More Wadada.
Wadada Leo Smith (trumpet), Louis Moholo (percussion), Steve Noble (percussion), live, London, 2010
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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.
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.
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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other day, Chicago
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
Why not begin the week with something beautiful?
Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Preludes, Book 1, No. 2 (“Voiles”); Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (1920-1995), piano, live (studio performance)
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
When he plays something it sounds like he’ll never play it again.
—Miles Davis, speaking of Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
(I’m taking a break—back in a while.)
old school
Brother Willie Eason, “There’ll Be No Grumblers There,” 1947
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lagniappe
reading table
One need not be a Chamber – to be Haunted –
—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), #407 (Franklin)
tonight in Chicago
This drummer—one of my all-time favorites—will be playing at Constellation with this crack quartet.
William Parker Quartet (WP, bass; Hamid Drake, drums; Rob Brown, alto saxophone; Lewis Barnes, trumpet), live, 2013
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
two takes
St. Germain (aka Ludovic Navarre), “Real Blues” (sampling Lightnin’ Hopkins’ “You Caused My Heart to Weep”), 2015
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Lightnin’ Hopkins (1912-1982), “You Caused My Heart to Weep”
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Gyorgy Ligeti (1923-2006), Trio for Violin, Horn, and Piano (1982); Tomas Major (violin), Zora Sloka (horn), Denes Varjon (piano), 2009
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reading table
This World is not conclusion.
—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), #373 (Franklin)
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DKV Trio (Hamid Drake, drums; Kent Kessler, bass; Ken Vandermark, baritone saxophone), live, Austria (Nickelsdorf), 2013
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lagniappe
road to the World Series
This may be the goose-bump capital of the world right now.
—Cubs radio announcer Pat Hughes, Wrigley Field, yesterday
