Nov 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

  • The Carnegie Hall Concerts: January 1943 (Prestige)

Listening

  • ICP Orchestra @ Chicago Cultural Center
        
  • Miles Davis - The Complete In A Silent Way Sessions (Columbia)
  • J.J. Johnson - The Eminent, Volume 2 (Blue Note)
  • James P. Johnson - Harlem Stride Piano (Jazz Archives)
  • Brett Larner - Itadakimasu: improvised duets 1994-2000 (Spool)
  • Bob Marley - Exodus: Deluxe Edition (Tuff Gong/Island)
  • Phil Minton - A Doughnut In One Hand (FMP)
  • Thelonious Monk - Live at the Jazz Workshop - Complete (Columbia)
  • Charlie Parker - The Complete Dial Sessions (Definitive, discs 1-2)
  • Django Reinhardt - Volume 2: The London Deccas (1938 & 1939) (JSP)
  • Masayuki Takayanagi & Kaoru Abe - Gradually Projection (DIW)
  • Masayuki Takayanagi & Kaoru Abe - Mass Projection (DIW)
  • Barney Wilen - Tilt (Vogue)
  • World Saxophone Quartet - Plays Duke Ellington (Elektra/Nonesuch)

Reading

  • From Dawn To Decadence - Jacques Barzun (cont'd)
  • Fun In A Chinese Laundry - Josef von Sternberg

Watching

  • A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams; dir. by Sydney Daniels (The Loop Players @ Harold Washington College)
       
  • Life and Debt - Stephanie Black (Music Box)
  • Amélie - Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Landmark Century Centre)
  • Jung (War) in the Land of the Mujaheddin - Fabrizio Lazzaretti, Alberto Vendemmiati & Giussepe Petitto (Facets Cinémathèque)
  • Waking Life - Richard Linklater (Landmark Century Centre)
         
  • Diary of a Country Priest - Robert Bresson (Chicago Humanities Festival @ Facets Cinémathèque)
  • Calendar - Atom Egoyan (Chicago Humanities Festival @ Facets Cinémathèque)
  • Continuum: Why The Jazz Establishment Can't Hold Down Matthew Shipp - Patrick A Gaucher (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Pillow Book - Peter Greenaway (Chicago Humanities Festival @ Facets Cinémathèque)
  • Spies - Fritz Lang (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • The Nibelungen, Part I: Siegfried [Siegfrieds Tod] - Fritz Lang (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • The Nibelungen, Part II: Kriemhild's Revenge [Kriemhilds Rache] - Fritz Lang (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • The Night of the Hunter - Charles Laughton (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Trouble In Paradise - Ernst Lubitsch (Music Box)
  • Imagine The Sound - Ron Mann (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Beyond the Valley of the Dolls - Russ Meyer (Block Cinema)
  • Inside Out In The Open - Alan Roth (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • In Motion - Coco Schrijber (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Down To The Crux - Michael Lucio Sternbach (Gene Siskel Film Center)
        
  • The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance - John Ford (CATV)
  • The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover - Peter Greenaway (CATV)
  • Hatari! - Howard Hawks (CATV)
  • Gates of Heaven - Errol Morris (CATV)
  • The Miracle Worker - Arthur Penn (CATV)
  • Shoot the Piano Player - François Truffaut (CATV)
  • White Heat - Raoul Walsh (CATV)