old school
Mighty Clouds of Joy, “I’ve Been in the Storm Too Long,” live, Chicago, 1990
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reading table
There comes an hour when begging stops,
When the long interceding lips
Perceive their prayer is vain.
‘Thou shalt not’ is a kinder sword
Than from a disappointing God
‘Disciple, call again.’—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), #1768 (Franklin)
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art beat
Danny Lyon (1942-), Colombia, 1972
Even in death he remains a source of rare beauty.
Henry Threadgill (MCOTD Hall of Fame, bass flute) and Jason Moran (piano), “Sail” (H. Threadgill), live, New York (Ornette Coleman Memorial Service), 6/27/15
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The world she grew up in was so different it was hard to believe she was ever in it.
—Anne Enright, The Green Road (2015)
summer in the city
Sleater-Kinney, live, Chicago (Pitchfork Music Festival), 7/18/15
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lagniappe
art beat: Wednesday at the Chicago History Museum
Vivian Maier (1926-2009), Chicago
Morton Feldman (1927-1986), Rothko Chapel (1971), live (excerpts), Houston (Rothko Chapel), 2013; Kim Kashkashian (viola), Steven Schick (percussion), Sarah Rothenberg (celeste), Hallie Reed (soprano), Houston Chamber Choir (Robert Simpson, cond.)
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Today Morton Feldman enters the MCOTD Hall of Fame, joining saxophonists Von Freeman and Henry Threadgill, trumpeter Lester Bowie, poets John Berryman and Wislawa Szymborska and William Bronk, photographer Helen Levitt, and gospel singer Dorothy Love Coates.
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lagniappe
random thoughts
No matter how often we turn away, the world keeps calling out to us.
Look.
Listen.
summer in the city
Shamir, “Head in the Clouds,” live, Chicago (Pitchfork Music Festival), 7/18/15
tonight in Chicago
These guys are playing at Elastic Arts.
Vox Arcana (Tim Daisy, percussion; James Falzone, clarinet; Fred Lonberg-Holm, cello, guitar), live, South Carolina (West Columbia), 2012
Sometimes I want more. Sometimes less.
Billy Gomberg, “False Heat,” 2013
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random sights
this morning
Oak Park, Illinois
back to church
Hymn Choir of Langrum Branch Baptist Church (York, S.C.), “Calvary,” live, Mt. Zion Baptist Church, McConnells, S.C., 2010
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The Blood is more showy than the Breath
But cannot dance as well——Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), #1558 (Franklin)
Back to Brooklyn.
Trio Caveat (James Ilgenfritz, bass; Chris Welcome, guitar; Jonathan Moritz, saxophone) with Mat Maneri (viola), live, New York (Barbes), 2012
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musical thoughts
Too much music suffers from too little mystery.
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[T]hose who know her [nature], know her less / The nearer her they get.
—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), #1433 (Franklin)
only rock ‘n’ roll
Patti Smith, live, England (Glastonbury Festival), 6/28/15
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art beat
Robert Frank (1924-), from The Lines of My Hand (1972)
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I have no Life but this
—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), #1432 (Franklin)
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