Friday, December 11th
what’s new
Joanna Newsom, “Leaving the City,” live (TV show), 12/8/15
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Month: December, 2015
2015
Thursday, December 10th
alone
Toshimaru Nakamura (no-input mixing board), live, England
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2015
Wednesday, December 9th
Why God made “repeat.”
Morton Feldman (1926-1987; MCOTD Hall of Fame), Coptic Light (1986); Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (Peter Eotvos, cond.), live, Amsterdam, 1998
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lagniappe
art beat
William Eggleston (1939-)
2015
Tuesday, December 8th
Frederic Chopin (1810-1849), Nocturne in E flat (Op. 55, No. 2); Ignaz Friedman (1882-1948), piano, 1936
The Friedman performance of Chopin’s E flat Nocturne (Op. 55, No. 2) is considered by many to be the greatest single recorded performance of any Chopin nocturne.
2015
Monday, December 7th
The more kinds of music you love, the more chances you have to make wonderful discoveries, as happened yesterday when I heard this for the first time (Oberon Ensemble, Art Institute of Chicago).
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor; Martha Argerich (piano); Gidon Kremer (violin), Yuri Bashmet (viola), Mischa Maisky (cello), 2001
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lagniappe
reading table
You don’t hear the sound; you go into the sound—you and the sound become one.
—Seung Sahn, Only Don’t Know
2015
Sunday, December 6th
like nobody else
Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1915-1973), “That’s All,” live, France, 1960
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lagniappe
random sights
this morning, Chicago (Columbus Park)
2015
Saturday, December 5th
Thurston Moore (guitar), Okkyung Lee (cello), Ikue Mori (laptop)
Live, New York, 2009
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
Music, too, is a continually expanding universe.
2015
Tuesday, December 1st
sounds of Chicago
And more.
Left Hand Frank and His Blues Band, “Linda Lu”
Living Chicago Blues, Vol. 1, 1978
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lagniappe
art beat
Marc PoKempner, Chicago (Divorced Women’s Club), 1988
(I’m taking a break—back in a while.)
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