Another favorite ballad.
“I Thought About You” (J. Van Heusen & J. Mercer), Mal Waldron (piano), Jeanne Lee (vocals), et al., live, France (Marciac), 2000
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art beat
Helen Levitt (1913-2009; MCOTD Hall of Fame), New York, c. 1945
old school
Re-Vells, Trent town Records (Trenton, N.J.), 1960s
“I Want a New Love”
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“Do I Love You?”
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art beat
Helen Levitt (1913-2009; MCOTD Hall of Fame), New York, c. 1937
sounds of New York
Exquisite Corpse at Woodlawn Cemetery, New York, 2015
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art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago
From Vincent van Gogh’s Entrance to the Public Gardens at Arles, 1888 (Van Gogh’s Bedrooms, through May 10th)
sounds of New York
Nate Wooley (trumpet, electronics), For Kenneth Gaburo, live, New York, 2015
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random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
sounds of New York
More from the drummer on the new David Bowie album.
Mark Guiliana Beat Music (MG, drums; Stu Brooks, bass; Yuki Hirano, keyboards; with guests Steve Wall [tape recorder], Jeff Taylor [vocals]), live, New York, 2014
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Unknown –
—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), #778 (Franklin), last line
Thurston Moore (guitar), Okkyung Lee (cello), Ikue Mori (laptop)
Live, New York, 2009
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musical thoughts
Music, too, is a continually expanding universe.
Some sounds defy commodification.
Zimoun (1977-), [KE]³, New York (Knockdown Center), 2015
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My youth gone and death unable to find me.
—Jack Gilbert (1925-2012), “Winter Happiness” (Collected Poems)
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
what’s new
Stuff like this—wordy, arty, etc.—I usually (but not quite always) can’t stand.
Joanna Newsom, “Sapokanikan” (Divers, 10/23/15)
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art beat: more from Thursday at the Art Institute of Chicago
David Hartt (1967-), Interval I, 2014 (Interval, through October 11th)
drum fest
day four
Kidd Jordan (tenor saxophone), Dave Burrell (piano), William Parker (bass), Hamid Drake (drums), live, New York, 2014
#1
#2
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musical thoughts
Imagine living in a drumless world.
Even in death he remains a source of rare beauty.
Henry Threadgill (MCOTD Hall of Fame, bass flute) and Jason Moran (piano), “Sail” (H. Threadgill), live, New York (Ornette Coleman Memorial Service), 6/27/15
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The world she grew up in was so different it was hard to believe she was ever in it.
—Anne Enright, The Green Road (2015)
