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2024

Tuesday, January 2nd

sounds of Chicago

A Tribute to Curtis Mayfield (“We’re A Winner,” “Little Child Runnin’ Wild,” “Beautiful Brother of Mine,” “We the People,” “Keep On Keeping On,” “Superfly,” “Freddie’s Dead,” “Now You’re Gone,” “The Other Side of Town,” “The Makings Of You,” “So In Love,” “Move On Up” [all C. Mayfield]): WDR Big Band and WDR Funkhausorchester (Vince Mendoza, arranger/conductor) with Ledisi (vocals), Bilal (vocals), et al., live, Germany (Cologne), 9/30/23

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2023

Sunday, December 31st

testify!

Pilgrim Jubilees, “Three Trees,” live, Jackson, Miss., 2017

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2023

Saturday, December 30th

sounds of Chicago

DKV Trio (Hamid Drake [drums, MCOTD Hall of fame], Kent Kessler [bass], Ken Vandermark [reeds]), live, Chicago (Elastic Arts), last night

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2023

Tuesday, December 26th

never enough

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor; Hidemi Suzuki (cello), live, Netherlands (Amsterdam), 2017

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radio

Speaking of “never enough,” the annual Bach Festival on WKCR-FM (Columbia University)—one of my favorite musical events of the year—runs through midnight New Year’s Eve.

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2023

Monday, December 25th

sounds of Christmas

Bessie Smith (1894-1937) with Joe Smith (cornet), Charlie Green (trombone), Fletcher Henderson (piano), “At the Christmas Ball,” 1925

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Blind Lemon Jefferson (1893-1929), “Christmas Eve Blues,” 1928

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Victoria Spivey (1906-1976) with Lonnie Johnson (guitar), “Christmas Morning Blues,” 1928

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Leroy Carr (1905-1935), “Christmas in Jail—Ain’t That a Pain,” 1929

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Sonny Boy Williamson I (1914-1948), “Christmas Morning Blues,” 1938

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Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers with Charles Brown (1922-1999, vocals, keyboards), “Merry Christmas, Baby,” 1947

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(1921-1999), “Lonesome Christmas (I & II),” 1950

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Sonny Boy Williamson II (AKA Alex or Aleck Miller, 1912-1965), “Sonny Boy’s Christmas Blues,” 1951

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John Lee Hooker (1917-2001), “Blues for Christmas,” 1959

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2023

Sunday, December 24th

testify!

Land Boys, “Heaven Is My Goal,” live, Millry, Alabama, 2017

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2023

Friday, December 22nd

like nobody else

Nina Simone (1933-2003), “To Love Somebody” (B. Gibb, R. Gibb), live, France (Antibes), 1969

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2023

Thursday, December 21st

sounds of New York

Adam Rudolph (percussion), Tyshawn Sorey (percussion), live, New York, 2021

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2023

Sunday, December 17th

sounds of New Orleans

Wish my living room sounded like this.

Crown Seekers, “That’s Heaven to Me” (S. Cooke), live (rehearsal), New Orleans, 2010

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2023

Friday, December 15th

timeless

Thelonious Monk Quartet (TM, piano; Charlie Rouse, tenor saxophone: Butch Warren, bass; Frankie Dunlop, drums), “Bolivar Blues” (T. Monk), live, Japan, 1963, excerpt

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