Playlist, Week of 2026-01-18

This week ended up being a Sun Ra week, mostly... riding this Sun Ra/ Duke Ellington/"Dark Star" wave... It's After the End of the World was the first Sun Ra LP I owned... in my tender twenties, I didn't know what to make of it then, but I held onto it until I did... now, it's a fine artifact, even though it's been supplanted by the way more complete two-disc set Black Myth/Out in Space... even so, some fine Moog work here, real paint-peeling stuff... keeping this massive body of work in my head requires constant revisiting and mental updating... do I want to hear Ellingtonian swing, warped hard bop, synthesizer wildness, or radical solo piano? I want to hear all of it... 

Playlist 2026-01-19:

*AMM III: It Had Been an Ordinary Enough Day in Pueblo, Colorado "Radio Activity"
*Art Ensemble of Chicago: 1980-02-23 New Haven (CDR) (disc 3)
*Anthony Braxton: 12 Comp (ZIM) 2017 (Comp. 412)
*Anthony Braxton: Trillium X (disc 6)
*Patsy Cline: Imagine That: The Lost Recordings 1954-1963 (disc 1)
*Duke Ellington: The Complete 1932-1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (discs 1, 2, 3, 4)
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: The Treasury Shows, Vol. 12 (disc 2)
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: The Ellington Suites
*Marcus Gilmore: Journey to the New
*Paul Gonsalves: Ellingtonia Moods and Blues
*Grateful Dead: 1972-09-24 Waterbury CT (CDR) (disc 3) "Dark Star"
*Grateful Dead: Dick's Picks 11 (1972-09-27 Jersey City, NJ) "Dark Star"
*Grateful Dead: 1977-03-20 Winterland, S.F. (CDR)
*Joe Henderson with the Wynton Kelly Trio: Four!
*Andrew Hill: Compulsion!!!!!
*Bobby Hutcherson: Happenings
*I.P.Y.: IPY25
*Rob Mazurek/Exploding Star Orchestra: Galactic Parables: Vol. 1 (disc 1) "Make Way to the City/The Arc of Slavery #72 (Part 1)
*Lee Morgan: The Gigolo
*Muffins: Baker's Dozen (disc 6)
*Camila Nebbia featuring Marilyn Crispell & Lesley Mok: A Reflection Distorts over Water
*New Ting: 2026-01-12 "Seriously?" (wav)
*Linda May Han Oh: Strange Heavens
*Keith Rowe/John Tilbury: Duos for Doris (disc 2)
*Sparks: MAD! (sides 1, 2)
*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: Supersonic Jazz (21st Century Expanded Ed.) (sides 1, 2)
*Sun Ra: Jazz by Sun Ra, Vol. 1 [Sun Song]
*Sun Ra: Sound of Joy
*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: Jazz in Silhouette (Expanded Edition) (side 2)
*Sun Ra and His Solar Arkestra: Secrets of the Sun
*Sun Ra: Space Probe
*Sun Ra: Heliocentric Worlds Vol. 3: The Lost Tapes
*Sun Ra And His Intergalactic Research Arkestra: It's After the End of the World: Live at the Donaueschingen and Berlin Festivals
*Sun Ra & His Arkestra: The Cymbals​/​Symbols Sessions (New York City 1973) (side 2)
*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: Live at Montreux (side 1)
*Sun Ra: Cosmos (side 2)
*Sun Ra: Piano Recital, Teatro La Fenice, Venezia
*Sun Ra: Purple Night
*Sun Ra Arkestra: Mayan Temples
*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: In the Orbit of Ra (side 4)
*UYA: 1994-07-10 Eruption Conniption (wav)
*Various artists: That Devilin' Tune: A Jazz History (1927-1934) (Vol. II, disc 4)
*Various artists: The Bottle Tapes: Selections from the Empty Bottle Jazz and Improvised Music Series 1996-2005 (disc 2)