Playlist, Week of 2018-11-25

catching up...

Playlist 2018-11-26:

*Herbie Hancock: Mwandishi
*Elvin Jones: Genesis
*Les McCann: Invitation to Openness
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2018-10-15 "Who Needs Another Repair Job?" (wav)
*Atomic Rooster: In Hearing of Atomic Rooster
*Sam Cooke: Greatest Hits
*Prince: 1982-03-08 Minneapolis (CDR)
*Ronettes: Be My Baby: The Very Best of the Ronettes
*Shirelles: The Very Best of the Shirelles
*Supremes (selections)
*Talk Talk: Spirit of Eden

Reading List, Week of 2018-11-25

Slowly but surely...

Reading List 2018-11-26:

*Chazal, Malcolm de. Sens-Plastique (trans. Irving Weiss) (in progress)
*Knausgaard, Karl Ove. My Struggle, Book Six (transl. Don Bartlett and Martin Aitken) (in progress)
*Schwartz, Jeff. Free Jazz: A Research and Information Guide (in progress)
*Thomson, David. The New Biographical Dictionary of Film (4th ed.) (in progress)

Nashville Dreams

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              In the studio for the first of two days of recording with Rodger Coleman!!!! Whoo-hooooo!

Playlist, Week of 2018-11-18

Lots of traveling music this week, getting ready to go to Nashville for the holiday (and for recording sessions with Rodger Coleman!)

Playlist 2018-11-19:

*Anthony Braxton: Quintet (London) 2004
*Anthony Braxton: Trio (Victoriaville) 2007
*Anthony Braxton: Quartet (Mestre) 2008
*Anthony Braxton Falling River Quintet: 2012-10-10 Berlin (CDR) (disc 1)
*Elliott Carter: A Nonesuch Retrospective (disc 2)
*Mary Halvorson Quartet: Paimon (Zorn/Book of Angels Vol. 32)
*Mary Halvorson: Code Girl (disc 2)
*Jan Hammer Group: Oh Yeah?
*Jan Hammer Group: Melodies
*Ivo Perelman: The Art of Perelman-Shipp Volume 4: Hyperion
*Ivo Perelman: The Art of Perelman-Shipp Volume 5: Rhea
*Chris Potter: Underground
*Prezens: Slipped on a Bar
*Flora Purim: Butterfly Dreams
*Flora Purim: Open Your Eyes You Can Fly
*Flora Purim: Flora Purim Sings Milton Nascimento
*Tyshawn Sorey: Alloy
*Sun Ra: selections (Bandcamp streaming)
*Sun Ra and His Astro Ihnfinity Arkestra: The Intergalactic Thing (disc 2)
*Cecil Taylor: Air Above Mountains
*Cecil Taylor & Pauline Oliveros: Solo-Duo-Poetry (DVD)
*Henry Threadgill 14 Or 15 Kestra AGG: Dirt... And More Dirt
*John Zorn: Rimbaud
*John Zorn/Simulacrum: Simulacrum
*John Zorn/Simulacrum: The True Discoveries of Witches and Demons
*John Zorn/Simulacrum: Inferno
*John Zorn: Insurrection
*Acid Mothers Temple And The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.: Pink Lady Lemonade: You're From Inner Space
*Amon Duul II: Yeti
*Band: Music from Big Pink
*Beach Boys: 2012-04-26 Grand Prairie, TX (CDR) (disc 2)
*Beatles: The Beatles (Super Deluxe Edition) (discs 3, 4)
*Boston Spaceships: Let It Beard
*Scott Brookman: For Those Who Like POP
*Car Seat Headrest: Teens of Style
*Cramps: Songs the Lord Taught Us
*Egg: The Civil Surface
*Emerson Lake & Palmer: The Atlantic Years (selections)
*Gong: Flying Teapot (Radio Gnome Invisible Part 1)
*Grateful Dead: 1968-03-29 San Francisco (CDR)
*Grateful Dead: Live/Dead "Dark Star"
*Grateful Dead: Pacific Northwest '73-'74: Believe It if You Need It (disc 2)
*George Jones and the Jones Boys: Live in Texas 1965
*King Crimson: 1972: unknown
*Pere Ubu: Ray Gun Suitcase
*Prince: 1980-03-06 Atlanta (CDR)
*Prince: 1981-03-22 Ritz NYC (CDR)
*Prince: 1981-12-09 Houston (CDR)
*Otis Redding and His Orchestra: Live on the Sunset Strip (disc 1)
*Sonic Youth: Anagrama
*Dusty Springfield: The Dusty Springfield Anthology (disc 2)
*Stevie Wonder: A Time to Love

Reading List, Week of 2018-11-18

Better this than the news....

Reading List 2018-11-19:

*Barry, Dave. Dave Barry's Book of bad songs (reread/started/finished)
*Chazal, Malcolm de. Sens-Plastique (trans. Irving Weiss) (in progress)
*Knausgaard, Karl Ove. My Struggle, Book Six (transl. Don Bartlett and Martin Aitken) (in progress)
*Schwartz, Jeff. Free Jazz: A Research and Information Guide (in progress)
*Thomson, David. The New Biographical Dictionary of Film (4th ed.) (in progress)

New Ting Ting Loft Gig This Weekend

New Ting Ting Loft is opening up for Dave Bryant (pictured above) this Saturday night, at Sediment, right here in RVA. Also paying are Ceremonial Scissors. Promises to be a fun evening!

More info about Dave Bryant, and the show itself, here.

Playlist, Week of 2018-11-11

Continuing my slow romp through the discography of Craig Taborn... his contributions to the pair of Transatlantic Art Ensemble ECM discs by Roscoe Mitchell and Evan Parker are crucial... his self-effacing playing on David Torn's Prezens is harder to tease out... I am looking forward to revisiting the several live recordings I have from the Torn 2007 and 2008 European shows... Adam Shatz does a great job of trying to capture the elusive quality of Taborn's art in his lengthy article on him in the New York Times... Shatz also reaffirms my sense that Avenging Angel is a masterwork...

Playlist 2018-11-12:

*Albert Ayler Quartet: Copenhagen Live 1964
*Anthony Braxton/Falling River Music Quartet: 2012-10-11 Ulrichsberg, Austria (CDR)
*Drew Gress: 7 Black Butterflies
*Drew Gress Quintet: 2006-01-22 Bimhuis, Amsterdam (CDR)
*Mary Halvorson: Code Girl (disc 1)
*Dave Holland: Prism (selections)
*Dave Holland: Uncharted Territories (disc 1)
*Roscoe Mitchell/Transatlantic Art Ensemble: Composition/Improvisation Nos. 1, 2 & 3
*David Murray Octet: Picasso
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2018-10-15 "Who Needs Another Repair Job?" (wav)
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2018-11-05 "Doin' the Carpet Bag Rag" (wav)
*Evan Parker/Transatlantic Art Ensemble: Boustrophedon
*Hermeto Pascoal & Grupo: No Mundo Dos Sons (disc 1)
*Danielle Palardy Roger: Le Caillou
*Devadip Carlos Santana & Turiya Alice Coltrane: Illuminations
*David Torn: Prezens
*Beatles: The Beatles (Super Deluxe Edition) (discs 1, 2)
*Mike Elder/Harry Forrest/Greg Jordan/Sam Byrd: 2018-09-22 (wav)
*Daniel Johnston: Please Don't Feed the Ego
*Ravi Shankar/Ali Akhbar Khan: Ragas
*Dusty Springfield: The Dusty Springfield Anthology (disc 1)
*Staple Singers: Uncloudy Day
*Stereolab: Margerine Eclipse
*Touch: Touch
*Unthanks: Diversions Vol. 1
*Various artists: History of Electronic/Electroacoustic Music (CDR compilation) (disc 19)
*Brian Wilson: Brian Wilson
*Stevie Wonder: A Time to Love

Reading List, Week of 2018-11-11

Reading List 2018-11-12:

*Knausgaard, Karl Ove. My Struggle, Book Six (transl. Don Bartlett and Martin Aitken) (started)
*Shatz, Adam. "The Ethereal Genius of Craig Taborn" (New York Times Magazine, 2017-06-22) (started/finished)
*Nelson, Michael J. Mike Nelson's Mind over Matters (reread/finished)
*Chazal, Malcolm de. Sens-Plastique (trans. Irving Weiss) (in progress)
*Schwartz, Jeff. Free Jazz: A Research and Information Guide (in progress)
*Thomson, David. The New Biographical Dictionary of Film (4th ed.) (in progress)

Playlist, Week of 2018-11-04

Always great checking in with my friend Cal and listening to vinyl on his amazing sound system... Miles and XTC... the Steven Wilson remix of English Settlement is particularly incredible... so much is revealed, it's brighter and denser, the drums are clearer and more powerful, and the vocals are razor-sharp... I  always thought that album was one of their muddiest-sounding, so this just sounds so much better... the mixes of the new vinyl versions of the last two XTC albums sound closer to my ears to the original CD releases than the Apple Vinyls mixes did...

Playlist 2018-11-05:

*AMM with John Butcher: Trinity
*Horacee Arnold: Tales of the Exonerated Flea
*Binker and Moses: Alive in the East?
*Steve Coleman And Five Elements:  Rhythm People (The Resurrection Of Creative Black Civilization)
*Miles Davis: Tribute to Jack Johnson (Original Master Recording) (side 1)
*Diskaholics Anonymous Trio: Weapons of Ass Destruction
*Duke Ellington: The Complete 1932-1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 6)
*Peter Evans/Agusti Fernández/Mats Gustafsson: A Quietness Of Water
*Ivo Perelman: The Art of Perelman-Shipp Volume 3: Pandora
*Jazz Composer's Orchestra: Communication
*Roscoe Mitchell Quartet: 2009-06-28 Tivoli (CDR)
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2018-10-08 "Corner Winds" (wav)
*RAIC: 2017-06-15 Richmond VA  (youtube)
*Schlippenbach Quartet: Three Nails Left
*Schlippenbach Trio: Features
*Matthew Shipp Trio: 2012-11-10 London (CDR)
*Cecil Taylor Quartet: 1966-11-30? Paris (CDR)
*Lennie Tristano: Intuition
*Beatles: Abbey Road Deluxe Edition Vol. 2: Sessions (boot CDR) (disc 3) (selections)
*Beatnix: It's Four You
*Cold Blood: Vintage Blood - Live! 1973
*Scott Brookman: For Those Who Like POP
*Dirty Projectors: Lamp Lit Prose
*ESP Ohio: Starting Point Of The Royal Cyclopean
*King Crimson: 1972 Auditions/Rehearsals
*Meat Beat Manifesto: At the Center
*Meat Beat Manifesto: Off Centre
*Frank Ocean: Channel Orange
*Springhouse: Breathe Calmly into the Paper Bag (streaming)
*Various artists: Dance Craze, Vol. 2
*Various artists: Brian Wilson: Visions: His Complete Outside Productions (boot CDR) (disc 2)
*Xiu Xiu: The Air Force
*XTC: English Settlement (Steven Wilson remix) (side 4)
*XTC: Apple Venus Volume 1 (side 2)
*XTC: Wasp Star (side 1)
*XXL: ¿Spicchiology?

Reading List, Week of 2018-11-04

Reading List 2018-11-05:

*Feisst, Sabine. "Negotiating Freedom and Control in Composition: Improvisation and Its Offshoots, 1950 to 1980," in The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies, ed. George E. Lewis and Benjamin Piekut (started/finished)
*Hawkins, Alexander. "Between the Lines" (The Wire 400, June 2017) (started/finished)
*Poe's Children: The New Horror: An Anthology (ed. Peter Straub) (finished)
*Chazal, Malcolm de. Sens-Plastique (trans. Irving Weiss) (in progress)
*Nelson, Michael J. Mike Nelson's Mind over Matters (reread/in progress)
*Schwartz, Jeff. Free Jazz: A Research and Information Guide (in progress)
*Thomson, David. The New Biographical Dictionary of Film (4th ed.) (in progress)