Playlist, Week of 2024-10-13

Hot damn, the small group sessions of Duke Ellington from the '30s and '40s are jumpin', quirky, and divine... "Frolic Sam"... Delving into some Sun Ra rarities as well, several from only a mere ten years or so later... then things diverge... or do they?

Playlist 2024-10-14:

*Muhal Richard Abrams featuring Malachi Favors: Sightsong (side 1)

*[Ahmed]: Giant Beauty (discs 1, 2)

*Mose Allison: The Word from Mose

*Johann Sebastian Bach: The Sonatas and Partitas for Unaccompanied Violin (Sergio Luca) (disc 2)

*Ran Blake Quartet: Short Life of Barbara Monk

*Rodger Coleman and Sam Byrd: 2019-05-02/03 Nashville (rough mix wav) (disc 1)

*Rodger Coleman and Sam Byrd: 2022-11-26 Nashville (wav)

*Alice Coltrane: The Carnegie Hall Concert (discs 1, 2)

*D’Angelo and the Vanguard: Black Messiah (sides 1 ,2)

*Bob Dylan: Time Out of Mind

*Duke Ellington: The Complete 1936-1940 Variety, Vocalion, and Okeh Small Group Sessions (discs 1, 2, 4, 5)

*Duke Ellington: All American in Jazz

*Duke Ellington: Midnight in Paris

*Mary Halvorson Quintet: Saturn Sings

*Joe Henderson: The Milestone Years (disc 6)

*Susie Ibarra: Folkloriko

*Irreversible Entanglements: Irreversible Entanglements

*Vijay Iyer: Compassion

*Roscoe Mitchell: L-R-G/The Maze/S II Examples

*New Ting: 2024-10-07 "Attention Kemar Shoppers! (He's Bald But He Can Hear)" (wav)

*Charlie Parker: Live and Private Recordings in Chronological Order (disc 9)

*Polyorchard: Ink (disc 1)

*Residents: Fingerprince (pREServed Edition) (disc 1)

*Soft Machine: The Soft Machine

*Soft Machine: Volume Two

*Soft Machine: Spaced

*Soft Machine: Høvikodden 1971 (disc 1)

*Soft Machine: Six (side 1)

*Sun Ra: Saturn Research: Rarities and Oddities (CDR compilation) (discs 1, 2)

*Sun Ra: Black Utopia Excerpts (CDR compilation)

*Sun Ra: Excelsior Mill

*Cecil Taylor Orchestra of Two Continents: 1984-10-20 Rubigen, Switzerland (CDR) (disc 1)

*Henry Threadgill's Zooid: This Brings Us To, Volumes I & II (side 2)

*Lennie Tristano: Personal Recordings 1946-1970 (disc 4)

*Various artists: Tenor Sax Battle 1982-07-18 Den Haag (CDR)

*John Zorn/Simulacrum: Spinoza

*John Zorn/Chaos Magick: Chaos Magick

Reading List, Week of 2024-10-13

Reading List 2024-10-14:

*Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker, ed. Robert Mankoff (started)
*Willis, Ellen. Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music (started)
*Granville-Barker, Harley. Prefaces to Shakespeare, Vol. II (started/finished)
*Smith, Ming. Ming Smith: An Aperture Monograph (finished)
*Mendelson, Cheryl. Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House (in progress)
*Shakespeare, William. Julius Caesar (Arden 3rd ed., ed. David Daniell) (reread/in progress)
*Young, Marguerite. Miss MacIntosh, My Darling (in progress)

Playlist, Week of 2024-10-06

A beautifully relaxing solo guitar album from Henry Kaiser... Tyshawn Sorey's drumming on Vijay Iyer's Compassion is outstanding... primo piano trio stuff!... nice to hear a Stevie Wonder cover in this context... Every time I delve into Two T's for a Lovely T I am astounded by the rich interplay and vitality of all three players... Such Sweet Thunder is still floating my boat... It's fun listening to Bud Powell through a Cecil Taylor lens... I plan on doing the same with Horace Silver... Of course, Cecil is drenched with Duke Ellington...

Playlist 2024-10-07:

*[Ahmed]: Giant Beauty (discs 4, 5)

*Art Ensemble: 1967/68 (disc 2) "Trio (Oh Susanna)"

*Johann Sebastian Bach: The Sonatas and Partitas for Unaccompanied Violin (Sergio Luca) (disc 1)

*Beatles: Hard Day's Night (2009 stereo remaster) (sides 1, 2)

*Beatles: 1962-1966 (2023 Edition) (side 5)

*Beyonce: Lemonade

*Peter Brötzmann Octet: The Complete Machine Gun Sessions "Machine Gun"

*Sonny Clark: The Complete Sonny Clark Blue Note Sessions (disc 2)

*Stephan Crump: Slow Water

*Bill Dixon: Bill Dixon in Italy, Vol. 1 (sides 1, 2)

*Dave Douglas: Spirit Moves

*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Such Sweet Thunder (side 1)

*Duke Ellington: The Far East Suite (sides 1, 2)

*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Featuring Paul Gonsalves (side 1)

*Joseph Haydn: Complete Symphonies, Vol. 3: Nos. 82, 88, 95 (Heidelberger Sinfoniker)

*Henry Cow: Glastonbury and Elsewhere

*Freddie Hubbard: Hub Cap

*Vijay Iyer: Compassion

*Henry Kaiser: Everything Forever

*Layers of Memory: 2019-12-07 RVA (wav)"Improvisation No. 4"

*Rob Mazurek/Exploding Star Orchestra Featuring Roscoe Mitchell: Matter Anti-Matter (disc 1)

*Roscoe Mitchell: Duets with Tyshawn Sorey and Special Guest Hugh Ragin

*Roscoe Mitchell: Not Yet: Six Compositions

*New Ting: 2024-08-27 Richmond VA "Dated a Rockefeller: Live at Scuffletown" (wav)

*New Ting: 2024-09-30 "It's Raining, Understood" (wav)

*Charlie Parker: Live and Private Recordings in Chronological Order (discs 6, 7, 8)

*Polyorchard: Ink (disc 2)

*Bud Powell: The Genius of Bud Powell (side 1)

*Tyshawn Sorey: Alloy "Movement"

*Tyshawn Sorey: The Off-Off Broadway Guide to Synergism (disc 2)

*Sparks: A Woofer in Tweeter's Clothing (sides 1, 2)

*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: Bad and Beautiful

*Sun Ra: Exotica (discs 1, 2)

*Sun Ra and His Astro-Infinity Arkestra: Continuation (side 1)

*Sun Ra: At the Showcase: Live in Chicago 1976-1977 (disc 1)

*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: 1989-08-11 Cambridge MA (CDR) (disc 3)

*Sun Ra Sextet: At the Village Vanguard

*Masayuki Takayanagi New Direction Unit: April Is the Cruellest Month

*Cecil Taylor Orchestra of Two Continents: 1984-10-20 Rubigen, Switzerland (CDR) (disc 2)

*Cecil Taylor Feel Trio: Two Ts for a Lovely T (disc 5)

*YoshimiOizumikiYoshiduO: To the Forest to Live a Truer Life

*John Zorn/Insurrection: Salem 1692

 

Reading List, Week of 2024-10-06

Another strong Malazan entry from Esslemont... several steps up from the last one...

Reading List 2024-10-07:

*Esslemont, Ian C. Forge of the High Mage (finished)
*Mendelson, Cheryl. Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House (in progress)
*Shakespeare, William. Julius Caesar (Arden 3rd ed., ed. David Daniell) (reread/in progress)
*Smith, Ming. Ming Smith: An Aperture Monograph (in progress)
*Young, Marguerite. Miss MacIntosh, My Darling (in progress)

 

Playlist, Week of 2024-09-28

Still catching up... Sun Ra and Duke Ellington are keeping me going...

Playlist 2024-09-30:

*[Ahmed]: Giant Beauty (disc 3)
*Jack DeJohnette/Made in Chicago: 2015-07-11 Rotterdam (CDR) "Chant"
*Bob Dylan: Another Side of Bob Dylan
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Such Sweet Thunder (sides 1, 2)
*Duke Ellington: Midnight in Paris
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Peer Gynt Suites Nos. 1 & 2/Suite Thursday
*Duke Ellington: His Piano and His Orchestra at the Bal Masque
*Duke Ellington: 1899-1974 (side 7)
*Grateful Dead: 1972-05-16 Luxembourg "The Other One"
*Kinks: The Journey: Part 1 (side 3)
*Janel Leppin: Ensemble Volcanic Ash
*New Ting: 2024-09-16 "Bone Technology" (wav)
*Charlie Parker: Live and Private Recordings in Chronological Order (disc 5)
*Polyorchard: Ink (disc 1)
*Wadada Leo Smith & Roscoe Mitchell Creative Orchestra: 1979-06-03 Moers "track 3"
*Sparks: Interior Design (sides 1, 2)
*Sparks: Exotic Creatures of the Deep (sides 1, 2)
*Sun Ra Arkestra: Kosmos in Blue: A John Gilmore Anthology, Vol. 1
*Sun Ra Arkestra: Blues at Midnight: A John Gilmore Anthology, Vol. 2
*Sun Ra: Acetate 1955 (CDR)
*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: Jazz in Silhouette (Expanded Edition) (side 2)
*Sun Ra: 5 Unreleased Tunes 1962-1965 (CDR compilation)
*Sun Ra and His Astro Infinity Arkestra: Holiday for Soul Dance
*Sun Ra: The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra (sides 1, 2)
*Sun Ra: Spaceways [Outer Spaceways Inc.]
*Sun Ra and His Intergalactic Infinity Arkestra: The Night of the Purple Moon (sides 1, 2)
*Cecil Taylor: Unit Structures
*Lennie Tristano: Personal Recordings 1946-1970 (disc 3)
*Yes: Tales from Topographic Oceans (2016 remaster) (disc 1)

Reading List, Week of 2024-09-29

Reading List 2024-09-30:

*Esslemont, Ian C. Forge of the High Mage (started)
*Sax, David. The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter (finished)
*Mendelson, Cheryl. Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House (in progress)
*Shakespeare, William. Julius Caesar (Arden 3rd ed., ed. David Daniell) (reread/in progress)
*Smith, Ming. Ming Smith: An Aperture Monograph (in progress)
*Young, Marguerite. Miss MacIntosh, My Darling (in progress)

 

Playlist, Week of 2024-09-24

Running a bit behind here... getting caught up... most of the John Zorn Simulacrum-related albums have relatively short tracks, but Baphomet is one long 40-minute-plus piece that goes all over the place... well, it cooks... Can Cladders is balm for the soul... 

Playlist 2024-09-25:

*[Ahmed]: Giant Beauty (disc 2)
*Louis Armstrong: The Complete Louis Armstrong Decca Sessions (1935-1946) (disc 3)
*Daniel Barbiero/Steve Hilmy: Take a Sound
*Gus Bodenheim: Slouching Towards Bodenheim (disc 1)
*Booker T & the MGs: Play the "Hip Hits"
*John Carter: Shadows on a Wall
*Pete Christlieb/Warne Marsh Quintet: Apogee
*George Clinton: R&B Skeletons in the Closet (side 1)
*George Clinton: Why Should I Dog U Out ? (12" maxi-single) (side 1)
*Rodger Coleman and Sam Byrd: 2010-07-30 Nashville "Track 5" (wav)
*Rodger Coleman and Sam Byrd: Aphelion
*Rodger Coleman and Sam Byrd: 2019-08-28 Nashville (rough mix wav)
*Rodger Coleman and Sam Byrd: 2019-11-25 Nashville (rough mix wav)
*Rodger Coleman and Sam Byrd: 2023-07-19 Nashville (wav)
*Bill Dixon: Bill Dixon in Italy, Vol. 1 (side 2)
*Bob Dylan: John Wesley Harding
*Duke Ellington: All American in Jazz
*Duke Ellington: All Star Road Band, Vol. 2
*Grateful Dead: Dark Star Comp 3 (1973, 1979, 1981) (CDR compilation)
*Mary Halvorson Quintet and Septet: 2011-10-14 NYC (CDR)
*Alexander Hawkins Trio: Carnival Celestial
*High Llamas: Can Cladders
*Bobby Hutcherson: Stick-Up!
*Janel Leppin: Ensemble Volcanic Ash: To March Is to Love
*Gianmarco Liguori: Duga-3
*Myra Melford's Fire and Water Quintet: 2024-03-23 Knoxville TN (CDR)
*New Ting: 2024-09-09 "Taco Strip Limbo, or, Rock Around the Satellite Lounge" (wav)
*New Ting: 2024-09-16 "Bone Technology" (wav)
*Charlie Parker: Live and Private Recordings in Chronological Order (discs 1, 2, 3, 4)
*Rascals: See
*Rascals: Search and Nearness
*Tomeka Reid Quartet: 3+3
*Sparks: A Woofer in Tweeter's Clothing (sides 1, 2)
*Sparks: In Outer Space (sides 1, 2)
*Sun Ra and His Solar Arkestra: Other Planes of There (side 1)
*Young Rascals: Groovin'
*John Zorn/Simulacrum: Beyond Good and Evil
*John Zorn/Simulacrum: Baphomet