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Wednesday, 2/2/11

How many musicians are so at home, and give so much pleasure,
in so many styles?

Marc Ribot, guitar

Border Music, with David Hidalgo (Los Lobos, Latin Playboys)

Live (with Anthony Coleman, organ; Brad Jones, bass; Cougar Estrada, drums; Fabian Hevia, percussion), Australia (Sydney), 6/2/10

“Choserita Plena” (Marc Ribot)

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“Chinese Surprize” (David Hidalgo)

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Live (with Rob Burger, keyboards; Greg Cohen, bass; Cougar Estrada, drums; with guests Juan Medrano Cotito, cajon, and Hugo Bravo, congas),
Germany, 11/10/09

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More? Here. And here. And here.

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Tuesday, 2/1/11

I can’t make up my mind about the Internet.

Does it make it possible, with simply a click, to travel anywhere in the world?

Or is it just a vast collection of electronic wallpaper?

Are these the right questions?

Baloji, “Tout Ceci Ne Vous Rendra Pas le Congo” (Hotel Impala), 2007

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radio

Having just completed two days of trumpeter Roy Eldridge’s music, WKCR-FM (broadcasting from Columbia University) begins a 24-hour Memorial Broadcast honoring composer Milton Babbitt, who passed away Saturday at the age of 94.

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2011

Wednesday, 1/19/11

Feeling lousy?

This’ll make you feel good.

Feeling good?

This’ll make you feel better.

It ain’t subtle. And sometimes their energy outdistances their musicianship.
But when they’re on their game, it jumps.

Bahamas Shed Session with drummers Mannix Evans, Ken McKenzie, Samuel Murphy & Christian Pratt; live; Bahamas (Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Nassau)

Part 1

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Part 2

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Part 3

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2011

Tuesday, 1/18/11

two takes

The other night, as my older son Alex packed up his stuff for the next day’s trip back to school, this played on his computer—over and over and over.

The Mountain Goats, “This Year”

#1: recording (The Sunset Tree), 2005

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#2: live, Iowa (Ames), 2006

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art beat

Lee Friedlander, New York City (Self-Portrait), c. 1960(?)

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More Son Seals

Last night I discovered that two of the sets Son played at the Bottom Line in January of 1978 can be heard here and here. The second features a guest
artist—Johnny Winter.

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2011

Saturday, 1/15/11

Some music conjures a world so benign you don’t want to leave.

William Duckworth, Gymel (1973)/Southern Illinois University Percussion Ensemble, live, 2008

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2011

Friday, 1/14/11

what’s new
(an occasional series)

Here’s some stuff my older (23-year-old) son Alex, who heads back to school Sunday, shared with me the other night.

Zoo Kid (AKA Archy Marshall [16 years old, lives in London]), “Out Getting Ribs,” 2010

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Destroyer, “Kaputt,” 2011

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M.I.A., “Bad Girls,” 2010

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reading table

If humor loosens the grip of logic, and poetry does too, how come there isn’t more humor in poetry?

David Kirby, “The Search for Baby Combover,” Atlanta, 2007

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2011

Wednesday, 1/12/11

Subtlety has its place; but so does noise.

Whoopie Pie with guest Marc Ribot (guitar), live, New York, 2009

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reading table

It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the age of sixty by an incurable degenerative disorder from which he must shortly die. But there is more than one sort of luck. To fall prey to a motor neuron disease is surely to have offended the Gods at some point, and there is nothing more to be said. But if you must suffer thus, better to have a well-stocked head.

—Tony Judt, The Memory Chalet (2010)

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radio

Simone Dinnerstein, featured here a couple weeks ago, was on NPR’s All Things Considered the other day.