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2017

Thursday, January 26th

What we need—now more than ever.

Clickety Clack! Clickety Clack!
What is this madness that Nixon has put upon us?
Clickety Clack! Clickety Clack!
Won’t someone bring the spirit back?

—Rahsaan Roland Kirk (1935-1977), 1973

Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Bright Moments, recorded live (San Francisco), 1973*


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*Track list (courtesy of YouTube):
A1. Introduction
2. Pedal Up
3. You’ll Never Get To Heaven
4. Clickety Clack
5. Prelude To A Kiss
6. Talk (Electric Nose)
7. Fly Town Nose Blues
B1. Talk (Bright Moments)
2. Bright Moments Song
3. Dem Red Beans And Rice
4. If I Loved You
5. Talk (Fats Waller)
6. Jitterbug Waltz
7. Second Line Jump

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2017

Wednesday, January 18th

sounds of New York

Aaron Burnett’s Big Machine (AB, tenor saxophone, compositions; Peter Evans, trumpet, Carlos Homs, piano; Nicholas Joswiak, bass; Tyshawn Sorey, drums), live, New York, 11/30/16


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art beat: other day, The Guggenheim (New York)

Vasily Kandinsky (1866-1944), Painting with White Border, 1913

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2017

Saturday, January 14th

How rare—a guitarist with dazzling technique whose ideas often are just as strong.

Julian Lage (guitar) with Scott Colley (bass), Kenny Wollesen (drums), “I’ll Be Seeing You,” live, Los Angeles, 2016


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random sights

other day, New York (Central Park)

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2017

Friday, January 13th

more

Patti Smith, “Peaceable Kingdom,” “People Have the Power” (with Michael Stipe), live, New York, 12/5/16


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Another take.

Live (“People Have the Power,” with Michael Stipe), Chicago, 12/30/16


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random sights

other day, New York

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2017

Monday, January 2nd

 joy of serendipity

Empirical, live, London, 2016


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More.

“Card Clash,” live, Southhampton, England, 2015


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reading table

hole in the wall
pretty
my year’s first sky

—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue

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2016

Monday, December 26th

old white men

Rolling Stones, live, England (Glastonbury Festival), 2013


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art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago

Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), Number 17A (1948)

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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

—Jackson Pollock

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2016

Saturday, December 24th

only rock ‘n’ roll

Hasil Adkins, “She Said” (H. Adkins), live, Westwood, Calif., mid-1990s


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Another take.

Cramps, live, Boston, 1983


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art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago

Willem de Kooning (1904-1997), Interchanged, 1955

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2016

Wednesday, December 21st

sounds of New York

Pulverize the Sound (Peter Evans, trumpet; Tim Dahl, bass; Mike Pride, drums), live, New York, 2013


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Jackie Evancho, a 16-year-old singer who became famous after appearing on “America’s Got Talent,” announced last week that she would sing the national anthem at the inauguration.

—“Andrea Bocelli Won’t Be Singing at the Trump Inauguration,” New York Times, 12/20/16

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2016

Friday, December 16th

Chicago blues
day four

Magic Sam (AKA Samuel Maghett, 1937-1969)

“All Your Love,” “Lookin’ Good,” live (TV broadcast), Germany, 1969


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“All Your Love,” 1957

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“Love Me with a Feeling,” 1957

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“Everything Gonna Be Alright,” 1958

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“21 Days In Jail,” 1958

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2016

Thursday, December 15th

Chicago blues
day three

Otis Rush (1935-; vocal, guitar) with Fred Below (1926-1988; drums), et al., “I Can’t Quit You Baby,” live, East Berlin, 1966


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Here’s the original 1956 recording.


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On the first page of the course syllabus [for the class, taught at Columbia, on “The American Radical Tradition”], I always included the words of Max Weber, a rebuke to those who believe that critics of society should set their sights only on “practical” measures: “What is possible would never have been achieved if, in this world, people had not repeatedly reached for the impossible.”

—Eric Foner, “American Radicals and the Change We Could Believe In,” The Nation, January 2-9, 2017 issue

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