testify!
Minister Febe & The Chosen Ones (joined by GeGe of True Anointing, Birmingham, Ala.), “Everybody Saw Me When I Fell,” live
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lagniappe
reading table
The Soul has Bandaged moments –
—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), 360 (Franklin), fragment
what’s new
Olga Bell, “ATA,” 2016
Feel like floating?
Chick Corea (piano) & Gary Burton (vibraphone)
Live, Washington, D.C., 6/13/16
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lagniappe
random sights
other morning, Chicago (Columbus Park)
what’s new
M.A.K.U. SoundSystem, Mezcla, 2016
never enough
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Sonata No. 1 in G minor for Solo Violin, excerpt (movts. I, II); Patricia Cordero, live, Spain (Madrid), 5/10/16
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lagniappe
reading table
Perhaps I asked too large –
I take – no less than skies –—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), 358 (Franklin), fragment
More.
Tristan Murail (1947-), Territoires de l’oubli (1977); Lan Cao (1987-, piano), live, Germany (Cologne), 2014
Need a change of scene?
Tristan Murail (1947-), Le Lac (2001); Chimera Ensemble (John Stringer, cond.), live, England (York), 2013
sounds of Chicago
Windy City Spiritualaires with Willie Clayton, “I’m Gonna Run On,” live (music starts at 4:05-), Birmingham, Ala., 2000
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lagniappe
yesterday on Chicago’s south side
Treme Brass Band, Washington Park
There’s Amsterdam.
There’s Ethiopia.
And there’s Amsterdam in Ethiopia.
The Ex & Han Bennink (drums), Ethiopia, 2002
voices I miss
Albert Collins (1932-1993), live, Switzerland (Montreux), 1979
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lagniappe
art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago
Aaron Siskind (1903-1991), Chicago 28 1957 (Abstractions, through 8/14/16)
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tonight in Chicago
The Chicago Blues Festival celebrates the 45th anniversary of Alligator Records, where, in the ’70s, barely out of college, I had the good fortune to co-produce recordings by Albert Collins, Koko Taylor, Son Seals, Fenton Robinson, Jimmy Johnson, Carey Bell, et al.
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