Tuesday, September 22nd
drum fest
day two
Donald Edwards, live, Israel (Tel Aviv)
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
Listening to drums makes it easier to believe: maybe things will be all right after all.
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Sunday, September 20th
never enough
Blind Willie Johnson (1897-1945), “Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed,” 1927
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
How many of this year’s recordings will be played in 2103?
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random sights
this morning, outside Chicago (Salt Creek Trail)
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Saturday, September 19th
voices I miss
Lester Bowie’s New York Organ Ensemble (LB [1941-1999, MCOTD Hall of Fame], trumpet; Frank Lacy, trombone; James Carter, tenor saxophone; Spencer Barefield, guitar; Kathy Farmer, organ; Famoudou Don Moye, drums), live, Spain (Madrid), 1992
Time for just one?
Try “Somewhere” (L. Bernstein, S. Sondheim), 11:45-.
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art beat
Vivian Maier (1926-2009), Chicago (Maxwell Street), 1967
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Friday, September 18th
only rock ‘n’ roll
Battles, “The Yabba,” live, New York, 2015
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reading table
And this brief Drama in the flesh –
—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), #279 (Franklin)
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Thursday, September 17th
tonight in Chicago
These guys are playing at Constellation.
São Paulo Underground (Rob Mazurek, cornet, electronics; Mauricio Takara, percussion, cavaquinho, electronics; Guilherme Granado, keyboards, electronics, vocals), live, Italy (Pisa), 2012
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Wednesday, September 16th
This sounds like a communication from some distant planet—which I mean as a compliment.
Olivia Block, Aberration of Light, 2015
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Monday, September 14th
sounds of Zimbabwe
This I could listen to all day.
Thomas Mapfumo, “Chikonzero”
Live (studio performance), Eugene, Oregon, 2015
MVP? That’s easy—guitarist Gilbert Zvamaida. In his hands melody (or “lead”) and rhythm are one.
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the beat goes on
2,100 posts—and counting.
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Sunday, September 13th
back to church
“Until I Die,” Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church, Winston-Salem, N.C., 2001
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In a sense sickness is a place, more instructive than a long trip to Europe, and it’s a place where there’s no company, where nobody can follow.
—Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964), letter, 1956
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