Playlist, Week of 2019-02-24

I love it that I am so confounded and challenged by Anthony Braxton's new GTM (Syntax) 2017... vocal choirs are not normally my thing... I am also decidedly not an opera buff, but I love Braxtons' Trillium operas... well, more for the instrumental settings than the singing, but still, I am finding the operas dense, challenging, and deeply satisfying... these new vocal-only pieces, though, are... well, not rough going, but challenging... and pretty damn funny at times... Alexander Hawkins continues to delight me... his piano playing and arranging on Unit[e] is stunning...

Playlist 2019-02-25:

*Derek Bailey 1930-2005 (CDR compilation)
*Derek Bailey: Ballads
*Anthony Braxton: 4 Compositions (Ulrichsberg) 2005 Phonomanie VIII (disc 2)
*Anthony Braxton: GTM (Syntax) 2017 (disc 1) (streaming)
*Rodger Coleman: Seven Seventeen
*Duke Ellington: The Complete 1936-1940 Variety, Vocalion, and Okeh Small Group Sessions (discs 5, 6)
*Large Unit with Marshall Allen: 2018-06-17 Philadelphia (CDR)
*Jimmy Ghaphery/Gary Rouzer/Sam Byrd: Layers of Memory
*Mats Gustafsson/Craig Taborn: Ljubljana
*Hasidic New Wave: Jews and the Abstract Truth
*Alexander Hawkins: Unit[e] (disc 1)
*Roland Kirk:  Verve Jazz Masters 27
*Roland Kirk: The Inflated Tear
*Chris Lightcap's Bigmouth: Epicenter
*Evan Parker/Derek Bailey/Han Bennink: The Topography of the Lungs
*Roscoe Mitchell: Bells for the South Side (disc 2)
*RICE (Richmond Improvisational Chamber Ensemble): 2002-07-20 RVA (CDR)
*Sonny Rollins: A Night at the Village Vanguard
*Mongo Santamaría: Mongo at The Village Gate
*Soft Machine: Seven
*Sun Ra: Monorails & Satellites: Works for Solo Piano Vols. 1, 2, 3 (disc 2)
*Sun Ra: Omniverse
*Craig Taborn: Avenging Angel
*Tri-Centric Project Ensemble: 2018-10-31 Stockholm (streaming)
*Eberhard Weber: The Colours of Chloë
*Dan Weiss: Starebaby
*Bad Brains: Bad Brains
*Beau Hunks: Leroy Shield's Our Relations
*Scott Brookman, Yani Martinelli and Friends: Songs from the Old House​/​MADRID
*Genesis: Selling England by the Pound
*High Llamas: Talahomi Way
*Janis Joplin: Janis (disc 1)
*Dean Martin: The Essential Dean Martin
*Pink Floyd: A Tree Full of Secrets (disc 1)
*Thinking Plague: In This Life
*UYA: 1991-07-15 Laughs for the Women (wav)
*UYA: 1991-07-22 Apex Structures (wav)
*UYA: 1991-07-28 Putty Finger (wav)
*UYA: 1991-08-05 Block Juice in Square (wav)
*Brian Wilson: Landylocked (boot CDR)
*XTC: Coat of Many Cupboards (disc 2)