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Tuesday, November 12th

Muhal Richard Abrams’ Experimental Band,* live, Austria (Saalfelden Jazz Festival), 2012

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musical thoughts

Music, like conversation, war, baseball, and sex, gives us a way to interact.

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random thoughts

Every year it comes as a surprise—first snow.

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*Muhal Richard Abrams, piano; Henry Threadgill, alto saxophone; Roscoe Mitchell, alto & soprano saxophone; Wadada Leo Smith, trumpet; Amina Claudine Myers, piano; George Lewis, trombone; Leonard Jones, bass; Thurman Barker, vibes, percussion; Reggie Nicholson, drums.

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Monday, November 11th

People talk about getting enough of this or that in their daily diet. But what about beauty? There’s an epidemic, unreported by TV, radio, newspapers, of beauty malnutrition.

Lou Harrison (1917-2003), Threnody for Carlos Chavez (1978); William Winant Percussion Group with David Abel (viola), live, Berkeley, Calif., 2010

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art beat: Friday at the Art Institute of Chicago (while waiting for the jury to return a verdict in a trial involving an alleged conspiracy to steal millions of dollars of diamonds)

Paul Cezanne, The Bay of Marseilles, Seen From L’Estaque, c. 1885

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Sunday, November 10th

four takes

“Woke Up this Morning with My Mind on Jesus”

Earl Washington (and congregation), live, Newark Church of Christ, Newark, N.J., 2007

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Fred McDowell, live, Como, Miss., 1959

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On the first day of fall, 1959, in Como, Mississippi, a farmer named Fred McDowell emerged from the woods and ambled over to his neighbor Lonnie Young’s front porch with a guitar in hand. Alan Lomax was there recording the Young fife and drum ensemble, as well as the raggy old country dance music of their neighbors, the Pratcher brothers, and he had no idea what to expect from this slight man in overalls. He certainly didn’t expect that Fred would soon become internationally known as one of the most original, talented, and affecting country bluesmen ever recorded.

—Alan Lomax Archive, YouTube

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Blind Roosevelt Graves and Brother, recording, 1936

(This illustration isn’t BRG—it’s Charley Patton.)

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Richard Coffey Jr. (and congregation), live, Sweetwater Church of Christ, Jacksonville, Fla., 2012

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Danny Lyon (1942-), Albany, Ga. (Mt. Zion Baptist Church), 1962

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Saturday, November 9th

alone

His sound world is so clear, so lyrical, it can be hard to leave.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Fantasia in D minor, K. 397
Yvonne Loriod (1924-2010), live, 1969

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Paul Strand (1890-1976)

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Friday, November 8th

Is any instrument more compelling than the human voice?

Patty Griffin, live, Washington, D.C., 2013

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Lee Friedlander (1934-)

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Thursday, November 7th

Feel like floating?

Morton Feldman (1926-1987), For Philip Guston (1984)
S.E.M. Ensemble, 2000

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Wednesday, November 6th

love it or hate it

Terrie Ex (guitar), Paal Nilssen-Love (drums), live, Paris, 2012

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Danny Lyon (1942-), Chicago (Uptown), 1965

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Tuesday, November 5th

This guy, like another New Yorker,* contains multitudes.

John Zorn (with Marc Ribot, guitar; John Medeski, keyboards, et al.), live, Poland (Warsaw), 2013

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musical thoughts

All the various styles are organically connected to one another. I’m an additive person—the entire storehouse of my knowledge informs everything I do. People are so obsessed with the surface that they can’t see the connections, but they are there.

—John Zorn

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*Walt Whitman (“Song of Myself”): “I am large, I contain multitudes.”