only rock ’n’ roll
Jeff Beck and The Big Town Playboys, live (music begins at 2:10),* London (Ronnie Scott’s), 2007
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*Set list (courtesy of YouTube):
1) Race with the Devil
2) Crazy Legs
3) Train Kept A-Rollin’
4) My Baby Left Me
5) Matchbox
6) Baby Blue
7) Honky Tonk
passings
Johnny Winter, guitar player, February 23, 1944-July 16, 2014
“Highway 61 Revisited” (B. Dylan)
Live, Denmark (Roskilde), 1984
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Recording (Second Winter), 1969
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lagniappe
art beat: last night at the Art Institute of Chicago
Josef Koudelka (1938-), Nationality Doubtful, through September 14th
*****
the beat goes on
1,700 posts—and counting.
tonight in Chicago
This guy will be playing at the Hideout.
Daniel Levin, cello
With JP Carletti (drums), live, New Haven, Conn., 2013
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With his trio, live, Jersey City, N.J., 2008
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Solo, live, New York, 2009
passings
Tommy Ramone (AKA Thomas Erdelyi), drummer, producer
January 29, 1949-July 11, 2014
Ramones, live, London, 1977*
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*Set list (courtesy of YouTube):
1. Blitzkrieg Bop
2. I Want to Be Well
3. Glad to See You Go
4. You’re Gonna Kill That Girl
5. Commando
6. Havana Affair
7. Cretin Hop
8. Listen to My Heart
9. I Don’t Wanna Walk Around with You
10. Pinhead
11. Do You Wanna Dance
12. Now I Wanna Be a Good Boy
13. Now I Want to Sniff Some Glue
14. We’re a Happy Family
passings
Charlie Haden, bassist, composer, bandleader, August 6, 1937-July 11, 2014
Old and New Dreams (Charlie Haden, bass; Ed Blackwell, drums; Dewey Redman, tenor saxophone; Don Cherry, pocket trumpet), “Happy House” (O. Coleman), live, Norway (Molde Jazz Festival), 1979
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lagniappe
radio
Thank God, once again, for college radio. Beginning tomorrow at 2 p.m. (EST), WKCR (Columbia University) will air a memorial broadcast. Two hours? Three? Nope. They’ll be playing Haden’s music, continuously, until 9 p.m.—Monday.
only rock ’n’ roll
Bob Dylan (with Justin Poskin, guitar; Tony Marsico, bass; Chalo Quintana, drums), live (Late Night with David Letterman), 1984
“Don’t Start Me Talkin'” (S. Williamson II, AKA Alex [or Aleck] “Rice” Miller)
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“License To Kill” (B. Dylan)
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“Jokerman” (B. Dylan)
voices I miss
Drums, too, can breathe.
Mal Waldron Quintet (MW, piano; Charles Rouse, saxophone, flute; Woody Shaw, trumpet, flugelhorn; Reggie Workman, bass; Ed Blackwell [1929-1992], drums), live, New York (Village Vanguard), 1985
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lagniappe
art beat
Bruce Davidson (1933-), New York, 1980
Happy 4th of July!
This country has gotten many things wrong—music it got right.
The Blasters, “American Music,” live, Champaign, Ill., 1985
tonight in Chicago
These guys are playing at Constellation, a performing-arts center on the northwest side.
Rempis Percussion Quartet (Dave Rempis, alto saxophone; Ingebrigt Haker-Flaten, bass; Frank Rosaly, drums; Tim Daisy, drums), live, Austria (Wels), 2013
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lagniappe
art beat
William Eggleston (1939-)
passings
Horace Silver, pianist, composer, bandleader, September 2, 1928-June 18, 2014
Horace Silver Quintet,* “Song for My Father,” live (TV show), Denmark, 1968
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lagniappe
art beat
William Eggleston (1939-)
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*HS, piano; Bill Hardman, trumpet; Bennie Maupin, tenor saxophone; John Williams, bass; Billy Cobham, drums.
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