Monday, February 24th
what’s new
Neneh Cherry, live (studio performance), New York, 2014
“Blank Project”
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“Weightless”
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These songs are on her new album, Blank Project, as is this track.
“Out of the Black” (feat. Robyn)
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Sunday, February 23rd
testify
Jackson Southernaires, “Can’t Make It By Myself,” live, Jackson, Miss., 1996
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lagniappe
reading table
Barn’s burnt down—
now
I can see the moon.—Mizuta Masahide, 1657-1723 (translated from Japanese by Lucien Stryk and Takashi Ikemoto)
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Saturday, February 22nd
A pianist plays the piano.
A violinist plays the violin.
A percussionist plays . . . how much time have you got?
Augusta Read Thomas (1964-), Resounding Earth (2012); Third Coast Percussion
1st Movement
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2nd Movement
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3rd Movement
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4th Movement
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musical thoughts
Augusta Read Thomas, talking about Resounding Earth:
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Friday, February 21st
only rock ’n’ roll
The Ex, “Double Order,” France (Orleans), 2013
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found words
From the Chicago Reader music section (2/20/14):
. . . hails from the same quasi-grimestep/post-IDM interzone that’s home to artists as disparate as . . .
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This Liverpool trio plays what it calls ‘caveman doom’ . . .
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. . . retrofuturist murder ballad . . .
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. . . works the same territory that grindcore and sludge bands cleared in the 90s.
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Thursday, February 20th
what’s new
Vijay Iyer (pianist, composer, bandleader, Harvard professor, MacArthur “genius” grant winner, etc.), Mutations, 2014
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Monday, February 17th
sounds of Chicago
Baby Huey (AKA James Ramey, 1944-1970), “Listen To Me,” 1971 (Curtom)
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lagniappe
art beat: more from Thursday’s stop at the Art Institute of Chicago
Joan Mitchell (1925-1992), City Landscape, 1955
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Sunday, February 16th
No stage. No microphone. Just heart.
Evangelist Mary Brown and the Spiritual Singers, “I’ll Fly Away,” live, North Carolina (Plymouth, pop. ~4,000), 2011
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lagniappe
art beat: Thursday at the Art Institute of Chicago (after meeting with a client at the nearby federal jail)
Paul Cezanne, The Bay of Marseilles, Seen From L’Estaque, c. 1885
If a stranger, standing next to me in front of this painting, leaned over and whispered, “There’s no better place to be on the planet,” I wouldn’t disagree.
2014
Saturday, February 15th
only rock ’n’ roll
Roky Erickson & The Black Angels, live, Los Angeles, 2008
“Bo Diddley’s A Headhunter,” “Two Headed Dog”
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“You’re Gonna Miss Me”
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Friday, February 14th
What could be more romantic?
Bo Diddley (1928-2008), live, 1981
#1
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#3
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Thursday, February 13th
never enough
Monk, that is.
“Rhythm-a-Ning,” (T. Monk)
Art Pepper Quartet (AP, alto saxophone; Milcho Leview, piano; Tony Dumas, bass; Carl Burnett, drums), live
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Tom Harrell Quintet (TH, trumpet, flugelhorn; Wayne Escoffery, tenor saxophone; Danny Grissett, piano; Ugonna Okegwo, bass; Johnathan Blake, drums), live, Paris, 2008
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lagniappe
random thoughts
Given the number of lives that end in death, the odds of avoiding it seem slim.
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