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Thursday, October 6th

timeless

This clip, which I bumped into the other day, may be the best I’ve 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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Wednesday, October 5th

never enough

Sometimes, as happened yesterday when I stumbled upon this, music increases the amount of available oxygen.

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II, excerpt (Prelude and Fugue No. 3 in C-sharp major); Christine Schornsheim (harpsichord), published 10/4/22

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reading table

We are here to listen.

—W. S. Graham (1918-1986), from “The Greenock Dialogues”

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Tuesday, October 4th

alone (another take)

Lukas Ligeti (1965-), “Thinking Songs” (2015); Ji Hye Jung (marimba), 2019

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random sights

this morning, Oak Park, Ill.

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Monday, October 3rd

voices I miss (more)

Steve Lacy (1934-2004, soprano saxophone) & Suzanna Klintcharova (harp), “Prospectus” (S. Lacy), live, Paris (?), 2002

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This road—
no one goes down it,
autumn evening.

—Matsuo Basho, 1644-1694 (translated from the Japanese by Robert Hass)

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Sunday, October 2nd

back to church

“We Will Wait ‘Til Jesus Comes,” Mt. Ramah Primitive Baptist Association, Thomaston, Georgia, 2011

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other day, Oak Park, Ill.

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Saturday, October 1st

How about a trip to a Mediterranean island?

Black Coffee (DJ), live, Ibiza, 2017

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other day, Oak Park, Ill.

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Friday, September 30th

like nobody else

Captain Beefheart (aka Don Van Vliet, 1941-2010) & His Magic Band, “I’m Gonna Booglarize You, Baby” (D. Van Vliet), live, TV show (Beat-Club), Germany (Bremen), 1972