This’ll fortify you for the whole week.
Bernard “Pretty” Purdie, live
Vodpod videos no longer available.Wanna loop this, so it plays over and over? Here.
keep on dancing
(an occasional series)
If nothing bad ever happens while you’re dancing, can dancing keep anything bad from ever happening?
Arnold Jarvis, “Take Some Time Out” (1987)
Original Club Mix
Vodpod videos no longer available.***
Rugged Riddim Mix
Vodpod videos no longer available.***
Dub/Instrumental Mix
Vodpod videos no longer available.People Like Us (aka Vicki Bennett), “DrivingFlyingRisingFalling”
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lagniappe
listening room
What did I listen to last night?
A radio show I’d never heard before—Antique Phonograph Music Program with MAC (WFMU-FM), which features old (really old, like 90, 100, 110 years old) 78s and cylinders, played on period hand-cranked players. Last night’s program, as well as previous shows, can be heard here.
Here’s a different take—one deeply indebted to Lester Bowie—on the
brass band.
Dave Douglas & Brass Ecstasy
DD, trumpet; Louis Bonilla, trombone; Vincent Chancey, horn (AKA French horn); Marcus Rojas, tuba; Nasheet Waits, drums
“Bowie,” recording session (Spirit Moves, 2009)
Vodpod videos no longer available.***
“Spirit Moves,” “This Love Affair,” “Twilight of the Dogs”
Live, Washington, D.C., 2009
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lagniappe
reading table
How can I possibly sleep
This moonlit evening?
Come, my friends,
Let’s sing and dance
All night long.—Ryokan (1758-1831), trans. John Stevens
scenes from New Orleans
(an occasional series)
Rebirth Brass Band, live, Maple Leaf Bar (where RBB plays Tuesday nights), New Orleans, 2011
“Big Chief”
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“I Like It Like That”
Quiet beauty—what a novel concept these days.
*AR (Autumn Richardson, Richard Skelton), “Rise”
Vodpod videos no longer available.Someday, just as I sometimes do with my own father, who’s been gone for over thirty years, my older son Alex, now twenty-three, will recall occasions, after I’m gone, when he and I went out to hear live music together, like, for instance, last night, when we saw this group, from Africa, who are on their first U.S. tour.
Group Doueh, live, England (Bristol), 5/10/11
Vodpod videos no longer available.only rock ’n roll
(an occasional series)
Hasil Adkins with SCOTS (Southern Culture on the Skids), “Hubcap Hunch”
Live, Sleazefest, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1994
one man’s meat, etc.
(an occasional series)
The other night I happened upon a live set by this guy on WKCR-FM’s Live Constructions—after a few minutes, it felt as though someone had poured a bottle of Drano down my ears (which, actually, I mean as a compliment).
Rust Worship (Paul Haney), live, New York, 2009
Music? Noise? What’s the difference?
