Saturday, December 30th
sounds of Chicago
DKV Trio (Hamid Drake [drums, MCOTD Hall of fame], Kent Kessler [bass], Ken Vandermark [reeds]), live, Chicago (Elastic Arts), last night
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Tuesday, December 26th
never enough
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor; Hidemi Suzuki (cello), live, Netherlands (Amsterdam), 2017
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Speaking of “never enough,” the annual Bach Festival on WKCR-FM (Columbia University)—one of my favorite musical events of the year—runs through midnight New Year’s Eve.
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Sunday, December 24th
testify!
Land Boys, “Heaven Is My Goal,” live, Millry, Alabama, 2017
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Friday, December 22nd
like nobody else
Nina Simone (1933-2003), “To Love Somebody” (B. Gibb, R. Gibb), live, France (Antibes), 1969
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Sunday, December 17th
sounds of New Orleans
Wish my living room sounded like this.
Crown Seekers, “That’s Heaven to Me” (S. Cooke), live (rehearsal), New Orleans, 2010
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Friday, December 15th
timeless
Thelonious Monk Quartet (TM, piano; Charlie Rouse, tenor saxophone: Butch Warren, bass; Frankie Dunlop, drums), “Bolivar Blues” (T. Monk), live, Japan, 1963, excerpt
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Monday, December 11th
timeless
Billie Holiday (1915-1959), live (“I Cover the Waterfront,” “Too Marvelous for Words,” “I Love You, Porgy,” “Them There Eyes,” “Willow Weep for Me,” “I Only Have Eyes for You,” “You Go to My Head”), live, Boston, 1953
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Sunday, December 10th
sounds of Memphis
Lula Collins, “Jesus, You’ve Been Good,” Memphis, 1970s
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Saturday, December 9th
sounds of Chicago
Jerry Butler (1939-), “What’s So Good About It (You’re My Baby),” 1972
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Friday, December 8th
only rock ‘n’ roll
Garbage & Screaming Females, “Because the Night” (B. Springsteen, P. Smith), 2013
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reading table
To think. This saving thing. This useless thing.
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My mind is
smallish.—Anne Carson (1950-), from “Funny You Should Ask” (New Yorker, 12/11/23)
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