old school
Lee Williams and The Spiritual QC’s, “Running for My Life,” “Let’s Get Down,” live, c. 2010
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reading table
The autumn chill becomes part of me
in the bedroom I step on a comb
that belonged to my dead wife—Yosa Buson, 1716-1784 (translated from Japanese by W.S. Merwin and Takako Lento)
more
Thelonious Monk Quartet (TM, piano; Charlie Rouse, tenor saxophone; Butch Warren, bass; Frankie Dunlop, drums), “Just a Gigolo” (I. Caesar, L. Casucci), “Bolivar Blues” (T. Monk), live, Tokyo, 1963
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art beat
Berenice Abbott (1898-1991), Designer’s Window, Bleecker Street, New York, 1947
what’s new
Magically Inclined (Sean Sonderegger, tenor saxophone, compositions; Curtis Fowlkes, trombone; Kamala Sankaram, voice; Harvey Valdes, guitar; Shawn Lovato, bass; Joe Hertenstein, drums), “anyone lived in a pretty how town” (words by E.E. Cummings), live, New York, 10/15/17
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Thelonious Monk Quartet (TM, piano; Charlie Rouse, tenor saxophone; Butch Warren, bass; Frankie Dunlop, drums), “Evidence” (T. Monk), live, Tokyo, 1963
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art beat
Berenice Abbott (1898-1991), Fifth Ave., Nos. 4, 6, 8, New York, 1936
sounds of Seattle
Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio, live, Seattle, 2017
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Berenice Abbott (1898-1991), Pine and Henry Streets, New York, 1936
What better way to start the week?
Thelonious Monk Quartet (TM, piano; Charlie Rouse, tenor saxophone; Butch Warren, bass; Frankie Dunlop, drums), “Epistrophy” (T. Monk), live, Tokyo, 1963
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art beat
Berenice Abbott (1898-1991), Red River logging project, California, August, 1943
three takes
“I Won’t Be Back” (AKA “Sweepin’ Through the City”)
Caravans (feat. Shirley Caesar, 1938-)
Live, Boston (Boston University), 1960s
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Recording, 1962
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Shirley Caesar
Live, Tulsa, Okla., 2001
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They end their flight
one by one—
crows at dusk.—Yosa Buson, 1716-1784 (translated from Japanese by Robert Hass)
mesmerizing
John Luther Adams (1953-), Four Thousand Holes (2010)
Taka Kigawa (piano), Chris Graham (percussion), live, New York, 2017
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This road—
no one goes down it,
autumn evening.—Matsuo Basho, 1644-1694 (translated from Japanese by Robert Hass)
drum festival
day three
Tony Allen (drums, vocals) & Band, live, Luxembourg, 2011
drum festival
day two
Hamid Drake (MCOTD Hall of Fame, drums), Sylvain Kassap (clarinets), Benjamin Duboc (bass), live, France (Pantin), 2016
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I haven’t died before, so I sometimes get a bad case of beginner’s nerves, but they soon pass.
—Cory Taylor (1955-2016), Dying: A Memoir
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