Monday, March 2nd
keep on dancing
Theo Parrish
“Footwork,” 2014
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“Tympanic Warfare,” 2014
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lagniappe
random thoughts
We will be outlived by our cell phones.
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: hard-to-peg
2015
2015
Saturday, February 28th
last night in Chicago
These guys played at Constellation.
James Falzone’s Renga Ensemble,* “Not Seeing” (The Room Is), 2015
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lagniappe
reading table
sweeping the soot
washing the fence . . .
sickle moon—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827; translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)
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*James Falzone, Bb and Eb clarinets; Ken Vandermark, Bb clarinet, bass clarinet, baritone saxophone; Keefe Jackson, tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, contra Bb bass clarinet; Jason Stein, bass clarinet; Ben Goldberg, Bb clarinet, contra Eb alto clarinet; Ned Rothenberg, Bb clarinet, alto saxophone.
2015
Friday, February 27th
sounds of Chicago
Goofiness is a much underrated virtue.
Mucca Pazza, live, Washington, D.C., 2015
2015
Thursday, February 26th
Soundtrack for your day?
Peter Brotzmann Tentet,* live, Atlanta, 2002
*PB, reeds; Ken Vandermark, reeds; Mats Gustafsson, reeds; Mars Williams, reeds; Joe McPhee, trumpet; Jeb Bishop, trombone; Fred Longberg-Holm, cello; Kent Kessler, bass; Hamid Drake, drums; Michael Zerang, drums.
2015
Tuesday, February 24th
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
—Muhammad Ali
Cecil Taylor Quintet (CT, piano; Harri Sjostrom, soprano saxophone; Tristan Honsinger, cello; Thurman Barker, marimba, percussion; Paul Lovens, drums), live, Germany (Hamburg), 1995
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lagniappe
art beat
William Klein (1928-), Blacks + Pepsi (AKA Moves + Pepsi)
Harlem, New York, 1955
2015
Monday, February 23rd
More of Daniel K.
Daniel Knox, “Blue Car,” 2014
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lagniappe
art beat
William Klein (1928-), Candy Store, Amsterdam Avenue, New York, 1955
2015
Friday, February 20th
what’s new
Daniel Knox, “Don’t Touch Me” (Daniel Knox, Carrot Top Records, 2/24/15)
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lagniappe
reading table
Some people really are what they seem to be—though not that many.
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Like most explanations, it’s as plausible as anything else.
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Character, to me, is one more lie of history and the dramatic arts. In my view, we have only what we did yesterday, what we do today, and what we might do tomorrow. Plus, whatever we think about all of that. But nothing else—nothing hard or kernel like. I’ve never seen evidence of anything resembling it. In fact I’ve seen the opposite: life as teeming and befuddling, followed by the end.
—Richard Ford, “The New Normal” (Let Me Be Frank With You)
2015
Tuesday, February 17th
white folks got soul, too
(day two)
Tony Joe White & Shelby Lynne, live, Nashville, 2010
“Rainy Night in Georgia” (T. J. White)
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“Can’t Go Back Home” (T. J. White)
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lagniappe
reading table
“Did I forget to mention that when you’re dead
You’re dead a long time.
My uncle, dying, told me this when asked, Why stay here for such suffering.”
—Lucie Brock-Broido, “Currying the Fallow-Colored Horse” (Stay, Illusion)
2015
Saturday, February 14th
Something cheery to start the weekend.
Lucinda Williams, “It’s Gonna Rain” (L. Williams), live (studio performance), Seattle, 2/11/15
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lagniappe
reading table
How can you give orders when nobody is listening?
—John Ashbery, “Be Careful What You Wish For” (New York Review of Books, 3/5/15)
2015
Tuesday, February 10th
more sounds of Mali
Toumani Diabate (kora), live, India (New Delhi), 2011
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lagniappe
random thoughts
If today is the answer, what is the question?
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taking a break
I’m taking some time off—back in a while.
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