Practice Room / April 2023

music /
DAUGHTER OF EXPERIENCE / Dave Miller
INTERPLAY / Bill Evans
COMPOSER / Cedar Walton
INSEN / Ryiuchi Sakamoto & Alva Noto
DEAF DUMB BLIND / Pharoah Sanders

podcasts /
THIS PAST WEEKEND / Theo Von
WTF / Marc Maron
EXTRAMUSICAL / Stephen Harvey

reading /
THE CREATIVE ACT: A WAY OF BEING  / Rick Rubin
WAX POETICS / Issue 4, Vol. 2
SUN RA: ART ON SATURN / Irwin Chusid & Chris Reisman

art & design /
MICHAEL CUTLIP
JOHN LAUTNER
ELLSWORTH KELLY
YUNHEE MIN

TV & film /
THE LAST OF US / HBO
SUCCESSION / HBO
RYUICHI SAKAMOTO: CODA
I WAS THERE (Jean Michel Basquiat) / Vice 

 


Practice Room / September 2022

music /
CHICAGO ODENSE ENSEMBLE
NOT TIGHT / DOMi & JD BECK
PINK DOLPHINS / Anteloper
NIGHT DREAMER / Wayne Shorter
COMMON PRACTICE / Ethan Iverson feat. Tom Harrell
SING ME A SONG OF SONGMY / Freddie Hubbard

podcasts /
THIRD STORY with Leo Sidran
FLY ON THE WALL

reading /
STATION ELEVEN / Emily St John Mandel
SPRING 2022 TETRAGON / We Jazz
BOUNDLESS MINDS & MOVING BODIES IN 80's NEW YORK / Carlo McCormick

art & design /
YUNHEE MIN
ALVIN LUSTIG
MICHAEL CUTLIP
ELLSWORTH KELLY

TV & film /
ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING S2 / Hulu
HOUSE OF THE DRAGON / HBO
THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL
NOPE

 


Practice Room / April 2022

*header photo by Spencer Porter

music /
I,I / Bon Iver
MR. HOOD / KMD
FORFOLKS / Jeff Parker
EVERY NOTE IS TRUE / Ethan Iverson
LIVE AT THE 1963 MONTEREY JAZZ FESTIVAL / Miles Davis

podcasts /
BY EVERY MEASURE / Tarik Moody & Radio Milwaukee
QUESTLOVE SUPREME 
SMARTLESS

reading /
THE COLOR OF LAW  / Richard Rothstein
DILLA TIME / Dan Charnas
ORGANIC MUSIC SOCIETIES / Blank Forms Editions
CHARLES IVES: MEMOS / John Kirkpatrick
THE MILWAUKEEAN / Joey Grihalva

art & design /
FRANK STELLA
EERO SAARINEN
CHARLES & RAY EAMES

TV & film /
SEVERANCE / Apple +
ATLANTA / FX
ALL THE STREETS ARE SILENT / Jeremy Elkin
ROGER & ME / Michael Moore
100 YEARS OF BAUHAUS / BBC documentary


Practice Room / Dec 2020

listening /
RAINBOW SIGN / Ron Miles
FORWARD / Chad McCullough
ON THE TENDER SPOT OF EVERY CALLOUSED MOMENT / Ambrose Akinmusire
THANKSGIVING AT THE VANGUARD / Jason Moran
MIXING COLORS / Roger and Brian Eno

reading /
BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME  / Ta-nehisi Coates
TO BE OR NOT TO BOP / Dizzy Gillespie
GO AHEAD IN THE RAIN: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest / Hanif Abdurraqib
CULTURE IS NOT ALWAYS POPULAR / Michael Bierut & Jessica Helfand
ARTWORK / Virgil Abloh

art & design /
Dechazier Pykel
Richard Neutra
Pierre Soulages
Julian Montague