My Muhal Richard Abrams listening this week focused on the amazing run of albums he released on Black Saint in the 1980s and '90s, which will culminate next week with two of his big band masterpieces... the groundwork for those masterpieces was laid especially with Blues Forever and Rejoicing with the Light, in that both albums are stylistically all over the place, spanning the entire history of jazz while shining light on more obscure, unexplored territories... his piano playing is masterful and assured on these, but as usual he often steps out of the way and lets his arrangements and band members do the talking... when I was younger, I was drawn to the more swinging pieces like "Bloodlines" and "Blues Forever," but now (in my dotage, er, as my more mature and seasoned self) I am attracted to the more abstract tone poem pieces like "Cluster for Many Worlds" and "Blessed Be the Heavens at 12"... well, it's all amazing...
Playlist 2024-02-26:*AACM Great Black Music Ensemble: Umbria Jazz 2009, Perugia, Italy (CDR) (discs 6, 7)
*Muhal Richard Abrams: 1-OQA+19
*Muhal Richard Abrams: Spihumonesty
*Muhal Richard Abrams feat. Amina Claudine Myers: Duet (sides 1, 2)
*Muhal Richard Abrams: Spiral: Live at Montreux 1978
*Muhal Richard Abrams: Mama and Daddy (sides 1, 2)
*Muhal Richard Abrams: Blues Forever (sides 1, 2)
*Muhal Richard Abrams: Rejoicing with the Light (sides 1, 2)
*Muhal Richard Abrams Octet: View from Within
*Muhal Richard Abrams Octet: Colors in Thirty-Third
*André 3000: New Blue Sun
*Beach Boys: I Can Hear Music: The 20/20 Sessions (disc 2)
*Beatles: A Hard Day's Night (OST) (side 1)
*Beatles: 1962-1966 (2023 Edition) (side 2)
*Beatles: 1967-1970 (2023 Edition) (side 5)
*Anthony Braxton Ensemble: 1976-06-27 Carnegie Hall, NYC (CDR)
*Anthony Braxton: Quartet (FRM) 2007 (discs 3, 4)
*Circle: 1971-03 Bologna (CDR) (disc 2)
*Rodger Coleman and Sam Byrd: 2023-12-29 Nashville (rough mix wav)
*John Coltrane: The Prestige Recordings (disc 9)
*John Coltrane: Ascension (Edition II)
*John Coltrane: Meditations "Love/Consequences/Serenity"
*Miles Davis: Miles Davis at Carnegie Hall (side 1)
*DJ Shadow: Endtroducing.....
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: The Treasury Shows, Vol. 25 (discs 1, 2)
*Duke Ellington: The Bethlehem Years, Vol. 1 (side 2)
*Farmers By Nature: Love and Ghosts (disc 2) "Bisanz"
*Aretha Franklin: Two Sides of Love (sides 1, 2)
*George: Leave It
*Jimmy Giuffre 3: 1961 (disc 2)
*Grateful Dead: 1973-12-08 Durham NC (CDR) (disc 3) "The Other One"
*Grateful Dead: 1974-07-25 Chicago (CDR) "Dark Star"
*Grateful Dead: So Many Roads (1965–1995) (disc 2) "Dark Star Jam > Spanish Jam > U.S.Blues"
*Grateful Dead: 1983-10-12 NYC (CDR) (disc 1)
*Grant Green: Idle Moments
*Drew Gress: The Irrational Numbers
*Jimi Hendrix Experience: An Evening with the Jimi Hendrix Experience (disc 2)
*Dave Holland Prism: 2013-10-25 Umea, Sweden (CDR) (disc 1)197611
*Kinks: The Journey: Part 1 (sides 3, 4)
*Henry Mancini: Breakfast at Tiffany's (OST)
*Matt Mitchell: A Pouting Grimace
*Roscoe Mitchell: Nonaah (disc 2)
*Muffins: Secret Signals 3
*Annette Peacock: Sky-Skating
*Stephanie Richards: Fullmoon
*Sparks: Music That You Can Dance To (sides 1, 2)
*Cecil Taylor: Conquistador! "With (Exit)"
*Cecil Taylor Feel Trio: Two Ts for a Lovely T (disc 1)
*John Zorn Electric Masada: 2003-01-29 NYC (CDR)
*John Zorn: Bagatelles Vol. 8: John Medeski Trio
*John Zorn/Heaven and Earth Magick: 2023-09-23 San Francisco (CDR)
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