Thursday, June 18th
what’s new
Henry Threadgill (alto saxophone [MCOTD Hall of Fame]), Vijay Iyer (piano), Dafnis Prieto (drums), “I Wanted a Map” (V. Iyer), published 6/17/26
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yesterday, Oak Park, Illinois
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2024
Sunday, February 25th
timeless
Sunset Travelers (feat. O. V. Wright [1939-1980]) , “Glory Is Coming,” 1962
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random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
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streaming
Tonight Henry Threadgill (1944-, alto saxophone, flute [2016 Pulitzer Prize for Music, MCOTD Hall of Fame]), Vijay Iyer (1972-, keyboards [2013 MacArthur “genius grant”]), and Dafnis Prieto (1974-, percussion [2011 MacArthur “genius grant”]) are performing, as The Trio, at New York’s Jazz Gallery, with livestream tickets available here.
2021
Wednesday, June 23rd
MCOTD Hall of Fame
Dafnis Prieto Big Band (DP [drums, composition], et al.), “Back to the Sunset” (feat. Henry Threadgill [alto saxophone; MCOTD Hall of Fame]; dedicated to Henry Threadgill and Andrew Hill), published 6/17/21
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, outside Chicago (Dean Nature Sanctuary, Oak Brook)
2020
Thursday, June 25th
This I could listen to all day.
Generations Quartet: Billy Hart (1940-, percussion, lower left), Bob Moses (1948-, percussion, upper left), Dafnis Prieto (1974-, percussion, upper right), Marcelo Perez (1997-, percussion, lower right), live, Boston, 2019
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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2018
Wednesday, April 11th
what’s new
Dafnis Prieto Big Band (DP [drums, compositions], Peter Apfelbaum [saxophones, melodica], et al.), Back to the Sunset (with guests Henry Threadgill [alto saxophone; MCOTD Hall of Fame], Steve Coleman [alto saxophone], Brian Lynch [trumpet]), released 4/6/18
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2017
Monday, October 9th
drum festival
day one
Dafnis Prieto Sextet (DP, drums; Peter Apfelbaum, tenor saxophone; Alex Sipiagin, trumpet; Roman Filiu, alto saxophone; Manuel Valera , piano; Johannes Weidenmueller, bass), “Back and Forth” (D. Prieto), live, East Lansing, Mich., 2017
2011
Thursday, 9/22/11
You’re probably in the same boat—no MacArthur “genius” grant this year. Oh, well. These folks, unlike you and me, are half a million dollars richer than they were Monday.
Dafnis Prieto (b. 1974), drummer, composer
Proverb Trio: DP, drums; Kokayi, vocals; Jason Lindner, keyboards
Live, Puerto Rico (San Juan), 8/1/11
Vodpod videos no longer available.
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Alisa Weilerstein (b. 1982), cellist
Zoltán Kodály, Sonata for Solo Cello, Op. 8 (1915), excerpt (1st Mvt.)
Live, Massachusetts (Worchester, College of Holy Cross), c. 2008
Vodpod videos no longer available.
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Kay Ryan (b. 1945), poet
We’re Building the Ship as We Sail It
The first fear
being drowning, the
ship’s first shape
was a raft, which
was hard to unflatten
after that didn’t
happen. It’s awkward
to have to do one’s
planning in extremis
in the early years—
so hard to hide later:
sleekening the hull,
making things
more gracious.
The Niagara River
However carved up
or pared down we get,
we keep on making
the best of it as though
it doesn’t matter that
our acre’s down to
a square foot. As
though our garden
could be one bean
and we’d rejoice if
it flourishes, as
though one bean
could nourish us.
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