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Category: art beat

Friday, April 29th

only rock ‘n’ roll

Dog Faced Hermans, live, Lincoln, Neb., 1994


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art beat: yesterday, Art Institute of Chicago

Vincent van Gogh, A Corner of the Asylum and the Garden with a Heavy, Sawed-Off Tree, 1889 (Van Gogh’s Bedrooms, through May 10th)

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Monday, April 11th

bfwot*

DJ/rupture (turntables) & Andy Moor (guitar, photos), “Hot Pink Version,” France (Orleans), 2007


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*big fuckin’ world out there

Friday, April 8th

sounds of New York

Some of the most kinetic, exciting, enlivening sounds I’ve heard in a while.

Farmers by Nature (Craig Taborn, piano; William Parker, bass; Gerald Cleaver, drums), live, New York, 4/4/16


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art beat: yesterday at the Art Institute of Chicago

Martin Puryear, Maquette for Bearing Witness (1994) (Multiple Dimensions, through May 1st)

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Monday, April 4th

sounds of New York

Vijay Iyer Sextet,* live, New York, 2015


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art beat

Bruce Davidson (1933-), Palisades, N.J., 1958

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*VI, piano, compositions; Graham Haynes, cornet; Steve Lehman, alto saxophone; Mark Shim, tenor saxophone; Matt Brewer, bass; Marcus Gilmore, drums.

Saturday, March 26th

otherworldly 

Iancu Dumitrescu (1944-), Infinity for bass clarinet and ensemble, Hyperion Ensemble (feat. Tim Hodgkinson, clarinets), live, Bucharest, 2009

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I love watching this guy conduct.

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art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago

Vincent van Gogh, Parisian Novels, 1887 (Van Gogh’s Bedrooms, through May 10th)

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Sunday, March 13th

back to church

“My God’s Living Army,” Mt. Zion Baptist Church, McConnells, S.C., 2006


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art beat

William Klein (1928-), See Saw Gang, New York, 1955

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Monday, March 7th

Politics got you feeling soiled?

Here’s a bar of soap.

“America the Beautiful,” “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” “Amazing Grace,” etc., Charlie Haden & The New Liberation Music Orchestra feat. Carla Bley (piano, arrangements), live, France (Marciac), 2004


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Danny Lyon (1942-), Crossing the Ohio, Louisville, Ky., 1966

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Sunday, March 6th

old school

Sensational Gospel Eagles (Greenwood, S.C.), live

 

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William Klein (1928-), 3 Kids + Harmonica, New York, 1955

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Friday, March 4th

sounds of Chicago (and Springfield)

Never underestimate the power of idiosyncrasy.

Daniel Knox, live, Paris, 2015

 

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art beat

William Klein (1928-), Brooklyn, 1955

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Wednesday, March 2nd

like nobody else

Derek Bailey (1930-2005), guitar, Ballads,* 2002


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William Klein (1928-), Dance in Brooklyn, 1955

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*Track list (courtesy of YouTube):

1. Laura 0:00
2. What’s New? 2:58
3. When Your Lover Has Gone 4:38
4. Stella by Starlight 7:56
5. My Melancholy Baby 15:17
6. My Buddy 18:31
7. Gone With the Wind 19:42
8. Rockin’ Chair 21:52
9. Body and Soul 23:48
10. Gone With the Wind 29:21
11. Rockin’ Chair 31:50
12: You Go to My Head 33:54
13. Georgia on My Mind 35:42
14. Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone 40:40