Wednesday, September 9th
serendipity
When this came on the radio the other day (WKCR, Columbia University), background became foreground.
Luciano Berio (1925-2003), Differences (1959)
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
2015
Tuesday, September 8th
sounds of Yemen, and Uganda, and Colombia, and Cambodia
The Real Hip-Hop, 2015
2015
Monday, September 7th
tonight in Chicago
This guy will be at the Experimental Sound Studio.
Paal Nilssen-Love, drums, live, Japan (Chiba), 2010
2015
Sunday, September 6th
What an inspired way to begin an album.
Donald Edwards (drums, with sampled voices), “American Drum Call to Mama,” Evolution of an Influenced Mind, 2014
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lagniappe
found words
Vegetable Lover’s Guide to Berlin
—cover of Saveur (October issue)
2015
Saturday, September 5th
Today, our sixth anniversary, we revisit our first post.
One left Cuba after the revolution, the other stayed. Here they play together: pianists—father and son—Bebo and Chucho Valdes.
2015
Friday, September 4th
sounds of summer
Bon Iver, live, Eau Claire, Wis. (Eaux Claires Music & Arts Festival), 7/18/15
2015
Thursday, September 3rd
tonight in Chicago
These folks will be playing in Millennium Park, headlining the first night of the Chicago Jazz Festival.
Butler, Bernstein & the Hot 9,* live, France (Clermont-Ferrand), 2014
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lagniappe
art beat
Lee Friedlander (1934-), New Orleans, late 1950s
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*Henry Butler (piano, vocals), Steven Bernstein (trumpet), et al.
2015
Wednesday, September 2nd
tenor fest
day three
Sonny Rollins Trio (with Henry Grimes, bass; Joe Harris, drums), “It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)” (E. K. “Duke” Ellington), live, Sweden, 1959
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lagniappe
reading table
frogs sing, roosters sing
the east
turns light—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue
2015
Tuesday, September 1st
tenor fest
day two
Von Freeman (MCOTD Hall of Fame), live, New Apartment Lounge, Chicago
2010
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2008
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Von Freeman, who was considered one of the finest tenor saxophonists in jazz but attained wide fame only late in life, died on Aug. 11 in Chicago. He was 88.
—New York Times obituary, 8/18/12
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lagniappe
reading table
A wounded Deer – leaps highest –
—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), #181 (Franklin)
2015
Monday, August 31st
tenor fest
day one
Dexter Gordon (1923-1990), “Blues Up and Down” (G. Ammons, S. Stitt), live, Denmark, 1967*
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lagniappe
reading table
Withered grass,
under piling
heat waves.—Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), translated from Japanese by Lucien Stryk and Takashi Ikemoto
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*With Kenny Drew, piano; Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen, bass; Albert “Tootie” Heath, drums.
