Tuesday, June 30th
string festival
day two
Leroy Jenkins (1932-2007), violin and viola, live, Atlanta, 1999
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lagniappe
random thoughts
What will the world be like the first day you are no longer in it? The second? The third?
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Month: June, 2015
2015
2015
Monday, June 29th
string festival
day one
György Ligeti (1923-2006), Sonata for Solo Cello (1948-53); Matt Allen, live, Westport, N.Y., 2009
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lagniappe
reading table
the butterfly I passed
two miles back
is ahead now—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827; translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)
2015
Sunday, June 28th
old school
I could live five hundred years and never tire of hearing this voice.
Soul Stirrers (feat. R. H. Harris [1916-2000], lead vocals), “Lord, I’ve Tried” (T. A. Dorsey), 1946
Photograph by Robert Frank (1924-).
2015
Saturday, June 27th
heaven, n. a place where music is playing all the time, you don’t understand a word anyone’s saying, and it all sounds great.
Zoé, Tú, 2003
2015
Friday, June 26th
sounds of Chicago
Your day’s about to get better.
Hound Dog Taylor and the Houserockers (HDT, vocals & guitar; Brewer Phillips, guitar; Ted Harvey, drums), live, Cambridge, Mass. (Joe’s Place), 1972
1st Set*
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2nd Set*
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*Set lists (courtesy of YouTube):
1st
1) Gonna Send You Back To Georgia
2) Taylor’s Crawl
3) Rock Me Baby
4) Goodnight Boogie
5) Wild About You
6) Jumpin’ With Symphony Sid
7) The Things I Used To Do
8) Phillip’s Stomp
9) I Just Can’t Take It
10) What Do I Say
11) Ingleside Blues
2nd
1) Dust My Broom
2) Phillip’s Crawl
3) Freddie’s Blues
4) Strollin’ With Brewer
5) It Hurts Me Too
6) Jumpin’ With Symphony Sid
7) Take Five
8) Blues For Suzie
9) Roll Your Moneymaker
10) Let’s Get Funky
11) Florence’s Blues
2015
Thursday, June 25th
tonight in Chicago
These guys will be at Constellation.
Paal Nilssen-Love Large Unit (PNL, drums; Lasse Marhaug, electronics and turntable, et al.), “Culius,” live, Germany (Moers), 2014
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lagniappe
art beat: more from Tuesday at the Art Institute of Chicago
Jean-Luc Mylayne (1946-), Mutual Regard (through August 23rd)
2015
Wednesday, June 24th
Morton Feldman (1926-1987), Rothko Chapel (1971); Seattle Modern Orchestra (with Julia Tai, conductor; Melia Watras, viola; Stephen Olsen, celesta; Brian Yarkovsky, percussion; Sarah Marroquin, soprano), live, Seattle, 2012
Today Morton Feldman enters the MCOTD Hall of Fame, joining saxophonists Von Freeman and Henry Threadgill, trumpeter Lester Bowie, poets William Bronk and Wislawa Szymborska, photographer Helen Levitt, and gospel singer Dorothy Love Coates.
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lagniappe
reading table
This performance reminds me at times of Emily Dickinson:
The Stillness in the Room
Was like the Stillness in the Air—
Between the Heaves of Storm——No. 591 (Johnson), “I heard a Fly buzz”
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art beat: yesterday at the Art Institute of Chicago
Jean-Luc Mylayne (1946-), No. 560, 2008 (Mutual Regard, through August 23rd)
2015
Tuesday, June 23rd
Imaginary Landscapes: A Film on Brian Eno (1989)
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
I wanted to make a kind of music that had the long now and the big here.
—Brian Eno
2015
Monday, June 22nd
More of Ornette.
Ornette Coleman Trio (David Izenzon, bass; Charles Moffett, percussion), playing and talking, Paris, 1966
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lagniappe
art beat
Helen Levitt (1913-2009; MCOTD Hall of Fame), New York, c. 1940
2015
Sunday, June 21st
Here, on Father’s Day, is more of Aretha’s.
Rev. C. L. Franklin (1915-1984; Pastor, New Bethel Baptist Church, Detroit, 1946-1979), “Dry Bones in the Valley”
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lagniappe
art beat
Helen Levitt (1913-2009; MCOTD Hall of Fame), New York, c. 1940
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