Tuesday, November 8th
passings
Mimi Parker, singer, drummer, songwriter, cofounder of Low, 1967–November 5, 2022
Low, “Days Like These,” 2021
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
music clip of the day
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2022
Monday, November 7th
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Sonata in B-flat major (K. 570): Peter Serkin (1947-2020, piano), live, New Jersey (Ridgewood), 2017
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art beat: other day, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago
Eric Romero, Año de los Muertos (Year of the Dead), 2020 (Dia de Muertos: Memories & Offerings, through 12/11/22)
2022
Sunday, November 6th
back to church
New Hope Hymn Choir, “That Same Train,” live, South Carolina (Rock Hill), 1996
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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2022
Saturday, November 5th
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Adagio in B minor (K. 540): Peter Serkin (1947-2020, piano), live, New Jersey (Ridgewood), 2017
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art beat: yesterday, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago
Claudia Alvarez, Dia de los Inocentes (Holy Innocents Day), 2010, detail (Dia de Muertos: Memories & Offerings, through 12/11/22)
2022
Friday, November 4th
sounds of New Orleans
Snooks Eaglin (1936 [or 37]–2009), with George Porter Jr. (bass, vocals) and Ken Blevins (drums), live, New York, c. 1990: “Lipstick Traces (on a Cigarette)” (A. Toussaint)
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other day, Chicago
2022
Thursday, November 3rd
never enough
When it comes to sparkling clarity—something that, these days, seems to be in painfully short supply—no one outdoes Mozart.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor (K. 466): Leif Ove Andsnes (piano, direction) and Mahler Chamber Orchestra, live, London, 8/7/22
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other day, Oak Park, Ill.
2022
Tuesday, November 1st
timeless
Woody Shaw Quintet (Woody Shaw [1944-89], trumpet, et al.), “To Kill a Brick” (W. Shaw), live, Monterey Jazz Festival (California), 1979
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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2022
Monday, October 31st
sounds of Chicago
Marvin Tate’s D-Settlement with Theaster Gates and the Black Monks, live (performance begins at 21:00), Chicago, 10/29/22
2022
Sunday, October 30th
back to church
Shelly Davis Jr., “Stand By Me” (C.A. Tindley, 1905), live, Alabama (Elba), 2011
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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2022
Saturday, October 29th
sounds of New York
Being & Becoming (Peter Evans, trumpet, piccolo trumpet; Joel Ross, vibraphone; Nick Jozwiak, bass; Michael Shekwoaga Ode, drums), “Body and Soul” (1930; J. Green, et al.), live, New York (Sisters, Brooklyn), 8/25/22
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this morning, Oak Park, Ill.
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There are things
We live among ‘and to see them
Is to know ourselves’.—George Oppen (1908-84), from “Of Being Numerous”
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