Monday, August 22nd
wake up!
Albert Ayler (1936-1970), live, Europe, 1966
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: drums
2016
Thursday, August 18th
tonight in Chicago
These guys will be playing at Elastic.
Dave Rempis (saxophones) & Tim Daisy (percussion), live, Copenhagen, 2014
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lagniappe
random sights
this morning, Chicago (Columbus Park)
2016
Wednesday, August 17th
passings
Bobby Hutcherson, vibraphonist, January 27, 1941-August 15, 2016
“Herzog” (R. Hutcherson), live, France (Antibes), 1969*
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
Speaking in recent years, Mr. Hutcherson was fond of citing a bit of insight from an old friend. “Eric Dolphy said music is like the wind,” he told The San Francisco Chronicle in 2012. “You don’t know where it came from, and you don’t know where it went. You can’t control it. All you can do is get inside the sphere of it and be swept away.”
—New York Times obituary, 8/17/16
radio
WKCR-FM (Columbia University) is featuring his music until 3 p.m. (EST).
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*With Harold Land (tenor saxophone), Stanley Cowell (piano), Reggie Johnson (bass), Joe Chambers (drums).
2016
Tuesday, August 16th
If I could dance like this, I’d never sit down.
Jimmy Slyde (1927-2008) and Bob Moses, dancing, playing, talking
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lagniappe
reading table
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.—Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), “One Art”
2016
Friday, August 12th
wake up!
Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog (MR, guitar, vocals; Ches Smith, drums; Shahzad Ismaily, bass), live (studio performance), Seattle, 6/22/16
2016
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
2016
Saturday, July 30th
keep on dancing
M.A.K.U. SoundSystem, live (TV show), New York, 2016
2016
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 (Abstractions, through 8/14/16)
2016
Tuesday, July 26th
percussion festival
day two
John Cage (1912-1992), Third Construction (1941); So Percussion, live
2016
Monday, July 25th
percussion festival
day one
Edgard Varèse (1883-1965), Ionisation (1929-31); Ensemble InterContemporain (Pierre Boulez [1925-2016], cond.), live
music clip of the day 