May 2002 Doings
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2002: The Odyssey continues...
      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

  • Happy Birthday, Duke! The Birthday Sessions (LaserLight)

Listening

  • Anti-Pop Consortium - Arrhythmia (Warp)
  • Darrell Banks - Is Here! (Sepiatone)
  • Art Blakey - A Night at Birdland, vol. 1 (Blue Note)
  • Art Blakey - A Night at Birdland, vol. 2 (Blue Note)
  • João Bosco - Bandalhismo / Essa é a Sua Vida (RCA)
  • Anthony Braxton - Knitting Factory (Piano/Quartet) 1994 vol. 2 (Leo)
  • John Cage - Bird Cage (Electronic Music Foundation)
  • Danzas Panama - Instrumental Folk Music of Panama (JVC)
  • Ensemble Al-Kindî - The Aleppian Music Room (Le Chant du Monde)
  • Estrellas de Areito - Los Heroes (World Circuit/Nonesuch)
  • Andrew Hill - Andrew!!!; Compulsion; Involution (Blue Note/Mosaic)
  • I-Roy - Don't Check Me With No Lightweight Stuff 1972-75 (Blood and Fire)
  • Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti (Swan)
  • François Méchali - Le Granadier Voltigeur (Nato, LP)
  • Roscoe Mitchell and the Sound Ensemble - Snurdy McGurdy and her Dancin' Shoes (Nessa, LP)
  • Roger Nichols & the Small Circle of Friends - Roger Nichols & the Small Circle of Friends (A&M Japan)
  • The Paragons - On the Beach with the Paragons (Jet Set)
  • R.E.M. - Reveal (Warner Bros)
  • Sonny Rollins - Alfie (Impulse!)
  • Frederic Rzewski - No Place To Go But Around (Finnadar, LP)
  • Michael Snow - Snow Solo Piano Solo Snow (Ohm éditions)
  • Soul II Soul - Keep On Movin' (Virgin)
  • Cecil Taylor - The Cecil Taylor Unit (New World)
  • The Thing with Joe McPhee - She knows... (Crazy Wisdom)
  • Masahiko Togashi/Mototeru Takagi - Isolation (Take One)
  • Tom Tom Club - Tom Tom Club (Sire)
  • Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Nonesuch)
  • Yabby You - Jesus Dread 1972-1977 (Blood and Fire)
  • various Swedes - Sounds 99 (Blue Tower)

Reading

  • Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda - Noam Chomsky
  • Dumbstruck: A Cultural History of Ventriloquism - Steven Connor
  • Montage, Realism and the Act of Vision - Victor A. Grauer
  • On the Spiritual in Art, and Painting in Particular - Wassily Kandinsky (in Complete Writings on Art)

Watching

  • Lola - Jacques Demy (Music Box)
  • The Young Girls of Rochefort - Jacques Demy (Music Box)
  • Lonesome - Pál Fejös (Doc Films)
  • Kiss of Death - Henry Hathaway (Music Box)
  • Platform [Zhantai] - Jia Zhang-ke (Block Museum of Art)
  • Woman in the Window - Fritz Lang (Music Box)
  • Bonjour Tristesse - Otto Preminger (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Rebel Without A Cause - Nicholas Ray (Chicago Cultural Center)
  • Johnny Guitar - Nicholas Ray (Block Museum of Art)
  • Eros + Massacre [Erosu Purasu Gyakusatsu] - Yoshishige Yoshida (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • "Cinema Without Borders: Films of Joris Ivens" (Gene Siskel Film Center)
    • Pesn o Gerojach (Komsomol) [Komsomol, or Song of Heroes]
    • Power and the Land
    • De Brug [The Bridge]
    • Regen [Rain]
    • Philips Radio
    • Misère au Borinage - co-directed with Henri Storck
    • Nieuwe Gronden [New Earth]
    • Indonesia Calling
    • Das Lied Der Ströme [Song of the Rivers]
    • Une histoire de vent [A Tale of the Wind]
    • La Seine a Rencontré Paris [The Seine Meets Paris]
    • ...a Valparaiso
    • Pour le Mistral [The Mistral]
    • Le 17ème parallele [The 17th Parallel]
  • "Joseph Cornell: Program I" (Gene Siskel Film Center)
    • Rose Hobart
    • The Children's Party; Cotillion; Midnight Party [with Larry Jordan]
    • Aviary; Nymphlight; A Fable for Fountains [with Rudy Burkhardt]
    • Legend for Fountains [with Larry Jordan] (alternate version of A Fable for Fountains)
    • Centuries of June [with Stan Brakhage]
  • "Joseph Cornell: Program II" (Gene Siskel Film Center)
    • Angel
    • Bookstalls
    • By Night with Torch and Spear
    • Capuccino
    • Cloche a travers les feuilles
    • Joanne, Union Square
    • What Mozart Saw on Mulberry Street [with Rudy Burkhardt]
      • Mulberry Street (alternate edit)
      • Children (alternate version)
    • Vaudeville De-luxe
    • Wonder Ring [with Stan Brakhage]
         
  • Brute Force - Jules Dassin (CATV)
  • Crossfire - Edward Dmytryk (CATV)
  • Walpurgis Night - Gustaf Edgren (CATV)
  • The Star - Stuart Heisler (CATV)
  • The Spanish Earth - Joris Ivens (CATV)
  • One Week - Buster Keaton (DVD) with CD soundtrack by the Bill Frisell Trio
  • The High Sign - Buster Keaton (DVD) with CD soundtrack by the Bill Frisell Trio
  • The Hidden Fortress - Akira Kurosawa (DVD)
  • Terror in a Texas Town - Joseph H. Lewis (CATV)
  • Don't Look Back - D.A. Pennebaker (CATV)
  • Pink Flamingos - John Waters (DVD)
  • Cinema Verite: Defining the Moment - Peter Wintonick (CATV)
  • Movie Night on Roscoe Street
    • Faust - F.W. Murnau (DVD)
    • Rejected - Don Hertzfeldt (DVD)
    • Lily and Jim - Don Hertzfeldt (DVD)
    • Billy's Balloon - Don Hertzfeldt (DVD)
    • Multi-Facial - Vin Diesel (DVD)