Saturday, October 7th
what’s new
Meshell Ngdegeocello, “The Atlantiques” (with Jeff Parker [guitar], Josh Johnson [saxophone], et al.), published 10/3/23
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Copper Harbor, Michigan (Lake Superior)
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Tag: Jeff Parker
2023
Friday, June 23rd
what’s new
Meshell Ndegeocello, “ASR ,” published 6/20/23
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Chicago
2020
Tuesday, November 3rd
alone
Jeff Parker (guitar, electronics), live (Quarantine Concert presented by Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago), 10/4/20
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2011
Saturday, 11/12/11
Labels are often worse than useless. This guy, for instance, is often tagged as “cerebral.” But here’s something you can’t—I can’t, anyway—listen to without smiling.
Anthony Braxton, Composition No. 58
Taylor Ho Bynum Chicago Big Band,* live, 2009, Chicago
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Here’s another take—Braxton’s original recording (The Complete Arista Recordings of Anthony Braxton [Mosaic], rec. 1976).
More? Here.
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reading table
To obtain the value
of a sound, a movement,
measure from zero.***
A sound has no legs to stand on.
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The world is teeming: anything can
happen.—John Cage, “2 Pages, 122 Words on Music and Dance” (excerpts)
*Taylor Ho Bynum & Josh Berman (cor), Jaimie Branch (tpt), Jeb Bishop & Nick Broste (tb), Nicole Mitchell (fl), Caroline Davis, Keefe Jackson & Dave Rempis (saxes), Jeff Parker (g), Jason Adasiewicz (vib), Nate McBride (b), Tim Daisy & Tomas Fujiwara (d)
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