sounds of Chicago
Fred Moten (voice, words)/Brandon Lopez (bass), live, Chicago, 6/5/24
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reading table
Cut down, yes
But rooted still
What stumps compress
No axe can kill—Samuel Menashe (1925-2011), from “Survival”
This guy, even after 50 years, I never tire of hearing.
Just one note and I’m hooked, again.
Vernard Johnson (1948-, alto saxophone), “Holiness Is What I Long For,” live, Louisville, Ky., 2017
two takes
“Crying” (Roy Orbison, Joe Melson)
Roy Orbison (1936-1988), 1961
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Julian Lage (1987-, guitar), live, Chicago, 2022
MCOTD Hall of Fame
Today he is being inducted into the MCOTD Hall of Fame, where he joins drummer Hamid Drake (1955-); saxophonists Henry Threadgill (1944-) and Von Freeman (1923-2012); trumpeter Lester Bowie (1941-1999); gospel singer Dorothy Love Coates (1928-2002); composer Morton Feldman (1926-1987); poets John Berryman (1914-1972), William Bronk (1918-1999), and Wislawa Szymborska (1923-2012); and photographer Helen Levitt (1913-2009).
Blind Willie Johnson (1897-1945), “Trouble Will Soon Be Over” (1930)
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random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
sounds of Chicago
Chaka Khan (1953-), live (“Tell Me Something Good,” “What Cha’ Gonna Do For Me,” “Stay,” “Sweet Thing,” “Through the Fire.” “Ain’t Nobody,” “I’m Every Woman”), live, Washington, D.C. , 6/11/24
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random sights
other day, Chicago (Fred Hampton, 1948-1969)*
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*Chaka Khan, Wikipedia entry: “She joined the Black Panther Party after befriending a fellow member, activist and Chicago native Fred Hampton in 1967.[16] At the age of 13, she was given the name Chaka Adunne Aduffe Hodarhi Karifi by a Yoruba Babalawo during a naming ceremony.[3] In 1969, she left the Panthers and dropped out of high school, having attended Calumet High School and Kenwood High School (now Kenwood Academy).[17] She began to perform in small groups around the Chicago area . . .”
like nothing else
György Ligeti (1923-2006), Violin Concerto (1993) (with encore [Bela Bartok, Sonata for Solo Violin, excerpt]): Gürzenich Orchester Köln (François Xavier Roth, cond.) with Christian Tetzlaff (violin), live, Germany (Cologne), 2017
testify!
“Hallelujah,” Mt. Ramah Primitive Baptist Church, Thomaston, Ga., 2013
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art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago (Georgia O’Keeffe: “My New Yorks“, through 9/22/24)
Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986), Manhattan (1932), detail
sounds of Trinidad
What a treat, last night, to bump into this.
I Belong to the House of Music #13, listening and talking with Anthony Joseph (1966-, musician, poet, etc.), rec. 6/9/24, Brixton Market, London
like nothing else
Julia Holter, “Evening Mood,” published 2/28/24
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
testify!
“Angels in Heaven Done Signed My Name,” St. James Missionary Baptist Church, Canton, Miss., 1978
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random sights
yesterday, Chicago
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