Playlist, Week of 2020-11-15

Deerhoof's latest slew of albums is a lot of fun, but the best of the lot is Love-Lore, an amazing mix of cover tunes which manages to include Sun Ra and Anthony Braxton AND Dionne Warwick AND "The Jetsons" AND P-Funk... starting to sound a lot like the Magic Jukebox!... John Gilmore's work on Pete Sims's Turkish Women at the Bath is nice enough... hell, it's wonderful... but it just confirms for me that Gilmore did his best work with Sun Ra... Nice to hear Robert Wyatt on three of the tracks from the new Code Girl album... as a longtime Wyatt fan, I've been intrigued to read in Mary Halvorson interviews how much she's been inspired by Wyatt, and this new album really nails that inspiration, with his vocals fitting in perfectly with the Code Girl aesthetic already in place from their first album... 

Playlist 2020-11-16:

*Muhal Richard Abrams Quintet: 1977-03-04 NYC (CDR) (disc 3)
*Daniel Barbiero: In​/​Completion
*Blood Incantation: Hidden History of the Human Race
*Daniel Carter/Matthew Shipp/William Parker/Gerald Cleaver: Welcome Adventure! Vol. 1
*John Coltrane: Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album (Deluxe Edition) (disc 1)
*Deerhoof: Love-Lore
*Explorers Club: Grand Hotel
*Fable: Live 1978
*Grateful Dead: Pacific Northwest '73-'74: Believe It if You Need It (disc 2)
*Mary Halvorson's Code Girl: Artlessly Falling
*Scott Hamilton: Scott Hamilton Plays Ballads
*Andrew Hill: Solo (disc 1)
*King Crimson: Starless (discs 3, 4)
*Ingrid Laubrock: Dreamt Twice, Twice Dreamt (disc 1)
*Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey: Stir Crazy (CDR compilation) (disc 7)
*Lemon Twigs: Songs for the General Public
*Allen Lowe: Jews in Hell: Radical Jewish Acculturation (disc 1)
*Jackie McLean: Let Freedom Ring
*Ollie & the Nightingales: Ollie & the Nightingales
*Mario Pavone: Arc Trio
*Prince: Surprise Jazz Night with Prince (boot CDR) (discs 2, 3)
*Don Pullen: Mosaic Select (disc 2)
*Carlos Santana/John McLaughlin: A Live Supreme: 1973-09-01 Chicago (boot CDR) (disc 2)
*Alexander von Schlippenbach: Monk's Casino (The Complete Works of Thelonious Monk) (disc 3)
*Sara Serpa: Close Up
*Pete La Roca Sims: Turkish Women at the Bath
*Mike Sopko/Bill Laswell/Tyshawn Sorey: On Common Ground
*Sun Ra: Egypt 1971: In Heliopolis: Unreleased Recordings (streaming)
*Sun Ra: Egypt 1971: Egyptian Oasis: Unreleased Recordings (streaming)
*Henry Threadgill Zooid: In for a Penny, In for a Pound (disc 2)
*Charles Tolliver: Mosaic Select (disc 1)
*Various artists: Ad-Rock & Mike D's Alphabetical Jukebox (CDR compilation) (discs 17, 18)
*Chick Webb & Ella Fitzgerald: The Complete Chick Webb & Ella Fitzgerald Decca Sessions (1934-1941) (disc 8)
*Dan Weiss/Starebaby: Natural Selection