Friday, November 23rd
what’s new
Makaya McCraven (drums, compositions), et al., live (studio), 11/19/18
They’re playing tonight in Dublin, tomorrow in London, and Thursday in Chicago (MM’s hometown).
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: guitar
2018
Wednesday, November 21st
timeless
March 3, 1941, New York: Waiting for Benny Goodman to arrive for a recording session, the engineers are checking the equipment, the musicians are warming up, the tape is rolling.
Charlie Christian (1916-1942, guitar) with Cootie Williams (trumpet), Georgie Auld (tenor saxophone), Johnny Guarnieri (piano), Artie Bernstein (bass), Dave Tough (drums), “Waiting for Benny,” 1941
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lagniappe
art beat
Helen Levitt (1913-2009, MCOTD Hall of Fame), New York, 1940s
2018
Thursday, November 8th
More sounds of Europe.
Enno Poppe (1969-), Fleisch (2017); Ensemble Nikel, live, Austria (Bludenz), 2017
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2018
Friday, November 2nd
more
Jeff Rosenstock, live, Chicago, 2017
2018
Saturday, October 27th
passings
Tony Joe White, singer, songwriter, guitar player, harmonica player, July 23, 1943-October 24, 2018
“Rainy Night in Georgia” (T. J. White), live (TV show), London, 2013
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Live, Australia (Sydney), 2008
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Cicely Berry, Royal Shakespeare Company’s voice director, May 17, 1926-October 15, 2018
The Working Shakespeare/Muscularity of Language: Voice and Rhythm (excerpt), 2004
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, outside Chicago (Prairie Path)
2018
Friday, October 26th
only rock ‘n’ roll
Jeff Rosenstock, live (studio), Seattle, 8/20/18
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lagniappe
random thoughts
This life: how precious; how precarious; how preposterous.
2018
Monday, October 22nd
more
Junior Wells (vocals, harmonica [1934-1998]) with Buddy Guy (guitar), Phil Guy (guitar), A.C. Reed (tenor saxophone), et al., live (TV show), Chicago, early ’70s
“Little by Little”
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“Mystery Train”
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2018
Friday, October 19th
voices I miss
Junior Wells (vocals, harmonica [1934-1998]) with Otis Rush (guitar [1935-2018]), Jack Myers (bass [c. 1937-2011]), Fred Below (drums [1926-1988]), “Hoodoo Man Blues,” live, Berlin, 1966
2018
Tuesday, October 16th
what’s new
Fay Victor’s SoundNoiseFUNK (FV, vocals, compositions; Joe Morris, guitar; Sam Newsome, soprano saxophone; Reggie Nicholson, drums), live, New York, 10/13/18
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lagniappe
reading table
I can’t tell you – but you feel it –
Nor can you tell me –—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), from 164 (Franklin)
2018
Friday, October 12th
more
Otis Rush (vocals, guitar) with Little Brother Montgomery (piano), Jack Myers (bass), Fred Below (drums), live, Berlin, 1966
“All Your Love (I Miss Loving)”
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“Sweet Little Angel”
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lagniappe
reading table
The silence will be sudden then last.
—Deborah Landau, from “The Silence Will Be Sudden Then Last” (Poetry, 10/18)
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