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Thursday, 9/29/11

Today, in celebration of my son Alex’s 24th birthday, we revisit a few of the many posts he’s inspired.

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I’ve got a song for you to listen to . . .

—my (23-year-old) son Alex

tUnE-yArDs, “Bizness,” live, Austin (SXSW), 3/18/11

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(Originally posted 4/30/11.)

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I’ve got a song for you to listen to . . .

—my (23-year-old) son Alex

The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, “Say No To Love” (2010)

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More? Here. And here.

(Originally posted 12/28/10.)

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The other night, after falling asleep, my older son Alex (now 22) had an unexpected visitor—this guy showed up and began to play.

Vijay Iyer Trio (VI, piano; Marcus Gilmore, drums; Stephan Crump, bass)

“Galang,” recording session (Historicity), New York (Systems Two Studios), 2009

(Originally posted 6/30/10.)

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Someday, just as I sometimes do with my own father, who’s been gone for over thirty years, my older son Alex, now twenty-three, will recall occasions, after I’m gone, when he and I went out to hear live music together, like, for instance, last night, when we saw this group, from Africa, who are on their first U.S. tour.

Group Doueh, live, San Francisco, 7/1/11

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More? Here. And here.

(Originally posted, with a different clip, 6/27/11.)

Friday, 5/6/11

If you were 23 (like my son Alex), this might be your favorite band too.

The Pains of Being Pure At Heart
Live, Chicago (Lincoln Hall), 4/27/11

“Belong”

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“Heart In Your Heartbreak”

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“Everything With You”

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More? Here. And here. And here.

Tuesday, 12/28/10

I’ve got a song for you to listen to . . .

—my (23-year-old) son Alex

The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, “Say No To Love” (2010)

Vodpod videos no longer available.

More? Here. And here.

Saturday, 11/14/09

Here’s more from a band my older son Alex opened my ears to after seeing them, in July, at New York’s South Street Seaport.

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

“Everything With You”

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TV broadcast

Want more? Here.

Tuesday, 9/29/09

With a big shout-out to my older son Alex, here—on his birthday (22!)—is a small sampling of the music he’s opened my ears to.

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The Very Best

Here’s something he emailed me just last week—new sounds out of Africa (by way of England).

The Very Best, “Julia”

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The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

Here’s a show he saw over the summer, while living in New York.

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, live, NYC (South Street Seaport), 7/09

“Come Saturday”

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“Everything With You”

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“The Pains of Being Pure at Heart”

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Amadou & Mariam

I might have gotten around to Amadou & Mariam sooner or later on my own, but thanks to Alex—who played me their (wonderful) album Dimanche a Bamako a few years ago—I got to this Malian duo sooner. (He and I saw them together, at Chicago’s Park West, in May, just a few months after this performance.)

Amadou & Mariam, “Sebeke,” live, Paris, 2008

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Talib Kweli

Several years ago, thanks to Alex, I first heard this hip-hop artist’s (terrific) album Quality.

Talib Kweli, “Get By,” live, NYC, 2007

Want to hear the original studio track? Here. (Yeah, that’s Kanye at 1:20 and again at 3:24—he produced this track.)

(For all you hip-hop-&-law trivia buffs, Kweli’s the answer to the following question: What hip-hop artist has a brother who’s a professor at a top law school? [Jamal Greene, Columbia].)

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lagniappe

Want to see the world (bits and pieces of it, anyway) through the eyes of one now-22-year-old? Here. Here. Here.