Playlist, Week of 2018-06-10

Craig Taborn's Avenging Angel is rapidly becoming one of my favorite solo piano recordings... In my ongoing exploration of wonderful piano players, I really need to hear more Agustí Fernández... I know him mostly from his fantastic playing on several Barry Guy large ensemble recordings... I also love that trio recording with Joe Morris and Nate Wooley... Just for the hell of it, these are the pianists that are currently on my mind: Cecil Taylor (always and forever!), Craig Taborn, Agustí Fernández, Kris Davis, Marilyn Crispell, Muhal Richard Abrams, Bud Powell, Paul Bley, Matt Mitchell, Teddy Wilson, and of course Sun Ra (always and forever!)... Wonderful to hear the Braxton Zim Sextet fresh out of London... The new Roscoe Mitchell/Montreal-Toronto Art Orchestra CD is absolutely great... like Discussions before it, it has re-arrangements and re-imaginings for large ensemble of several of the trio improvisations featured on the two Conversations discs (with Craig Taborn and Kikanju Baku)... this approach is proving to be quite fruitful for Mitchell... I hope he continues to mine his improvs in this way...

Playlist 2018-06-11:

*Lotte Anker/Craig Taborn/Gerald Cleaver: Floating Islands
*Anthony Braxton: Sextet (Parker) 1993 (discs 9, 10, 11) (streaming)
*Anthony Braxton: Composition No. 146 (Moogie and Stetson) (streaming)
*Anthony Braxton Zim Sextet: 2018-05-28 London (CDR)
*Anthony Braxton Zim Sextet: 2018-05-29 London (CDR)
*Anthony Braxton Zim Sextet: 2018-05-30 London (CDR)
*Brötzmann/Noble: I Am Here Where Are You
*Bruford: Gradually Going Tornado
*Agustí Fernández: River Tiger Fire (disc 3)
*Annette Hanshaw: Volume 7, 1929-30
*Joseph Jarman: As If It Were the Seasons
*Masters of Disorientation: 1990-02-25 Birmingham, Eng. (CDR) (disc 1)
*Roscoe Mitchell Quartet: Celebrating Fred Anderson
*Roscoe Mitchell/Montreal-Toronto Art Orchestra: Ride the Wind
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2018-06-04 "Baby Stick Head Ambush Probe" (mp3)
*Evan Parker: 50th Birthday Concert (disc 1)
*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: Jazz in Silhouette
*Sun Ra: The Shadows Took Shape (disc 1)
*Sun Ra: Of Abstract Dreams
*Sun Ra: Sun Ra Radio Premier, Part 2 (streaming)
*Craig Taborn: Junk Magic
*Craig Taborn: Avenging Angel
*Cecil Taylor: Silent Tongues
*Lily Allen: No Shame
*Dark Carpet: 2018-04-27 Brooklyn, NY (CDR)
*Dr. Dog: Critical Equation
*Mike Elder/Harry Forrest/Greg Jordan/Sam Byrd: 2018-04-07 (wav)
*Firesign Theatre: The Tale of the Giant Rat of Sumatra
*Lee Hazlewood: Requiem for an Almost Lady
*Jefferson Pilot: The Optimist Field
*Bruce Springsteen: The Ties That Bind: The River Collection (disc 3)
*Various artists: History of Electronic/Electroacoustic Music (CDR compilation) (disc 12)
*Various artists: Music for Merce (1952-2009) (disc 4)
*Various artists: Technicolor Paradise: Rhum Rhapsodies & Other Exotic Delights (disc 2)
*Various artists: Eccentric Soul: The Outskirts of Deep City
*Various artists: Eccentric Soul: The Prix Label
*Mike Watt: The Secondman's Middle Stand
*Brian Wilson: Brian Wilson
*Yes: 1976-06-17 Jersey City, NJ (CDR) (disc 1)