what’s new
Cory Smythe (piano) with Sofia Jernberg (voice), Joshua Modney (violin), Tomeka Reid (cello), Peter Evans (trumpet), Zekkereya El-magharbel (trombone), Ryan Muncy (alto saxophone), Ingrid Laubrock (tenor saxophone), David Leon (alto and baritone saxophones, clarinet), Jessie Cox (drums and percussion), Stephan Crump (bass), “Combustion 2” (Frank Heath, video), 12/2/22 (Smoke Gets in Your Eyes)
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random sights
last night, Chicago
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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lagniappe
random sights
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”
alone
Peter Evans (1981-, trumpet, composition), “Mirrors of Infinity,” live (studio), 2016
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To live is so startling, it leaves but little room for other occupations.
—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), letter to Thomas Higginson, late 1872
sounds of New York
Being & Becoming (Peter Evans, trumpets, compositions; Joel Ross, vibraphone; Nick Jozwiak, bass; Savannah Harris, drums, percussion), New York, streamed 6/29/21
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It is in no sense
essentialthat this crown of leaves,
sifted by windas if turning over
some problem,is a gray-green
brightening into rust-redat the tips
or that its equivocations
fill this instantto the brim.
—Rae Armantrout (1947-), from “Making”