sounds of Jamaica
Koffee, “Pressure” (remix feat. Buju Banton), 10/20/20
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reading table
We use similes to show
things are connected –and they are,
just not in the way we say.—Rae Armantrout, from “Finalist” (London Review of Books, 10/8/20)
sounds of Ukraine
Alyona Alyona, “Стержень” (feat. KALUSH, et al.), 8/3/20
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timeless
Anton Webern (1883-1945), Variations, op. 27 (1936); Maurizio Pollini (1942-, piano), live, Paris, 2002
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found words
Nobody’s “fine.”
—Governor Andrew Cuomo, yesterday’s press briefing on the pandemic
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Thelonious Monk Quartet (TM, piano; Charlie Rouse, tenor saxophone; Butch Warren, bass; Frankie Dunlop, drums), “Evidence” (T. Monk), live, Japan, 1963
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what’s new
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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Kayhan Kalhor (1963-, setar), live, Tehran, 5/21/20
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