Sunday, April 7th
sounds of Parchman Farm
“I Give Myself Away, so You Can Use Me,” anonymous singer/pianist/prisoner, live, Mississippi State Penitentiary (Parchman, Miss.), 2023
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random sights
yesterday, Chicago
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
2024
Saturday, April 6th
joy, n. a source of keen pleasure or delight. E.g., listening to singer Eddie Jefferson.
Eddie Jefferson (1918-1979), live (with Richie Cole, alto saxophone; John Campbell, piano; Kelly Sill, bass; Joel Spencer, drums), Chicago (Jazz Showcase), 5/6/79 (days later, he was dead, shot outside a Detroit jazz club)
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art beat: other day, Des Moines, Iowa (Des Moines Art Center)
Marsden Hartley (1877-1943), Mont Sainte-Victoire (detail)
2024
Thursday, April 4th
sounds of all over
Hear in Now Expanded* + QWANQWA**, Weaving Strands of Sound from Addis Ababa to Chicago, live (music begins at 13:30), New York, 4/3/24
*Tomeka Reid (cello, compositions), Mazz Swift (violin, compositions), Silvia Bolognesi (bass, compositions), yuniya edi kwon (violin), Chad Taylor (drums)
**Misale Legesse Muleta (kebero), Anteneh “Bubu” Teklemariam Barago (bass krar), Selamnesh Zemene Taye (vocals), Kaethe Hostetter (violin), Endres “Endris” Hassen Ahmed (masinko)
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other day, Oak Park, Ill.
2024
Wednesday, April 3rd
like nothing else
Jürg Frey, “Architecture Circulaire” (2017), for 5 contrabass clarinets and 5 percussionists (clarinets: Armand Angster, Hans Koch, Theo Nabicht, Ernesto Molinari, Olivier Vivarès; percussion: Eklekto [Alexandre Babel, Sébastien Cordier, Louis Delignon, Florian Feyer, Dorian Fretto]), live, Geneva, 2017
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other day, Chicago
2024
Sunday, March 31st
timeless
Dorothy Love Coates (1928-2002, MCOTD Hall of Fame) and The Gospel Harmonettes, “I’m Just Holding On” (D. Love Coates), live, TV show, c. early 1970s
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2024
Saturday, March 30th
4n
Charles Lloyd (1938-, alto flute) with Jason Moran (piano), Larry Grenadier (bass), and Brian Blade (drums), “Booker’s Garden” (C. Lloyd), live, Santa Barbara, Cal., 2023
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Friday, March 29th
only rock ‘n’ roll
Moja (Haru [bass, vocals], Masumi [drums]), live (“Geji, Geji,” “No Thank You,” “Hello”), France (Rennes), 12/8/23
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art beat: other day, Des Moines, Iowa (Des Moines Art Center)
Joan Mitchell (1925-1992), Untitled, 1968 (detail)
2024
Thursday, March 28th
alone
Víkingur Ólafsson (1984-, piano), live, Washington, D.C., published 3/28/24: J.S. Bach, Goldberg Variations, Aria, Variation No. 1; Jean-Philipe Rameau (arr. Ólafsson), “The Arts and the Hours”; Béla Bartók, Three Hungarian Folksongs from Csík; Sigvaldi Kaldalóns (arr. Ólafsson), “Ave Maria”
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art beat: other day, Des Moines, Iowa (Des Moines Art Center)
Edward Hopper (1912-2004), Automat (1927), detail
2024
Wednesday, March 27th
like nothing else
Raül Refree (guitar, piano, electronics) and Núria Andorrà (percussion, vibraphone), live (“Lo que esconden,” “Fandangos Negros,” “Ramírez 11012017,” “Montaña Vacías,” “Todo el mundo quiere irse ya”), France (Rennes), 12/7/23
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other day, Chicago
2024
Sunday, March 24th
timeless
The Consolers (Sullivan and Iola Pugh), “Waiting for My Child” (S. Pugh), 1964
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