Friday, November 2nd
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Jeff Rosenstock, live, Chicago, 2017
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: bass
2018
Friday, October 26th
only rock ‘n’ roll
Jeff Rosenstock, live (studio), Seattle, 8/20/18
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lagniappe
random thoughts
This life: how precious; how precarious; how preposterous.
2018
Tuesday, October 23rd
like nobody else
Rahsaan Roland Kirk (tenor saxophone, clarinet, etc. [1935-1977]) and the Vibration Society (Dick Griffin, trombone; Ron Burton, piano; Vernon Martin, bass; Jerome Cooper, drums; Joe Texidor, percussion), live, Paris, 1970
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
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reading table
All the people at the controls are opportunists or gangsters. The sweetness of reason died out of our public life with FDR. There doesn’t even seem to be a normal intelligence at work in the affairs of the nation.
—Tennessee Williams, letter to publisher James Laughlin, April 9, 1947
2018
Monday, October 22nd
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Junior Wells (vocals, harmonica [1934-1998]) with Buddy Guy (guitar), Phil Guy (guitar), A.C. Reed (tenor saxophone), et al., live (TV show), Chicago, early ’70s
“Little by Little”
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“Mystery Train”
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2018
Friday, October 19th
voices I miss
Junior Wells (vocals, harmonica [1934-1998]) with Otis Rush (guitar [1935-2018]), Jack Myers (bass [c. 1937-2011]), Fred Below (drums [1926-1988]), “Hoodoo Man Blues,” live, Berlin, 1966
2018
Friday, October 12th
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Otis Rush (vocals, guitar) with Little Brother Montgomery (piano), Jack Myers (bass), Fred Below (drums), live, Berlin, 1966
“All Your Love (I Miss Loving)”
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“Sweet Little Angel”
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lagniappe
reading table
The silence will be sudden then last.
—Deborah Landau, from “The Silence Will Be Sudden Then Last” (Poetry, 10/18)
2018
Wednesday, October 3rd
what’s new
One-word review: Wow!
Ingrid Laubrock (tenor saxophone), Brandon Lopez (bass), Francisco Mela (drums), live, New York, 9/30/18
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Elmhurst, Ill. (Prairie Path)
2018
Tuesday, September 11th
voices I miss
The way a bass should sound—fat, dark, bottomless.
Malachi Favors (1927-2004), live, New York, 2001
2018
Wednesday, August 29th
Friday in Chicago
They’re playing at the Chicago Jazz Festival.
Chris Speed Trio (CS, tenor saxophone; Chris Tordini, bass; Dave King, drums), live, Italy, 2015
“All of Me” (G. Marks, S. Simons)
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“Argento” (C. Speed)
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lagniappe
reading table
Light was on its way
from nothing
to nowhere.—Rae Armantrout (1947-), from “Accounts”
2018
Tuesday, August 28th
Sunday in Chicago
They’re playing at the Chicago Jazz Festival.
Jaimie Branch’s Fly or Die (JB, trumpet, compositions; Tomeka Reid, cello; Jason Ajemian, bass; Chad Taylor, drums), live, Toronto, 2017
“theme 1,” “. . . meanwhile,” “theme 2”
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“theme nothing”
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lagniappe
random sights
this morning, Oak Park, Ill.
