Another excellent Sun Ra release from Cosmic Myth Records... it's great to have newly remastered versions of Monorails & Satellites Vols. 1 & 2, but of course the real draw here is the previously unreleased Vol. 3... it's gorgeous stuff, very much in the vein of the earlier material... half original pieces and half standards, all favorites of Ra's that he would return to with the Arkestra over the years... like "Easy Street" on Vol. 1, these are more meditative ruminations on the songs rather than literal renditions, and are all the more beautiful and original for it... the CD package is wonderfully assembled, with an excellent insightful essay from Vijay Iyer as well as detailed notes from Ben Young and Irwin Chusid... you can stream it here...
Is there anything grander than the majestic drumming of Sonny Greer with Duke Ellington?... unobtrusive when he needs to be, but on the spot for inventive breaks and colorful punctuations when called on... a firm underpinning of solid swing... some of his best drumming can be found on the small group sessions of the 1930s and '40s... never bombastic or grandstanding, Greer is excellent at adding just the right needed touch at the right time... add Harry Carney in the mix and you're in heaven...
Playlist 2019-02-04:
*AMM: An Unintended Legacy (discs 1, 2)
*Art Ensemble of Chicago: Live [Live at Mandel Hall]
*Diego Barber and Craig Taborn: Tales
*Lester Bowie: All the Magic! (disc 2)
*Rodger Coleman: Seven Seventeen
*Kris Davis and Craig Taborn: Octopus
*Duke Ellington: The Complete 1936-1940 Variety, Vocalion, and Okeh Small Group Sessions (disc 2)
*Harriet Tubman: Araminta
*Alexander Hawkins: Unit[e] (discs 1, 2)
*Ingrid Laubrock: Contemporary Chaos Practices
*Roscoe Mitchell: Conversations I
*Roscoe Mitchell: Conversations II
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2019-01-14 "Channeling the Bard" (wav)
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2019-01-21 "Hypersonic Youth" (wav)
*Evan Parker: Set
*Sonny Rollins: Saxophone Colossus
*Wadada Leo Smith: Najwa
*Tyshawn Sorey: Pillars (disc 1)
*Sun Ra: Monorails & Satellites: Works for Solo Piano Vols. 1, 2, 3 (discs 1, 2)
*Craig Taborn: Avenging Angel
*Cecil Taylor Unit: The Unreleased 1976-77 Compositions (Alex Ward youtube compilation)
*Henry Threadgill: Double Up, Plays Double Up Plus
*Henry Threadgill 14 Or 15 Kestra AGG: Dirt... And More Dirt
*Various artists: History of Electronic/Electroacoustic Music (Stockhausen: "Mantra") (CDR compilation) (disc 23)
*Can: The Singles
*Funkadelic: Free Your Mind…
*Grateful Dead: Live/Dead "Dark Star"
*Hatfield and the North: The Rotters’ Club (side 2)
*King Crimson: Meltdown (disc 3)
*Lemon Twigs: Go to School
*Manna/Mirage: Rest of the World
*Neu!: Neu!
*Palberta: My Pal Berta
*Palberta: Shitheads in the Ditch
*Palberta: Hot on the Beach
*Residents: Fingerprince (pREServed Edition) (disc 1)
*Residents: Eskimo (pREServed Edition) (disc 1)
*Various artists: Technicolor Paradise: Rhum Rhapsodies & Other Exotic Delights (disc 3)
*Frank Zappa/Mothers of Invention: The Roxy Performances (disc 4)
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