Recently

This page is both a rejection of immediacy & a provision of context for those whose path might wander across mine. I do not wish to give anyone the impression I welcome persistent access to my activities or inner life, so I will not revise this on a schedule. I will update this as the context shifts. These are the books, shows, & tunes recently shaping my perspective on our world.

Recently Listening

• The Bad Plus, Inevitable Western
• Diego Barber + Craig Taborn, Tales
• Nik Bärtsch, Entendre
• Majid Bekkas, Magic Spirit Quartet
• Jakob Bro, Uma Elmo
• Steve Coleman, Functional Arrhythmias
• Andrew Cyrille/Wadada Leo Smith/Bill Frisell, Lebroba
• Mathias Eick, Midwest
• Bill Frisell & Vinicius Cantuaria, Lágrimas Mexicanas
• Yissy Garcia & Bandancha, Última Noticia
• Muriel Grossman, Quiet Earth
• Tigran Hamasyan, The Call Within
• Vijay Iyer Sextet, Far From Over
• Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh, & Tyshawn Sorey, Uneasy
• Dexter Johnson & Le Super Star de Dakar, Live a L’Etoile
• Christian Jormin & Anders Jormin, Live in Växjö Domkyrka
• Snorre Kirk & Stephen Riley, Going Up
• Steve Kuhn, Remembering Tomorrow
• Steve Kuhn & Toshiko Akiyoshi, The Country and Western Sound of Jazz Pianos
• Joachim Kühn, Touch the Light
• Daniel Lanois, Heavy Sun
• Charles Lloyd & the Marvels, Tone Poem
• Lionel Loueke, Karibu
• Ibrahim Maalouf, Illusions
• Terrace Martin, Sounds of Crenshaw, Vol. 1
• Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom, Glitter Wolf
• Nicole Mitchell, Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds
• Roscoe Mitchell, Bells for the South Side
• Klaus Paier, Asja Valčić, & Gerald Preinfalk, Fractal Beauty
• Enrico Pieranunzi & Bert Joris, Afterglow
• Michel Portal, MP85
• Johannes Wallmann, Elegy for an Undiscovered Species
• Akalé Wubé, Akalé Wubé

Recently Reading

• Elliott Chaze, Black Wings Has My Angel
• Nate Chinen, Playing Changes: Jazz for the New Century
• Teju Cole, Open City
• Matthew B. Crawford, The World Beyond Your Head
• Kenneth Fearing, The Big Clock
• Adam Higginbotham, Midnight in Chernobyl
• China Miéville, The City & the City
• Haruki Murakami, After Dark
• Fuminori Nakamura, The Thief
• Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Refugees
• Shel Silverstein, Every Thing On It

Recently Watching

• Babylon Berlin, Season 3 (Netflix)
• Bosch, Season 7 (Amazon Prime)
• The Death of Stalin (2017)
• Engrenages (Spiral), Season 1 (Amazon Prime)
• Midnight Diner, Season 3 (Netflix)
• Au service de la France (A Very Secret Service), Season 1 (Netflix)
• ZeroZeroZero, miniseries (Amazon Prime)