Archive for the ‘listening room’ category
05/19/2012
three takes “Trials, Troubles, Tribulations” (E.C. Ball) (AKA “Tribulations”) Andrew Bird Live, Nashville (Grimey’s New & Preloved Music), 2009 *** Wayne Henderson, Martha Spencer & Jackson Cunningham Live, Maryland (Rockville), 2010 *** E.C. Ball & Lacey Richardson Recording (Alan Lomax), 1959-60 ********** lagniappe listening room: (some of) what’s playing • Face A Frowning World: An E.C. [...]
Categories: gospel, guitar, listening room, mandolin, radio, violin
Tags: Alfred Cortot, Andrew Bird, Arnold Schoenberg, Bill Laswell, Cecil Taylor, Derek Bailey, E.C. Ball, Getatchew Mekuria, Jackson Cunningham, Johann Sebastian Bach, Martha Spencer, Merle Haggard, Miles Davis, music clip of the day, Nathan Milstein, Peter Brötzmann, Peter Serkin, The Canton Spirituals, The Ex, Tony Williams, Wayne Henderson, WFMU-FM, WHPK-FM, WKCR-FM
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04/28/2012
Let’s go to church. “Until I Die,” Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church, Winston-Salem, N.C., 2001 ********** lagniappe reading table On the Death of Friends in Childhood We shall not ever meet them bearded in heaven, Nor sunning themselves among the bald of hell; If anywhere, in the deserted schoolyard at twilight, Forming a ring, perhaps, or joining [...]
Categories: gospel, listening room, radio, reading table
Tags: Ambrose Akinmusire, Anthony Braxton, Anton Webern, Arkansas Red, Arnold Schoenberg, Bach, Carter Van Pelt, Chicago Tentet, David Holzman, DJ/Rupture, Donald Justice, Duke Ellington, Jerry McCain, Joe McPhee, Joseph Szigeti, Kevin Nutt, Lester Bowie, Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy, Marcel Proust, Mary Halvorson, Mozart, music clip of the day, Peter Evans, Peter Serkin, Phil Schaap, Pierre Fournier, Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church, Quartetto Italiano, Rex, Slim Harpo, Stefan Wolpe, Steve Lehman Octet, Terre T, The Dirtbombs, The Fisk Jubilee Quartet, Weasel Walter, WFMU-FM, Wild Flag, WKCR-FM
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11/06/2011
two takes “Don’t sit around in a dead church and die!” Take 1: Brother Anthony Wynn (Oasis Ministries, Riceville, Tennessee) ***** Take 2: Sensimo ********** lagniappe listening room: (some of) what’s playing • Theo Parrish, Sound Sculptures, Vol. 1 (Sound Signature) • Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Come On Back (Rounder) • Rare & Collectible Fine Wine: 27 Soulful [...]
Categories: gospel, hard-to-peg, listening room
Tags: Aki Takahashi, Anthony Davis, Anton Bruckner, Arkansas Red, Bela Bartok, Brother Anthony Wynn, Carter Van Pelt, Charlie Parker, Daniel Blumin, DJ/Rupture, Don Pullen, Doug Schulkind, Gunter Wand, HotRod, Hungarian Quartet, Jack DeJohnette, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Jo Jones, Joan La Barbara, Julius Hemphill, Keller Quartet, Kevin Nutt, Kronos Quartet, Lucky 7s, MAC, Malachi Favors, Markus Hinterhauser, Miles Davis, Morton Feldman, Mr. Fine Wine, music clip of the day, Nikhil Banerjee, North German Radio Orchestra, Phil Schaap, Sensimo, Takacs Quartet, Terre T, Thelonious Monk, Theo Parrish, Wadada Leo Smith, WFMU-FM, WHPK-FM, WKCR-FM
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10/01/2011
Here, at Luther Vandross’s funeral, Stevie testifies. Stevie Wonder, “I Won’t Complain” Live, New York (The Riverside Church), 2005 ********** lagniappe For as long as you’ve got a harp in your heart, God’s got a hymn for your hurt. And as long as you’ve got a hymn, then you’ve got hope. —Maurice O. Wallace (funeral [...]
Categories: gospel, listening room, piano, radio
Tags: Air, Anton Webern, Arkansas Red, Arnold Schoenberg, Bela Bartok, Bill Evans Trio, Borodin Quartet, Carter Van Pelt, Charles Mingus, Charlie Parker, Coldcut, Dan Bodah, David Behrman, Dean Benedetti, Dimitri Shostakovich, DJ/Rupture, Doug Schulkind, Eberhard Blum, Eric Dolphy, Henry Threadgill, Ingram Marshall, Jaki Byard, Jan Williams, John Carter & Bobby Bradford’s New Art Jazz Ensemble, John Coltrane, Kevin Nutt, Lester Young, Louis Armstrong, Luther Vandross, Mahmoud Ahmed, Markus Hinterhauser, Maurizio Pollini, Morton Feldman, music clip of the day, Nils Vigland, Phil Schaap, Rob Weisberg, San Francisco Contemporary Players, Staff Benda Bilili, Stephane Ginsburgh, Stevie Wonder, Sun Ra, Takacs Quartet, Wadada Leo Smith’s Golden Quartet, WFMU-FM, WHPK-FM, WKCR-FM
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09/03/2011
The Dixie Hummingbirds (with Ira Tucker, lead vocals), “If You See My Savior” (T. Dorsey), live (TV broadcast), early 1960s With a voice like this, who needs words? (Listen, for instance, at :55 and 1:50.) More? Here. ********** lagniappe listening room: (some of) what’s playing • Theo Parrish, Sound Sculptures Vol. 1 (Sound Signature) • Various [...]
Categories: classical, gospel, guitar, jazz, listening room, radio
Tags: Alfred Schnittke, Anthony Braxton, Bach, Fred Anderson, Ira Tucker, Morton Feldman, music clip of the day, Stephane Ginsburgh, Steven Isserlis, Sun Ra, The Dixie Hummingbirds, Theo Parrish, WFMU-FM, WKCR-FM
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08/20/2011
Ever feel like, each day, you understand less and less? Davis Sisters (with Jackie Verdell), “We’ll Understand It Better By and By,” live (TV broadcast), early 1960s ********** lagniappe reading table So long as that woman from the Rijksmuseum in painted quiet and concentration keeps pouring milk day after day from the pitcher to the [...]
Categories: art beat, gospel, listening room, radio, reading table
Tags: Aki Takahashi, Alfred Schnittke, Archie Shepp, Bach, Benny Goodman, Borodin String Quartet, Captain Beefheart, Charles Gayle, Charley Patton, Charlie Parker, Davis Sisters, Jack DeJohnette, Jackie Verdell, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Johannes Vermeer, Kahil El’Zabar’s Ritual Trio, Kenny Werner, Kronos Quartet, Ludmilla Berlinsky, Morton Feldman, music clip of the day, Paul Simon, Roswell Rudd, Shane MacGowan, Stephane Ginsburgh, Steve Lacy, The Detroiters, The Golden Echoes, The Spiritualaires of Hurtsboro Alabama, Von Freeman, Wadada Leo Smith, WFMU-FM, Wislawa Szymborska, WKCR-FM, Woody Allen
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07/23/2011
Last 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 [...]
Categories: gospel, listening room, reading table
Tags: Bach, Beethoven, Carter Van Pelt, DJ/Rupture, John Berryman, Kevin Nutt, King Oliver, Malachi Favors, Morton Feldman, Muhal Richard Abrams, music clip of the day, Phil Schaap, Stephane Ginsburgh, Steven Isserlis, The Staple Singers, WFMU-FM, WKCR-FM
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07/06/2011
People Like Us (aka Vicki Bennett), “DrivingFlyingRisingFalling” ********** lagniappe listening room What did I listen to last night? A radio show I’d never heard before—Antique Phonograph Music Program with MAC (WFMU-FM), which features old (really old, like 90, 100, 110 years old) 78s and cylinders, played on period hand-cranked players. Last night’s program, as well as [...]
Categories: hard-to-peg, listening room, movies, radio
Tags: Antique Phonograph Music Program with MAC, music clip of the day, People Like Us, Vicki Bennett, WFMU-FM
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07/03/2011
This guy I can’t get enough of. Vernard Johnson, “Don’t Wait ’Til The Battle Is Over, Shout Now!”; live, TV broadcast (Bobby Jones Gospel) Time for just one note? 6:23. More? Here. And here. ********** lagniappe art beat Lee Friedlander, Cherry Blossom Time in Japan (2006) ***** reading table Yesterday, opening my Emily Dickinson collection [...]
Categories: art beat, gospel, listening room, radio, reading table, saxophone
Tags: Anton Webern, Arnold Schoenberg, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Bill Frisell, Carter Van Pelt, Charles Mingus, Charlie Haden, DJ/Rupture, Doug Schulkind, Elliott Carter, Emily Dickinson, Joe Lovano, Kevin Nutt, Lee Friedlander, Lee Konitz, Marc Ribot, Maurizio Pollini, Morton Feldman, music clip of the day, Paul Motian, Phil Schaap, Rebirth Brass Band, Rev. Johnny L. Jones, Stephane Ginsburgh, Ursula Oppens, Vernard Johnson, Wadada Leo Smith, WFMU-FM, WKCR-FM
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06/19/2011
Gospel, soul, blues—sometimes they seem inseparable. Willie Banks and The Messengers, live, Mississippi (Jackson), 1990 “Things I Can’t Change” *** “God Is Still In Charge” ********** lagniappe listening room: what’s playing • Talib Kweli, Gutter Rainbows (Javotti Media/3d) • Art Ensemble of Chicago, Full Force (ECM) • Anthony Braxton Quartet, (GTM) 2006 (Important Records) • [...]
Categories: art beat, bass, drums, gospel, guitar, listening room, organ
Tags: Ann Southam, Anthony Braxton, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Carter Van Pelt, Count Basie, Dan Boodah, Daniel Blumin, David Holzman, DJ/Rupture, Eve Egoyan, John Coltrane, John Tilbury, Kevin Nutt, Lester Young, Lou Z., Morton Feldman, music clip of the day, Phil Schaap, Rashied Ali, Rob Weisberg, Stefan Wolpe, Stephane Ginsburgh, Talib Kweli, WFMU-FM, Wille Banks and The Messengers, Willie Banks, WKCR-FM
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