Great four days of music. Really great hangin with the Frown.
We laughed a lot and had a great time whenever we met up.
Music, music, music... (and films and talks). Of course, couldn’t
see everything we wanted to, but it’s a good “problem” to have.
Saw: three films of Beatrice Gibson, Oren Ambarchi,
Yunohana Variations (YoshimiO, Susie Ibarra,
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe), Moor Mother, Joan LaBarbara,
Alvin Lucier, Code Girl, Stephen O’Malley,
The Comet Is Coming, Larry Grenadier, Tomeka Reid,
Columbia Icefield, Thumbscrew, Carla Bley
w/ Andy Sheppard & Steve Swallow, This Is Not This Heat,
Jack DeJohnette w/ Ravi Coltrane & Matt Garrison,
Makaya McCraven, Sons of Kemet, Roscoe Mitchell
w/ Junius Paul & Hugh Ragin, Wadada Leo Smith
w/ Bobby Naughton & Dwight Andrews, and finishing off
with what was billed as The Art Ensemble of Chicago
but was more like the AACM Large Ensemble.
Frown: another restaurant we need to go to is the great “Yassin’s“
when we meet up again next year.
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