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Tuesday, July 22nd

only rock ’n’ roll

Gene Vincent (1935-1971),* Eddie Cochran (1938-1960, 40:45-),* live (Town Hall Party), 1950s

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*Set lists (courtesy of YouTube):

Gene Vincent
1. Be-Bop-A-Lula
2. High Blood Pressure
3. Rip it Up
4. Dance to the Bop
5. You Win Again
6. For Your Precious Love
7. Rocky Road Blues
8. Pretty Pearly
9. Be-Bop-A-Lula
10. High School Confidential
11. Over The Rainbow
12. Roll Over Beethoven
13. Over The Rainbow
14. She She Little Sheila

Eddie Cochran
1. C’mon Everybody
2. Have I Told You Lately That I Love You
3. Don’t Blame It On Me
4. Summertime Blues
5. School Days
6. Be Honest With Me
7. Money Honey

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2014

Saturday, July 12th

passings

Charlie Haden, bassist, composer, bandleader, August 6, 1937-July 11, 2014

Old and New Dreams (Charlie Haden, bass; Ed Blackwell, drums; Dewey Redman, tenor saxophone; Don Cherry, pocket trumpet), “Happy House” (O. Coleman), live, Norway (Molde Jazz Festival), 1979

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lagniappe

radio

Thank God, once again, for college radio. Beginning tomorrow at 2 p.m. (EST), WKCR (Columbia University) will air a memorial broadcast. Two hours? Three? Nope. They’ll be playing Haden’s music, continuously, until 9 p.m.—Monday.

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2014

Monday, July 7th

voices I miss

Drums, too, can breathe.

Mal Waldron Quintet (MW, piano; Charles Rouse, saxophone, flute; Woody Shaw, trumpet, flugelhorn; Reggie Workman, bass; Ed Blackwell [1929-1992], drums), live, New York (Village Vanguard), 1985

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lagniappe

art beat

Bruce Davidson (1933-), New York, 1980

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2014

Thursday, June 26th

passings

Horace Silver, pianist, composer, bandleader, September 2, 1928-June 18, 2014

Horace Silver Quintet,* “Song for My Father,” live (TV show), Denmark, 1968

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lagniappe

art beat

William Eggleston (1939-)

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*HS, piano; Bill Hardman, trumpet; Bennie Maupin, tenor saxophone; John Williams, bass; Billy Cobham, drums.

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2014

Wednesday, June 25th

tonight in Chicago

These guys are playing at the Hideout, a small club on the northwest side.

Ken Vandermark (tenor saxophone) & Paal Nilssen-Love (drums), live, Austria (Vienna), 3/8/14

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art beat

William Eggleston (1939-)

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2014

Monday, June 16th

Ornette, at 84, still plays some of the most haunting blues I’ve ever heard.

Ornette Coleman (alto saxophone), with Henry Threadgill (alto saxophone), David Murray (tenor saxophone), Savion Glover (tap dance), et al., live, New York (Prospect Park), 6/12/14

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With Don Cherry (trumpet), Charlie Haden (bass), Billy Higgins (drums), The Shape Of Jazz To Come, 1959

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art beat

Bruce Davidson (1933-), East 100th St., New York, 1966

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2014

Thursday, June 12th

sounds of Chicago

One-word review: mesmerizing.

Art Ensemble of Chicago, live, France (Chateauvallon), 1970

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lagniappe

reading table

Despite all my inner crumblings,
I’m still able to recognize a perfect day:
sea without shadow,
sky without wrinkles,
air hovering over me like a blessing.

—Nina Cassian (1924-2014), “Summer X-Rays” (fragment)

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2014

Monday, June 2nd

never enough

John Coltrane Quartet (JC, tenor saxophone; McCoy Tyner, piano; Jimmy Garrison, bass; Elvin Jones, drums), “Impressions” (J. Coltrane), live (TV show), 1963

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random thoughts

What did we do to deserve such a beautiful world?

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art beat

Francis Wolff, Blue Trane recording session (JC, tenor saxophone; Lee Morgan, trumpet; Curtis Fuller, trombone), Hackensack, N.J., 1957

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A big birthday shout-out to my oldest listening companion, my brother Don, with whom (as I’ve noted before) I’ve shared more musical experiences than I could ever count: the Beatles (Comiskey Park, 1965), the Velvet Underground (Kinetic Playground, 1968), the MC5 (Lincoln Park, 1968) . . .