Peter Apfelbaum, tenor saxophone; Alex Sipiagin, trumpet; Roman Filiu, alto saxophone; Manuel Valera , piano; Johannes Weidenmueller, bass), “Back and Forth” (D. Prieto), live, East Lansing, Mich., 2017
MCOTD Hall of Fame
Nobody sounds like her—nobody.
Dorothy Love Coates (1928-2002) & the Original Gospel Harmonettes, “99 and a Half Won’t Do” (D.L. Coates), 1956
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