Friday, October 9th
only rock ‘n’ roll
Foxygen, live, Paris, 2014
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lagniappe
road to the World Series
It’s not a complicated issue. The more basic we can become in our approach, the more successful we’ll become.
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Category: drums
2015
2015
Friday, October 2nd
tonight in Chicago
These guys will be playing at Constellation.
The Thing (Mats Gustafsson, baritone and tenor saxophones; Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, bass; Paal Nilssen-Love, drums), live, London, 2010
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lagniappe
reading table
You ask: what is life? That’s like asking: what is a carrot? A carrot is a carrot, and that’s all there is to know.
—Anton Chekhov (1860-1904), letter to wife Olga Knipper-Chekhova, April 20, 1904 (translated from Russian by Cathy Popkin [Anton Chekhov’s Selected Stories, Cathy Popkin, ed.])
2015
Thursday, September 24th
drum fest
day four
Kidd Jordan (tenor saxophone), Dave Burrell (piano), William Parker (bass), Hamid Drake (drums), live, New York, 2014
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
Imagine living in a drumless world.
2015
Wednesday, September 23rd
drum fest
day three
Perhaps the greatest drummer ever.
Tony Allen—three takes.
Recording studio, 2009
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Paris, 2015
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Istanbul, 2015
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lagniappe
reading table
opening the window
I see the butterfly off . . .
into the field—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue
2015
Tuesday, September 22nd
drum fest
day two
Donald Edwards, live, Israel (Tel Aviv)
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
Listening to drums makes it easier to believe: maybe things will be all right after all.
2015
Saturday, September 19th
voices I miss
Lester Bowie’s New York Organ Ensemble (LB [1941-1999, MCOTD Hall of Fame], trumpet; Frank Lacy, trombone; James Carter, tenor saxophone; Spencer Barefield, guitar; Kathy Farmer, organ; Famoudou Don Moye, drums), live, Spain (Madrid), 1992
Time for just one?
Try “Somewhere” (L. Bernstein, S. Sondheim), 11:45-.
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lagniappe
art beat
Vivian Maier (1926-2009), Chicago (Maxwell Street), 1967
2015
Friday, September 18th
only rock ‘n’ roll
Battles, “The Yabba,” live, New York, 2015
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lagniappe
reading table
And this brief Drama in the flesh –
—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), #279 (Franklin)
2015
Thursday, September 17th
tonight in Chicago
These guys are playing at Constellation.
São Paulo Underground (Rob Mazurek, cornet, electronics; Mauricio Takara, percussion, cavaquinho, electronics; Guilherme Granado, keyboards, electronics, vocals), live, Italy (Pisa), 2012
