fasten your seatbelt
Here’s another take on a piece we listened to the other day.
Alfred Schnittke (1934-98), Concerto Grosso No. 1 (excerpt); A Far Cry with guests Nelson Lee (violin), Meg Freivogel (violin), and Andrus Masden (harpsichord, prepared piano); live, Boston, 2009
(This entire performance can be heard here.)
father & son
“I Never Asked To Be Your Mountain” (T. Buckley)
Tim Buckley (1947-75), recording (Goodbye and Hello), 1969
*****
Jeff Buckley (1966-97), live, New York, 1991
alone
Tristan Murail (1947-), “Unanswered Questions,” 1995
Erin Lesser, flute (Winter Fragments, Argento Chamber Ensemble, 2007)
Over eleven hundred posts and still I haven’t even touched on so many who meant so much to me when I was young—younger than my sons are now.
Tim Buckley (1947-75), singer, songwriter, guitarist
“Venice Beach (Music Boats by the Bay),” live (TV show, Los Angeles), 1970
*****
“Sing A Song For You,” live (TV show, BBC), 1969
*****
“Gypsy Woman,” recording (Happy Sad), 1969
Bobby testifies.
The Womack Brothers (with Bobby, then 17, on lead vocal), “Couldn’t Hear Nobody Pray” (SAR Records [Sam Cooke’s label]; rec. 6/28/1961, Universal Recording Studios, Chicago)
*****
The next year, as the Valentinos, they recorded this.
The Valentinos (with Bobby on lead vocal), “Lookin’ For A Love” (SAR Records, 1962)
street music: outskirts of Tehran
Violinist, c. 2009
Singers who come out of gospel bring something to everything they touch—conviction.
Bobby Womack, live (Later . . . with Jules Holland, BBC), 10/2 & 5/12
“Please Forgive My Heart” (B. Womack & R. Russell)
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“The Bravest Man in the Universe” (B. Womack & R. Russell)
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lagniappe
reading table
my home village
even behind the outhouse
pure water gushes—Kobayashi Issa, 1812 (translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)
Alfred Schnittke (1934-98), Concerto Grosso No. 1, live, Russia, 2004
Kremerata Baltica (Gidon Kremer & Tatiana Grindenko, violins)
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
What do we want from music—a mirror or a window?
Rhythmic punch?
Not much.
Lyrical beauty?
Ditto.
But, like few others, he keeps me on the edge of my seat.
Lennie Tristano (1919-78), live, Copenhagen, 1965*
*“Darn That Dream,” “Lullaby of the Leaves,” “Expressions,” “You Don’t Know What Love Is,” “Tivoli Gardens Swing,” “Ghost of a Chance,” “Imagination,” “Tangerine.”
neo neo soul
D’Angelo, “The Charade,” live, Switzerland (Zurich), 2012
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