sounds of New York
Music is, in part, a function of place. Can you imagine these sounds coming out of San Diego?
Charles Gayle Trio (CG, tenor saxophone, piano; Larry Roland, bass; Michael Wimberly, drums), live, Germany (Cologne), 2012
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It might be lonelier
Without the Loneliness –—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), 535 (Franklin), fragment
more Prince
With Miles Davis, live, Paisley Park (Chanhassen, Minn.), 12/31/87
never enough
What do I watch when he’s at the piano? His feet.
Thelonious Monk Quartet (TM, piano, compositions; Charlie Rouse, tenor saxophone; Larry Gales, bass; Ben Riley, drums), live, France (Amiens), 1966
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Thought forms in the soul in the same way clouds form in the air.
—Joseph Joubert (1754-1824), 1786 (The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, translated from French by Paul Auster)
(Thanks to Orange Crate Art for introducing me to Joubert.)
gathering of birds
Oliver Lake & Alto Madness (Oliver Lake, alto saxophone, compositions; Darius Jones, Bruce Williams, Anthony Ware, alto saxophones; Pheeroan AkLaff, drums), live, New York, 2014
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random sights
yesterday morning, Chicago (Columbus Park)
You don’t need a lot of different words.
You don’t need the piano to be in tune.
Intensity will carry you.
Rev. George Oliver, “Coming Up Lord Just To Hear My Tune”
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random sights
this morning, Chicago (Columbus Park)
In Chicago last night, at Constellation, I heard her play. One-word review: riveting. How many musicians create their own vocabulary, their own syntax, their own inflections?
Okkyung Lee, cello
Live, London, 2009
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Live, Latvia (Riga), 2014
Who needs instruments?
McCauley Spiritual Singers, c. 1960
“Jesus Gave Me Water”
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“Jesus Said Live Holy”
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A word that breathes distinctly
Has not the power to die—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), 1715 (Franklin), fragment
(Taking a break—back in a while.)
This is a sound-world I’d be happy to inhabit all day.
Anna Thorvaldsdóttir (1977-), Ró (2013); Esbjerg Ensemble, live
only rock ‘n’ roll
Dog Faced Hermans, live, Lincoln, Neb., 1994
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art beat: yesterday, Art Institute of Chicago
Vincent van Gogh, A Corner of the Asylum and the Garden with a Heavy, Sawed-Off Tree, 1889 (Van Gogh’s Bedrooms, through May 10th)
sounds of Chicago
Ralph Shapey (1921-2003), Three for Six (1979); Oerknal!, live, Netherlands (The Hague, Amsterdam) 2014
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He ate and drank the precious Words—
His Spirit grew robust—
He knew no more that he was poor,
Nor that his frame was Dust—
He danced along the dingy Days
And this Bequest of Wings
Was but a Book—What Liberty
A loosened spirit brings——Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), 1593 (Franklin)
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