Night After Night

Writing, a blog, and a newsletter. By Steve Smith.

playlist

  • Playlist (Mixed in with the signal).

    A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears, Sept. 15–21, 2025. Robert Rich – Rainforest (Hearts of Space; 1989) Robert Rich/Steve Roach – Strata (Hearts of Space; 1990) Robert Rich – What We Left Behind (Soundscape; 2016) Robert Rich – Sunyata & Inner Landscapes (Soundscape, Auricle/Soundscape; 1982, 1988/2013) Robert Rich –

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  • Playlist (The light I never knowed).

    A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears, Sept. 8–14, 2025. Charles Ives – Three Places in New England; Orchestral Set No. 2; Carl Ruggles – Sun-treader; Men and Mountains; Ruth Crawford Seeger – Andante for Strings – Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, Cleveland Orchestra/Christoph von Dohnányi (Decca; 1995) Anton Bruckner – Symphony

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  • Playlist (All my dreams and all my reasons).

    A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears, Sept. 1–7, 2025. Coleman Hawkins – The Hawk Relaxes (Prestige; 1961) Walt Dickerson – This Is Walt Dickerson! (New Jazz; 1961) Ahmed Abdul-Malik – The Music of Ahmed Abdul-Malik (New Jazz; 1961) Bill Barron – Hot Line (Savoy; 1962) Walt Dickerson – Unity

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  • Playlist (Given to the dust).

    A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears, Aug. 25–31, 2025. Linda May Han Oh – Strange Heavens (Biophilia; 2025) Dory Hayley – I Love Evil – compositions by Morton Feldman, Jordan Nobles, Katerina Gimon, Rodney Sharman, and Cassandra Miller (Redshift Music Society; due Sept. 26, 2025) Phish – Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum,

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  • Playlist (It’s all just wind in sails).

    A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears, Aug. 18–24, 2025. Paul Cornish – You’re Exaggerating! (Blue Note; 2025) Charles Lloyd – Figure in Blue (Blue Note; due Oct. 10, 2025) Horace Silver – Silver in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse (Blue Note; due Oct. 24, 2025) Tyshawn Sorey and Kirsten

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  • Playlist (Yesterday will disappear soon enough).

    A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears, Aug. 11–17, 2025. Patricia Brennan – Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic; due Oct. 24, 2025) Mary Halvorson – About Ghosts (Nonesuch; 2025) Sylvie Courvoisier & Wadada Leo Smith – Angel Falls (Intakt; due Oct. 3, 2025) Ingrid Laubrock – Purposing the Air

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  • Playlist (Shall we call it by a name).

    A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears, Aug. 4–10, 2025. Patrick Shiroishi – I shouldn’t have to worry when my parents go outside (self-released; 2021) The Armed – The Future Is Here and Everything Needs to Be Destroyed (Sargent House; 2025) Dead & Company – Golden Gate Park, San Francisco,

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  • Playlist (History grows up like a weed).

    A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears, July 28–Aug. 3, 2025. Thee Reps – Cryptocartography (Gold Bolus; 2025) Jeff Tobias – One Hundredfold Now in This Age (Repeating Cloud; due Oct. 17, 2025) Tim Berne – Yikes Too (Out of Your Head; 2025) Jessica Pavone – What Happens Has Become

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  • Playlist (The path where no one goes).

    A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears, July 21–27, 2025. Phish – Folsom Field, Boulder, CO, July 3, 2025 (LivePhish; 2025) Fieldwork – Thereupon (Pi Recordings; due Sept. 5, 2025) Phish – Folsom Field, Boulder, CO, July 4, 2025 (LivePhish; 2025) Cecil Taylor/Tony Oxley – Flashing Spirits (Burning Ambulance; 2025,

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  • Stuck in my ears: May 26, 2025.

    A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears, May 19–25, 2025. Heather Stebbins – On Separation (Outside Time; due May 30, 2025) Bob Dylan – Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre Phoenix, AZ, May 13, 2025 (ROIO; 2025) Ivo Perelman + Matthew Shipp String Trio – Armageddon Flower (TAO Forms; due June 20,

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  • Playlist (The debris and the metaphors).

    A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… Marty Ehrlich Trio Exaltation – Images of Time (Sunnyside; due May 30, 2025) John Adams – Short Ride in a Fast Machine; Igor Stravinsky – Violin Concerto in D; Jean Sibelius – Symphony No. 5 in E-flat – Leila Josefowicz, Houston Symphony/Dalia Stasevska

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  • Playlist (Every stolen interlude).

    A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… Walt McClements – On a Painted Ocean (Western Vinyl; 2025) Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – Gift Songs (Mexican Summer; 2025) Wang Fan – Five Primary Elements (Badhead; 2024) Max Richter – The Blue Notebooks (20 Year Edition) (Deutsche Grammophon; 2004) Max Richter – In A

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  • Playlists (Tear down the voice of reason).

    A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… Kiss – "War Machine" and "Creatures of the Night" from Off the Soundboard: Live in Poughkeepsie 1984 (UMe; due April 7, 2023) Kiss – Off the Soundboard: Live in Des Moines 1977 (UMe; 2022) Kiss – Off the Soundboard: Live at Donington 1996

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  • Playlist (Let’s see where clues are leading).

    A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… Ornette Coleman – Ornette at 12, Crisis to Man on the Moon Revisited (Impulse!/ezz-thetics, 1969-72/2023) Dead & Company – Playing in the Sand, Moon Palace, Riviera Maya, Cancún, Mexico, Jan. 14, 2023 (Nugs.net; 2023) Éliane Radigue – Occam Delta XV – Quatuor Bozzini

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  • Playlist (Uncertain Times).

    A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… Traveller by Warren Sampson Warren Sampson – Traveller (Big Road Music/Love All Day; 1987/2018) Steve Roach – Timeroom Livestream 10-24-2020: The Day After Tomorrow (Bandcamp subscriber exclusive; 2020) Frederic Rzewski – Songs of Insurrection – Thomas Kotcheff (Coviello Classics; due Nov. 13, 2020)

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  • Playlist (Today Is All We Got).

    This week’s Night After Night Playlist includes selections featuring Ralph Vaughan Williams, Jon Gibson, claire rousay, Toshinori Kondo, and more—bend an ear.

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  • Playlist (Maybe Enough Ain’t Enough).

    A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… Prana Crafter – MorphoMystic by Prana Crafter Prana Crafter – MorphoMystic (Cardinal Fuzz; 2020) Sarah Hennies – Work (Quakebasket; 2014) Casts by Sarah Hennies Sarah Hennies – Casts (Astral Spirits; 2015/2020) at AngelicA 2000 Bologna by Cecil Taylor Cecil Taylor – at AngelicA

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  • Playlist (Ten Foot Tall With a Knife).

    A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… Y_y by Anáhuac Anáhuac – Y_y (Astral Spirits; 2018) Foliage by Elliott Sharp Elliott Sharp – Foliage (Moving Furniture; due Nov. 6, 2020) Onden 隱佃 by Kassel Jaeger Kassel Jaeger – Onden 隱佃 (Unfathomless; 2016) Deltas by Kassel Jaeger Kassel Jaeger – Deltas

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  • Playlist (Blunt Determination).

    A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… …and yes, it's been a while. Apologies. The Reinvention of Romance by Sarah Hennies Sarah Hennies – The Reinvention of Romance (Astral Spirits; due Sept. 25, 2020) Sarah Hennies – Spectral Malsconcities – Bearthoven, Bent Duo (New World; due Oct. 16, 2020) Brian

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  • Playlist (Shuffling Your Memories).

    The AMPLIFY2020: quarantine festival continues online… we lose Hal Willner and Richard Teitelbaum… Herbie Hancock celebrates his 80th birthday… and more. Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony No. 5 in C minor – MusicAeterna/Theodor Currentzis (Sony Classical; 2020) John Adams – Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes?; China Gates – Yuja Wang, Los Angeles

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