Thursday, July 24th
Why not listen to something new?
Iva Bittova (voice, violin), Don Byron (clarinet), Hamid Drake (drums), live, Paris, 2008
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2014
Wednesday, July 23rd
Johnny Cash, live (Town Hall Party), 1958-59
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lagniappe
art beat: more from Thursday night at the Art Institute of Chicago
Josef Koudelka (1938-), Czechoslavakia, 1963
Nationality Doubtful, through September 14th
2014
Tuesday, July 22nd
only rock ’n’ roll
Gene Vincent (1935-1971),* Eddie Cochran (1938-1960, 40:45-),* live (Town Hall Party), 1950s
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*Set lists (courtesy of YouTube):
Gene Vincent
1. Be-Bop-A-Lula
2. High Blood Pressure
3. Rip it Up
4. Dance to the Bop
5. You Win Again
6. For Your Precious Love
7. Rocky Road Blues
8. Pretty Pearly
9. Be-Bop-A-Lula
10. High School Confidential
11. Over The Rainbow
12. Roll Over Beethoven
13. Over The Rainbow
14. She She Little Sheila
Eddie Cochran
1. C’mon Everybody
2. Have I Told You Lately That I Love You
3. Don’t Blame It On Me
4. Summertime Blues
5. School Days
6. Be Honest With Me
7. Money Honey
2014
Monday, July 21st
only rock ’n’ roll
Jeff Beck and The Big Town Playboys, live (music begins at 2:10),* London (Ronnie Scott’s), 2007
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*Set list (courtesy of YouTube):
1) Race with the Devil
2) Crazy Legs
3) Train Kept A-Rollin’
4) My Baby Left Me
5) Matchbox
6) Baby Blue
7) Honky Tonk
2014
Sunday, July 20th
testify
Neal Roberson, “Don’t Let the Devil Ride,” live
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lagniappe
reading table
I am running out of life, Olga thinks. What am I going to do? What is there without life?
—Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project
2014
Saturday, July 19th
alone
Henry Cowell (1897-1965), The Tides of Manaunaun, c. 1917
Andy Costello (piano), live, Chicago, 2009
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lagniappe
art beat: more from Thursday night at the Art Institute of Chicago
Josef Koudelka (1938-), Ireland, 1972
Nationality Doubtful, through September 14th
2014
Friday, July 18th
passings
Johnny Winter, guitar player, February 23, 1944-July 16, 2014
“Highway 61 Revisited” (B. Dylan)
Live, Denmark (Roskilde), 1984
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Recording (Second Winter), 1969
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lagniappe
art beat: last night at the Art Institute of Chicago
Josef Koudelka (1938-), Nationality Doubtful, through September 14th
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the beat goes on
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2014
Thursday, July 17th
never enough
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Suite No. 3 in C major for Unaccompanied Cello; Jean-Guihen Queyras (1967-), live, c. 2007
2014
Wednesday, July 16th
tonight in Chicago
This guy will be playing at the Hideout.
Daniel Levin, cello
With JP Carletti (drums), live, New Haven, Conn., 2013
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With his trio, live, Jersey City, N.J., 2008
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Solo, live, New York, 2009
2014
Tuesday, July 15th
passings
Lorin Maazel (mah-ZELL), conductor, violinist, composer
March 6, 1930-July 13, 2014
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Symphony No. 41 in C major (“Jupiter”), Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia (Lorin Maazel, cond.), live, Spain (A Coruña), 2012
Charlie Haden, Tommy Ramone, Lorin Maazel: their differences are dwarfed by what, as music makers, they shared.
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