Thursday, April 2nd
More of Buddy M.
Buddy Miller & Jim Lauderdale, The Lone Bellow (27:50-), Rosanne Cash (1:08:05-), live, New York, 8/9/14
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lagniappe
random sights
Tuesday, Columbus Park, Chicago
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: Chicago
2015
Wednesday, April 1st
Ever notice how musical white folks are?
The Handsome Family, “Darling, My Darling” (R. Sparks), live, Australia (Sydney), 2010
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lagniappe
art beat: more from Friday at the Art Institute of Chicago
Paul Klee (1879-1940), Death in the Garden (Legend), 1919
2015
Tuesday, March 31st
two takes
Buddy Miller, “Chalk” (J. Miller), live
With Don Was (bass), et al., 2007
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With Patty Griffin (vocals), et al., San Francisco, 2010
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lagniappe
art beat: more from Friday at the Art Institute of Chicago
Joseph Cornell (1903-1972), Ann—In Memory, 1954
2015
Sunday, March 29th
angels
Marion Williams and the Stars of Faith, “Mean Old World,” live, Netherlands (Utrecht), 1962
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lagniappe
art beat: more from Friday at the Art Institute of Chicago
Joseph Cornell (1903-1972), Untitled (Forgotten Game), c. 1949
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reading table
Superiority to Fate
Is difficult to gain
‘Tis not conferred of any
But possible to earnA pittance at a time
Until to Her surprise
The Soul with strict economy
Subsist till Paradise.—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), #1043 (Franklin)
2015
Saturday, March 28th
sounds of Japan
Perfume, “STORY (SXSW MIX),” SXSW (Austin, Tx.), 3/17/15
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lagniappe
art beat: yesterday at the Art Institute of Chicago
Joseph Cornell (1903-1972), Untitled (Hotel de la Duchesse-Anne), 1957
2015
Wednesday, March 25th
sounds of Chicago
Dave Rempis (tenor saxophone) & Tim Daisy (percussion), live, Chicago, 2013
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lagniappe
random thoughts
Sometimes it seems surprising that any of us survives even a single day in a world so sad.
2015
Tuesday, March 24th
can’t wait
This weekend they’ll be in Chicago, playing at Constellation.
Vijay Iyer Trio (VI, piano; Stephan Crump, bass; Marcus Gilmore, drums), Break Stuff, 2015
2015
Sunday, March 22nd
testify!
Lee Williams and the Spiritual QC’s, “Jesus Is Alive and Well,” live, 10/8/98
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lagniappe
art beat: more from Friday at the Art Institute of Chicago
Claude Monet (1840-1926), Water Lily Pond, 1917/19
2015
Saturday, March 21st
alone
John Cage (1912-1992), In a Landscape (1948)
Anton Batagov (1965-, piano), live, Moscow, 2014
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lagniappe
art beat: yesterday at the Art Institute of Chicago
Paul Cezanne, The Bay of Marseilles, Seen From L’Estaque, c. 1885
This, too, I never tire of.
2015
Monday, March 16th
sounds of Chicago
Jack DeJohnette (drums) with MCOTD Hall-of-Famer Henry Threadgill (reeds), Roscoe Mitchell (reeds), Muhal Richard Abrams (piano), and Larry Gray (bass), Made in Chicago, 2015
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lagniappe
art beat: more from the other day at the Art Institute of Chicago
This, too, I never tire of.
Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), Greyed Rainbow, 1953
music clip of the day 