only rock ’n’ roll
Jeff Beck and The Big Town Playboys, live (music begins at 2:10),* London (Ronnie Scott’s), 2007
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*Set list (courtesy of YouTube):
1) Race with the Devil
2) Crazy Legs
3) Train Kept A-Rollin’
4) My Baby Left Me
5) Matchbox
6) Baby Blue
7) Honky Tonk
testify
Neal Roberson, “Don’t Let the Devil Ride,” live
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lagniappe
reading table
I am running out of life, Olga thinks. What am I going to do? What is there without life?
—Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project
alone
Henry Cowell (1897-1965), The Tides of Manaunaun, c. 1917
Andy Costello (piano), live, Chicago, 2009
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lagniappe
art beat: more from Thursday night at the Art Institute of Chicago
Josef Koudelka (1938-), Ireland, 1972
Nationality Doubtful, through September 14th
passings
Johnny Winter, guitar player, February 23, 1944-July 16, 2014
“Highway 61 Revisited” (B. Dylan)
Live, Denmark (Roskilde), 1984
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Recording (Second Winter), 1969
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lagniappe
art beat: last night at the Art Institute of Chicago
Josef Koudelka (1938-), Nationality Doubtful, through September 14th
*****
the beat goes on
1,700 posts—and counting.
never enough
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Suite No. 3 in C major for Unaccompanied Cello; Jean-Guihen Queyras (1967-), live, c. 2007
tonight in Chicago
This guy will be playing at the Hideout.
Daniel Levin, cello
With JP Carletti (drums), live, New Haven, Conn., 2013
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With his trio, live, Jersey City, N.J., 2008
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Solo, live, New York, 2009
passings
Lorin Maazel (mah-ZELL), conductor, violinist, composer
March 6, 1930-July 13, 2014
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Symphony No. 41 in C major (“Jupiter”), Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia (Lorin Maazel, cond.), live, Spain (A Coruña), 2012
Charlie Haden, Tommy Ramone, Lorin Maazel: their differences are dwarfed by what, as music makers, they shared.
passings
Tommy Ramone (AKA Thomas Erdelyi), drummer, producer
January 29, 1949-July 11, 2014
Ramones, live, London, 1977*
*****
*Set list (courtesy of YouTube):
1. Blitzkrieg Bop
2. I Want to Be Well
3. Glad to See You Go
4. You’re Gonna Kill That Girl
5. Commando
6. Havana Affair
7. Cretin Hop
8. Listen to My Heart
9. I Don’t Wanna Walk Around with You
10. Pinhead
11. Do You Wanna Dance
12. Now I Wanna Be a Good Boy
13. Now I Want to Sniff Some Glue
14. We’re a Happy Family
Soul?
Gospel?
Whatever the idiom, this guy kills me.
The Sunset Travelers, featuring O.V. Wright (1939-1980), lead vocals
“Sit Down and Rest Awhile,” late 1950s
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“Ain’t That Good News,” 1964
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“On Jesus’ Program,” 1964
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lagniappe
art beat
Bruce Davidson (1933-), New York, 1966
passings
Charlie Haden, bassist, composer, bandleader, August 6, 1937-July 11, 2014
Old and New Dreams (Charlie Haden, bass; Ed Blackwell, drums; Dewey Redman, tenor saxophone; Don Cherry, pocket trumpet), “Happy House” (O. Coleman), live, Norway (Molde Jazz Festival), 1979
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lagniappe
radio
Thank God, once again, for college radio. Beginning tomorrow at 2 p.m. (EST), WKCR (Columbia University) will air a memorial broadcast. Two hours? Three? Nope. They’ll be playing Haden’s music, continuously, until 9 p.m.—Monday.
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