Sunday, April 19th
In forty years this guy has let me down not once.
Vernard Johnson, “Only What You Do for Christ Will Last,” live
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lagniappe
random thoughts
Blessed to be awakened, again, by birds.
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2015
2015
Friday, April 3rd
There are all kinds of grooves.
Dengue Fever, “Ghost Voice,” “Tokay,” “Girl from the North,” “No Sudden Moves,” live (studio performance), Seattle, 2/10/15
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lagniappe
reading table
Life is full of uncertainties and evil, but sometimes a good meal is enough to get you through even the worst of it.
—Melanie Rehak, Bookforum, April-May, 2015 (reviewing Mystery Writers of America Cookbook: Wickedly Good Meals and Desserts to Die for)
2015
Thursday, March 26th
These guys I could listen to all day.
Kelin-Kelin’ Orchestra (with Brice Wassy, drums, vocals), “Me Feeh” (B. Wassy), live, Paris, 2013
2015
Wednesday, March 25th
sounds of Chicago
Dave Rempis (tenor saxophone) & Tim Daisy (percussion), live, Chicago, 2013
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lagniappe
random thoughts
Sometimes it seems surprising that any of us survives even a single day in a world so sad.
2015
Monday, March 16th
sounds of Chicago
Jack DeJohnette (drums) with MCOTD Hall-of-Famer Henry Threadgill (reeds), Roscoe Mitchell (reeds), Muhal Richard Abrams (piano), and Larry Gray (bass), Made in Chicago, 2015
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art beat: more from the other day at the Art Institute of Chicago
This, too, I never tire of.
Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), Greyed Rainbow, 1953
2015
Saturday, March 14th
sounds of Detroit
Don Was/Sweet Pea Atkinson, “Slow Down,” recording session, 2007
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lagniappe
art beat: more from the other day at the Art Institute of Chicago
This I never tire of.
Joan Mitchell (1925-1992), City Landscape, 1955
2015
Tuesday, March 3rd
never enough
Thelonious Monk Quartet (TM, piano; Charlie Rouse, tenor saxophone; John Ore, bass; Frankie Dunlop, drums), “Nutty,” “Bemsha Swing,” “Epistrophy,” “Crepuscule with Nellie,” “I Mean You,” live (TV show), Netherlands, 1961
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art beat
William Klein (1928-), Baseball Cards, New York 1955
2015
Saturday, February 28th
last night in Chicago
These guys played at Constellation.
James Falzone’s Renga Ensemble,* “Not Seeing” (The Room Is), 2015
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reading table
sweeping the soot
washing the fence . . .
sickle moon—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827; translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)
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*James Falzone, Bb and Eb clarinets; Ken Vandermark, Bb clarinet, bass clarinet, baritone saxophone; Keefe Jackson, tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, contra Bb bass clarinet; Jason Stein, bass clarinet; Ben Goldberg, Bb clarinet, contra Eb alto clarinet; Ned Rothenberg, Bb clarinet, alto saxophone.
2015
Friday, February 27th
sounds of Chicago
Goofiness is a much underrated virtue.
Mucca Pazza, live, Washington, D.C., 2015
2015
Thursday, February 26th
Soundtrack for your day?
Peter Brotzmann Tentet,* live, Atlanta, 2002
*PB, reeds; Ken Vandermark, reeds; Mats Gustafsson, reeds; Mars Williams, reeds; Joe McPhee, trumpet; Jeb Bishop, trombone; Fred Longberg-Holm, cello; Kent Kessler, bass; Hamid Drake, drums; Michael Zerang, drums.
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