Since wrapping up Sun Ra Sundays, I find myself now free to just listen to Sun Ra all over the place... I've been trying to get more vinyl, and in general I've been dipping into my collection all over the place... space is the place... I have been on a years-long trek of trying to listen to all of the rehearsal tapes amassed by UYA in its seven-year history... we played usually twice a week, so there's a ton of tapes, all of which I've digitized... I'm up to 1992 now, it's slow going but lots of fun... I was roughly going through my Mingus collection chronologically, but I got kinda stalled out on the 1964 European tour with Dolphy... it's great stuff but there's not a lot of variation in the selection of tunes from show to show... overall I prefer Mingus's '50s work to the '60s... well, it's all great, it's just personal preference... other listening projects I have going: more exploration of Cecil Taylor, especially his early work up to 1966... more in-depth diving into the work of Anthony Braxton... always touching on Ellington... trying to get a handle on Roscoe Mitchell's orchestrations of his improvisations on the two Conversations CDs... and more in-depth listening to the Grateful Dead... these are all in heavy rotation in my head these days...
Playlist 2023-07-10:*Steve Ashby & Daniel Barbiero: The Elongated Path
*Beatles: Revolver (Super Deluxe 4 LP Edition 2022) (sides 5, 6, 9)
*Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: The Big Beat
*Anthony Braxton: Tentet (Paris) 2001
*Anthony Braxton: 12 Comp (ZIM) 2017 (Comp. 419, 420)
*Kenny Burrell: Midnight Blue
*Rodger Coleman and Sam Byrd: 2015-05-14 Nashville (wav) track 4
*Miles Davis Quintet: Workin’ with the Miles Davis Quintet (sides 1, 2)
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: 1952-09-17 Cleveland (CDR)
*Duke Ellington: The Girl's Suite/The Perfume Suite (side 1)
*Jerry Garcia/Merl Saunders: 1971-05-11 San Francisco (CDR)
*Grateful Dead: Road Trips Vol. 1 No. 3 (1971-07-31 Yale) (discs 1, 2)
*Grateful Dead: Dark Star Comp 8 (1991-1992) (CDR compilation)
*Grateful Dead: Dark Star Comp 9 (1992-1994) (CDR compilation)
*Freddie Hubbard: Blue Spirits
*Rob Mazurek/Exploding Star Orchestra: Lightning Dreamers
*Charles Mingus: The Great Concert of Charles Mingus (sides 5, 6)
*Roscoe Mitchell with Ostravská Banda: Distant Radio Transmission (side 1)
*New Ting: 2023-06-27 "Loft Is Space" (wav)
*Opeth: Deliverance
*Matthew Shipp Trio: Root of Things
*Wadada Leo Smith/Peter Kowald/Bobby Naughton: 1981-10-07 RAW, Richmond VA (CDR) track 01
*Sparks: Big Beat (side 1)
*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: In the Orbit of Ra (sides 3, 4)
*Sun Ra and His Astro-Ihnfinity Arkestra: Sun Embassy (side 1)
*Sun Ra: Discipline Variations: A Compilation 1970-1972 (CDR compilation) (disc 2)
*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: Thunder of the Gods "Calling Planet Earth-We'll Wait for You"
*Sun Ra and His Intergalactic Solar Arkestra: Space Is the Place: Music from the Original Soundtrack (disc 1)
*Sun Ra: Aurora Borealis
*Sun Ra and His Omniverse Jet-Set Arkestra: Beyond the Purple Star Zone
*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: Oblique Parallax
*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: Saturn XIII (sides 1, 2)
*Cecil Taylor Quartet: At Newport
*Cecil Taylor: Unit Structures
*Henry Threadgill Ensemble: The Other One
*Lennie Tristano: Personal Recordings 1946-1970 (disc 4)
*June Tyson/Sun Ra: Saturnian Queen of the Sun Ra Arkestra (side 1)
*UYA: 1992-07-15 Fistfire (wav)
*UYA: 1992-07-15/18: Tilliespace (wav)
*UYA: 1992-07-22 Faster Service (wav)
*Various artists: Written in Their Soul: The Stax Songwriter Demos (discs 1, 2, 3)
*Void Patrol: Void Patrol
*Zion80: Hod (Zorn/Book of Beri'ah vol. 8)
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