Friday, November 28th
David T. Walker (guitar) with Bernard Purdie (drums), Chuck Rainey (bass), et al., “What’s Going On” (M. Gaye), live, 1993
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Chicago (Columbus Park)
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Tag: Marvin Gaye
2018
Friday, February 23rd
timeless
Marvin Gaye (1939-1984), “What’s Going On” (M. Gaye, A. Cleveland, R. Benson), “What’s Happening Brother” (M. Gaye, J. Nyx Jr.), live, Chicago, 1972
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2017
Friday, June 30th
voices I miss
This sounds as fresh, and timely, as it did in 1971.
Marvin Gaye (1939-1984), “Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)” (M. Gaye, J. Nyx; What’s Going On, 1971)
2014
Saturday, March 15th
serendipity*
Christopher DeLaurenti (sampling Marvin Gaye, “What’s Going On” [1971]), live, Seattle, 2009
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lagniappe
reading table: passings
Bill Knott, February 17, 1940-March 12, 2014
Night Thought
Compared to one’s normal clothes, pajamas
are just as caricature as the dreams
they bare: farce-skins, facades, unserious
soft versions of the mode diem, they seem
to have come from a posthumousness;
floppy statues of ourselves, slack seams
of death. Their form mimics the decay
that will fit us so comfortably someday.
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*This I bumped into yesterday, listening to the radio (WFMU: Miniature Minotaurs [Kurt Gottschalk]).
2012
Wednesday, 2/29/12
keep on dancing
Moodymann, “The Day We Lost The Soul”/ “Tribute! (To The Soul We Lost),” 1995
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Theo Parrish, “The Love I Lost” (Re-edit of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes), 2003
More Theo? Here. And here. And here. And here.
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
Dance music holds out the hope, as the beat goes on, and on, and on, that nothing will be lost. Ever. But then it, too, ends.
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