Thursday, March 14th
sounds of New York
Tim Berne (alto saxophone, composition) with Herb Robertson (trumpet), Marc Ducret (guitar), Joey Baron (drums), et al., live, New York (TV show), c. 1990
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2019
Wednesday, March 13th
sounds of England
Four Tet (AKA Kieran Hebden), BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix, 3/17/18
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reading table
there’s no shame
that you totter . . .
old chrysanthemum—Kobayashi Issa, 1763-1827 (translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)
2019
Tuesday, March 12th
basement jukebox
Jackie (AKA Jacqui) Verdell (1937-1991), “Why Not Give Me a Chance” (J. Verdell), 1962
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musical thoughts
I also considered Jackie Verdell of the Davis Sisters one of the best and most underrated female soul singers of all time.
—Aretha Franklin (1942-2018), Aretha: From These Roots, 1999
2019
Monday, March 11th
voices I miss
Hound Dog Taylor (AKA Theodore Roosevelt Taylor, 1915-1975) and the Houserockers (Brewer Phillips, guitar; Ted Harvey, drums), “Taylor’s Rock” (H.D. Taylor), live, Ann Arbor Blues Festival, 1973
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voices in the wind
the withered field’s
crows—Kobayashi Issa, 1763-1827 (translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)
2019
Sunday, March 10th
sounds of Chicago
Jackie (AKA Jacqui) Verdell (1937-1991), “Too Close to Heaven” (following remarks by Jesse Jackson), live, Chicago, 1972
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Chicago (Columbus Park)
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frosty night—
seven poor men
in a huddle—Kobayashi Issa, 1763-1827 (translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)
2019
Saturday, March 9th
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Tim Hecker, “That World,” 2019
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random sights
yesterday, Chicago (Columbus Park)
2019
Friday, March 8th
like nobody else
Antony (AKA Anohni) with Lou Reed, et al., “Candy Says” (L. Reed), live, New York, 2006
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Here’s the original track (The Velvet Underground, 1969).
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random sights
this morning, Chicago (Columbus Park)
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Thursday, March 7th
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Laurie Anderson, “My Right Eye” (L. Anderson), Homeland, 2010
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Tuesday, March 5th
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Laurie Anderson (with Bill Laswell [bass], Colin Stetson [bass saxophone], et al.), “Only An Expert” (L. Anderson), live (TV show), 2010
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lagniappe
reading table
A career in vestige management.
A dream job
back-engineering
shifts in salience.I’m so far
behind the curve
on this.So. Cal.
must connect with
so-calledto manufacture
the present.Ubiquity’s
the new in-jokebar-code hard-on,
a catch-phrase
in every segment.—Rae Armantrout (1947-), from “Manufacturing”
2019
Monday, March 4th
No one fired up this pianist—one of the most influential in the history of jazz—like this drummer.
Bill Evans Trio (BE [1929-1980], piano; Philly Joe Jones [1923-1985], drums; Marc Johnson [1953-], bass), “Nardis” (M. Davis), live, Italy (Umbria), 1978
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How many poems have gotten so much attention with so few words?
so much depends
upona red wheel
barrowglazed with rain
waterbeside the white
chickens—William Carlos Williams (1883-1963), “The Red Wheelbarrow”
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