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2013

Monday, October 28th

passings

Lou Reed, singer, songwriter, guitarist, March 2, 1942-October 27, 2013

Live (with Robert Quine [1942-2004], guitar; Fernando Saunders, bass; Fred Maher, drums), New York (Bottom Line), 1983

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musical thoughts

All great rock comes from a particular place. Take Lou Reed. Could he have emerged from Detroit? Nah—too self-conscious, too arty. San Francisco? Unh-uh—way too abrasive. He could only have come from one place, the city where, as the joke has it, a tourist goes up to someone and asks: “Can you tell me the way to the Empire State Building—or should I just go fuck myself?”

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taking a break

I’m taking some time off—back in a while.

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2013

Sunday, October 27th

sounds of Chicago

They sounded so good last week—let’s hear some more.

The Staple Singers, “Are You Sure,” live, 1971


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art beat

William Eggleston (1939-)

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2013

Monday, October 21st

sounds of Chicago

Art Ensemble of Chicago (Roscoe Mitchell, saxophones, percussion; Joseph Jarman, saxophones, percussion, electric guitar; Lester Bowie [MCOTD Hall of Famer], trumpet, percussion; Malachi Favors, bass, percussion; Don Moye, drums, percussion [first clip])

Live, Chicago (Jazz Showcase), 1981


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Recording (“Rock Out”), 1969

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2013

Sunday, October 20th

sounds of Chicago

The Staple Singers, “Sit Down Servant,” live (TV show), 1963


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art beat

Helen Levitt (1913-2009), New York, c. 1940

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2013

Friday, October 12th

only rock ’n’ roll

Mitch Ryder (with Jimmy McCarty, guitar; Don Was, bass, et al.), “Little Latin Lupe Lu,” live, Detroit, 2011


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reading table

Alice Munro, yesterday, on winning the Nobel Prize in Literature:

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2013

Sunday, October 6th

two takes

Bobby McFerrin, “Joshua,” live (studio performances), 2013

WNYC-FM, New York


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WFUV-FM, New York


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reading table

Novelist Philip Roth on death, getting older, etc.:

‘You think, That’s the end of it when your parents die. After that, you’re done. Nobody’s supposed to die anymore, right?’

—Claudia Roth Pierpont, “The Book of Laughter: Philip Roth and His Friends,” New Yorker, 10/7/13

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‘Seventy-five; how sudden.’

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‘Time runs out at a terrifying speed. It seems that it was just 1943.’

—Patricia Cohen, “Philip Roth, Provacateur, Is Celebrated at 75,” New York Times, 4/12/08

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2013

Wednesday, October 2nd

love it or hate it

Anthony Braxton 12+1tet, Composition 355, live, Italy (Venice), 2012


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Anthony, a MacArthur “genius” award winner (1994) and professor at Wesleyan University, talks about this and that:


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musical thoughts

Music can take us places we’ve never been before, if we’re willing to listen to sounds we’ve never heard before.

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2013

Thursday, September 26th

sounds of Chicago

This is a track I coproduced. It was the last thing recorded that night, an afterthought. The lights had just been turned down. The room was nearly dark.

Carey Bell’s Blues Harp Band,* “Woman In Trouble” (Living Chicago Blues, Vol. 1; Grammy Nominee), Alligator, 1978

*CB, vocals, harmonica; Lurrie Bell, guitar; Bob Riedy, piano; Aron Burton, bass; Odie Payne, Jr., drums.

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2013

Wednesday, September 25th

love it or hate it

Weasel Walter (drums), Mary Halvorson (guitar), Peter Evans (trumpet), live, New York (Death By Audio, Brooklyn), 2012

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2013

Monday, September 23rd

only rock ’n’ roll

Here’s something from the show I saw the other night.

Savages, “She Will,” live, Chicago (Metro), 9/16/13


In the hope-I-die-before-I-get-old department, it occurred to me, as I was driving home from this show, that I’ve been doing variations on this particular theme—going out into the dark night to hear live music—for at least, uh, let’s see, yeah, it must be at least forty-five years, since it was 1968, when I was fifteen, that my brother Don and I, after seeing the Velvet Underground at Chicago’s Kinetic Playground, were arrested and taken to the police station. The charge? Curfew.

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musical thoughts

The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it’s essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

—Bruce Springsteen

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