Jun 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

  • The Private Collection, vol. 3, 5 (Kaz)
  • Back To Back/ Side By Side - Duke Ellington & Johnny Hodges (Verve)
  • Piano in the Background (Columbia)

Listening

  • Judy Carmichael playing the Chihuly "Olympia" Steinway piano @ Jazz Showcase
  • Mats Gustafsson/Jeb Bishop/Kent Kessler/Hamid Drake quartet; Peter Brötzmann/Fred Lonberg-Holm/Michael Zerang trio @ Storefront Theater
  • Brötzmann Chicago Tentet @ Chicago Cultural Center
        
  • The Beach Boys - 15 Big Ones / Love You (Brother/Capital)
  • Anthony Braxton - Composition No. 169 + (186 + 206 + 214) (Leo)
  • Anthony Braxton/Mario Pavone Quartet - Piano Quartet Standards 1995 (Knitting Factory Works)
  • Peter Brötzmann Trio - For Adolphe Sax (Unheard Music Series/Atavistic)
  • Eugene Chadbourne/Han Bennink - Miss Ann (Ecstatic Yod/JAAR, 7" single)
  • John Coltrane & Don Cherry - The Avant-Garde (Atlantic)
  • Gerson Combo - Gerson King Combo (Polydor/Universal)
  • Morton Feldman [perf. by Aki Takahashi & Kronos Quartet] - Piano and String Quartet (Elektra/Nonesuch)
  • Son House - Delta Blues (Biograph)
  • Mauricio Kagel - Improvisation ajoutée (Koch)
  • Pandelis Karayorgis/Nate McBride/Ken Vandermark - No Such Thing (Boxholder)
  • Bob Marley - Live! (Tuff Gong)
  • Matmos - A Chance to Cut is a Chance to Cure (Matador)
  • Pandit Pran Nath - Ragas of Morning and Night (Gramavision/GNA)
  • Orchestra Baobab - Pirates Choice (World Circuit/Nonesuch)
  • Baden Powell & Vinícius de Moraes - Os Afro-Sambas de Baden e Vinícius (Forma)
  • Sigur Rós - Ágćtis Byrjun (PIAS/Fat Cat)
  • Sun Ra - Janus (1201 Music)
  • Cecil Taylor - The Willisau Concert (Intakt)
  • Trinity - Shanty Town Determination (Blood and Fire)
  • Lennie Tristano/Lee Konitz/Warne Marsh - The Complete Atlantic Recordings of Lennie Tristano, Lee Konitz & Warne Marsh (Mosaic) discs 4-6
  • Caetano Veloso - Jóia (Philips/Polygram Brazil)
  • various artists - Darker than Blue: Soul from Jamdown 1973-1980 (Blood and Fire)
  • various artists - Studio One Roots (Soul Jazz)
  • various artists - Zimbabwe: Mbira (World Network)

Reading

  • Hollywood Musicals: The Film Reader - Steven Cohan ed.
  • Films and Feelings - Raymond Durgnat
  • Cahiers du Cinéma: The 1950s - Neo-Realism, Hollywood, New Wave - Jim Hillier ed.
  • The Revolution of Everyday Life - Raoul Vaneigem

Watching

  • The American Plan (play) - Roadworks (Viaduct Theater)
        
  • Zvenigora - Alexander Dovzhenko (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Arsenal - Alexander Dovzhenko (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Earth - Alexander Dovzhenko (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Ivan - Alexander Dovzhenko (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Aerograd - Alexander Dovzhenko (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India - Ashutosh Gowariker (Landmark Century Centre)
  • Land of Look Behind - Alan Greenberg (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • In A Lonely Place - Nicholas Ray (Music Box)
  • Open City - Roberto Rossellini ("An Afternoon with Studs Terkel" @ Facets Cinémathčque)
  • "Films by Val del Omar" (Gene Siskel Film Center)
    • Made of Mud [De Barro] - José Val del Omar
    • Castille on Fire [Fuego en Castilla] - José Val del Omar
    • An Aqua-Mirror from Granada [Aguaespejo Granadino] - José Val del Omar
          
  • half of Window Shopping - Chantal Akerman (VHS)
  • The Eighties [Les Annees '80s]- Chantal Akerman (VHS)
  • Being There - Hal Ashby (CATV)
  • Bound for Glory - Hal Ashby (CATV)
  • Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces - Kevin Brownlow (CATV)
  • Arsenic and Old Lace - Frank Capra (CATV)
  • Faces - John Cassavetes (CATV)
  • Le testament d'Orphée [The Testament of Orpheus] - Jean Cocteau (DVD)
  • Villa Santo Sospir (short) - Jean Cocteau (DVD)
  • Jeanne and the Perfect Guy - Olivier Ducastel (VHS)
  • Where Danger Lives - John Farrow (CATV)
  • Latcho Drom - Tony Gatlif (VHS)
  • Zero Patience - John Greyson (VHS)
  • That's Entertainment - Jack Haley Jr. (CATV)
  • That's Entertainment II - Jack Haley Jr. (CATV)
  • The Silencers - Phil Karlson (CATV)
  • Moulin Rouge - Baz Luhrmann (DVD)
  • Batman: The Movie - Leslie Martinson (DVD)
  • All Quiet on the Western Front - Lewis Milestone (CATV)
  • The Violent Years - William Morgan (CATV)
  • Tokyo Story - Yashuziro Ozu (VHS)
  • Tales from the Gimli Hospital - Guy Maddin (DVD)
  • Dead Father (short) - Guy Maddin (DVD)
  • Hospital Fragment (short) - Guy Maddin (DVD)
  • Cannibal: The Musical - Trey Parker (DVD)
  • South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut - Trey Parker (DVD)
  • East Side Story - Dana Ranga (VHS)
  • Same Old Song [On connait la chanson] - Alain Resnais (CATV)
  • Up/Down/Fragile - Jacques Rivette (VHS)
  • Pennies From Heaven - Herbert Ross (VHS)
  • Spite Marriage - Edward Sedgwick (CATV)
  • Cat Ballou - Elliot Silverstein (CATV)
  • The Merry Widow - Erich von Stroheim (CATV)
  • Crime Wave - André de Toth (CATV)
  • Going Hollywood - Raoul Walsh (CATV)
  • In Bad Taste: The John Waters Story - Steve Yeager (CATV)
  • Chaplin's Essanay Comedies, vol. 2 (DVD)
    • The Tramp - Charles Chaplin
    • By The Sea - Charles Chaplin
    • Work - Charles Chaplin
    • A Woman - Charles Chaplin
    • The Bank - Charles Chaplin
    • His Regeneration - Charles Chaplin
  • "Treasures from American Film Archives" part 1 (DVD):
    • The Original Movie - Tony Sarg
    • Blacksmithing Scene - W.K.L. Dickson
    • The Gay Shoe Clerk - Edwin S. Porter
    • Three American Beauties - Edwin S. Porter & Wallace McCutcheon
    • Princess Nicotine / The Smoke Fairy - J. Stuart Blackton
    • The Confederate Ironclad - Kenean Buel
    • Hell's Hinges - Charles Swickard & William S. Hart
    • The Fall of the House of Usher - James Sibley Watson Jr.
    • Tevye (excerpt) - Maurice Schwartz
    • Cologne: From the Diary of Ray and Esther - Dr. Raymond W. Dowidat & Esther Dowidat
    • Private Snafu: Spies - Chuck Jones
    • OffOn - Scott Bartlett
  • Movie Night on Roscoe Street
    • The Red Shoes - Michael Powell & Emeric Pressberger (DVD)
    • Glen or Glenda? - Edward D. Wood Jr. (DVD)