Playlist, Week of 2017-08-27

A couple of recent Dime acquisitions... the Henry Threadgill set from the Big Ears Festival is nice, pretty sedate... The Lol Coxhill-Richard Sinclair gig from 1975 is testing my ability to mentally compensate for dodgy bootleg sound... it's a really rough audience recording, but it's also a one-time event, and the playing is really nice... Sinclair's bass playing comes through clearer than the drumming... I will have more to say about the new Sun Ra releases from Cosmic Myth Records in a separate posting... I will just say here that they are excellent and are must-haves... Jazz Free is a guitar extravaganza... The Susan Alcorn trio set (with Ingrid Laubrock) is brilliant... Laubrock is so good at pulling off these amazing extended quiet improvisations...

Playlist 2017-08-28:

*Air: Live Air
*Air: Air Mail
*Susan Alcorn/Ingrid Laubrock/Leila Bordreuil: 2017-08-18 Brooklyn NY (wav)
*Jim Black: Alasnoaxis
*Nels Cline/Henry Kaiser/Jim Thomas/Weasel Walter/Allen Whitman: Jazz Free: A Connective Improvisation
*Henry Kaiser & Wadada Leo Smith: Yo Miles! (disc 1)
*New Air: Live at Montreal International Jazz Festival
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2017-08-21 "Fire Head" (wav)
*Sun Ra: Singles: The Definitive 45s Collection 1952-1991 (discs 1, 2)
*Sun Ra: selections (Bandcamp streaming)
*Sun Ra: Featuring Pharoah Sanders & Black Harold
*Sun Ra and His Solar Arkestra: The Magic City (Full Stereo Version)
*Sun Ra and His Astro Infinity Arkestra: My Brother the Wind Vol. 1 (Remastered and Expanded Edition)
*Henry Threadgill: Song Out of My Trees
*Henry Threadgill's Zooid: 2017-03-26 Knoxville TN (CDR)
*Big Star: Complete Third (disc 3)
*Coxhill Sinclair Band: 1975-11-21 Reims, France (CDR)
*Mike Elder/Harry Forrest/Greg Jordan/Sam Byrd: 2017-06-17 (wav) (selections)
*Gong: Expresso II
*Grateful Dead: Dark Star 1972 version 1 (in progress, 06:00:00-08:27:00)
*Guided By Voices: August by Cake
*Various artists: She's So Fine: The Rise of the Girl Groups (disc 2)
*Various artists: Ol' Virginia Soul, Part 1: Jump Up and Down