From the Youtube page:
“Festival TV on KEENSTREAM, a YouTube program that started in April 2020, hoping that the day will come when we can enjoy the music and outdoor activities that we love. We welcome over 100 artists in total and liven up the program with MC George Williams.”
Harry Belafonte live in Ravensburg, Germany, Nov 1988.
Setlist:
Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)
Kwela (Listen to the Man)
Skin to Skin (with Sharon Brooks)
Matilda, Martin Luther King
Island in the Sun
Try to Remember (with Ty Stephens)
Jamaica Farewell
Paradise in Gazankulu
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As the recent Aquarium Drunkard e-mail says: jaimie "breezy" branch forever!
We are all deeply saddened by branch’s passing. Let’s visit some live breezy.
So far we’ve visited a solo set, a trio set and a two-part live show. Let’s round out the week with this quartet setup, live from 2018. This one includes a bit more information, including the players, which include branch on Trumpet, Anton Hatwich on Bass ,Lester St. Louis on Cello, Chad Taylor on Drums.
This was at: Roulette Intermedium, Boerum Hill, Brooklyn May 28th 2018
As the recent Aquarium Drunkard e-mail says: jaimie "breezy" branch forever!
We are all deeply saddened by branch’s passing. Let’s visit some live breezy.
So far, we/ve visited a solo set and examined two of her songs with lyrics and another one Yesterday we covered a band set, and today is branch in a trio format. As with the other sets, not a lot of information or tracklisting here, but ti’s great nonetheless. This set features Branch on trumpet, Luke Stewart on bass, Mike Pride on drums.
OH, and apparently this was “on Roy Campbell & Steve Dalachinsky's birthday.”
As the recent Aquarium Drunkard e-mail says: jaimie "breezy" branch forever!
We are all deeply saddened by branch’s passing. Let’s visit some live breezy.
Yesterday, we visited a solo set and examined one of her songs with lyrics and another one today. Here is branch with branch on trumpet, Lester St. Louis on cello, Jason Ajemian on bass, and Chad Taylor on drums.
As with the other one, not much information to go by here other than “Jaimie Branch - First Set (New Morning - Paris - July 12th 2021).” No setlist or anything, but you can figure it out if you really want to. I’m just grooving.
Set One:
Set Two:
As the recent Aquarium Drunkard e-mail says: jaimie "breezy" branch forever!
We are all deeply saddened by branch’s passing. Let’s visit some live breezy.
First up is a solo set from “Record Shop - July 2 2022.”
Not much else information about this one, but it’s well worth your time.
Many thanks to Harvey G. Cohen for pointing out this fantastic live set on Twitter. Harvey says:
“Earlier this year, Sons of Kemet, quite possibly the best band in jazz today, announced they are disbanding by the end of the year. Terrible news. But here is a newly filmed concert of theirs, live in London. Awesome. And not just because they have a tuba:”
Setlist:
Pick Up Your Burning Cross
Think Of Home
In Remembrance Of Those Fallen
Throughout The Madness, Stay Strong
I’ll be honest: I’ve tried to dig Goose several times. I’ve watched several live sets and lots of people I respect dig them. I don’t know why, but I just didn’t connect with them. I think it may have something to do with the moustaches and my own biases. You see, my Dad had a mustache, and any time I try to grow one, I just see my Dad in the mirror, and I love my Dad, but that’s not what you want to see when you look in the mirror.
Anyhoo: (as always), I’m on a big Kurt Vonnegut kick, and I just watched the 2021 documentary which included the quote from Cat’s Cradle: “As Bokonon says: 'peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from god.” That’s when Pitchfork decided to review the bands newest album Dripfield and I decided to give them another try.
Brady Gerber’s review includes this short section:
Watching their viral set at Peach Fest 2019—which, like many Goose sets, you can stream in full on YouTube—I thought wow, these guys can play. But it wasn’t just their virtuosic performances: Between the sprawling solos, they had actual songs that I walked away humming.
So, like any good Bokononist would, I went and watched that “viral'“ 2019 Peach Fest set. And I ended up digging it. A Lot. I sent it to my brother and a friend with the caption: “I think I might have been won over.” You see, they too had tried Goose before and found it not to their taste. But this set won them both over just like it did me. Maybe it will do the same for you. Maybe not. Either way, I hope you enjoy and occasionally stop along to remember that “I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.”
The Deets:
Goose plays Peach Fest 2019 in Scranton, PA.
Setlist:
Madhuvan
Time to Flee
All I Need
Wysteria Lane
Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo
Arcadia
The Way It Is
Hot Tea
Trey Anastasio of that band from VT sat in the other night with Goose in NYC and thanks to the wonders of the technology, you can watch it right here right now:
The Deets:
Goose - Hungersite → Arcadia (feat. Trey Anastasio) - 6/25/22 Radio City Music Hall, New York, NY
Here is the band’s official video for Hungersite:
Indie rock sister act Detective Blind's debut single 'Tell Me' is out now. Eldest sister Montgomery is billed as a “15-year old Broadway Vet,” but otherwise, there’s not much online about this young band (yet) except that they’re sisters, they used to be a cover band and now they rock.
Can’t wait to hear more from these sisters.
It’s only February, but I can already tell you that Jake Xerxes Fussell’s newest album Good and Green Again will be on my year-end favorites list.
Drawing from folk, American and even bits of Appalachian music, Fussell has created a beautiful, challenging and yet hopeful album. His incorporation of strings and horns (sometimes reminding me of Gregory Alan Isakov flourishes) brings a lushness to the music that’s comfortable in all the right ways.
Earlier this year, Fussell recorded his (at home) NPR Tiny Desk Concert. According to NPR: “Fussell recorded at a friend's home in Pittsboro, N.C., with Casey Toll on upright bass and Libby Rodenbough on violin, harmonium and backup vocals. The mantle behind them is adorned with a tiny desk surrounded by various vegetable-shaped candles.”
You’re not going to find much better things to do with 18 minutes. Give it a try:
Setlist:
“The River St. Johns"
"Have You Ever Seen Peaches Growing on a Sweet Potato Vine?"
"Breast of Glass"
Players:
Jake Xerxes Fussell: guitar, vocals
Libby Rodenbough: violin, harmonium, backing vocals
Casey Toll: upright bass
Thanks so much to the amazing Bryon Whitley for posting this amazing set.
Steve Gunn, Shahzad Ismaily, and Ryan Sawyer performing a live improv set at Union Pool, Brooklyn, NY 9/4/21.
“A set of wonderful improvisational music created by three sensational musicians.”
“There’s a fury at the core of Yoko Ono’s 1973 rock opus Approximately Infinite Universe that was not apparent on previously recorded efforts. Ono has always been a master of turning pain and sadness into art, but here, there’s a clenched-fist intensity that sets it apart in her deep, unparalleled catalogue. Ono is angry. She proved that one can carry a boundless love for humanity and still be furious — furious at male/female relationships, at war, at your partner.”
Notes:
Yoko Ono (with John Lennon) is interviewed on May 12, 1973 for the PBS television program "Flipside" at The Record Plant East in New York City. She also performs tracks from her then latest album "Approximately Infinite Universe" (as well as a track released only as a single in Japan) with the Plastic Ono Elephant's Memory Band.
(Aired on June 30, 1973).
Setlist:
Joseijoi Banzai
Death of Samantha
Catman (The Rosies Are Coming)
Winter Song
Death of Samantha (Reprise)
Endless Boogie performs live at The Bootleg Theater, Echo Park, Los Angeles, California (April 5, 2016 ).
Sorry, don’t have the setlist for this one. You could probably figure it out if you wanted to. Otherwise, just jam.
Players:
Jesper Eklow (aka "The Governor") on guitar
Paul Major (aka "Top Dollar") on guitar and vocals
Mark Ohe (aka "Memories from Reno") on bass
Harry Druzd on drums
Neil Diamond Live at the BBC (1971).
Setlist:
Countdown
Sweet Caroline
Neil Talking (solitary man story)
Solitary Man
Neil Talking (cracklin’ rosie story)
Cracklin’ Rosie
Neil Talking (BBC cup)
Done Too Soon
Modern Day Version of Love
Neil Talking (Bob Russell)
He Aint Heavy, He’s my Brother
Neil Talking (Holly Holy)
Holly Holy
I am, I said
Neil Talking (BLTSS Story)
Brother Love’s Traveling Salvation Show
In February 1981, a year-and-a-half before ‘Chronic Town’ would be released, R.E.M. played three at Atlanta’s 688 Club.
Setlist:
1. “Rave On” (Partial)
2. “Burning Down”
3. “Dangerous Times”
4. “I Don’t Want You Anymore”
5. “Get on Their Way”
6. “Different Girl”
7. “Permanent Vacation”
8. “White Tornado”
9. “Narrator”
10. “Wind Out”
11. “Gardening at Night”
12. “Mystery to Me”
13. “Radio Free Europe”
Charles Mingus Sextet, at the Konserthuset Stockholm, Sweden, April 13th, 1964 (Colorized).
Setlist:
So Long Eric
Meditations
So Long Eric (Second Version)
Players:
Alto Saxophone, Bass Clarinet – Eric Dolphy
Bass – Charles Mingus
Drums – Dannie Richmond
Piano – Jaki Byard
Tenor Saxophone – Clifford Jordan
Trumpet – Johnny Coles
