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Saturday, 3/5/11

replay: clips too good for just one day

The other night, after falling asleep, my older son Alex (now 22) had an unexpected visitor—this guy showed up and began to play.

Vijay Iyer Trio (VI, piano; Marcus Gilmore, drums; Stephan Crump, bass)

“Galang,” recording session (Historicity), New York (Systems Two Studios), 2009

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“Questions of Agency,” live, New York (The Stone), 2007

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Playing and Talking about Historicity, 2009

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lagniappe

Presto! Here is the great new jazz piano trio.

—Ben Ratliff,  New York Times (9/9/09)

(Originally posted 6/30/10.)

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take two (or is it one?)

Following up on Vijay Iyer’s take (6/30/10), here’s the original.

M.I.A., “Galang” (2005)

One of the things I love about M.I.A. is that she doesn’t let any of the usual stuff get in her way. Take her dancing, for instance: she’s, uh, not real good at it—at least not by the usual standards. Does that stop her? Nah.

(Originally posted 7/2/10.)


Friday, 3/4/11

four takes

Rainy Night In Georgia” (Tony Joe White, 1962)

Brook Benton, 1970 (Billboard Soul Singles #1, Hot 100 #4)

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Otis Rush, 1976 (rec. 1971)

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(This track’s a mixed bag: he muffs the first line [dropping “the night” after “spend”] and the low notes are a stretch [at least in this key]; but the choruses are terrific, as is the bridge.)

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Conway Twitty with Sam Moore, 1994

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Tony Joe White, TV broadcast (Netherlands), 2006 (?)

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