only rock ’n’ roll
The Ex & Brass Unbound,* “Cold Weather Is Back,” live, London, 2010
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lagniappe
art beat: yesterday at the Art Institute of Chicago
Christopher Wool (1955-)
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*Roy Paci (trumpet), Wolkter Wierbos (trombone), Ken Vandermark (tenor saxophone), Mats Gustaffson (baritone saxophone).
sounds of New York
Raya Brass Band, live, New York, 2014
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lagniappe
art beat
Helen Levitt (1913-2009), New York, 1972
sounds of New York
M.A.K.U. Sound System, “El Jugo,” 2013
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lagniappe
art beat
Helen Levitt (1913-2009), New York, 1972
two takes
“This May Be The Last Time”
Pastor Brady Blade Sr., Zion Baptist Church, Shreveport, La., April 13, 2014
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The Staple Singers, 1961
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lagniappe
art beat
William Eggleston (1939-)
only rock ’n’ roll
Black Dub (Daniel Lanois, guitar, vocals; Trixie Whitley, keyboards, vocals; Jim Wilson, bass, vocals; Brian Blade, drums), “Ring the Alarm,” live, Vancouver, 2011
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lagniappe
art beat
Danny Lyon (1942-), Four Boys, Uptown, Chicago (1965)
two takes
Blind Willie Johnson (1897-1945), “I’m Gonna Run to the City of Refuge,” 1928
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Dr. C. J. Johnson (1913-1991), “You Better Run to the City of Refuge”
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lagniappe
art beat
Danny Lyon (1942-), New York, 1967
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the beat goes on
Sixteen hundred posts—and counting.
only rock ’n’ roll
Benjamin Booker, “Violent Shiver”
Live, 2013
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Live (album teaser; fall release), 2014
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lagniappe
art beat
Danny Lyon (1942-), 1960s
like nobody else
Nina Simone (“Black Is the Color of My True Love’s Hair” [Trad.], “To Love Somebody” [B. Gibb, R. Gibb], “Suzanne” [L. Cohen], “Save Me” [A. Franklin], “Porgy, I Is Your Woman Now”/”Today Is A Killer”/”I Loves You Porgy” [G. Gershwin, D. Heyward]), live, Rome, 1969
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lagniappe
art beat
Helen Levitt (1913-2009), New York, 1940s
three takes
“I Don’t Feel No Ways Tired” (C. Burrell)
Mighty Clouds of Joy, live, South Carolina (Charleston), mid-1990s
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Rev. James Cleveland, live
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The Walden Family 19th Anniversary, live, Georgia (Camilla), 2013
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lagniappe
random thoughts
No delusion is more stubborn than the notion you are alive.
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art beat: more from the Art Institute’s Hiroshige exhibit (see Thursday’s post)
Seki—No. 48, c. 1847-1852
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Heavy Snow, mid-1840s
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Kameyana, Weather Clearing After Snow, c. 1833-34
alone
Akio Suzuki (self-made instrument), live, England (Newcastle), 2014
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
Each day we have a choice. We can listen, again, to stuff we’ve heard before. Or we can open our ears to something new.
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art beat: yesterday at the Art Institute of Chicago (after a hearing at the nearby federal court building)
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), Hiroshige’s Winter Scenes (through 3/20/14)
Yabu Street at the foot of Atago Hill (from the series “One Hundred Famous Views of Edo”), 1857
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