Thursday, July 21st
sounds of New York
Dre Hocevar Large Ensemble (DH, drums, composition), live, New York, 2015
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: hard-to-peg
2016
Saturday, July 16th
sounds of Oslo, Amsterdam, and Chicago
What if your office sounded like this?
Paal Nilssen-Love Trio (PNL, drums, percussion; Ab Baars, clarinet, shakuhachi, tenor saxophone; Ken Vandermark, tenor saxophone, clarinet), live, Oslo, 2011
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lagniappe
random sights
this morning, Chicago (Columbus Park)
The flowers seem not to know—this park’s in one of the city’s most violent neighborhoods (Austin).
2016
Monday, July 4th
Happy Fourth!
Let’s celebrate by remembering three giants.
Ralph Stanley, singer, banjo player, February 25, 1927-June 23, 2016
“Little Maggie,” live (TV show), Austin, Tx., 1980
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Bernie Worrell, keyboard player, April 19, 1944-June 24, 2016
Live (with George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic), Switzerland (Montreux Jazz Festival), 2004
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Scotty Moore, guitar player, December 27, 1931-June 28, 2016
“Blue Suede Shoes” (with Elvis Presley), live, 1956
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lagniappe
radio
Today, Louis Armstrong’s adopted birthday, it’s all Louis all day at WKCR (Columbia University).
2016
Saturday, July 2nd
MCOTD Hall of Fame
Henry Threadgill (1944-, composer, alto saxophonist, flutist, bandleader, 2016 Pulitzer Prize winner), playing and talking, 2010
2016
Friday, July 1st
what’s new
Aphex Twin, “CIRKLON3” (video by Ryan Wyer, age 12, Ireland), 6/21/16
2016
Thursday, June 30th
No matter how I’m feeling—up, down, whatever—he makes me feel better.
Tony Allen (1940-), drummer
Live, Paris, 2015
#1
#2
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Live (with Oghene Kologbo & World Squad), Brussels, 2014
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Interview, 2015
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lagniappe
random sights
this morning, Oak Park, Ill. (Roscoe, my granddog)
2016
Wednesday, June 29th
More.
Morton Feldman (1926-1987), Palais de Mari (1986)
Ivan Ilić (piano), 2014
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lagniappe
random sights
this morning, Chicago (Columbus Park)
2016
Tuesday, June 28th
MCOTD Hall of Fame
Morton Feldman (1926-1987), For Bunita Marcus (1985), excerpt
Ivan Ilić (piano and commentary), 2015
2016
Monday, June 27th
Why not start the week with a walk through an enchanted landscape?
Earle Brown (1926-2002), Available Forms I, 1961
Callithumpian Consort, live, Boston, 2013
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lagniappe
reading table
Money’s the cheapest thing. Liberty and freedom is the most expensive.
—photographer Bill Cunningham, New York Times obituary, 6/25/16
2016
Saturday, June 25th
Entering his sound-world isn’t hard. What’s hard is leaving.
Tristan Murail (1947-), La Barque mystique, 1993
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