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Tuesday, 8/17/10

Last week I wrote: “Guitar, drums—that’s all it takes.”

Actually, all it takes is a single string.

Lonnie Pitchford (diddley bow), live, Mississippi, 1978 (The Land Where The Blues Began [1979])

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? and the Mysterians—still more (take #4 [NYC, Great Jones Cafe; 7/31/10])

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mail (makes me want to be [yikes!] a grandfather)

The other day Oran Etkin, whose music was featured here a while back, wrote:

I’ve been checking in every once in a while to your blog— you’ve got some really amazing and diverse music up there!

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I wanted to let you know about a new project I have and a great video I just posted yesterday. I have a project for kids called Timbalooloo (www.timbalooloo.com), which has music classes for 0-10 year olds using a new approach I developed to reach that age group, CDs, Videos, Books, etc. I am putting out a kids CD next month called Wake Up, Clarinet! based on this whole approach. It’s with my band featuring Jason Marsalis, Curtis Fowlkes, Fabian Almazan, Garth Stevenson and Charenee Wade. Anyways, I put up this video from a live concert, and I thought you might enjoy it and see if it would be cool for your blog.

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I’m loving the videos up on the site!

—Oran

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Oran Etkin, “Wake Up, Clarinet!”; live

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Monday, 8/16/10

Suppose Blind Willie McTell, who died in 1959, came back to life for a day.

How would you explain this to him—a video clip of a pop icon singing a song about him, during a recent concert in Slovenia, captured by a cell-phone camera then uploaded onto the ’net for anyone, anywhere in the world, to see?

Bob Dylan, “Blind Willie McTell,” live, Slovenia (Ljubljana), 6/13/2010

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Blind Willie McTell

hotel room, Atlanta, 1940

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“Statesboro Blues,” 1928 (Atlanta)

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2010

Friday, 8/13/10

three takes

I don’t often feel like listening to someone named after a punctuation mark, but when I do I know just where to turn.

? and the Mysterians, “96 Tears”

With Ronnie Spector, live, New York, 2010

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Live, New York (1998)

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TV broadcast, 1966

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inscrutable instructions

Amazon: Express Checkout with Payphrase

To use Express Checkout on Amazon.com and across the web,
create a PayPhrase like “Richard’s Overarching Dentist”

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2010

Thursday, 8/12/10

my new mantra

Say ‘bye bye, bogeyman.’

—Whispering Jack Smith

Whispering Jack Smith, “Happy Days” (Happy Days [shot in 1929, released in 1930])

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more music to chase away the bogeyman

Sidney Bechet (clarinet, with Henry “Red” Allen, trumpet; J.C. Higginbotham, trombone; James Tolliver, piano; Wellman Braud, bass; J.C. Heard, drums), “Egyptian Fantasy” (1941)

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2010

Wednesday, 8/11/10

Anyone can play fast.

Ben Webster (tenor saxophone, with Kenny Drew, piano; Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen, bass; Alex Riel, drums), “How Long Has This Been Going On?”; live

Want more? Here. Here.

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2010

Tuesday, 8/10/10

The lineup Bambino and Group Inerane use today in the West African desert—two electric guitars, drums—is the one this guy used, 40 years ago, on Chicago’s south side.

Hound Dog Taylor, live, Chicago, 1971

Want more? Here.

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Spiritual Stars Singers

Silver Wings

Amazing Mentholiers

Chosen Wonders

Rev. R. Campbell and His Wonder Boy

Rhythmical Wright Singers

Willie Harris and the Sensational Six

Never heard of ’em? I hadn’t either. Now you can hear all of ’em in the latest installment of Sinner’s Crossroads (8/5/10), Kevin Nutt’s weekly “gospel extravaganza.” (This one’s so good I’ve already played it twice.)

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“dark dismal-dreaming night” *

Listen to the Cubs lose at four in the afternoon?

Anyone can do that.

You’ve gotta be crazy to listen to them lose at 1:00 a.m (Giants, 11th inning, 4-3).

*W. Shakespeare

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2010

Monday, 8/9/10

Guitar, drums—that’s all it takes.

Bombino (AKA Bambino), live, Niger (Agadez), 2010

Part 1

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Part 2

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2010

Sunday, 8/8/10

The gospel according to Al Green: Blessed are the lost for they will be found.

Al Green, “Amazing Grace”/“Nearer My God To Thee,” live, 1983 (Gospel According to Al Green, 1984)

More Al Green? Here.

Sam Cooke’s take on “Nearer My God To Thee”? Here.

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2010

Saturday, 8/7/10

Let’s lift the bandstand.

—Thelonious Monk

Woody Shaw/Johnny Griffin Quintet (Woody Shaw, trumpet; Johnny Griffin, tenor saxophone; John Hicks, piano; Reggie Johnson, bass; Alvin Queens, drums), “Night in Tunisia,” live, Germany (Koln), 1986

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Now there’s a great trumpet player. He [Woody Shaw] can play different from all of them.

—Miles Davis

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Anthony Braxton on playing with Woody Shaw.

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reading table

Look after the sound and the sense will take care of itself.

—Adam Phillips, London Review of Books, 7/22/10 (reviewing Christopher Ricks’ True Friendship: Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht and Robert Lowell Under The Sign Of Eliot And Pound)