Wednesday, October 2nd
sounds of Ukraine
day three
Bichkraft, “Didn’t Know,” 2015
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2019
2019
Tuesday, October 1st
sounds of Ukraine
day two
Jamala, “Шлях Додому,” 2016
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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2019
Monday, September 30th
sounds of Ukraine
day one
Here’s the latest from this kindergarten teacher turned rapper.
Alyona Alyona, “Завтра,” 9/27/19
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2019
Sunday, September 29th
alone
Dean Bowman, “I Heard the Angels Singing,” live, 2008
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Saturday, September 28th
tonight in Chicago
They’re playing at the Hyde Park Jazz Festival. (Big week for the guitarist: she just won a MacArthur “genius grant.”)
Sylvie Courvoisier (piano), Mary Halvorson (guitar), live, Belgium (Ghent), 2018
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Friday, September 27th
tomorrow night in Chicago
He’s playing, in a trio with pianist Kris Davis and drummer Nasheet Waits, at the Hyde Park Jazz Festival.
Ambrose Akinmusire (trumpet, composition) with Mattie Mae Thomas (vocals, lyrics; recorded in 1939 at Mississippi’s Parchman Farm), Dean Bowman (vocals), Marvin Sewell (guitar), Gerald Clayton (piano), Joe Sanders (bass), Kendrick Scott (drums, computer), “MAE//MAE,” live, published 2018
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
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2019
Thursday, September 26th
never enough
This kaleidoscopic collection of miniatures—many lasting less than a minute—I return to again, and again, and again.
Frederic Chopin (1810-1849), 24 Preludes, Op. 28; Shura Cherkassky (1909-1995, piano), 1968
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reading table
just one
but he goes honking . . .
departing goose—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue
2019
Wednesday, September 25th
more
Anderson .Paak, “Jet Black,” live (studio), London, 9/16/19
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Tuesday, September 24th
serendipity
This I bumped into last night, happily.
Clara Iannotta (1983-), 3 sur 5 (2012-2013); Continuum Contemporary Music, live, Toronto, 2018
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Monday, September 23rd
Why not start the week with something kinetic?
Unsuk Chin (1961-), Gougalōn (Scenes from a Street Theater for Ensemble) (2009-2011); Ensemble Intercontemporain (Duncan Ward, cond.), live, Paris, 2017
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