Nov 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

  • RCA Box: discs 18-20 (the Sacred Concerts), 21, 24

Listening

  • Chris Jonas & Chicago Improvisors Group @ Chicago Cultural Center
  • David Boykin Expanse @ Chicago Cultural Center
       
  • Byron Allen - The Byron Allen Trio (ESP)
  • Fred Anderson Trio - Live at the Velvet Lounge (Okka Disk)
  • Amédé Ardoin - I'm Never Comin' Back: Pioneer of Louisiana French Blues 1930-34 (Arhoolie)
  • Dock Boggs - His Folkways Years 1963-68 (Smithsonian Folkways)
  • João Bosco - Caça à Raposa (RCA)
  • Anthony Braxton - Six Compositions (GTM) 2001 (Rastascan/Barely Auditable/Limited Sedition)
  • Buffalo Daughter - Socks, Drugs, and Rock and Roll (Grand Royal)
  • Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! (Warner Bros.)
  • Stan Getz & the Oscar Peterson Trio - Stan Getz & the Oscar Peterson Trio (Verve)
  • Barry Guy - Symmetries (Maya)
  • Steve Lacy - More Monk (Soul Note)
  • György Ligeti - Trio für Violine, Horn und Klavier (Wergo)
  • Thelonious Monk Quartet - Paris Jazz Concert - Olympia: 6 March 1965, vol. 1/2 (Malaco)
  • OutKast - Aquemini (LeFace)
  • Bud Powell - The Amazing Bud Powell, vol. 1 (Blue Note)
  • Bud Powell - Inner Fires (Discovery)
  • Freddie Redd - Redd's Blues (Blue Note)
  • Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music (Buddha)
  • Sam Rivers - Crystals (Impulse!)
  • Martial Solal Dodecaband - Plays Ellington (Dreyfus Jazz)
  • Sun Ra - My Brother The Wind (Saturn, LP)
  • Stanley Turrentine - Stan "The Man" Turrentine (Time)
  • Sarah Vaughan - The Divine Sarah Vaughan: The Columbia Years 1949-1953 (Columbia)
  • Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones (Island)
  • Yo La Tengo - Nuclear War (Matador, EP)

Reading

  • Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances - Barbara Kruger
  • Time Passages: Collective Memory and American Popular Culture - George Lipsitz
  • Dada: Art and Anti-Art - Hans Richter
  • Film: The Front Line 1983 - Jonathan Rosenbaum
  • The Chronicles of Clovis - Saki (H.H. Munro)
  • Kurosawa: Film Studies and Japanese Cinema - Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto

Watching

  • Derrida - Kirby Dick & Amy Ziering Kofman (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Far From Heaven - Todd Haynes (Landmark Century Centre)
  • The Sleepy Time Gal - Christopher Munch (Facets Cinémathèque)
  • Minority Report - Steven Spielberg (River East 21)
       
  • "Films by Robert Breer" (Anthology Film Archives, NYC)
    • Form Phase I
    • Form Phases II
    • Recreation
    • Jamestown Baloos
    • Eyewash
    • Blazes
    • Pat's Birthday
    • Breathing
    • Fist Fight
    • 66
    • 69
    • 70
    • Gulls and Buoys
    • Fuji
  • Histoire(s) du cinéma (parts 1-4, 7-8) - Jean-Luc Godard (Block Cinema)
  • Six Easy Pieces - Jon Jost (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • I Live in Fear [aka Record of a Living Being] - Akira Kurosawa (Music Box)
  • The Bad Sleep Well - Akira Kurosawa (Music Box)
  • "Works by Pawel Pawlikowski" (Polish Film Festival in America @ Society for Arts)
    • From Moscow to Pietushki
    • Dostoevsky's Travels
    • Serbian Epics
    • Tripping With Zhirinovsky
  • Celine and Julie Go Boating - Jacques Rivette (Doc Films)
  • Ticket of No Return - Ulrike Ottinger (Doc Films)
  • Germany, Year Zero - Roberto Rossellini (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • The Rise of Louis XIV - Roberto Rossellini (Block Cinema)
  • REDUPERS (The All-Round Reduced Personality) - Helke Sander (Doc Films)
  • Night of the Demon - Jacques Tourneur (Music Box)
  • The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes - Billy Wilder (Block Cinema)
  • "Sun Ra Sundays," program 2 (Gene Siskel Film Center)
    • Spaceways - Edward English (1968??)
    • footage of the Arkestra in France (1970)
    • BBC broadcast of John Gilmore with Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers (1965)
  • "Sun Ra Sundays," program 3 (Gene Siskel Film Center)
    • Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise - Robert Mugge
    • Calling Planet Earth - Bill Sebastian
  • "Sun Ra Sundays," program 4 (Gene Siskel Film Center)
    • Cry of Jazz - Ed Bland (1958)
    • Magic Sun - Phill Niblock (1968)
    • footage of June Tyson & Sun Ra
    • the Arkestra's performance on NBC's Night Music
    • music performed by Fred Lonberg-Holm & Jason Roebke
  • "Mental Hygiene: Classroom Guidance Films, 1947-1961" program 1 (Gene Siskel Film Center)
    • Benefits of Looking Ahead (1950)
    • Cheating (1952)
    • Cindy Goes to a Party (1955)
    • Live and Learn - (1951)
    • Social Class in America (1957)
    • Molly Grows Up (1953)
    • Make Mine Freedom (1948)
  • "Mental Hygiene: Classroom Guidance Films, 1947-1961" program 2 (Gene Siskel Film Center)
    • Are You Popular? (1947)
    • A Date with Your Family (1950)
    • What About Juvenile Delinquency? (1955)
    • Toward Emotional Maturity (1954)
    • Last Date (1949)
    • Seduction of the Innocent - (1961)
    • What About Prejudice? (1959)
  • "Mental Hygiene: Classroom Guidance Films, 1947-1961" program 3 (Gene Siskel Film Center)
    • Good Table Manners (1951)
    • Habit Patterns (1954)
    • Boys Beware - (1961)
    • The Terrible Truth - (1951)
    • More Dangerous than Dynamite (1941)
    • Social Courtesy (1950)
    • Duck and Cover (1951)
    • Dating: Do's and Don'ts (1949)
         
  • Hell in the Pacific - John Boorman (DVD)
  • "A First National Collection" - Charles Chaplin (DVD):
    • Shoulder Arms
    • Sunnyside
    • A Day's Pleasure
    • The Idle Class
    • Pay Day
    • The Pilgrim
  • Park Row - Samuel Fuller (CATV)
  • Verboten! - Samuel Fuller (CATV)
  • High and Low - Akira Kurosawa (DVD)
  • T-Men - Anthony Mann (DVD)
  • The Man from Laramie - Anthony Mann (DVD)
  • Hot Water - Fred Newmeyer & Sam Taylor (CATV)
  • Cabiria - Giovanni Pastrone (CATV)
  • Paisan - Roberto Rossellini (CATV)
  • Imitation of Life - Douglas Sirk (CATV)
  • Sullivan's Travels - Preston Sturges (DVD)
  • Cat People - Jacques Tourneur (CATV)
  • The Leopard Man - Jacques Tourneur (CATV)
  • Pecker - John Waters (DVD)
  • The Kid Brother - Ted Wilde, J.A. Howe & Lewis Milestone (CATV)
  • "Shorts from the Underground" program 1 (CATV)
    • Andy Warhol's Silver Floatations - Willard Maas
    • Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol - Jonas Mekas
    • Andy Warhol - Marie Menken
  • "Shorts from the Underground" program 2 (CATV)
    • Little Flags - Jem Cohen
    • Two Marches - Jim Hubbard
    • Berlin/New York - Jack Waters
    • The Fancy - Elisabeth Subrin
  • "Shorts from the Underground" program 3 (CATV)
    • Invocation of My Demon Brother - Kenneth Anger
    • The People in the House - Louise Bourque
    • We Are Going Home - Jennifer Reeves
    • Consumed 5 - James Fotopoulos
    • Reverie - Joel Schlemowitz
  • "Shorts from the Underground" program 4 (CATV)
    • Recreation - Robert Breer
    • Jazz Elegy - Donna Cameron
    • The Secret Story - Janie Geiser
    • Our Lady of the Sphere - Larry Jordan
    • Midweekend - Caroline Avery
    • The Bats - Jim Trainor