Thursday, November 7th
Feel like floating?
Morton Feldman (1926-1987), For Philip Guston (1984)
S.E.M. Ensemble, 2000
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2013
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Wednesday, November 6th
love it or hate it
Terrie Ex (guitar), Paal Nilssen-Love (drums), live, Paris, 2012
#1
#2
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lagniappe
art beat
Danny Lyon (1942-), Chicago (Uptown), 1965
2013
Tuesday, November 5th
This guy, like another New Yorker,* contains multitudes.
John Zorn (with Marc Ribot, guitar; John Medeski, keyboards, et al.), live, Poland (Warsaw), 2013
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
All the various styles are organically connected to one another. I’m an additive person—the entire storehouse of my knowledge informs everything I do. People are so obsessed with the surface that they can’t see the connections, but they are there.
—John Zorn
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*Walt Whitman (“Song of Myself”): “I am large, I contain multitudes.”
2013
Saturday, October 26th
adlib-ability
Drummer Big Black (AKA Daniel Ray, 1934-), talking and playing (with Go: Organic Orchestra, Venice, Calif., 2005)
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lagniappe
art beat
Helen Levitt (1913-2009), New York, c. 1940
2013
Tuesday, October 22nd
two takes
“I Thought About You” (J. Van Heusen & J. Mercer)
Jeanne Lee (vocals) with Mal Waldron (piano), et al.
Live, France (Marciac), 2000
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Mildred Bailey (vocals) with Benny Goodman (clarinet), et al.
Recording, 1939
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art beat
Garry Winogrand (1928-1984)
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
2013
Monday, October 14th
less is more*
Rashied Ali (drums), Leroy Jenkins (violin), “Swift Are the Winds of Life,” 1975
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*Sometimes, anyway.
2013
Thursday, October 10th
alone
Need a jump-start?
Cecil Taylor (1929-), piano, “Looking (Berlin Version) Solo,” live, Berlin, 1989
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
When you are playing, whether you know it or not, you are dancing.
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art beat
Lee Friedlander (1934-)
2013
Wednesday, October 9th
homage to John Cage
2013
Tuesday, October 8th
alone
György Kurtág (1926-), Perpetuum Mobile (from Játékok [Games])
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lagniappe
reading table
‘There is no God and Mary is His Mother.’
—Robert Lowell (1917-1977), “For George Santayana” (excerpt)
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