Friday, November 8th
Is any instrument more compelling than the human voice?
Patty Griffin, live, Washington, D.C., 2013
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lagniappe
art beat
Lee Friedlander (1934-)
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
2013
Thursday, November 7th
Feel like floating?
Morton Feldman (1926-1987), For Philip Guston (1984)
S.E.M. Ensemble, 2000
2013
Wednesday, November 6th
love it or hate it
Terrie Ex (guitar), Paal Nilssen-Love (drums), live, Paris, 2012
#1
#2
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art beat
Danny Lyon (1942-), Chicago (Uptown), 1965
2013
Tuesday, November 5th
This guy, like another New Yorker,* contains multitudes.
John Zorn (with Marc Ribot, guitar; John Medeski, keyboards, et al.), live, Poland (Warsaw), 2013
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musical thoughts
All the various styles are organically connected to one another. I’m an additive person—the entire storehouse of my knowledge informs everything I do. People are so obsessed with the surface that they can’t see the connections, but they are there.
—John Zorn
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*Walt Whitman (“Song of Myself”): “I am large, I contain multitudes.”
2013
Monday, November 4th
three takes
This guy, like Monk, could take a familiar form, open it up, and create something both old and new.
Julius Hemphill (1938-1995), “The Hard Blues”
Live (with members of the Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra and the Either/Orchestra), Boston, 1989
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Recording (JH, alto saxophone, flute; Baikida E.J. Carroll, trumpet; Hamiet Bluiett, baritone saxophone; Abdul Wadud, cello; Philip Wilson, drums), recorded 1972 (first released on Coon Bid’ness, 1975)
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Recording (Julius Hemphill, alto saxophone; Marty Ehrlich, soprano and alto saxophone, flute; Carl Grubbs, soprano and alto saxophone; James Carter, tenor saxophone; Andrew White. tenor saxophone; Sam Furnace, baritone saxophone, flute), 1991
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Helen Levitt (1913-2009), New York, c. 1940
2013
Sunday, November 3rd
five takes
“Where We’ll Never Grow Old,” AKA “Never Grow Old” (J. Moore, 1914)
Patty Griffin with Buddy Miller, live, 2010
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The Canton Spirituals, live, c. 1990
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The Carter Family, recording, 1932
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Aretha Franklin, live, Detroit, 1996
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Johnny Cash, recording, 2004
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Helen Levitt (1913-2009), New York
2013
Saturday, November 2nd
only rock ’n’ roll
MC5, “Kick Out The Jams,” “Ramblin’ Rose,” “Motor City’s Burning,” “Tonight,” “Black To Comm #2,” live (TV studio), Germany (Bremen), 1972
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Danny Lyon (1942-), Chicago, 1960s
2013
Friday, November 1st
only rock ’n’ roll
Richard Hell and the Voidoids (with Robert Quine [1942-2004], guitar, et al.), “Blank Generation,” live, New York (CBGB’s), Blank Generation, 1980
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Danny Lyon (1942-), Chicago, 1965
2013
Monday, October 28th
passings
Lou Reed, singer, songwriter, guitarist, March 2, 1942-October 27, 2013
Live (with Robert Quine [1942-2004], guitar; Fernando Saunders, bass; Fred Maher, drums), New York (Bottom Line), 1983
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
All great rock comes from a particular place. Take Lou Reed. Could he have emerged from Detroit? Nah—too self-conscious, too arty. San Francisco? Unh-uh—way too abrasive. He could only have come from one place, the city where, as the joke has it, a tourist goes up to someone and asks: “Can you tell me the way to the Empire State Building—or should I just go fuck myself?”
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taking a break
I’m taking some time off—back in a while.
2013
Sunday, October 27th
sounds of Chicago
They sounded so good last week—let’s hear some more.
The Staple Singers, “Are You Sure,” live, 1971
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art beat
William Eggleston (1939-)
