Thursday, July 16th
In the right hands, a drum kit can be a kinetic orchestra.
Paal Nilssen-Love, live, Norway (Høvikodden), 2010
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lagniappe
reading table
The jane is zoned!
—John Berryman (1914-1972, MCOTD Hall of Fame), Dream Song 2
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Tag: Paal Nilssen-Love
2015
2015
Thursday, June 25th
tonight in Chicago
These guys will be at Constellation.
Paal Nilssen-Love Large Unit (PNL, drums; Lasse Marhaug, electronics and turntable, et al.), “Culius,” live, Germany (Moers), 2014
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art beat: more from Tuesday at the Art Institute of Chicago
Jean-Luc Mylayne (1946-), Mutual Regard (through August 23rd)
2014
Wednesday, November 19th
tonight in Chicago
These guys will be playing at Constellation.
Frode Gjerstad Trio (FG, reeds; Jon Rune Strøm, bass; Paal Nilssen-Love, drums)
Live, Poland (Poznan), 2012
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Live, New York, 2012
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random thoughts
What’s surprising isn’t that we die: it’s that we live.
2014
Saturday, November 15th
Need a jolt?
Arto Lindsay (guitar, vocals) & Paal Nilssen-Love (drums), live, Germany (Moers Festival), 2014
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art beat
William Klein (1928-), Gun 1, New York, 1955
2014
Wednesday, August 27th
sounds of Chicago & Norway & the Netherlands
Who needs coffee?
Lean Left (Ken Vandermark, reeds [Chicago]; Paal Nilssen-Love, drums [Norway]; Andy Moers & Terrie Hessels, guitars [Netherlands]), live, Belgium (Brussels), 2014
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musical (& other) thoughts
Ken Vandermark has a lot of interesting things to say about improvised music and life as a musician, about politics and movies and journalism and New York, as you can hear in this podcast-interview.
2014
Wednesday, June 25th
tonight in Chicago
These guys are playing at the Hideout, a small club on the northwest side.
Ken Vandermark (tenor saxophone) & Paal Nilssen-Love (drums), live, Austria (Vienna), 3/8/14
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art beat
William Eggleston (1939-)
2014
Wednesday, March 12th
not for the faint of heart
Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet,* live, France (Le Mans), 2004
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musical thoughts
Q: What would people be surprised to know that you listen to?
Bill Clinton: Brötzmann, the tenor sax player, one of the greatest alive.
—Oxford American, 2001 (annual music issue)
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*PB, reeds; Ken Vandermark, reeds; Joe McPhee, pocket trumpet, tenor saxophone; Roland Ramanan, trumpet, wooden flute; Toshinori Kondo, trumpet; Jeb Bishop, trombone; Fred Longberg-Holm, cello; Kent Kessler, bass; Michael Zerang, drums; Paal Nilssen-Love, drums.
2013
Wednesday, November 6th
love it or hate it
Terrie Ex (guitar), Paal Nilssen-Love (drums), live, Paris, 2012
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art beat
Danny Lyon (1942-), Chicago (Uptown), 1965
2013
Tuesday, September 10th
alone
Paal Nilssen-Love (drums), live, Norway (Kongsberg Jazzfestival), 2011
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lagniappe
reading table
Faces are motion, which is why all the photos of you are bad. Even the most natural-looking portrait is a sentence interrupted, one note of an aria, held. Though faces themselves hide a deeper motion. You seem to sit there and meet my eyes across the table, but you are so many other places, clinging here for a moment against all the currents that will soon sweep you onward. We are so moved by the faces caught in the windows of trains going the other way because they tell us how all faces really are.
—James Richardson, “Ten-Second Essay #134”
2013
Wednesday, 1/9/2013
This I could listen to all day.
Neneh Cherry & The Thing (Mats Gustafsson, baritone saxophone; Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, bass; Paal Nilssen-Love, drums), “Dream Baby Dream,” live, Spain (San Sebastian), 2012
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