Playlist, Week of 2024-12-15

I've read in several places that Cecil Taylor cites (in addition to Duke Ellington) Bud Powell and Horace Silver as major influences... Bud Powell I get, because of the melodic fast-run flourishes, but I'd been having trouble with Horace Silver... I wasn't really hearing Cecil in Song for my Father... but then I listened again to some of Silver's 1954 work with Miles Davis, and I got it, big time... especially "Blu 'n' Boogie'  and "I Remember April" ... I can hear a direct line from Silver to Taylor, primarily with Silver's jabbing percussive attack in his solos... just brilliant... I hope to check out some Silver with Art Blakey from around this time to see what else I can hear... 

Playlist 2024-12-16:

*Art Ensemble of Chicago: Kabalaba (pt. 2)
*Beach Boys: Friends (sides 1, 2)
*Beatles: Rubber Soul (2009 stereo remaster) (side 1)
*Beatles: The Beatles (side 3)
*Marion Brown: Afternoon of a Georgia Faun
*Miles Davis: The Prestige 10-Inch LP Collection, Vol. 2 (LP 1: side 1; LP 2: sides 1, 2)
*Miles Davis: Black Beauty: Miles Davis at Fillmore West (sides 3, 4)
*Miles Davis: Miles at the Fillmore: Miles Davis 1970: The Bootleg Series Vol. 3 (disc 2)
*Miles Davis: The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions (disc 1)
*Miles Davis: Dark Magus (discs 1, 2)
*Miles Davis: Agharta (disc 1)
*Miles Davis: 1975-06-11 NYC
*Miles Davis: Tutu
*Bob Dylan/Various artists: Theme Time Radio Hour S01 E11 "Flowers"
*Bob Dylan/Various artists: Theme Time Radio Hour S01 E12 "Cars"
*Bob Dylan/Various artists: Theme Time Radio Hour S01 E13 "Rich Man Poor Man"
*Duke Ellington: The Indispensable Duke Ellington (Volumes 5/6) - 1940 (side 1)
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: The Treasury Shows, Vol. 9 (disc 2)
*Dave Fox Group: Gatewalk
*Robert Fripp: Love Cannot Bear: Soundscapes - Live in the USA
*Mary Halvorson Octet: 2018-11-12 Venice (CDR)
*Herbie Hancock: 2024-08-14 Hollywood (CDR) (discs 1, 2)
*Joe Henderson: Barcelona
*Henry Cow: Unrest
*Joseph Jarman: As If It Were the Seasons "As If It Were the Seasons/Song to Make the Sun Come Up"
*Jefferson Pilot: Recordeo
*Henry Mancini: Breakfast at Tiffany's (OST)
*Rob Mazurek/Exploding Star Orchestra: Live at the Adler Planetarium
*Jackie McLean: Jacknife
*Roscoe Mitchell: Composition/Improvisation Nos. 1, 2 & 3 "Movement III"
*Roscoe Mitchell with Ostravská Banda: Distant Radio Transmission
*David Murray Octet: Picasso
*Andy Partridge: My Failed Songwriting Career, Vol. 2
*Andy Partridge: My Failed Christmas Career, Vol. 1
*Annette Peacock: An Acrobat's Heart
*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: Live at Montreux (side 1)
*Sun Ra: Kingdom of Discipline (side 1)
*Sun Ra: Lights on a Satellite: Live at the Left Bank (disc 1)
*Sun Ra Arkestra under the Direction of Marshall Allen: Lights on a Satellite
*Cecil Taylor: Jazz Advance
*McCoy Tyner/Joe Henderson: Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (discs 1, 2)
*Various artists: That Devilin' Tune (Vol. I, disc 5)
*Various artists: Anthology of Noise and Electronic Music vol. 1: First a-chronology 1921-2001 (disc 1)
*John Zorn/Chaos Magick: Multiplicities: A Repository of Non-Existent Objects
*John Zorn: Multiplicities II