Saturday, January 28th
never enough
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Partita No. 1 in B-flat major: Maria João Pires (piano), live, Portugal (Évora), 1987
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
2023
Friday, January 27th
sounds of all over
Tiny Desk Meets globalFEST 2023, published 1/24/23
Ukraine: Dakh Daughters (“Viyna,” “Fellini,” “Umry”)
Morocco, Algeria, United States: Khadija El Warzazia’s Bnat el Houariyat & Esraa Warda (“Dyaf Allah Rjal el Bled,” “Mra Sabra,” “Li Guer imout”)
China: Cui Jian (“Fake Monk,” “Go On,” “Wild in the Snow”)
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random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
2023
Wednesday, January 25th
kaleidoscopic clarity
Brian Ferneyhough (1943-), Contraccolpi (2015): Talea Ensemble (James Baker, cond.), live, New York, 2016
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random sights
this morning, Oak Park, Ill.
(Taking a day off.)
2023
Tuesday, January 24th
sounds of New York
Mary Halvorson (guitar) with Adam O’Farrill (trumpet), Jacob Garchik (trombone), Patricia Brennan (vibraphone), Nick Dunston (bass), Tomas Fujiwara (drums), “Night Shift” (M. Halvorson), live, New York, 2022
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random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
2023
Monday, January 23rd
like nothing else
DJ Spooky (AKA Paul D. Miller: turntables, electronics, interview) + Matthew Shipp Trio (MS, piano, interview; William Parker, bass; Guillermo Brown, drums), live, France (Seine-Saint-Denis), 2003
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2023
Sunday, January 22nd
more
Spirit of Memphis Quartet (feat. Jethroe Bledsoe), “Lord Jesus” (Parts 1 & 2), rec. 1952 (live, Memphis [Mason’s Temple])
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my back pages
On a cold, snowy night forty-six years ago, at a church thirty miles north of Chicago, my wife, Suzanne, and I were married. Saxophonist Von Freeman (1923-2012) and pianist John Young (1922-2008) provided the music, playing before the ceremony (“Over the Rainbow,” “It Never Entered My Mind,” “More”), during (Duke Ellington’s “In a Sentimental Mood,” as Suzanne walked down the aisle [unaccompanied saxophone]), and after (“My Favorite Things,” “Song for My Father”). All of this can be heard here (0:14-).
2023
Saturday, January 21st
sounds of London, and Beirut, and Palestine
Sama’ Abdulhadi (1991-, DJ), live, London, 1/6/23
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random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
2023
Friday, January 20th
two takes
Gil Scott-Heron (1949-2011), “Me and the Devil,” 2010
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Robert Johnson (1922-1938), “Me and the Devil Blues,” rec. 1937 (Dallas)
2023
Thursday, January 19th
more
Morton Feldman (1926-1987, MCOTD Hall of Fame), Palais de Mari (1986): Sabine Liebner (piano), 2007
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lagniappe
random sights
last night, Chicago
2023
Wednesday, January 18th
like nobody else
Anthony Braxton (1945-, reeds, compositions), et al., live (performance begins at 3:25), Amsterdam, 2015
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art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago
Piet Mondrian, Lozenge Composition with Yellow, Black, Blue, Red, and Gray, 1921
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