How strange it seems, still, that he should be dead.
Prince with Mavis Staples, et al., live, England (King’s Cross), 1993
**********
lagniappe
art beat: yesterday, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Kerry James Marshall (1955-), Slow Dance, 1992-93 (Kerry James Marshall, Mastry, through 9/25/16)
Sometimes, in the middle of the night, if sleep leaves and doesn’t return, I’ll put one of these on repeat, softly.
Morton Feldman (1926-1987, MCOTD Hall of Fame), Piano and String Quartet (1985); Aki Takahashi and Kronos Quartet, 1993
***
John Luther Adams (1953-), The Farthest Place (2001), 2002
**********
lagniappe
random sights
other day, Chicago (Columbus Park)
2n
Joe McPhee (alto saxophone) & Ingebrigt Haken Flaten (bass)
Live, Milwaukee, 2015
**********
lagniappe
art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago
Edward Hopper (1882-1967), Gas, 1940 (America after the Fall, Painting in the 1930s, through 9/18/16)
summer in the city
Future, live, Chicago, 7/29/16
**********
lagniappe
random sights
this morning, Chicago (Columbus Park)
MCOTD Hall of Fame
Today drummer Hamid Drake (1955-) enters the MCOTD Hall of Fame, joining saxophonists Von Freeman and Henry Threadgill; trumpeter Lester Bowie; gospel singer Dorothy Love Coates; composer Morton Feldman; poets John Berryman, William Bronk, and Wislawa Szymborska; and photographer Helen Levitt. Whatever the situation, he adds oxygen.
DKV Trio (HD, drums; Kent Kessler, bass; Ken Vandermark, baritone saxophone), live, Chicago, 2010
back to church
Christian Home Baptist Church Hymn Choir, “Hezekiah—You Got To Die!”
Live, Mt. Do-Well Baptist Church, McConnells, S.C., 1994
**********
lagniappe
random sights
this morning, Chicago (Columbus Park)
summer in the city
Moses Sumney, “Plastic,” live, Chicago (Pitchfork Music Festival), 7/15/16
**********
reading table: two takes
Summer afternoon — summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
—Henry James (1843-1916)
There is a kind of sullenness that summer / alone possesses.
—Geoffrey Hill (1932-2016), “In Isley Church Lane (3)”
tonight in Chicago
These guys will be playing at Elastic.
Dave Rempis (saxophones) & Tim Daisy (percussion), live, Copenhagen, 2014
**********
lagniappe
random sights
this morning, Chicago (Columbus Park)
sounds of Chicago
DJ Frankie Knuckles (1955-2014), live, New York, 2013
**********
lagniappe
random sights
this morning, Chicago (Columbus Park)
*****
reading table
9 killed on city’s deadliest day in 13 years
—Chicago Tribune, this morning
sounds of Chicago
DJ Mike Dunn, live, Chicago (Gramaphone Records), 2015
**********
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”
music clip of the day 