Saturday, 11/20/10
I don’t know how boys do it these days—grow up, that is, without ever dreaming of being a cowboy.
Sunshine Boys (featuring J.D. Sumner), “We’re Gonna Ride on the Golden Range,” 1951 (Prairie Roundup)
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2010
Wednesday, 11/17/10
Do not find yourself in the music, but find the music in yourself.
—Heinrich Neuhaus (Russian piano teacher whose students included Sviatoslav Richter, Emil Gilels, Radu Lupu, et al.)
Marilyn Crispell, “Dear Lord” (John Coltrane), live
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“Jesus Dropped The Charges” [The O’Neal Twins, Sunday, 11/7/10] made my day.
2010
Tuesday, 11/16/10
Find a note that pleases you.
Then another.
And another.
—Cecil Taylor (when asked what advice he would give to a young musician)
Cecil Taylor, live, 1981 (Imagine the Sound)
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art beat
Going to an art museum you never know what you may encounter. This painting, for instance, I’d never laid eyes on—never even heard of the artist—until I happened upon it the other day at Chicago’s Art Institute.
Arthur Wesley Dow (American, 1857-1922), Boats at Rest
2010
Monday, 11/15/10
Madonna would’ve been a big star back then, too.
“Snake Hips (Do The Wiggle Waggle Woo),” Happy Days (1929), with Sharon Lynn (singer), Ann Pennington (dancer)
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reading table
As I sd to my
friend, because I am
always talking, — John, Isd, which was not his
name, the darkness sur-
rounds us, whatcan we do against
it, or else, shall we &
why not, buy a goddamn big car,drive, he sd, for
christ’s sake, look
out where yr going.—Robert Creeley (I Know a Man)
Want to hear Creeley read this? Here (MP3).
2010
Saturday, 11/13/10
what’s new
(an occasional series)
The Books, “I Didn’t Know That” (2010)
(Want more of The Books? Here.)
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Prince Rama, “Om Namo Shivaya” (2010)
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Glasser, “Mirrorage” (2010)
2010
Wednesday, 11/10/10
two takes
Some lyrics sound as though they want to be read; others would look silly on the page but, unlike the page-worthy, they sing.
“If I Had A Boat” (Lyle Lovett)
Lyle Lovett, live (TV broadcast), 2004
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The Holmes Brothers, State Of Grace (Alligator), 2007
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Gregory Isaacs/p.s.
Yesterday’s link to WKCR-FM’s Memorial Broadcast didn’t work right (only a fraction of the show could be accessed), but it does now.
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reading table
To fall into despair is just a high-class way of turning into a dope. I choose to laugh, and laugh at myself no less than at others.
—Saul Bellow, Letters (2010) (as quoted in yesterday’s New York Times review)
2010
Tuesday, 10/26/10
two takes
“Exit Music (For A Film)”
Radiohead, live
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Brad Mehldau Trio, live, San Francisco
2010
Saturday, 10/23/10
Your 16-year-old daughter dies, suddenly, in a car accident.
What do you do?
If you’re pianist/composer Kenny Werner, what you do is create music.
Kenny Werner, No Beginning No End (featuring Joe Lovano, tenor saxophone), recording session, New York (NYU), 2009
2010
Tuesday, 10/19/10
recipe
3 strings
~20 hands
~10 voices
2 feet
Mix lightly; let rise.
Malem Mustafa Bakbou, gimbri; live; Gnawa lila; Morocco (Marrekech), 1990
Want more music from Morocco? Here.
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reading table
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
—Samuel Beckett, Worstword Ho (1983)
2010
Thursday, 10/14/10
Great horn players don’t play—they sing.
Pharoah Sanders (tenor saxophone, with Paul Arslanian, harmonium), “Kazuko,” live, California (Marin Headland), 1982
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Trane was the father. Pharoah was the son. I was the holy ghost.
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Want more of the late Albertina Walker?
This week’s Gospel Memories (WLUW-FM)—available here—is devoted entirely to her music.
