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2012

Saturday, 12/8/12

passings

Dave Brubeck, pianist, composer, bandleader
December 6, 1920-December 5, 2012

Dave Brubeck Quartet (DB, piano; Paul Desmond, alto saxophone; Gene Wright, bass; Joe Morello, drums), TV show (Jazz Casual with Ralph J. Gleason*), 1961 (followed by other clips)

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found words

japanese punk band with sousaphone

—Web search that brought someone here

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*Gleason, who died in 1975, had a hand in a lot of different things, including the Monterey Jazz Festival (cofounder, 1958) and Rolling Stone (cofounder, 1967).

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2012

Friday, 12/7/12

two takes

Stephanie McDee, “Call the Police”

Recording (Living The Blues), 2002

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Live, Baton Rouge, 2012

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We know we are very special. Yet we keep trying to find out in what way: not this way, not that way, then what way?

—Lydia Davis, “Special” (The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis, 2009)

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2012

Thursday, 12/6/12

We ain’t never goin’ home . . .

—Neneh Cherry (59:55)*

Neneh Cherry & The Thing (Mats Gustafsson, baritone saxophone, electronics; Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, bass; Paal Nilssen-Love, drums), live, Austria (Konfrontationen 2012, Nickelsdorf), 7/21/12

*“Call the Police” (S. McDee).

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2012

Wednesday, 12/5/12

My favorite drummer?

There are days I’d say this is the guy.

Among the many things I love about his playing, which dances, always, is the balance of simplicity and complexity—it’s never more complex than it is simple, never simpler than it is complex.

Old and New Dreams (Don Cherry [1936-1995], pocket trumpet; Dewey Redman [1931-2006], tenor saxophone; Charlie Haden [1937-], bass; Ed Blackwell [1929-1992], drums), live

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Art is not in some far-off place.

—Lydia Davis, “Extracts from a Life” (The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis, 2009)

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2012

Tuesday, 12/4/12

Few musicians get under my skin like he does.

Friedrich Gulda (1930-2000), piano
Frederic Chopin, Preludes, Op. 28, Nos. 7, 13, 21, 24

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musical thoughts

Play every note as if your life depended on it.

—Friedrich Gulda

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2012

Monday, 12/3/12

old stuff

Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, Jeni LeGon, Fats Waller, “Living in a Great Big Way” (Hooray for Love, 1935)

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2012

Sunday, 12/2/12

Marion Williams (1927-1994) and the Stars of Faith, “Packin’ Up,” live

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musical thoughts

I had gotten the inspiration for that ‘Wooo’ from gospel singer Marion Williams.

—Little Richard

Little Richard, “Tutti Frutti” (single, 1955; album, 1957)

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2012

Saturday, 12/1/12

Some sounds once they enter your brain they never leave.

Perfume, “Baby Cruising Love” (2008)

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How little we know,
and when we know it!

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We close in on ourselves,
then yelp that the world is awry.

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We had macaroni for lunch every day
except Sunday, when a small quail was induced
to be served to us. Why do I tell you these things?
You are not even here.

—John Ashbery, miscellaneous fragments (“Like A Sentence,” “Tahiti Trot,” “This Room”)