Playlist, Week of 2024-09-01

Found a nice used copy of Pete La Roca Sims' LP Turkish Women at the Bath (in the version released under Chick Corea's name, Bliss!), featuring some choice John Gilmore... always interesting to hear Gilmore in a non-Sun Ra context, although I still maintain that he did his best work with Ra... Someday I'll compile a list of favorite non-Ra Gilmore solos to go along with my other Gilmore list... 

Playlist 2024-09-09:

*Tim Berne's Snakeoil: Shadow Man "OC/DC"
*Anthony Braxton: Quartet (New Haven) 2014 (disc 1)
*James Brown: Star Time (disc 2)
*Claypool Lennon Delirium: Monolith of Phobos
*Coxhill Sinclair Band: 1975-11-21 Reims, France (CDR)
*Miles Davis: The Prestige 10-Inch LP Collection, Vol. 2 (LP 4: side 1)
*Miles Davis: Chronicle: The Complete Prestige Recordings 1951–1956 (disc 4)
*Miles Davis: Collector's Items (side 4)
*Miles Davis: Kind of Blue (side 1)
*Miles Davis Quintet: Miles Smiles
*Digital Underground: Sex Packets
*Bob Dylan: Live 1964: Concert At Philharmonic Hall (disc 1)
*Duke Ellington: All Star Road Band
*Grateful Dead: 1991-06-17 East Rutherford NJ (CDR) (discs 2, 3)
*Jimi Hendrix Experience: Axis: Bold as Love (side 2)
*Jazz Composer's Orchestra: The Jazz Composer's Orchestra
*Mars Volta: The Bedlam In Goliath
*Roscoe Mitchell: Conversations
*Roscoe Mitchell/Montreal-Toronto Art Orchestra: Ride the Wind
*New Ting: 2019-10-07 "We All Answered" (wav)
*Sean O'Hagan: Radum Calls, Radum Calls
*Elvis Presley: The Complete Elvis Presley Masters (disc 3)
*Prince: 1982-03-08 First Avenue, Minneapolis (CDR)
*Rascals: Once Upon a Dream
*Rascals: Freedom Suite
*Pete La Roca Sims: Turkish Women at the Bath (sides 1, 2)
* 夢遊病者 [Sleepwalker]: 5772
* 夢遊病者 [Sleepwalker]: Skopofoboexoskelett
*Tyshawn Sorey: Unfiltered (disc 2)
*Sun Ra and His Myth Science Arkestra: When Sun Comes Out (side 1)
*Sun Ra: Astro Black (side 2)
*Cecil Taylor: Unit Structures (side 2)
*Cecil Taylor: Student Studies
*Cecil Taylor: Cecil Taylor Unit (side 1)
*Lennie Tristano: Personal Recordings 1946-1970 (disc 2)
*McCoy Tyner: The Real McCoy (side 2)
*Alex Ward: Gated
*John Zorn/Simulacrum: Simulacrum
*John Zorn: The Painted Bird

Reading List, Week of 2024-09-01

Reading List 2024-09-02:

*Sax, David. The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter (started)
*Shakespeare, William. Julius Caesar (Arden 3rd ed., ed. David Daniell) (reread/started)
*Jost, Ekkehard. "Instant Composing as Body Language: Towards an Understanding of Cecil Taylor's Music of the Last Twenty Years," in Cecil Taylor in Berlin '88 (reread/started/finished)
*Shakespeare, William. Julius Caesar (Arden 2nd ed., ed. T.S. Dorsch) (reread/finished)
*Yudkin, Jeremy. Miles Davis, Miles Smiles, and the Invention of Post Bop (started/finished)
*Mendelson, Cheryl. Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House (in progress)
*Young, Marguerite. Miss MacIntosh, My Darling (in progress)

Playlist, Week of 2024-09-02

There's something about hot weather and driving that makes me want to listen to funk... lots of it... in this case, hours and hours of Prince...  been driving a lot, and it's hot as hell outside these days, so... 

Playlist 2024-09-02:

*John Carter: Dance of the Love Ghosts
*John Carter: Fields
*Grateful Dead: 1975-03-23 San Francisco (CDR)
*Grateful Dead: 1991-06-16 East Rutherford NJ (CDR) (discs 1, 2, 3)
*Grateful Dead: 1991-06-17 East Rutherford NJ (CDR) (disc 1)
*Mary Halvorson Trio: 2009-12-14 London (CDR)
*Billy Hart: Enchance (side 2)
*New Ting: 2024-08-27 Richmond VA "Dated a Rockefeller: Live at Scuffletown" (wav)
*OOIOO: Feather Float
*OOIOO: Kila Kila Kila
*OOIOO: EYヨ Remix
*Plymouth: Plymouth "Standish"
*Prince: random Magic Jukebox selections
*Prince: Rave In2 the Joy Fantastic
*Matana Roberts: Coin Coin Chapter One: Les Gens de Couleur Libres
*Matana Roberts: Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis
*Wayne Shorter: Creation
*Spontaneous Music Ensemble: Low Profile
*Sun Ra and His Myth Science Arkestra: Fate in a Pleasant Mood
*Sun Ra: Jazz by Sun Ra, Vol. 1 [Sun Song]
*Sun Ra and His Myth Science Arkestra: When Angels Speak of Love "Next Stop Mars"
*Sun Ra: Excelsior Mill
*Sun Ra: Inside the Light World: Sun Ra Meets the OVC (side 3)
*Sun Ra: Pink Elephants on Parade
*Cecil Taylor: The Complete Candid Recordings of Cecil Taylor and Buell Neidlinger (disc 1)
*Cecil Taylor: Live in Bologna (side 3)
*Cecil Taylor Orchestra Humane (Ubuntu): 2004-03-28 (CDR) (disc 1)
*Various artists: That Devilin' Tune (Vol. I, disc 2)

Reading List, Week of 2024-09-01

Reading List 2024-09-02:

*Dylan, Bob. Chronicles, Vol. 1 (finished)
*Mendelson, Cheryl. Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House (in progress)
*Shakespeare, William. Julius Caesar (Arden 2nd ed., ed. T.S. Dorsch) (reread/in progress)
*Young, Marguerite. Miss MacIntosh, My Darling (in progress)

 

Playlist, Week of 2024-08-25

Primo Gilmore on Taking a Chance on Chances, especially side 2... I was a little disappointed when Prophet first came out, but I have to say it's growing on me... There's not enough large-ensemble Cecil Taylor in the world... Anyway, this week, it was mostly Sun Ra, Cecil, and Prince... 

Playlist 2024-08-28:

*Area: Maledetti (Maudits) (sides 1, 2)
*Borderlands Trio: Rewilder (disc 1)
*John Carter Octet: Dauwhe
*John Carter: Castles of Ghana
*Grateful Dead: 1973-03-26 Baltimore (CDR) "Truckin'"
*Mary Halvorson: 2009-06-28 NYC (CDR)
*Billy Hart: Enchance (side 1)
*Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra: Galactic Parables: Vol. 1 (disc 2)
*New Ting: 2024-08-19 Richmond VA (wav)
*Prince: 1981-12-20 Houston (CDR)
*Prince: 2009-07-18 Montreux Jazz Festival (CDR) (disc 2)
*Prince: Small Club Jams (CDR compilation)
*Ravi Shankar: The Sounds of India
*Matthew Shipp Trio: The Trio Plays Ware
*Sun Ra and His Blue Universe Arkestra: Universe in Blue
*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: Taking a Chance on Chances
*Sun Ra: Of Mythic Worlds
*Sun Ra: Ra to the Rescue
*Sun Ra Arkestra: 1986-02-06 Toronto (CDR) (disc 4)
*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: Prophet
*Sun Ra Arkestra: 1986-10-11 Washington DC (CDR) (discs 1, 2, 3)
*Horace Tapscott: The Dark Tree 1 & 2 (disc 2)
*Cecil Taylor: 1983-07-27 Genoa (wav)
*Cecil Taylor/Music from Two Continents: 1984-10-27 Belfort, France (wav)
*Cecil Taylor and the Sound Vision Orchestra: 2002-06-21 Knitting Factory NYC (CDR) (disc 3)
*Cecil Taylor/Tony Oxley: 2003-11-07 Berlin (wav)
*Cecil Taylor/Tony Oxley: 2008-02-24 Vienna (CDR) (discs 1, 2)
*Henry Threadgill Zooid: Poof

Reading List, Week of 2024-08-25

Reading List 2024-08-28:

*Dylan, Bob. Chronicles, Vol. 1 (started)
*Shakespeare, William. Julius Caesar (Arden 2nd ed., ed. T.S. Dorsch) (reread/started)
*Lovecraft, H.P. "The Colour out of Space" (started/finished)
*Freeman, Philip. In the Brewing Luminous: The Life and Music of Cecil Taylor (finished)
*Mendelson, Cheryl. Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House (in progress)
*Young, Marguerite. Miss MacIntosh, My Darling (in progress)

 

Playlist, Week of 2024-08-18

Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra, Sparks... lots of good tunes out there! Hope you're listening...

Playlist 2024-08-19:

*Horacee Arnold: Tales of the Exonerated Flea
*Anthony Braxton: Orchestra (Pisa) 1980 "Comp. 46"
*John Carter: Shadows on a Wall
*Miles Davis: 1969-07-27 New Brunswick NJ (CDR)
*Miles Davis: Bitches Brew Live
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: The Treasury Shows, Vol. 8 (disc 2)
*Forebrace: Steeped
*Grateful Dead: Dick's Picks 4 (1970-02-13 Fillmore East) "Dark Star"
*Mary Halvorson Trio: Dragon's Head
*Mary Halvorson: 2009-02-13 NYC (CDR)
*Joseph Jarman: As If It Were the Seasons "As If It Were the Seasons/Song to Make the Sun Come Up"
*Prince: The Chocolate Invasion
*Matana Roberts: Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile
*Matana Roberts: Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the Garden (sides 3, 4)
*Tyshawn Sorey: Unfiltered (disc 1)
*Sparks: Kimono My House
*Sparks: Indiscreet
*Sparks: Whomp That Sucker
*Sparks: Hello Young Lovers
*Sparks: Hippopotamus
*Sun Ra and His Solar Arkestra: Visits Planet Earth
*Sun Ra: Bandcamp Tracks (CDR compilation) (disc 1)
*Sun Ra and His Mythic Science Arkestra: The Paris Tapes: Live at Le Théâtre du Châtelet 1971 (disc 2)
*Sun Ra Arkestra: 1986-02-06 Toronto (CDR) (discs 1, 2, 3)
*Sun Ra: Inside the Light World: Sun Ra Meets the OVC (side 4)
*Cecil Taylor: Love for Sale
*Cecil Taylor: The Complete Candid Recordings of Cecil Taylor and Buell Neidlinger (discs 2, 3, 4)
*Cecil Taylor Unit: 1966-10-16 Stuttgart (CDR) (discs 1, 2)
*Cecil Taylor: Calling It the Eighth (side 1)