Sunday, October 18th
old school
Brother Willie Eason, “There’ll Be No Grumblers There,” 1947
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lagniappe
reading table
One need not be a Chamber – to be Haunted –
—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), #407 (Franklin)
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2015
2015
Saturday, October 17th
tonight in Chicago
This drummer—one of my all-time favorites—will be playing at Constellation with this crack quartet.
William Parker Quartet (WP, bass; Hamid Drake, drums; Rob Brown, alto saxophone; Lewis Barnes, trumpet), live, 2013
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2015
Friday, October 16th
two takes
St. Germain (aka Ludovic Navarre), “Real Blues” (sampling Lightnin’ Hopkins’ “You Caused My Heart to Weep”), 2015
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Lightnin’ Hopkins (1912-1982), “You Caused My Heart to Weep”
2015
Thursday, October 15th
3n
Gyorgy Ligeti (1923-2006), Trio for Violin, Horn, and Piano (1982); Tomas Major (violin), Zora Sloka (horn), Denes Varjon (piano), 2009
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reading table
This World is not conclusion.
—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), #373 (Franklin)
2015
Wednesday, October 14th
3n
DKV Trio (Hamid Drake, drums; Kent Kessler, bass; Ken Vandermark, baritone saxophone), live, Austria (Nickelsdorf), 2013
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road to the World Series
This may be the goose-bump capital of the world right now.
—Cubs radio announcer Pat Hughes, Wrigley Field, yesterday
2015
Tuesday, October 13th
3n
Vijay Iyer Trio (VI, piano; Stephan Crump, bass; Marcus Gilmore, drums), live, New York, 2015*
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random sights
other evening, Chicago (Columbus Park)
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*Set list (courtesy of YouTube):
01:54 Geese
08:16 Break Stuff
13:24 Mystery Woman
20:28 Libra
26:18 Break Stuff (Reprise)
30:55 Starlings
35:46 Chorale
41:13 Work
50:22 Our Lives
58:58 Hood
1:11:00 Taking Flight
1:24:19 Countdown
1:31:22 Becoming
2015
Monday, October 12th
3n
Albrecht Maurer (violin), Mat Maneri (viola), Lucian Ban (piano), “Irreverence” (L. Ban), live (recording session), Germany (Cologne), 2013
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Chicago (Columbus Park)
2015
Sunday, October 11th
old school
The Angel Voices, “Tell the Angels,” “Walking and Talking with Jesus,” 1953
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road to the World Series
‘I like numbers like anyone else,’ [Don] Zimmer once told me. ‘I like the gut and the unexpected even better.’
2015
Saturday, October 10th
tonight in Chicago
These folks will be playing at Curtiss Hall.
Christopher Fisher-Lochhead (1984-), Dig Absolutely (2010); Spektral Quartet, live, Evanston, Ill., 2011
2015
Friday, October 9th
only rock ‘n’ roll
Foxygen, live, Paris, 2014
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road to the World Series
It’s not a complicated issue. The more basic we can become in our approach, the more successful we’ll become.
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