Monday, May 29th
sounds of Chicago
Anna Clyne (1980-), A Wonderful Day (2013)
Bang on a Can All-Stars, Willie Barbee (pre-recorded voice)
Live, New York, 2015
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Recording (Field Recordings), 2015
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
2017
Sunday, May 28th
three takes
“Surely I Will,” AKA “I’m Bound for Mt. Zion”
Voices of Faith
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Margaret Allison & The Angelic Gospel Singers, live, Birmingham, Ala., 1997
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Martha Carol Giese, live
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lagniappe
reading table
one breeze
reaches the cellar . . .
summer moon—Kobayashi Issa, 1763-1827 (translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)
2017
Saturday, May 27th
I could listen to these two—he’s long been one of my favorite pianists—all day.
Sara Serpa (1979-, vocal), Ran Blake (1935-, piano), “Night and Day” (C. Porter),
live, New York (Kitano), 2016
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lagniappe
reading table
He thought his head would explode, if the forenoon kept burning into the jungle all around him and the gulls kept screaming and the monkey kept regarding its surroundings carefully, moving its head and black eyes from side to side like someone following the progress of some kind of conversation, some kind of debate, some kind of struggle that the jungle—the morning—the moment—was having with itself.
—Denis Johnson (July 1, 1979-May 24, 2017), Tree of Smoke (National Book Award for Fiction, 2007)
2017
Friday, May 26th
only rock ‘n’ roll
Janis Joplin, “Piece of My Heart” (J Ragovy, B. Berns), live, Germany, 1968
2017
Thursday, May 25th
never enough
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Partita No. 2 in D minor
Itzhak Perlman (violin), live, London, 1978
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art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), Bullfinch on a camellia branch
2017
Wednesday, May 24th
How can something so solid make sounds so liquid?
Morton Feldman (1926-1987; MCOTD Hall of Fame), For Bunita Marcus (1985), excerpts; Marc-André Hamelin (piano), 2017
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lagniappe
art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), Japanese white-eyes on a maple branch1854
2017
Tuesday, May 23rd
never enough
Thelonious Monk Quartet (TM, piano; Charlie Rouse, tenor saxophone; Butch Warren, bass; Frankie Dunlop, drums), live, Tokyo, 1963
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lagniappe
reading table
Men are children. They must be pardoned for everything, except malice.
—Joseph Joubert, 1754-1824 (The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, translated from French by Paul Auster)
2017
Monday, May 22nd
what’s new
Novo Amor, “Carry You,” 2017
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lagniappe
art beat
Stanley Greene (February 14, 1949-May, 19, 2017), Chechnya (Grozny), April, 2001 (Zelina, after the death of her child)
2017
Sunday, May 21st
old school
Robert Blair & The Fantastic Violinaires, “Where He Leads Me,” live, North Carolina (Wilson), 1988
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lagniappe
art beat
Lee Friedlander (1934-), Washington, D.C., May 17, 1957*
*Demonstration commemorating the third anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education.
2017
Saturday, May 20th
In Oslo in December each sound is clear and distinct, or that, at least, is what I imagine.
Transitory Meeting of Minds,* live, Oslo, 12/5/16
#1
#2
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*Dré Hočevar, drums, interaction; Christian Balvig, piano, electronics; Michal Wróblewski, alto saxophone; Jean Dousteyssier, clarinets.
