Sep 2001 Doings
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2001: A Ducal Odyssey
      an aural/autodidactic journey into Ellingtonia
, supplemented by readings in 
        The Duke Ellington Reader -
Mark Tucker, ed.;
         Duke Ellington: A Listener's Guide - Eddie Lambert; and
         The Centennial Edition: Complete RCA Victor Recordings ["RCA Box"] liner notes

  • Discs 15-16 of RCA Box

Listening

  • Phrenology Fest - Night 1 @ Hungry Brain
    • Alec Ramsdell, Jerry Bryerton, Dave Rempis trio
    • Threaded [Aram Shelton, Brian Dibblee, Josh Berman, Todd Munnik, Frank Rosaly]
    • Jeb Bishop, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Ken Vandermark trio
          
  • Bengt Berger Band with Don Cherry - Bitter Funeral Beer (ECM) 
  • Anthony Braxton/Brandon Evans - Composition No. 249 (Parallactic)
  • Peter Brötzmann's Die Like A Dog Quartet - Little Birds Have Fast Hearts No. 2 (FMP)
  • Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band - Doc At The Radar Station (Virgin)
  • Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison (Columbia)
  • John Coltrane - Coltrane's Sound (Atlantic)
  • Morton Feldman - For Philip Guston (hatART)
  • J.J. Johnson - The Eminent, Volume 1 (Blue Note)
  • Hank Jones/Dave Holland/Billy Higgins - The Oracle (Emarcy)
  • Os Mutantes - Os Mutantes (Polydor)
  • Archie Shepp & Philly Joe Jones - Archie Shepp & Philly Joe Jones (Fantasy, LP)
  • Cecil Taylor Quartet - Qu'a: Live at the Iridium Vol. 1 (Cadence Jazz)
  • various artists - Tropicália: Ou Panis et Circencis (Philips)
  • The Vandermark 5 - Acoustic Machine + Free Jazz Classics vol. 2 (Atavistic)

Reading

  • From Dawn To Decadence: 1500 to the Present - 500 Years of Western Cultural Life - Jacques Barzun
  • Godard on Godard - Jean-Luc Godard; Tom Milne, ed.
  • On Spirituality In Art - Wassily Kandinsky

Watching

  • The Smell of Camphor, The Fragrance of Jasmine - Bahman Farmanara (Music Box)
  • Ghost World - Terry Zwigoff (Pipers Alley)
  • "Spike & Mike's Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation" (Music Box)
        
  • The Boat - Buster Keaton & Eddie Cline (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • The General - Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Sherlock, Jr. - Buster Keaton (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • One Week - Buster Keaton & Eddie Cline (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • The Playhouse - Buster Keaton & Eddie Cline (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Steamboat Bill, Jr. - Charles F. Riesner (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Cops - Buster Keaton & Eddie Cline (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Seven Chances - Buster Keaton (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • College - James W. Horne (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • The Goat - Buster Keaton & Mal St. Clair (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Fireworks [Hana-Bi] - Takeshi Kitano (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Scarlet Street - Fritz Lang (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Raw Deal - Anthony Mann (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Xala [The Curse] - Ousmane Sembene (MCA)
  • Written on the Wind - Douglas Sirk (Music Box)
  • Leave Her To Heaven - John M. Stahl (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Morocco - Josef von Sternberg (Music Box)
  • Shanghai Express - Josef von Sternberg (Music Box)
  • The Big Parade - King Vidor (Music Box)
        
  • West Of Zanzibar - Tod Browning (CATV)
  • The Blood Of A Poet - Jean Cocteau (CATV)
  • Dark Passage - Delmer Daves (CATV)
  • 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould - Francois Girard (CATV)
  • Even Dwarfs Started Small - Werner Herzog (DVD)
  • High Hopes - Mike Leigh (CATV)
  • Ninotchka - Ernst Lubitsch (CATV)
  • Side Street - Anthony Mann (CATV)
  • Berlin Express - Jacques Tourneur (CATV)
  • Cleo From 5 to 7 - Agnčs Varda (CATV)
  • Le Bonheur - Agnčs Varda (CATV)
  • Polyester - John Waters (DVD)
  • Nothing Sacred - William Wellman (CATV)
  • Witness For The Prosecution - Billy Wilder (CATV)