Playlist, Week of 2025-05-04

Mingus Dynasty: one LP to rule them all... Eventually I'll have something to say about the new Sun Ra box but it's a lot to absorb... As a matter of fact, all the music I listen to is a lot to absorb, and I usually take in more than I can give out in words...

Playlist 2025-05-05:

*AcidMothersGuruGuru: Guru Guru Fest 2010
*Sophie Agnel: Song
*Air: Air Time
*Artifacts: …And Then There’s This
*Johann Sebastian Bach: Concertos for Piano And Orchestra Nos. 1–5 & 7 (Gould/Bernstein) (disc 2)
*Tim Berne/Tom Rainey/Gregg Belisle-Chi: Yikes Too (disc 1)
*Blondie: Blondie Singles Collection: 1977-1982 (disc 1)
*Anthony Braxton Quartet: 1975-06-06 Hamburg (CDR)
*John Butcher/John Edwards/Mark Sanders: Last Dream of the Morning
*Frédéric Chopin: Favourite Piano Works (Vladimir Ashkenazy) (disc 1)
*Nels Cline: Consentrik Quartet
*Sylvie Courvoisier/Mary Halvorson: Bone Bells
*Miles Davis Quintet: Miles in France 1963 & 1964: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8 (disc 3)
*Deerhoof: Noble and Godlike in Ruin
*Jim Denley/Peter Farrar/Dale Gorfinkel: Vents
*Bill Dixon: 17 Musicians in Search of a Sound: Darfur
*Paul Dunmall/Matthew Shipp/Joe Morris/Gerald Cleaver: The Bright Awakening
*Nick Dunston: Colla Voce
*Bob Dylan/Various artists: Theme Time Radio Hour S01 E35 "Women's Names"
*Bob Dylan: Shadows in the Night
*Marc Edwards/Weasel Walter Group: Blood of the Earth
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: A Drum Is a Woman (side 1)
*Duke Ellington: Les Girls! The Girls Suite & Toot Suite Premieres (1958-1963)
*Duke Ellington: Anatomy of a Murder
*Duke Ellington: Piano in the Foreground
*Duke Ellington: The Great Paris Concert (disc 1) "Suite Thursday"
*Duke Ellington: The Duke Ellington Centennial Edition: The Complete RCA Victor Recordings (1927-1973) (disc 18) "In the Beginning God"
*Duke Ellington: The Private Collection: Vol. 10, Studio Sessions New York & Chicago 1965, 1966, 1971 "Harlem"
*Duke Ellington: Live at the Berlin Jazz Festival 1969-1973
*Glass Triangle: Blue and Sun-Lights
*Grateful Dead: 1969-05-30 Portland OR (CDR) "Dark Star"
*Grateful Dead: 1969-05-31 Eugene OR (CDR) "Dark Star"
*Grateful Dead: 1969-06-05 Fillmore West, SF (CDR) "Dark Star"
*Grateful Dead: Blues for Allah
*Milford Graves: Bäbi (disc 1)
*Herbie Hancock: Speak Like a Child
*Hasidic New Wave: Jews and the Abstract Truth
*Julius Hemphill: The Boyé Multi-National Crusade for Harmony (disc 1)
*Joe Henderson: The Milestone Years (disc 8)
*Lightnin' Hopkins: Dirty House Blues (disc 1)
*Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five: 1945-1946
*Henry Kaiser/Wadada Leo Smith: Yo Miles!: Upriver (disc 1)
*Charles Mingus and His Jazz Groups: Mingus Dynasty
*New Ting: 2025-04-28 "Brake in Perception" (wav)
*Zeena Parkins/Wobbly: Triplicates
*Marek Pospieszalski Octet & Zoh Amba: Now!
*Ravi Shankar: Three Ragas
*Sly and the Family Stone: There's a Riot Goin' On
*Sun Ra: Jazz by Sun Ra, Vol. 1 [Sun Song]
*Sun Ra: Sound of Joy
*Sun Ra and His Inter-Galactic Research Arkestra: Nuits de la Fondation Maeght (sides 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
*Sun Ra: St. Louis Blues: Solo Piano
*Various artists: Anthology of Noise and Electronic Music vol. 3: Third a-chronology 1952-2004 (disc 1)
*Various artists: Nobody Wins: Stax Southern Soul 1968-1975
*Anna Webber: Third Floor People
*Wolf Eyes/Anthony Braxton: Live at Pioneer Works, Red Hook, NY, October 26th 2023
*John Zorn/Chaos Magick: Through the Looking Glass

Reading List, Week of 2025-05-04

Reading List 2025-05-05:

*Williams, Tad. The Navigator's Children (started)
*Nabokov, Vladimir. Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews, and Letters to the Editor (finished)
*Williams, Tad. Into the Narrowdark (finished)
*Lambert, Eddie. Duke Ellington: A Listener's Guide (reread/selections)
*Mendelson, Cheryl. Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House (in progress)
*Young, Marguerite. Miss MacIntosh, My Darling (reread/in progress)

 

Playlist, Week of 2025-04-27

Hot Summer Dance is extremely well-recorded and gives a good hint at just how powerful this band must have been from the dance floor... Sun Song is still one of my all-time favorite Sun Ra records... that's all for now...

Playlist 2025-04-28:

*Air: Open Air Suit (sides 1, 2)

*Marshall Allen: New Dawn

*Louis Armstrong and His All-Stars: Satch Plays Fats

*Art Ensemble of Chicago: 1978-10-05 Washington DC (CDR) (discs 1, 2)

*Johann Sebastian Bach: Concertos for Piano And Orchestra Nos. 1–5 & 7 (Gould/Bernstein) (disc 1)

*Beatles: The Alternate Anthology Part 2 (disc 2)

*Beatles: The Alternate Anthology Part 3 (discs 1, 2)

*Anthony Braxton: Trillium R: Composition 162 - An Opera in Four Acts/Shala Fears for the Poor (disc 2)

*Anthony Braxton's Sonic Genome Project: 2010-01-31 Vancouver (CDR) (disc 2)

*Anthony Braxton: 12 Comp (ZIM) 2017 (Comp. 415)

*Gerald Cleaver: 22/23

*Gerald Cleaver: The Process

*Patsy Cline: Imagine That: The Lost Recordings 1954-1963 (disc 1)

*Sylvie Courvoisier: 2025-03-29 Big Ears, Knoxville TN (CDR)

*Kris Davis Trio: 2025-03-29 Big Ears, Knoxville TN (CDR)

*Miles Davis: In Concert (side 3)

*Bob Dylan/Various artists: Theme Time Radio Hour S01 E33 "Countdown"

*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Three Suites "Peer Gynt Suites Nos. 1 and 2"

*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Three Suites "Suite Thursday"

*Duke Ellington: Unknown Session

*Duke Ellington: Hot Summer Dance

*Ella Fitzgerald/Louis Armstrong: The Complete Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong on Verve (disc 2)

*Michael Formanek Quartet: Pre-Apocalyptic

*Michael Formanek Quartet: Other Zones

*Grateful Dead: 1969-05-10 Pasadena CA (CDR) "Dark Star"

*Grateful Dead: 1969-05-23 Hollywood FL (CDR) "Dark Star"

*Darius Jones: fLuXkit Vancouver (i̶t̶s̶ suite but sacred)

*Darius Jones: Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye)

*New Ting: 2025-04-21 "Dappled Dappers" (wav)

*Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble: Warszawa 2019

*Pere Ubu: The Tenement Year (sides 1, 2)

*Ivo Perelman: The Art of the Improv Trio, Vol. 5

*Ravi Shankar/Ali Akhbar Khan: Ragas

*Wadada Leo Smith: Big Ears, Knoxville TN (CDR)

*Sun Ra: Jazz by Sun Ra, Vol. 1 [Sun Song] (sides 1, 2)

*Sun Ra: Uncharted Passages

*Sun Ra Arkestra under the Direction of Marshall Allen: Lights on a Satellite (side 4)

*Henry Threadgill Sextet: Just the Facts and Pass the Bucket (side 1)

*UYA: 1993-10-24 The Foot Finder (wav)

*Vandermark 5: Beat Reader

*Weather Report: Tale Spinnin' (side 1)

Reading List, Week of 2025-04-27

Reading List 2025-04-28:

*Williams, Tad. Into the Narrowdark (started)

*Williams, Tad. Empire of Grass (finished)

*Lambert, Eddie. Duke Ellington: A Listener's Guide (reread/selections)

*Mendelson, Cheryl. Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House (in progress)

*Nabokov, Vladimir. Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews, and Letters to the Editor (in progress)

*Young, Marguerite. Miss MacIntosh, My Darling (reread/in progress)

 

Playlist, Week of 2025-04-20

I barely go for Christmas music at Christmas time, much less the rest of the year, but damn if Ellington and Strayhorn's version of the Nutcracker cuts through all that crap and swings mightily... I can take that all year round... "Princess Blue" is a relatively minor piece, pleasant enough while it's on, but I'm having a hard time getting a melodic handle on it...  A solid free jazz session from New Ting, with Fred McGann back on keyboard (it's been a while)... Meanwhile, the "Dark Stars" are getting longer... 

Playlist 2025-04-21:

*[Ahmed]: Giant Beauty (disc 5)
*Art Ensemble of Chicago: 1977-01-28 Philadelphia (CDR)
*Johann Sebastian Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier (Glenn Gould) (disc 3)
*Beatles: Revolver (Super Deluxe 4 LP Edition 2022) (side 7)
*Beatles: The Alternate Anthology Part 1 (disc 2)
*Beatles: The Alternate Anthology Part 2 (disc 1)
*Anthony Braxton: The Complete Arista Recordings of Anthony Braxton (disc 4) "Opus 76 (Version 2)"
*Gerald Cleaver: 22/23
*Gerald Cleaver: The Process
*John Coltrane: 1966-07-02 Newport (CDR) "Leo"
*Sylvie Courvoisier: 2025-03-29 Big Ears, Knoxville TN (CDR)
*Miles Davis Quintet: Miles in France 1963 & 1964: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8 (disc 2)
*Bob Dylan/Various artists: Theme Time Radio Hour S01 E32 "Moon"
*Duke Ellington: 1938 (side 3)
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Newport 1958 "Princess Blue"
*Duke Ellington: Anatomy of a Murder
*Duke Ellington: Les Girls! The Girls Suite & Toot Suite Premieres (1958-1963)
*Duke Ellington: Duke Ellington Live! At the Newport Jazz Festival '59 "Idiom '59"
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Three Suites "The Nutcracker Suite"
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Three Suites "Peer Gynt Suites Nos. 1 and 2"
*Michael Formanek Quartet: Pre-Apocalyptic
*Michael Formanek Quartet: Other Zones
*Gang of Four: Solid Gold (side 2)
*Gentle Giant: Sampler (CDR compilation)
*Gentle Giant: Interview
*Grateful Dead: 1969-04-22 Boston (CDR) "Dark Star"
*Grateful Dead: 1969-04-23 Boston (CDR) "Dark Star"
*Grateful Dead: Dick's Picks 26 (1969-04-26/27) (disc 2) "Dark Star"
*Grateful Dead: 1969-05-07 San Francisco (CDR) "Dark Star"
*Darius Jones: fLuXkit Vancouver (i̶t̶s̶ suite but sacred)
*Darius Jones: Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye)
*Led Zeppelin: Led Zeppelin II
*Brandon Lopez: Nada Sagrada
*New Ting: 2025-04-14 "Heat Pad" (wav)
*Zeena Parkins/Wobbly: Triplicates
*Ivo Perelman: The Art of the Improv Trio, Vol. 3
*Ivo Perelman: The Art of the Improv Trio, Vol. 5
*Ivo Perelman: The Art of the Improv Trio, Vol. 6
*Wadada Leo Smith: Big Ears, Knoxville TN (CDR)
*Sun Ra: Disco 3000 (Complete Milan Concert 1978) (discs 1, 2)
*Sun Ra: Uncharted Passages
*Cecil Taylor Workshop Ensemble: Melancholy "Sphere No. 1"
*Various artists: Anthology of Noise and Electronic Music vol. 2: Second a-chronology 1936-2003 (disc 2)
*Frank Zappa: Apostrophe (50th Anniversary Ed.) (disc 3)

Reading List, Week of 2025-04-20

 

Slow but steady...

Reading List 2025-04-21:

*Lambert, Eddie. Duke Ellington: A Listener's Guide (reread/selections)
*Mendelson, Cheryl. Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House (in progress)
*Nabokov, Vladimir. Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews, and Letters to the Editor (in progress)
*Williams, Tad. Empire of Grass (in progress)
*Young, Marguerite. Miss MacIntosh, My Darling (reread/in progress)

Playlist, Week of 2025-04-13

Uncharted Passages is one of Sun Ra's strongest solo piano albums... I could have more to say about it, but lately I have been almost obsessed with Duke Ellington... it's funny, but back in the '70s when I was first starting to learn about jazz in earnest, basically teaching myself through reading and listening (by myself and with friends), I was drawn to Ellington's early decades, from the 1920s through to the early 1940s... I spent years getting really deep into that era, and I was in hog heaven when the CD era emerged and reissues of so much of that stuff, which had previously been hard to come by, became readily available... but even before that, the Smithsonian LP reissues of Ellington's music from 1938-1941 in those three two-record sets was a real revelation... of course I was aware of the later stuff, but not only was I not drawn to it, I even thought a lot of it was corny, stuffy, old hat... how wrong I was... I can't even put my finger on exactly when my feelings changed about his music of the 1950s, '60s, and '70s... my friend Cal has always been a strong proponent of the late era, and that certainly helped... an early CD of Blues in Orbit he gave me languished on my shelves for a while before I really got into it... key elements were a deeper appreciation of Billy Strayhorn's role and sensibility, and an even deeper appreciation of Sam Woodyard's amazing shuffle... but most of all, what's drawn me to this music is the stellar long-running sax section of Johnny Hodges, Paul Gonsalves, Russell Procope, Jimmy Hamilton, and the masterful Harry Carney... it's not just their playing, but also the writing and arranging of Ellington (and Strayhorn), their use of the individual sonorities and personalities of those players to create moods and effects unlike any other in music... so for the last twenty years or so I have been trying to wrap my head around Ellington's massive late discography... of course I still listen to the older music (it's always popping up on the Magic Jukebox), but this later stuff... maybe it's because I'm older myself... I have grown to appreciate late Ray Nance, and the wonderful Clark Terry, and even Cat Anderson, whose squeaks and high notes used to strike me as grandstanding, but which I now see as a precursor to John Gilmore's high-register explorations... anyway, there's so much great music out there... but the Duke always swings, and always gets my fingers snapping, my shoulders swaying, and my hips shaking... long live Ellington!

Playlist 2025-04-14:

*[Ahmed]: Giant Beauty (disc 4)

*Air: Air Raid (sides 1, 2)

*Lotte Anker/Craig Taborn/Gerald Cleaver: Floating Islands

*Louis Armstrong: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 1923-1934 (disc 4)

*Art Ensemble of Chicago with Anthony Braxton & Frank Lowe: 1975-09-11 Five Spot, NYC (CDR) (disc 2)

*Art Ensemble of Chicago: 1976-11-27 The Kitchen, NYC (CDR) (discs 1, 2)

*Fred Astaire: Starring Fred Astaire (disc 1)

*Johann Sebastian Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier (Glenn Gould) (disc 2)

*Beatles: The Alternate Anthology Part 1 (disc 1)

*Derek Bailey/John Butcher/Gino Robair: Scrutables

*Daniel Barbiero/Sam Byrd/Jimmy Ghaphery: 2017-12-02 Rhizome DC (CDR)

*Jim Black: Alasnoaxis

*Boris: Boris at Last -Feedbacker

*Anthony Braxton: Wesleyan (12 Altosolos) 1992

*John Butcher/John Edwards/Mark Sanders: Last Dream of the Morning

*John Coltrane Quartet: 1965-03-19 Half Note (CDR) (disc 1)

*Miles Davis Quintet: Miles in France 1963 & 1964: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8 (disc 1)

*Jim Denley/Peter Farrar/Dale Gorfinkel: Vents

*Bob Dylan: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack (disc 1)

*Bob Dylan/Various artists: Theme Time Radio Hour S01 E31 "Tennessee"

*Duke Ellington: The Private Collection, Vol. 6 Dance Dates California 1958

*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Newport 1958 "Princess Blue"

*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: A Drum Is a Woman

*Duke Ellington: Duke Ellington Live! At the Newport Jazz Festival '59 "Idiom '59"

*Duke Ellington: Blues in Orbit

*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Three Suites "The Nutcracker Suite"

*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Piano in the Background

*Duke Ellington: The Popular Duke Ellington (sides 1, 2)

*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Concert in the Virgin Islands (side 2)

*Ella Fitzgerald/Louis Armstrong: The Complete Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong on Verve (disc 1)

*Grateful Dead: 1969-04-04 San Francisco (CDR) "Dark Star"

*Grateful Dead: 1969-04-21 Boston (CDR) "Dark Star"

*John Greaves: Songs

*Andrew Hill Sextet Plus 10: A Beautiful Day, Revisited (disc 2)

*Darius Jones: Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye)

*Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66: Look Around

*New Ting: 2017-11-20 "Fluid Dispersal" (wav)

*Marek Pospieszalski Octet & Zoh Amba: Now!

*Max Roach featuring Anthony Braxton: Birth and Rebirth

*Masahiko Satoh/Otomo Yoshihide/Roger Turner: Sea

*Ravi Shankar: Master of Sitar

*Sparks: The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte (sides 1, 2)

*Sun Ra and His Myth Science Arkestra: We Travel the Spaceways

*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: Bad and Beautiful

*Sun Ra and His Myth Science Arkestra: Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy

*Sun Ra and His Mythic Science Arkestra: The Paris Tapes: Live at Le Théâtre du Châtelet 1971 (disc 2) "Discipline Number Unknown"

*Sun Ra: Uncharted Passages

*Sister Rosetta Tharpe: Up Above My Head (disc 1)

*Various artists: That Devilin' Tune: A Jazz History (1927-1934) (Vol. II, disc 4)

*Anna Webber: Third Floor People

*Yes: Tales from Topographic Oceans (side 4)

*Frank Zappa: Apostrophe (50th Anniversary Ed.) (disc 2)

Reading List, Week of 2025-04-13

Reading List 2025-04-14:

*Nabokov, Vladimir. Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews, and Letters to the Editor (started)
*Williams, Tad. Empire of Grass (started)
*Eco, Umberto, and Jean-Claude Carrière. This Is Not the End of the Book (transl. Polly McLean) (finished)
*Williams, Tad. The Witchwood Crown (finished)
*Lambert, Eddie. Duke Ellington: A Listener's Guide (reread/selections)
*Mendelson, Cheryl. Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House (in progress)
*Young, Marguerite. Miss MacIntosh, My Darling (reread/in progress)

Playlist, Week of 2025-04-06

 

All praise to Matana Roberts and her Coin Coin project.... this just keeps growing in stature in my mind the more I listen to it.. my current favorite is Vol. 2, Mississippi Moonchile... the husky baritone voice of Jeremiah Abiah, the sweet saxophone lines, the perfect drumming of Tomas Fujiwara, the thorny embellishments on piano from Shoko Nagai, all woven together in a moving and grooving testament to the spirit and endurance of the women portrayed...and Matana Robert's voice is perfect for this, in both narrating and singing... Thanks to Daniel Barbiero for alerting me to the best version of "Seastones" (London 1974) in his overview of the piece... "Dark Star" continues to morph, but I gotta say: I'm waiting for Mickey to leave... the guiro's not doing it for me...

Playlist 2025-04-07:

*Muhal Richard Abrams: Young at Heart/Wise in Time (side 1)
*[Ahmed]: Wood Blues
*[Ahmed]: Giant Beauty (disc 3)
*Air: Air Song
*Air: Live Air
*Louis Armstrong: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 1923-1934 (disc 4)
*Art Ensemble of Chicago: 1975-09-09 Five Spot, NYC (CDR) (discs 2, 3)
*Art Ensemble of Chicago: 1975-09-11 Five Spot, NYC (CDR) (disc 1)
*Beach Boys: Love You
*John Blum Quartet feat. Marshall Allen: Deep Space
*Anthony Braxton: Ninetet (Yoshi's) 1997, Vol. 4 (disc 2)
*Kim Cass: Levs
*Clear Frame: Clear Frame
*Gerald Cleaver & Violet Hour: Live At Firehouse 12
*Patsy Cline: Live at the Cimarron Ballroom
*Kris Davis Trio: Run the Gauntlet
*Bob Dylan: The Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3 (disc 3)
*Bob Dylan/Various artists: Theme Time Radio Hour S01 E30 "Thanksgiving Leftovers"
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: The Treasury Shows, Vol. 11 (disc 2)
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Masterpieces by Ellington (side 1)
*Duke Ellington: Anatomy of a Murder
*Duke Ellington: Les Girls! The Girls Suite & Toot Suite Premieres (1958-1963)
*Duke Ellington and His Award Winners: Blues in Orbit (sides 1, 2)
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Concert in the Virgin Islands (side 1)
*Exploding Star Orchestra: Stars Have Shapes
*Grateful Dead: 1969-04-13 Boulder CO (CDR) "Dark Star"
*Grateful Dead: 1969-04-15 Omaha NE (CDR) "Dark Star"
*Grateful Dead: 1969-04-17 St. Louis (Download Series Vol. 12) "Dark Star"
*Grateful Dead: 1969-04-20 Worcester MA (CDR) "Dark Star"
*Grateful Dead: 1974-09-11 London (CDR) "Seastones"
*Happy the Man: "Better Late…" (side 1)
*Andrew Hill Sextet Plus 10: A Beautiful Day, Revisited (disc 1)
*Earl Hines: Giants of Jazz (disc 2)
*Billie Holiday: The Complete Billie Holiday on Verve 1945-1959 (disc 2)
*Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble: NOW
*London Brew: London Brew (disc 1)
*Jimmie Lunceford: The Complete Jimmie Lunceford Decca Sessions (disc 7)
*John McLaughlin: Where Fortune Smiles
*Sergio Mendes: Quiet Nights
*Matt Mitchell: Phalanx Ambassadors
*Roscoe Mitchell Sound Ensemble: Live in Detroit (side 3)
*Hank Mobley: The Complete Blue Note Hank Mobley Fifties Sessions (disc 1)
*Louis Moholo Moholo Quartet: 4 Blokes
*Ikeu Mori: In Light of Shadows
*David Murray Octet: Picasso
*OOIOO: Nijimusi
*Paradoxical Frog: Union
*Charlie Parker/Dizzy Gillespie: Bird and Diz
*Charlie Parker: The Complete Legendary Rockland Palace Concert 1952 (disc 1)
*Charlie Parker: Live Bird Is the Best Bird (CDR compilation) (discs 1, 2)
*Zeena Parkins/Ikue Mori: Phantom Orchard
*Annette Peacock: An Acrobat's Heart
*Jean-Luc Ponty: Imaginary Voyage (sides 1, 2)
*Jean-Luc Ponty: Enigmatic Ocean (sides 1, 2)
*Bobby Previte/Jamie Saft/Nels Cline: Music from the Early 21st Century
*Flora Purim: Everyday Everynight
*Sergei Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 (Lang Lang)
*Matana Roberts: Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile
*Matana Roberts: Coin Coin Chapter Three: River Run Thee (side 1)
*Sly and the Family Stone: The Essential Sly & the Family Stone (disc 1)
*Sly and the Family Stone: Dance to the Music
*Sly and the Family Stone: The Woodstock Experience (disc 2)
*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: Jazz in Silhouette (Expanded Edition) (side 3)
*Sun Ra: Uncharted Passages
*Sun Ra: Solo Works (CDR compilation)
*Cecil Taylor: In Transition [Jazz Advance] (side 1)
*Tower of Power: 1978-06-04 Much More, Richmond VA (cassette)
*McCoy Tyner/Joe Henderson: Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (disc 2)
*UYA: 1993-10-14 Betty! The Butter! (wav)
*Vandermark 5: Beat Reader
*Various artists: That Devilin' Tune: A Jazz History (1895-1927) (Vol. I, disc 9)
*Various artists: Anthology of Noise and Electronic Music vol. 2: Second a-chronology 1936-2003 (disc 1)
*Ben Webster: Ballads (side 1)
*Frank Zappa: Apostrophe (50th Anniversary Ed.) (disc 1)
*Frank Zappa: Nostalgia (boot CDR)

Reading List, Week of 2025-04-06

Reading List 2025-04-07:

*Eco, Umberto, and Jean-Claude Carrière. This Is Not the End of the Book (transl. Polly McLean) (started)
*Williams, Tad. The Witchwood Crown (started)
*Moore, Alan. Writing for Comics (started/finished)
*Threadgill, Henry, and Brent Hayes Edwards. Easily Slip into Another World (finished)
*Lambert, Eddie. Duke Ellington: A Listener's Guide (reread/selections)
*Mendelson, Cheryl. Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House (in progress)
*Young, Marguerite. Miss MacIntosh, My Darling (reread/in progress)

The Magic Jukebox: Non-Breakable Fun

It's about that time again: time for another installment of a recent Magic Jukebox shuffled playlist! It's been about a year and a half since the last one... 

1. Prince - All the Critics Love U in Montreux
2. Jill Jones - G-Spot (extended version)
3. Johnny Winter - I Hate Everybody
4. Stock, Hausen, & Walkman - 0898
5. Charlie Parker - Cheers
6. Duke Ellington - Happy Anatomy
7. Kelley Stoltz - Underwater's Where the Action Is
8. Frank Zappa - Dense Slight
9. Duke Ellington - Sweet & Pungent
10. Rolling Stones - 2,000 Light Year from Home
11. Tower of Power - This Time It's Real
12. Supremes - I Hear a Symphony
13. Hank Williams - A House Without Love
14. Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers - It Don't Mean a Thing
15. Sonic Youth - The Sprawl
16. Olivia Tremor Control - Mystery
17. Beatles - Roll Over Beethoven
18. Beck - Minus
19. Tito Puente - Witch Doctor's Nightmare
20. Parliament - Let's Play House
21. Willie Hobbs - (Please) Don't Let Me Down
22. Sparks - Change
23. Mary Wells - (Hey You) Set My Soul on Fire
24. James Brown - Oh Baby Don't You Weep
25. Mary Wells - I'll Be Available
26. Frank Zappa - Dog Breath
27. Sly & the Family Stone - Love City
28. Beach Boys - The Girl from New York City
29. Link Wray & the Wraymen - Raw-Hide
30. Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Almost Blue
31. Sparks - Please Baby Please
32. Jackie Wilson - Singing a Song
33. Duke Ellington - Ko-Ko
34. John Zorn/Insurrection - The Recognitions
35. Isley Brothers - I Must Be Losing My Touch
36. Roscoe Mitchell Quintet - For Cynthia
37. Duke Ellington - Happy as the Day Is Long
38. Prince - Illusion, Coma, Pimp, & Circumstance
39. Ruby Johnson - I'd Better Check on Myself
40. Public Enemy - Fight the Power
41. Simulacrum - Scene 3: And to the Brimstone, Fire
42. Paul McCartney - Honey Hush
43. Parliament - The Goose
44. Beach Boys - Little Pad (A Cappella)
45. Captain Beefheart - Floppy Boot Stomp
46. Duke Ellington - Tutti for Cootie (live Paris)
47. Rodger Coleman/Sam Byrd - Nine Thirds
48. Sun Ra - Easy to Love
49. Elvis Presley - Lawdy, Miss Clawdy
50. King Crimson - Larks' Tongues in Aspic (Pt. II) (live Texas)
51. Andrew Hill - Sideways
52. Little Richard - Ready Teddy
53. Rolling Stones - 19th Nervous Breakdown (alt take)
54. Bob Marley - Mr. Talkative
55. Beatles - Eleanor Rigby
56. Beatles - Baby It's You (BBC)
57. Sun Ra - I Struck a Match on the Moon
58. Bo Carter - Please Warm My Weiner
59. Duke Ellington - Midriff (Bethlehem)
60. Minutemen - Search

61. Sun Ra - Piano Interlude

62. Santana - La Fuente Del Ritmo
63. Opeth - The Devil's Orchard
64. Eddie Holman - This Can't Be True
65. Easy Lovin' (Star Search Demo)
66. Wig Drop - Looking with My Eyes
67. Duke Ellington - Madness in Great Ones
68. Beatles - No Reply
69. Clyde McPhatter/Drifters - Money Honey
70. Guided By Voices - Skin Parade
71. High Llamas - Almond Return
72. Duke Ellington - Sonnet to Hank Cinq
73. Jelly Roll Morton & His Red Hot Peppers - Oil Well
74. Sam Cooke - That's Where It's At
75. Beach Boys - Forever (A Capella)
76. Paul McCartney - Run Devil Run
77. Fred Astaire - Shall We Dance?
78. King Crimson - Larks' Tongues in Aspic (Pt. IV) (live Paris)
79. Jefferson Pilot - USB 3
80. Lewis Taylor - When Will I Ever Learn 2
81. Johnny Daye - I Need Somebody
82. Pavement - Cream of Gold
83. Animal Collective - Bluish
84. Beach Boys - Sail Plane Song
85. Duke Ellington - Madame Will Drop Her Shawl
86. Lesley Gore - You Don't Own Me
87. Beatles - I'll Get You
88. Thinking Plague - Behold the Man
89. Major Organ and the Adding Machine - Barry's Lung
90. Bob Brady & the Con Chords - Everybody's Going to the Love-In
91. Gang of Four - The Republic
92. Portuguese Joe - Teenage Riot
93. Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower
94. Duke Ellington - Me and You
95. Art Ensemble of Chicago - Till Autumn
96. Beatles Remixers Group - Noticed I Was Late
97. Elvis Presley - Just Because
98. Turbans - When You Dance
99. Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas - Bad to Me
100. Opeth - The Lines in My Hand

Playlist, Week of 2025-03-30

I have almost all the stuff in the 4-CD Louis Armstrong box set Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 1923-1934 on other discs, but it's been a real treat to spend some deep listening time with the box... the music, of course, is fantastic... the selection is solid, and the annotations by Dan Morgenstern and Loren Schoenberg are brilliant... it's always a joy when Armstrong pops up on the Magic Jukebox, but it was a great weekend being immersed in this music... I have a slew of live Art Ensemble of Chicago I'll be working my way through, in addition to my ongoing Duke Ellington, Sun Ra, and Grateful Dead forays... Speaking of Ellington, I am loving Anatomy of a Murder madly... I rewatched the movie, and the music really adds extra spice... plus we get to see Duke himself playing a duet with Jimmy Stewart... 

Playlist 2025-03-31:

*Marshall Allen: New Dawn

*Louis Armstrong: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 1923-1934 (discs 1, 2, 3)

*Louis Armstrong and His All-Stars: Satch Plays Fats

*Art Ensemble of Chicago: 1974-11-16 Tokyo (CDR)

*Art Ensemble of Chicago: 1975-09-09 Five Spot, NYC (CDR) (disc 1)

*Blue Notes: Blue Notes for Johnny

*Anthony Braxton: Ninetet (Yoshi's) 1997, Vol. 4 (disc 1)

*Anthony Braxton Quartet: Standards (Brussels) 2006 (discs 4, 5, 6)

*John Butcher/John Edwards/Mark Sanders: Last Dream of the Morning

*Dustin Carlson: Air Ceremony

*John Coltrane: A Love Supreme (deluxe ed.) (disc 2) "Pursuance"

*John Coltrane: Live in Seattle "Out of This World"

*Miles Davis: 1972-10-01 Palo Alto, CA (CDR)

*Bob Dylan: The Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3 (disc 2)

*Bob Dylan/Various artists: Theme Time Radio Hour S01 E27 "Dance"

*Bob Dylan/Various artists: Theme Time Radio Hour S01 E28 "Sleep"

*Bob Dylan/Various artists: Theme Time Radio Hour S01 E29 "Food"

*Silke Eberhard/Céline Voccia: Wild Knots

*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: A Drum Is a Woman

*Duke Ellington: Happy Reunion

*Duke Ellington: 1899-1974 (sides 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)

*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Newport 1958 "Princess Blue"

*Duke Ellington: Anatomy of a Murder

*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Festival Session (sides 1, 2)

*Ingebrigt Håker Flaten/Paal Nilssen-Love: Guts & Skins

*Grateful Dead: 1969-04-04 San Francisco (CDR) "Dark Star"

*Grateful Dead: 1969-04-05 San Francisco (CDR) "Mountains of the Moon > Dark Star"

*Grateful Dead: 1969-04-11 Tucson AZ (CDR) "Dark Star"

*Grateful Dead: 1969-04-12 Salt Lake City (CDR) "Dark Star"

*Grant Green: Idle Moments

*Mary Halvorson: Belladonna

*Mary Halvorson: Amaryllis

*Earl Hines: Giants of Jazz (disc 1)

*Noah Howard: The Black Ark

*Freddie Hubbard: Hub-Tones

*Jefferson Pilot: Recordeo

*Henry Kaiser/Wadada Leo Smith: Yo Miles!: Sky Garden (disc 2)

*Henry Kaiser/Robert Musso: Echoes for Sonny

*Brandon Lopez: Nada Sagrada

*Jimmie Lunceford: The Complete Jimmie Lunceford Decca Sessions (discs 5, 6)

*Massacre: Meltdown

*Matt Mitchell: Zealous Angles

*Jemeel Moondoc/Hilliard Greene: Cosmic Nickelodeon

*New Loft Quartet: Mergus Goes to Baltimore

*New Ting: 2025-03-24 "Retroactivity Noticed" (wav)

*Painkiller: Samsara

*Zeena Parkins/Chris Brown/William Winant/Ben Davis: Scree

*Jon Rose/Mark Dresser: Band Width

*Alexander von Schlippenbach/Globe Unity Orchestra: Globe Unity: 50 Years

*Sun Ra and His Myth Science Arkestra: Angels and Demons at Play

*Sun Ra and His Myth-Science Arkestra: The Nubians of Plutonia

*Sun Ra and His Myth Science Arkestra: When Angels Speak of Love (side 1)

*Sun Ra: Kingdom of Discipline (side 2)

*McCoy Tyner/Joe Henderson: Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (disc 1)

*UYA: 1993-09-26 We Salute You (wav)

*Various artists: That Devilin' Tune (Vol. I, disc 8)

*Various artists: Latin Rhythms in Hi Fi

*Ben Webster: Ballads (sides 3, 4)

*John Zorn/JACK Quartet: The Complete String Quartets (disc 1)

Reading List, Week of 2025-03-30

Reading List 2025-03-31:

*Threadgill, Henry, and Brent Hayes Edwards. Easily Slip into Another World (started)
*Williams, Tad. The Burning Man. In Legends, ed. Robert Silverberg (started/finished)
*Williams, Tad. The Heart of What Was Lost (started/finished)
*Eco, Umberto. Confessions of a Young Novelist (finished)
*Williams, Tad. To Green Angel Tower (finished)
*Lambert, Eddie. Duke Ellington: A Listener's Guide (reread/selections)
*Mendelson, Cheryl. Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House (in progress)
*Young, Marguerite. Miss MacIntosh, My Darling (reread/in progress)

Henry Threadgill on John Gilmore

Henry Threadgill writes about John Gilmore:

He was playing some very advanced harmonic and rhythmic information on the saxophone. His rhythmic approach was amazing. John used to tell me about practicing out of drum books, working on rhythmic patterns. ... It gives you a grounding in rhythmic patterns that you wouldn't ordinarily have, playing a melodic instrument. Gilmore's playing was very rhythmic playing. I don't meant that it was necessarily always busy, even if at times it was. It's more that there were very unusual rhythmic patterns in his playing. A lot of people knew about his musical thinking; Coltrane used to come and listen to him play. Gilmore was a highly sophisticated player, and totally original. (Threadgill, Easily Slip into Another World, Knopf 2023, p. 37)
 

Playlist, Week of 2025-03-23

Weird of Mouth consists of improvisations from the trio of Mette Rasmussen, Ches Smith, and Craig Taborn... Smith and Taborn I was familiar with, but Rasmussen less so... she is an excellent, fiery alto sax player... their playing together here is dazzling and brilliant... Yes, What's Going On is a masterpiece, but I have a soft spot in my heart for I Want You, and I think it's a better seduction album than Let's Get It On... I am finding "The Queen's Suite" to be one of the weakest of Duke Ellington's suites, in spite of what Lambert has to say about it... I will listen more to see what I am missing... I love the concept of Yo Miles! but they can't touch the pure intensity of what inspired them... but it's great that that music continued to be played; it needs to be, even if it ain't Miles... 

Playlist 2025-03-24:

*Louis Armstrong: From the Original Okehs Vol. 3 1928/29
*Average White Band: Average White Band
*Black Host: Life in the Sugar Candle Mines "Hover"
*Blood Incantation: Absolute Elsewhere
*Blue Notes: Blue Notes for Mongezi (disc 2)
*Blue Notes: Blue Notes in Concert
*Anthony Braxton: 2 Compositions (Ensemble) 1989/1991
*Anthony Braxton Quartet: Standards (Brussels) 2006 (discs 2, 3)
*Patricia Brennan Septet: Breaking Stretch
*Kris Davis: Diatom Ribbons Live at the Village Vanguard (disc 1)
*Kris Davis Trio: 2022-05-13 NYC (CDR)
*Miles Davis: 1972-09-14 Boston (CDR)
*Miles Davis: In Concert (sides 1, 2)
*Nick Dunston: Atlantic Extraction
*Nick Dunston: Colla Voce
*Bob Dylan/Various artists: Theme Time Radio Hour S01 E26 "Halloween"
*Duke Ellington: The Private Collection, Vol. 1: Studio Sessions Chicago, 1956
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Newport 1958
*Duke Ellington/Johnny Hodges: Back to Back
*Duke Ellington/Johnny Hodges: Side by Side
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: The Ellington Suites "The Queen's Suite"
*Marvin Gaye: I Want You (Deluxe Edition) (discs 1, 2)
*Grateful Dead: The Complete Fillmore West 1969 (disc 8) "Dark Star"
*Grateful Dead: 1969-03-15 San Francisco (CDR) "Dark Star"
*Grateful Dead: 1969-03-22 Pasadena (CDR) "Dark Star"
*Grateful Dead: 1969-03-28 Modesto, CA (CDR) "Dark Star"
*Grateful Dead: 1969-03-29 Las Vegas (CDR) "Dark Star"
*Grateful Dead: 1974-09-11 London (CDR) "Seastones"
*Grateful Dead: 1980-09-04 Providence RI (Download Series Vol. 7) (disc 3)
*Mary Halvorson Octet: Away with You
*Mary Halvorson Octet: 2018-11-12 Venice (CDR)
*Henry Kaiser/Wadada Leo Smith: Yo Miles!: Sky Garden (disc 1)
*Janel Leppin: Ensemble Volcanic Ash: To March Is to Love
*Little Feat: Waiting for Columbus (disc 1)
*Locals: Play the Music of Anthony Braxton
*Brandon Lopez: Nada Sagrada
*Allen Lowe and the Constant Sorrow Orchestra: Louis Armstrong's America, Vol. 2 (discs 1, 2)
*Brian Marsella’s iMAGiNARiUM: Mediatas (disc 3)
*Charles Mingus and His Jazz Groups: Mingus Dynasty
*Matt Mitchell: Vista Accumulation (discs 1, 2)
*Roscoe Mitchell: Solo [3] (disc 3)
*Roscoe Mitchell: One Head Four People
*Ikue Mori: Obelisk
*New Ting: 2025-03-03: "Cleaning Up the Corners" (wav)
*Opeth: The Last Will and Testament
*Ozric Tentacles: Jurassic Shift
*Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble: Warszawa 2019
*Red Trio/John Butcher: Summer Skyshift
*Matana Roberts: Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile
*Ravi Shankar: Live: Ravi Shankar at the Monterey International Pop Festival
*Sharp/Lopez/Kaiser/Amendola: Minus X: A Tribute to the Music of Iannis Xenakis (disc 1)
*Matthew Shipp Trio: New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz
*UYA: 1993-08-21 Office Facility Love Nest Rug (wav)
*UYA: 1993-09-13 Intervallic Shapes (wav)
*UYA: 1993-09-19 Off the Corner (wav)
*Various artists: That Devilin' Tune (Vol. I, disc 7)
*Anna Webber: simpletrio2000
*Webber/Morris Big Band: Both Are True
*Ben Webster: Ballads (sides 1, 2)
*Weird of Mouth: Weird of Mouth

Reading List, Week of 2025-03-23

Reading List 2025-03-24:

*Eco, Umberto. Confessions of a Young Novelist (started)
*Lowe, Allen. Turn Me Loose White Man, or, Appropriating Culture: How to Listen to American Music, 1900-1960, Vol. 2 (finished)
*Lambert, Eddie. Duke Ellington: A Listener's Guide (reread/selections)
*Mendelson, Cheryl. Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House (in progress)
*Williams, Tad. To Green Angel Tower (in progress)
*Young, Marguerite. Miss MacIntosh, My Darling (reread/in progress)

 

Playlist, Week of 2025-03-16

The most well-known version of "Dark Star" has to be the first one the Grateful Dead released, on Live/Dead... and that really was the best version they'd played (that was recorded, anyway) up to that point... everything comes together... up to then, Bill Kreutzmann had kept himself to half-heartedly playing shakers, with only occasional tentative forays on the drum kit, until 1969-02-22, and that must have felt good, because here, a few days later, he plays the kit forcefully for part of the song, driving Garcia in a different way and adding a new dimension, which to my ears kicks it to the next level... "Dark Star" is becoming more and more of a full-group improvisatory exploration... This week my listening was focused, it seems, on "Dark Star," Duke Ellington, Roscoe Mitchell, Anthony Braxton, and Sun Ra... so what else is new?

Playlist 2025-03-17:

*[Ahmed]: Wood Blues

*[Ahmed]: Giant Beauty (disc 2)

*All Set: All Set

*Johann Sebastian Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier (Glenn Gould) (disc 1)

*Beatles: The Early Beatles (mono 2024) (side 1)

*Blue Notes: Blue Notes for Mongezi (disc 2)

*Hamiet Bluiett: Orchestra, Duo, & Septet (sides 1, 2)

*Anthony Braxton: Ninetet (Yoshi's) 1997, Vol. 3 (disc 2)

*Anthony Braxton Ensemble: 2006-06-10 Kerava, Finland (CDR)

*Anthony Braxton Sextet: 2006-08-12 Lisboa (CDR)

*Anthony Braxton Quartet: Standards (Brussels) 2006 (disc 1)

*Peter Brötzmann Octet: The Complete Machine Gun Sessions "Machine Gun"

*Clear Frame: Clear Frame

*Gerald Cleaver & Violet Hour: Live At Firehouse 12

*John Coltrane: One Down, One Up: Live at the Half Note (disc 1)

*John Coltrane: First Meditations (For Quartet) (side 1)

*Miles Davis: In Person Friday and Saturday Nights at the Blackhawk, Complete (disc 3)

*Miles Davis Quintet: 1967-11-07 Karlsruhe, Germany (CDR)

*Bob Dylan/Various artists: Theme Time Radio Hour S01 E24 "Time"

*Bob Dylan/Various artists: Theme Time Radio Hour S01 E25 "Guns"

*Duke Ellington: The Girls' Suite/The Perfume Suite (side 2)

*Duke Ellington/Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Song Book (disc 3) "Portrait of Ella Fitzgerald"

*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Ellington Indigos (sides 1, 2)

*Duke Ellington: His Piano and His Orchestra at the Bal Masque

*Duke Ellington's Spacemen: The Cosmic Scene

*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Live at Newport 1958 (discs 1, 2)

*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Jazz at the Plaza Vol. II (side 1)

*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Ellington Jazz Party in Stereo (side 1)

*Kate Gentile: Mannequins

*George: Leave It (side 2)

*George: Letters to George (side 2)

*Grateful Dead: Fillmore East 2-11-69 (disc 2) "Dark Star"

*Grateful Dead: 1969-02-14 Philadelphia (CDR) "Dark Star"

*Grateful Dead: 1969-02-15 Philadelphia (CDR) "Dark Star"

*Grateful Dead: 1969-02-21 Vellejo, CA (CDR) (disc 1)

*Grateful Dead: 1969-02-22 Vellejo, CA (CDR) "Mountains of the Moon > Dark Star"

*Grateful Dead: Live/Dead "Dark Star"

*Grateful Dead: The Complete Fillmore West 1969 (disc 4) "Dark Star"

*Grateful Dead: The Complete Fillmore West 1969 (disc 7) "Dark Star"

*Mary Halvorson: Reverse Blue

*Billie Holiday: The Complete Billie Holiday on Verve 1945-1959 (disc 1)

*Vijay Iyer: Compassion

*Jefferson Pilot: The Return of Troubled Youth Orchestra

*Jefferson Pilot: Sad Magazine

*Ned Lagin: Seastones (1975 versions)

*Lama + Chris Speed: Lamaçal

*Allen Lowe and the Constant Sorrow Orchestra: Louis Armstrong's America, Vol. 1 (discs 1, 2)

*Jimmie Lunceford: The Complete Jimmie Lunceford Decca Sessions (disc 4)

*Brian Marsella’s iMAGiNARiUM: Mediatas (discs 1, 2)

*Roscoe Mitchell: Songs in the Wind

*Roscoe Mitchell: 2012-03-10 London (CDR)

*Roscoe Mitchell/Brus Trio: After Fallen Leaves

*Roscoe Mitchell and the Note Factory: The Bad Guys

*Thelonious Monk: Piano Solos (side 1)

*Ikue Mori: Class Insecta

*New Ting: 2025-03-03: "Cleaning Out the Corners" (wav)

*NRBQ: Interstellar (side 1)

*Tony Oxley Quintet: The Baptised Traveller

*Zeena Parkins: Dam Against the Spring Tide

*Matana Roberts: Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile

*Matana Roberts: Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the Garden (sides 3, 4)

*Sonny Rollins: Worktime (side 1)

*Otis Rush: 1956-1958 Cobra Recordings

*Secret People: Secret People

*Ravi Shankar: The Sounds of India

*Sun Ra and His Solar Arkestra: Other Planes of There (side 2)

*Sun Ra and His Myth Science Arkestra: When Angels Speak of Love (sides 1, 2)

*Sun Ra: Heliocentric Worlds Vol. 3: The Lost Tapes

*Sun Ra: Spaceways [Outer Spaceways Inc.]

*Sun Ra: Monorails & Satellites: Works for Solo Piano Vols. 1, 2, 3 (disc 3)

*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: Thunder of the Gods (side 1)

*Sun Ra: Egypt 1971 (disc 3)

*Henry Threadgill's Zooid: Pop Start the Tape, StoP

*Mary Lou Williams Trio: Free Spirits

*John Zorn: New Masada Quartet Vol. 3

*John Zorn/Brian Marsella Trio: Ballades

Reading List, Week of 2025-03-16

Reading List 2025-03-17:

*Williams, Tad. To Green Angel Tower (started)
*Paré, Alix, and Valérie Sueur-Hermel. The Fantastic Gustave Doré (finished)
*Lambert, Eddie. Duke Ellington: A Listener's Guide (reread/selections)
*Lowe, Allen. Turn Me Loose White Man, or, Appropriating Culture: How to Listen to American Music, 1900-1960, Vol. 2 (in progress)
*Mendelson, Cheryl. Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House (in progress)
*Young, Marguerite. Miss MacIntosh, My Darling (reread/in progress)

Playlist, Week of 2025-03-09

Not much to say this weak week... drifting in and out of listening...

Playlist 2025-03-10:

*Marshall Allen: New Dawn
*Borderlands Trio: Wandersphere (discs 1, 2)
*Anthony Braxton: Ninetet (Yoshi's) 1997, Vol. 3 (disc 1)
*Death Ambient: Drunken Forest
*Bob Dylan/Various artists: Theme Time Radio Hour S01 E23 "Water"
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Such Sweet Thunder
*Duke Ellington/Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Song Book (disc 3)
*Grateful Dead: 1969-01-26 San Francisco (CDR) "Dark Star"
*Grateful Dead: 1969-02-04 Omaha, NE (CDR) "Dark Star"
*Grateful Dead: 1969-02-05 Kansas City (CDR) "Dark Star"
*Grateful Dead: 1969-02-06 St. Louis (CDR) "Dark Star"
*Grateful Dead: 1969-02-07 Pittsburgh (CDR) "Dark Star"
*Jefferson Pilot: Welcome Stranger
*Jefferson Pilot: Long Distance
*Jefferson Pilot: The Hopeless News
*Locals: Play the Music of Anthony Braxton
*Mindbreath Trio: 2015-01-10 Union Arts, Washington DC (wav)
*Roscoe Mitchell: Solo [3] (disc 2)
*Ikue Mori: Hex Kitchen
*Charlie Parker: Yardbird in Lotusland (side 1)
*Ravi Shankar: India's Master Musician
*Sun Ra: Saturn Research: Rarities and Oddities (CDR compilation) (disc 2)
*Sun Ra and His Myth Science Arkestra: Fate in a Pleasant Mood
*Sun Ra: Egypt 1971 (discs 1, 2)
*Sunn O))): Kanno
*Henry Threadgill Very Very Circus: 1992-01-30 London (CDR)
*Two Much: Reut Regev/Igal Foni: Never Enough
*UMO Jazz Orchestra: UMO Plays the Music Of Muhal Richard Abrams
*Vandermark 5: Beat Reader
*Various artists: Turn Me Loose White Man (discs 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
*Various artists: Subradar Sampler #02
*David S. Ware et al.: Planetary Unknown
*Hank Williams: The Original Singles Collection Plus (disc 3)
*Wire: Pink Flag
*Neil Young: After the Gold Rush

Reading List, Week of 2025-03-09

The new Ali Smith novel is all too scaringly prescient, and yet also hopeful... 

Reading List 2024-03-10:

*Smith, Ali. Gliff (started/finished)
*Williams, Tad. Stone of Farewell (finished)
*Lambert, Eddie. Duke Ellington: A Listener's Guide (reread/selections)
*Lowe, Allen. Turn Me Loose White Man, or, Appropriating Culture: How to Listen to American Music, 1900-1960, Vol. 2 (in progress)
*Mendelson, Cheryl. Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House (in progress)
*Paré, Alix, and Valérie Sueur-Hermel. The Fantastic Gustave Doré (in progress)
*Young, Marguerite. Miss MacIntosh, My Darling (reread/in progress)

Playlist, Week of 2025-03-02

 

Roscoe Mitchell's Solo [3] is becoming my favorite of his solo recordings (except for the original solo version of "Nonaah")... Solo [3] is one disc horn overdubs, one disc solo alto, and one disc percussion or solo sax... it is incredibly compelling... It's hard to get past some of the coy narration, but there are some musical gems scattered throughout A Drum Is a Woman, especially from Clark Terry... it's really too bad that no footage of the original televised show seems to exist... Such Sweet Thunder, on the other hand, is nothing but one magnificent gem of a masterpiece... The Dark Stars are getting interesting in a different way now that Tom Constanten has joined... he's certainly interesting, but his early shows are rough, and I am missing Pigpen on organ... I think that will change by the time we get to Live/Dead...

Playlist 2025-03-03:

*[Ahmed]: Giant Beauty (disc 1)
*All Set: All Set
*Art Ensemble of Chicago: Third Decade (side 2)
*Albert Ayler et al.: New York Eye and Ear Control (side 1)
*Beatles: Beatles for Sale (2009 mono remaster)
*Anthony Braxton with the Creative Jazz Orchestra: Composition No. 175, Composition No. 126 Trillium-Dialogues M (disc 1)
*Anthony Braxton + Duke Ellington: Concept Of Freedom (Dahinden/Kleeb/Polisoidis/Höldrich)
*Anthony Braxton/Italian Instabile Orchestra: Creative Orchestra (Bolzano) 2007 "Comp. 164 pt. 1"
*Rodger Coleman and Sam Byrd: 2022-11-26 Nashville (wav) track 1
*John Coltrane: Evenings at the Village Gate "Africa"
*Cream: Best of Cream (side 2)
*Miles Davis Quintet: Live in Europe 1967: The Bootleg Series Vol. 1 (disc 3)
*Nick Dunston: Atlantic Extraction
*Bob Dylan: The Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3 (disc 1)
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: The Treasury Shows, Vol. 11 (disc 1)
*Duke Ellington: Ellington at Newport 1956 (Complete) (discs 1, 2)
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: A Drum Is a Woman
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Such Sweet Thunder (sides 1, 2)
*Duke Ellington: Money Jungle
*Grateful Dead: 1969-01-24 San Francisco (CDR) "Dark Star"
*Grateful Dead: 1969-01-25 San Francisco (CDR) "Dark Star"
*Grateful Dead: 1972-04-11 Newcastle (CDR) "Truckin'"
*Mary Halvorson Quintet: Saturn Sings
*Earl Hines: Giants of Jazz (disc 2)
*Jefferson Pilot: Shadow Hobby
*Jimmie Lunceford: The Complete Jimmie Lunceford Decca Sessions (disc 3)
*Charles Mingus: Let My Children Hear Music (side 2)
*Roscoe Mitchell & the Note Factory: Song for My Sister
*Roscoe Mitchell: Solo [3] (disc 1)
*Paul Motian: Tribute (side 1)
*New Ting: 2025-02-24 "Advance Remorse for Bell of the Cow" (wav)
*Painkiller: Samsara
*Evan Parker ElectroAcoustic Septet: Seven "Seven-2"
*Zeena Parkins: Dam against the Spring Tide
*Pete "La Roca" Sims: Basra
*Nino Rota: 8 ½ (OST)
*Nino Rota: Fellini's Amarcord (side 1)
*Hazel Scott Trio: Relaxed Piano Moods
*Tyshawn Sorey: The Inner Spectrum of Variables (disc 2) "Movement V + VI + Reprise"
*Tyshawn Sorey Trio: The Susceptible Now
*Sparks: Exotic Creatures of the Deep (sides 3, 4)
*Sun Ra: Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow (side 2)
*Sun Ra and His Solar Arkestra: Secrets of the Sun (side 1)
*Sun Ra and His Astro Infinity Arkestra: Strange Strings (Expanded Edition) (side 1)
*Sun Ra and His Astro-Ihnfinity Arkestra: Sun Embassy (side 1)
*Sun Ra Arkestra: Live At Pit-Inn Tokyo, Japan, 8, 8, 1988 (side 1)
*Bettye Swann: The Money Recordings
*Tower of Power: 1974-12-31 Winterland, SF (CDR)
*Cecil Taylor Quintet: 1965-07-02 Newport (CDR)
*Various artists: Turn Me Loose White Man (disc 8)
*Various artists: Latin Rhythms in Hi Fi
*Various artists: Easy Rhythms for Your Cocktail Hour
*Various artists: Space Age Cocktail Lounge (disc 1)
*Various artists: Anthology of Noise and Electronic Music vol. 1: First a-chronology 1921-2001 (disc 2)
*Anna Webber: Shimmer Wince
*Anna Webber/Matt Mitchell: Capacious Aeration
*John Zorn/JACK Quartet: The Complete String Quartets (disc 2)

Reading List, Week of 2025-03-02

Reading List 2025-03-03:

*Williams, Tad. Stone of Farewell (started)
*Harkaway, Nick. Karla's Choice (finished)
*Lambert, Eddie. Duke Ellington: A Listener's Guide (reread/selections)
*Lowe, Allen. Turn Me Loose White Man, or, Appropriating Culture: How to Listen to American Music, 1900-1960, Vol. 2 (in progress)
*Mendelson, Cheryl. Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House (in progress)
*Paré, Alix, and Valérie Sueur-Hermel. The Fantastic Gustave Doré (in progress)
*Young, Marguerite. Miss MacIntosh, My Darling (reread/in progress)

Playlist, Week of 2025-02-23

It's instructive to think about the Duke Ellington/Charles Mingus/Max Roach trio LP Money Jungle in light of Relaxed Moods, the earlier Hazel Scott trio album from 1955. That album, included on the Mingus complete Debut recordings box set, has Mingus and Roach in a much more supporting role with pianist Hazel Scott... was she more compliant, or was Duke just more cantankerous?... I have always felt that Money Jungle was not able to overcome the apparent animosity and/or distractedness of its participants, making it a somewhat disappointing session, in spite of its deep beauty, and, well, players... but the Hazel Scott trio is quite nice, everyone cooperating and playing well together, but of course Hazel ain't Duke... well, who is?... still, she's really good, and this may be the more "successful" piano trio album, maybe because expectations aren't as high... For the most part, the two albums Duke Ellington recorded for Bethlehem in 1956 are way more interesting than anything he did in his short-lived stint with Capitol (with the exception of the piano trios)... for one thing, Paul Gonsalves doesn't solo nearly as much, or as gloriously, on anything for Capitol as he does on "Laura" from Duke Ellington Presents... for another, the Capitol sessions lack two key players, Johnny Hodges, who had just rejoined in time for the Bethlehem recordings, and Sam Woodyard, who makes his Ellington debut on the Bethlehem sessions... Woodyard was one of Ellington's greatest drummers, second in my mind only to Sonny Greer... Woodyard was a master of the shuffle, and his distinctive hard-driving swing helps define many of the Duke's later masterpieces... as Lambert puts it, "Woodyard was the last musician to come into the band who could make it sound different by his very presence" (p. 176)... 

Playlist 2025-02-24:

*Marshall Allen: New Dawn

*Beatles: Anthology 3 (disc 1) (selections)

*Blue Notes: Blue Notes for Mongezi (disc 1)

*Anthony Braxton: 3 Compositions of New Jazz (side 1)

*Anthony Braxton/Fred Simmons Trio: 9 Standards (Quartet) 1993 (disc 2)

*Circle: Gathering

*Clash: Combat Rock (sides 1, 2)

*Patsy Cline: The Patsy Cline Collection (disc 4)

*Rodger Coleman and Sam Byrd: 2009-07-23 Nashville (wav) track 3 "Moon Landing"

*John Coltrane: Coltrane (side 1)

*John Coltrane Quartet: Africa/Brass (side 1)

*Miles Davis Quintet: Workin’ with the Miles Davis Quintet (side 1)

*Miles Davis:  The Complete In a Silent Way Sessions (disc 1) "Two Faced"

*Death Ambient: Death Ambient

*Death Ambient: Synaesthesia

*Bob Dylan/Various artists: Theme Time Radio Hour S01 E21 "School"

*Bob Dylan/Various artists: Theme Time Radio Hour S01 E22 "Telephone"

*Duke Ellington: Giants of Jazz (sides 3, 4)

*Duke Ellington: Duke Ellington Presents Ivie Anderson (side 4)

*Duke Ellington: The Complete Capitol Recordings of Duke Ellington (disc 5)

*Duke Ellington: The Bethlehem Years, Vol. 1 (sides 1, 2)

*Duke Ellington: Duke Ellington Presents…

*Rosemary Clooney and Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Blue Rose

*Jimmy Ghaphery: Fife Studies and Songs about Birds

*Grateful Dead: 1968-11-01 Chico CA (CDR)

*Grateful Dead: 1968-11-22 Columbus OH (CDR)

*Grateful Dead: 1968-12-07 Louisville KY (CDR) "Dark Star"

*Grateful Dead: 1968-12-29 Hallandale, FL (CDR)

*Grateful Dead: 1969-01-17 Santa Barbara CA (CDR) "Dark Star"

*Grateful Dead: The Complete Fillmore West 1969 (disc 1) "That's It for the Other One"

*Mickey Hart & the Hartbeats: 1968-10-30? San Francisco (CDR) "Dark Star Jam"

*Earl Hines: Giants of Jazz (disc 1)

*William Hooker/Chrstian Marclay/Lee Ranaldo: Bouquet

*Keith Jarrett: Expectations (side 4)

*Janel Leppin: Ensemble Volcanic Ash

*Charles Mingus: The Complete Debut Recordings (discs 7, 8)

*Charles Mingus: Let My Children Hear Music (side 1)

*Matt Mitchell: Zealous Angles

*Roscoe Mitchell: One Head Four People

*New Ting: 2025-01-20 "Swipe the Not Enough of Too Much" (wav)

*New Ting: 2025-02-18 "Just Under the Ground"  (wav)

*Zeena Parkins/Chris Brown/William Winant/Ben Davis: Scree

*Tom Rainey Trio: Hotel Grief "Proud Achievements In Botany"

*Secret People: Secret People

*Tyshawn Sorey: The Inner Spectrum of Variables (disc 2) "Reverie"

*Tyshawn Sorey:  Verisimilitude "Algid November"

*Sparks: Indiscreet (side 1)

*Sun Ra: The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra (side 2)

*Sun Ra and His Solar Arkestra: Secrets of the Sun "Flight to Mars"

*Cecil Taylor: Student Studies "Amplitude"

*Cecil Taylor: Garden (disc 2) "Garden 1 > Stepping on Stars"

*Cecil Taylor Orchestra Humane: 2004-03-23 NYC (CDR) (disc 2)

*Lennie Tristano: The Complete Atlantic Recordings of Lennie Tristano, Lee Konitz, & Warne Marsh (discs 5, 6)

*Various artists: Turn Me Loose White Man (discs 5, 6, 7)

*John Zorn/JACK Quartet: The Complete String Quartets (disc 1)

Reading List, Week of 2025-02-23

Reading List 2025-02-24:

*Harkaway, Nick. Karla's Choice (started)
*Williams, Tad. The Dragonbone Chair (finished)
*Lambert, Eddie. Duke Ellington: A Listener's Guide (reread/selections)
*Lowe, Allen. Turn Me Loose White Man, or, Appropriating Culture: How to Listen to American Music, 1900-1960, Vol. 2 (in progress)
*Mendelson, Cheryl. Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House (in progress)
*Paré, Alix, and Valérie Sueur-Hermel. The Fantastic Gustave Doré (in progress)
*Young, Marguerite. Miss MacIntosh, My Darling (reread/in progress)

Playlist, Week of 2025-02-16

Kris Davis's rhythmic impulse and impeccable sense of timing is on full display on Rob Mazurek's Desert Encrypt Vol. 1... plus some of Mazurek's best playing... Two interesting things to note about the "Dark Star"-related jams by Mickey Hart & the Hartbeats in 1968: they are all effectively guitar-bass duets (whether it's Phil Lesh or Jack Casady on bass), and these jams are the first time, however sparingly, that someone (probably Bill Kreutzmann) plays full drum kit in the song... before, with the Dead, and with most of the Hartbeats versions, the percussion accompaniment up to this time was mostly shaker, gong, and guiro... A month's worth of new improvisations from New Ting here... it's good to be playing again... plus, a new solo release from Jimmy Ghaphery: Fife Studies...

Playlist 2025-02-17:

*Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin Concertos (Alina Ibragimova/BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra)
*Johann Christian Bach: Six Favorite Overtures (Christopher Hogwood/Academy of Ancient Music)
*Beatles: The Beatles' Second Album (mono 2024) (sides 1, 2)
*Beatles: Something New (mono 2024) (sides 1, 2)
*Black Host: Life in the Sugar Candle Mines
*Anthony Braxton: Composition 95 (For Two Pianos)
*Anthony Braxton: 2 Compositions (Ensemble) 1989/1991
*Anthony Braxton/Fred Simmons Trio: 9 Standards (Quartet) 1993 (disc 1)
*Patricia Brennan Septet: Breaking Stretch
*Dustin Carlson: Air Ceremony
*Patsy Cline: The Patsy Cline Collection (disc 3)
*John Coltrane: The Mastery of John Coltrane, Vol. IV: "Trane's Modes" (side 3)
*Miles Davis: 1969-05/06? Village Gate, NYC (CDR)
*Miles Davis: Black Beauty: Miles Davis at Fillmore West (side 2)
*J Dilla: Donuts
*Nick Dunston: Colla Voce
*Duke Ellington: 1949 NYC "The Tattooed Bride"
*Duke Ellington: The Complete Capitol Recordings of Duke Ellington (discs 2, 3, 4)
*Kate Gentile: Find Letter X (disc 1)
*George: Letters to George (side 2)
*Grateful Dead: 1968-09-02 Sultan WA (CDR) "Dark Star"
*Grateful Dead: 1968-10-12 San Francisco (CDR) "Dark Star > St. Stephen > The Eleven"
*Grateful Dead: 1968-10-13 San Francisco (CDR) "Dark Star"
*Grateful Dead: Sunshine Daydream (Veneta, Oregon 8/27/72) (disc 2) "Playing in the Band"
*Mary Halvorson: Cloudward
*Mickey Hart & the Hartbeats: 1968-10-08 San Francisco (CDR) "Dark Star"
*Mickey Hart & the Hartbeats: 1968-10-10 San Francisco (CDR) "Dark Star Jam"
*Mickey Hart & the Hartbeats: 1968-10-30 San Francisco (CDR) "Dark Star Jam"
*Henry Cow: In Praise of Learning (Cow Box Redux)
*Allen Lowe and the Constant Sorrow Orchestra: Louis Armstrong's America, Vol. 2 (disc 1)
*Rob Mazurek: Desert Encrypts Vol. 1
*Charles Mingus: The Complete Debut Recordings (discs 5, 6)
*Roscoe Mitchell/Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble: Three Compositions "Quintet #9 for Eleven"
*Ikue Mori: One Hundred Aspects of the Moon
*New Ting: 2025-02-10 "Farberware" (wav)
*Opeth: The Last Will and Testament
*Plymouth: Plymouth "Manomet"
*Matana Roberts: Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the Garden (sides 1, 2)
*Santana: Lotus (side 1)
*Devadip Carlos Santana/Turiya Alice Coltrane: Illuminations
*Soft Machine: Høvikodden 1971 (disc 2)
*Sun Ra: Saturn Research: Rarities and Oddities (CDR compilation) (disc 2)
*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: Music from Tomorrow's World
*Sun Ra: The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra (side 1)
*Sun Ra: Astro Black (side 2)
*Sun Ra: At the Showcase: Live in Chicago 1976-1977 (disc 1)
*Sun Ra: Lanquidity (45rpm version) (sides 1, 2)
*Joe Tex: From the Roots… …Came the Rapper
*McCoy Tyner/Joe Henderson: Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (disc 2)
*UYA: 1993-03-02 And the Fritos? Sure (wav)
*UYA: 1993-07-17 Dik-Plexiglass Ass 95 Remix (side A) (wav)
*Various artists: Turn Me Loose White Man (disc 4)
*Various artists: Hallucinations: Psychedelic Pop Nuggets from the WEA Vaults
*Weird of Mouth: Weird of Mouth
*Mary Lou Williams Trio: Free Spirits
*Tony Williams Lifetime: (Turn It Over) (side 1)
*Yes: Yesterdays (side 2) "America"
*Lester Young: The Aladdin Sessions (side 3)

Reading List, Week of 2025-02-16

Reading List 2025-02-17:

*Lowe, Allen. Turn Me Loose White Man, or, Appropriating Culture: How to Listen to American Music, 1900-1960, Vol. 2 (started)
*Paré, Alix, and Valérie Sueur-Hermel. The Fantastic Gustave Doré (started)
*Williams, Tad. The Dragonbone Chair (started)
*Ditko, Steve, and Stan Lee. The Amazing Spider-Man Masterworks, Vol. 1 (reread/started/finished)
*Lowe, Allen. Turn Me Loose White Man, or, Appropriating Culture: How to Listen to American Music, 1900-1960, Vol. 1 (finished)
*Lambert, Eddie. Duke Ellington: A Listener's Guide (reread/selections)
*Mendelson, Cheryl. Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House (in progress)
*Young, Marguerite. Miss MacIntosh, My Darling (reread/in progress)

Playlist, Week of 2025-02-09

 

So, I have embarked on a listening run though of every "Dark Star" I can get my hands on... they may not all show up in the playlist, but they're getting heard, and it's already fascinating how the band expanded the tune from its humble (and fast-paced) beginning on the single, exploding it from the inside out as sections grow and morph, and it gets longer and longer... I am not tired of Pigpen's organ riff yet, and of course the Jerry/Phil interplay is outstanding... I am also reworking my way through Eddie Lambert's excellent book Duke Ellington: A Listener's Guide and listening to more Duke, especially the later suites (while skipping over Jimmy Grissom)... Really been enjoying the new Allen Lowe sets... some fine piano playing, especially from Loren Schoenberg, plus avant-garde banjo!... RIP Mike Ratledge... so glad I got to see him with Soft Machine on the tour backing Jimi Hendrix...

Playlist 2025-02-10:

*[Ahmed]: Giant Beauty (disc 5)
*Art Ensemble: 1967/68 (disc 2) "Trio (Oh Susanna)"
*Blue Notes: Legacy: Live in South Afrika 1964
*Borderlands Trio: Asteroidea
*Anthony Braxton: Ninetet (Yoshi's) 1997, Vol. 4 (discs 1, 2)
*Peter Brötzmann Octet: The Complete Machine Gun Sessions "Machine Gun"
*James Brown: The CD of JB (Sex Machine & Other Soul Classics)
*Patsy Cline: The Patsy Cline Collection (disc 2)
*Miles Davis Quintet: Miles in France 1963 & 1964: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8 (discs 4, 5, 6)
*Duke Ellington: Ellington Uptown
*Duke Ellington: The Complete Capitol Recordings of Duke Ellington (disc 1)
*Duke Ellington: The Great Paris Concert (disc 2) "A Tone Parallel to Harlem (Harlem Suite)"
*Erroll Garner: Erroll Garner
*George: Letters to George (side 1)
*Grateful Dead: So Many Roads (1965–1995) (disc 1)
*Grateful Dead: Dark Star Comp 1 (1967-1969) (CDR compilation)
*Grateful Dead: 1968-01-20 Eureka CA (CDR)
*Grateful Dead: 1968-02-03 Portland OR (CDR)
*Grateful Dead: Road Trips Vol. 2 No. 2 (1968) (disc 1)
*Grateful Dead: 1968-03-29 San Francisco (CDR)
*Grateful Dead: 1968-08-22 San Francisco (CDR) "Dark Star > Cryptical Envelopment/The Other One"
*Grateful Dead: 1968-08-23 San Francisco (CDR) "Dark Star > St. Stephen > The Eleven"
*Grateful Dead: Dick's Jams (CDR) (disc 2)

*Grateful Dead: Road Trips Vol. 4 No. 3 (1973-12-06 Cleveland) (bonus disc) "Eyes of the World"
*Layers of Memory: 2019-12-07 RVA (wav)"Improvisation No. 4"
*Allen Lowe and the Constant Sorrow Orchestra: Louis Armstrong's America, Vol. 1 (disc 2)
*Charles Mingus: The Complete Debut Recordings (disc 4)
*Roscoe Mitchell: Songs in the Wind
*Roscoe Mitchell: 2012-03-10 London (CDR)
*New Ting: 2025-01-20 "Swipe the Not Enough of Too Much" (wav)
*New Ting: 2025-02-03 "Sound Immersion Plan" (wav)
*Ivo Perelman Quartet: Water Music
*Dudu Pukwana: Diamond Express (side 1)
*Soft Machine: Seven
*Tyshawn Sorey: Alloy "Movement"
*Cecil Taylor Orchestra of Two Continents: 1984-10-20 Rubigen, Switzerland (CDR) (disc 2)
*Cecil Taylor Feel Trio: Two Ts for a Lovely T (disc 5)
*Henry Threadgill: X-75 Vol. 1 (Expanded Version)
*Henry Threadgill's Zooid: Pop Start the Tape, StoP
*Henry Threadgill's Zooid: This Brings Us To, Volumes I & II (side 2)
*Lennie Tristano: The Complete Atlantic Recordings of Lennie Tristano, Lee Konitz, & Warne Marsh (discs 3, 4)
*UYA: 1993-02-23 G, J, and Q (wav)
*Various artists: Turn Me Loose White Man (disc 3)
*John Zorn/Brian Marsella Trio: Ballades

Reading List, Week of 2025-02-09

Reading List 2025-02-10:

*Lambert, Eddie. Duke Ellington: A Listener's Guide (reread/selections)
*Lowe, Allen. Turn Me Loose White Man, or, Appropriating Culture: How to Listen to American Music, 1900-1960, Vol. 1 (in progress)
*Mendelson, Cheryl. Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House (in progress)
*Young, Marguerite. Miss MacIntosh, My Darling (reread/in progress)