two takes
“Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen”
Bessie Griffin (with Charles Barnett, piano), live, Switzerland (Montreux Jazz Festival), 1981
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Albert Ayler (AA, saxophone; Call Cobbs, piano; Henry Grimes, bass; Sunny Murray, drums), recording, 1964
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lagniappe
reading table
To live is to lose ground.
—E. M. Cioran (1911-1995; translated from French by Richard Howard)
Today let’s leave Chicago, where the longest season, it sometimes seems, is not-yet-spring, and head south—to a little church in a small town in Georgia.
Pilgrim Rest Primitive Baptist Church, Oglethorpe, Georgia, 12/17/11
Anything can be used to make music—even a book (7:57-).
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
The passion for music is itself an admission. We know more about a stranger who abandons himself to it than about someone indifferent to it whom we deal with every day.
—E. M. Cioran, Anathemas and Aphorisms (translated from French by Richard Howard, 1991)
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