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Saturday, April 26th

only rock ’n’ roll

MC5: A True Testimonial (2002)

 

Thanks to my brother Don for the tip. We first encountered these guys in Chicago’s Lincoln Park during the 1968 Democratic Convention. The park is still there. But that moment, when, as a teenager, nothing mattered more than intensity and attitude, is long gone.

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found words

Sometimes it’s hard to tell the advertising from the conceptual art. Last night, while driving to Hyde Park to hear pianist Rafal Blechacz, I came upon a billboard:

BE AMBITIOUS.
NOT THIRSTY.

Who knew Diet Coke could be so deep?

Friday, April 25th

only rock ’n’ roll

Black Dub (Daniel Lanois, guitar, vocals; Trixie Whitley, keyboards, vocals; Jim Wilson, bass, vocals; Brian Blade, drums), “Ring the Alarm,” live, Vancouver, 2011


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art beat

Danny Lyon (1942-), Four Boys, Uptown, Chicago (1965)

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Wednesday, April 23rd

sounds of New Orleans

Let Me Do My Thang: Rebirth Brass Band (Keith Reynaud, 2000)


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random thoughts

Day after day tiptoeing through minefields, until finally our luck runs out.

 

Tuesday, April 22nd

Happy (92nd) Birthday, Mingus!

Charles Mingus, bassist, composer, bandleader
April 22, 1922-January 5, 1979

Charles Mingus Quintet (CM, bass; Eric Dolphy, alto saxophone; Booker Ervin, tenor saxophone; Ted Curson, trumpet; Dannie Richmond, drums) with guest Bud Powell (piano), “I’ll Remember April” (G. de Paul, P. Johnston, D. Raye), live, France (Antibes Jazz Festival), 1960

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radio

WKCR (Columbia University): all Mingus, all day.

Friday, April 11th

sounds of Chicago

Oshwa, “Old Man Skies,” live (recording session), Chicago, 2013

Friday, April 4th

only rock ’n’ roll

The War On Drugs, “Under the Pressure”

Live, Philadelphia, 3/14/14


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Recording (Lost in the Dream), 3/14


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reading table

Now, unlike then—sixty years ago—we know so much more about others . . . . [t]hough, of course, we know not much more of the important things—what’s in others’ hearts; and if their hearts are broken or damaged or full.

—Richard Ford, “A Symposium on Magic,” The Threepenny Review, Spring 2014

Thursday, April 3rd

sounds of Chicago

Chicago Underground Duo (Rob Mazurek, cornet, electronics, voice; Chad Taylor, drums, mbira, electronics), live (music begins at 4:30), Italy (Venice), 2013


(This clip, alas, has some glitches: at 56:15 both the sound and the picture drop out, returning, with just one of two audio channels, at 58:46.)

April 1st

sounds of New Orleans

Brass band, live, New Orleans (Frenchmen Street), 2013


MVP? Without a doubt, it’s the snare drummer. Not only does he hold everything together, he pushes, pushes, pushes.

Monday, March 31st

sounds of New York

Peter Evans’ Zebulon Trio (PE, trumpet; John Hebert, bass; Kassa Overall, drums), “Air Train,” live, New York (Jazz Gallery), 2013


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random thoughts

Note to self: cultivate lightness.

Friday, March 28th

only rock ’n’ roll

Benjamin Booker, “Violent Shiver”

Live, 2013


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Live (album teaser; fall release), 2014


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art beat

Danny Lyon (1942-), 1960s

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