Tuesday, March 21st
what’s new
Tank and the Bangas, live (“Boxes and Squares,” “Quick,” “Rollercoasters”), Washington, D.C., 3/6/17
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: R&B
2017
Friday, March 10th
basement jukebox
Robert Ward (1938-2008), 1967
“My Love Is Strictly Reserved for You”
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“I Will Fear No Evil”
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Chicago
2017
Monday, March 6th
basement jukebox
Junior Wells (vocals, harmonica; 1934-1998), “Little by Little,” 1960
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Chicago (Columbus Park)
2017
Monday, February 27th
basement jukebox
J.B. Lenoir (vocals, guitar; 1929-1967), “Mama Talk to Your Daughter,” 1954
2017
Thursday, February 23rd
passings
Walter “Junie” Morrison, keyboard player, singer, songwriter, arranger, producer, etc., 1954-January 21, 2017
Keyboards and vocals, with Parliament-Funkadelic, “Into You,” live, Passaic, New Jersey, 1978
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Questlove, Instagram post:
The Great Junie Morrison. So inspirational. All the #OhioPlayers westbound era funk that birthed #Voodoo & #BlackMessiah: #Junie. Those adlibs on Hov’s “#BrooklynsFinest & #Tribe‘s #ScenarioRemix is Junie. All the Warner Era #Funkadelic songwriting wizzardry #OneNationUnderAGroove & #UncleJamWantsYou (he co-wrote #NotJustKneeDeep) even #Parliament‘s #MotorBootyAffair & #Gloryhallastoopid. His ideas birthed and ushered in the G-Funk era (all that synthy #FunkyWorm synth yall associate w gangsta rap/Dre’s sound? That’s #JunieMorrison. Even his #SuzieThundertussy in its tales of “Lost Angeles” were the backdrop on Ye’s bright light for #TLOP‘s #NoMorePartiesInLA. Solange even gave him props on #Junie (“jump on it” for those that call it the “Jump on it song Dre3000 sings on)—this man was an uncelebrated unsung unchampioned whose ideas we just took and took and took. I regret so much not having a “proper” conversation about his journey. His songwriting. His technology innovations. Man. This STINGS. Rip #Junie.
2017
Tuesday, February 21st
passings
Clyde Stubblefield, drummer, April 18, 1943-February 18, 2017
“Funk Thing” (with Fred Wesley, trombone; John Scofield, guitar; John Medeski, organ; Fred Thomas, bass), 1999
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“Funky James Brown” (with John “Jabo” Starks, drums)
2017
Friday, February 3rd
keep on dancing
Frankie Knuckles (1955-2014) remix: Michael Jackson, “Rock with You”
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lagniappe
art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), Landscape with Waterfall
2016
Monday, November 21st
passings
Sharon Jones, singer, May 4, 1956-November 18, 2016
With the Dap-Kings, live, Seattle, 2016
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2016
Tuesday, November 15th
two takes
“I Love You More Than You’ll Ever Know” (A. Kooper)
Donny Hathaway (1945-79), 1973
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Amy Winehouse (1983-2011), live
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lagniappe
random sights
this morning, Oak Park, Ill.
2016
Thursday, November 10th
serenade to the President-elect
Public Enemy, “Ball of Confusion”/”Arizona”/”Fight the Power,” live, Australia (Sydney), 2008
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lagniappe
art beat: early September, Whitney Museum of American Art (New York)
Danny Lyon (1942-), Arrest of Taylor Washington, Atlanta, 1963
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