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One-word review: Wow!
Ingrid Laubrock (tenor saxophone), Brandon Lopez (bass), Francisco Mela (drums), live, New York, 9/30/18
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random sights
other day, Elmhurst, Ill. (Prairie Path)
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Jürg Frey (1953-), Klavierstück Arrangement Nr. 1-3 (1991); Keiko Shichijo (piano), live, c. 2011
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On a journey, ill:
my dream goes wandering
over withered fields.—Matsuo Basho, 1644-1694 (translated from Japanese by Yoel Hoffmann; Japanese Death Poems, Yoel Hoffmann, ed.)
Need a break from the incessant noise?
Jürg Frey (1953-), Canones Incerti (2010), Jürg Frey (clarinet), et al., live
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baseball
Baseball is such a perfect game in some ways that it takes 162 to decide nothing.
—Cubs manager Joe Maddon on the Cubs/Brewers tie
back to church
Elder Nathan Rolle, “This May Be My Last Time,” live, Thomaston, Ga., 2010
tomorrow night in Chicago
He’s playing at the Hyde Park Jazz Festival.
Jason Moran (piano), “Thelonious” (T. Monk), live, Minneapolis, 2009
keep on dancing
Abi Shanti-I (DJ), live (music starts at 9:10), London, 8/9/18
basement jukebox
“Can I Change My Mind” (B. Despenza, C. Wolfolk)
Alton Ellis (1938-2008), 1969
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Tyrone Davis (1938-2005), 1968
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How lonesome the Wind must feel Nights –
—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), from 1441 (Franklin)
sounds of Chicago
Muhal Richard Abrams (1930-2017), piano, “Young at Heart” (Young at Heart/Wise in Time, 1974)
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I’m finite – I cant see –
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This timid life of Evidence
Keeps pleading – “I don’t know” –—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), from 725 (Franklin)
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John Cage (1912-1992), Sonatas and Interludes, for prepared piano (1946-48), excerpts; James Tenney (piano), live, West Hollywood, Calif., 2002
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random sights
last month, Chicago (Columbus Park)
otherworldly
This I could listen to all day.
John Cage (1912-1992), Three Dances for Two Prepared Pianos (1944-45); Seba Ali (piano) and Jacqueline Ching-Ling (piano), live, Stony Brook, N.Y., 2015
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