Playlist, Week of 2025-06-01

 Well, I was way off base on Duke Ellington's "The Queen's Suite"... I wasn't taken with it at first, but after a few more listenings I can hear that it's beautiful, a masterful work of arranging and a unique combination of swing and mystery... Not much else to say this evening... if we were sitting somewhere pleasant, sharing a beer, I'm sure I'd have plenty to say about everything I've listened to this week... but when it comes to adding something in writing, I tend to freeze up... maybe it's the physicality of typing... 

Playlist 2025-06-02:

*[Ahmed]: Giant Beauty (disc 3)

*Air: Air Lore (side 2)

*Marshall Allen: 2009-07-06 London (CDR)

*Marshall Allen: New Dawn

*Marshall Allen's Ghost Horizons: Live in Philadelphia

*Jeff Beck Group: 1972-06-29 London (CDR)

*Dave Burrell: High Won - High Two (side 2)

*Nels Cline: Consentrik Quartet

*Deerhoof: Noble and Godlike in Ruin

*Paul Dunmall/Matthew Shipp/Joe Morris/Gerald Cleaver: The Bright Awakening

*Bob Dylan/Various artists: Theme Time Radio Hour S01 E39 "Tears"

*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: The Ellington Suites "The Queen's Suite"

*Duke Ellington: The Girl's Suite/The Perfume Suite (side 1)

*Duke Ellington: Anatomy of a Murder

*Duke Ellington: All American in Jazz

*Duke Ellington: Midnight in Paris

*Duke Ellington: Live at the Berlin Jazz Festival 1969-1973

*Grateful Dead: 1969-08-21 Seattle (CDR) "Dark Star"

*Grateful Dead: 1969-08-23 St. Helens, OR (CDR) "Dark Star"

*Grateful Dead: Dick's Picks 4 (1970-02-13 Fillmore East) (disc 2) "That's It for the Other One"

*Mickey Hart & the Hartbeats: 1969-08-28 (CDR) "Dark Star Jam"

*Andrew Hill Sextet Plus 10: A Beautiful Day, Revisited (disc 1)

*Charles Mingus: Rarities 1946-1977 (discs 1, 2)

*Ikue Mori: Myrninerest

*Ikue Mori: Of Ghosts and Goblins

*Office Ladies: Malcolm Knew (disc 2)

*Annette Peacock: An Acrobat's Heart

*Phantom Orchard: Hit Parade of Tears

*Tom Rainey Trio: 2016-07-01 NYC (CDR) track 3

*Smokey Robinson & the Miracles: Ooo Baby: The Anthology (disc 2)

*Ravi Shankar: Master of Sitar

*Sparks: MAD! (sides 1, 2)

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

*Sun Ra and His Inter-Galactic Research Arkestra: Nuits de la Fondation Maeght (sides 9, 10, 11, 12)

*Sun Ra and His Intergalactic Research Arkestra: Paradiso Amsterdam 1970 (side 3)

*Sun Ra and His Intergalactic Solar Arkestra: Space Is the Place: Music from the Original Soundtrack (disc 2)

*UYA: 1993-11-03 Kiss Your Meatshop, Swami (wav)

*Muddy Waters: The Anthology (disc 1)

*Anna Webber: Third Floor People

*John Zorn/Brian Marsella Trio: Ou Phrontis