music clip of the day

Tuesday, July 22nd

only rock ’n’ roll

Gene Vincent (1935-1971),* Eddie Cochran (1938-1960, 40:45-),* live (Town Hall Party), 1950s

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*Set lists (courtesy of YouTube):

Gene Vincent
1. Be-Bop-A-Lula
2. High Blood Pressure
3. Rip it Up
4. Dance to the Bop
5. You Win Again
6. For Your Precious Love
7. Rocky Road Blues
8. Pretty Pearly
9. Be-Bop-A-Lula
10. High School Confidential
11. Over The Rainbow
12. Roll Over Beethoven
13. Over The Rainbow
14. She She Little Sheila

Eddie Cochran
1. C’mon Everybody
2. Have I Told You Lately That I Love You
3. Don’t Blame It On Me
4. Summertime Blues
5. School Days
6. Be Honest With Me
7. Money Honey

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2014

Monday, July 21st

only rock ’n’ roll

Jeff Beck and The Big Town Playboys, live (music begins at 2:10),* London (Ronnie Scott’s), 2007

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*Set list (courtesy of YouTube):

1) Race with the Devil
2) Crazy Legs
3) Train Kept A-Rollin’
4) My Baby Left Me
5) Matchbox
6) Baby Blue
7) Honky Tonk

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2014

Sunday, July 20th

testify

Neal Roberson, “Don’t Let the Devil Ride,” live

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lagniappe

reading table

I am running out of life, Olga thinks. What am I going to do? What is there without life?

—Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project

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2014

Saturday, July 19th

alone

Henry Cowell (1897-1965), The Tides of Manaunaun, c. 1917
Andy Costello (piano), live, Chicago, 2009

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lagniappe

art beat: more from Thursday night at the Art Institute of Chicago

Josef Koudelka (1938-), Ireland, 1972
Nationality Doubtful, through September 14th

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2014

Friday, July 18th

passings

Johnny Winter, guitar player, February 23, 1944-July 16, 2014

“Highway 61 Revisited” (B. Dylan)

Live, Denmark (Roskilde), 1984

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Recording (Second Winter), 1969

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lagniappe

art beat: last night at the Art Institute of Chicago

Josef Koudelka (1938-), Nationality Doubtful, through September 14th

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the beat goes on

1,700 posts—and counting.

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2014

Thursday, July 17th

never enough

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Suite No. 3 in C major for Unaccompanied Cello; Jean-Guihen Queyras (1967-), live, c. 2007

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2014

Wednesday, July 16th

tonight in Chicago

This guy will be playing at the Hideout.

Daniel Levin, cello

With JP Carletti (drums), live, New Haven, Conn., 2013

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With his trio, live, Jersey City, N.J., 2008

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Solo, live, New York, 2009

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2014

Tuesday, July 15th

passings

Lorin Maazel (mah-ZELL), conductor, violinist, composer
March 6, 1930-July 13, 2014

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Symphony No. 41 in C major (“Jupiter”), Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia (Lorin Maazel, cond.), live, Spain (A Coruña), 2012

Charlie Haden, Tommy Ramone, Lorin Maazel: their differences are dwarfed by what, as music makers, they shared.

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2014

Monday, July 14th

passings

Tommy Ramone (AKA Thomas Erdelyi), drummer, producer
January 29, 1949-July 11, 2014

Ramones, live, London, 1977*

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*Set list (courtesy of YouTube):

1. Blitzkrieg Bop
2. I Want to Be Well
3. Glad to See You Go
4. You’re Gonna Kill That Girl
5. Commando
6. Havana Affair
7. Cretin Hop
8. Listen to My Heart
9. I Don’t Wanna Walk Around with You
10. Pinhead
11. Do You Wanna Dance
12. Now I Wanna Be a Good Boy
13. Now I Want to Sniff Some Glue
14. We’re a Happy Family