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2013

Tuesday, March 26th

I love the way he plays Mozart. Simply. Directly. There’s nothing fussy here. Nothing fey. Melodies unfold with the ease and grace of a bird flying from branch to branch.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Piano Sonatas & Fantasia,* Friedrich Gulda (1930-2000), live, Germany (Munich), 1981

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*Program (courtesy of YouTube):

0:00 – Nº4 in E flat major, K.282
14:35 – Nº9 in D major, K.311
32:58 – Nº12 in F major, K.332
55:54 – Fantasia nº4 in C minor, K.475
1:06:55 – Nº14 in C minor, K.457

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2013

Monday, March 25th

I think I’m in love—with the sister in the middle, that is.

Andy & The Bey Sisters (with Kenny Clarke, drums), “Smooth Sailing” (A. Cobb), live, Paris, c. 1964

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2013

Sunday, March 24th

They sounded so good last Sunday—let’s hear some more.

Pastor B. L. Blade with Daniel Lanois (guitar, vocals), Brian Blade (drums), et al.
“The Maker” (D. Lanois), excerpt (“Oh, river rise from your sleep.”)


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random thoughts

How strange it seems sometimes, like the other day in the shower, to have hands and feet.

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2013

Saturday, March 23rd

sui generis

Quintron and Miss Pussycat, “Freedom,” New Orleans
Too Thirsty For Love, 2008


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reading table

Language is finite and formal; reality is infinite and formless. Order is comic; chaos is tragic.

—John Updike, Assorted Prose (1965)

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2013

Friday, March 22nd

only rock ’n’ roll

Savages, “City’s Full,” live, London, 2012

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2013

Thursday, March 21st

the other night

I heard the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, with pianist Yefim Bronfman, perform this piece. In The Human Stain Phillip Roth wrote of Bronfman: “Then Bronfman appears. Bronfman the brontosaur! Mr. Fortissimo. Enter Bronfman to play Prokofiev at such a pace and with such bravado as to knock my morbidity clear out of the ring.” Isn’t that what we want from music, one of the things, anyway—to have our “morbidity” “knock[ed] . . . clear out of the ring,” if only for a while, until it creeps back in?

Bela Bartok (1881-1945), Piano Concerto No. 2; Orchestra Della Svizzera Italiana (Zoltan Pesko, cond.), Zoltan Kocsis, piano; live, 1995

1st Movement


2nd Movement (A)


2nd Movement (B)


3rd Movement


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http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xkwlo2_pierre-boulez-talks-about-bela-bartok-s-music_music#.UUpW0xn_JiU

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2013

Wednesday, March 20th

two takes

It’s spring!

“Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most” (T. Wolf & F. Landesman)

Betty Carter (1929-1998), Inside Betty Carter, 1964


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Bob Dorough (1923-), Right On My Way Home, 1997


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spring rain—
the uneaten ducks
are quacking

—Kobayashi Issa, 1813 (translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)

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2013

Tuesday, March 19th

keep on dancing

How many steps separate the club and the church?

Theo Parrish, Netherlands (Amsterdam), 2011
Cajmere, “Brighter Days”


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musical thoughts

Wash up in the sound if you want to . . .

Theo inviting folks to the gig:

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2013

Monday, March 18th

From Zion Baptist Church in Shreveport to Miles Davis Hall in Montreux.

Black Dub (Daniel Lanois, guitar, pedal steel guitar, vocals; Brian Blade, drums; Trixie Whitley, guitar, keyboards, vocals; Jim Wilson, bass, vocals), Montreux, Switzerland, 2011

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Set list (courtesy of YouTube):

1) Intro
2) Surely
3) I Believe In You
4) Steel
5) The Collection Of Marie Claire
6) Silverado
7) The Messenger
8) I’d Rather Go Blind
9) Ring The Alarm

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2013

Sunday, March 17th

Pastor B. L. Blade (with Daniel Lanois, guitar; Brian Blade, drums, et al.), “Louisiana Poor Boy,” Zion Baptist Church, Shreveport, La.


Most guitarists, most drummers would muck this up, thinking it needed a fill here, a roll there. Great musicians know how not to draw attention to themselves.

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