music clip of the day | music clip of the day

Tag: music clip of the day

Monday, March 16th

Want to be swept away?

Alexander Scriabin (1871-1915), Etude in D-sharp minor, Op. 8, No. 12 (1894); Daniil Trifonov (1991-, piano), live, Berlin, 2019

**********

lagniappe

random sights

yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.

*****

reading table

And I Was Alive
by Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938),
translated from Russian by Christian Wiman

And I was alive in the blizzard of the blossoming pear,
Myself I stood in the storm of the bird-cherry tree,
It was all leaflike and star shower, unerring, self-shattering power,
And it was all aimed at me.

What is this dire delight flowering fleeing always earth?
What is being? What is truth?

Blossoms rupture and rapture the air,
All hover and hammer,
Time intensified and time intolerable, sweetness raveling rot.
It is now. It is not.

Leave a comment

2020

Sunday, March 15th

timeless

Famous Blue Jay Singers of Birmingham, Alabama, “I’m Bound for Canaan Land,” recorded in Chicago, 1947

**********

lagniappe

random sights

other day, Oak Park, Ill.

*****

reading table

Where did my life come from?
Where will it go?

—Ryōkan (1758-1831), from an untitled poem (translated from classical Chinese by Ryūichi Abé and Peter Haskel)

Leave a comment

2020

Friday, March 13th

sounds of Havana

Omara Portuondo (1930-), “Sábanas Blancas,” 2019

**********

lagniappe

random sights

yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.

*****

reading table

Books are manuals for being in the world.

—writer Aleksandar Hemon (1964-)

Leave a comment

2020

Thursday, March 12th

tonight in Chicago

They’re playing at Elastic Arts.

Ken Vandermark (reeds), Nate Wooley (trumpet), Paul Lytton (drums), live, Chicago, 2011

*****

Kuzu (Dave Rempis, reeds; Tashi Dorji, guitar; Tyler Damon, drums), live, Columbia, S.C., 2018

**********

lagniappe

random sights

other day, Chicago

Leave a comment

2020

Wednesday, March 11th

alone

Paul Giger (1952-, violin, composition), “Karma Shadub,” 2018

**********

lagniappe

random sights

yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.

Leave a comment

2020

Tuesday, March 10th

more

John Coltrane Quartet (JC, 1926-1967, tenor saxophone; McCoy Tyner, 1938-2020, piano; Jimmy Garrison, 1934-1976, bass; Elvin Jones, 1927-2004, drums), live (“Vigil,” Naima,” “My Favorite Things”), Belgium (Comblain-la-Tour), 1965

**********

lagniappe

random sights

other day, New York

*****

radio

Today WKCR (Columbia University) celebrates the birthday of cornetist Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931)—all Bix, all day.

*****

reading table

In the dark we disappear, pure being.

—Stanley Plumly (1939-2019), from”Wight”

Leave a comment

2020

Monday, March 9th

passings

McCoy Tyner, pianist, December 11, 1938-March 6, 2020

John Coltrane Quartet (JC, 1926-1967, tenor saxophone; MC, piano; Jimmy Garrison, 1934-1976, bass; Elvin Jones, 1927-2004, drums), “Impressions” (J. Coltrane), live (TV show), San Francisco, 1963