Tuesday, 9/4/12
You don’t need to be asleep to be lost in a dream.
Maurice Ravel, Piano Concerto in G Major (1929-31); Martha Argerich, piano; Orchestre National de France (Charles Dutoit, cond.); live, Germany (Frankfurt), 1990
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
2012
Monday, 9/3/12
joy, n. listening to Paul Motian play Monk.
Paul Motian Trio (PM, drums; Joe Lovano, tenor saxophone; Bill Frisell, guitar), “Misterioso” (T. Monk), live, New York (Village Vanguard), 2005
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lagniappe
art beat: yesterday at the Art Institute of Chicago
Jasper Johns, Corpse and Mirror II (1974-75)
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reading table
up to today
such a healthy singer . . .
katydid—Kobayashi Issa, 1813 (translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)
2012
Sunday, 9/2/12
Stevie testifies.
Stevie Wonder, “Falling in Love with Jesus,” live
2012
Saturday, 9/1/12
basement jukebox
The Falcons (feat. Wilson Pickett [vocals], Robert Ward [guitar])
“Take This Love I’ve Got” (1963)
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The Ohio Untouchables (feat. Robert Ward [vocals/guitar])
“I’m Tired” (1962)
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lagniappe
found words
Singer, 43, Snapped In Tiny Bikini
—AOL Headline, 8/31/12
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This active fluidity and tidal composite of duration is the condition of the aesthetic.
—George Steiner, The Poetry of Thought: From Hellenism To Celan (2011)
2012
Friday, 8/31/12
only rock ’n’ roll
Wilco, live, Barcelona (Primavera Sound Festival), 5/31/12
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2012
Thursday, 8/30/12
playing this weekend at the Chicago Jazz Festival
Matt Wilson’s Arts & Crafts* (Sunday, 3:30 p.m.)
“We See” (T. Monk), live, New York, 2011
(Paul Motian, this guy—drummers seem to have a particular feeling for Monk.)
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Steve Coleman and Five Elements** (Sunday, 7:10 p.m.)
Live, New York, 2010
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Ken Vandermark’s Made To Break Quartet*** (Sunday, 2:20 p.m.)
Live, Barcelona, 2011
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*MW, drums; Terell Stafford, trumpet; Gary Versace, piano; Martin Wind, bass.
**SC, alto saxophone; Jonathan Finlayson, trumpet; Tim Albright, trombone; Miles Okazaki, guitar; David Virelles, piano; Thomas Morgan, bass; Marcus Gilmore, drums.
***KV, reeds; Christof Kurzmann, electronics; Devin Hoff, bass; Tim Daisy, drums.
2012
Wednesday, 8/29/12
who you’d be swept away by—right now—
if you were a 24-year-old male*
Jessie Ware, live, London, 7/18/12
“Night Light”
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“Taking In Water”
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“Running”
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lagniappe
radio: final day of WKCR’s Pres-&-Bird Birthday Marathon
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*Based on a sample of one—my son Alex.
2012
Tuesday, 8/28/12
Need a ticket to an enchanted forest?
John Luther Adams, songbirdsongs (1974-80)
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lagniappe
radio: day two of WKCR’s Pres-&-Bird Birthday Marathon
2012
Monday, 8/27/12
Everybody knows the boat is leaking . . .
Leonard Cohen, “Everybody Knows,” live, London, 2008
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lagniappe
talking (Canadian TV, 1997)
(Yeah, the interviewer is often obnoxious; but, despite [because of?] that, this is one of the more intriguing “celebrity interviews” I’ve heard.)
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reading table
Returning To My Cottage
by Wang Wei (699-759 [trans. David Young])
A bell in the distance
the sound floats
down the valley
one by one
woodcutters and fishermen
stop work, start home
the mountains move off
into darkness
alone, I turn home
as great clouds beckon
from the horizon
the wind stirs delicate vines
and water chestnut shoots
catkin fluff sails past
in the marsh to the east
new growth
vibrates with color
it’s sad
to walk in the house
and shut the door.
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radio: 72 hours of Pres & Bird
Celebrating the birthdays of Lester Young (8/27) and Charlie Parker (8/29), WKCR-FM (broadcasting from Columbia University) will be playing their music all day today, tomorrow, and Wednesday.
2012
Sunday, 8/26/12
Here are a few more takes on a song we listened to a couple weeks ago—“Sending Up My Timber.”
Rev. Raymond Branch, Los Angeles (Heavenly Rainbow Baptist Church), 2010
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Blind Willie McTell (Pig ’n Whistle Red), 1950
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Otis Clay & Clarence Fountain (Direct Hits from Bullseye Blues), 1993
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Ya’Londa Freeman & Gardner Family, Baltimore (Har Sinai Church of Christ, funeral for Jaycee Gardner), 2008
