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I play guitar, electronic, and noise. Chicago/Western Mass tatsongs.bandcamp.com he/him

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 4d

Stravinsky saw Charlie Parker play at Birdland

club of all time by performing for Igor Stravinsky at Birdland. Alfred Appel tells it definitively in his book Jazz Modernism: From Ellington and Armstrong to Matisse and Joyce:
The house was almost full, even before the opening set - Billy Taylor's piano trio - except for the conspicuous empty table to my right, which bore a RESERVED sign, unusual for Birdland.
After the pianist finished his forty-five-minute set, a party of four men and a woman settled in at the table, rather clamorously, three waiters swooping in quickly to take their orders as a ripple of whispers and exclamations ran through Birdland at the sight of one of the men, Igor Stravinsky. He was a celebrity, and an icon to jazz fans because he sanctified modern jazz by composing Ebony Concerto for Woody Herman and his Orchestra (1946) - a Covarrubias
"Impossible Interview" come true.
As Parker's quintet walked onto the bandstand, trumpeter Red Rodney recognized Stravinsky, front and almost center. Rodney leaned over and told Parker, who did not look at Stravinsky.
Parker immediately called the first number for his band, and, forgoing the customary greeting to the crowd, was off like a shot. At the sound of the opening notes, played in unison by trumpet and alto, a chill went up and down the back of my neck.
They were playing "Koko, which, because of its epochal breakneck tempo
- over three hundred beats per minute on the metronome - Parker never assayed before his second set, when he was sufficiently warmed up. Parker's phrases were flying as fluently as ever on this particular daunting "Koko." At the beginning of his second chorus he interpolated the opening of Stravinsky's Firebird Suite as though it had always been there, a perfect fit, and then sailed on with the rest of the number. Stravinsky roared with delight, pounding his glass on the table, the upward arc of the glass sending its liquor and ice cubes onto the people behind him, who threw up their hands or ducked.
Parker didn't just happen to…

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tat songs @tatsongs.bsky.social · 14h

wtf cubs

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Stereolab @stereolabgroop.bsky.social
The Metro
10-10-25

tat songs @tatsongs.bsky.social · 21h

Natural Information Society with Bitchin Bajas
The Metro
10-10-25

tat songs @tatsongs.bsky.social · 1d

Ran into Tim Kinsella and Joel Berk at the Stereolab show, good vibes abound.

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Stereolabgroop @stereolabgroop.bsky.social · 1d

Tonight - @stereolabgroop.bsky.social play a second sold out night at @metrochicago.com Chicago, Illinois. USA. Support from Bitchin’ Bajas + Natural Information Society.

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tat songs @tatsongs.bsky.social · 1d

For the third time ever, I’m on my way to see @stereolabgroop.bsky.social 🎹

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing pictures of an abandoned tamale cart in Pilsen where ICE took a tamale street vendor. Those photos of left behind carts are so haunting. Community members disappeared. Not just vendors but people who have long standing relationships with the community and people.

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tat songs @tatsongs.bsky.social · 2d

Siri, book me a tour.

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tat songs @tatsongs.bsky.social · 2d

They move fast

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mummyn @derekhill.bsky.social · 2d

groceries are such a hot luxury item

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tat songs @tatsongs.bsky.social · 3d

Rodan has to be one of the best one-and-done bands to ever do it.

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Rodan - Rusty [full album]

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tat songs @tatsongs.bsky.social · 3d

It was the beer that made Milt Famey walk us.

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I Heart Noise @iheartnoise.bsky.social · 4d

Doing Boston show at the Middle East this December. Sunburned Hand of the Man are headlining. More details soon...

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tat songs @tatsongs.bsky.social · 3d

I have the song Garter Snake by Macie Stewart stuck in my head, not complaining.

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Katherine Lam @katherinelam.bsky.social · 5d

the joy of creating art v the dread of having to sell it

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tat songs @tatsongs.bsky.social · 5d

Listening to Private Beach by Meiko Nakahara this morning on the bus.

tat songs @tatsongs.bsky.social · 5d

There's a very thin line between gratitude and copium.

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tat songs @tatsongs.bsky.social · 6d

Just woke up with a Sugaree/Babylon Sisters mashup in my head.

tat songs @tatsongs.bsky.social · 6d

More of this, Chicago

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 6d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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tat songs @tatsongs.bsky.social · 6d

"compassion fatigue"

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tat songs @tatsongs.bsky.social · 6d

yes

tat songs @tatsongs.bsky.social · 6d

Live music contains curative properties.

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tat songs @tatsongs.bsky.social · 6d

Bitchin Bajas
Empty Bottle
10-4-25

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Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer
Empty Bottle
10-4-25