Friday, May 4th
another take
John Prine (with Sturgill Simpson, Brandi Carlisle), “Summer’s End” (J. Prine), live (TV show), 4/12/18
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2018
Thursday, May 3rd
string quartet festival
day three
György Ligeti (1923-2006), String Quartet No. 2 (1968); Arditti Quartet, live (studio), Tokyo, 2018
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2018
Wednesday, May 2nd
string quartet festival
day two
Lawrence Wilde (aka Yuri Boguinia), String Quartet No. 3 (“Wilted Jasmine,” 2016); JACK Quartet, live
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2018
Tuesday, May 1st
string quartet festival
day one
Like painting, the string quartet endures. Composers keep finding new colors.
Thomas Adès (1971-), Arcadiana (1994)
Danish String Quartet, live, New York, 2015
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2018
Monday, April 30th
passings
Charles Neville, saxophonist, December 28, 1938-April 26, 2018
Neville Brothers, “Yellow Moon,” live, New Orleans, 1991
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More?
Here’s the whole set.
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Sunday, April 29th
MCOTD Hall of Fame
Dorothy Love Coates and The Gospel Harmonettes, “They Won’t Believe” (D. L. Coates), 1970
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2018
Saturday, April 28th
basement jukebox
Little Junior Parker, “Driving Wheel” (R. Sykes), 1961
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Here’s the original recording.
Roosevelt Sykes, “Driving Wheel Blues,” 1936
2018
Friday, April 27th
voices I miss
Prince, “Nothing Compares 2 U” (P. Nelson), published 4/19/18 (recorded 1984)
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2018
Thursday, April 26th
How many bands have not one but two MacArthur-certified “geniuses”?
Vijay Iyer Sextet (Vijay Iyer, keyboards, compositions [2013 MacArthur Fellow]; Tyshawn Sorey, drums [2017 MacArthur Fellow]; Stephan Crump, bass; Steve Lehman, alto saxophone; Graham Haynes, cornet and flugelhorn; Mark Shim, tenor saxophone), live, Ojai, Calif., 2017
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2018
Wednesday, April 25th
passings
Bob Dorough, singer, songwriter, piano player, December 12, 1923-April 23, 2018
“Devil May Care” (B. Dorough, T. Kirk), live (studio), New York, 2015
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