Saturday, July 6th
blues for the USA
Gary Nicholson with Ruthie Foster, “God Help America” (G. Nicholson), 2018
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: hard-to-peg
2019
Thursday, July 4th
Happy Fourth of July!
Professor Longhair (1918-1980), “Big Chief,” live, Switzerland (Montreux Jazz Festival), 1973
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Charles Ives (1874-1954), A Symphony: New England Holidays, Third Movt. (“The Fourth of July”); GSW Orchestra (Orlando Cela, cond.; Alex Blake, guest cond.), live
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Tommy Jarrell (1901-1985), “Let Me Fall,” live, North Carolina (Mount Airy), 1983
2019
Wednesday, July 3rd
what’s new
Louie Vega (DJ), live (The Lot Radio), New York, 6/20/19
2019
Tuesday, July 2nd
like nobody else
Blossom Dearie (1924-2009), “Sophisticated Lady” (D. Ellington, I. Mills, M. Parrish), live, 1983
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lagniappe
random sights
this morning, Oak Park, Ill.
2019
Friday, June 28th
She’s on to something—what, I’m not quite sure.
Alyona, Alyona, “Залишаю свій дім,” 2018
the song is about the fact that she leaves her home and parents in the province and moved to the capital (Kiev)
—YouTube comment
(More? Here.)
2019
Tuesday, June 25th
floating down the river
Wadada Leo Smith, “Emmett Till: Defiant, Fearless” (W.L. Smith), live, Glendora, Miss., 2017
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lagniappe
random sights
this morning, Oak Park, Ill.
2019
Wednesday, June 19th
what’s new
Rosanne Cash and Ry Cooder (with John Leventhal [guitar], Joachim Cooder [drums], et al.), live, last night, Chicago (Chicago Theatre)
“Long Black Veil” (Danny Dill, Marijohn Wilkin)
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“Ring of Fire” (June Carter Cash, Merle Kilgore)
2019
Tuesday, June 18th
like-nobody-else x 2
Cecil Taylor Trio (CT, 1929-2018, piano; Jimmy Lyons, alto saxophone; Sunny Murray, drums) with Albert Ayler (1936-1970, tenor saxophone), “Four,” excerpt (C. Taylor), live, Copenhagen, 1962
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lagniappe
reading table
A Bomb upon the Ceiling
Is an improving thing –
It keeps the nerves progressive
Conjecture flourishing –—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), from 1150 (Franklin)
2019
Thursday, June 13th
more
Tyshawn Sorey (1980-), Nebulae (2018); PRISM Quartet and Tyshawn Sorey (percussion), live, New York, 2018
