Sunday, April 26th
More of Vernard Johnson.
Live, Roanoke, Tx.
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“What Is This,” live (Something’s Got a Hold on Me), Little Rock, Ark., 1981
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“I’ve Decided To Make Jesus My Choice,” The Gospel Saxophone of Vernard Johnson, 1974
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Saturday, April 25th
Sometimes nothing is more enlivening than to hear something that sounds like nothing you’ve ever heard before.
Rebecca Saunders (1967-), Fury II (2009); Remix Ensemble (Emilio Pomarico, cond.; Antonio Augusto Aguiar, bass), live, Portugal (Porto), 2011
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after the dance
right away, cutting
the morning grass—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827; translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)
2015
Friday, April 24th
only rock ‘n’ roll
Metz, “Get Off,” live, Seattle, 2014
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Thursday, April 23rd
Happy (Belated) Birthday, Mingus!
Charles Mingus, composer, bandleader, bassist
April 22, 1922-January 5, 1979
Better late than never for someone who, like Miles and Monk, Bach and Beethoven, I couldn’t live without.
Charles Mingus (bass) with Eric Dolphy (alto saxophone, bass clarinet, flute), Clifford Jordan (tenor saxophone), Johnny Coles (trumpet), Jaki Byard (piano), Dannie Richmond (drums), live, Belgium, Norway, and Sweden, 1964*
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musical thoughts
There’s something about listening to Eric Dolphy that makes you feel glad to be alive.
—Cliff Preiss, DJ, WKCR (Columbia University), yesterday (Mingus birthday broadcast)
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*Set lists (courtesy of YouTube):
Belgium
00:00-00:45 Intro
00:46-05:33 So Long Eric
05:35-11:20 Peggy’s Blue Skylight
11:23-32:03 Meditations On Integration
Norway
32:30-54:46 So Long Eric
56:30-1:11:40 Orange Was The Color Of Her Dress, Then Blue Silk
1:13:53-1:16:20 Parkeriana
1:16:22-1:29:05 Take The “A” Train
Sweden
1:30:05-1:33:55 So Long Eric
1:34:02-1:52:35 Meditations On Integration
1:52:40- 1:59:50 So Long Eric
2015
Wednesday, April 22nd
sounds of South Africa
Fantasma, “Basbizile,” live, London, 2015
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Another take (Free Love, 2015)
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Tuesday, April 21st
sounds of Malawi
The Very Best with Mafalika, “Let’s Go,” live, Malawi (Kumbali Village), 2/15
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Another take (Makes a King, 4/15)
2015
Monday, April 20th
what’s new
Kendrick Lamar, “King Kunta” (video, 4/15; To Pimp a Butterfly, 3/15)
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Sunday, April 19th
In forty years this guy has let me down not once.
Vernard Johnson, “Only What You Do for Christ Will Last,” live
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random thoughts
Blessed to be awakened, again, by birds.
2015
Saturday, April 18th
never enough
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Suite No. 3 in C major for Unaccompanied Cello; Anner Bylsma, live, 2000
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art beat: Thursday at the Art Institute of Chicago
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), Vase in the Form of an Exotic Plant, 1886/87
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Friday, April 17th
With all he does, this can get lost: on guitar, he’s a killer.
Cee Lo Green, “Crazy,” live (with Prince, guitar), New York, 2011
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Stevie Wonder, “Superstition,” live (with Prince, guitar), Paris, 2010
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reading table
I am alive—I guess—
—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), #605 (Franklin), first line
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