Jul 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

  • Historically Speaking (Bethlehem)
  • Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins (Impulse!)
  • Duke Ellington & John Coltrane (Impulse!)
  • Money Jungle (Blue Note)

Listening

  • Ken Vandermark solo @ Fine Arts Building
        
  • Jorge Ben - Ben é Samba Bom (Philips/Universal Japan)
  • Han Bennink - Tempo Comodo (Data)
  • Big Youth - Natty Universal Dread 1973-1979 (Blood and Fire)
  • Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children (Matador)
  • Thomas Brinkmann - Soul Center III (novamute)
  • Gary Burton/Carla Bley - A Genuine Tong Funeral (One Way)
  • John Coltrane/Archie Shepp - New Thing at Newport (Impulse!)
  • Ted Curson - Plenty of Horn (Prevue)
  • European Tuba Quartet - Heavy Metal - Light Industry (FMP, LP)
  • Franz Hautzinger - Gomberg: Quartertone-Trumpet Solo (Grob)
  • Inner Circle & the Fatman Riddim Section - Heavyweight Dub / Killer Dub (Blood and Fire)
  • Jin Hi Kim - KomunGuitar (¿What Next?)
  • Fela Anikulapo Kuti - Underground System (Barclay)
  • George Lewis & NOW Orchestra - The Shadowgraph Series: Compositions for Creative Orchestra (Spool)
  • Booker Little - Booker Little and Friend (Bethlehem)
  • Mamadou Ly - Mandinka Drum Master (Village Pulse)
  • Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath - Travelling Someplace (Cuneiform)
  • Charlie Mingus - Live in Stuttgart! 1964 (Unique Jazz)
  • Roscoe Mitchell - Sound Songs (Delmark)
  • Jackie Mittoo - The Keyboard King at Studio One (Universal Sound)
  • Lee "Scratch" Perry - Meets Bullwackie in Satan's Dub (ROIR)
  • Irene Schweizer - Hezensabatt (FMP, LP)
  • Spaceways Inc. - Version Soul (Atavistic)
  • Tom Tom Club - The Good, the Bad, and the Funky (Rykodisc/Tip Top)
  • Marcos Valle - Previsão Do Tempo (Odeon/EMI Japan)
  • Lester Young - The "Kansas City" Sessions (Commodore)
  • Carlos "Zingaro"/Joëlle Léandre/Sebi Tramontana - The Chicken Check In Complex (Leo)

Reading

  • The Gourmet Club: A Sextet - Junichiro Tanizaki
  • Crackpot: The Obsessions of John Waters - John Waters

Watching

  • Read My Lips - Jacques Audiard (Pipers Alley)
  • The Fast Runner (Atanarjuat) - Zacharias Kunuk (Music Box)
  • Austin Powers in Goldmember - Jay Roach (600 N. Michigan)
  • "Chicago Sound/Vision" (Hideout) incl. films/music by:
    • Carolyn Faber/Pan American
    • John McGeehan/ Fred Lonberg-Holm 
    • Tatsu Aoki/Jeff Parker
    • Paula Froehle/Sinister Luck Ensemble
          
  • Lamerica - Gianni Amelio (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Seven Men From Now - Budd Boetticher (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Singin' in the Rain - Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly (Oz Park)
  • Pépé le Moko - Julien Duvivier (Music Box)
  • The Brothers Karamazov - Erich Engles & Fyodor Otsep (Doc Films)
  • Muri Romani - Jon Jost (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Where is the Friend's House? - Abbas Kiarostami (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • And Life Goes On... - Abbas Kiarostami (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Taste of Cherry - Abbas Kiarostami (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - Stanley Kubrick (Chicago Outdoor Film Festival @ Grant Park)
  • The Naked Spur - Anthony Mann (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Man of the West - Anthony Mann (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Stubble Trouble (short) - Joseph E. Merideth (Chicago Outdoor Film Festival @ Grant Park)
  • Safety Last - Fred Newmeyer & Sam Taylor (Silent Film Festival @ Gateway Theatre)
  • The Wild Bunch - Sam Peckinpah (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Patton - Franklin J. Schaffner (Music Box)
  • Flying (short) - Bruce Terris (Chicago Outdoor Film Festival @ Grant Park)
  • The Indian Fighter - Andre de Toth (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Some Like It Hot - Billy Wilder (Chicago Outdoor Film Festival @ Grant Park)
        
  • Everyone Says I Love You - Woody Allen (DVD)
  • Footlight Parade - Lloyd Bacon & Busby Berkeley (CATV)
  • Gold Diggers of 1933 - Mervyn LeRoy & Busby Berkeley (CATV)
  • Gold Diggers of 1935 - Busby Berkeley (CATV)
  • The Killer is Loose - Budd Boetticher (CATV)
  • It's Always Fair Weather - Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly (CATV)
  • Vampyr - Carl Th. Dreyer (CATV)
  • Day of Wrath - Carl Th. Dreyer (DVD)
  • Ordet - Carl Th. Dreyer (DVD)
  • Masculine-Feminine - Jean-Luc Godard (VHS)
  • The Eel - Shohei Imamura (CATV)
  • The Halliday Brand - Joseph H. Lewis (CATV)
  • Time Without Pity - Joseph Losey (CATV)
  • Same Old Song [On connait la chanson] - Alain Resnais (CATV)
  • That's Entertainment III - Michael J. Sheridan & Bud Friedgen (CATV)
  • The Fortune Cookie - Billy Wilder (CATV)