only rock ’n’ roll
What’s old is new again.
Alabama Shakes, live
Pegasus Records, Florence, Alabama, 8/21/11
“I Found You”
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“Hold On”
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lagniappe
Just Like Being There (2012)
Happy (82nd) Birthday, Ornette!
Ornette Coleman Quartet with guests Joshua Redman (tenor saxophone), James Blood Ulmer (guitar), Charlie Haden (bass), live, Netherlands (North Sea Jazz Festival, Rotterdam), 2010
Part 1
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Part 2
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Part 3
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Part 4
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Part 5
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lagniappe
radio
WKCR-FM (Columbia University): all Ornette, all day.
John Cage, Two (1987)
Live, Netherlands (Amsterdam), 2009
Dante Boon (piano), Rutger van Otterloo (soprano saxophone)
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Recording, 1991 (hat Art)
Marianne Schroeder (piano), Eberhard Blum (flute)
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
Every something is an echo of nothing.
—John Cage, Silence (1961)
what’s new
Grimes, “Genesis”
Recording, Visions, 2/12
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Live, San Francisco (The Sub), 5/11
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lagniappe
found words
Your password will expire after 9999 day(s).
—message from my health club, after registering at their website
The Golden Age of Television
Johnny Horton, “The Battle of New Orleans” (J. Driftwood)
The Ed Sullivan Show, 1959
My political platform?
Dancing in the White House every day.
Savion Glover and his NYOTs (Not Your Ordinary Tappers: Omar Edwards, Abron Glover, Jason Samuels, Ayodele Casel), White House, 1998
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
[D]ance first and think afterwards . . . . It’s the natural order.
—Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot (1953, 1955 [English language premiere])
(Quote originally posted 1/1/11.)
Some music creates a space so mysterious—so different from what you ordinarily inhabit—that the moment it ends you feel bereft.
Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996), Rain Tree, Line C3, New York, 2011
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