Monday, March 4th
only rock ‘n’ roll
The Veldt, live (“The Everlasting Gobstopper,” “Aurora Borealis,” “In a Quiet Room,” “Forever Green,” “Joi”), Seattle, 12/13/23
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill. (Conservatory)
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
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Sunday, March 3rd
sounds of Chicago
Highway QCs, “I Heard,” “Do You Love Him,” “I’ll Be Satisfied,” live (TV show [TV Gospel Time]), 1963
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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
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Saturday, March 2nd
timeless
No one ever died from too much beauty.
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor (Op. 25); Fauré Quartet, live, Tokyo, 2014
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Friday, March 1st
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Marta Warelis (piano), Wilbert de Joode (bass), Onno Govaert (drums), live, Amsterdam, 2021
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other day, Oak Park, Ill.
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Monday, February 26th
What you didn’t know you needed right now.
Irreversible Entanglements (Camae Ayewa [Moor Mother], vocals; Aquiles Navarro, trumpet, synthesizer; Keir Neuringer, saxophone, synthesizer; Luke Stewart, bass; Tcheser Holmes, drums; Kyle Kidd, vocals), live (“Fireworks”, “Soundness,” “Free Love,” “Our Land Back,” “root ᐸ=ᐳ branch,” “Protect Your Light”), live, Washington, D.C., 2/19/24
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Sunday, February 25th
timeless
Sunset Travelers (feat. O. V. Wright [1939-1980]) , “Glory Is Coming,” 1962
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streaming
Tonight Henry Threadgill (1944-, alto saxophone, flute [2016 Pulitzer Prize for Music, MCOTD Hall of Fame]), Vijay Iyer (1972-, keyboards [2013 MacArthur “genius grant”]), and Dafnis Prieto (1974-, percussion [2011 MacArthur “genius grant”]) are performing, as The Trio, at New York’s Jazz Gallery, with livestream tickets available here.
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Saturday, February 24th
never enough
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Contrapunctus I-XIV; Daniil Trifonov (1991-, piano), live, published 2023
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Monday, February 19th
This I could listen to all day.
SYMPHONY (Peter Evans, trumpets, flugelhorn, compositions; Alice Teyssier, flutes, voice; Nick Jozwiak, bass; Levy Lorenzo, percussion, electronics), “Points of Light,” published 2/17/24
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yesterday, Chicago
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Sunday, February 18th
timeless
Sunset Travelers, “My Number Will Be Changed,” rec. 1953 (Houston)
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Saturday, February 17th
passings
Seiji Ozawa, conductor, September 1, 1935–February 6, 2024
Vienna Philharmonic (Seiji Ozawa, cond.) with Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), live, Tokyo, 2020; Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996), Nostalghia: In Memory of Andrei Tarkovsky (for violin and orchestra), 1987
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