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Wednesday, 4/18/12
Peter Brötzmann, reed player, composer, bandleader German Blues, performances 1999-2002, interview 2000 You can have the blues even if you’re German . . . —Peter Brötzmann ********** lagniappe found...
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Thursday, 5/17/12
old stuff Claude Debussy, Children’s Corner, 1908 Alfred Cortot (piano), Marcel L’Herbier (director), 1936 More Cortot? Here. And here. ***** Children’s Corner was written for Debussy’s three-year-old...
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Monday, 5/28/12
Sometimes a drought lasts so long it ceases to be noticed. What’s missing from our world? Elegance. Gene Kelly, Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
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Wednesday, 5/30/12
old stuff Fred Astaire (with Ginger Rogers), “I Won’t Dance” Roberta, 1935 ********** lagniappe radio Driving around yesterday afternoon, I happened upon a new series on NPR’s All Things Considered,...
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Saturday, 6/2/12
Ever feel like wandering, aimlessly, in a fog? The Velvet Underground and Nico, directed by Andy Warhol (shot at his NYC studio, The Factory), 1966 ********** lagniappe reading table More than twenty...
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Thursday, 7/19/12
old stuff Ginger Rogers & Fred Astaire “I’ll Be Hard to Handle,” Roberta (1935) More? Here.
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Tuesday, 11/6/12
A reader writes: Have you seen these films? Furry Lewis, guitar William Eggleston, Stranded in Canton (1973-74) *** More? ********** lagniappe reading table “Election Day” By William Carlos Williams...
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Monday, 12/3/12
old stuff Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, Jeni LeGon, Fats Waller, “Living in a Great Big Way” (Hooray for Love, 1935)
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Thursday, 1/3/12
He wasn’t content with the sounds he found—so he created new ones. Harry Partch (1901-1974), Music Studio (1958) #1 #2 ********** lagniappe musical thoughts There’s a world, somewhere, that sounds...
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Tuesday, April 9th
passings Les Blank, filmmaker, November 27, 1935-April 7, 2013 Always For Pleasure (1978) ********** lagniappe Les Blank, whose sly, sensuous and lyrical documentaries about regional music and a host...
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Wednesday, August 7th
There are all kinds of music. Silence (excerpt), 2012 ***** Silence tells the story of a field recordist (played by Eoghan Mac Giolla Bhríde, also co-writer of the film with director Pat Collins) who...
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Friday, October 18th
sounds of Chicago The Dells, “A Heart Is a House for Love,” 1991 The Five Heartbeats, 1991
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Saturday, October 19th
sounds of Chicago Baby Huey, “Hard Times” (C. Mayfield), 1971 Stand Up Guys, 2012 ********** lagniappe art beat Helen Levitt (1913-2009), New York, c. 1940
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Sunday, December 1st
Still, after 30 years, the best gospel-music movie I’ve ever seen. Say Amen, Somebody (1982): The Barrett Sisters (“He Has Brought Us”), The O’Neal Twins (“Jesus Dropped The Charges”), Willie Mae Ford...
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Wednesday, April 23rd
sounds of New Orleans Let Me Do My Thang: Rebirth Brass Band (Keith Reynaud, 2000) ********** lagniappe random thoughts Day after day tiptoeing through minefields, until finally our luck runs out.
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Saturday, April 26th
only rock ’n’ roll MC5: A True Testimonial (2002) Thanks to my brother Don for the tip. We first encountered these guys in Chicago’s Lincoln Park during the 1968 Democratic Convention. The park is...
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Wednesday, October 22nd
more sounds from Louisiana Follow Me Down: Portraits of Louisiana Prison Musicians (trailer), 2012 ***** Music from the Big House (excerpt), 2010 ********** lagniappe art beat Henri Cartier-Bresson...
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Sunday, December 14th
old school Dixie Hummingbirds, We Love You Like a Rock (excerpts), 1995 *** *** *** *** ********** lagniappe reading table You would think that living is a kind of scholarship in time, and that the...
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Tuesday, December 23rd
Here are two more takes on the song we heard Sunday (“Leaning on the Everlasting Arms”)—both from Hollywood. Robert Mitchum with Lillian Gish, The Night of the Hunter, 1955 *** Van Johnson, et al., A...
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Monday, March 9th
Need a jolt? Ballet mecanique (1924) by Fernand Leger and Dudley Murphy (cinematography by Man Ray), with original score by George Anthiel (1900-1959), as performed in 1989 by the New Palais Royale...
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