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Friday, 8/17/12

two takes

“Moment’s Notice” (J. Coltrane)

McCoy Tyner Quartet (MT, piano; Bobby Hutcherson, vibes; Charnett Moffett, bass; Eric Harland, drums), live, England, 2002

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John Coltrane (tenor saxophone, with Lee Morgan trumpet; Curtis Fuller, trombone; Kenny Drew, piano; Paul Chambers, bass; Philly Joe Jones, drums), recording (Blue Train), 1957

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lagniappe

random thoughts

Hearing, seeing, touching, smelling, tasting: what sense is missing from our repertoire that, if you came from some other world, you couldn’t imagine living without?

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Wednesday, 8/15/12

serendipity

Umar (AKA Omar) Suleyman (AKA Suleeyman),* live, Ethiopia, c. 2010

This guy I bumped into the other day, as I do so many things, listening to the radio.**

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*Not to be confused with Omar Souleyman.

**WFMU-FM (Kaminsky Kamoutsky with Jesse).

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Monday, 8/13/12

A lot of musicians sound like they’re perfectly happy to be right where they are. Not this guy—he seems intent on getting somewhere else.

Art Pepper (alto saxophone), with Milcho Leviev (piano), Tony Dumas (bass), Carl Burnett, drums; “Caravan,” conversation, and more; Norway, 1980

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Saturday, 8/11/12

Sometimes what you’re looking for—when, say, your hard drive crashes (as mine just did)—is something where not much seems to happen, beautifully.

John Luther Adams, “The Farthest Place” (2001); piano (Clint Davis), vibraphone (Brian Archinal & Andy Bliss) bass (Satoru Tagawa), violin (Lydia Kabalen); University of Kentucky (Lexington), 2008

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There are all kinds of music.

Gerard Manley Hopkins, “The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo”
Richard Burton

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Friday, 8/10/12

summer in the city

The Black Keys, Lollapalooza, Chicago (Grant Park), 8/3/12

“Howlin’ For You”

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“Little Black Submarines”

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“Lonely Boy”

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lagniappe

musical thoughts

What, if anything, does it mean that, in the year 2012, not one but two of the headliners at Lollapalooza—Jack White and the Black Keys—are deeply influenced by blues?

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reading table

Life had begun to demand lies in order to be workable.

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At the crest of the hill where the road went up, was an abandoned house, and beyond it the road disappeared off into the blue sky.

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It’s odd, though, what makes you think about the truth. It’s so rarely involved in the events of your life. I quit thinking about the truth for a time then. Its finer points seemed impossible to find among the facts. If there was a hidden design, living almost never shed light on it.

—Richard Ford, Canada (2012)

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Tuesday, 8/7/12

favorites

“La-La (Means I Love You)” (T. Bell & W. Hart)

Bill Frisell (guitar) with Tony Scherr (bass) & Kenny Wollesen (drums), live, Rochester (NY), 2007

(Originally posted 5/28/10.)

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The Delfonics, 1968

(Originally posted 2/14/12.)

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Monday, 8/6/12

summer in the city

Jack White, “Take Me With You When You Go”
Lollapalooza, Chicago (Grant Park), 8/5/12

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Tuesday, 7/24/12

George Lewis (1952-), “Will to Adorn” (2011)
International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Chicago, 2012

[W]hen writing “The Will To Adorn,” Lewis was especially “interested in this idea of adornment—color, color, color everywhere.” The piece represents Lewis’ current musical goal to get “more color energy into the pieces.”

—Joe Bucciero, Columbia Spectator, 11/10/11

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lagniappe

musical thoughts

In February, when I left this concert, which took place on a Sunday afternoon at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, I felt both exhilarated and wistful. This performance, which had been such a joy to hear, I would never be able to experience again. Or so I thought, until, just the other day, I discovered this recording online. Young people, many of them, anyway, would see nothing remarkable in being able, thanks to the ’net, to return to a musical experience whenever, and wherever, you want. To me it seems a small miracle.

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I was trying to assert myself as the man in the house, taking charge of things no one could control.

—Richard Ford, Canada (2012)

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2012

Sunday, 7/22/12

Dorothy Love Coates (1928-2002), “The Lord Will Answer Prayer,” 1981

More? Here. And here. And here.

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lagniappe

Were gospel to be more publicly acclaimed, she [Dorothy Love Coates] might have the stature of a Billie Holiday or a Judy Garland. Instead, for thousands of black people, she is the message carrier.

—Anthony Heilbut, The Gospel Sound: Good News and Bad Times (6th ed. 2002)

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[I]t was obvious that Keith [Richards] and Gram [Parsons] enjoyed spending time together. . . . [W]e just all cared deeply about the same things. We just loved, for instance, to sit and listen to Dorothy Love Coates, the gospel singer.

—Stanley Booth

(Quotes originally posted 3/28/10.)