Sunday, December 26th
like nobody else
Mahalia Jackson (1911-1972), “I Couldn’t Keep It to Myself,” live
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random sights
other day, Chicago
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jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Tag: Mahalia Jackson
2019
Sunday, June 2nd
timeless
Mahalia Jackson (1911-1972), “How I Got Over” (C. Ward), live, Chicago
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reading table
Do you not see how necessary a World of Pains and troubles is to school an Intelligence and make it a soul?
—John Keats (1795-1821), letter to his brother George Keats, 1819
2018
Sunday, January 28th
timeless
Mahalia Jackson with Louis Armstrong, “Just a Closer Walk with Thee,” live, Newport Jazz Festival (Newport, R.I.), 1970
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill. (Oak Park Conservatory)
2017
Sunday, June 18th
gospel, n., adj. Good news.
Mahalia Jackson (1911-1972), “Amazing Grace” (lyrics by John Newton, 1725-1807), live
2015
Sunday, November 15th
More Mahalia.
Mahalia Jackson (1911-1972), “I’ve Been ‘Buked and I’ve Been Scorned,” live, Washington, D.C., 1963 (March on Washington)
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art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago
Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946), The Steerage, 1907 (Alfred Stieglitz and the 19th Century, through 3/27/16)
2015
Sunday, November 8th
regal, adj. Characteristic of or resembling a monarch; splendid, magnificent, stately; distinguished. E.g., Mahalia Jackson.
Mahalia Jackson (1911-1972), “These Are They,” live (TV show), 1956 (Rejoice and Shout [2010], commentary by Smokey Robinson and Anthony Heilbut)
2014
Sunday, December 21st
three takes
“Leaning on the Everlasting Arms” (A. Showalter, E. Hoffman)
Five Blind Boys of Mississippi, live (TV show)
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Mahalia Jackson, live (TV show), 1961
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Iris Dement, recording (Lifeline), 2010
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lagniappe
art beat: Friday at the Art Institute of Chicago
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), Self-Portrait, 1887
2013
Sunday, August 25th
fifty years ago
March on Washington, August 28, 1963
Mahalia Jackson, “How I Got Over”
Vodpod videos no longer available.
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Martin Luther King
Has there ever been a greater musician of speech?
2012
Sunday, 12/23/12
A great singer creates, within a song, a space, inviting you, the listener, to come inside.
Mahalia Jackson, “Silent Night,” 1961
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Marion Williams, “O Holy Night,” “Silent Night,” 1959
2012
Sunday, 11/4/12
three takes
“Move On Up A Little Higher” (W. Herbert Brewster)
Mahalia Jackson, radio broadcast, early 1950s
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Brother Joe May, live, early 1950s
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Rev. Timothy Flemming Sr., live, Atlanta, 1976
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art beat: yesterday at the Art Institute of Chicago (with my son Alex)
Helen Levitt, Janice Loeb, James Agee, In the Street (1948), featured in the exhibit Film and Photo in New York (through 11/25/12)
(For better quality go to the “Settings” icon [lower right] and select 480p.)
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random thoughts
Sixty years ago today Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected the thirty-fourth President of the United States and, closer to home, my parents’ second son was born. What’s it like turning sixty? Surprising. But no more surprising, I suppose, than finding oneself entwined, in perpetuity, with Ike.
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