Friday, March 4th
sounds of Chicago (and Springfield)
Never underestimate the power of idiosyncrasy.
Daniel Knox, live, Paris, 2015
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lagniappe
art beat
William Klein (1928-), Brooklyn, 1955
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jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: art beat
2016
Wednesday, March 2nd
like nobody else
Derek Bailey (1930-2005), guitar, Ballads,* 2002
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art beat
William Klein (1928-), Dance in Brooklyn, 1955
![[Untitled]_2015112414091000 (1)](https://musicclipoftheday.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/untitled_2015112414091000-1.jpg?w=500&h=734)
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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
2016
Tuesday, March 1st
Another favorite ballad.
“I Thought About You” (J. Van Heusen & J. Mercer), Mal Waldron (piano), Jeanne Lee (vocals), et al., live, France (Marciac), 2000
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Helen Levitt (1913-2009; MCOTD Hall of Fame), New York, c. 1945
2016
Saturday, February 20th
old school
Re-Vells, Trent town Records (Trenton, N.J.), 1960s
“I Want a New Love”
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“Do I Love You?”
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lagniappe
art beat
Helen Levitt (1913-2009; MCOTD Hall of Fame), New York, c. 1937
2016
Thursday, February 18th
sounds of New York
Exquisite Corpse at Woodlawn Cemetery, New York, 2015
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lagniappe
art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago
From Vincent van Gogh’s Entrance to the Public Gardens at Arles, 1888 (Van Gogh’s Bedrooms, through May 10th)
2015
Tuesday, December 29th
This guy takes me places no one else does.
Tim Berne’s Snakeoil (TB, alto saxophone; Oscar Noriega, clarinet; Matt Mitchell, piano; Ches Smith, drums, vibraphone), “Small World in a Small Town” (T. Berne), live, Brazil (Sao Paulo), 2015
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lagniappe
art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago
Joan Mitchell (1925-1992), City Landscape, 1955
2015
Monday, December 21st
Why start the new week with the same old stuff?
Julia Wolfe (1958-), Believing (2001); Bang on a Can All-Stars, live, South Korea (Tongyeong International Music Festival), 2014
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art beat
Regular readers may recognize this drawing, which was posted last year. The artist is a client of mine, Walter Unbehaun, a seventy-something bank robber whose story is told in the January issue of GQ magazine (Kathy Dobie, “The Curious Case of the Homesick Bank Robber”). This drawing makes an appearance:
[H]e’d created a strong bond with his lawyer. He considered ‘Rich’ a friend, giving him two finely wrought pencil sketchings. One was of an ancient and deeply wrinkled Peruvian woman, the other of a plump African woman wearing glasses.
Walter Unbehaun, African Preacher (Kankakee County Jail, 2014)
2015
Saturday, December 12th
sounds of Chicago
DJ Heather, live, Chicago, 2015
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lagniappe
art beat: yesterday at the Art Institute of Chicago
Willem de Kooning (1904-1997), Interchanged, 1955
2015
Wednesday, December 9th
Why God made “repeat.”
Morton Feldman (1926-1987; MCOTD Hall of Fame), Coptic Light (1986); Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (Peter Eotvos, cond.), live, Amsterdam, 1998
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William Eggleston (1939-)
2015
Tuesday, December 1st
sounds of Chicago
And more.
Left Hand Frank and His Blues Band, “Linda Lu”
Living Chicago Blues, Vol. 1, 1978
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art beat
Marc PoKempner, Chicago (Divorced Women’s Club), 1988
(I’m taking a break—back in a while.)
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