Friday, March 20th
Sounds echo across generations. Here, on the 88th birthday of my long-gone father, are sounds I first heard through my sons.
TV on the Radio, live (studio performance), Santa Monica, 2014
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jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: bass
2015
Wednesday, March 18th
Feeling glum?
Not for long.
Jim Campilongo & Honeyfingers,* live, New York, 2013
*JC, guitar; Luca Benedetti, guitar; Jonny Lam, lap steel guitar; Catherine Popper, bass; Shawn Pelton, drums.
2015
Tuesday, March 17th
sounds of Chicago
Tweedy, live (studio performance), Seattle, 3/12/15
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lagniappe
random sights
How reassuring to find this four blocks from home.
2015
Monday, March 16th
sounds of Chicago
Jack DeJohnette (drums) with MCOTD Hall-of-Famer Henry Threadgill (reeds), Roscoe Mitchell (reeds), Muhal Richard Abrams (piano), and Larry Gray (bass), Made in Chicago, 2015
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lagniappe
art beat: more from the other day at the Art Institute of Chicago
This, too, I never tire of.
Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), Greyed Rainbow, 1953
2015
Saturday, March 14th
sounds of Detroit
Don Was/Sweet Pea Atkinson, “Slow Down,” recording session, 2007
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lagniappe
art beat: more from the other day at the Art Institute of Chicago
This I never tire of.
Joan Mitchell (1925-1992), City Landscape, 1955
2015
Friday, March 6th
sounds of Chicago
Billy Boy Arnold (1935-) & The Aces,* “She Fooled Me,” live, 1978
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lagniappe
art beat
Daido Moriyama (1938-), New York, 1971
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*Louis Myers (1929-1994), guitar; Dave Myers (1926-2001), bass; Fred Below (1926-1988), drums.
2015
Tuesday, March 3rd
never enough
Thelonious Monk Quartet (TM, piano; Charlie Rouse, tenor saxophone; John Ore, bass; Frankie Dunlop, drums), “Nutty,” “Bemsha Swing,” “Epistrophy,” “Crepuscule with Nellie,” “I Mean You,” live (TV show), Netherlands, 1961
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lagniappe
art beat
William Klein (1928-), Baseball Cards, New York 1955
2015
Sunday, March 1st
sounds of Chicago
Inez Andrews (1929-2012), “Come In,” live (The Remarkable Inez Andrews), Chicago, 1980
2015
Thursday, February 26th
Soundtrack for your day?
Peter Brotzmann Tentet,* live, Atlanta, 2002
*PB, reeds; Ken Vandermark, reeds; Mats Gustafsson, reeds; Mars Williams, reeds; Joe McPhee, trumpet; Jeb Bishop, trombone; Fred Longberg-Holm, cello; Kent Kessler, bass; Hamid Drake, drums; Michael Zerang, drums.
2015
Wednesday, February 18th
white folks got soul, too
(day three)
J.J. Cale (1938-2013)
“Call Me the Breeze” (J.J. Cale), live, Tulsa, 2004
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“After Midnight” (J.J. Cale), live (with Eric Clapton), Dallas, 2004
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