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2013

Tuesday, December 24th

Last night this woman, who died of cancer in 2006, was very much alive, singing Bach on the radio.*

Johann Sebastian Bach, “Ich Habe Genug” (“I Have Enough,” church cantata), Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (1954-2006), 2003

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Christmas, 1948

Charlie Parker (alto saxophone), Kenny Dorham (trumpet), Al Haig (piano), Tommy Porter (bass), Max Roach (drums), “White Christmas,” live, New York (Royal Roost), 12/25/48

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*WKCR-FM (Columbia University), Bach Festival, through New Year’s Eve.

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2013

Monday, December 23rd

passings

Larry Lujack, disc jockey, June 6, 1940-December 18, 2013

Live, WCFL-AM (Chicago), 12/23/72 (not ’73)

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Christmas, 1936

Fats Waller, “Swingin’ Them Jingle Bells” (1936)

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random thoughts

Sometimes I feel like a TV that works only on certain channels.

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2013

Sunday, December 22nd

two takes

“Strange Man” (D. L. Coates)

Patty Griffin, live, London, 2013

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Dorothy Love Coates (1928-2002; MCOTD Hall of Famer), recording, 1968

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art beat

Helen Levitt (1913-2009), New York, c. 1940

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2013

Saturday, December 21st

never enough

Johann Sebastian Bach, Goldberg Variations (excerpts); Glenn Gould (piano), live, 1964

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radio: Bach Festival 2013

If, like me, you can’t get enough Bach, you’re in luck. Tonight through New Year’s Eve, it’s all Bach all the time at WKCR-FM (Columbia University).

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reading table

One, seven, three, five—
Nothing to rely on in this or any world;
Nighttime falls and the water is flooded with moonlight.
Here in the Dragon’s jaws:
Many exquisite jewels.

—Setcho Juken (980-1052)

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2013

Friday, December 20th

alone

Bill Frisell (guitar), “Nowhere Man,” “In My Life,” “Strawberry Fields Forever,” live, Washington, D.C., 2012

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random thoughts

Of this I am sure: The longer I live the more mysterious—the more unknowable—is life.

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2013

Thursday, December 19th

Heaven isn’t somewhere else. It’s right here, right now. Don’t believe me? Put on a pair of headphones. Close your eyes. Listen.

Johann Sebastian Bach, Suite No. 5 in C minor for Unaccompanied Cello; Anner Bylsma, live, Germany (Dornheim), 2000

#1

#2 (ends at 9:15)

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art beat

Lee Friedlander (1934-), Kyoto, 1984

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2013

Wednesday, December 18th

what’s new

Glasser, live, London (Boiler Room), 2013

“Forge”

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“Dissect”

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“Landscape”

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2013

Tuesday, December 17th

sounds of Chicago

Tonight these guys, who play all over the world, will be at a little club on the city’s northwest side, the Hideout, as will I.

DKV Trio (Hamid Drake, drums; Kent Kessler, bass; Ken Vandermark, reeds), live, Italy (Sant’Anna Arresi Jazz Festival), 2008

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Joy—no one gives me more than Hamid Drake.

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God keep me from ever completing anything.

—Herman Melville (1819-1891), Moby-Dick

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2013

Monday, December 16th

Something beautiful to begin the week.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, excerpt (2nd movt., Adagio); Hélène Grimaud (piano), Bavarian Radio Chamber Orchestra

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musical thoughts

It is music and dancing that makes me at peace with the world and at peace with myself.

—Nelson Mandel a (July 18, 1918-December 5, 2013)

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2013

Sunday, December 15th

two takes

The Caravans (feat. Cassietta George), “Walk Around Heaven All Day”

Live

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Recording, 1964

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Interview of Alice Munro, last month

It’s hard to imagine a male writer, having just won the Nobel Prize in Literature, being so direct, so natural, so down to earth.

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