sounds of Chicago
Here’s one of my favorite drummers, leading his own band, playing his own compositions.
Michael Zerang & The Blue Lights, live, Germany (Dortmund), 2015*
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art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago
Joseph Cornell (1903-1972), Untitled (Hôtel de la Duchesse-Anne), 1957
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*MZ, drums, compositions; Dave Rempis, saxophones; Emil Strandberg, trumpet; John Dikeman, saxophones; Kent Kessler, bass.
two takes
Buddy Miller, “Chalk” (J. Miller), live
With Don Was (bass), et al., 2007
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With Patty Griffin (vocals), et al., San Francisco, 2010
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art beat: more from Friday at the Art Institute of Chicago
Joseph Cornell (1903-1972), Ann—In Memory, 1954
angels
Marion Williams and the Stars of Faith, “Mean Old World,” live, Netherlands (Utrecht), 1962
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art beat: more from Friday at the Art Institute of Chicago
Joseph Cornell (1903-1972), Untitled (Forgotten Game), c. 1949
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reading table
Superiority to Fate
Is difficult to gain
‘Tis not conferred of any
But possible to earnA pittance at a time
Until to Her surprise
The Soul with strict economy
Subsist till Paradise.—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), #1043 (Franklin)
sounds of Japan
Perfume, “STORY (SXSW MIX),” SXSW (Austin, Tx.), 3/17/15
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art beat: yesterday at the Art Institute of Chicago
Joseph Cornell (1903-1972), Untitled (Hotel de la Duchesse-Anne), 1957
sounds of Chicago
Matthias Kranebitter (1980-), pack the box (with five dozen of my liquor jugs) (2013)
Mocrep, live, Chicago, 2014
[vimeo 111677932 w=560&h=315]
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reading table
Collage=life.
—Joseph Cornell, diary entry, 1964
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