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2013

Wednesday, June 19th

serendipity

Last night, while I was doing some law work, these guys—I’d never heard of them before—jumped out of the radio.*

Los Pirañas, “Bambo Ha Muerto Devorado Por El Pecado (Version Alterna),” live, Colombia (Bogotá), 2011


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lagniappe

reading table

I am not poor, I am not rich, nothing’s here but nothing’s lacking, I have little, I want nothing: all my treasure is in Minerva’s tower.

—Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)

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*Give the Drummer Some (WFMU-FM [Give the Drummer Radio Stream] Tues., 6-7 p.m.; Fri., 9 a.m.-noon [EST]).

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2013

Monday, June 17th

last night

He opened his show, at Chicago’s Old Town School of Folk Music, with this.

Daniel Lanois, “The Maker” (D. Lanois), live, Toronto, 2012*


*With James Wilson (bass), Brian Blade (drums).

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2013

Sunday, June 16th

father and son

Brian Blade (drums) & The Fellowship Band, with Brady L. Blade Sr. (vocals), “Amazing Grace,” live, Savannah, Ga. (2012)


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lagniappe

reading table

Some things endure. When my sons, Alex and Luke, were in grade school, I started a two-person “reading group” with each of them. We would read novels together, maybe one a month, alternating choices, and go out and talk about them over a meal. Alex is now twenty-five. This morning we’re going out for breakfast, where we’ll be talking about a short story by Richard Yates, “Oh, Joseph, I’m So Tired.” Of stories there is no end.

When Franklin D. Roosevelt was President-elect there must have been sculptors all over America who wanted a chance to model his head from life, but my mother had connections.

—Richard Yates (1926-1992), “Oh, Joseph, I’m So Tired” (first sentence)

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2013

Tuesday, June 11th

two takes

“Lulu’s Back In Town” (H. Warren & A. Dubin)

Fats Waller, recording, 1935


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Thelonious Monk Quartet (TM, piano; Charlie Rouse, tenor saxophone; Larry Gales, bass; Ben Riley, drums), live (TV studio), Norway (Oslo), 1960

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lagniappe

musical thoughts

A note can be as small as a pin or as big as the world. It depends on your imagination.

—Thelonious Monk

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2013

Friday, June 7th

only rock ’n’ roll

The Stooges (1967-)

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2013

Thursday, June 6th

Most musicians are no more able than anyone else to talk about what they do in ways that are fresh and absorbing.  This guy, to these ears, is something rare: a compelling player who is, as well, a provocative thinker and talker.

Vijay Iyer (piano), playing and talking, 2010

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2013

Wednesday, June 5th

kinetic

Rudresh Mahanthappa (alto saxophone), Rez Abbasi (guitar), Rich Brown (bass), Rudy Royston (drums), “Killer,” “Playing with Stones,” Washington, D.C., 2012

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2013

Thursday, May 23rd

Some singers are so distinctive that when you’re in the mood for them no one else will do.

Blossom Dearie (1924-2009), “They Say It’s Spring,” 1958*

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lagniappe

reading table: Albion Beatnik Bookstore, Oxford, England

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*BD, vocals, piano; Herb Ellis, guitar; Ray Brown, bass; Jo Jones, drums.

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2013

Wednesday, May 22nd

sounds of Chicago

Want to hear a great solo? You’ve come to the wrong place. This isn’t about solos; it’s about interplay.

The Rempis Percussion Quartet,* live, Chicago (Hideout), 2010

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*Dave Rempis, saxophones; Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, bass; Tim Daisy, drums; Frank Rosaly, drums.

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2013

Tuesday, May 21st

only rock ’n’ roll

Rolling Stones (with Katy Perry), “Beast of Burden,” live, Las Vegas, 5/13

Seeing Mick perform these days makes me queasy. When Muddy was nearing seventy, he seemed, onstage, entirely at home in himself. Mick seems like an old guy—he turns seventy in July—who wishes he were still twenty.

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