Playlist, Week of 2017-09-03

Digging the new Deerhoof, but it's not hitting me like Breakup Song or La Isla Bonita did... give it time... I'm really enjoying the disc of Steely Dan demos... they've been around forever but I'd never heard them... it's fun to imagine what the unreleased songs would have sounded like with the full Dan treatment... my favorite unreleased Steely Dan song is "The Second Arrangement," a Gaucho outtake, later than these demos... [written earlier in the week before hearing of Walter Becker's death... R.I.P.]... It's good to drench myself in the hot molten lead of Slobber Pup, the Spanish Donkey, and the Weasel Walter Quartet... thanks, Albert Ayler, for pointing the way... Like all the King Crimson 40th Anniversary Editions, Islands is packed with tons of enlightening extras... a model for deluxe editions of single albums... the Steven Wilson remix is rewarding in its clarity and vision... Pepper Adams Plays Charlie Mingus is a hidden gem of the early '60s... it's an all-Mingus compositions album, and Pepper Adams swings mightily, with the sanctioned and sanctified help of Danny Richmond on drums... great, too, to hear Paul Chambers play Mingus bass lines...

Playlist 2017-09-04:

*Pepper Adams: Pepper Adams Plays Charlie Mingus
*AMM: The Inexhaustible Document
*Anthony Braxton: Quartet (Mestre) 2008
*Nels Cline Trio: Ground
*Rodger Coleman/Sam Byrd: Who Doesn't Fade?
*Chick Corea: The Musician (disc 2)
*Stephan Crump/Ingrid Laubrock/Cory Smythe: Planktonic Finales
*Decoy: Vol 1: Spirit
*Decoy & Joe McPhee: Oto
*Eric Dolphy: Eric Dolphy at the Five Spot, Vol. 1
*Eric Dolphy: Eric Dolphy at the Five Spot, Vol. 2
*Duke Ellington: Masterpieces by Ellington
*Flute Force 4: Flutistry
*Shannon Jackson & the Decoding Society: Street Priest
*Shannon Jackson & the Decoding Society: Eye on You
*Henry Kaiser & Wadada Leo Smith: Yo Miles! (disc 2)
*Andy Kirk and His Clouds of Joy: The Lady Who Swings the Band 1936-1938
*Ingrid Laubrock: Serpentines
*Maurice McIntyre: Humility in the Light of the Creator
*Roscoe Mitchell Trio: Angel City
*Roscoe Mitchell Quartet: Celebrating Fred Anderson
*New Air: Air Show No. 1
*No Material: No Material (disc 2)
*Schlippenbach Quartet: Three Nails Left
*Slobber Pup: Pole Axe
*Spanish Donkey: Raoul
*Sun Ra: selections (Bandcamp streaming)
*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: The Sun Myth (African Chant) (streaming)
*Sun Ra and His Astro Infinity Arkestra: My Brother the Wind Vol. 1 (Remastered and Expanded Edition)
*Sun Ra & His Astro-Infinity Arkestra: Sign of the Myth
*Cecil Taylor: The Tree of Life
*Henry Threadgill's Zooid: 2017-03-26 Knoxville TN (CDR)
*Weasel Walter Quartet: Revolt Music
*Weasel Walter Large Ensemble: Igneity: After the Fall of Civilization
*World Saxophone Quartet: Requiem for Juliu
*Yo Miles!: Henry Kaiser & Wadada Leo Smith: Sky Garden
*Deerhoof: Slow Motion Detonation
*Flash: In the Pan
*Grateful Dead: Dark Star 1972 version 1 (finished, 08:27:00-10:00:00)
*Guided By Voices: selections (Magic Jukebox playlist)
*King Crimson: Islands (40th Anniversary Ed.) (disc 2) (selections)
*Neu!: Neu! 2
*Olivia Tremor Control: Black Foliage: Animation Music Volume One
*Bruce Springsteen: The Ties That Bind: The River Collection (disc 2)
*Steely Dan: Sun Mountain
*Swollen Monkeys: After Birth of the Cool
*Swollen Monkeys: On Vacation!
*Various artists: She's So Fine: The Rise of the Girl Groups (disc 3)
*Various artists: Motown Unreleased 1965
*Various artists: Ol' Virginia Soul, Part 2: Funky Virginia
*Wig Drop: Wig Drop 2