What do you get when you combine a pianist who plays with the percussive intensity of a drummer and a drummer who plays with the melodic buoyancy of a pianist?
Cecil Taylor (piano), Max Roach (drums), live
New York (Columbia University), 2000
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lagniappe
art beat: more from Thursday’s stop at the Art Institute of Chicago (after a hearing at the nearby federal court building)
Mark Rothko, Painting (1953-54)
Let’s head back to Newark, to the church we visited last Sunday, this time to hear one of Dionne’s cousins, back when she was a young girl.
Whitney Houston, New Hope Baptist Church, Newark, New Jersey, 1970s
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what takes your breath away
It’s not the way she pulls out all the stops—lots of singers do that.
It’s how she pulls back (2:00-2:35, 3:00-3:20, etc.).
Whitney Houston, with mother Cissy Houston (Ann Drinkard Moss’s sister, Dionne Warwick’s aunt) nearby, “A Quiet Place,” TV broadcast
(Second clip originally posted 7/25/10.)
music clip of the day 