Tuesday, 4/20/10
Bob Dylan/1965, part 2
“Maggie’s Farm,” live (with Mike Bloomfield, guitar; Jerome Arnold, bass; Barry Goldberg, piano; Al Kooper, organ; Sam Lay, drums), Newport Folk Festival, July, 1965
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Interview with Time magazine, 1965
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Month: April, 2010
2010
Monday, 4/19/10
Bob Dylan/1965, part 1
“If You Gotta Go, Go Now”
Live, England (Leicester), May, 1965
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Manfred Mann, September, 1965 (#2, UK charts)
2010
Sunday, 4/18/10
Some singers—like this one, featured a few weeks ago—you just can’t get enough of.
Dorothy Love Coates & the Gospel Harmonettes
“(You Can’t Hurry God) He’s Right On Time,” live (TV broadcast)
(This song, written by DLC, reportedly inspired the Supremes’ hit “You Can’t Hurry Love” [Holland-Dozier-Holland].)
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“You Must Be Born Again,” live (TV broadcast)
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“It’s Getting Late In The Evening,” live, Los Angeles, 1955
Want more? Here.
2010
Saturday, 4/17/10
When it comes to saying a lot with a little, Chopin’s 24 Preludes for solo piano—most of which last no more than a minute or two—have few equals. This one was played at his funeral.
Frederic Chopin, Prelude No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 28
Sviatoslav Richter (1915-1997)
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Alfred Cortot (1877-1962)
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Martha Argerich (1941-)
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Today isn’t just any old day; it’s Record Store Day 2010.
Chris Brown, Bull Moose (New England record stores)
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an old man’s ways—
my backside warmed
by the wood fire
—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828; Trans. David G. Lanoue)
2010
Friday, 4/16/10
The Rock ’ n’ Roll Guide To Getting Girls (excerpt)
“Treat Her Right”
Roy Head, live (TV broadcast), 1965
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Bob Dylan, live (TV studio, rehearsal [David Letterman Show]), 1984
2010
Thursday, 4/15/10
What a joy it is (and how rare) to hear someone who makes every note count.
Abdullah Ibrahim Trio, live, Germany (Leverkusen), 2007
Part 1
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Part 2
2010
Wednesday, 4/14/10
Originally, Morton Feldman was commissioned to compose the score for the film [Something Wild], but when the director heard the music, he promptly withdrew his commission, opting to enlist Aaron Copland instead. The reaction of the baffled director [Jack Garfein] was said to be, ‘My wife is being raped and you write celesta music?’
Morton Feldman, “Something Wild in the City: Mary Ann’s Theme,” 1960
2010
Tuesday, 4/13/10
street music
Milan
Saxophonist outside Duomo di Milano
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Hearing John Berryman read his poetry changed my life, as I said a while back. I was in college at the time. A year later, he was dead—a suicide (jumping off a bridge in Minneapolis, where he lived and taught). Here, in Dublin in 1967, he reads one of his Pulitzer-Prize-winning Dream Songs (29). Drunk, mannered, idiosyncratic: yes, yes, yes. Obscure at times to the point of opacity: yes. But also (to these ears) exquisitely controlled, deeply moving, utterly unforgettable.
(Want to read this yourself? Here.)
2010
Monday, 4/12/10
listening to history
The sound quality may be pretty raggedy, but that hardly matters—this is history.
Albert Ayler, tenor saxophone (“Love Cry,” “Truth Is Marching In,” “Our Prayer”), live, John Coltrane’s funeral, St. Peter’s Lutheran Church, New York, July 21, 1967
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Pinelawn Memorial Park, Farmingdale, New York
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Trane was the father. Pharoah was the son. I was the holy ghost.—Albert Ayler
2010
Sunday, 4/11/10
Earlier this week the last surviving member of the Chicago-based Gay Sisters passed away. She was a piano wizard—sometimes referred to as the “Erroll Garner of gospel piano.” A musical tribute is scheduled for Friday evening, April 16th, at the Prayer Center Church of God in Christ, which is located at 526 E. 67th St. in Chicago.
Geraldine Gay, 1931-April 6, 2010
Gay Sisters, Savoy Records, 1951
“I’m A Soldier In The Army Of The Lord”
That’s Geraldine on the right.
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“I’m Goin’ To Walk Out In His Name”
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“God Will Take Care Of You”
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‘God Will Take Care Of You’ . . . sold an easy 100,000 units (an astounding amount of records for any genre to sell at the time), which in today’s sales would be equal to the popularity of a platinum album.—Bill Carpenter, Uncloudy Days: The Gospel Music Encyclopedia (2005)
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Chicago is known the world over as the birthplace of gospel music. So it comes as no surprise that city officials can barely contain their excitement over the possibility of a gospel museum opening on the city’s south side. How excited are they? Well, an official with the Chicago Board of Tourism recently made this commitment: the gospel museum “is exactly the kind of thing,” she said, that they “would put up” on their Web site. Yes, you heard that right: a city official announced, publicly, that they would include it on their Web site. Take that, Nashville!
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