Loving the Aki Takase duos with Ingrid Laubrock... this is my first exposure to this pianist, and I will definitely need to check out more... Continuing to enjoy Jeff's Wig Drop recordings...he's got a way with a melody, and I love the textures and am jealous of his drumming... I was never a big fan of the Flo and Eddie period of the Mothers of Invention, but the Road Tapes release of a live show from 1970 is to my ears way more fun and interesting than Just Another Band from L.A.... A large part of it is the material; they rework a lot of melodies from Uncle Meat as well as bits from earlier albums... but also, there's less Flo and Eddie "comedy," Zappa's guitar playing is superb, and the band is super-tight... Excellent heartfelt improvisations from RAIC... nice to hear Zoe Olivia Kinney's cello so well-recorded... Revisiting Brian Wilson's first solo album reminded me that there are some wonderful melodies there, buried beneath the overproduced '80s synth sheen that bothered me so much when it first came out... "Let It Shine" and "Melt Away" are true gems... The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's renditions of large-scale works by Anthony Braxton, Taylor Ho Bynum, and James Fei are remarkable... you don't get stuff like that in these parts... thank goodness for the radio, the internet, and dime... Speaking of Braxton, the recent Zim Sextet Moers set is typically fantastic... this is music of life, positivity, and the breathtaking exhilaration of exploration and the communal creation of music... I've been lucky enough to hear many mid-sized Braxton ensemble recordings, and the recent ones from the last five or six years have pretty much all been uniformly Great (with a capital G!)... I love it that Ingrid Laubrock has been a part of many of these; her breathy tones and endless stream of ideas meld beautifully with Braxton's quicksilver lines and burnished sound... the Moers lineup also features cello, two harps, tuba, and the perennial cornet of Taylor Ho Bynum. Fantastic stuff!
Playlist 2017-06-12:
*Muhal Richard Abrams Orchestra: Blu Blu Blu
*Muhal Richard Abrams: One Line, Two Views
*Daniel Barbiero/Cristiano Bocci: Vόστος
*BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra: 2016-11-19 Glasgow (Braxton: Comp. 27, 63; Fei; Bynum) (CDR)
*Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers: 'S Make It
*Anthony Braxton: Piano Quartet, Yoshi's 1994 (disc 1)
*Anthony Braxton: Trillium J (disc 3)
*Anthony Braxton Zim Sextet: 2017-06-03 Moers (CDR)
*John Coltrane: Live Trane: The European Tours (disc 6)
*Kris Davis Trio: 2014-03-04 London (CDR)
*Decoy & Joe McPhee: Oto
*Duke Ellington: The Afro-Eurasian Eclipse
*Ghaphery/Bivins/Davis: 2007-09 Chapel Hill, NC (CDR)
*Ghaphery/Bivins/Davis: 2007-09 South Carolina (CDR)
*Barry Guy New Orchestra: Inscape - Tableaux
*Mary Halvorson Septet: Illusionary Sea
*Mary Halvorson Octet: Away with You
*Ingrid Laubrock Anti-House: 2016-11-05 Strasbourg, France (CDR)
*George Lewis/Douglas Ewart: Jila - Save ! Mon. - The Imaginary Suite
*Joe Morris/Agusti Fernandez/Nate Wooley: From the Discrete to the Particular
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2017-05-01 "Push That Sound Over Here, Will You?" (wav)
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2017-05-08 "No Crickets Here" (wav)
*Bud Powell: The Amazing Bud Powell Vol. 2
*Bud Powell: Bud! The Amazing Bud Powell Vol. 3
*RAIC: Love Lingers Like Poison In The Veins
*Tom Rainey Trio: Hotel Grief
*Archie Shepp: Mama Too Tight
*Archie Shepp: The Way Ahead
*Pete La Roca Sims: Turkish Women at the Bath
*Wadada Leo Smith: The Great Lakes Suite (disc 2)
*Aki Takase & Ingrid Laubrock: 2016-11-04 Berlin (CDR)
*Them Against Them: Night Returns with a Gallup
*David Torn & Prezens: 2008-01-19 Budapest (CDR) (disc 1)
*John Zorn: Cobra (disc 1)
*John Zorn: The Painted Bird
*Archie Bell & the Drells: Tighten Up
*Boredoms: Vision Creation Newsun
*Clash: The Singles (disc 2)
*Count Five: Psychotic Reaction
*Cream: Disraeli Gears (Deluxe Ed.) (disc 2)
*Dr. Dog: Be the Void
*Dr. Dog: Psychedelic Swamp
*Bob Dylan and The Band: The Basement Tapes- Complete (disc 6)
*Bob Dylan: Time Out of Mind
*Bob Dylan: Together Through Life
*Grateful Dead: Road trips, Vol. 4 No. 5: Boston 6-9-76 (disc 1)
*Al Green: Anthology (disc 1)
*Hatfield and the North with Robert Wyatt: 1973-01-02 Paris (CDR)
*Hatfield and the North: Hattitude
*Heldon: Un Rêve Sans Conséquence Spéciale
*Lauryn Hill: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
*King Crimson: Radical Action to Unseat the Hold of Monkey Mind (disc 2)
*Paul McCartney: Pure McCartney (Deluxe Ed.) (disc 1)
*Joni Mitchell: The Hissing of Summer Lawns
*Joni Mitchell: Hejira
*Andy Partridge: Extras (The Unreleased Fuzzy Warbles Demos) (boot CDR)
*Prince: Crystal Ball (disc 1)
*Remains: The Remains
*Arsenio Rodriguez: Inolvidable 6
*Spacemere: Apartment Opera
*Dusty Springfield: Ooooooweeee!!!
*UYA: 1990-03-19 Middle East, Cambridge MA (CDR)
*UYA: 1990-09-03 Willow Jazz Club, Somerville MA (CDR) (disc 2)
*Wig Drop: Wig Drop 2
*WMWS: One Night Stand
*Brian Wilson: Brian Wilson
*Frank Zappa/Mothers of Invention: Road Tapes, Venue #3 (1970) (disc 2)
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