Saturday, October 1st
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Habib Koite, “Wassiye,” live
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lagniappe
art beat: other day, Whitney Museum of American Art (New York)
Stuart Davis (1892-1964), “Swing Landscape,” 1938
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
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2016
2016
Sunday, September 25th
old school
Boyd Rivers & Ruth May Rivers, “I Done Died One Time (Ain’t Gonna Die No More),” Canton, Miss., 1978
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lagniappe
art beat: other day, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Kerry James Marshall (1955-), The Lost Boys, 1993 (Kerry James Marshall, Mastry, through today)
2016
Saturday, September 24th
tonight in Chicago
These folks, along with lots of others, will be performing at the Hyde Park Jazz Festival.
M.A.D.D. Rhythms, Supreme Love, “Resolution” (J. Coltrane), live, Chicago, 2015
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Amir Elsaffar Two Rivers Ensemble, live, Germany (Bremen), 2016
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lagniappe
art beat: other day, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Kerry James Marshall (1955-), Our Town, 1995 (Kerry James Marshall, Mastry, through 9/25/16)
2016
Friday, September 23rd
How strange it seems, still, that he should be dead.
Prince with Mavis Staples, et al., live, England (King’s Cross), 1993
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lagniappe
art beat: yesterday, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Kerry James Marshall (1955-), Slow Dance, 1992-93 (Kerry James Marshall, Mastry, through 9/25/16)
2016
Thursday, September 22nd
sounds of New York
As funky as it is abstract, as abstract as it is funky—like life itself.
Farmers by Nature (Craig Taborn, piano; William Parker, bass; Gerald Cleaver, drums), live, Paris, 2011
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lagniappe
art beat: other day, Whitney Museum of American Art (New York)
Stuart Davis (1892-1964), Landscape with Garage Lights, 1931-32 (Stuart Davis: In Full Swing, through 9/25/16)
2016
Tuesday, September 20th
serendipity
This I just bumped into this morning.
What would we do if we could never hear anything new?
Witold Lutoslawski (1913-1994), Livre pour orchestre (1968)
RTVE Symphony Orchestra (Gunther Herbic, cond.), live
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lagniappe
art beat: other day, Whitney Museum of American Art (New York)
Stuart Davis (1892-1964), The Paris Bit, 1959 (Stuart Davis: In Full Swing, through 9/25/16)
2016
Friday, September 16th
only rock ‘n’ roll
Joy Division, “Love Will Tear Us Apart,” 1980
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lagniappe
art beat: other day, Whitney Museum of American Art (New York)
Stuart Davis (1892-1964), Lucky Strike, 1921 (Stuart Davis: In Full Swing, through 9/25/16)
2016
Thursday, September 15th
sweet soul music
William Bell, “This Is Where I Live,” “The Three of Me,” “Born Under a Bad Sign,” live, Washington, D.C., 2016
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lagniappe
art beat: other day, Whitney Museum of American Art (New York)
Danny Lyon (1942-), The March on Washington, August 28, 1963 (Message to the Future, through 9/25/16)
2016
Monday, September 12th
2n
Joe McPhee (alto saxophone) & Ingebrigt Haken Flaten (bass)
Live, Milwaukee, 2015
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lagniappe
art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago
Edward Hopper (1882-1967), Gas, 1940 (America after the Fall, Painting in the 1930s, through 9/18/16)
2016
Sunday, September 11th
MCOTD Hall of Fame
Lester Bowie (1941-1999, trumpet) with Amina Claudine Myers (piano, vocals), Arthur Blythe (alto saxophone), Malachi Favors (bass), Phillip Wilson (drums), “God Has Smiled on Me,” 1978
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lagniappe
art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago
Edward Hopper (1882-1967), New York Movie, 1939 (America after the Fall, Painting in the 1930s, through 9/18/16)
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