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Month: June, 2016

2016

Friday, June 10th

voices I miss

Albert Collins (1932-1993), live, Switzerland (Montreux), 1979


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art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago 

Aaron Siskind (1903-1991), Chicago 28 1957 (Abstractions, through 8/14/16)

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tonight in Chicago

The Chicago Blues Festival celebrates the 45th anniversary of Alligator Records, where, in the ’70s, barely out of college, I had the good fortune to co-produce recordings by Albert Collins, Koko Taylor, Son Seals, Fenton Robinson, Jimmy Johnson, Carey Bell, et al.

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2016

Thursday, June 9th

never enough

Two days ago I’d never heard of him; last night he took my breath away.

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Partita No. 2 in D minor for Solo Violin, excerpt (Sarabande); Leonidas Kavakos, live, France (Annecy), 2015

 

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reading table

The Poets light but Lamps –
Themselves – go out –

—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), 930 (Franklin), fragment

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2016

Wednesday, June 8th

sounds of New York

Lea Bertucci, “The Cepheid Variations,” live, New York, 2015

 
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musical thoughts

New sounds are heard in the dark.

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2016

Tuesday, June 7th

like nobody else

Leroy Jenkins Gut Band (LJ [1932-2007] violin, compositions; Brandon Ross, guitar; David Wong, bass; Newman Taylor Baker, drums), live, New York, 2000

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2016

Monday, June 6th

yesterday in Chicago

At the Art Institute—next to Millennium Park, site of Saturday’s Gospel Fest—I heard this piece for the first time, played by three Chicago-based musicians (violinist Yuan-Qing Yu, clarinetist J. Lawrie Bloom, pianist Adam Nieman). It, too, sang.

Charles Ives (1874-1954), Largo for Violin, Clarinet, Piano (1901-02); Lucy Chapman-Stoltzman (violin), Richard Stoltzman (clarinet), Richard Goode (piano), 1990

 

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2016

Sunday, June 5th

yesterday in Chicago

I heard these folks in Millennium Park, at the thirty-first annual Gospel Fest. Rain had been falling, but it stopped. Slowly, dark skies gave way to sunshine.

Brian Courtney Wilson, “Just Love,” live, Windsor Village United Methodist Church, Houston, Tx.


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William Murphy, “It’s Working,” live, Newbirth Missionary Baptist Church, Lithonia, Ga.


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Shirley Caesar, “No Charge,” live

 

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2016

Saturday, June 4th

what’s new

Beck, “Wow,” 6/2/16

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2016

Friday, June 3rd

Mozart one day, another day this—how lucky to live in a world so various.

Konono No. 1, “Yaya Mikolo,” live, France (Saint-Nazaire), 2009

 

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2016

Thursday, June 2nd

sounds of Chicago and Oslo

Ken Vandermark (tenor saxophone), Paal Nilssen-Love (percussion), “Song for Terrie,” live, Netherlands (Amsterdam), 5/26/16


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random sights

this morning, Oak Park, Ill.

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A big birthday shout-out to my brother Don, my first listening companion. All these years later, the basement jukebox still plays: “Wake Up Little Susie” (Everly Brothers) . . .”North to Alaska” (Johnny Horton) . . .”(The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance” (Gene Pitney) . . . Hear it?

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2016

Wednesday, June 1st

sounds of New York

Sandbox Percussion, live (excerpts from S. Reich, “Drumming”; A. Weiser, “Anatomy of a Drum Roll”; S. Reich, “Music for Pieces of Wood”), New York (Washington Square Park), 2014

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