Wadada Leo Smith's new album Najwa is brilliant... great guitar-driven textures, and some of the best drumming I've ever heard from Pheeroan akLaff... much more high-energy out than anything else I've heard him do... I like Brandon Ross's playing in this context more than in Henry Threadgill's.... Henry Kaiser sounds right at home... Smith's trumpet, of course, towers over everything...
Playlist 2018-01-29:
*Beethoven: Piano Sonata/Mendelssohn/Liszt/Schubert (Paul Lewis)
*Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 (Romantic) (BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra)
*Fauré: Piano Quartet No. 1/Franck: Piano Quintet (Schubert Ensemble of London)
*Handel: Concerti Grossi Op. 3 Nos. 1 & 2/Chandos Anthems (Academy of Ancient Music)
*Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 6 & 8/Giuliani: Guitar Concerto No. 1 (Edoardo Catemario/Wiener Akademie)
*Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 77 & 76 (Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood)
*Mozart: A Mozart Festival
*Saint-Saëns: Violin Concerto No. 3/Wienawski: Violin Concerto No. 2 (Itzhak Perlman/Orchestre de Paris)
*Xenakis: Synaphaï
*Muhal Richard Abrams: Song for All
*Derek Bailey: Standards
*Anthony Braxton: GTM (Outpost) 2003 (disc 2)
*Rodger Coleman/Sam Byrd: Unheard Voices "Waltzing with Adolph"
*Bill Dixon" Bill Dixon in Italy, Volume 1
*Barry Guy/London Jazz Composers' Orchestra: Portraits (disc 1)
*Matt Mitchell: A Pouting Grimace
*Roscoe Mitchell Discussions Orchestra: Discussions
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2018-01-15 "Slip Mixer Blend" (wav)
*Tom Rainey Trio: 2017-09-09 Jazz Gallery, NYC (wav) (disc 2)
*George Russell Sextet: 1964-07-03 Newport Jazz Festival
*Wadada Leo Smith: Najwa
*Tyshawn Sorey: The Inner Spectrum of Variables (disc 1)
*Tyshawn Sorey: Verisimilitude
*Sun Ra and His Solar Arkestra: The Magic City (Full Stereo Version)
*Cecil Taylor: The Tree of Life
*Henry Threadgill Zooid: This Brings Us To, Volume 1
*McCoy Tyner: Today and Tomorrow (selections)
*Carter Family: 1927-1934 (disc 2)
*Deerhoof: The Magic
*Deerhoof: I Thought We Were Friends (single/streaming)
*Bob Dylan: The 1966 Live Recordings (disc 30)
*Funkadelic: Reworked by Detroiters (disc 1)
*Various artists: Eccentric Soul: The Cash Label
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