Wednesday, November 22nd
alone
Elliott Carter (1908-2012), Figment 1 for Cello Alone (1994); David Hetherington (cello), live, Toronto, 2020
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Sunday, November 19th
basement jukebox
Lula Collins, “Determined to Make It In” (L. Collins), 1980 (rec. Memphis)
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Saturday, November 18th
what’s new
PJ Harvey (1969-, voice, guitar, compositions), live (“I Inside the Old I Dying,” “A Noiseless Noise,” “A Child’s Question, August,” “I Inside the Old Year Dying,” “White Chalk”), Washington, D.C., 11/17/23
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Wednesday, November 15th
what’s new
John Zorn’s New Masada Quartet (JZ [1953-], alto saxophone, compositions; Julian Lage, guitar; Jorge Roeder, bass; Kenny Wollesen, drums), live, Netherlands (Hertogenbosch), 11/3/23
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Tuesday, November 14th
what’s new
Bill Frisell Trio (BF, guitar; Thomas Morgan, bass; Rudy Royston, drums), live, Germany (Leverkusener), 11/9/23
https://www.youtube.com/live/SEfgRFzbgjU?si=h0h20RXMwj5AAvs6
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Sunday, November 12th
basement jukebox
Shirley Caesar (1938-) and The Caesar Singers (with The Thompson Community Singers), “Put Your Hand in the Hand” (Grammy Award, Best Soul Gospel Performance), 1971
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Live (TV show: Jubilee Showcase), Chicago, 1972
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Saturday, November 11th
only rock ‘n’ roll
Unwound, live, Olympia, Wash., 1994
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Thursday, November 9th
2n
Sanem Kalfa (vocals, cello) and Marta Warelis (piano), live, Amsterdam, 2021
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Sunday, November 5th
timeless
The Staple Singers, “Uncloudy Day,” 1956
It was the most mysterious thing I’d ever heard. It was like the fog rolling in. I heard it again, maybe the next night, and its mystery had even deepened. What was that? How do you make that?
—Bob Dylan (quoted in M. Davidson & P. Fishel, eds., Bob Dylan: Mixing up the Medicine [2023])
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reading table
The unreality of our house in moonlight
Is that if the moonlight strikes it
It is truly there tho it is ours—George Oppen (1908-1984), from “Route”
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Thursday, November 2nd
timeless
The other night, driving to Kankakee to see a client in jail, I couldn’t have asked for better company.
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Quintet for Clarinet and Strings; Quatuor Ébène with Damien Bachmann (clarinet), live, France (Wissembourg), 2018
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