only rock ‘n’ roll
Big Star (with Alex Chilton), “In the Street,” live (TV show), 1994
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Replacements, “Alex Chilton,” live (TV show), 2014
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
[M]y favorite songs . . . make[] me feel more able to go out and live.
—George Saunders, New York Times Magazine, 3/10/16 (on-line)
sound and space
John Luther Adams (1953-), Sila: The Breath of the World (2014), live, New York, 2014 (performance begins at 4:45)
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lagniappe
reading table
We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.
—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), letter to cousins Louise and Frances Norcross, 1872
Who needs coffee?
Johnny Griffin Quartet (JG, tenor saxophone; Ronnie Matthews, piano; Ray Drummond, bass; Kenny Washington, drums), live, New York, 1981
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reading table
when cherry blossoms
scatter . . .
no regrets—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), translated from Japanese by David Lanoue
sounds of joy
Tenor saxophonists Arnett Cobb (1918-1989; 00:44-), Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis (1922-1986; 02:32-), Johnny Griffin (1928-2008; 04:34-), “Lester Leaps In” (L. Young), live, Netherlands (Laren), 1984
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reading table
Even in the midst of trials and tribulations we still have joy.
—Pastor Norvel Goff, Sr., Sunday service, Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Charleston, S.C., 2015 (New Yorker, 9/28/15)
Politics got you feeling soiled?
Here’s a bar of soap.
“America the Beautiful,” “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” “Amazing Grace,” etc., Charlie Haden & The New Liberation Music Orchestra feat. Carla Bley (piano, arrangements), live, France (Marciac), 2004
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lagniappe
art beat
Danny Lyon (1942-), Crossing the Ohio, Louisville, Ky., 1966
old school
Sensational Gospel Eagles (Greenwood, S.C.), live
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art beat
William Klein (1928-), 3 Kids + Harmonica, New York, 1955
This sound-world I could inhabit, happily, all weekend.
Gérard Grisey (1946-1998), Vortex Temporum (1994-96)
Ensemble Sonorama, live, Argentina (Buenos Aires), 2013
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reading table
When we recognize we ‘think again’
without knowing what or if
we thought before.—Rae Armantrout, “Fusion,” excerpt (New Yorker, 3/7/16)
sounds of Chicago (and Springfield)
Never underestimate the power of idiosyncrasy.
Daniel Knox, live, Paris, 2015
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art beat
William Klein (1928-), Brooklyn, 1955
Ever tire of a world so busy?
Alvin Lucier (1931-), Charles Curtis (solo cello with slow sweep pure wave oscillators [2002]), on the carpet of leaves illuminated by the moon (solo cello with pure wave oscillator [2000]), Alvin Lucier (electronics), Charles Curtis (cello), live, Detroit, 2014
like nobody else
Derek Bailey (1930-2005), guitar, Ballads,* 2002
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art beat
William Klein (1928-), Dance in Brooklyn, 1955
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*Track list (courtesy of YouTube):
1. Laura 0:00
2. What’s New? 2:58
3. When Your Lover Has Gone 4:38
4. Stella by Starlight 7:56
5. My Melancholy Baby 15:17
6. My Buddy 18:31
7. Gone With the Wind 19:42
8. Rockin’ Chair 21:52
9. Body and Soul 23:48
10. Gone With the Wind 29:21
11. Rockin’ Chair 31:50
12: You Go to My Head 33:54
13. Georgia on My Mind 35:42
14. Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone 40:40
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