I was in Chicago last weekend for a conference and so naturally, there was music to see. In Chicago, there's always amazing music to see. Wish I had lived there so I could have just engaged in nightly wonders, but it never happened and in...
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Wow, Big Ears. Just....wow, I saw 31 sets of music in 4 days. I am pretty proud of that. Almost all of these were either full sets or close to.
So it's extremely unusual that I don't pick the shows I am going to see. My wife is not a huge music person. She has her favorites and that's why.
I saw the great Jason Moran last weekend at the Berkelee School of Music, performing his Duke Ellington repertoire, which you can read a bit about here. It was astoundingly good. A solo show, Moran is both compelling as a pianist and as a speaker...
I saw two shows in the last two weeks. The first was our old LGM friend Jason Isbell, doing a solo show at the Providence Performing Arts Center. Little known.
I saw Bill Frisell play last week at the Narrows Center in Fall River. It was my 7th Frisell show over the last 30 years and one of the best.
Shows! Shows! Shows! After a long time without seeing a show because I was in Mexico, I've seen three in a week in a half. The most important to me of course was Drive By Truckers, at the State Theater in Portland, Maine. I had...
Sometimes, readers buy me things. It's amazing. There's a reader--a writer you might have heard of actually--who I will just refer to as their first initial of "P", who sends.
I don't often read scholarly music books, but I just finished B. Brian Foster's, 2020 book, I Don’t Like the Blues: Race, Place, and the Backbeat of Black Life. Foster.
Might as well have a short musical discussion here. Not much going on in the music world right now with the holidays, but we are here. Jimmy Carter probably had the best musical taste of any modern president. Maybe Obama, but his playlists sound like...
The big loss in music this week was that of Zakir Hussain, dead at 73. I had a few chances to see the great tabla player here and there but.
While I am in Mexico and am not really seeing much in the way of shows, I did have a live music experience last weekend. My wife is very much.