Tuesday, June 12th
what’s new
Neko Case, live (studio), Seattle, 5/17/18
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lagniappe
random sights
last night, Oak Park, Ill.
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: radio
2018
Saturday, May 26th
sounds of New York
Nina Kraviz (DJ), New York, 2017
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Chicago (Columbus Park)
2018
Wednesday, May 23rd
3n
day two
Trio Da Kali (Hawa Kassé Mady Diabaté, vocals; Mamadou Kouyaté, bass ngoni, vocals; Fodé Lassana Diabaté, balafon), live (studio), Seattle, 2017
“Eh Ya Ye”
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“Kanimba”
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“Guede”
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“Dissa”
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lagniappe
reading table
the morning light is in us
—Peter Gizzi, from “Lullaby”
2018
Tuesday, January 30th
sounds of all over
Four Tet & Anthony Naples, live, New York (The Lot Radio, Brooklyn), 11/2/17
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lagniappe
random sights
today, Oak Park, Ill.
2017
Saturday, December 23rd
Tonight, at 1 a.m. (EST), one of the year’s great musical events begins: the annual Bach Festival—now in its 40th year—broadcast on WKCR-FM (Columbia University). All Bach, all the time, until midnight New Year’s Eve. Hope, beauty, inspiration: they aren’t luxuries; they’re necessities.
Johann Sebastian Bach, Mass in B minor (excerpt, “Dona nobis pacem”); Berlin Philharmonic (Ton Koopman, cond.) with RIAS Chamber Choir (Justin Doyle, chorus master), live, Berlin, 10/28/17
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Cello Suite No. 6 in D major; Mischa Maisky (cello), live
2017
Wednesday, October 25th
thank God (or Whatever) for radio
Four Tet (aka Kieran Hebden) with guest Tyondai Braxton, live, New York (The Lot Radio, Brooklyn), 2017
2017
Thursday, March 9th
MCOTD Hall of Fame
William Parker’s In Order To Survive (WP, bass, composition; Hamid Drake, drums, MCOTD Hall of Fame;* Lewis Barnes, trumpet; Rob Brown, alto saxophone; Cooper-Moore, piano), “Criminals in the White House,” live, New York, 2013
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lagniappe
radio
Today—his birthday—it’s all Ornette Coleman all day on WKCR-FM (Columbia University).
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*With saxophonists Von Freeman and Henry Threadgill; trumpeter Lester Bowie; gospel singer Dorothy Love Coates; composer Morton Feldman; poets John Berryman, William Bronk, and Wislawa Szymborska; and photographer Helen Levitt.
2016
Saturday, December 31st
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Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Partita in A minor for Solo Flute; Sandra Miller (flute), live, New York, 2013
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lagniappe
radio
Bach Festival, WKCR-FM (see 12/22/16 post): Day Nine (alas, the last).
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reading table
The only response
to a child’s grave is
to lie down before it and play dead—Bill Knott (1940-2014)
2016
Thursday, December 29th
more
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Cello Suite No. 6 in D major, excerpt (Sarabande); Paolo Pandolfo, viola da gamba
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lagniappe
radio
Bach Festival, WKCR-FM (see 12/22/16 post): Day Seven.
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random sights
this morning, Oak Park, Ill.
2016
Wednesday, December 28th
more
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Goldberg Variations (excerpt); Glenn Gould (1932-1982), piano, live (studio performance), 1981
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lagniappe
radio
Bach Festival, WKCR-FM (see 12/22/16 post): Day Six.
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