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2022

Thursday, October 6th

timeless

This clip, which I bumped into the other day, may be the best I have ever seen of an artist whose music means as much to me as anyone’s.

Thelonious Monk (1917-1982, piano, compositions) with Charlie Rouse (tenor saxophone), Butch Warren (b), Frankie Dunlop (drums), live (TV show: “Evidence,” “Blue Monk,” Just a Gigolo” [L. Casucci, J. Brammer, I. Caesar], “Ba-Lue Bolivar Ba-Lues,” “Epistrophy”), Tokyo (Japan), 1963

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random sights

other day, Oak Park, Ill.

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2022

Monday, April 11th

never enough

Thelonious Monk Quartet (TM [1917-1982], piano; Charlie Rouse, tenor saxophone; John Ore, bass; Frankie Dunlop, drums), “Bemsha Swing” (T. Monk), live, Netherlands (Bussum), 1961

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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.

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2021

Tuesday, June 1st

never enough

Best job in music? Playing drums for Monk.

Thelonious Monk Quartet (TM [1917-1982], piano, compositions; Charlie Rouse, tenor saxophone; John Ore, bass; Frankie Dunlop, drums), live (“Monk’s Dream”; Drums solo; “Criss-Cross”; “Rhythm-a-Ning”; “Epistrophy”; “Evidence”; “Ruby, My Dear”; “Bright Mississippi”), Brussels, 1963

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random sights

this morning, Chicago (Monadnock Building)

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2021

Monday, February 22nd

never enough

Thelonious Monk Quartet (TM, piano, compositions; Charlie Rouse, tenor saxophone; Butch Warren, bass; Frankie Dunlop, drums), live, France (Amiens), 1966*

 

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random sights

other day, Oak Park, Ill.

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*0:00: Blue Monk
02:10​: Crepuscule With Nellie
14:44:​ Rhythm-A-Ning
25:31:​ Hackensack
36:08:​ Epistrophy
38:20: Evidence
51:51​: I’m Getting Sentimental Over You (G. Bassman, N. Washington)
1:08:18: Round Midnight
1:13:45: Epistrophy

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2020

Wednesday, October 21st

more

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

 

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other day, Oak Park, Ill.

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2020

Friday, October 16th

two takes

Thelonious Monk (1917-1982), “Well You Needn’t”

Thelonious Monk Quartet (TM, piano; Charlie Rouse, tenor saxophone; Larry Gales, bass; Ben Riley, drums), live, 1965

 

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Kenny Barron Quintet (KB, piano; Riley Mulherkar, trumpet; Marcus Strickland, tenor saxophone; Kiyoshi Kitagawa, bass; Johnathan Blake, drums), live, Ukraine (Lviv), 2019

 

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other day, Oak Park, Ill.

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2019

Tuesday, December 17th

sounds of New York

More of one of my favorite drummers—again at the Village Vanguard.

Ed Blackwell (drums, 1929-1992) with Mal Waldron (1925-2002, piano), Charles Rouse (1924-1988, tenor saxophone), Woody Shaw (1944-1989, flugelhorn), Reggie Workman (1937-, bass), “Git Go” (M. Waldron, excerpt), live, New York (Village Vanguard), 1985

 

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random sights

yesterday, Chicago

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reading table

Do you imagine that writers speak ‘as themselves’? No such selves exist.

—Peter Schjeldahl, “The Art of Dying,” New Yorker, 12/23/19

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2018

Tuesday, December 11th

voices I miss

This drummer never fails to lift my spirits.

Ed Blackwell (drums, 1929-1992) with Mal Waldron (piano), Charlie Rouse (tenor saxophone), Woody Shaw (flugelhorn), Reggie Workman (bass), “The Git Go” (M. Waldron), live, New York (Village Vanguard), 1985

#1

 

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#2

 

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#3

 

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2017

Saturday, October 21st

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Thelonious Monk Quartet (TM, piano; Charlie Rouse, tenor saxophone; Butch Warren, bass; Frankie Dunlop, drums), “Just a Gigolo” (I. Caesar, L. Casucci), “Bolivar Blues” (T. Monk), live, Tokyo, 1963

 

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art beat

Berenice Abbott (1898-1991), Designer’s Window, Bleecker Street, New York, 1947

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2017

Wednesday, October 18th

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Thelonious Monk Quartet (TM, piano; Charlie Rouse, tenor saxophone; Butch Warren, bass; Frankie Dunlop, drums), “Evidence” (T. Monk), live, Tokyo, 1963

 

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Berenice Abbott (1898-1991), Fifth Ave., Nos. 4, 6, 8, New York, 1936

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