Tuesday, August 30th
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Jaimie Branch (1983-2022, trumpet) with Ben LaMar Gay (cornet) and Josh Berman (cornet), live, Chicago (Experimental Sound Studio), 2016
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2022
Sunday, August 28th
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Mavis Staples (1939-) and Levon Helm (1940-2012), “You Got to Move” (rec. 2011, Woodstock, N.Y.), published 2022
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other day, Chicago (Alexander Calder [1898-1976], Flamingo [1973], detail)
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Saturday, August 27th
passings
Jaimie Branch, trumpeter, composer, singer, bandleader, June 17, 1983–August 22, 2022
Live (with Lester St. Louis [cello], Jason Ajemian [bass], Chad Taylor [drums]), Zurich, Switzerland, 2020
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Friday, August 26th
sounds of Denmark
Rigmor, live (“Træ,” “Det er lige meget,” “Citatsangen,” “Gyroskop”), Denmark (Aarhus), 2022
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Thursday, August 25th
timeless
Fats Waller (1904-1943, piano, vocals), “I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter” (F. E. Ahlert, J. Young), 1935
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Wednesday, August 24
string festival
day three
Jason Kao Hwang (1957-, composition, direction) and Uprising Orchestra (Lester St. Louis [cello], Ken Filiano [bass], Andrew Drury [drums], et al.), “Myths of Origin,” live, New York, 10/10/21
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art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago
Paul Cezanne (1839-1906), Woods, Aix-en-Provence (1887-1890), detail (Cezanne—The Artist’s Artist, through 9/5/22)
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Tuesday, August 23rd
string festival
day two
Tomeka Reid Ensemble (TR, 1977- [cello, composition], Fred Lonberg-Holm [cello], Mazz Swift [violin], Jason Hwang [viola], et al.), “Tokens,” live, Chicago (Hyde Park Jazz Festival), 2015
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Monday, August 22nd
string festival
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Daniel Levin (1974-, cello) and Mat Maneri (1969-, viola), live, Columbia, South Carolina, 1/16/22
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reading table
Daybreak—
—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), translated from the Japanese by Lucien Stryk with the assistance of Noboru Fujiwara (The Dumpling Field: Haiku of Issa, 1991)
working as one,
two butterflies.
2022
Sunday, August 21st
sounds of Chicago
Delois Barrett Campbell (1926-2011, voice) with sister Rhodessa Barrett Porter (voice), Robert Wooten (organ), Charles Pike (piano), “I’ll Rise Again” (aka “Rise Again”), live, Chicago (Operation Push), late 1970s-80s
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Saturday, August 20th
alone
Tony Malaby (1964-, tenor saxophone), live, Princeton, New Jersey (Richard Serra [1938-], The Hedgehog and the Fox, 2000), 4/30/22
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