Thursday, October 16th
Like you’ve never heard him before.
James Tenney (1934-2006), Collage No. 1 (“Blue Suede”), 1961
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lagniappe
art beat
Robert Frank (1924-), Detroit, 1955
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
2014
2014
Wednesday, October 15th
sounds of Argentina
Juana Molina, live, Paris, 2013*
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
Tempo, rhythm, improvisation—baseball, too, is music.
Mike Moustakas (third base), Kansas City Royals, 10/14/14
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*Set list (courtesy of YouTube):
– Wed 21 00:50
– Eras 04:06
– Lo decidi yo 10:11
– Ay, no se ofendan 14:41
– Un dia 21:20
– Las edades 29:03
– Sin guia, no 34:59
– Final feliz 41:15
2014
Monday, October 13th
No matter what she’s playing, she seems never to touch the ground.
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), Piano Concerto in G (1929-31); RAI National Symphony Orchestra (Claudio Abbado, cond.) with Martha Argerich (piano), live, Rome, 1969
1st movt.
2nd & 3rd movts.
2014
Sunday, October 12th
two takes
“Strange Man” (D. L. Coates)
Steve Dawson (lead vocals, guitar), Diane Christensen (vocals), Robbie Fulks (vocals, guitar), live, Chicago, 2013
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Dorothy Love Coates (1928-2002; MCOTD Hall-of-Famer), recording, 1968
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random thoughts
Do the Canada geese, seeing me ride by on my bicycle, feel like they’re communing with nature?
2014
Saturday, October 11th
never enough
Is any form of music-making more intimate?
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), String Quartet No. 15, excerpt (1st movt.); Danish String Quartet, live (BBC studio), London, 2013
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lagniappe
art beat: yesterday at the Art Institute of Chicago (lunch hour)
René Magritte (1898-1967), The Lovers (1928) (Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926-1938, closes Monday)
2014
Friday, October 10th
Happy Birthday, Thelonious!
Thelonious Monk, October 10, 1917-February 17, 1982, pianist, composer, bandleader
Live (TV studio),* Paris, 1969
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
A note can be as big as a mountain, or small as a pin. It only depends on a musician’s imagination.
—Thelonious Monk (Robin D. G. Kelley, Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original)
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radio
WKCR-FM (Columbia University): all Monk, all day.
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*Set list:
1. Dreamland
2. Monk’s Mood (Version 1)
3. Thelonious
4. Reflections
5. Epistrophy
6. Round Midnight
7. Crepuscule With Nellie
8. Ugly Beauty
9. Monk’s Mood (Version 2)
10. Don’t Blame Me
11. Coming On The Hudson
12. Nice Work If You Can Get It
2014
Thursday, October 9th
keep on dancing
“Since The Accident”
Obsolete Music Technology, 2012
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Specter’s Shattered Mix, 2012
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lagniappe
reading table
“Come this way, this way
blind man!”
little butterfly—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827; translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)
2014
Wednesday, October 8th
This I could listen to all day.
Morton Feldman (1926-1987), Palais de Mari (1986); Blair McMillen (piano) & Ryan Olivier (video processing), live, Philadelphia, 2014
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
My obsession with surface is the subject of my music. In that sense, my compositions are really not ‘compositions’ at all. One might call them time canvases in which I more or less prime the canvas with an overall hue of the music.
—Morton Feldman, “Between Categories” (Give My Regards to Eighth Street)
2014
Tuesday, October 7th
what’s new
Ashley Paul, “I’m In You” (Heat Source), 2014
