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