voices I miss
Prince & The Band,* “Footprints” (Wayne Shorter), live, East Rutherford, New Jersey (soundcheck), 2004
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random sights
other day, Chicago (Columbus Park)
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*Prince (guitar), John Blackwell (drums), Rhonda Smith (bass), Mike Scott (guitar), Renato Neto (keyboards), Chance Howard (keyboards), Greg Boyer (trombone), Maceo Parker (saxophone), Candy Dulfer (saxophone).
testify!
Meditation Singers, “Jesus Be a Fence Around Me” (S. Cooke), live, France (Antibes Jazz Festival), 1964
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Illinois
what’s new
Ingrid Laubrock (tenor, soprano saxophones) with Brandon Seabrook (electric guitar), Shawn Lovato (bass), Tom Rainey (drums), DoYeon Kim (25-String Gayageum), “Atomic Breath” (I. Laubrock), published today
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random sights
today, Oak Park, Illinois
what’s new
Marc Ribot Quartet (MR, guitar; Chad Taylor, drums; Briggan Krauss, alto saxophone; Sebastian Steinberg, bass), “Ghost of Sleep” (M. Ribot), published today
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random sights
yesterday, Chicago (Columbus Park)
what’s new
Steve Reich (1936-), In All Your Ways (2026), Colin Currie Group,* live, Amsterdam, 9/19/26
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other day, Lake Superior (outside Copper Harbor, Michigan)
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*Owen Gunnell, Adrian Spillett, George Barton, Catherine Ring: percussion; Rowland Sutherland, Helen Whitaker: flute; Emma Burgess, Michelle Hromin: clarinet; Jonathan Morton, Clio Gould: violin; Nicholas Bootiman: viola; Robin Michael, Clare O’Connell: cello; Philip Moore, Siwan Rhys: piano; Peter Wilson: electric bass guitar.
sounds of Chicago
Vernon Oliver Price (1929-2023), “Move On Up a Little Higher,” live, Chicago (Jubilee Showcase), 1969
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random sights
other day, Brockway Mountain (outside Copper Harbor, Michigan)
what’s new
Brìghde Chaimbeul (Scottish smallpipes, vocals), Shahzad Ismaily (synths), “a bhò a bhò,” “a dhuine dhuine dhuine,” “She Went Astray,” “Pìobaireachd Nan Eun,” “Bog an Lochan,” live, Washington, D.C., published yesterday
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random sights
other day, Lake Superior (Copper Harbor, Michigan)
To improvise is to play with your ears.
Hamid Drake (1955-, drums; MCOTD Hall of Fame) & Tanja Feichtmair (1972-, alto saxophone), live, Austria (Nickelsdorf), 7/26/26
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Illinois
two minutes of sonic bliss
Sticks McGhee (1918-1961), “Meet You in the Morning,” 1953
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random sights
yesterday, Chicago (Columbus Park)
what’s new
Jan Blomqvist, live, Burning Man Festival, Nevada, 9/5/26
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found words
L is the twelfth letter of the modern English alphabet and represents a voiced alveolar lateral approximant sound.
—Google AI’s response to iPhone’s unsought search for the letter “l”
