In Chicago last night, at Constellation, I heard her play. One-word review: riveting. How many musicians create their own vocabulary, their own syntax, their own inflections?
Okkyung Lee, cello
Live, London, 2009
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Live, Latvia (Riga), 2014
This is a sound-world I’d be happy to inhabit all day.
Anna Thorvaldsdóttir (1977-), Ró (2013); Esbjerg Ensemble, live
14 strings + drums
Tomeka Reid Quartet (TR, cello, compositions; Mary Halvorson, guitar; Jason Roebke, bass; Tomas Fujiwara, drums), live, New York, 3/8/16
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Chicago (Columbus Park)
passings
Lonnie Mack, guitarist, singer, songwriter, July 18, 1941-April 21, 2016
“Memphis” (C. Berry), 1963
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“She Don’t Come Here Anymore,” 1966
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“Farther on Down the Road,” live (with Albert Collins, Roy Buchanan), New York (Carnegie Hall), 1985
what’s new
Vijay Iyer (keyboards), Wadada Leo Smith (trumpet), A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke, 2016
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“Passages”
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lagniappe
random sights
this morning, Oak Park, Ill.
More.
Henry Threadgill’s Society Situation Dance Band
Live, Germany (Hamburg), 1988
#1
#2
#3
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Henry Threadgill and His Very Very Circus
“Too Much Sugar for a Dime,” live, New York, 1995
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lagniappe
random sights
this morning, Oak Park, Ill.
MCOTD Hall of Famer—and, as of yesterday, Pulitzer Prize Winner.
Henry Threadgill’s Zooid
Live, Poland (Warsaw), 2011
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Live, New York, 2013
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Live, Washington, D.C., 2013
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
All music is classical music, you know. I don’t put up boundaries on music.
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Of course I started out in an ethnic community, with the blues and church music and jazz. But that was just one place to start. You read fiction then you start reading nonfiction! You start reading biographies and scientific accounts. It doesn’t change where you came from. It just broadens it. That’s what we do, we keep building on the foundation where we come from. You don’t lose it, you just keep building on it.
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I think we’ve gotten used to the dissonant, so it’s not even dissonant any more.
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[W]e have no control over anything but what we do. I just try to stay hopeful: I don’t want to get too pessimistic about anything.
—Henry Threadgill, The Guardian, 4/18/16
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the beat goes on
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Getatchew Mekurya (1935-2016), c. 1972
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“Tezeta,” “Muziqa heywete,”
passings
Getatchew Mekurya, saxophonist, March 14, 1935-April 4, 2016
Live with The Ex (music begins at 2:25), Netherlands (Nijmegen), 2011
sounds of Syria
Omar Souleyman, “Bahdeni Nami” (prod. by Four Tet), 2015
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