Thursday, 9/27/12
love it or hate it
Bill Orcutt (guitar), Chris Corsano (drums), live, Wind Gap, Pa., 9/3/12
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love it or hate it
Bill Orcutt (guitar), Chris Corsano (drums), live, Wind Gap, Pa., 9/3/12
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street music: Bangalore (India)
Four drummers, 2010
bloodlines
Ravi Coltrane (JC’s son), tenor saxophone; Matt Garrison, bass (son of Coltrane bassist Jimmy Garrison); Nikki Glaspie, drums; live (Le Poisson Rouge), New York, 1/7/12
Questlove (:10-) & Tony Allen (1:25-), live, Paris, 2011
What a contrast. Questlove, focusing on power and momentum, pushes the beat. Tony lies behind it, skips ahead, lies back again, favoring suppleness and elasticity.
shhhh . . .
Joe McPhee, “Old Eyes” (for Ornette Coleman), live, New York, 2009
Kaija Saariaho, Fall (1991, from the ballet Maa); Nuiko Wadden (harp), Ryan Streber (electronics); Mount Holyoke College (South Hadley, Mass.), 2010
One of the joys of having grown children is going out with them to hear live music, as I did the other night, meeting my older son Alex after work at a Chicago art gallery (Corbett vs. Dempsey) for a solo performance by this harpist.
street music: London
Dave Crowe, beatbox, 2011
earthy (horns) + ethereal (vibes) = enthralling
Peter Brötzmann (saxophones, tarogato) and Jason Adasiewicz (vibraphone), live, New York (Le Poisson Rouge), 9/5/12
Part 1
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Tonight these guys will be at the Hideout, a little club on Chicago’s near northwest side, which is where I’ll be too.
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lagniappe
reading table
Four trees – upon a solitary Acre –
Without Design
Or Order, or Apparent Action –
Maintain –The Sun – upon a Morning meets them –
The Wind –
No nearer Neighbor – have they –
But God –The Acre gives them – Place –
They – Him – Attention of Passer by –
Of Shadow, or of Squirrel, haply –
Or Boy –What Deed is Theirs unto the General Nature –
What Plan
They severally – retard – or further –
Unknown –—Emily Dickinson
Her stuff, I’ve found, can be habit-forming.
Grimes, live (studio performance), 2012
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lagniappe
reading table
washing my laundry
with my clothes on . . .
summer rain—Kobayashi Issa, 1821 (translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)
love it or hate it
Fire Room (Ken Vandermark, reeds; Lasse Marhaug, electronics; Paal Nilssen-Love, percussion), live, Poland (Poznań), 2011
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
What Emily Dickinson says of poetry applies to music too: “If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.”
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