Archive for January 2012
01/30/2012
Henry “Red” Allen (trumpet), with Coleman Hawkins (tenor saxophone), Vic Dickenson (trombone), Pee Wee Russell (clarinet), Rex Stewart (cornet), Danny Barker (guitar), Nat Pierce (piano), Milt Hinton (bass), Papa Jo Jones (drums), “Wild Man Blues,” live (TV Broadcast, The Sound of Jazz), 1957 All-star jam sessions often fizzle. Not this one. What makes this so good? [...]
Categories: bass, cornet, drums, guitar, jazz, saxophone, trombone, trumpet
Tags: Coleman Hawkins, Danny Barker, Henry "Red" Allen, Milt Hinton, music clip of the day, Nat Pierce, Papa Jo Jones, Pee Wee Russell, Rex Stewart, Vic Dickenson
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01/29/2012
joy, n. exultation of spirit; gladness, delight. E.g., Calvary Baptist Church in West Philadelphia, with John Legend singing “How I Got Over” (2011). ********** lagniappe listening room: (some of) what’s playing • Theo Parrish, Sound Sculptures, Vol. 1 (Sound Signature) • Coldcut, 70 Minutes of Madness (Journeys by DJ) • O.V. Wright, Wright Stuff (Hi UK) • Bertha [...]
Categories: gospel
Tags: Aki Takahashi, Alban Berg, Animal Collective, Anton Webern, Arnold Schoenberg, Bela Bartok, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Bertha "Chippie" Hill, Bill Dixon, Carter Van Pelt, Charlie Christian, Chicago Underground Trio, Cleveland Orchestra, Coldcut, DJ/Rupture, Doug Schulkind, Exploding Star Orchestra, Hans Krasa, Hawthorne String Quartet, Herbert von Karajan, Hungarian String Quartet, John Legend, Julliard String Quartet, Kevin Nutt, Kronos Quartet, Lamin, LaSalle Quartet, Leo Janacek, Lester Bowie, Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy, Ludwig van Beethoven, Mahmoud Ahmed, Markus Hinterhauser, Miles Davis, Mitsuko Uchida, Morton Feldman, music clip of the day, Nat King Cole, Nat King Cole Trio, O.V. Wright, Paul Hindemith, Pavel Haas, Pavel Haas Quartet, Phil Schaap, Pierre Boulez, Robert Schumann, Solomon, Takacs Quartet, The Fisk Jubilee Quartet, Theo Parrish, WFMU-FM, WKCR-FM, Zehetmair Quartett
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01/28/2012
When I retire, I’m going to move to 19th century Paris. I’ll have a thirty-something mistress. And drink café au lait. Frederic Chopin, 24 Preludes, Excerpt (1-7) Maurizio Pollini, piano Japan, 1982 ********** lagniappe At last I have come into a dreamland. —Harriet Beecher Stowe, in 1853, after arriving in Paris ***** Want more? Here [...]
Categories: classical, piano
Tags: Frederic Chopin, Maurizio Pollini, music clip of the day
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01/27/2012
The 1960s—a decade of relentless experimentation, bold innovation, of searching, always, for something new, something true. Freddie and the Dreamers, “Little Bitty Pretty One,” “A Little You” Live, London, 1965 ********** lagniappe reading table Last night I had a dream. I was in France. Paris was again falling to the Germans, but it had become [...]
Categories: bass, drums, guitar, reading table, rock/pop
Tags: Elizabeth Bishop, Freddie and the Dreamers, music clip of the day, Robert Lowell
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01/26/2012
Ever feel like you’re drowning in dreck? Me, too. When that happens, this is one of the things I turn to—it never fails. Johann Sebastian Bach, Suite No. 3 in C major for Unaccompanied Cello, 4th Mvt. (Sarabande); Pierre Fournier (1906-1986), cello ********** lagniappe reading table [O]ld age is a ceremony of losses, which is on [...]
Categories: cello, classical, reading table
Tags: Donald Hall, Johann Sebastian Bach, music clip of the day, Pierre Fournier
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01/25/2012
trying to teach white folks This Is Ska! (1964) ********** lagniappe found words Real Messages from Heaven —book title (Books-A-Million, 144 S. Clark St., Chicago)
Categories: bass, Chicago, drums, guitar, Jamaica, miscellaneous keyboards, movies, saxophone, ska, trumpet
Tags: music clip of the day, This Is Ska!
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01/23/2012
If you’re looking for sunshine, you’ll have to go elsewhere. This is one of the saddest, darkest, most chilling things I know. Nina Simone, “Black Is The Color Of My True Love’s Hair” ********** lagniappe reading table [L]ife needs a lot of imaginative fixing, since it regularly fails to provide us with wild adventure and [...]
Categories: bass, hard-to-peg, piano, reading table
Tags: Marcel Proust, Michael Wood, music clip of the day, Nina Simone
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01/23/2012
Yesterday we left off in 1977; let’s fast-forward 33 years. Von Freeman (tenor saxophone), with Mike Allemana (guitar), Matt Ferguson (bass), Michael Raynor (drums); “Lester Leaps In,” live, Chicago (New Apartment Lounge, 75th St.), 2010 ********** lagniappe This year, as I’ve mentioned before, Von was awarded, along with bassist Charlie Haden, singer Sheila Jordan, trumpeter Jimmy Owens, and [...]
Categories: bass, Chicago, drums, guitar, jazz, saxophone
Tags: Charlie Haden, Jack DeJohnette, Jimmy Owens, Matt Ferguson, Michael Raynor, Mike Allemana, music clip of the day, National Endowment of the Arts, Sheila Jordan, Von Freeman
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01/21/2012
With voices like these who needs microphones? Davis Sisters, “On the Right Road,” live (TV Broadcast), c. 1964 ********** lagniappe my back pages Thirty-five years ago tonight—how could I possibly begin a sentence “thirty-five years ago tonight” and be referring to something that happened when I was, at least nominally, an adult? Well, this actually [...]
Categories: gospel, hard-to-peg, jazz, piano, saxophone
Tags: Davis Sisters, Duke Ellington, John Young, music clip of the day, Von Freeman
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