what’s new
Venetian Snares (AKA Aaron Funk, electronics), Daniel Lanois (pedal-steel guitar), “Night,” live (studio performance), Toronto, 2017
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art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), Bush warbler and plum, c. 1840
old instruments, new sounds
Daniel Levin (cello), Mat Maneri (viola), live, Norway (Oslo), 2017
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art beat: yesterday, Art Institute of Chicago
Robert Frank (1924-), US 285, New Mexico, 1955 (The Photographer’s Curator: Hugh Edwards at the Art Institute of Chicago, through October 29th)
can’t wait
Monday night, Chicago—Millenium Park.
Amadou & Mariam (feat. Manu Chao), “Senegal Fast Food,” 2004
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random thoughts
The story we tell ourselves of who we are is just that—a story we tell ourselves of who we are.
what’s new
Here’s something from Roscoe Mitchell’s new album, Bells for the South Side (ECM), a 2-CD set recorded in 2015 at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art.
“Spatial Aspects of the Sound,” Roscoe Mitchell (composition, piccolo), Craig Taborn (piano), Tyshawn Sorey (piano), William Winant (percussion), Kikanju Baku (wrist bells, ankle bells)
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random sights
this morning, outside Chicago (Salt Creek Trail)
found sounds
Yesterday, waiting for a train.
“Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)” (N. Whitfield, B. Strong; Temptations, 1971), Red Line (Jackson), Chicago, 6/22/17
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art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago
Danny Lyon (1942-), Racer, Schererville, Indiana, 1965
serendipity
Just now, walking to the Art Institute of Chicago after lunch, I heard a man singing on the sidewalk. The voice seemed familiar. And the more I listened, the more confident I became that I’d heard this voice before.
Willie Barbee, today
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clips posted the other day (May 29th)
Anna Clyne (1980-), A Wonderful Day (2013)
Bang on a Can All-Stars, Willie Barbee (pre-recorded voice)
Live, New York, 2015
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Recording (Field Recordings), 2015
more
Hamid Drake (1955-; drums; MCOTD Hall of Fame), Fred Anderson (1929-2010, tenor saxophone), “Black Women (For Beatrice Anderson and Amelia Drake),” live (recording session, Back Together Again), 2004
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art beat
Marc PoKempner (1948-), Theresa’s Lounge (Junior Wells behind the bar), Chicago (4801 S. Indiana), 1979
MCOTD Hall of Fame
No matter how I’m feeling (down, up, whatever), listening to him leaves me feeling better.
Hamid Drake (drums), live, New York, 2015
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art beat
Danny Lyon (1942-), Chicago (Uptown), 1965
never enough
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Partita No. 2 in D minor
Itzhak Perlman (violin), live, London, 1978
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art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), Bullfinch on a camellia branch
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