sounds of Chicago
Fred Moten (voice, words)/Brandon Lopez (bass), live, Chicago, 6/5/24
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Cut down, yes
But rooted still
What stumps compress
No axe can kill—Samuel Menashe (1925-2011), from “Survival”
what’s new
Denver Butson (words, voice) with Mat Maneri’s ASH Quartet (MM, viola; Lucian Ban, piano; Brandon Lopez, bass; Randy Peterson, drums), live, New York (Bar Bayeux, Brooklyn), 3/27/24
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random sights
other day, Chicago
like nothing else
Mat Maneri (viola), Brandon Lopez (bass), live, New York (Fridman Gallery), 8/30/22
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
sounds of New York
Edwin Torres (voice), Fred Moten (voice), Brandon Lopez (bass), Gerald Cleaver (drums), live, New York, 2019
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yesterday, Chicago
sounds of New York
Subtle, inventive, empathic: she’s one of my favorite saxophonists.
Ingrid Laubrock (1970-, tenor and soprano saxophones), Brandon Lopez (bass), Tom Rainey (drums), live, New York, 2022
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timeless
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968), “I Have a Dream,” Washington, D.C., August 28, 1963
sounds of Chicago
Fred Moten (voice, words), Brandon Lopez (bass), Gerald Cleaver (percussion, voice), live, Chicago, 10/21/22
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
sounds of New York
Brandon Lopez (bass), Mat Maneri (viola), Gerald Cleaver (drums), live, New York, 9/16/22
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art beat: more
William Klein (1926-2022), Dance in Brooklyn, 1955
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sounds of New York
Mat Maneri (viola), Gerald Cleaver (drums), Brandon Lopez, (bass), live, New York, 4/16/22
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The melody! the rest is accessory: . . .
—Louis Zukofsky (1904-1978), from “A”-6
what’s new
Mike Pride (drums), Joanna Mattrey (viola), Brandon Lopez (bass), live, New York (house concert, Brooklyn), 3/26/22
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
sounds of New York
Brandon Lopez (bass), Mat Maneri (viola), live, New York, 2/22/22 (published yesterday)
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art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago
Willem de Kooning (1904-1997), detail from Interchanged (1955)
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