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Kris Davis (piano), Ingrid Laubrock (saxophones), live (performance begins at 3:50), New York (live-streamed by Skopje Jazz Festival, North Macedonia), 10/17/20
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Patricia Brennan (vibraphone), “Magic Square” (P. Brennan), published 10/16/20
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timeless
Blind Willie Johnson (1897-1945), “God Don’t Never Change,” 1929
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two takes
Thelonious Monk (1917-1982), “Well You Needn’t”
Thelonious Monk Quartet (TM, piano; Charlie Rouse, tenor saxophone; Larry Gales, bass; Ben Riley, drums), live, 1965
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Kenny Barron Quintet (KB, piano; Riley Mulherkar, trumpet; Marcus Strickland, tenor saxophone; Kiyoshi Kitagawa, bass; Johnathan Blake, drums), live, Ukraine (Lviv), 2019
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This I could listen to all day.
John Luther Adams (1953-), songbirdsongs (1974-80), excerpt (Mvt. V, Mourning Dove); Sandbox Percussion (marimba) with Jessica Sindell, Martha Aarons, Zack Patten, John Luther Adams (ocarinas); live, Montana (Fishtail), 2018
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other day, Chicago
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Kayhan Kalhor (1963-, setar), live, Tehran, 5/21/20
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Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988), Un Adieu (1978); Marianne Schroeder (1949-, piano), 1992
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Why not begin the week with two minutes of genius?
Thelonious Monk (1917-1982, piano), “Epistrophy” (T. Monk), live (excerpt)
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testify!
Vernard Johnson (1948-, alto saxophone), “Only What You Do for Christ Will Last,” live, published 2014
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Sam Newsome (1965-, soprano saxophone), live, published 10/9/20
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Today, the birthday of Thelonious Monk (1917-1982), it’s all Monk all day at WKCR (Columbia University).
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