Sunday, August 4th
sounds of Chicago
Vernon Oliver Price, “Change My Name,” live (TV show), Chicago, 1972
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What function hath the Air?
—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), from 1513 (Franklin)
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2019
2019
Wednesday, July 31st
Tenor saxophone and drums—another take.
Ken Vandermark (tenor saxophone), Paal Nilssen-Love (drums), live, Netherlands (Haarlem), 2014
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There came a Wind like a Bugle —
It quivered through the Grass
And a Green Chill upon the Heat
So ominous did pass
We barred the Windows and the Doors
As from an Emerald Ghost —
The Doom’s electric Moccasin
That very instant passed —
On a strange Mob of panting Trees
And Fences fled away
And Rivers where the Houses ran
Those looked that lived — that Day —
The Bell within the steeple wild
The flying tidings told —
How much can come
And much can go,
And yet abide the World!—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), 1618 (Franklin)
2019
Monday, July 8th
Why not begin the week with something new?
Anna Thorvaldsdottir (1977-), Fields
International Contemporary Ensemble, 2018
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Wonder – is not precisely knowing
And not precisely knowing not –—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), from 1347 (Franklin)
2019
Saturday, June 22nd
serendipity
This I bumped into last night. One-word review: Wow!
Jonathan Harvey (1939-2012), . . . towards a pure land (2005); Orchestre du Conservatoire de Paris, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Matthias Pintscher (direction), live, Paris, 2016
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The Earth has many keys –
—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), from 895, draft (Franklin)
2019
Tuesday, June 18th
like-nobody-else x 2
Cecil Taylor Trio (CT, 1929-2018, piano; Jimmy Lyons, alto saxophone; Sunny Murray, drums) with Albert Ayler (1936-1970, tenor saxophone), “Four,” excerpt (C. Taylor), live, Copenhagen, 1962
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A Bomb upon the Ceiling
Is an improving thing –
It keeps the nerves progressive
Conjecture flourishing –—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), from 1150 (Franklin)
2019
Saturday, June 15th
soundtrack to a dream
Clara Iannotta (1983-), The people here go mad. They blame the wind. (2013-14); Uusinta Ensemble and Clara Iannotta (music boxes), live, Helsinki, 2018
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The Spirit is the Conscious Ear –
—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), from 718 (Franklin)
2019
Monday, June 10th
only rock ‘n’ roll
Bob Dylan, “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall” (B. Dylan), live, 1975 (Martin Scorsese, Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story, 6/12/19)
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And were You lost, I would be –
—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), from 706 (Franklin)
2019
Friday, May 10th
only rock ‘n’ roll
Joy Division, “Disorder,” 1972 (Trainspotting, 1996)
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The Poets light but Lamps –
Themselves – go out –—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), from 930 (Franklin)
2019
Friday, May 3rd
tonight in Chicago
They’re playing at Corbett v. Dempsey.
Ken Vandermark (reeds) and Nate Wooley (trumpet), live, Copenhagen, 2016
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Forever – is composed of Nows –
—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), from 690 (Franklin)
2019
Friday, April 5th
voices I miss
Tim Buckley (1947-1975), “Sally, Go ‘Round the Roses” (Z. Sanders & L. Stevens, or A. Spector; T. Buckley), live, c. 1973
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We dream – it is good we are dreaming –
It would hurt us – were we awake –—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), from #584 (Franklin)
