Friday, 11/9/12
only rock ’n’ roll
The Dirtbombs, live, Hamtramck, Mich. (outside Detroit), 2012
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jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: Detroit
2012
Monday, 9/10/12
flashback
MC5: Kick Out the Jams (Leni Sinclair & Cary Loren, 1999 [with footage from the ’60s])
2012
Sunday, 4/8/12
Aretha testifies
Aretha Franklin, “Surely God Is Able,” live, Detroit, 1990
More? Here. And here. And here. And here.
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lagniappe
random thoughts: Marcel Proust (or is it Samuel Beckett?) on Opening Day
You look forward to it like a birthday party when you’re a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.
Actually, it’s Joe DiMaggio. But for Joltin’ Joe, like Marvelous Marcel and Slammin’ Sammy, life consists largely of “look[ing] forward” to things, “wonderful” things—things that seldom, if ever, actually “happen.” Just ask the Cubs: going into the eighth inning of Thursday’s opener, they were winning 1-0; they lost 2-1.
2012
Wednesday, 2/29/12
keep on dancing
Moodymann, “The Day We Lost The Soul”/ “Tribute! (To The Soul We Lost),” 1995
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Theo Parrish, “The Love I Lost” (Re-edit of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes), 2003
More Theo? Here. And here. And here. And here.
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
Dance music holds out the hope, as the beat goes on, and on, and on, that nothing will be lost. Ever. But then it, too, ends.
2011
Saturday, 9/17/11
Mahogani Music Promotional Video, Detroit (2010)
Vodpod videos no longer available.Yeah, the interplay between these two is awfully cliche.
But there’s a lot to like here: the sounds,* the colors, the composition, the sense of place.
I dig the camera-shy dog, too.
*Joe Simon, “Theme from Cleopatra Jones” (1973)
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lagniappe
art beat
Yesterday at the Art Institute of Chicago (after an oral argument in the nearby federal court of appeals, in a drug case involving 20 kilos of cocaine—from the sordid to the sublime):
Vasily (AKA Wassily) Kandinsky
Painting with Green Center, 1913
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Improvisation No. 30 (Cannons), 1913
2011
Friday, 8/12/11
only rock ’n’ roll
(an occasional series)
MC5, “Kick Out The Jams,” live, Detroit, 1970
Vodpod videos no longer available.Rock ’n’ roll, requiring no formal training, depending more on verve than virtuosity, is a kind of folk music. Folk music, at its best, evokes a particular place. Can you imagine these guys coming out of, say, San Francisco?
2011
Tuesday, 2/22/11
Don’t forget the Motor City
Theo Parrish, Detroit-based DJ & producer
Collecting sounds around Detroit
Vodpod videos no longer available.***
Live, New York (Brooklyn Yard), 8/23/09
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Live, Paris (Elysee Montmarte), 4/30/10
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Recording, “Soul Control”
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Recording (with Marcellus Pittman), “Equality of Patience”
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langiappe
thoughts on music
Music history as a whole has been drastically misnamed. Jazz is just as rugged as hip-hop is, and hip-hop is just as elegant as classical. These things are present, but the language we’re using to talk about them tends to be outdated, outmoded.
—Theo Parrish (in The Wire, 3/11)
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