only rock ’n’ roll
I’ve got another band for you . . .
—my (25-year-old) son Alex, earlier this week, before playing me a couple tracks off their new album (Lonerism)
Tame Impala, live (“Be Above It,” “Solitude Is Bliss,” “Endors Toi”), New York (Webster Hall), 11/10/12
Will the ’60s ever end?
Albert Collins (1932-1993), “Lights Are On But Nobody’s Home,” live, Austin, Tx., 1988
How strange to think that Albert, a sweet, warm, gentle guy I had the good fortune to work with in the ’70s while at Alligator Records, has been gone nearly 20 years.
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
There’s one cat I’m still trying to get across to people. He is really good, one of the best guitarists in the world.
post-election special
Weary of words?
John Luther Adams, The Light That Fills the World (chamber version, revised 2001), excerpt
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lagniappe
art beat: Saturday at the Art Institute of Chicago
Paul Strand, The Court, New York (1924)
Film and Photo in New York (through 11/25/12)
The body knows things the mind will never understand.
D’Angelo (with Jesse Johnson, guitar; Pino Palladino, bass; Chris “Daddy” Dave, drums, et al.), “Chicken Grease,” live, Switzerland (Zurich), 2012
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lagniappe
art beat: Saturday at the Art Institute of Chicago
Morris Engel, Harlem Merchant (1936)
Film and Photo in New York (through 11/25/12)
Miles
Miles Davis Group,* live, Germany (Berlin), 1971
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lagniappe
art beat: Friday at the Art Institute of Chicago (after a hearing at the nearby federal court building)
Allen Ruppersberg, No Time Left To Start Again/The B and D of R’n’R (through 1/6/13)**
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*With Gary Bartz, saxophones; Keith Jarrett, keyboards; Michael Henderson, bass; Leon Chancler, drums; Don Alias & James Mtume, percussion.
**“B and D”=birth and death.
neo neo soul
D’Angelo, “The Charade,” live, Switzerland (Zurich), 2012
Her stuff, I’ve found, can be habit-forming.
Grimes, live (studio performance), 2012
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lagniappe
reading table
washing my laundry
with my clothes on . . .
summer rain—Kobayashi Issa, 1821 (translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)
only rock ’n’ roll
Wilco, live, Barcelona (Primavera Sound Festival), 5/31/12
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timeless
Sly and the Family Stone
“Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Again),” TV Show (Soul Train), 1974
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“In Time,” Fresh, 1973
Jazz legend Miles Davis was so impressed by the song “In Time” . . . that he made his band listen to the track repeatedly for a full 30 minutes. Composer and music theorist Brian Eno cited Fresh as having heralded a shift in the history of recording, “where the rhythm instruments, particularly the bass drum and bass, suddenly [became] the important instruments in the mix.”
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lagniappe
art beat: more from Tuesday’s stop at the Art Institute of Chicago
Roy Lichtenstein, Landscape in Fog (1996)
serendipity
Umar (AKA Omar) Suleyman (AKA Suleeyman),* live, Ethiopia, c. 2010
This guy I bumped into the other day, as I do so many things, listening to the radio.**
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*Not to be confused with Omar Souleyman.
