Monday, 9/24/12
street music: New Orleans
Brass band, 5/12
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street music: New Orleans
Brass band, 5/12
Little Richard testifies.
With Jerry Lee Lewis, “I’ll Fly Away,” TV show, 1983
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With The Shirelles, “Joy, Joy, Joy,” TV show (England), 1963
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lagniappe
random thoughts
What do you do when it becomes apparent that the story of your life is being told by an unreliable narrator?
Questlove (:10-) & Tony Allen (1:25-), live, Paris, 2011
What a contrast. Questlove, focusing on power and momentum, pushes the beat. Tony lies behind it, skips ahead, lies back again, favoring suppleness and elasticity.
only rock ’n’ roll
Little Richard, “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On,” TV show (Shindig!), 1964
shhhh . . .
Joe McPhee, “Old Eyes” (for Ornette Coleman), live, New York, 2009
street music: New York
Acapella Soul
“When We Get Married,” 2009
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“Ooo Baby Baby,” 2012
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“Just My Imagination,” 2011
Kaija Saariaho, Fall (1991, from the ballet Maa); Nuiko Wadden (harp), Ryan Streber (electronics); Mount Holyoke College (South Hadley, Mass.), 2010
One of the joys of having grown children is going out with them to hear live music, as I did the other night, meeting my older son Alex after work at a Chicago art gallery (Corbett vs. Dempsey) for a solo performance by this harpist.
street music: London
Dave Crowe, beatbox, 2011
Sister Rosetta Tharpe with the Chicago Blues All-Stars (Big Walter Horton [harmonica], Willie Dixon [bass], et al.), “That’s All,” “Didn’t It Rain,” live, 1960s, Germany
What a treat to hear Walter, with whom I worked back in the ’70s while at Alligator Records, playing with Sister Rosetta.
riveting
Anton Bruckner (1824-96), Symphony No. 5 in B flat major; Berlin Philharmonic (Wilhelm Furtwangler, cond.), live, Berlin, 1942
(Yeah, I realize this performance took place in Nazi Germany during World War II and, no, I don’t have anything profound, or even interesting, to say about how such beauty and such horror could coexist.)
