Sometimes, like last night, you bump into something, unexpectedly, that makes this unrelentingly chaotic world seem, if only briefly, a bit less uninhabitable.
Prince, “Ain’t No Sunshine” (Bill Withers), live, Paisley Park (outside Minneapolis), 2002 (published 1/3/26)
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sounds of Chicago
Fellowship Baptist Church Choir (feat. Loretta Oliver, 1933-), “He Took My Sins Away,” 1999 and 2023
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what’s new
Don Was and the Pan-Detroit Ensemble, live (“The Music Never Stopped,” “You Asked, I Came,” “Midnight Marauders,” “I Ain’t Got Nothin’ But Time,” “Insane”), Washington, D.C., published 5/15/26
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basement jukebox
Rev. H.L. Parker and the First Baptist Choir of Pratt City, Alabama, “All I Own” (A. Bradford), 1966
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Jeff Parker ETA IVtet (Jeff Parker, electric guitar with electronics; Jay Bellerose, drums and percussion; Anna Butterss, bass; Josh Johnson, alto saxophone with electronics), live, Los Angeles, 2025 (published yesterday)
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passings
Sonny Rollins, tenor saxophonist, September 7, 1930 – May 25, 2026
With Henry Grimes (bass), Joe Harris (drums), “Love Letters” (V. Young, E. Heyman), live, Sweden (Stockholm), 1959
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testify!
Rev. Utah Smith (1906-1965), “Take a Trip” (1953)
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sounds of Jamaica
The Jewels (JA): DJ Mix by Mista Savona (Heaviest Dubs), 2026
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This I could listen to all day.
John Davis with Bessie Jones and the Georgia Sea Island Singers, “Moses, Don’t Get Lost,” live, St. Simons Island, Georgia, 1959
Oh Moses, Moses, don’t get lost — in that Red Sea
Smite your rod and come across — in that Red Sea
Talkin’ about the host got lost, got lost, got lost
Ol’ Pharoah and the host got lost – in that Red Sea
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never enough
Frederic Chopin (1810-1849), 24 Preludes (Op. 28): Maria João Pires (piano), live, Portugal (Évora), 1987
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