Playlist, Week of 2020-12-06

Some absolutely brilliant music from Duke Ellington on the Mosaic Capitol box set... after my foray into rediscovery of Charlie Parker of a few weeks back, I am going to start on an in-depth, non-chronological deep dive into Ellington... everything I've pulled out so far in the last few weeks has just reminded me over and over again what a vast wealth of solid amazing music he left for us... many years ago I got in really, really deep with his music from the '20s to the early '40s... I hope to do the same over the coming year with the '50s to the '70s... won't have anything original to add to the discussion but I am still looking forward to it... I won't be listening alone... at some point in here I will also re-read Eddie Lambert's Listening Guide, which is chock full o' great insight and critical acumen... Gary Giddins's essays on Duke in Visions of Jazz, which I revisited this week, are also spot-on... and finally, Brian Morton and Richard Cook in the Penguin Guide to Jazz do a superb job of nailing, over and over, the crucial highlights of all the albums they cover... of course Duke has always been with me (as Bird, Sun Ra, the Beatles, the Beach Boys, Coltrane, Miles, Braxton, Cecil, and so many others also always are) on the Magic Jukebox... but this will be a special delving-into, with tons of unexplored goodies as well as happy returns to old friends... 

Playlist 2020-12-07:

*John Coltrane: Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album (Deluxe Edition) (disc 2)
*Kris Davis/Ingrid Laubrock: 2020-03-08 Toronto (CDR)
*Duke Ellington: Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (sides 1, 2)
*Duke Ellington: The Complete Capitol Recordings of Duke Ellington (discs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
*Explorers Club: Together
*Fable: Live 1978 (wav)
*Marvin Gaye: You're the Man
*Jimmy Giuffre 3: 1961 (disc 1)
*Fletcher Henderson Orchestra: Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra (sides 1, 2)
*Earl Hines: Earl Hines Plays Duke Ellington (sides 1, 2)
*Keith Jarrett: Tribute (disc 1)
*King Crimson: Starless (disc 8)
*Ingrid Laubrock/Sylvie Courvoisier/Mark Feldman/Tom Rainey: Tism
*Ingrid Laubrock: Dreamt Twice, Twice Dreamt (discs 1, 2)
*Okkyung Lee/Christian Marclay: Amalgam
*Rob Mazurek/Exploding Star Orchestra: Galactic Parables: Volume 1 "Free Agents of Sound"
*Roscoe Mitchell with Ostravská Banda: Distant Radio Transmission (side 1)
*Nicole Mitchell's Sonic Projections: The Secret Escapades of Velvet Anderson
*Thelonious Monk: Monk's Music
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2015-11-09 “Order That Number” (wav)
*Jean-Luc Ponty: Enigmatic Ocean (side 1)
*Matana Roberts: Coin Coin Chapter One: Les Gens de Couleur Libres
*Matana Roberts: Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile
*Matana Roberts: Coin Coin Chapter Three: River Run Thee
*Matana Roberts: Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis
*Springhouse: Dis Orderly
*Third Coast Ensemble: Wrecks
*Keith Tippett's Ark: Frames (Music For An Imaginary Film) (disc 2)
*Charles Tolliver: Mosaic Select (disc 3)
*Dan Weiss/Starebaby: Natural Selection
*Mary Lou Williams & Cecil Taylor: Embraced (side 1)