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2015

Saturday, February 28th

last night in Chicago

These guys played at Constellation.

James Falzone’s Renga Ensemble,* “Not Seeing” (The Room Is), 2015

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sweeping the soot
washing the fence . . .
sickle moon

—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827; translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)

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*James Falzone, Bb and Eb clarinets; Ken Vandermark, Bb clarinet, bass clarinet, baritone saxophone; Keefe Jackson, tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, contra Bb bass clarinet; Jason Stein, bass clarinet; Ben Goldberg, Bb clarinet, contra Eb alto clarinet; Ned Rothenberg, Bb clarinet, alto saxophone.

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2015

Monday, February 9th

Why start the week with the same old stuff?

Derek Bailey (1930-2005, guitar), Min Tanaka (1945-, dance), Japan, 1993

 

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For you fleas too,
The night must be long,
It must be lonely.

—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828; translated from Japanese by R. H. Blyth)

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the beat goes on

Nineteen hundred posts—and counting.

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2015

Sunday, January 4th

Some singers put their arms around you and hold you.

Gospel Challengers, “The Storm Is Passing Over,” live (TV show), early ’60s


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even an old man
has New Year’s eyes . . .
cherry blossoms

—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828; translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)

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2014

Thursday, December 18th

When you work on a small scale, a slight shift can seem epic.

Oscar Noriega (alto saxophone), live, New York, 12/7/14

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Climb Mount Fuji,
O snail,
but slowly, slowly.

—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828; translated from Japanese by Robert Hass)

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2014

Thursday, November 20th

alone

Masayoshi Fujita, “Snow Storm,” 2012

 

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early winter seclusion—
whose thin smoke
over there?

—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827; translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)

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2014

Sunday, November 2nd

back to church

“I Don’t Mind,” live, St. Luke Baptist Church, Sharon, South Carolina, 2003


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harvest moon—
I tell you it’s cold
on Shinano Mountain!

—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827; translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)

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2014

Thursday, October 9th

keep on dancing

“Since The Accident”

Obsolete Music Technology, 2012


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Specter’s Shattered Mix, 2012


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“Come this way, this way
blind man!”
little butterfly

—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827; translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)

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2014

Monday, September 15th

It’s your choice. You can allow yourself to be swept away. Or you can stay put on your own little island.

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Piano Concerto No. 2; Munich Philharmonic (Sergiu Celibidache, cond.) with Daniel Barenboim, piano, live, 1991

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The man pulling radishes
pointed my way
with a radish.

—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827; translated from Japanese by Robert Hass)

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2014

Monday, August 25th

Why not begin the week with something beautiful?

Lou Harrison (1917-2003), Second Symphony (“Elegiac,” 1988); BBC National Orchestra of Wales

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never growing old
Mr. and Mrs.
Butterfly

—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827; translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)

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2014

Thursday, August 7th

4ⁿ

Bela Bartok (1881-1945), String Quartet No. 4 in C major, Quatuor Ebène, live


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Sometimes it feels like a writer is speaking directly to you. Yesterday, before catching a flight to Orlando, then driving sixty miles to this hotel, which I’ll soon be leaving to see a client at a federal prison, I happened upon this.

in and out
of prison they go . . .
baby sparrows

—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827; translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)

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