You may find it difficult to remember someone’s favorite foods or to recall their favorite movies. But their favorite music? Today’s my mother’s birthday; she’s been gone a long time. This guy she loved.
The King Cole Trio (Nat King Cole, piano & vocals; Oscar Moore, guitar; Johnny Miller, bass), “It is Better to Be by Yourself” (Breakfast in Hollywood, 1946)
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art beat: more from Thursday’s stop at Chicago’s Art Institute
Hiroshi Yoshida, Three Little Islands (1930)
sounds from Tokyo
(an occasional series)
Live from Tokyo (2010)
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(an occasional series)
George W. Johnson, “Negro Laughing Song” (rec. 1901)
keep on dancing
(an occasional series)
Peven Everett, “Stuck”
take 1: live, London, 2008
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take 2: original recording (Soul Heaven Records 2006)
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take 3: Phil Asher Remix (2006)
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take 4: Groove Assassin Remix (2007)
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Did you come up in the house music community of Chicago?
My brother was in that community before he passed away. Every night he was going out. That was a way of me basically paying homage to him, and finding the fruit, if you will, in that community that had yet to been picked. There’s so much that has to be said about music, and dance music altogether. People have been dancing since the beginning of time, so I don’t know what this whole “dance music” [label] is about.
—Peven Everett, Chicago Reader, 7/21/11
sounds of London
(an occasional series)
Drowned City
(documentary on London’s pirate radio scene [forthcoming])
#1
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#2
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“Grown So Ugly” (Robert Pete Williams)
I got so ugly, I don’t even know myself . . .
Black Keys
Live, Nashville (Grimey’s Record Store), 2006
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Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band (with Ry Cooder, guitar)
Safe As Milk, 1967
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Robert Pete Williams
Free Again, 1961
This is, to these ears, one of the greatest—most vivid, most haunting—songs in all of blues.
The other night, as we headed home after having dinner at a Mexican restaurant I first went to when I was about his age (Nuevo Leon, 1515 W. 18th St., Chicago), my (23-year-old son) Alex slid these guys into the dashboard CD player.
TV on the Radio, Nine Types of Light (2011)
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What an unexpected delight it was to receive, in yesterday’s mail, a note from New Orleans trumpeter Lionel Ferbos, the world’s oldest performing jazz musician (previously mentioned here and here), thanking me for the card I sent him for his 100th birthday.
What better way to start the workweek?
Joe Lee Wilson, singer, December 22, 1935-July 17, 2011
Archie Shepp, “Money Blues” (featuring Joe Lee Wilson, lead vocals)
Things Have Got To Change (Impulse!), 1971
Part #1
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Part #2
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Around Joe Lee (excerpt)
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James Booker, December 17, 1939-November 8, 1983
“Classified,” live, Switzerland (Montreux Jazz Festival), 1978
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Playing for friends (home video), Europe, 1978
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art beat
Lucian Freud, December 8, 1922-July 20, 2011
Self-Portrait: Reflection (2002)
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