Playlist, Week of 2025-01-12

Any doubts about the monumental greatness of Joe Henderson should be dispelled once and for all by this great release of a 1966 Slug's show with McCoy Tyner... Henderson is simply incredible, and Jack DeJohnette is right behind him every step of the way, playing more like Elvin Jones than I've ever heard him before.. 

Playlist 2025-01-13:

*Muhal Richard Abrams: FamilyTalk
*AMM III: It Had Been an Ordinary Enough Day in Pueblo, Colorado "Radio Activity"
*Average White Band: Average White Band
*Johann Sebastian Bach: Concertos for Piano And Orchestra Nos. 1–5 & 7 (Gould/Bernstein) (disc 2)
*Anthony Braxton Saxophone Quartet: Sax QT (Lorraine) 2022 (disc 2)
*Patricia Brennan Septet: Breaking Stretch
*Stephan Crump: Slow Water
*Kris Davis: Massive Threads
*Miles Davis: Black Beauty: Miles Davis at Fillmore West (side 1)
*Miles Davis: The Cellar Door Sessions 1970 (disc 1)
*Miles Davis: The Complete On the Corner Sessions (disc 2)
*Miles Davis: Agharta (disc 2)
*Miles Davis: Pangaea (sides 1, 2, 3, 4)
*Duke Ellington: The Complete Capitol Recordings of Duke Ellington (disc 2)
*Duke Ellington: The Afro-Eurasian Eclipse
*Gentle Giant: Octopus
*Gentle Giant: The Power and the Glory
*Mary Halvorson's Code Girl: Artlessly Falling
*Herbie Hancock: Mwandishi: The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings (disc 2)
*Dave Holland New Quartet: 2024-09-14 Santa Fe (CDR) (disc 2)
*Bobby Hutcherson: Classic Bobby Hutcherson Blue Note Sessions 1963-1970 (disc 4)
*Jefferson Pilot: Recordeo
*Korekyojinn: Isotope
*Allen Lowe and the Constant Sorrow Orchestra: Louis Armstrong's America, Vol. 1 (discs 1, 2)
*Jimmie Lunceford: The Complete Jimmie Lunceford Decca Sessions (disc 1)
*Massacre: Meltdown
*Rob Mazurek/Exploding Star Orchestra: Live at the Adler Planetarium
*Jackie McLean: Consequence
*Roscoe Mitchell: More Cutouts
*Roscoe Mitchell/Brus Trio: After Fallen Leaves
*Roscoe Mitchell and the Note Factory: The Bad Guys
*Thelonious Monk: Solo Monk
*Ikue Mori: Hex Kitchen
*Ikue Mori: Class Insecta
*Opeth: The Last Will and Testament
*Rascals: The Island of Real
*Matthew Shipp Trio: New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz
*Tyshawn Sorey Trio: The Susceptible Now
*Bruce Springsteen: The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle
*Sun Ra: Singles: The Definitive 45s Collection 1952-1991 (discs 2, 3)
*Sun Ra and His Solar Arkestra: Other Planes of There (sides 1, 2)
*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: Thunder of the Gods (side 2)
*Cecil Taylor: Garden (disc 2)
*Cecil Taylor Orchestra Humane (Ubuntu): 2005-12-18 (CDR) (disc 1)
*McCoy Tyner/Joe Henderson: Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (disc 2)
*UYA: 1993-02-19 Funk Don't Shop at Sears (wav)
*UYA: 1993-02-21 Butter Unit 5 (wav)
*Various artists: Ra/Trane (cassette compilation) (sides A, B)
*Various artists: Turtle Humperdink Tender Load (cassette compilation) (side A)
*Hank Williams: The Original Singles Collection Plus (disc 1)
*Xtatika: Tongue Bath
*Lester Young: The Aladdin Sessions (side 2)
*John Zorn: Heaven and Earth Magick

Reading List, Week of 2025-01-12

Reading List 2024-01-13:

*Dunn, Daisy. Catullus' Bedspread: The Life of Rome's Most Erotic Poet (started)

*Porter, Jane. The Scottish Chiefs (started)

*Harrow, Alix E. Starling House (started/finished)

*Dylan, Bob. The Philosophy of Modern Song (finished)

*Harrow, Alix E. The Once and Future Witches (finished)

*Mendelson, Cheryl. Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House (in progress)

*Young, Marguerite. Miss MacIntosh, My Darling (reread/in progress)

 

Easy to Accept

The radio was on from beyond a wall and the sound was coming in through static. The Beatles were singing, "Do You Want to Know a Secret." They were so easy to accept, so solid. (Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Vol. 1, Simon & Schuster 2004, p. 204)

 

Dylan on Cecil Taylor

Of course I shouldn't have been surprised, but still it was nice to see...

It was mostly a jazz coffeehouse where Cecil Taylor played a lot. I played there with Cecil once. We played "The Water Is Wide," the old folk song. Cecil could play regular piano if he wanted to. (Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Vol. 1, Simon & Schuster 2004, p. 74)

 

Playlist, Week of 2025-01-05

Had a nice listening session last night, starting off with Hatfield and the North's first album, with Geoff Leigh's sax work on "Rifferama" leading me to Henry Cow's first record, and from both of them, back to Zappa's Uncle Meat... you can make a direct connection between "Son of 'There's No Place Like Homerton'" and "The Legend of the Golden Arches"...

Playlist 2025-01-06:

*B-52s: Cosmic Thing

*Johann Sebastian Bach: Concertos for Piano And Orchestra Nos. 1–5 & 7 (Gould/Bernstein) (disc 1)

*Beatles: The Early Beatles (mono 2024) (sides 1, 2)

*Beatles: The Beatles' Second Album (mono 2024) (sides 1, 2)

*Beatles: Something New (mono 2024) (sides 1, 2)

*Blood Incantation: Absolute Elsewhere

*Borderlands Trio: Rewilder (disc 2)

*Anthony Braxton with the Creative Jazz Orchestra: Composition No. 175, Composition No. 126 Trillium-Dialogues M (disc 1)

*Clash: London Calling

*Rosemary Clooney and Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Blue Rose

*Rodger Coleman and Sam Byrd: 2015-05-14 Nashville (wav) track 3

*Marilyn Crispell: Live at Mills College, 1995

*Miles Davis Quintet: Live in Europe 1967: The Bootleg Series Vol. 1 (disc 1)

*Miles Davis: The Cellar Door Sessions 1970 (disc 4) "Inamorata"

*Bob Dylan: Biograph (disc 3)

*Bob Dylan/Various artists: Theme Time Radio Hour S01 E17 "Friends and Neighbours"

*Duke Ellington: The Great Ellington Units

*Duke Ellington: All American in Jazz

*Farmers By Nature: Out of This World's Distortions

*Grateful Dead: Hundred Year Hall (1972-04-26 Frankfurt) (disc 2) "The Other One"

*Grateful Dead: Road Trips Vol. 4 No. 3 (1973-12-06 Cleveland) (bonus disc) "Dark Star"

*Milford Graves: Stories

*Mary Halvorson: Code Girl (disc 2)

*Herbie Hancock: The Prisoner

*Hatfield and the North: Hatfield and the North (side 1)

*Henry Cow: Leg End (Cow Box Redux)

*Billie Holiday: The Legacy (1933-1958) (disc 2)

*Bobby Hutcherson: Classic Bobby Hutcherson Blue Note Sessions 1963-1970 (discs 2, 3)

*Ravi Shankar: India's Master Musician "Morning Raag"

*Matt Mitchell: Vista Accumulation (disc 2)

*Matt Mitchell/Kate Gentile: Snark Horse (disc 1)

*OOIOO: Kila Kila Kila

*Tony Oxley/Derek Bailey: The Advocate

*Annette Peacock: 4 Emilia-Romagna W/LV

*Pere Ubu: Live at the Longhorn April 1, 1978 (sides 1, 2)

*Polyorchard: Ink (disc 1)

*Rascals: Peaceful World

*Elliott Sharp/Sally Gates/Tashi Dorji: Ere Guitar

*Tyshawn Sorey Trio: The Susceptible Now

*Sparks: Terminal Jive (sides 1, 2)

*Sun Ra: Kingdom of Discipline (side 2)

*Sun Ra: Lights on a Satellite: Live at the Left Bank (sides 2, 3, 4)

*Sun Ra Arkestra: Live At Pit-Inn Tokyo, Japan, 8, 8, 1988 (side 2)

*Cecil Taylor: The World of Cecil Taylor

*Cecil Taylor: Air

*Cecil Taylor: Garden (disc 1)

*McCoy Tyner/Joe Henderson: Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (disc 1)

*UYA: 1993-02-09 Water Damage (wav)

*Webber/Morris Big Band: Both Are True

*Frank Zappa: Uncle Meat (disc 1)

*John Zorn/Chaos Magick: 444

Reading List, Week of 2025-01-05

I thought I had done with Miss MacIntosh , My Darling for a while, but then I found out about this reading group, and damn if I haven't started it again... 

Reading List 2024-01-06:

*Harrow, Alix E. The Once and Future Witches (started)
*Young, Marguerite. Miss MacIntosh, My Darling (reread/started)
*Robey, Tim. Box Office Poison: Hollywood's Story in a Century of Flops (finished)
*Shakespeare, William. Macbeth (Arden 3rd ed., ed. Sandra Clark, Pamela Mason) (reread/finished)
*Dylan, Bob. The Philosophy of Modern Song (in progress)
*Mendelson, Cheryl. Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House (in progress)

Playlist, Week of 2024-12-29

Tingen and Chambers both rate Pangaea lower than Agharta, but I have to disagree... Agharta may be more energetic overall, but side 1 of Pangaea is as fierce as anything from the afternoon show, and Pete Cosey's solo spots are outstanding... the closest thing we'll ever get to guess at what Jimi Hendrix might have sounded like with Miles... but Cosey is more than just a Hendrix stand-in... he bends sound and incorporates atonal "noise" elements in ways that Hendrix touched on but didn't immerse himself in... not like this... With both Run the Gauntlet and her work with David Holland, Kris Davis is on fire these days... there's always been a strong rhythmic element to her playing that really comes to the fore on Gauntlet... I miss, a bit, the more abstract leanings of some of her earlier work, but I love what she's doing here... well, there's always the Borderlands Trio... would love to hear a return of Paradoxical Frog... 

Playlist 2024-12-30:

*Art Ensemble of Chicago: Urban Bushmen (side 4)
*Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concertos 1–6 (English Chamber Orchestra/B. Britten) (disc 1)
*Beatles: Meet the Beatles! (mono 2024)
*Beatles: Something New (mono 2024) (side 1)
*Beatles: Happy Christmas Beatle People! (The Christmas Records) (side 4)
*Al Bowlly: Greatest Hits
*Anthony Braxton: Willisau (Quartet) 1991 (disc 2) "No. 23C + 32 + 105B (+ 30)"
*Peter Brötzmann/Fred Hopkins/Rashied Ali: Songlines
*Kris Davis Trio: Run the Gauntlet
*Miles Davis: The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings of the Miles Davis Quintet 1965-1968 (disc 6)
*Miles Davis: Pangaea (side 1)
*Bob Dylan/Various artists: Theme Time Radio Hour S01 E15 "Eyes"

*Bob Dylan/Various artists: Theme Time Radio Hour S01 E16 "Dogs"
*Duke Ellington: Dance Date Air Force U.S.A. March 1958 (sides 1, 2)
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Jazz at the Plaza Vol. II (side 2)
*Duke Ellington: His Piano and His Orchestra at the Bal Masque
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Three Suites "The Nutcracker Suite"
*Bobby Hutcherson: Classic Bobby Hutcherson Blue Note Sessions 1963-1970 (disc 1)
*Korekyojinn: Isotope
*Matt Mitchell: Vista Accumulation (disc 1)
*Mozart: The Concertos for Piano & Orchestra (Murray Perahia/English Chamber Orchestra)
*Jon Rose/Mark Dresser: Band Width
*Tyshawn Sorey Trio: The Susceptible Now
*Sparks: Introducing Sparks (sides 1, 2)
*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: Thunder of the Gods (sides 1, 2)
*Sun Ra: Lights on a Satellite: Live at the Left Bank (side 1)
*Sun Ra Arkestra: Live At Pit-Inn Tokyo, Japan, 8, 8, 1988 (side 1)
*Sun Ra Arkestra under the Direction of Marshall Allen: Lights on a Satellite (sides 1, 2)
*Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker: Favorite Excerpts (London Symphony Orchestra)
*UYA: 1993-02-07: Cosmoplasm (side A) (wav)
*Various artists: Santa Swings
*Webber/Morris Big Band: Both Are True
*Brian Wilson: At My Piano