Saturday, 11/17/12
My heaven, I said the other day, is full of string quartets—dancers, too.
New York City Ballet, 2012
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2012
Thursday, 11/15/12
keep on dancing
Theo Parrish, Detroit-based DJ/producer
“Smile,” 1997
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Talking music (record digging, technology, DJing, etc.), 2012
2012
Wednesday, 11/14/12
alone
Chris “Daddy” Dave (Chris Dave Trio), live, Japan (Osaka), 2010
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musical thoughts
If we are what we listen to, what are you?
2012
Monday, 11/12/12
How could one not be hopeful knowing this clip’s been viewed, as of today, over 700 million times?
PSY (AKA Park Jae-sang), “Gangnam Style,” 7/12
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Here’s another take.
Ai Weiwei (Chinese artist and dissident), 10/12
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found words
Caution—the moving walkway is ending.
—yesterday, Midway Airport (Chicago), returning from an aunt’s memorial service
2012
Wednesday, 11/7/12
post-election special
Weary of words?
John Luther Adams, The Light That Fills the World (chamber version, revised 2001), excerpt
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art beat: Saturday at the Art Institute of Chicago
Paul Strand, The Court, New York (1924)
Film and Photo in New York (through 11/25/12)
2012
Tuesday, 11/6/12
A reader writes:
Have you seen these films?
Furry Lewis, guitar
William Eggleston, Stranded in Canton (1973-74)
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More?
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reading table
“Election Day”
By William Carlos Williams (1940)Warm sun, quiet air
an old man sitsin the doorway of
a broken house—boards for windows
plaster fallingfrom between the stones
and strokes the headof a spotted dog
2012
Saturday, 11/3/12
It must have been a comfort, when she was dying, to be able to say to her son, whose trumpet she’d heard since he was a little boy, these are the songs I want you to play at my memorial service.
Dave Douglas Quintet* with guest Aoife O’Donovan (vocal), “Be Still My Soul” (words by Katharina A. von Schlegel, adapted by Aoife O’Donovan, music by Jean Sibelius, arranged by Dave Douglas), recording session (Be Still, 2012)
*DD, trumpet; Jon Irabagon, saxophone; Matt Mitchell, piano; Linda Oh, bass; Rudy Royston, drums.
2012
Friday, 11/2/12
three takes
This old world may never change . . .
“The Dolphins” (F. Neil)
Terry Callier & Beth Orton, TV show (Later with Jools Holland, BBC), 1998
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Tim Buckley, TV show (The Old Grey Whistle Test, BBC), 1974
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Fred Neil, recording, 1966
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lagniappe
random thoughts
What was it like—your last breath, the one before that, the one before?
2012
Monday, 10/29/12
Miles
Miles Davis Group,* live, Germany (Berlin), 1971
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art beat: Friday at the Art Institute of Chicago (after a hearing at the nearby federal court building)
Allen Ruppersberg, No Time Left To Start Again/The B and D of R’n’R (through 1/6/13)**
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*With Gary Bartz, saxophones; Keith Jarrett, keyboards; Michael Henderson, bass; Leon Chancler, drums; Don Alias & James Mtume, percussion.
**“B and D”=birth and death.
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