sounds of Chicago
Macie Stewart (violin, voice), Ben LaMar Gay (cornet, electronics, voice), live, Chicago, 2/22/24
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art beat: other day, Smart Museum (University of Chicago)
Ruth Duckworth (1919-2009), Untitled (1970s), detail
timeless
Edna Gallmon Cooke (1917-1967), “He’ll Fix It,” rec. 1959
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sounds of Chicago
Baby Huey (aka James Thomas Ramey), singer, August 17, 1944-October 28, 1970
“Hard Times” (C. Mayfield), 1971
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“Listen to Me” (M. Johnson), 1971
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“A Change Is Going to Come” (S. Cooke)
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only rock ‘n’ roll
The Veldt, live (“The Everlasting Gobstopper,” “Aurora Borealis,” “In a Quiet Room,” “Forever Green,” “Joi”), Seattle, 12/13/23
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sounds of Chicago
Highway QCs, “I Heard,” “Do You Love Him,” “I’ll Be Satisfied,” live (TV show [TV Gospel Time]), 1963
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timeless
No one ever died from too much beauty.
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor (Op. 25); Fauré Quartet, live, Tokyo, 2014
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Marta Warelis (piano), Wilbert de Joode (bass), Onno Govaert (drums), live, Amsterdam, 2021
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What you didn’t know you needed right now.
Irreversible Entanglements (Camae Ayewa [Moor Mother], vocals; Aquiles Navarro, trumpet, synthesizer; Keir Neuringer, saxophone, synthesizer; Luke Stewart, bass; Tcheser Holmes, drums; Kyle Kidd, vocals), live (“Fireworks”, “Soundness,” “Free Love,” “Our Land Back,” “root ᐸ=ᐳ branch,” “Protect Your Light”), live, Washington, D.C., 2/19/24
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timeless
Sunset Travelers (feat. O. V. Wright [1939-1980]) , “Glory Is Coming,” 1962
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streaming
Tonight Henry Threadgill (1944-, alto saxophone, flute [2016 Pulitzer Prize for Music, MCOTD Hall of Fame]), Vijay Iyer (1972-, keyboards [2013 MacArthur “genius grant”]), and Dafnis Prieto (1974-, percussion [2011 MacArthur “genius grant”]) are performing, as The Trio, at New York’s Jazz Gallery, with livestream tickets available here.
never enough
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Contrapunctus I-XIV; Daniil Trifonov (1991-, piano), live, published 2023
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