Sunday, December 31st
back to church
Mt. Do-Well Baptist Church Hymn Choir, “That Morning Train”
Live, Mt. Do-Well Baptist Church, McConnells, S.C., 2006
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Berkeley, Calif.
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jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Month: December, 2017
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Saturday, December 30th
never enough
Johann Sebastian Bach, Goldberg Variations; Evgeni Koroliov, piano
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radio
WKCR’s (Columbia University) Bach Festival continues through midnight tomorrow.
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random sights
other day, Sonoma, Calif.
2017
Friday, December 29th
love it or hate it
Brian Ferneyhough (1943-), String Quartet No. 6 (2010); Arditti Quartet, live, 2010
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, San Francisco (Lands End)
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Thursday, December 28th
more
Steve Lacy Quartet (SL, soprano saxophone; Bobby Few, piano; Jean Jacques Avenel, bass; John Betsch, drums), “Revenue” (S. Lacy), live , 1995
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, San Francisco (Balmy Alley, Valencia St., City Lights Bookstore)
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Wednesday, December 27th
voices I miss
Steve Lacy (1934-2004), “Blues for Aida,” live, France (Avignon), 1982
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random sights
this morning, Berkeley, Calif.
2017
Tuesday, December 26th
tonight in the Bay Area
They’ll be playing in Albany (Ivy Room), and I’ll be listening.
Peter Apfelbaum & Sparkler
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, flying from Chicago to Oakland
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Monday, December 25th
Merry Christmas
Blind Lemon Jefferson, “Christmas Eve Blues,” 1928
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Victoria Spivey (with Lonnie Johnson, guitar), “Christmas Morning Blues,” 1928
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Bessie Smith (with Joe Smith, cornet; Charlie Green, trombone; Fletcher Henderson, piano), “At the Christmas Ball,” 1925
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Leroy Carr, “Christmas In Jail—Ain’t That A Pain,” 1929
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Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers (feat. Charles Brown, vocals, keyboards), “Merry Christmas, Baby,” 1947
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Lowell Fulson, “Lonesome Christmas (I & II),” 1950
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Sonny Boy Williamson II, “Sonny Boy’s Christmas Blues,” 1951
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John Lee Hooker, “Blues For Christmas,” 1959
2017
Sunday, December 24th
Two takes, decades apart.
Joe Ligon (1936-2016) and The Mighty Clouds of Joy, “I’ve Been in the Storm Too Long,” live
2017
Saturday, December 23rd
Tonight, at 1 a.m. (EST), one of the year’s great musical events begins: the annual Bach Festival—now in its 40th year—broadcast on WKCR-FM (Columbia University). All Bach, all the time, until midnight New Year’s Eve. Hope, beauty, inspiration: they aren’t luxuries; they’re necessities.
Johann Sebastian Bach, Mass in B minor (excerpt, “Dona nobis pacem”); Berlin Philharmonic (Ton Koopman, cond.) with RIAS Chamber Choir (Justin Doyle, chorus master), live, Berlin, 10/28/17
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Cello Suite No. 6 in D major; Mischa Maisky (cello), live
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Friday, December 22nd
what’s new
Sufjan Stevens, “Tonya Harding” (S. Stevens), 12/6/17
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lagniappe
art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago
Tarsila do Amaral, Logoa Santa, 1925 (Tarsila do Amaral: Inventing Modern Art in Brazil, through January 7th)
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