hot, adj. having or giving off heat, having a high temperature. E.g., services at Bishop Perry Tillis’s Alabama church. Bishop Perry Tillis (1919-2004), preacher, singer, guitarist Live, Savior Lord Jesus Pentecostal Church Samson (pop. 2071 [2000]), Alabama, 1995 ********** lagniappe The Bishop Joe Perry Tillis . . . gives Church services every 1st and 3rd [...]
Archive for July 2011
Sunday, 7/31/11
07/30/2011Saturday, 7/30/11
07/30/2011The four familial instruments seem to whisper directly into our ears, communing with us about our personal sadnesses and anxieties. —Wendy Lesser, Music For Silenced Voices: Shostakovich and His Fifteen Quartets (2011) Dmitri Shostakovich, String Quartet No. 14 in F-Sharp Major (1972-73) Fitzwilliam String Quartet 1st Movement (Allegretto) *** 2nd Movement (Adagio) *** 3rd Movement [...]
Friday, 7/29/11
07/29/2011what’s new (an occasional series) Kanye West & Jay-Z, “Otis” (feat. Otis Redding) ***** favorites (an occasional series) Buddy Holly, Patsy Cline, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and many more, including this man: if you could somehow revive all the folks who’ve died falling out of the sky, you’d have a hell of a band. Otis Redding, [...]
Thursday, 7/28/11
07/27/2011favorites (an occasional series) A charter member of the just-announced (to excitement so deafening it’s inaudible) MCOTD Hall of Fame, he’s being celebrated tonight at a concert, in Chicago’s Millenium Park, featuring musicians who came up under him, including saxophonists Steve Coleman and Eric Alexander. ***** No tenor player moves me more. Von Freeman “I [...]
Wednesday, 7/27/11
07/27/2011old stuff (an occasional series) Coolest campaign music ever? Nashville Mayor Karl Dean, campaign commercial (released 7/21/11, election 8/4/11) ***** Here’s the original recording, made for Paramount Records, in Grafton, Wisconsin, in 1929. Charley Patton (AKA Charlie Patton), “High Water Everywhere” Part 1 *** Part 2 If Captain Beefheart and Tom Waits got their sound [...]
Tuesday, 7/26/11
07/26/2011You’re never too young to die. Amy Winehouse, September 14, 1983-July 23, 2011 “Tears Dry On Their Own” Take 1: original recording and video (2006) *** Take 2: remix by Organized Noize Dungeon Family (Big Boi) (released 7/24/11) ********** lagniappe reading table heat shimmers— someone listening to a snail shell —Kobayashi Issa, 1808 (trans. David [...]
Monday, 7/25/11
07/24/2011What better way to start the workweek? Joe Lee Wilson, singer, December 22, 1935-July 17, 2011 Archie Shepp, “Money Blues” (featuring Joe Lee Wilson, lead vocals) Things Have Got To Change (Impulse!), 1971 Part #1 *** Part #2 ********** lagniappe Around Joe Lee (excerpt)
Sunday, 7/24/11
07/23/2011Last Sunday they sounded so good—let’s hear some more. The Staple Singers, “On My Way To Heaven,” “Going Away,” “I’m Leaning,” “I Know I Got Religion”; Uncloudy Day (Vee-Jay), 1959 ********** lagniappe listening room: (some of) what’s playing • Muhal Richard Abrams (with Malachi Favors), Sightsong (Black Saint) • King Oliver, Off the Record: The [...]
Saturday, 7/23/11
07/23/2011In his world Frederic Chopin and Professor Longhair are neighbors. James Booker, December 17, 1939-November 8, 1983 “Classified,” live, Switzerland (Montreux Jazz Festival), 1978 *** Playing for friends (home video), Europe, 1978 ********** lagniappe art beat Lucian Freud, December 8, 1922-July 20, 2011 Self-Portrait: Reflection (2002)
Friday, 7/22/11
07/22/2011only rock ’n roll (an occasional series) The great thing about rock ’n roll is you don’t have to understand a single word for it to make perfect sense. Hasil Adkins, “She Said” Take 1: live *** Take 2: recording (1964) More? Here. ********** lagniappe
