sounds of New York
Mary Halvorson (guitar) with Adam O’Farrill (trumpet), Jacob Garchik (trombone), Patricia Brennan (vibraphone), Nick Dunston (bass), Tomas Fujiwara (drums), “Night Shift” (M. Halvorson), live, New York, 2022
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other day, Oak Park, Ill.
like nothing else
DJ Spooky (AKA Paul D. Miller: turntables, electronics, interview) + Matthew Shipp Trio (MS, piano, interview; William Parker, bass; Guillermo Brown, drums), live, France (Seine-Saint-Denis), 2003
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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
sounds of London, and Beirut, and Palestine
Sama’ Abdulhadi (1991-, DJ), live, London, 1/6/23
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two takes
Gil Scott-Heron (1949-2011), “Me and the Devil,” 2010
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Robert Johnson (1922-1938), “Me and the Devil Blues,” rec. 1937 (Dallas)
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Morton Feldman (1926-1987, MCOTD Hall of Fame), Palais de Mari (1986): Sabine Liebner (piano), 2007
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last night, Chicago
like nobody else
Anthony Braxton (1945-, reeds, compositions), et al., live (performance begins at 3:25), Amsterdam, 2015
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art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago
Piet Mondrian, Lozenge Composition with Yellow, Black, Blue, Red, and Gray, 1921
like nobody else
Morton Feldman (1926-1987, MCOTD Hall of Fame), For Bunita Marcus (1985): Sabine Liebner (piano), 2007
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reading table
Ultimately the air / Is bare sunlight where must be found / The lyric valuables.
—George Oppen (1908-1984), from “From Disaster”
sounds of New York
Subtle, inventive, empathic: she’s one of my favorite saxophonists.
Ingrid Laubrock (1970-, tenor and soprano saxophones), Brandon Lopez (bass), Tom Rainey (drums), live, New York, 2022
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timeless
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968), “I Have a Dream,” Washington, D.C., August 28, 1963
timeless
Spirit of Memphis Quartet (feat. Silas Steele), “He Never Left Me Alone” (E. Malone), rec. 1949 (Cincinnati)
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Pinty Ricketts (DJ), playing “Musical Fever” (The Enforcers [1960s]), London (The Night Owl), 12/4/22
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