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Obscure musical gems, avant experimentation, and classics worth rehearing. A conurbation of Leslie speakers, timbales, plungers, arch-tops, tablas, and squeaky reeds. Black ties, pork pies, Cuban boots, Nudie suits, bobbysocks, turtlenecks, and high-heeled sneakers. Jazz is the north star but it’s a wide universe, so says The Laughing Clock.
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Count Basie | M Squad Theme (excerpt) | Basic Basie | MPS | 1969 | 0:00:00 (Pop-up) | |||||
Music behind DJ: Red Garland |
M Squad Theme |
Red In Bluesville |
Prestige |
1969 |
4/17/1959: Red Garland (p) Sam Jones (b) Art Taylor (d) |
0:00:31 (Pop-up) |
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Count Basie & His Orchestra | Backwater Blues | Basie In Sweden | Roulette | 1962 | 8/12/1962: Irene Reid (vocal), (Frank Foster, arranger, tenor sax obligato), Quentin 'Butter' Jackson (trombone obligato), Count Basie (piano), Freddie Green (guitar), Ike Isaacs (bass), Louie Bellson (drums), et al. | 0:04:16 (Pop-up) | ||||
Amirtha Kidambi | 1 | Solo Live | The Forplay Society Recording Archive | 2023 | 8/21/2017: Amirtha Kidambi (Voice, Harmonium). to benefit The Forplay Society (Kochi, India) | * | 0:09:16 (Pop-up) | |||
Mareike Wiening | Time for Priorities | Reveal | Greenleaf Music | 2023 | June 2023: Rich Perry (sax), Glenn Zaleski (piano), Alex Goodman (guitar), Johannes Felscher (bass), Wiening (drums) | * | 0:18:55 (Pop-up) | |||
Music behind DJ: Don Pullen |
Big Alice (alternate take) |
Richard's Tune |
Sackville |
2014 CD reissue of "Solo Piano Album" with two bonus tracks. Recorded 1975. |
0:26:08 (Pop-up) |
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Manet/Degas. (Quotations taken from the Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition website.) Inspired by Bodega Pop's visit to MOMA. |
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An Enigmatic Relationship. The first gallery begins with two self-portraits and then traces the beginnings of a sometimes stormy friendship. | ||||||||||
Anthony Brown's Orchestra | Self Portrait in Three Colors | Rhapsodies | Water Baby | January 2005: Louis Fasman, Henry Hung (tp,flhrn) Wayne Wallace (tb) Dave Martell (tb,tu) Marcia Miget (fl,sop,as,ts) Jim Norton (cl,sop,bassoon,contralto-cl,contrabassoon) Danny Bittker (b-cl,steel-d) Masaru Koga (ts,shakuhachi) Melecio Magdaluyo (bar,as,fl,cajon) Will Bernard (el-g) Mark Izu (b,sheng) Anthony Brown (d,perc,waterphone,cond) Georgia Brown (perc) Hong Wang (sheng,dizi,erhu,suona) Yangqin Zhao (yangqin) Gangqin Zhao (guzheng,yangqin) | 0:32:33 (Pop-up) | |||||
Artistic Origins: Study, Copy, Create. "Their references to the art of the past ranged from quotation to homage to stylistic imitation." | ||||||||||
Bob Dylan | Gospel Plow | The Original Mono Recordings | Columbia | 0:35:47 (Pop-up) | ||||||
The New Jazz Orchestra | Le Déjeuner Sur L'herbe | Le Déjeuner sur L'Herbe | Dusk Fire Records | 2015 | September 1968: Ian Carr (tp,flhrn), Dick Heckstall-Smith (sop,ts), Derek Wadsworth (tb), Frank Ricotti (vib,mar) Jack Bruce (b) Jon Hiseman (d), et al. Original issue on Verve. | 0:37:30 (Pop-up) | ||||
Challenging Genres at the Salon. "A codified hierarchy of categories, or genres, set expectations about appropriate subjects and relative scale, with monumental history painting considered the pinnacle. Manet’s early Salon submissions boldly transgressed traditional boundaries." | ||||||||||
Lush | Olympia | Lovelife | 4AD | 1996 | 0:45:04 (Pop-up) | |||||
At the Racecourse. "Degas’s compositions capture a distinct moment in the sport: he favored the seconds before the start, the subtle and suspenseful choreography of the mounts champing at the bit. Manet’s scenes, on the other hand, are all gallop, visual explosion, and acceleration." | ||||||||||
Bobby Previte | Backstretch | Weather Clear, Track Fast | Enja | 1991 | January 1991: Graham Haynes (cnt) Robin Eubanks (tb) Don Byron (cl,bar) Marty Ehrlich (cl,b-cl,as,fl) Anthony Davis (p) Anthony Cox (b) Bobby Previte (d) | 0:50:04 (Pop-up) | ||||
From One War to Another. "Manet regularly produced works based on events that touched or outraged him as a citizen, while Degas shied away from current events in his public work. Early in the artists’ relationship, the United States was torn apart by the Civil War (1861–65) and political maneuvers in Mexico led to the execution of Emperor Maximilian (1867), both subjects that Manet depicted.... "The U.S. Civil War directly affected Degas’s family. His mother was from New Orleans, and he had relatives who were enslavers, supported the Confederacy, and continued to make their living from the cotton trade." | ||||||||||
Paul Motian | War Orphans | Tribute | ECM | 1975 | May 1974: Sam Brown (g,el-g) Paul Metzke (el-g) Charlie Haden (b) Paul Motian (perc) | 0:57:23 (Pop-up) | ||||
Overlapping Networks. "Ironically, while the artists increasingly tried to liberate themselves from institutional structures and to assert their independence, their worlds intertwined more and more with critics, dealers, and other influential players in the art world and press." | ||||||||||
John Coltrane & Don Cherry | Cherryco | The Avant-Garde | Atlantic | 1966 | 6/28/1960: Don Cherry (tp) John Coltrane (sop,ts) Charlie Haden (b) Ed Blackwell (d). | 1:04:46 (Pop-up) | ||||
Degas After Manet. "Shaken by Manet’s premature death in 1883, Degas reportedly declared at the time of his friend’s funeral, 'He was greater than we thought.'... "Degas’s lasting admiration for Manet is most evident in his personal art collection, which he had at one time envisioned turning into a museum.,,. By 1897 Degas had acquired nearly eighty works by Manet, including eight paintings, over a dozen drawings, and an almost complete set of prints." | ||||||||||
Paul McCartney | Tug of War | Here Today | MPL | 1982 | George Martin (album producer, string quartet arrangement). | 1:11:29 (Pop-up) | ||||
Music behind DJ: Mary Lou Williams |
Medi I |
Zoning |
Smithsonian Folkways |
1/17/1974, with Bob Cranshaw (bass guitar). DJP remix. |
1:14:01 (Pop-up) |
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Joe Turner | Roll 'Em Pete | The Complete Boss of the Blues: Joe Turner Sings Kansas City Jazz | Bear Family | 2020 | 3/6/1956. Big Joe Turner (vcl) acc by Joe Newman (tp) Lawrence Brown (tb) Pete Brown (as) Frank Wess (ts) Pete Johnson (p) Freddie Green (g) Walter Page (b) Cliff Leeman (d). Mono mix. Originally issued by Atlantic. | 1:22:32 (Pop-up) | ||||
The Modern Jazz Quartet | A Fugue for Music Inn | The Modern Jazz Quartet At Music Inn (Guest Artist: Jimmy Giuffre) | Atlantic | 1956 | 8/28/1956: Giuffre (cl) Milt Jackson (vib) John Lewis (p) Percy Heath (b) Connie Kay (d) | 1:26:15 (Pop-up) | ||||
Charles Mingus | Peggy's Blue Skylight | Tonight At Noon | Atlantic | 1964 | 11/6/1961: Jimmy Knepper (tb) Booker Ervin (ts) Rahsaan Roland Kirk (ts,manzello,stritch) Charles Mingus (p,vcl,narr) Doug Watkins (b) Dannie Richmond (d) | 1:30:56 (Pop-up) | ||||
Mose Allison | If You're Goin' To The City | Swingin' Machine | Atlantic | 1963 | 11/8/1962: Jimmy Knepper (tb) Jim Reider (ts) Mose Allison (p,vcl) Addison Farmer (b) Frankie Dunlop (d) | 1:40:39 (Pop-up) | ||||
Music behind DJ: Susie Ibarra Trio |
Dreams (Alternate Take) |
Radiance |
Hopscotch |
1999 |
7/18/1999: Cooper-Moore (p,harp,diddley-bo) Charles Burnham (vln) Susie Ibarra (d,perc) |
1:44:26 (Pop-up) |
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John Coltrane | Satellite | Coltrane's Sound | Atlantic | 1964 | 10/24/1960: John Coltrane (ts) Steve Davis (b) Elvin Jones (d) | 1:48:19 (Pop-up) | ||||
Tito Puente | Chanchullo | Mucho Cha-Cha | RCA Victor | 1:54:06 (Pop-up) | ||||||
Music behind DJ: Joe Chambers Moving Picture Orchestra |
M Squad Theme |
Live at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola |
Savant |
2012 |
September 2011. Craig Handy (tenor sax), David Weiss (trumpet), Xavier Davis (piano), Dwayne Burno (bass), Joe Chambers (drums, vibes, arranger), Steve Berrios (percussion), et al. |
1:56:35 (Pop-up) |
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Dean:
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Jeff Golick:
DJ Peter:
The wet-vac was $99 well-spent, I'm gonna say.
Gulf Coast Fox:
DJ Peter:
Gulf Coast Fox:
Today's Laughing Clock sounds right up my alley. Thx friend... looking forward.
DJ Peter:
WR:
DJ Peter:
Gulf Coast Fox:
DJ Peter:
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DJ Peter:
DJ Peter:
Gulf Coast Fox:
Gulf Coast Fox:
WR:
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WR:
DJ Peter:
`Dean:
DJ Peter:
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Dean:
Gulf Coast Fox:
With our legs cropped out that (now deleted) image was giving--Glinda the Good Witch singing, "Come out, come out wherever you are..."
Poor Joe, he deserves better. He is a fucking living legend. Hahahahaha... what a day I've had.
DJ Peter:
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Dean:
Didn't work.
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DJ Peter:
Dean:
Dean:
Gulf Coast Fox:
DJ Peter:
coelacanth∅:
DJ Peter:
DJ Peter:
Gulf Coast Fox:
I want you and your wife at the Anthony Davis opera as your profile pic. I demand it. ;)
Dean:
DJ Peter:
The sound was great! Some of the staging was phenomenal (Malcolm in prison... interpretive dance...) Some was bizarre (mothership floating over the stage). At its best the staging was really smart... at times it was very static.
DJ Peter:
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Gulf Coast Fox:
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Dean:
Dean:
DJ Peter:
Gulf Coast Fox:
There is someone out there...and her favorite song of all time is Achy Breaky Heart. And I fucking love her for that. Even it is not for me...that human is engaging in an artform we all care deeply for--music. I don't feel it is always appropriate to use qualifiers when referring to music. I am guilty of it, for sure.
But music is, IS and always should be a subjective sport not an act of mastabatory pugilism. Amen. Ok, stepping off my applebox now.
Dean:
DJ Peter:
Can taste really be subjective? Yes, my experiences are different from yours, I inherited some of my mother's sensibility. But my taste is also shaped by my sense of how my taste speaks to others (what it says about me).
I certainly agree that pugilistic enforcement of taste is misinformed (why should I fight to tell you that your taste differs from mine).
DJ Peter:
As the DJ who gets to promote my own taste, maybe I become a target for listeners seeking to establish their own tastes!
Gulf Coast Fox:
bigplanetnoise:
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WR:
Gulf Coast Fox:
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DJ Peter:
Thanks for being here, WR! And for supporting the Clock! Means the world to me!
Dean:
Gulf Coast Fox:
Dean:
DJ Peter:
Gulf Coast Fox:
I will be appropriating this concept in some form, as you did from Gary/Bodega. We all stand on the shoulders of giants. Abrazos!!!!!!
Doug Schulkind:
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