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2015

Friday, June 5th

only rock ‘n’ roll

Ride, live, Barcelona (Primavera Sound), 2015*


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*Set list (courtesy of YouTube):

00. 00:00:00 – 00:01:58 Intro: This Mortal Coil – Fyt
01. 00:01:58 – 00:10:30 Leave Them All Behind
02. 00:10:30 – 00:13:45 Like A Daydream
03. 00:13:45 – 00:18:35 Polar Bear
04. 00:18:35 – 00:26:35 Seagull
05. 00:26:35 – 00:30:44 Sennen
06. 00:30:44 – 00:33:15 Black Nite Crash
07. 00:33:15 – 00:40:45 OX4
08. 00:40:45 – 00:46:52 Dream Burn Down
09. 00:46:52 – 00:50:22 Time Of Her Time
10. 00:50:22 – 00:54:28 Chrome Waves
11. 00:54:28 – 01:00:23 Paralysed
12. 01:00:23 – 01:03:52 Taste
13. 01:03:52 – 01:08:22 Vapour Trail
14. 01:08:22 – 01:18:16 Drive Blind
15. 01:18:16 – 01:22:55 Mouse Trap
16. 01:22:55 – 01:26:02 Chelsea Girl

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2015

Sunday, May 31st

testify!

Anointed Brown Sisters, “Hold On,” live, LaFayette, Alabama (Mt. Sellers Baptist Church), 2011


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lagniappe

random thoughts

Each day I know less.

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2015

Friday, May 15th

passings

B.B. King, singer, guitarist, September 16, 1925-May 14, 2015

“The Thrill Is Gone” (R. Hawkins, R. Darnell), live

Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo), 1974


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Montreux Jazz Festival, 1993

 

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2015

Wednesday, May 13th

ten strings, twenty fingers

Stephan Crump (bass) & Mary Halvorson (guitar), “Erie” (S. Crump), live, New York, 4/17/15


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lagniappe

random thoughts

Life consists of driving a vehicle you didn’t design, one that came without an owner’s manual, until one day it runs off the road and winds up in a ditch.

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2015

Tuesday, May 12th

sounds of Amsterdam

More of the Instant Composers Pool (ICP) Orchestra.*

Live, Chicago (Elastic Arts), 5/3/15


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lagniappe

art beat

Bruce Davidson (1933-), Palisades, New Jersey, 1958

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*Ab Baars, tenor saxophone; Tobias Delius, tenor saxophone; Michael Moore, alto saxophone; Thomas Heberer, trumpet; Walter Wierbos, trombone; Tristan Honsiger, cello; Mary Oliver, violin; Ernst Glerum, bass; Han Bennink, drums; with guest Guus Janssen (piano).

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2015

Thursday, May 7th

tonight in Chicago

She’ll be playing, with Douglas Ewart (reeds), Michael Zerang (drums), et al., at Elastic Arts.

Joëlle Léandre (bass), live, Jerusalem, 2011

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2015

Monday, May 4th

sounds of Amsterdam

It’s a wonderful life—sometimes, anyway. This weekend, in Chicago, I got to hear these folks twice: Saturday night all together (Constellation), Sunday in a series of (mostly) duos and trios (Elastic Arts).

Instant Composers Pool (ICP) Orchestra*

“Lavoro” (S. Bergin, borrowing from “Moten Swing”), live, Oakland, Ca., 2013


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“East of the Sun, West of the Moon” (Brooks Bowman), recording (East of the Sun), 2014


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*Ab Baars, tenor saxophone; Tobias Delius, tenor saxophone; Michael Moore, alto saxophone; Thomas Heberer, trumpet; Walter Wierbos, trombone; Tristan Honsiger, cello; Mary Oliver, violin; Ernst Glerum, bass; Han Bennink, drums.

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2015

Saturday, April 25th

Sometimes nothing is more enlivening than to hear something that sounds like nothing you’ve ever heard before.

Rebecca Saunders (1967-), Fury II (2009); Remix Ensemble (Emilio Pomarico, cond.; Antonio Augusto Aguiar, bass), live, Portugal (Porto), 2011

 

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lagniappe

reading table

after the dance
right away, cutting
the morning grass

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

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2015

Friday, April 24th

only rock ‘n’ roll

Metz, “Get Off,” live, Seattle, 2014

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2015

Thursday, April 23rd

Happy (Belated) Birthday, Mingus!

Charles Mingus, composer, bandleader, bassist
April 22, 1922-January 5, 1979

Better late than never for someone who, like Miles and Monk, Bach and Beethoven, I couldn’t live without.

Charles Mingus (bass) with Eric Dolphy (alto saxophone, bass clarinet, flute), Clifford Jordan (tenor saxophone), Johnny Coles (trumpet), Jaki Byard (piano), Dannie Richmond (drums), live, Belgium, Norway, and Sweden, 1964*


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lagniappe

musical thoughts

There’s something about listening to Eric Dolphy that makes you feel glad to be alive.

—Cliff Preiss, DJ, WKCR (Columbia University), yesterday (Mingus birthday broadcast)

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*Set lists (courtesy of YouTube):

Belgium
00:00-00:45 Intro
00:46-05:33 So Long Eric
05:35-11:20 Peggy’s Blue Skylight
11:23-32:03 Meditations On Integration

Norway
32:30-54:46 So Long Eric
56:30-1:11:40 Orange Was The Color Of Her Dress, Then Blue Silk
1:13:53-1:16:20 Parkeriana
1:16:22-1:29:05 Take The “A” Train

Sweden
1:30:05-1:33:55 So Long Eric
1:34:02-1:52:35 Meditations On Integration
1:52:40- 1:59:50 So Long Eric

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