Back to Brooklyn.
Trio Caveat (James Ilgenfritz, bass; Chris Welcome, guitar; Jonathan Moritz, saxophone) with Mat Maneri (viola), live, New York (Barbes), 2012
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
Too much music suffers from too little mystery.
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reading table
[T]hose who know her [nature], know her less / The nearer her they get.
—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), #1433 (Franklin)
This guitar player gets around. Last weekend Wilco—he’s been a member since 2004—headlined Chicago’s Pitchfork Music Festival. Here he’s playing a small performance space in Brooklyn.
BB&C (Tim Berne, alto saxophone; Jim Black, drums; Nels Cline, guitar), live, New York (Shapeshifter Lab), 2012
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday morning
Columbus Park, Chicago
More of Ornette.
Ornette Coleman Trio (David Izenzon, bass; Charles Moffett, percussion), playing and talking, Paris, 1966
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art beat
Helen Levitt (1913-2009; MCOTD Hall of Fame), New York, c. 1940
Here, on Father’s Day, is more of Aretha’s.
Rev. C. L. Franklin (1915-1984; Pastor, New Bethel Baptist Church, Detroit, 1946-1979), “Dry Bones in the Valley”
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Helen Levitt (1913-2009; MCOTD Hall of Fame), New York, c. 1940
not like this, not like that
Nate Wooley, “Polychoral for trumpets and 8-channel audio”; Nate Wooley & Peter Evans (trumpets), live, New York (Knockdown Center), 2015
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
In 1915 no one had heard an electric guitar. In 2065 sounds we’ve never heard will be commonplace. What will they be?
sounds of Detroit
I could listen to Aretha’s daddy all day—even if I understood not a word of English.
Rev. C. L. Franklin (1915-1984), “The 23rd Psalm”
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art beat
Helen Levitt (1913-2009; MCOTD Hall of Fame), New York, c. 1940
sounds of New York
Meredith Monk, “Last Song”
Live, New York (Joe’s Pub), 2005
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Recording (Impermanence), 2008
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lagniappe
random thoughts
Who is this guy who keeps talking, talking, talking inside my head?
ten strings, twenty fingers
Stephan Crump (bass) & Mary Halvorson (guitar), “Erie” (S. Crump), live, New York, 4/17/15
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lagniappe
random thoughts
Life consists of driving a vehicle you didn’t design, one that came without an owner’s manual, until one day it runs off the road and winds up in a ditch.
only rock ‘n’ roll
The Ex, “That’s Not a Virus,” live, France (Annecy), 2015
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art beat
William Klein (1928-), 4 Heads, New York, 1955
More of Buddy M.
Buddy Miller & Jim Lauderdale, The Lone Bellow (27:50-), Rosanne Cash (1:08:05-), live, New York, 8/9/14
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lagniappe
random sights
Tuesday, Columbus Park, Chicago
