Friday, November 15th
yeeeowww!
James Brown, “Sex Machine,” “There Was a Time,” “I Got the Feelin’,” live (TV show), 1982
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lagniappe
art beat
Dawoud Bey (1953-), New York (Harlem), 1970s
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Category: piano
2013
2013
Saturday, November 9th
alone
His sound world is so clear, so lyrical, it can be hard to leave.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Fantasia in D minor, K. 397
Yvonne Loriod (1924-2010), live, 1969
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art beat
Paul Strand (1890-1976)
2013
Thursday, November 7th
Feel like floating?
Morton Feldman (1926-1987), For Philip Guston (1984)
S.E.M. Ensemble, 2000
2013
Thursday, October 24th
alone
Sometimes the performer makes all the difference. In the wrong hands this can seem a mess. In the right ones it sparkles.
Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007), Klavierstücke XI (1956)
Prodromos Symeonidis, live, 2006
2013
Wednesday, October 23rd
sounds of Chicago
Here’s another track I co-produced long ago, in a world without CDs, or MP3s, or Internet.
Pinetop Perkins (1913-2011), “Blues After Hours” (Living Chicago Blues, Vol. 2, Alligator Records, 1978)
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art beat
Helen Levitt (1913-2009), New York, c. 1940
2013
Tuesday, October 22nd
two takes
“I Thought About You” (J. Van Heusen & J. Mercer)
Jeanne Lee (vocals) with Mal Waldron (piano), et al.
Live, France (Marciac), 2000
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Mildred Bailey (vocals) with Benny Goodman (clarinet), et al.
Recording, 1939
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Garry Winogrand (1928-1984)
2013
Thursday, October 10th
alone
Need a jump-start?
Cecil Taylor (1929-), piano, “Looking (Berlin Version) Solo,” live, Berlin, 1989
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
When you are playing, whether you know it or not, you are dancing.
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Lee Friedlander (1934-)
2013
Tuesday, October 8th
alone
György Kurtág (1926-), Perpetuum Mobile (from Játékok [Games])
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reading table
‘There is no God and Mary is His Mother.’
—Robert Lowell (1917-1977), “For George Santayana” (excerpt)
2013
Monday, October 7th
tonight*
Andrew Hill (1931-2007), “Smoke Stack”
Vijay Iyer Trio (VI, piano; Stephan Crump, bass; Marcus Gilmore, drums), Historicity, 2009
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Andrew Hill (with Richard Davis, bass; Eddie Khan, bass; Roy Haynes, drums), Smoke Stack (AKA Smokestack), 1966 (rec. 1963)
This is one of my favorite albums of all time, of any artist, on any instrument.
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musical thoughts
More and more I find myself seeking sounds that don’t convey a particular feeling or mood but, instead, create a space I can inhabit, physically, emotionally, intellectually, if only for a short while.
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*On WKCR-FM (Columbia University), from 6-9 p.m. (EST), Vijay Iyer, pianist, composer, recent MacArthur “genius” grant winner, future Harvard professor, will be joining host Mitch Goldman “for a deep focus on Andrew Hill.”
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