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Month: March, 2016

Friday, March 11th

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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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)

Thursday, March 10th

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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We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.

—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), letter to cousins Louise and Frances Norcross, 1872

Wednesday, March 9th

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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when cherry blossoms
scatter . . .
no regrets

—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), translated from Japanese by David Lanoue

Tuesday, March 8th

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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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)

 

Monday, March 7th

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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art beat

Danny Lyon (1942-), Crossing the Ohio, Louisville, Ky., 1966

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Sunday, March 6th

old school

Sensational Gospel Eagles (Greenwood, S.C.), live

 

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William Klein (1928-), 3 Kids + Harmonica, New York, 1955

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Saturday, March 5th

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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When we recognize we ‘think again’
without knowing what or if
we thought before.

—Rae Armantrout, “Fusion,” excerpt (New Yorker, 3/7/16)

Friday, March 4th

sounds of Chicago (and Springfield)

Never underestimate the power of idiosyncrasy.

Daniel Knox, live, Paris, 2015

 

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William Klein (1928-), Brooklyn, 1955

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Thursday, March 3rd

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

 

Wednesday, March 2nd

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