summer in the city
DJ Derrick Carter, Chicago, 7/16/17
Tight on time? Jump to 41:00: Gil Scott-Heron, “Bicentennial Blues.”
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lagniappe
art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) and Emile Bernard (1868-1941), Earthly Paradise, 1888 (Gauguin: Artist as Alchemist, through September 10th)
voices I miss
Prince (1958-2016), live, Netherlands (Rotterdam), 2011
keep on dancing
Offhand, I can’t think of a DJ set I’ve enjoyed more.
DJ Maseo (AKA Vincent Mason), London, 2017
voices I miss
This sounds as fresh, and timely, as it did in 1971.
Marvin Gaye (1939-1984), “Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)” (M. Gaye, J. Nyx; What’s Going On, 1971)
Do you listen to contemporary rap and R&B?
I do. I like Anderson .Paak, that’s for sure! That “Come Down” piece.
—Roscoe Mitchell (featured yesterday), New York Times, 6/23/17
Anderson .Paak, “Come Down,” 2016
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Another take.
found sounds
Yesterday, waiting for a train.
“Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)” (N. Whitfield, B. Strong; Temptations, 1971), Red Line (Jackson), Chicago, 6/22/17
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lagniappe
art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago
Danny Lyon (1942-), Racer, Schererville, Indiana, 1965
50 years ago
Otis Redding (1941-1967), “I’ve Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now)” (O. Redding, J. Butler), live, Monterey Pop Festival, 1967
what’s new
Everything Is Recorded, “Close But Not Quite,” featuring Sampha and sampling Curtis Mayfield (“The Makings of You”), 2017
Still hard to believe he’s gone.
Prince with Stevie Wonder, live, Los Angeles, 2011
more
Tank and the Bangas, “Quick,” 2017
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lagniappe
reading table
It seems unlikely that so much literature
could be made from twenty-six letters.—Brenda Shaughnessy, “Card 12: The Hanged Man,” fragment (Our Andromeda)
