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)
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
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.
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.
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
three takes
“Ball of Confusion (That’s What the World Is Today)” (N. Whitfield, B. Strong)
Leon Bridges, 2016
(Thanks for the tip to John Balmes.)
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Tina Turner (with B.E.F. [British Electric Foundation]), 1982
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Temptations, 1970
How strange it seems, still, that he should be dead.
Prince with Mavis Staples, et al., live, England (King’s Cross), 1993
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lagniappe
art beat: yesterday, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Kerry James Marshall (1955-), Slow Dance, 1992-93 (Kerry James Marshall, Mastry, through 9/25/16)
sweet soul music
William Bell, “This Is Where I Live,” “The Three of Me,” “Born Under a Bad Sign,” live, Washington, D.C., 2016
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lagniappe
art beat: other day, Whitney Museum of American Art (New York)
Danny Lyon (1942-), The March on Washington, August 28, 1963 (Message to the Future, through 9/25/16)
sounds of London
DJ EZ, live, London, 2014
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lagniappe
reading table
She went around pre-registered
for her own eventual absence.—Rae Armantrout, “Hoard”
sounds of Chicago
DJ Frankie Knuckles (1955-2014), live, New York, 2013
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lagniappe
random sights
this morning, Chicago (Columbus Park)
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reading table
9 killed on city’s deadliest day in 13 years
—Chicago Tribune, this morning
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