Aug 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, 4, 5 (Kaz)
  • Afro-Bossa / Concert in the Virgin Islands (Warner Bros)
  • Th. Champs Élysées 29/30 Janvier 1965, parts 1 & 2 (RTE/Trema)
  • Berlin '65/Paris '67 (Pablo)
  • RCA Box, discs 22-23

Listening

  • George Lewis & the NOW Orchestra with Fred Anderson, Bill Brimfield, James Johnson & Roscoe Mitchell (rehearsal) @ HotHouse
  • George Lewis - Roscoe Mitchell - Voyager; Kehlan Phil Cohran; Jeff Parker @ Chicago Cultural Center
  • After-Jazz Fest jam session [Fred Anderson, Jeff Parker, Tatsu Aoki, Malachi Favors, Hamid Drake with Kidd Jordan, Oliver Lake, Malachi Thompson, et al] @ Velvet Lounge
  • Scott Rosenberg Quintet @ Hungry Brain
  • Scott Rosenberg Chicago Big Band Project @ Chicago Cultural Center
  • Ken Vandermark solo; interviewed by Kevin Whitehead @ Fine Arts Building
         
  • Chet Baker - The Complete Barclay Recordings vol. 1 (EmArcy)
  • The Beatles - Revolver (Apple/EMI)
  • Billy Bragg & Wilco - Mermaid Avenue vol. II (Elektra)
  • Anthony Braxton - Solo Piano (Standards) 1995 (No More)
  • Anthony Braxton - Ten Compositions (Quartet) 2000 (CIMP)
  • Brötzmann Chicago Tentet Plus Two - Broken English (Okkadisk)
  • Brötzmann Chicago Tentet Plus Two - Short Visit To Nowhere (Okkadisk)
  • John Cage - The Text Pieces 1 (Mode)
  • Michel Camilo - Triangulo (Telarc)
  • Günter Christmann et al - Vario 34-2 (Concepts of Doing)
  • Cibo Matto - Viva! La Woman (Warner Bros)
  • Alice Coltrane - Universal Consciousness (Impulse!)
  • Desmond Dekker & the Aces - Intensified (Jet Set)
  • Eric Dolphy - Stockholm Sessions (Enja)
  • The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (Warner Bros)
  • Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire de Melody Nelson (Philips)
  • Gratkowski/Graewe/Lindberg - Arrears (Red Toucan)
  • Bennie Green - Bennie Green (Bainbridge)
  • Adam Knispel/Willi Kellers - Eickendorfballade (FMP, LP)
  • Booker Little - Booker Little (Time)
  • The No-Neck Blues Band - Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones but Names Will Never Hurt Me (Revenant)
  • Kevin Norton - In Context/Out of Context (Barking Hoop)
  • Kevin Norton & Haewon Min - Play the Music of Anthony Braxton (Barking Hoop)
  • N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton (Ruthless/Priority)
  • Chico O'Farrill and his Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra - Pure Emotion (Milestone)
  • DJ QBert - wave twisters (Galactic Butt Hair)
  • Virginia Rodrigues - Sol Negro (Hannibal)
  • Scott Rosenberg - V: solo improvisations (Umbrella)
  • Bola Sete - Ocean Memories (Samba Moon)
  • Alan Silva - Alan Silva and the Celestial Communication Orchestra (BYG/Actuel, LP)
  • Skatalites and Friends - Hog in a Cocoa (Culture Press)
  • DJ Spooky vs. Scanner - The Quick and the Dead (Sulfur)
  • Stravinsky/Cage/Reich [Michael Tilson Thomas] - The Rite of Spring/Three Dances/Four Organs (Angel)
  • Tama Walo - Keepers of the Talking Drum (Village Pulse)
  • Taylor/Parker/Oxley (The Feel Trio) - Celebrated Blazons (FMP)
  • Lennie Tristano Sextet - Wow (Jazz Records)
  • Makayuki Takayanagi & New Direction Unit - Live at Moers Festival '80 (Three Blind Mice)
  • Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Gospel Train (Verve)
  • Moreno Veloso + 2 - Music Typewriter (Hannibal)
  • Dionne Warwick - The Dionne Warwick Collection: Her All-Time Greatest Hits (Rhino)
  • Trevor Watts & Veryan Weston - 6 Dialogues (Emanem)
  • Muddy Waters - The Complete Plantation Recordings: The Historic 1941-42 Library of Congress Field Recordings (Chess/MCA)
  • Otomo Yoshihide - Vinyl Tranquilizer (Noise Asia)
  • various artists - Jack Ruby Presents the Black Foundation (Heartbeat)
  • various artists - Unblocked: Music of Eastern Europe (Ellipsis Arts)

Reading

  • The Films of Carl-Theodor Dreyer - David Bordwell
  • African Rhythm and African Sensibility: Aesthetics and Social Action in African Musical Idioms - John Miller Chernoff
  • Art and Film Since 1945: Hall of Mirrors - Russell Ferguson ed.
  • The Essential Crazy Widsom - Wes "Scoop" Nisker
  • The Banquet Years: The Origins of the Avant-Garde in France, 1885 to World War I - Roger Shattuck

Watching

  • Denis Charles: An Interrupted Conversation - Véronique N. Doumbé (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Christabel - James Fotopoulos (Chicago Underground Film Festival @ Landmark Century Centre)
  • The Cedar Bar - Alfred Leslie (CUFF @ Landmark Century Centre)
  • Beautiful Frenzy - Christina Hallstrom & Mandra Waback (CUFF @ Landmark Century Centre)
  • Mechanisms (short) - Madeleine Fix Hansen (CUFF @ Landmark Century Centre)
  • Armor of God (short) - Jim Haverkamp & Brett Ingram (CUFF @ Landmark Century Centre)
  • Standing By Yourself - Josh Koury (CUFF @ Landmark Century Centre)
  • "The Sum of All Fears" (CUFF @ Landmark Century Centre)
    • Autopilot - Robert Banks
    • Bread and Butter - Sarah Brenia
    • Untitled Responses - David Gatten
    • The New Patriots - Robert Richter
    • Voice of the Prophet - Robert Edwards
    • Now Let Us Praise American Leftists - Paul Chan
    • State of the Union - Jason Archer & Paul Beck
    • Souvenirs of Love - Kyle Harris
    • One Mile Per Minute - Bobby Abate
  • "Watching and the Watched" (CUFF @ Landmark Century Centre)
    • no. 23.2: Book of Mirrors - Joost Rekveld
    • Exposed - Siegfried Fruhauf
    • Fear of Blushing - Jennifer Reeves
    • Going to the Ocean - Matt McCormick
    • The Circle 2 - James Fotopoulos
    • City at Heart - Staphanie Barber
    • In Order Not To Be Here - Deborah Stratman
  • "Monsters in the Kitchen" (CUFF @ Landmark Century Centre)
    • And... - Marcel de Jure
    • Yancys Kitchen - D. Scott McAnally
    • O5O2 - Mark Hejnar
    • Dream Work (for Man Ray) - Peter Tscherkassky
    • Plain English - John Standiford
    • Das Neue Monster - Kate McCabe
    • FILM (dzama) - Deco Dawson
           
  • "The Beat Cinema of Alfred Leslie" (CUFF @ Landmark Century Centre)
    • Pull My Daisy - Robert Frank & Alfred Leslie
    • The Last Clean Shirt - Alfred Leslie
    • Birth of a Nation 1965 - Alfred Leslie
  • Ornette Coleman: Made in America - Shirley Clarke (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • The High Lonesome Sound - John Cohen (Chicago Cultural Center)
  • The Conversation - Francis Ford Coppola (Doc Films)
  • Daughters of the Dust - Julie Dash (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Vertigo - Alfred Hitchcock (Chicago Outdoor Film Festival @ Grant Park)
  • Hue (short) - Andrew Hodges (Chicago Outdoor Film Festival @ Grant Park)
  • Pandora's Box - G.W. Pabst (Silent Film Festival @ Gateway Theatre)
  • The Black Pirate - Albert Parker (Silent Film Festival @ Gateway Theatre)
  • Carmen Jones - Otto Preminger (Chicago Outdoor Film Festival @ Grant Park)
  • Confession - Alexander Sokurov (Facets Cinémathčque)
  • Rocco and His Brothers - Luchino Visconti (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Ace In The Hole [aka The Big Carnival] - Billy Wilder (Music Box)
  • The Little Foxes - William Wyler (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • The Best Years of Our Lives - William Wyler (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Cogs (short) - Bill Ward (Chicago Outdoor Film Festival @ Grant Park)
  • Judy Judy (short) - Cal Ward, Jr. (Chicago Outdoor Film Festival @ Grant Park)
         
  • The Chaplin Mutuals (DVD, CATV):
    • The Floorwalker - Charles Chaplin
    • The Fireman - Chaplin
    • The Vagabond - Chaplin
    • One A.M. - Chaplin
    • The Count - Chaplin
    • The Pawnshop - Chaplin
    • Behind the Screen - Chaplin
    • The Rink - Chaplin
    • Easy Street - Chaplin
    • The Cure - Chaplin
    • The Immigrant - Chaplin
    • The Adventurer - Chaplin
  • Daisies - Véra Chytilová (DVD)
  • Black Caesar - Larry Cohen (DVD)
  • Gertrud - Carl Th. Dreyer (DVD)
  • Seven Sinners - Tay Garnett (CATV)
  • Le Petit Soldat - Jean-Luc Godard (DVD)
  • My Best Fiend - Werner Herzog (CATV)
  • My Metier: Carl Th. Dreyer - Torben Skjodt Jensen (DVD)
  • A Face in the Crowd - Elia Kazan (CATV)
  • The Far Country - Anthony Mann (CATV)
  • Sans Soleil - Chris Marker (VHS)
  • Play It Again, Sam - Herbert Ross (CATV)
  • The Moderns - Alan Rudolph (CATV)
  • The Crimson Pirate - Robert Siodmak (CATV)
  • Hail the Conquering Hero - Preston Sturges (CATV)
  • The Palm Beach Story - Preston Sturges (CATV)
  • Go, Go, Second-Time Virgin [Yuke Yuke Nidome No Shojo] - Koji Wakamatsu (DVD)
  • Serial Mom - John Waters (DVD)
  • The Lady from Shanghai - Orson Welles (DVD)
  • The Lost Weekend - Billy Wilder (CATV)