Brilliant solo guitar work from Alex Ward on The Trade... Ward is also one of the best writers on the work of Cecil Taylor... I wonder what he's making of the Iridium set, which continues to blow me away... Still digging into Pat Thomas... ISM is the piano trio nugget of Ahmed (minus the sax)... Metaphor is a healthy dose of Thomas's acoustic piano work, and it's exhilarating... Another great Thomas performance is on Tony Oxley's Angular Apron...
Playlist 2026-07-27:
*Muhal Richard Abrams: Lifea Blinec (side 1)
*Booker T. & the MGs: Union Extended
*Anthony Braxton: Anthony Braxton (BYG) "[Comp. 6G] B-X0 NO-47A"
*Anthony Braxton: Trillium R: Composition 162: An Opera in Four Acts/Shala Fears for the Poor (disc 2)
*Sonny Clark: Cool Struttin'
*Miles Davis: 1966-05-21 Portland OR (CDR) (disc 2)
*Miles Davis: Big Fun (sides 2, 4)
*Duke Ellington: Rare Strayhorn: Billy Strayhorn with Duke Ellington 1941-1965
*Duke Ellington: Soul Call
*Aretha Franklin: Aretha Arrives (side 2)
*Aretha Franklin: Young, Gifted, and Black (side 1)
*Grateful Dead: 1993-06-23 Deep Creek IN (CDR) "Dark Star"
*Grateful Dead: 1993-09-13 Philadelphia (CDR) "Dark Star"
*Grateful Dead: 1993-09-22 New York City (CDR) "Estimated Prophet > Dark Star"
*Guided By Voices: Crawlspace of the Pantheon
*Kip Hanrahan: 1991 Stuttgart (CDR)
*Henry Now: Then Again (side 1)
*Susie Ibarra: Flower after Flower
*ISM: Metaphor
*Lost: Lost Tapes 1965-'66
*Ava Mendoza: Alive Alone, Alive Together
*Merzbow: Tauromachine (disc 1)
*Charles Mingus Quintet: 1975-05-07 Boston (CDR)
*Thelonious Monk Quartet: Misterioso
*Naked City: Absinthe
*Naked City: Leng Tch'e
*Pauline Oliveros: Reverberations: Tape & Electronic Music 1961-1970 (disc 6)
*Orthotonics: Wake Up You Must Remember
*Tony Oxley Quintet: Angular Apron
*Bud Powell: The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 3: Bud!
*Soft Machine: Floating World Live
*Soojin Suh: Prism of Existence
*Sun Ra: East Two +5 (side 1)
*Sun Ra: Somewhere Over the Rainbow (Strut) (disc 1)
*Sun Ra: Sleeping Beauty (2026 remaster)
*Sun Ra: On Jupiter (2025 remaster)
*Sun Ra and His Omniverse Jet-Set Arkestra: 1980-12-31 Detroit (CDR) (disc 4)
*Cecil Taylor: Fragments: The Complete 1969 Salle Pleyel Concerts (disc 1)
*Cecil Taylor Orchestra Humane: At Iridium 2004 (disc 10)
*Pat Thomas & XT: Strata, Act (Joy Contemporary)* (disc 3)
*Various artists: Masters of the Venetian Baroque: Gabrieli, Monteverdi, and Vivaldi
*Various artists: A Bolus of Pop Chyme/7-Inchers of Pleasure (cassette compilation) (side B)
*Alex Ward: The Trade
