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Monday, August 8th

sounds of Chicago

DJ Mike Dunn, live, Chicago (Gramaphone Records), 2015


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lagniappe

musical thoughts

Yeah, everybody’s got a bomb
We could all die any day,
But before I’ll let that happen
I’ll dance my life away.

—Prince, “1999”

 

Saturday, August 6th

Sometimes the best of what’s new is old.

Betty Davis, “Down Home Girl” (Miles Davis & Teo Macero, prods.; John McLaughlin [guitar], Herbie Hancock [keyboards], Harvey Brooks [bass], Mitch Mitchell [drums]), 6/28/16 (rec. 1969)


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lagniappe

art beat: yesterday, Art Institute of Chicago 

From Thirteen Laughing at Each Other, Juan Muñoz (1953-2001), through 10/5/16

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Friday, August 5th

summer in the city

Digable Planets, “Pacifics” (“N.Y. Is Red Hot”), live, Chicago (Pitchfork Music Festival), 7/16/16

Sunday, July 31st

testify!

Jewel Gospel Singers (Richmond, Va.), “My God Don’t Change”
Live (TV show), 1960s


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lagniappe

random sights

this morning, Chicago (Columbus Park)

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random thoughts

This instant.

Friday, July 29th

summer in the city

Kamasi Washington, “The Rhythm Changes,” live, Chicago (Pitchfork Music Festival), 7/17/16


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lagniappe

art beat: yesterday, Art Institute of Chicago 

Aaron Siskind (1903-1991), Chicago 42 1952 (Abstractionsthrough 8/14/16)

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Sunday, July 24th

sounds of Chicago

Otis Clay (1942-2016) and Willie Rogers, “When the Gates Swing Open,” “A Change Is Gonna Come,” live, Indianola, Miss. (B.B. King’s funeral service), 2015

 

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lagniappe

reading table

whatever the day brings
the nightingale’s alone
I’m alone

—Kobayashi Issa, 1763-1828 (translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)

Friday, July 22nd

summer in the city

Savages, “Fuckers,” live, Chicago (Pitchfork Music Festival), 7/16/16

Sunday, July 17th

sounds of Chicago

Soul Stirrers (feat. Willie Rogers), “A Change Is Gonna Come” (S. Cooke)
Live, 1989

Wednesday, June 29th

More.

Morton Feldman (1926-1987), Palais de Mari (1986)
Ivan Ilić (piano), 2014


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lagniappe

random sights

this morning, Chicago (Columbus Park)

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Monday, June 20th

what’s new

Afro-Haitian Experimental Orchestra (Tony Allen, drums, et al.)
“Bade Zile,” 2016


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lagniappe

reading table

We don’t want him thinking too much.

Cubs pitcher John Lackey on rookie catcher Wilson Contreras’s first start tonight, following last night’s home run in his first big-league plate appearance—on the first pitch