Feeling glum?
No more.
Orphic Oxtra, live, Iceland (Reykjavik), 2011
“Kebab Diskó”
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“Orfeus Bekonovitsjí Polka!”
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“Viiinur”
Morton Feldman (1926-1987), Why Patterns?; California EAR Unit (Dorothy Stone, flute; Arthur Jarvinen, glockenspiel; Gaylord Mowrey, piano), 1991
His music makes so much use of space it seems to keep going even after the sounds have stopped.
passings
Pete Seeger, singer, songwriter, banjo player, May 3, 1919-January 27, 2014
“Michael, Row the Boat Ashore,” live, Australia (Melbourne), 1963
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“Amazing Grace,” live, New York (90th birthday concert, Madison Square Garden), 5/3/09
This just in from my son Luke (now twenty-two, living in Kansas City):
Did you see Stevie Wonder last night with Daft Punk?
Stevie Wonder, Pharrell Williams, Daft Punk, “Get Lucky,” live (Grammy Awards), 1/26/14
sounds of Mali
Salif Keita, live, Switzerland (Winterthur), 2013
Little Richard, Jerry Lee—they’ve got nothing on this gal.
Rev. Julius Cheeks (lead vocals), Marge Cheeks (piano), Knights of Washington, D.C., “Morning Train,” TV show (TV Gospel Time), early 1960s
sounds of Japan
What do you get when you cross Abba and the Chipmunks?
Perfume, “1 mm,” 2013
sweet soul music
Al Green, live, 1974
sweet soul music
Larry Hargrove, “Gone On Pt. 2,” live, c. 2010
Thirty-seven years ago, at a church outside Chicago, my wife Suzanne and I were married. Saxophonist Von Freeman and pianist John Young played at the ceremony.* Afterward, at the nearby reception hall, this guy tickled the ivories. All three are now gone.
Blind John Davis (1913-1985), live, Canada, early ’80s
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*Here’s how they sounded that night. (Give it a few seconds.)
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