I can’t make up my mind about the Internet. Does it make it possible, with simply a click, to travel anywhere in the world? Or is it just a vast collection of electronic wallpaper? Are these the right questions? Baloji, “Tout Ceci Ne Vous Rendra Pas le Congo” (Hotel Impala), 2007 ********** lagniappe radio Having [...]
Archive for January 2011
Tuesday, 2/1/11
01/31/2011Monday, 1/31/11
01/30/2011Roy Eldridge, January 30, 1911-February 26, 1989 No you, no me. —Dizzy Gillespie “I Can’t Get Started,” live (TV broadcast), 1958 *** “After You’ve Gone,” 1937 *** “Wabash Stomp,” 1937 *** “Let Me Off Uptown” (Gene Krupa Orchestra with Anita O’Day), 1942 ********** lagniappe radio Roy Eldridge WKCR-FM’s centennial birthday celebration, mentioned yesterday, continues until [...]
Sunday, 1/30/11
01/30/2011They don’t just sing about—they take you on—a journey. “Heavenly Home (Got to Take a Journey),” live, Langrun Branch Baptist Church, York, South Carolina More? Here. And here. ********** lagniappe Happy (100th) Birthday, Roy! For two full days—all day today and tomorrow—WCKR-FM (broadcasting from Columbia University) celebrates the birthday of trumpeter Roy Eldridge. (I’m listening [...]
Saturday, 1/29/11
01/29/2011replay: clips too good for just one day I’ve tried listening to his recordings while doing something else, but that hasn’t worked. Whatever else I was doing, I just put aside. If it was nighttime, I turned off the light. Some music occupies every available inch of space—there isn’t room for anything else. Alfred Cortot: [...]
Friday, 1/28/11
01/27/2011Today MCOTD celebrates its 500th post. When this started, I thought I might eventually run out of material. But what I’ve found is the opposite: the more you hear, the more there is to hear. Percy Sledge, “When A Man Loves A Woman,” live (TV broadcast), c. 1966 ********** lagniappe reading table Haiku That was [...]
Thursday, 1/27/11
01/26/2011two takes Charlie Louvin, July 7, 1927-January 26, 2011 “If I Could Only Win Your Love” (Ira & Charlie Louvin) Emmylou Harris & Charlie Louvin, live (TV broadcast), mid-80s *** Louvin Brothers, 1958 ********** lagniappe He really changed the world of music, Charlie did. I know that, for me, hearing the Louvin Brothers brought me [...]
Wednesday, 1/26/11
01/26/2011Sometimes you don’t know you have a thirst until you hear a musician who quenches it. Nikhil Banerjee (sitar), October 14, 1931-January 27, 1986 Raag Maluha Kaylan (excerpts), live (with Anindo Chatterjee, tabla) Part 1 *** Part 2 *** Part 3 *** Part 4 Want more? Here. ********** lagniappe radio gems: Indian music Raag Aur [...]
Tuesday, 1/25/11
01/25/2011three takes Is this—the new cover—great? Maybe, maybe not. No matter—I, uh (to dip into the aging hipster’s lexicon), dig it. “Is This Love” (Bob Marley) Corinne Bailey Rae Take 1: recording, 2010 *** Take 2: live, Los Angeles, 2010 *** Bob Marley Take 3: live, Santa Barbara, 1979 More Bob Marley? Here.
Monday, 1/24/11
01/24/2011Does anyone play Mozart with more verve? Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, KV. 466, first movement; Friedrich Gulda (piano and conducting), Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, live, Germany (Munich), 1986 Part 1 *** Part 2 More? Here. ********** lagniappe Friedrich Gulda has refused to succumb to the increasing specialization of our age, refused to [...]
Sunday, 1/23/11
01/23/2011I’ll be all right when I find somewhere to lay my head . . . The Sensational Nightingales, “Somewhere To Lay My Head,” live (TV broadcast), early ’60s
