Night After Night

Goings On About Town, September 6, 2021.

The Goings On About Town section in The New Yorker has begun a gradual return to its conventional format, with live, in-person events resuming their place among the album reviews and online events that replaced them throughout pandemic quarantine months. (Click on the image to enlarge it, or hit the link to read the text on the New Yorker website.)

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Goings On About Town, August 30, 2021.

The Goings On About Town section in The New Yorker has begun a gradual return to its conventional format, with live, in-person events resuming their place among the album reviews and online events that replaced them throughout pandemic quarantine months. (Click on the image to enlarge it, or hit the link to read the text on the New Yorker website.)

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Playlist (Once in a Very Blue Moon).

A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears…

John Cage - Number Pieces - Apartment House (Another Timbre; 2021)

John Cage - The Fives (X) - Barton Workshop (Megadisc; 2002)

Orlando Jacinto Garcia - String Quartets Nos. 1-3 - Amernet Quartet (Métier; 2021)

Inter Arma - Sulphur English (Relapse; 2019)

Lei Liang - A Thousand Mountains, A Million Streams - Gao Hong, Chien-Kwan Lin, Boston Modern Orchestra Project/Gil Rose (BMOP/sound; 2018)

Xiaoxiang; Five Seasons; A Thousand Mountains, A Million Streams

King Crimson - Richard's Club, Atlanta, GA, June 23, 1973 (DGMLive; 2008)

Frederic Rzewski - From 'Songs of Insurrection' - Bobby Mitchell (Takuroku; 2020)

Ben Phelps | The B Band - Mahler, Symphony No. 5 by Ben Phelps (Cereal Music; 2021)

Cadu Tenório - Are you okay? (self-released; 2021)

CC Sorensen/Gretchen Korsmo - Field Patterns (Full Spectrum; 2021)

Lichens - The Psychic Nature of Being (Kranky; 2005)

Nanci Griffith - One Fair Summer Evening (MCA; 1988)

King Crimson - Arie Crown Theater, Chicago, IL, Feb. 19, 1972 (DGMLive; 2011)

King Crimson - Auditorium, Miami Beach, FL, Feb. 25, 1972 (DGMLive; 2011)

King Crimson - Fairground Coliseum, Indianapolis, IN, March 11, 1972 (DGMLive; 2011)

King Crimson - Sound Track, Denver, CO, March 13, 1972 (DGMLive; 2011)

Richard Wagner - Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Prelude; Anton Bruckner - Symphonies Nos. 2 & 8 - Gewandhausorchester Leipzig/Andris Nelsons (Deutsche Grammophon; 2021)

Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphonies Nos. 1, 14 & 15; Chamber Symphony in C minor - Kristine Opolais, Alexander Tsymbalyuk, Boston Symphony Orchestra/Andris Nelsons (Deutsche Grammophon; 2021)

King Crimson - Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco, CA, March 21, 1972 (DGMLive; 2011)

NPR: "Nanci Griffith Has Died. The Texas Singer-Songwriter Was 68"

"Nanci Griffith Has Died. The Texas Singer-Songwriter Was 68"
NPR
August 13, 2021

Goings On About Town, August 23, 2021.

The Goings On About Town section in The New Yorker has begun a gradual return to its conventional format, with live, in-person events resuming their place among the album reviews and online events that replaced them throughout pandemic quarantine months. (Click on the image to enlarge it, or hit the link to read the text on the New Yorker website.)

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NPR: "Peter Rehberg, Influential Electronic Musician And Label Head, Has Died At 53"

"Peter Rehberg, Influential Electronic Musician And Label Head, Has Died At 53"
NPR Music
August 10, 2021

Goings On About Town, August 16, 2021.

The Goings On About Town section in The New Yorker has begun a gradual return to its conventional format, with live, in-person events resuming their place among the album reviews and online events that replaced them throughout pandemic quarantine months. (Click on the image to enlarge it, or hit the link to read the text on the New Yorker website.)

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NPR: "The Best Music of July: NPR Staff Picks"

"The Best Music of July: NPR Staff Picks"
NPR Music
August 3, 2021

William Parker: "Tabasco" from Mayan Space Station

The veteran bassist, composer and community organizer William Parker is having an incredible year, with a 10-CD box set and an authorized biography already under his belt. He put out two more new albums in July, and one of them, Mayan Space Station, feels exactly right for the long, hot days and nights of summer. Parker and drummer Gerald Cleaver play just behind the beat, rubbing some funky grit into their hypnotic grooves. And Ava Mendoza's electric guitar sings and soars in a way that might remind you of the late, great Sonny Sharrock.—Steve Smith

(This was my first vocal contribution for NPR… and just my second NPR vocal appearance ever, following my cameo in a Pauline Oliveros obituary reported by Lakshmi Singh in November 2016.)