Playlist, Week of 2015-12-28

Playlist 2015-12-28:

*Charles Mingus: Tijuana Moods (Bluebird First Editions) (disc 1)
*Charles Mingus: East Coasting
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2015-10-19 “Plot Counter” (wav)
*Beach Boys: Ultimate Christmas
*Circulatory System: Mosaics Within Mosaics
*Deerhoof: La Isla Bonita
*Andy Partridge (CDR compilation)
*Phil Spector: A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector
*Various artists: The Spirit of Christmas Past

Reading List, Week of 2015-12-28

Reading List 2015-12-28:

*Vickers, Brian. Shakespeare, Co-Author: A Historical Study of the Five Collaborative Plays (started)
*Jones, William B., Jr. Classics Illustrated: A Cultural History (2nd ed.) (reread/in progress)
*Wallace, David Foster. Infinite Jest (reread/in progress)

Playlist, Week of 2015-12-20

What better way to get happy for the season than with one of the greatest live albums of all time, from the hardest working man in show business? Combine this with his incendiary set from the T.A.M.I. Show and you've got more than enough reasons to be jolly. Keep groovin', everyone, and have a great holiday!

Playlist 2015-12-21:

*Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker: Favorite Excerpts (London Symphony Orchestra)
*Anthony Braxton: 20 Standards (Quartet) 2003 (disc 4)
*Anthony Braxton: Piano Music (1968-2000)/Performed by Genevieve Foccroulle (disc 7)
*John Coltrane: On Stage 1962 Featuring Eric Dolphy
*John Coltrane: Live Trane: The European Tours (discs 1, 2)
*Vince Guaraldi Trio: A Charlie Brown Christmas
*Dave Holland: Prism
*Roscoe Mitchell Quartet: Live at “A Space” 1975
*Paradoxical Frog: Paradoxical Frog
*Tom Rainey Trio: 2012-12-30 Brooklyn NY (CDR)
*Sun Ra & His Astro-Infinity Arkestra: Sign of the Myth
*David Torn & Prezens: 2007-08-24 Saalfelden (CDR)
*David Torn Prezens: 2008-01-10 Cologne (CDR)
*David Torn Prezens: 2008-01-14 London (CDR)
*David Torn & Prezens: 2008-01-19 Budapest (CDR)
*David Torn Prezens: 2008-03-14 New Haven, CT (CDR)
*Arctic Monkeys: Favourite Worst Nightmare
*Arctic Monkeys: AM
*Beatles: With the Beatles (2009 mono remaster)
*Beatles: Hard Day's Night (2009 mono remaster)
*Beatles: Sgt. Peppers Lonely Heart Club Band (side 1)
*James Brown & the Famous Flames: Live at the Apollo
*Elvis Costello & the Attractions: Get Happy (2003 reissue, disc 1) (selections)
*Elvis Costello & the Attractions: Trust
*Disturbed: The Sickness
*Fall of Troy: Doppelgänger
*Matching Mole: On the Radio
*Matching Mole: March
*Freda Payne: Unhooked Generation: The Complete Invictus Recordings (disc 2)
*XTC: Nonsuch (selections)

Reading List, Week of 2015-12-20

Reading List 2015-12-21:

*Domini, John. “Later John Barth: The Wrong Peak, the Reach for Magic, the Feminist Argument” in The Quarterly Conversation (2015-12-13) (started/finished)
*Green, Daniel. “The Story of a Storyteller: On John Barth’s Collected Stories” in The Quarterly Conversation (2015-12-13) (started/finished)
*Johnson, Michael. “Music’s Restless Avant Garde: Still a ‘Wonderful Adventure’” in Open Letters Monthly (2013-09-01) (started/finished)
*Barthelme, Donald. Not-Knowing: The Essays and Interviews of Donald Barthelme (finished)
*Ditko, Steve. The Art of Ditko (finished)
*Jones, William B., Jr. Classics Illustrated: A Cultural History (2nd ed.) (reread/in progress)
*Wallace, David Foster. Infinite Jest (reread/in progress)

Playlist, Week of 2015-12-13

Playlist 2015-12-14:

*Anthony Braxton: 3 Compositions of New Jazz “Composition 6E”
*Anthony Braxton: Piano Music (1968-2000)/Performed by Genevieve Foccroulle (disc 6)
*Anthony Braxton: 20 Standards (Quartet) 2003 (disc 3)
*Rodger Coleman & Sam Byrd: Aphelion
*John Coltrane Quintet: 1961-11-18 Paris (2nd concert) (CDR)
*John Coltrane Quintet: 1961-11-20 Copenhagen (CDR)
*John Coltrane Quintet: 1961-11-22 Helsinki, Finland (CDR)
*John Coltrane Quintet: 1961-11-24 Baden-Baden, West Germany (CDR)
*John Coltrane Quintet: 1961-11-27 Frankfurt (CDR)
*John Coltrane Quintet: 1961-11-29 Stuttgart (CDR)
*Globe Unity Orchestra: 1979-01-26 Bad Godesberg, Germany (CDR) (disc 2)
*LARK: 2013-06-16 Brooklyn, NY (CDR)
*Made in Chicago: 2015-07-11 Rotterdam (CDR)
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2015-11-23 “Doll Arm in Limbo Threshold” (wav)
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2015-12-07 “Accept This Cooler” (wav)
*Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble: The Moment's Energy
*Plymouth: 2015-03-06 Amsterdam (CDR)
*Cecil Taylor: Conquistador! “With (Exit”)
*Can: Tago Mago
*Can: Ege Bamyasi
*Can: Future Days
*Deerhoof: Apple-O
*Mike Elder/Harry Forrest/Greg Jordan/Sam Byrd: 2015-12-04 (wav)
*Fall of Troy: Fall of Troy
*Grateful Dead: Fillmore West 1969 (disc 2)
*Grateful Dead: 1969-06-14 Monterey (CDR) (disc 1)
*Jimi Hendrix Experience: BBC Sessions (disc 1)
*Jimi Hendrix: Strate Ahead (Outtakes 1968-1970) (boot CDR) (disc 2)
*Matching Mole: Smoke Signals
*Soft Machine: BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert
*UYA: 1989-10-26 This (wav)
*Various artists: Summer of Love: The Hits of 1967 (selections)
*Various artists: WSAM: Jackie Wilson/Misc. Stuff-ola (cassette compilation) (side B)

Reading List, Week of 2015-12-13

Reading List 2015-12-14:

*Ditko, Steve. The Art of Ditko (started)
*Jones, William B., Jr. Classics Illustrated: A Cultural History (2nd ed.) (reread/started)
*Smith, Jeff. Bone (reread/finished)
*Barthelme, Donald. Not Knowing: The Essays and Interviews (in progress)
*Wallace, David Foster. Infinite Jest (reread/in progress)

That Other, Better World

 

You’re sitting with some guys, and you’re playing and you go, ‘Ooh, yeah!’  That feeling is worth more than anything.  There’s a certain moment when you realize that you’ve actually left the planet for a bit and that nobody can touch you.  You’re elevated because you’re with a bunch of guys that want to do the same thing as you. And when it works, baby, you’ve got wings.  You know you’ve been somewhere most people will never get; you’ve been to a special place.  And then you want to keep going back and keep landing again, and when you land you get busted.  But you always want to go back there.  It’s flying without a license. (Keith Richards, Life, p. 97)

Playlist, Week of 2015-12-06

Playlist 2015-12-07:

*Rodger Coleman and Sam Byrd: 2015-05-15 Centennial Park Black Box Theater, Nashville (mp3)
*John Coltrane: The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings (discs 1, 2, 3, 4)
*John Coltrane Quintet: 1961-11-18 Paris (1st concert) (CDR)
*Jimmy Ghaphery/Tatsuya Nakatani: 2014-02-20 Richmond VA (wav)
*Globe Unity Orchestra: 1979-01-26 Bad Godesberg, Germany (CDR) (disc 1)
*Ingrid Laubrock’s Ubatuba Quintet: 2015-10-11 Barcelona (CDR)
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2015-11-09 “Order That Number” (wav)
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2015-11-16 “This Day Alone” (wav)
*Evan Parker and Eddie Prévost: Most Materiall (disc 2)
*Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble: Memory/Vision
*Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble: The Eleventh Hour
*Plymouth: Plymouth
*Sun Ra: Monorails and Satellites, Vol. 1 (2014 remaster)
*Various artists: Turtle Humperdink Tender Load (cassette compilation) (side B)
*Area: Crac! (side 1)
*Beatles: Please Please Me (2009 mono remaster)
*Grateful Dead: Europe '72 Vol. 2 (disc 2)
*Jimi Hendrix: Strate Ahead (Outtakes 1968-1970) (boot CDR) (disc 1)
*Henry Cow: Live 1978 (boot CDR)
*Freda Payne: Unhooked Generation: The Complete Invictus Recordings (disc 1)
*Soft Machine: 1969-06-25 Paris (CDR)
*UYA: Live at the Willow, Vol. 1
*UYA: Live at the Willow, Vol. 2
*Various artists: The Sun Records Collection 2 (disc 1: Sun Country)
*Various artists: The Sun Records Collection 2 (disc 2: Sun Blues)
*Various artists: WSAM: Jackie Wilson/Misc. Stuff-ola (cassette compilation) (side A)
*Stevie Wonder: Songs in the Key of Life (disc 1)
*Yes: Time and a Word (selections)

Reading List, Week of 2015-12-06

Reading List 2015-12-07:

*Barthelme, Donald. Not Knowing: The Essays and Interviews of Donald Barthelme (started)
*Avery, Ben, et al. George R.R. Martin’s The Hedge Knight (started/finished)
*Gass, William. “In Defense of the Book,” in Harper’s Magazine (1999-11) (started/finished)
*Fletcher, John, and William Shakespeare. The Two Noble Kinsmen (Original-spelling ed.) (reread/finished)
*Gilbert, Elizabeth. Big Magic (finished)
*Smith, Jeff. Bone (reread/in progress)
*Wallace, David Foster. Infinite Jest (reread/in progress)

William Gass on Commonplace Books

http://learni.st/users/maggiemessitt/boards/68777-the-history-of-commonplace-books-and-john-locke

When Ben Jonson was a small boy, his tutor, William Camden, persuaded him of the virtue of keeping a commonplace book: pages where an ardent reader might copy down passages that especially pleased him, preserving sentences that seemed particularly apt or wise or rightly formed and that would, because they were written afresh in a new place, and in a context of favor, be better remembered, as if they were being set down at the same time in the memory of the mind. (William Gass, "In Defense of the Book," Harper's Magazine, 1999-11, p. 45)

Playlist, Week of 2015-11-29

The music of Evan Parker's Electro-Acoustic Ensemble just keep getting better and better to me every time I hear it.

Playlist 2015-11-30:

*Various artists: Music for Merce (1952- 2009) (disc 5)
*Anthony Braxton: 20 Standards (Quartet) 2003 (disc 2)
*Anthony Braxton: 9 Compositions (Iridium) 2006 (disc 4)
*Rodger Coleman & Sam Byrd: 2014-12-30 Nashville (wav) (selections)
*John Coltrane Quartet: 1961-03 Sutherland Hotel, Chicago (CDR) (discs 2, 3)
*John Coltrane Quartet: Africa/Brass Volumes 1 & 2
*Duke Ellington: ...And His Mother Called Him Bill
*Ingrid Laubrock: Sleepthief
*Ingrid Laubrock’s Ubatuba Quintet: 2015-10-11 Barcelona (CDR)
*New Loft: 2013-07-27 Snake Oil Recording, Richmond VA
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2013-08-05 “Increasing Chance of Weather” (wav)
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2015-11-09 “Order That Number” (wav)
*Evan Parker and Eddie Prévost: Most Materiall (disc 1)
*Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble: Drawn Inward
*Subtle Body Transmission Orchestra: 2013-10-05 Atlas, Washington, DC (video>mp3)
*Cecil Taylor Quartet featuring Anthony Braxton: 2007-10-13 Reggio Emilia, Italy (CDR)
*Various artists: Best of the British Dance Bands
*Various artists: Hot British Dance Bands
*Amarionette: Dangerous Times and My Dangerous Ways (selections)
*Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour (2009 mono remaster)
*Scott Brookman (unreleased selections 2014)
*Clash: Story of the Clash, Volume 1 (selections)
*Elvis Costello: Armed Forces (2002 reissue, disc 2)
*Dark Carpet: 2015-11-13 Brooklyn NY (CDR)
*Deerhoof: La Isla Bonita
*Duck and Cover: “"Berlin Programme" Rē Records Quarterly, Vol. 1 No. 2 (side 1)
*Bob Dylan: Theme Time Radio Hour “Weather”
*Tex Goldstein: Horse In The Teepee
*Grateful Dead: Europe '72 Vol. 2 (disc 1)
*Kinks: The Anthology 1964-1971 (discs 3, 4)
*Pere Ubu: The Tenement Year
*Pere Ubu: Cloudland (selections)
*UYA: 1989-10-22 Wipe (wav)
*Various artists: 1960-1970 (CDR compilation)
*Frank Zappa: Wazoo (disc 2)

Reading List, Week of 2015-11-29

Reading List 2015-11-30:

*Fletcher, John, and William Shakespeare. The Two Noble Kinsmen (Original-spelling ed.) (reread/started)
*Gilbert, Elizabeth. Big Magic (started)
*Wallace, David Foster. Infinite Jest (reread/started)
*Bloom, Harold. “The Two Noble Kinsmen,” in Shakespeare: Invention of the Human (reread/started/finished)
*Garber, Marjorie. “The Two Noble Kinsmen,” in Shakespeare After All (reread/started/finished)
*King, Stephen. Finders Keepers (started/finished)
*Rothfuss, Patrick. The Slow Regard of Silent Things (finished) (started/finished)
*Smith, M.W.A. “Statistical Inference in A Textual Companion to the Oxford Shakespeare,” in Notes and Queries, 1991-03 (started/finished)
*Smith, Jeff. Bone (reread/in progress)