Wednesday, 11/2/11
This guy sounded so good the other day—let’s hear some more.
B.B. King with T-Bone Walker, “Bad News”/“Sweet Sixteen”
Live, Monterey Jazz Festival (Monterey, California), 9/16/1967
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Tuesday, 11/1/11
Edward Wilkerson, Jr. (bass clarinet), Tomeka Reid (cello), Scott Hesse (guitar), live, Lakeside, Michigan (Lakeside Inn), 10/16/11*
Vodpod videos no longer available.No matter how long you’ve been listening to music there are always new things to hear. When, for instance, is the last time you heard a trio featuring bass clarinet, cello, and guitar?
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musical thoughts
This whole division between genres has more to do with marketing than anything else. It’s terrible for the culture of music. Like anything that is purely economic, it ignores the most important component.
*This concert was presented by portoluz as part of its Jazz on a Summer’s Day series.
2011
Monday, 10/31/11
two takes
Need a Monday morning boost? You’ve come to the right place.
“Let the Good Times Roll”
Koko Taylor (1928-2009), live
Years ago, when I was at Alligator Records, I worked with her—what a sweetheart.
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Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five, c. 1946
Vodpod videos no longer available.**********
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art beat
Yesterday at Chicago’s Goodman Theater:
MARK ROTHKO: Wait. Stand closer. You’ve got to get close. Let it pulsate. Let it work on you. Closer. . . . There. Let it spread out. Let it wrap its arms around you; let it embrace you, filling even your peripheral vision so nothing else exists or has ever existed or will ever exist. Let the picture do its work—But work with it. Meet it halfway for God’s sake. Lean forward, lean into it. Engage with it!
—John Logan, Red (2009)
2011
Sunday, 10/30/11
As snow falls in the Northeast, let’s head to the Southeast.
Mt. Do-Well Baptist Church Hymn Choir, “That Morning Train”
Live, South Carolina (Mt. Do-Well Baptist Church, McConnells), 2006
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art beat
Friday at the Art Institute of Chicago (after a sentencing hearing in a drug case in federal court; my guy got 86 months, which was a little more than I’d hoped for but a lot less than the 151-188 months the government sought):
Vincent van Gogh
Terrace and Observation Deck
at the Moulin de Blute-Fin, Montmarte (1887)
2011
Friday, 10/28/11
two takes
Some singers, some songs, I never tire of.
Dionne Warwick, “Anyone Who Had A Heart” (B. Bacharach & H. David)
Live (with Burt B. at the piano), New York (Rainbow Room), 1996
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Recording (Scepter 1963)
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lagniappe
three more takes
Dusty Springfield, recording (1964)
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Shelby Lynne, recording & video (2008)
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Ronald Isley, live (TV broadcast, with Burt B. at the piano, 2004)
2011
Thursday, 10/27/11
flicks
Bessie Smith, St. Louis Blues (1929)
Part 1
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Part 2
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2011
Wednesday, 10/26/11
old stuff
I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces: Music in Vernacular Photographs 1880-1955, edited by Steve Roden (Dust-to-Digital 2011)
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tip of the day
Get yourself a copy of this: it’s one of the most beautiful book-and-CD packages I’ve ever seen. Late at night, when everyone else is asleep and the house is still, you’ll be glad you have it.
2011
Tuesday, 10/25/11
flicks
Robert Mitchum, “The Ballad of Thunder Road”
Thunder Road (1958)
2011
Monday, 10/24/11
Wild Flag, live, SXSW (Austin, Texas), 3/11
“Romance” (Mellow Johnny’s Bike Shop)
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“Future Crimes” (IFC Crossroads House)
Someday an all-female band will seem no more remarkable than an
all-male one.
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lagniappe
radio
A live studio performance,* which I caught part of Saturday afternoon, can be heard here.
*The Cherry Blossom Clinic with Terre T (Sat., 3-6 p.m. [EST]), WFMU-FM
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