What better way to start the week?
Thelonious Monk Quartet (TM, piano; Charlie Rouse, tenor saxophone; Butch Warren, bass; Frankie Dunlop, drums), “Epistrophy” (T. Monk), live, Tokyo, 1963
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lagniappe
art beat
Berenice Abbott (1898-1991), Red River logging project, California, August, 1943
more
Theotis Taylor, “Somebody’s Gone,” 1976
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Talking, Fitzgerald, Ga., 2017
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lagniappe
art beat
Lonnie Holley (1950-), After the Revival (Vox Humana III: The Strength of Music Lives After the Instruments Are Destroyed), 2017
what’s new
Moses Sumney, “Doomed” (Aromanticism), 2017
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lagniappe
art beat: yesterday, Art Institute of Chicago
Izumi Masatoshi (1938-), Islands (Shima tachi), 2000
another take
Morton Feldman (1927-1986; MCOTD Hall of Fame), Rothko Chapel (1971); Markus Creed (cond.), SWR Vokalensemble (Vocal Ensemble), et al., live, Germany (Cathedral of Speyer, Schwetzinger), 2017
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lagniappe
art beat: yesterday, Art Institute of Chicago
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), Cup Decorated with the Figure of a Bathing Girl, 1887-88 (Gauguin: Artist as Alchemist, through September 10th)
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reading table
John Ashbery (July 28, 1927-September, 3, 2017)
What will it all be like in five years’ time
when you try to remember?—”For John Clare” (fragment)
summer in the city
DJ Derrick Carter, Chicago, 7/16/17
Tight on time? Jump to 41:00: Gil Scott-Heron, “Bicentennial Blues.”
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lagniappe
art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) and Emile Bernard (1868-1941), Earthly Paradise, 1888 (Gauguin: Artist as Alchemist, through September 10th)
what’s new
Matt Wilson’s Honey and Salt (music inspired by the poetry of Carl Sandburg), 8/25/17
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lagniappe
art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), Portrait Head of Martinique Woman with Kerchief, 1887-1888 (Gauguin: Artist as Alchemist, through September 10th)
like nobody else
Henry Threadgill (alto saxophone, composition; MCOTD Hall of Fame) & Make a Move, live, Italy (Perugia), 1996
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lagniappe
art beat: yesterday, Art Institute of Chicago
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), Vase in the Form of Leda and the Swan, 1887-1888 (Gauguin: Artist as Alchemist, through September 10th)
Why not begin the week with something beautiful?
John Luther Adams (1953-), In a Treeless Place, Only Snow (1999); Faculty & Fellows, Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, Mass., 2016
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lagniappe
art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago
Agnes Martin (1912-2004), Untitled #12, 1977
sounds of Chicago (and St. Louis)
Pastor DeAndre Patterson (Destiny Worship Center, Chicago), live, St. Louis (Kennerly Temple Church of God in Christ), 2016
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lagniappe
art beat
Bruce Davidson (1933-), New York, late 1960s
Want to be swept away?
Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Cello Concerto in A minor; Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra with Nicolas Altstaedt (cello), live, Amsertdam, 2016
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lagniappe
art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago
Lewis Wickes Hine (1874-1940), Fresh Air for the Baby, New York East Side, c. 1910
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