No matter how I’m feeling—up, down, whatever—he makes me feel better.
Tony Allen (1940-), drummer
Live, Paris, 2015
#1
#2
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Live (with Oghene Kologbo & World Squad), Brussels, 2014
*****
Interview, 2015
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lagniappe
random sights
this morning, Oak Park, Ill. (Roscoe, my granddog)
More.
Morton Feldman (1926-1987), Palais de Mari (1986)
Ivan Ilić (piano), 2014
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lagniappe
random sights
this morning, Chicago (Columbus Park)
MCOTD Hall of Fame
Morton Feldman (1926-1987), For Bunita Marcus (1985), excerpt
Ivan Ilić (piano and commentary), 2015
Why not start the week with a walk through an enchanted landscape?
Earle Brown (1926-2002), Available Forms I, 1961
Callithumpian Consort, live, Boston, 2013
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lagniappe
reading table
Money’s the cheapest thing. Liberty and freedom is the most expensive.
—photographer Bill Cunningham, New York Times obituary, 6/25/16
two takes
“Never Grow Old,” AKA “Where We’ll Never Grow Old” (James C. Moore)
Aretha Franklin, live, Detroit, 1996
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Vernard Johnson, live, 1973
Entering his sound-world isn’t hard. What’s hard is leaving.
Tristan Murail (1947-), La Barque mystique, 1993
what’s new
Wyclef Jean, “Hendrix,” 6/17/16
Music offers what airlines don’t—time travel.
Anton Webern (1883-1945), Langsamer Satz (1905)
Faust Quartet
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lagniappe
art beat
Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004)
sounds of New Orleans
Professor Longhair (1918-1980), live, New Orleans (Riverboat President, New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival), 1979*
*****
*Set list (courtesy of YouTube):
1. Mess Around
2. Every Day I Have The Blues
3. Big Chief
4. Mardi Gras In New Orleans
5. Tipitina
6. How Long (Has That Train Been Gone)
7. Got My Mojo Working
never enough
Thelonious Monk Quartet (TM, piano; Charlie Rouse, tenor saxophone; Larry Gales, bass; Ben Riley, drums), “Rhythm-a-Ning” (T. Monk), live, London, 1966
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