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2012

Thursday, 4/12/12

He plays Bach as if, at that moment, nothing in the world is more crucial.

Johann Sebastian Bach, Glenn Gould, piano*
TV performance, 1981

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*Here, courtesy of YouTube, is the program:

00:21 Die Kunst der Fuge BWV 1080: Contrapunctus I

Partita n.4 in D-dur BWV 828
05:11 I Ouverture
10:06 II Allemande
15:45 III Courante
18:52 IV Aria
20:07 V Sarabande
25:21 VI Menuett
26:41 VII Gigue

From “Wohltemperierten Klavier”:
28:10 Fuge in E-dur (II)
33:17 Fuge in Es-moll (II)
36:16 Praeludium & Fuge in A-dur (II)

38:52 Die Kunst der Fuge BVW 1080: Contrapunctus IV

(Some of this has been posted before, but not all of it and not in one continuous clip.)

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2012

Wednesday, 4/11/12

only rock ’n’ roll

The Ex, live, Russia (Moscow), 2011

More? Here.

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2012

Tuesday, 4/10/12

Boi Akih (Monica Akihary, vocals; Niels Brouwer, guitar) with guest Wolter Wierbos (trombone), live, Netherlands, 2008

Instruments, too, are often stereotyped. Take the trombone. Loud? Blustery? Bull in a china shop? Not here.

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2012

Monday, 4/9/12

Shabazz Palaces, live (studio performance, KEXP-FM), 2011

These guys—their mix of drums, mbira, electronics—call to mind the AACM’s* tagline: ancient to the future.

*Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (Art Ensemble of Chicago, Anthony Braxton, Fred Anderson, Leroy Jenkins, et al.).

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2012

Sunday, 4/8/12

Aretha testifies

Aretha Franklin, “Surely God Is Able,” live, Detroit, 1990

More? Here. And here. And here. And here.

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lagniappe

random thoughts: Marcel Proust (or is it Samuel Beckett?) on Opening Day

You look forward to it like a birthday party when you’re a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.

Actually, it’s Joe DiMaggio. But for Joltin’ Joe, like Marvelous Marcel and Slammin’ Sammy, life consists largely of “look[ing] forward” to things, “wonderful” things—things that seldom, if ever, actually “happen.” Just ask the Cubs: going into the eighth inning of Thursday’s opener, they were winning 1-0; they lost 2-1.

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2012

Saturday, 4/7/12

The tree of country music has lots of eccentric branches.

The Handsome Family, “My Friend” (2009)

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reading table

The Everyday Enchantment of Music
by Mark Strand
(Almost Invisible [2012])

A rough sound was polished until it became a smoother sound, which was polished until it became music. Then the music was polished until it became the memory of a night in Venice when tears of the sea fell from the Bridge of Sighs, which in turn was polished until it ceased to be and in its place stood the empty home of a heart in trouble. Then suddenly there was sun and the music came back and traffic was moving and off in the distance, at the edge of the city, a long line of clouds appeared, and there was thunder, which, however menacing, would become music, and the memory of what happened after Venice would begin, and what happened after the home of the troubled heart broke in two would also begin.

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Happy Birthday, Billie!

All Billie, all day—WKCR-FM.

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2012

Friday, 4/6/12

Happy (75th) Birthday, Merle!

Merle Haggard, live

“Lonesome Fugitive,” Buck Owens Ranch Show, 1966

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“Working Man Blues,” Austin City Limits, 1978

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“Today I Started Loving You Again,” with Tammy Wynette, England (Wemberly), 1988

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2012

Thursday, 4/5/12

passings

Earl Scruggs, banjo player, January 6, 1924-March 28, 2012

With Doc Watson (vocals, guitar) and their sons (Merle Watson, Randy & Steve Scruggs), live, 1971, Deep Gap, North Carolina (Doc’s home)

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2012

Wednesday, 4/4/12

Welcome to the maelstrom.

Miles Davis Group,* live, Berlin, 1973

Part 1: Turnaroundphrase

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Part 2: Turnaroundphrase, cont.; Tune in 5

*MD, trumpet; David Liebman, saxophone; Pete Cosey, guitar, percussion; Reggie Lucas, guitar; Michael Henderson, bass; Al Foster, drums; Mtume, percussion.

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reading table

Last night as I was sleeping,
I dreamt—marvelous error!—
that a spring was breaking
out in my heart.
I said: Along which secret aqueduct,
Oh water, are you coming to me,
water of a new life
that I have never drunk?

Last night as I was sleeping,
I dreamt—marvelous error!—
that I had a beehive
here inside my heart.
And the golden bees
were making white combs
and sweet honey
from my old failures.

Last night as I was sleeping,
I dreamt—marvelous error!—
that a fiery sun was giving
light inside my heart.
It was fiery because I felt
warmth as from a hearth,
and sun because it gave light
and brought tears to my eyes.

Last night as I slept,
I dreamt—marvelous error!—
that it was God I had
here inside my heart.

—Antonio Mochado (1875-1939), “Last Night As I Was Sleeping” (translated from Spanish by Robert Bly)

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2012

Sunday, 4/1/12

Willie Neal Johnson & The Gospel Keynotes
“Just For Me,” live

“Well, all right?” Gospel singers often follow a song, immediately, with a question. This opens a performance up, welcoming anyone who wants to come in, believer or not.

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