Sunday, August 20th
sounds of Chicago
“Wade in the Water” (trad.), Salem Travelers, James Herndon Singers, Voices of Triumph, live (TV show: Jubilee Showcase), Chicago, 1969
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lagniappe
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: Chicago
2023
Monday, August 14th
alone
Morton Feldman (1926-1987, MCOTD Hall of Fame), Last Pieces for piano (1959); Benjamin Kobler (piano), live, Germany (Cologne), 3/14/22
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Chicago
2023
Sunday, August 13th
testify!
Etta James (1938-2012) with Allen Toussaint (1938-2015, piano) and Dr. John (1941-2019, piano), “Amazing Grace,” live (TV show: Soundstage), Chicago, 1982
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lagniappe
random sights
this morning, Chicago
2023
Saturday, August 12th
serendipity
Bumped into this last night, happily.
Taraf De Haidouks, playing Balkan gypsy folk music, 2012
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Chicago
2023
Sunday, August 6th
sounds of Chicago
Violinaires, “I’ll Go With Him,” live (TV show [Jubilee Showcase]), Chicago, 1973
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
2023
Saturday, August 5th
sounds of Chicago
Edward Wilkerson (1953-, tenor saxophone, clarinet, didgeridoo) and Joe Morris (1955-, guitar), live, Chicago (Experimental Sound Studio garden), 7/23/23
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
2023
Sunday, July 30th
timeless
Mississippi Fred McDowell (1904-1972), “Wished I Was in Heaven Sitting Down,” live, Mississippi (Como), 1959
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Chicago
2023
Tuesday, July 25th
sounds of Chicago
Damon Locks’ Black Monument Ensemble (DL, vocals, electronics; Dana Hall, drums; Arif Smith, percussion; Angel Bat Dawid, clarinet, vocals; Ben Lamar Gay, cornet; Monique Golding, vocals; Tremaine Parker, vocals; Erica Rene, vocals), “The Body Is Electric” (D. Locks), live, Netherlands (Utrecht), 2021
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Chicago (Lurie Garden)
2023
Sunday, July 23rd
sounds of Chicago
Caravans (feat. Shirley Caesar, 1938-), “My All to the Lord,” 1960
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Chicago
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reading table
There are things
We live among ‘and to see them
Is to know ourselves’.
—George Oppen (1908-1984), from “Of Being Numerous”
2023
Friday, July 21st
what’s new
Tamikrest, live (studio), Seattle, published yesterday
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lagniappe
art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago (Van Gogh and the Avant-Garde: The Modern Landscape, through 9/4/23)
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), A Woman Walking in a Garden (1887), detail
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