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Friday, March 20th

Sounds echo across generations. Here, on the 88th birthday of my long-gone father, are sounds I first heard through my sons.

TV on the Radio, live (studio performance), Santa Monica, 2014

Tuesday, 3/27/12

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Let’s pick up where we left off—Mali.

Amadou & Mariam (with Tunde Adibimpe & Kyp Malone [TV on the Radio]), “Wily Kataso,” 2012

More? Here. And here.

Wednesday, 8/3/11

The other night, as we headed home after having dinner at a Mexican restaurant I first went to when I was about his age (Nuevo Leon, 1515 W. 18th St., Chicago), my (23-year-old son) Alex slid these guys into the dashboard CD player.

TV on the Radio, Nine Types of Light (2011)

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What an unexpected delight it was to receive, in yesterday’s mail, a note from New Orleans trumpeter Lionel Ferbos, the world’s oldest performing jazz musician (previously mentioned here and here), thanking me for the card I sent him for his 100th birthday.