sounds of Chicago
Baby Huey (AKA James Ramey, 1944-1970), “Listen To Me,” 1971 (Curtom)
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lagniappe
art beat: more from Thursday’s stop at the Art Institute of Chicago
Joan Mitchell (1925-1992), City Landscape, 1955
No stage. No microphone. Just heart.
Evangelist Mary Brown and the Spiritual Singers, “I’ll Fly Away,” live, North Carolina (Plymouth, pop. ~4,000), 2011
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lagniappe
art beat: Thursday at the Art Institute of Chicago (after meeting with a client at the nearby federal jail)
Paul Cezanne, The Bay of Marseilles, Seen From L’Estaque, c. 1885
If a stranger, standing next to me in front of this painting, leaned over and whispered, “There’s no better place to be on the planet,” I wouldn’t disagree.
only rock ’n’ roll
Roky Erickson & The Black Angels, live, Los Angeles, 2008
“Bo Diddley’s A Headhunter,” “Two Headed Dog”
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“You’re Gonna Miss Me”
What could be more romantic?
Bo Diddley (1928-2008), live, 1981
#1
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#2
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#3
never enough
Monk, that is.
“Rhythm-a-Ning,” (T. Monk)
Art Pepper Quartet (AP, alto saxophone; Milcho Leview, piano; Tony Dumas, bass; Carl Burnett, drums), live
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Tom Harrell Quintet (TH, trumpet, flugelhorn; Wayne Escoffery, tenor saxophone; Danny Grissett, piano; Ugonna Okegwo, bass; Johnathan Blake, drums), live, Paris, 2008
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lagniappe
random thoughts
Given the number of lives that end in death, the odds of avoiding it seem slim.
only rock ’n’ roll
Del Shannon (1934-1990), “Runaway,” live (with Tom Petty, guitar; Phil Seymour, tambourine, et al.), 1978
alone
Ran Blake (1935-), pianist, composer, teacher, MacArthur “genius” grant winner
Above the Sadness (trailer), 2011
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Live, “Over the Rainbow,” Portugal (Lisbon), 2010
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Live (at home), 2001
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lagniappe
reading table
‘[L]ife holds thee; not thou it.’
—Herman Melville (1819-1891), Moby Dick
passings
Bunny Rugs (AKA Bunny Clarke, William Clarke), singer
February 6, 1948-February 2, 2014
Live (with Sly & Robbie), “Revolution,” “Love Is Blind,” New York, 2013
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Live (with Third World), “Now That We Found Love,” Los Angeles, 2013
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Recording (Lee Perry, prod.), “Be Thankful,” 1975
Silver Quintette, “Sinner’s Crossroads” (1956)
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Bessemer Sunset Four, “I Feel Like My Time Ain’t Long” (1930)
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Dixie Hummingbirds, “Every Knee Surely Must Bow” (1946)
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Famous Davis Sisters, “I Want To Be More Like Jesus” (1957)
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What do these tracks have in common? All were featured the other night on Sinner’s Crossroads, arguably (to these ears, anyway) the best show on radio. It airs Thursday night, from 8 to 9 p.m. (EST), on mighty WFMU-FM. Not only can you hear it live; every show is archived and remains available on-line. To my mind there’s no better gateway to gospel music.
