fasten your seatbelt
Here’s another take on a piece we listened to the other day.
Alfred Schnittke (1934-98), Concerto Grosso No. 1 (excerpt); A Far Cry with guests Nelson Lee (violin), Meg Freivogel (violin), and Andrus Masden (harpsichord, prepared piano); live, Boston, 2009
(This entire performance can be heard here.)
Over eleven hundred posts and still I haven’t even touched on so many who meant so much to me when I was young—younger than my sons are now.
Tim Buckley (1947-75), singer, songwriter, guitarist
“Venice Beach (Music Boats by the Bay),” live (TV show, Los Angeles), 1970
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“Sing A Song For You,” live (TV show, BBC), 1969
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“Gypsy Woman,” recording (Happy Sad), 1969
Alfred Schnittke (1934-98), Concerto Grosso No. 1, live, Russia, 2004
Kremerata Baltica (Gidon Kremer & Tatiana Grindenko, violins)
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
What do we want from music—a mirror or a window?
neo neo soul
D’Angelo, “The Charade,” live, Switzerland (Zurich), 2012
Some folks sing with their feet.
Duke Ellington Orchestra, Bunny Briggs (dance), Jon Hendricks (vocal), “David Danced Before the Lord with All His Might,” live, San Francisco (Grace Cathedral), 1965
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lagniappe
reading table
And David danced before the Lord with all his might . . .
—2 Samuel 6:14 (King James)
bloodlines
Ravi Coltrane (JC’s son), tenor saxophone; Matt Garrison, bass (son of Coltrane bassist Jimmy Garrison); Nikki Glaspie, drums; live (Le Poisson Rouge), New York, 1/7/12
only rock ’n’ roll
Little Richard, “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On,” TV show (Shindig!), 1964
street music: New York
Acapella Soul
“When We Get Married,” 2009
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“Ooo Baby Baby,” 2012
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“Just My Imagination,” 2011
Sister Rosetta Tharpe with the Chicago Blues All-Stars (Big Walter Horton [harmonica], Willie Dixon [bass], et al.), “That’s All,” “Didn’t It Rain,” live, 1960s, Germany
What a treat to hear Walter, with whom I worked back in the ’70s while at Alligator Records, playing with Sister Rosetta.
riveting
Anton Bruckner (1824-96), Symphony No. 5 in B flat major; Berlin Philharmonic (Wilhelm Furtwangler, cond.), live, Berlin, 1942
(Yeah, I realize this performance took place in Nazi Germany during World War II and, no, I don’t have anything profound, or even interesting, to say about how such beauty and such horror could coexist.)
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