Chrome, “Meet You In The Subway” (1979, record; 1984, video) So much of our musical experience resists explanation. Take this track, for instance. As soon as it’s over, I want to hear it again. Why? No idea. ********** lagniappe mail: two posts, two messages, same correspondent Last Monday (Koko Taylor/Louis Jordan): Great boost! Yesterday (Brother Anthony Wynn/Sensimo): [...]
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Monday, 11/7/11
11/07/2011Wednesday, 8/3/11
08/02/2011The other night, as we headed home after having dinner at a Mexican restaurant I first went to when I was about his age (Nuevo Leon, 1515 W. 18th St., Chicago), my (23-year-old son) Alex slid these guys into the dashboard CD player. TV on the Radio, Nine Types of Light (2011) ********** lagniappe mail What [...]
Friday, 7/15/11
07/14/2011How’d you get along without this? James Brown, Japan, 1992 More? Here. And here. And here. ********** lagniappe mail This just in from a longtime reader/listener: Every day I look forward to turning on my computer to see what the clip of the day is. I love what you are doing. Keep it up. *** [...]
Tuesday, 7/12/11
07/12/2011John Luther Adams, Inuksuit (excerpt) New York (Park Avenue Armory), 2/20/11 More? Here. ********** lagniappe Scored for a flexible ensemble of between nine and ninety-nine percussionists, “Inuksuit” is intended for outdoor performance, and it had its première on a mountainside in Banff, Canada, in 2009. Adams at first resisted the idea of taking the piece [...]
Monday, 6/20/11
06/19/2011Here’s another take on the blues. Ben Webster Quartet (BW, tenor saxophone; Stan Tracey, piano; Rick Laird, bass; Jackie Dougan, drums), “Poutin’,” live More? Here. And here. And here. ********** lagniappe Sonny Rollins, Joe Lovano, et al., talk about Ben Webster ***** mail You are sending out some great stuff at all times. . . [...]
Friday, 4/29/11
04/29/2011When you’re young you can’t imagine that the things that make your life sing won’t always be there. Then you get older. And they aren’t. Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers (Brewer Phillips, guitar; Ted Harvey, drums), “Sadie,” live, Ann Arbor Blues Festival, 1973 More? Here. ********** langiappe mail This arrived yesterday, in response to an [...]
Friday, 3/11/11
03/10/2011Don’t try to tell me there’s anything incongruous—anything at all—in loving Beethoven and loving Chopin and loving Del Shannon. Del Shannon, December 30, 1934-February 8, 1990 “Runaway” (with Burton Cummings [Guess Who], piano), 1982 *** “I Go To Pieces,” 1988 (?) *** “Sea of Love,” 1982 ********** lagniappe mail One of the best ever [Ornette [...]
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: [...]
Thursday, 12/30/10
12/30/2010When people hear I’m a criminal defense lawyer, they often ask: “How come there aren’t more songs about serial killers?” Eddie Noack, “Psycho,” 1968 ********** lagniappe mail In response to yesterday’s post, a reader writes: Ever wonder what it would be like if Neil Young circa 1971 Heart of Gold and Bruce Springsteen circa his [...]
