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2022

Sunday, September 11th

timeless

“Quartet of unidentified incarcerated men at Cummins State Farm (now Cummins Unit), Gould, Arkansas, recorded by John A. Lomax on May 21, 1939, under the auspices of the Archive of Folk Song, Library of Congress. Photo of baptism at Cummins, 1953, from the University of Arkansas-Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture.”—Alan Lomax Archive, YouTube

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Bats have no bankers and they do not drink
and cannot be arrested and pay no tax
and, in general, bats have it made.

—John Berryman (1914-1972, MCOTD Hall of Fame), from Dream Song #63

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2022

Saturday, September 10th

3n

Paul Lytton (1947-, drums), Ken Vandermark (1964-, reeds), Nate Wooley (1974-, trumpet), live, Rochester, New York, 4/20/22

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2022

Thursday, September 8th

more

Camila Nebbia (tenor saxophone), Michael Formanek (bass), Vinny Sperrazza (drums), live, New York (Downtown Music Gallery), 8/28/22

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Life is not made for meetings;
like stars at opposite ends of the sky we move.

—Tu Fu (aka Du Fu, 712-770), from “Presented to Wei Pa, Gentleman in Retirement,” translated from the Chinese by Burton Watson (The Columbia Book of Chinese Poetry, 1984)

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2022

Wednesday, September 7th

timeless

Skip James (1902-1969), “I’m So Glad,” 1931

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2022

Tuesday, September 6th

timeless

Anton Webern (1883-1945), Three Little Pieces for Cello and Piano (op. 11, 1914); Dmitri Atapine (cello), Hyeyeon Park (piano), 2014, California (Atherton)

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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.

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2022

Monday, September 5th

alone

Camila Nebbia (tenor saxophone), live, Cal Rosal, Spain, 2021

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2022

Sunday, September 4th

back to church

Mt. Ramah Primitive Baptist Association, “Walking in Jerusalem Just Like John,” live, Thomaston, Georgia, 2011

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2022

Saturday, September 3rd

timeless

John Cage (1912-1992), Third Construction (1941); McGill Percussion Ensemble, live, Halifax, Nova Scotia (Canada), 2011

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2022

Friday, September 2nd

what’s new

Fantastic Negrito (aka Xavier Amin Dphrepaulezz), “Virginia Soil” (X. Dphrepaulezz), live (studio), published 8/26/22

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My Teacher once said to me,
—become one with the knot itself
til it dissolves away.

—Gary Snyder (1930-), from “Four Changes” (Collected Poems, 2022)

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2022

Thursday, September 1st

sounds of Ukraine

Alyona Alyona, Jerry Heil, Monica Liu, “Dai Boh,” published 8/26/22

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