Friday, August 7th
what’s new
Lucinda Williams, “Bad News Blues,” “Big Black Train,” “You Can’t Rule Me,” “Man Without A Soul,” live, Nashville, published 7/27/20
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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
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2020
Thursday, August 6th
wake up!
Peter Brötzmann (alto saxophone), Fred Lonberg-Holm (cello), Paal Nilssen-Love (drums), live, Japan (Chiba), 2011
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other day, Chicago
2020
Wednesday, August 5th
like nobody else
Thelonious Monk (1917-1982, piano), “Just a Gigolo” (I. Caesar & L. Casucci), live, 1963
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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2020
Tuesday, August 4th
voices I miss
Julius Hemphill (alto saxophone, 1938-1995) with Baikida E.J. Carroll (1947-, trumpet), Abdul Wadid (1947-, cello), Philip Wilson (1941-1992, drums), “Dogon A.D.” (J. Hemphill), 1972
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other day, Chicago
2020
Monday, August 3rd
like nobody else
Art Ensemble of Chicago (Roscoe Mitchell, 1940-, saxophones; Joseph Jarman, 1937-2019, saxophones; Lester Bowie, 1941-1999, trumpet, MCOTD Hall of Fame; Malachi Favors, 1927-2004, bass; Don Moye, 1946-, drums), “Ohnedaurth,” live, Berlin, 1991
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other day, Chicago
2020
Sunday, August 2nd
sounds of New Orleans
Funeral for singer Juanita Brooks, New Orleans, 2009
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a while ago, Ireland (Dingle Peninsula)
2020
Saturday, August 1st
alone
Morton Feldman (1926-1987, MCOTD Hall of Fame), Palais de Mari (1986); Sarah Rothenberg, live (performance begins at 3:23), 3/30/20
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2020
Friday, July 31st
Something sweet for the strangest summer ever.
Bill Frisell (guitar) with Greg Leisz (pedal steel guitar), Tony Scherr (bass), Kenny Wollesen (drums), “Surfer Girl” (B. Wilson), live, France (Nevers), 2014
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Brilliant moon,
is it true that you too
must pass in a hurry—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), translated from Japanese by Sam Hamill
2020
Thursday, July 30th
never enough
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), from Piano Sonata No. 31 in A flat major; Igor Levit (1987-, piano), live, Amsterdam, 2013
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a while ago, Ireland (Dingle Peninsula)
2020
Wednesday, July 29th
basement jukebox
Otis Rush (1934-2018, vocals, guitar), “All Your Love (I Miss Loving)” (O. Rush), 1959
If you take the words from ‘Black Magic Woman’ and just leave the rhythm, it’s ‘All Your Love’—it’s Otis Rush.
—Carlos Santana
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Roads run forever
Under feet forever
Falling away
Yet, it may happen that you
Come to the same place again
Stay! You could not do
Anything more certain—
Here you can wait forever
And rejoice at your arrival—Samuel Menashe (1925-2011)
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