Tuesday, October 17th
sounds of Seattle
Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio, live, Seattle, 2017
**********
lagniappe
art beat
Berenice Abbott (1898-1991), Pine and Henry Streets, New York, 1936
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: jazz
2017
Monday, October 16th
What better way to start the week?
Thelonious Monk Quartet (TM, piano; Charlie Rouse, tenor saxophone; Butch Warren, bass; Frankie Dunlop, drums), “Epistrophy” (T. Monk), live, Tokyo, 1963
**********
lagniappe
art beat
Berenice Abbott (1898-1991), Red River logging project, California, August, 1943
2017
Tuesday, October 10th
drum festival
day two
Hamid Drake (MCOTD Hall of Fame, drums), Sylvain Kassap (clarinets), Benjamin Duboc (bass), live, France (Pantin), 2016
**********
lagniappe
reading table
I haven’t died before, so I sometimes get a bad case of beginner’s nerves, but they soon pass.
—Cory Taylor (1955-2016), Dying: A Memoir
2017
Monday, October 9th
drum festival
day one
Dafnis Prieto Sextet (DP, drums; Peter Apfelbaum, tenor saxophone; Alex Sipiagin, trumpet; Roman Filiu, alto saxophone; Manuel Valera , piano; Johannes Weidenmueller, bass), “Back and Forth” (D. Prieto), live, East Lansing, Mich., 2017
2017
Saturday, September 30th
astringent, adj. sharp and penetrating. E.g., the playing of Ran Blake and Steve Lacy.
Ran Blake (piano) & Steve Lacy (soprano saxophone), “The Man I Love” (G. Gershwin), 1991 (That Certain Feeling)
2017
Tuesday, September 12th
Sometimes a simple melody can be more than enough.
Frank Lacy and 10³²K (FL, trombone; Kevin Ray, bass; Andrew Drury, percussion), “I’ll Be Right Here Waiting” (S. McCall), live, Troy, N.Y., 2016
**********
lagniappe
reading table
from the mist
stinging insects
emerge—Kobayashi Issa, 1763-1827 (translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)
2017
Saturday, September 2nd
more
They’re playing tonight.
BassDrumBone (Mark Helias, bass; Gerry Hemingway, drums; Ray Anderson, trombone), “Kinda Garnerish” (R. Anderson), live, New York, 2015
**********
lagniappe
reading table
though a poor-soiled
province . . .
such fireflies—Kobayashi Issa, 1763-1827 (translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)
2017
Friday, September 1st
this weekend in Chicago
They’re playing, tomorrow afternoon, at the Chicago Jazz Festival.
Mary Halvorson Octet, “Away with You (No. 55),” live, New York, 2017
**********
lagniappe
reading table
The rain is less an atmospheric condition at this point than a kind of state of being, like mourning, that can’t be forgotten unless you’re asleep.
—Matt Pearce, “On the road in Texas, where all the roads look like rivers,” Los Angeles Times, 8/29/17
2017
Thursday, August 17th
what’s new
Matt Wilson’s Honey and Salt (music inspired by the poetry of Carl Sandburg), 8/25/17
**********
lagniappe
art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), Portrait Head of Martinique Woman with Kerchief, 1887-1888 (Gauguin: Artist as Alchemist, through September 10th)
2017
Wednesday, August 16th
like nobody else
Henry Threadgill (alto saxophone, composition; MCOTD Hall of Fame) & Make a Move, live, Italy (Perugia), 1996
**********
lagniappe
art beat: yesterday, Art Institute of Chicago
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), Vase in the Form of Leda and the Swan, 1887-1888 (Gauguin: Artist as Alchemist, through September 10th)
music clip of the day 