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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).

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2016

Saturday, July 2nd

MCOTD Hall of Fame

Henry Threadgill (1944-, composer, alto saxophonist, flutist, bandleader, 2016 Pulitzer Prize winner), playing and talking, 2010

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2016

Friday, July 1st

what’s new

Aphex Twin, “CIRKLON3” (video by Ryan Wyer, age 12, Ireland), 6/21/16

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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

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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)

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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)

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2016

Tuesday, June 28th

MCOTD Hall of Fame

Morton Feldman (1926-1987), For Bunita Marcus (1985), excerpt
Ivan Ilić (piano and commentary), 2015

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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

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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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2016

Friday, June 24th

what’s new

Wyclef Jean, “Hendrix,” 6/17/16

 

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2016

Wednesday, June 22nd

sounds of New Orleans

Professor Longhair (1918-1980), live, New Orleans (Riverboat President, New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival), 1979*


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*Set list (courtesy of YouTube):
1. Mess Around
2. Every Day I Have The Blues
3. Big Chief
4. Mardi Gras In New Orleans
5. Tipitina
6. How Long (Has That Train Been Gone)
7. Got My Mojo Working

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