Happy Birthday!
Charlie Parker (b. August 29, 1920) with Red Garland (piano), Bernie Griggs (bass), Roy Haynes (drums), “Moose the Mooche,” live, Boston, 1953
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lagniappe
radio
Today it’s all Bird all day at WKCR-FM (Columbia University).
back to church
Christian Home Baptist Church Hymn Choir, “Hezekiah—You Got To Die!”
Live, Mt. Do-Well Baptist Church, McConnells, S.C., 1994
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lagniappe
random sights
this morning, Chicago (Columbus Park)
timeless
Fats Waller (1904-1943), “I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter” (F. Ahlert & J. Young), 1935
summer in the city
Moses Sumney, “Plastic,” live, Chicago (Pitchfork Music Festival), 7/15/16
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reading table: two takes
Summer afternoon — summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
—Henry James (1843-1916)
There is a kind of sullenness that summer / alone possesses.
—Geoffrey Hill (1932-2016), “In Isley Church Lane (3)”
more
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor
Sviatoslav Richter (1915-1997), live, Moscow, 1975
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lagniappe
reading table
Here in my house
a square of light—
moon through the window—Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), translated from Japanese by David Young
never enough
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Piano Sonata No. 5 in C minor
Jonathan Biss, live, New York, 2011
One of the things I admire about this performance is its immediacy: it feels not like recitation but spontaneous utterance.
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lagniappe
reading table
One insect
asleep on a leaf
can change your life—Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), translated from Japanese by David Young
wake up!
Albert Ayler (1936-1970), live, Europe, 1966
back to church
“Who Will Be a Witness,” live, St. Paul Baptist Church, Lowrys, S.C., 2002
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lagniappe
art beat
Aaron Siskind (1903-1991), Harlem Document (Father Divine Movement), c. 1935
Close your eyes.
Listen—just listen.
If you don’t have time for this, what do you have time for?
Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996), From me flows what you call Time (1990); La Jolla Symphony (Steven Schick, cond.), live, San Diego, 2008
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lagniappe
reading table
Come, see
real flowers
of this painful world.—Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), translated from Japanese by Lucien Stryk and Takashi Ikemoto
