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2013

Sunday, June 16th

father and son

Brian Blade (drums) & The Fellowship Band, with Brady L. Blade Sr. (vocals), “Amazing Grace,” live, Savannah, Ga. (2012)


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lagniappe

reading table

Some things endure. When my sons, Alex and Luke, were in grade school, I started a two-person “reading group” with each of them. We would read novels together, maybe one a month, alternating choices, and go out and talk about them over a meal. Alex is now twenty-five. This morning we’re going out for breakfast, where we’ll be talking about a short story by Richard Yates, “Oh, Joseph, I’m So Tired.” Of stories there is no end.

When Franklin D. Roosevelt was President-elect there must have been sculptors all over America who wanted a chance to model his head from life, but my mother had connections.

—Richard Yates (1926-1992), “Oh, Joseph, I’m So Tired” (first sentence)

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2013

Saturday, June 15th

ear candy

Avril Lavigne, “Girlfriend”/Japanese version


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“How to pronounce Avril Lavigne”

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2013

Thursday, June 13th

Speaking of Bach, last night, as I was working on the closing argument I’ll be giving today in a federal bribery-conspiracy trial, it was a great joy—and a great comfort—to be able to listen to this.

Johann Sebastian Bach, The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I; Andrei Gavrilov (piano), playing and talking (Preludes & Fugues Nos. 1-12); Joanna MacGregor (piano), playing and talking (Preludes & Fugues Nos. 13-24); TV (BBC), 2000

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[L]istening to music for an hour or two every evening doesn’t deprive me of the silence—the music is the silence coming true.

—Philip Roth, The Human Stain

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2013

Wednesday, June 12th

musical logic

1. No day that includes a Bach cello suite can be all bad.

2. Any day can include a Bach cello suite.

3. Therefore a day that’s all bad can always be avoided.

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Suite No. 1 in G major for Unaccompanied Cello; Pablo Casals (1876-1973), live, France (Abbey of Saint-Michel-de-Cuxa), 1954


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[T]here really is no bottom to what is not known. The truth about us is endless. As are the lies.

—Philip Roth, The Human Stain

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2013

Tuesday, June 11th

two takes

“Lulu’s Back In Town” (H. Warren & A. Dubin)

Fats Waller, recording, 1935


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Thelonious Monk Quartet (TM, piano; Charlie Rouse, tenor saxophone; Larry Gales, bass; Ben Riley, drums), live (TV studio), Norway (Oslo), 1960

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musical thoughts

A note can be as small as a pin or as big as the world. It depends on your imagination.

—Thelonious Monk

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2013

Monday, June 10th

old stuff

This I could listen to all day.

Fats Waller (1904-1943), “Numb Fumbling,” 1929


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Two of us
brush painting in turn;
autumn night.

—Ryokan, 1758-1831 (translated from Japanese by Kazuaki Tanahashi [Sky Above, Great Wind: The Life and Poetry of Zen Master Ryokan])

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2013

Sunday, June 9th

If God exists, he wants us—this I am sure of—to dance.

Caffey Brothers, “Make Me Over” (Aura Records, Youngstown, Ohio)


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I know that He exists.
Somewhere – in silence –
He has hid his rare life
From our gross eyes.

—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), 365 (excerpt)
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2013

Saturday, June 8th

sounds of Chicago

Bangs & Works Vol. 2 (The Best of Chicago Footwork), 2011

Jlin, “Erotic Heat”


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Young Smoke, “Space Muzik Pt. 3”


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RP Boo, “Off Da Hook”

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2013

Friday, June 7th

only rock ’n’ roll

The Stooges (1967-)

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2013

Thursday, June 6th

Most musicians are no more able than anyone else to talk about what they do in ways that are fresh and absorbing.  This guy, to these ears, is something rare: a compelling player who is, as well, a provocative thinker and talker.

Vijay Iyer (piano), playing and talking, 2010

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