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John Coltrane Quartet (JC, tenor saxophone; McCoy Tyner, piano; Jimmy Garrison, bass; Elvin Jones, drums), “Vigil,” “Naima,” “My Favorite Things,” live, Belgium (Comblain-La-Tour), 1965
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art beat
Robert Frank (1924-), Cafe – Beaufort, South Carolina, 1955
musical movements
Urban Bush Women, “Walking with ‘Trane” (fragments, commentary), Rockville, Md., 2015
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random sights
this morning, Chicago (Columbus Park)
another take
Rev. Al Green, “The Lord Will Make a Way Somehow” (T.A. Dorsey), live, Memphis (Full Gospel Tabernacle Church), 1983
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Robert Frank (1924-), Santa Fe, 1955
Sounds so soft they might, it seems, be emanating from your mind.
Jürg Frey (1953-), Floating Categories (2015), live, England (Bristol), 2016
This, I just found, has more than 21 million views. (Where have I been?)
Florence and the Machine, “Cosmic Love”
Live (studio performance), Seattle, 2010
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I had been happy, happy enough, but now I often found myself uttering a spontaneous prayer that went, simply: She is here, still here.
—George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo
Think you know what a trumpet sounds like?
Nate Wooley (trumpet), live, New York, 4/3/17
#1
#2
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lights have entered
us it is a music more powerfulthan music
—George Oppen (1908-1984), “Till Other Voices Wake Us,” fragment
Another take.
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), String Quartet in F major (1903)
Hagen Quartet, live, Austria (Salzburg), 2000
1st movt.
2nd movt.
3rd movt.
4th movt.
Sometimes I just want to be swept away.
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), String Quartet in F major (1903), 1st Mvt.
Takács Quartet, live, New York, 2017
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cloud becomes a mountain
becomes
a cloud—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue
This I could listen to all day.
Eva-Maria Houben (1955-), lines
R. Andrew Lee (piano), live, Denver, 3/8/17
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday evening, Oak Park, Ill.
back to church
Rev. Al Green, “The Lord Will Make a Way Somehow” (T.A. Dorsey), live, Memphis (Full Gospel Tabernacle Church), 2012
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random sights
yesterday evening, Oak Park, Ill.
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