Sunday, May 4th
two takes
“This May Be The Last Time”
Pastor Brady Blade Sr., Zion Baptist Church, Shreveport, La., April 13, 2014
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The Staple Singers, 1961
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lagniappe
art beat
William Eggleston (1939-)
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
2014
2014
Saturday, May 3rd
never enough
Three more takes on what we heard Thursday.
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Violin Sonata No. 1 in G minor (2nd Movt.)
Henryk Szeryng (1918-1988), live
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Arthur Grumiaux (1921-1986), recording
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Yoojin Jang (1990-), live
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lagniappe
reading table
[A] mad person not helped out of his trouble by anything real begins to trust what is not real because it helps him and he needs it because real things continue not to help him.
—Lydia Davis, “Liminal: The Little Man” (The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis)
2014
Friday, May 2nd
sounds of Manchester
The Warehouse Project (feat. Diplo, Four Tet, Nicolas Jaar, Skream, et al.), 2012
2014
Wednesday, April 30th
sounds of Chicago
Specter (AKA Spekter, Andres Ordanez), “Pipe Bomb,” 2011
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lagniappe
reading table
[N]othing enhances pleasures and blocks guilt like a looming cataclysm.
—Aleksandar Hemon, The Book of My Lives
2014
Tuesday, April 29th
Happy (115th) Birthday, Duke!
Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington, April 29, 1899-May 24, 1974
pianist, composer, bandleader
“Black Beauty,” 1928
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“C Jam Blues,” 1942
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“Mood Indigo,” “Sophisticated Lady,” “It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing),” “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore,” 1943
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lagniappe
radio
WKCR (Columbia University): all Duke, all day.
2014
Monday, April 28th
passings
DJ Rashad, October 9, 1979-April 26, 2014
Live, Chicago (Pitchfork Music Festival), 2013
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“I Don’t Give A Fuck” (sampling Tupac Shakur’s dialogue in Juice), 2013
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“I’m Gone” (remixing Gil Scott-Heron’s “Home Is Where The Hatred Is”), 2011
2014
Sunday, April 27th
Friday he was at a nightclub in Vancouver. Today he’s playing a different venue—his father’s Shreveport church.
Choir (with Brian Blade, drums), Zion Baptist Church (Brady Blade Sr., pastor), Shreveport, La., December 23, 2012
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lagniappe
reading table
celestial geese—
none of them come down
to my pine—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827; translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)
2014
Saturday, April 26th
only rock ’n’ roll
MC5: A True Testimonial (2002)
Thanks to my brother Don for the tip. We first encountered these guys in Chicago’s Lincoln Park during the 1968 Democratic Convention. The park is still there. But that moment, when, as a teenager, nothing mattered more than intensity and attitude, is long gone.
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lagniappe
found words
Sometimes it’s hard to tell the advertising from the conceptual art. Last night, while driving to Hyde Park to hear pianist Rafal Blechacz, I came upon a billboard:
BE AMBITIOUS.
NOT THIRSTY.
Who knew Diet Coke could be so deep?
2014
Friday, April 25th
only rock ’n’ roll
Black Dub (Daniel Lanois, guitar, vocals; Trixie Whitley, keyboards, vocals; Jim Wilson, bass, vocals; Brian Blade, drums), “Ring the Alarm,” live, Vancouver, 2011
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lagniappe
art beat
Danny Lyon (1942-), Four Boys, Uptown, Chicago (1965)
