Friday, March 31st
what’s new
Oumou Sangaré (feat. Tony Allen, drums), “Yere Faga,” 3/30/17
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lagniappe
reading table
First cherry blossoms
just came out
pretty good day!—Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), translated from Japanese by David Young
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jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Month: March, 2017
2017
2017
Thursday, March 30th
timeless
Ann Peebles, I Can’t Stand the Rain,* 1974 (Hi Records)
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reading table
The only thing worse than trying to look younger than you are is trying to look wiser than you are.
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*Track list (courtesy of YouTube):
“I Can’t Stand The Rain” (Don Bryant, Bernard “Bernie” Miller, Ann Peebles)
“Do I Need You” (Bryant, Peebles)
“Until You Came into My Life” (Bryant, Miller, Peebles)
“(You Keep Me) Hanging On” (Ira Allen, Buddy Mize)
“Run Run Run” (Bryant, Darryl Carter, Peebles)
“If We Can’t Trust Each Other” (Earl Randle)
“A Love Vibration” (Bryant, Miller, Peebles)
“You Got to Feed the Fire” (Bryant, Miller, Peebles)
“I’m Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down” (Earl Randle)
“One Way Street” (Bryant, Peebles)
2017
Wednesday, March 29th
more
Yasmine Hamdan, “Beirut,” 2014
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No Romance sold unto
Could so enthrall a Man –
As the perusal of
His Individual One –‘Tis Fiction’s – to dilute to plausibility
Our – Novel. When ’tis small eno’
To credit – ‘Tis’nt true –—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), 590 (Franklin)
2017
Tuesday, March 28th
bad news/good news
Bad news: You’ve heard nothing this good in who knows how long.
Good news: You’re about to hear this.
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers (AB, drums; John Gilmore, tenor saxophone; Lee Morgan, trumpet; John Hicks, piano; Victor Sproles, bass), “On The Ginza,” “Lament for Stacey,” “The Egyptian,” “I Can’t Get Started,” “Buhaina’s Delight,” live (TV show), London, 1964
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lagniappe
art beat
Robert Frank (1924-), Rooming house—Bunker Hill, Los Angeles, 1955/56
2017
Monday, March 27th
sounds of Lebanon
Yasmine Hamdan, “Galbi,” live, London, 2015
2017
Sunday, March 26th
old school
Skip James (1902-1969), “Let Jesus Lead You,” 1964
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art beat
Robert Frank (1924-), Funeral—St. Helena, South Carolina, 1955/56
2017
Saturday, March 25th
never enough
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor
Daniil Trifonov, live, New York, 2014
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art beat
Robert Frank (1924-), View from Hotel Window—Butte, Montana, 1955/56
2017
Friday, March 24th
more
“Johnny B. Goode” (C. Berry), live (TV show), France, 1958
Everyone talks about his guitar playing. And, yes, it’s terrific. But he may be an even better songwriter.
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lagniappe
art beat
Robert Frank (1924-), Candy Store, New York City, 1955/56
2017
Thursday, March 23rd
Soundtrack for a man in a box trying to escape.
Ab Baars (tenor saxophone), “Asor,” live, Amsterdam, 2014
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I thought that you were an anchor in the drift of the world;
but no: there isn’t an anchor anywhere.
There isn’t an anchor in the drift of the world. Oh no.
I thought you were. Oh no. The drift of the world.—William Bronk (1918-1999, MCOTD Hall of Fame), “The World”
2017
Wednesday, March 22nd
sounds of Flint*
Tunde Olaniran, “Namesake,” 2016
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reading table
viewing fireflies
he takes a tumble . . .
There’s one!—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue
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*Michigan.
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