Monday, November 2nd
1n
Ches Smith (percussion, electronics), live, Italy (Catania), 2015
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, outside Lincoln, Nebr.
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
2015
2015
Sunday, November 1st
Bringing some church to the White House.
—President Obama
Shirley Caesar, Aretha Franklin, Rance Allen, Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell, Lyle Lovett, T Bone Burnett, et al., live, Washington, D.C., 2015
2015
Friday, October 30th
only rock ‘n’ roll
Courtney Barnett, live, Chicago, 2015
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lagniappe
art beat: yesterday at the Art Institute of Chicago
Unidentified artist (active in Cuzco, Peru), Our Lady of Bethlehem with a Male Donor, 18th Century
2015
Thursday, October 29th
More Zimoun.
Installations and Sculptures: Selected Works 3.6, 2009-2015
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lagniappe
random sights
last night, Chicago
2015
Wednesday, October 28th
tonight in Chicago
These guys will be playing at Elastic Arts.
Nate Wooley (trumpet), Paul Lytton (percussion), live, Austria (Wels)
2012
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2011
2015
Tuesday, October 27th
More Wadada.
Wadada Leo Smith (trumpet), Louis Moholo (percussion), Steve Noble (percussion), live, London, 2010
#1
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#2
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
Listening to live music, as I was over the weekend (hearing this guy with a quartet Saturday night, then by himself Sunday afternoon), reminds one, repeatedly, that this moment is irretrievable.
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2015
Monday, October 26th
Some sounds defy commodification.
Zimoun (1977-), [KE]³, New York (Knockdown Center), 2015
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lagniappe
reading table
My youth gone and death unable to find me.
—Jack Gilbert (1925-2012), “Winter Happiness” (Collected Poems)
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2015
Sunday, October 25th
old school
Blind Mamie Forehand (1895[?]-c. 1936), “Wouldn’t Mind Dying, If Dying Was All,” 1927
lagniappe
musical thoughts
If one part doesn’t work, that gives us more confidence the next part will.
—Wadada Leo Smith, last night, University of Chicago
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random sights
other day, Chicago
2015
Saturday, October 24th
tonight in Chicago
They’ll be playing at the University of Chicago.
Wadada Leo Smith’s Golden Quartet (WLS, trumpet; Anthony Davis, piano; John Lindberg, bass; Pheeroan akLaff, drums; with Jesse Gilbert, video artist), “Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 381 Days” (W. L. Smith), live, Spain (San Sebastian), 2014
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lagniappe
art beat: yesterday at the Art Institute of Chicago
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), A Red Plum Branch against the Summer Moon
c. mid-1840s
