sounds of Chicago
Muhal Richard Abrams Sextet (MRA [1930-2017], keyboards; Henry Threadgill, reeds [1944-, MCOTD Hall of Fame]; Kalaparusha [Maurice McIntyre], reeds [1936-2013]; Wallace McMillan, reeds [1941-]; Reggie Willis, bass; Steve McCall, drums [1933-1989]), live, Berlin, 1973
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random sights
other day, Chicago
Sometimes a simple melody can be more than enough.
Frank Lacy and 10³²K (FL, trombone; Kevin Ray, bass; Andrew Drury, percussion), “I’ll Be Right Here Waiting” (S. McCall), live, Troy, N.Y., 2016
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from the mist
stinging insects
emerge—Kobayashi Issa, 1763-1827 (translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)
Happy (Day After) Father’s Day
Nas (son) with Olu Dara (father), “Bridging the Gap” (2004)
(sampling Muddy Waters’ “Mannish Boy”)
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Here’s more from the old man.
David Murray Octet, “Dewey’s Circle” (DM, tenor saxophone; Olu Dara, trumpet; Butch Morris, cornet; George Lewis, trombone; Henry Threadgill, alto saxophone; Anthony Davis, piano; Wilber Morris, bass; Steve McCall, drums), Ming (Black Saint, 1980)
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Muddy Waters, “Mannish Boy” (Chess, 1955)
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People are mysterious, unfathomable—like divinities: natural objects for reverence. But our habits of thought turn the people around us into objects, the means for our self-protection.
—Lama John Makransky, “Family Practice,”
Tricycle, Summer 2001
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