only rock ‘n’ roll
Moja (Haru [bass, vocals], Masumi [drums]), live (“Geji, Geji,” “No Thank You,” “Hello”), France (Rennes), 12/8/23
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art beat: other day, Des Moines, Iowa (Des Moines Art Center)
Joan Mitchell (1925-1992), Untitled, 1968 (detail)
This guy takes me places no one else does.
Tim Berne’s Snakeoil (TB, alto saxophone; Oscar Noriega, clarinet; Matt Mitchell, piano; Ches Smith, drums, vibraphone), “Small World in a Small Town” (T. Berne), live, Brazil (Sao Paulo), 2015
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art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago
Joan Mitchell (1925-1992), City Landscape, 1955
sounds of Detroit
Don Was/Sweet Pea Atkinson, “Slow Down,” recording session, 2007
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art beat: more from the other day at the Art Institute of Chicago
This I never tire of.
Joan Mitchell (1925-1992), City Landscape, 1955
sounds of Chicago
Baby Huey (AKA James Ramey, 1944-1970), “Listen To Me,” 1971 (Curtom)
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art beat: more from Thursday’s stop at the Art Institute of Chicago
Joan Mitchell (1925-1992), City Landscape, 1955
Happy (96th) Birthday, Billie!
Tune in to WKCR-FM (broadcasting from Columbia University) and you’ll swear you must’ve died and gone to heaven—it’s all Billie, all day.
Billie Holiday, “The Blues Are Brewin'” (with Louis Armstrong, trumpet), New Orleans (1947)
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Joan Mitchell, Chamonix (c. 1962), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
I’ll fly away . . .
DeAndre Patterson, “I’ll Fly Away,” live, Chicago (homegoing service for Eugene Smith, Christian Tabernacle Church, 47th & Prairie), 5/18/09
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art beat
After a court hearing Friday, I stopped by the Art Institute of Chicago, which is just a couple blocks from the federal courthouse. In the Modern Wing, there’s a wonderful space on the second floor—a small room you enter through a glass door. Once inside, these paintings—each has a wall to itself—surround you.
Jackson Pollock, Greyed Rainbow (1953)
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Joan Mitchell, “City Landscape” (1955)
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Willem de Kooning, Excavation (1950)
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