Playlist, Week of 2019-08-25

Great playing from Ingrid Laubrock on Close Up... intimate, abstract, sedate... Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi band sound really opened up and became increasingly spaced out with the addition of Patrick Gleason on synthesizer... We're lucky to have so much live Matching Mole available... they were consistently excellent, offering tantalizing glimpses of possible directions Robert Wyatt's inventive drumming could have taken, before his accident...

Playlist 2019-08-26:

*Muhal Richard Abrams/Fred Anderson: 1979-05-20 Verona, Italy (CDR) (disc 2)
*Herbie Hancock: 1973-03-20 Detroit (CDR) (discs 1, 2)
*Herbie Hancock Headhunters: 1974-10-16 Kansas City (CDR) (disc 1)
*Jimmy Lyons Quartet: 1980-09-25 Rome (CDR) (disc 2)
*Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath: Bremen to Bridgwater (discs 1, 2)
*Charles Mingus: Changes Two
*Roscoe Mitchell Quartet: Live at “A Space” 1975
*Roscoe Mitchell's Cards For Orchestra Project: 2009-08-30 Sant'Anna Arresi, Italy (CDR)
*Roscoe Mitchell: 2011-02-17 Roulette, NYC (CDR)
*Sara Serpa: Close Up
*Tyshawn Sorey: Verisimilitude
*Lennie Tristano & Warne Marsh: Intuition
*McCoy Tyner: Mosaic Select (disc 2)
*Beatles: selections
*Bob Dylan: Blood on the Tracks
*Henry Kaiser: Re-Marrying for Money
*Ned Lagin: Seastones
*Matching Mole: On the Radio
*Neutral Milk Hotel: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
*OOIOO: Armonico Hewa
*Pere Ubu: 390° of Simulated Stereo, Ubu Live Volume One
*Public Enemy: It Takes a Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
*Tito Puente: The Complete 78s: Vol. 1 (disc 1)
*Tito Puente: The Complete 78s: Vol. 2 (discs 1, 2)
*Santana: Abraxas (30th Anniversary Expanded Edition)

Reading List, Week of 2019-08-25

Reading List 2019-08-26:

*Macdonald, Ross. The Drowning Pool (reread/started)
*Burns, Charles. Sugar Skull (started/finished)
*Heffley, Mike. "'O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing': Anthony Braxton's Speculative Musics" (Journal of the Society for American Music, 2:2, 2008) (started/finished)
*Rankin, Ian. A Good Hanging and Other Stories (finished)
*Epstein, Edmund Lloyd. A Guide Through Finnegans Wake (in progress)
*Harryman, Carla. Baby (in progress)
*Joyce, James. Finnegans Wake (ed. Rose/O'Hanlon) (reread/in progress)
*Kitcher, Philip. Joyce's Kaleidoscope: An Invitation to Finnegans Wake (in progress)

Playlist, Week of 2019-08-18

I find myself revisiting lots of old favorites this past week... like the utterly sublime Charles Mingus quintet album Changes One (I'll get to its companion Two this week)... beautiful exampleof small group jazz... certainly up there with the quintets of Miles Davis and the quartets of John Coltrane and Anthony Braxton... especially notable are the elastic time of Mingus and drummer Dannie Richmond, the deeply evocative sound of Don Pullen's piano, and the in/out supercharged playing of George Adams, evoking Ben Webster and Sam Rivers at the same time... balanced by the soulful foil of Jack Walrath on trumpet... these two albums clearly claim one of the highest places in the Mingus pantheon...

Playlist 2019-08-19:

*Muhal Richard Abrams/Fred Anderson: 1979-05-20 Verona, Italy (CDR) (disc 1)
*Marshall Allen/Danny Ray Thompson/Jamie Saft/Trevor Dunn/Balazs Pandi/Roswell Rudd: Ceremonial Healing (selections)
*Anthony Braxton/Max Roach: 1978-09-08 Alassio, Italy (CDR)
*Anthony Braxton: Quartet (New Haven) 2014 (discs 2, 3)
*Paul Chambers: Mosaic Select (disc 3)
*Rodger Coleman and Sam Byrd: 2015-05-14 Nashville (wav) "Track 03"
*Herbie Hancock: 1971-08-04 Hamburg, Germany (CDR) (discs 1, 2, 3)
*Herbie Hancock: 1972-10-08 Detroit (CDR)
*Jimmy Lyons Quartet: 1980-09-25 Rome (CDR) (disc 1)
*Charles Mingus: Changes One
*Roscoe Mitchell Quartet: 2009-06-28 Tivoli (CDR)
*Mario Pavone Dialect Trio: Philosophy
*Tyshawn Sorey: Pillars (disc 3)
*McCoy Tyner: Mosaic Select (disc 1)
*Henry Threadgill: Easily Slip Into Another World
*James Blood Ulmer: Free Lancing
*Weather Report: Heavy Weather
*Weather Report: Mr. Gone
*Weather Report: 8:30
*James Brown: The Singles, Vol.  7: 1970-1972 (discs 1, 2)
*Matching Mole: Matching Mole
*Orthotonics: Luminous Bipeds
*Pere Ubu: One Man Drives While the Other Man Screams
*Roxy Music: Country Life
*Santana: Santana III (Legacy edition) (disc 2)
*Shirelles: The Shirelles Sing the Golden Oldies
*Shirelles: Spontaneous Combustion
*Various artists: Country & Western Hit Parade 1949: Dim Lights, Thick Smoke, and Hillbilly Music
*Who: The Who Sell Out (1995 reissue)
*Wig Drop: Wig Drop
*Neil Young: On the Beach
*Frank Zappa/Mothers of Invention: Meat Light: The Uncle Meat Project/Object Audio Documentary (discs 2, 3)

Reading List, Week of 2019-08-18

Halfway through Finnegans Wake!... into geometry now...

Reading List 2019-08-19:

*Harryman, Carla. Baby (started)
*Rankin, Ian. A Good Hanging and Other Stories (started)
*Burns, Charles. Black Hole (reread/started/finished)
*McHugh, Roland. The Finnegans Wake Experience (started/finished)
*Dreyer, Benjamin. Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style (finished)
*Nelson, Michael J. Mike Nelson's Movie Megacheese (reread/finished)
*Epstein, Edmund Lloyd. A Guide Through Finnegans Wake (in progress)
*Joyce, James. Finnegans Wake (ed. Rose/O'Hanlon) (reread/in progress)
*Kitcher, Philip. Joyce's Kaleidoscope: An Invitation to Finnegans Wake (in progress)

Playlist, Week of 2019-08-11

A summertime mix of listening, old and new... which I guess covers most of my listening year-round, so what's different about this list?... my listening is dictated by a myriad of concerns, and the weather or the season is rarely a determinant...

Playlist 2019-08-12:

*Pippin Barnett/Danny Finney/Tim Harding/Phil Murphy: 2002-04-21 Richmond VA (CDR)
*Anthony Braxton: Quartet (New Haven) 2014 (disc 1)
*Paul Chambers: Mosaic Select (discs 1, 2)
*John Coltrane Quintet: 1966-07-02 Newport Jazz Festival (CDR) "Leo"
*Miles Davis: Bitches Brew "Pharaoh's Dance"
*Fire! Orchestra: Arrival
*Herbie Hancock: 1971-07-21 Nice, France (CDR)
*Herbie Hancock: 1972-03-18 Baden, Switzerland (CDR) (discs 1, 2)
*Alexander Hawkins: Iron into Wind (Pears from an Elm)
*Jelly Roll Morton: 1923-1924
*New Ting: 2019-07-29 "Tardy But Hardy" (wav)
*Public Puberty: 2019-08-01 Discovery Zone, Richmond VA (youtube)
*RAIC: 2019-07-13 Gamelan Raga Kusuma, University of Richmond (wav)
*Tyshawn Sorey: Pillars (disc 2)
*Sun Ra: Cosmo Earth Fantasy: Sub Underground Series Vol. 1 & 2 (Art Yard)
*Sun Ra: Solo Keyboards, Minnesota, 1978
*Cecil Taylor Quartet featuring Anthony Braxton: 2007-06-08 London (CDR)
*Henry Threadgill Sextett: You Know the Number
*John Zorn: Tractatus Musico-Philosophicus
*James Brown: The Singles, Vol.  6: 1969-1970 (discs 1, 2)
*Grateful Dead: Cornell 5.8.77 (disc 2)
*Lemon Twigs: Do Hollywood
*Lemon Twigs: Go to School
*Mastodon: The Hunter
*OOIOO: Gamel
*Tito Puente: Cuban Carnival
*Santana: Santana
*Sleepwalker: For This Time Only, Never Again
*Supremes: The Supremes (2000 box set) (disc 5)
*Various artists: Music For A Bachelor's Den In Hi-Fi
*Various artists: The Other Side of the Trax: Stax-Volt 45rpm Rarities 1964-1968
*Robert Wyatt: Solar Flares Burn for You
*Neil Young: Tonight’s the Night
*Frank Zappa: The Lumpy Money Project/Object (disc 3) "How Did That Get in Here?"

Reading List, Week of 2019-08-11

Reading List 2019-08-12:

*Goldbarth, Albert. Across the Layers: Poems Old and New (finished)
*Dreyer, Benjamin. Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style (in progress)
*Epstein, Edmund Lloyd. A Guide Through Finnegans Wake (in progress)
*Joyce, James. Finnegans Wake (ed. Rose/O'Hanlon) (reread/in progress)
*Kitcher, Philip. Joyce's Kaleidoscope: An Invitation to Finnegans Wake (in progress)
*Nelson, Michael J. Mike Nelson's Movie Megacheese (reread/in progress)

Playlist, Week of 2019-08-04

I was at the show where this was recorded...pretty damn amazing... really holds up, too, which is not surprising, really, but nice to contemplate... there must be something to this here music thing...

Playlist 2019-08-05:

*Peter Brötzmann/Heather Leigh: Sparrow Nights
*Stanley Clarke: School Days
*Duke Ellington: Ellington at Newport (side 2)
*Farmers By Nature: Love and Ghosts (discs 1, 2)
*Flaga: Flaga (Zorn/Masada Book Two: The Book of Angels Vol. 27)
*Herbie Hancock: Live in Copenhagen 1971 (CDR) (discs 1, 2)
*Herbie Hancock: Live Aarhus, Denmark 1971 (CDR)
*Herbie Hancock Septet: Live at the Boston Jazz Workshop
*Matt Mitchell: Phalanx Ambassadors
*Larry Ochs/Nels Cline/Gerald Cleaver: What Is to Be Done
*Henry Threadgill Sextet: When Was That?
*Henry Threadgill Sextet: Just the Facts and Pass the Bucket
*Henry Threadgill Sextet: Subject to Change
*Various artists: History of Electronic/Electroacoustic Music (CDR compilation) (discs 31, 32)
*John Zorn: In the Hall of Mirrors
*John Zorn: The Hierophant
*Arti & Mestieri: Tilt
*Beatles: Revolver (2009 stereo remaster) (side 2)
*Beatles: The Beatles (Super Deluxe Edition) (side 1)
*James Brown: The Singles, Vol. 5: 1967-1969 (discs 1, 2)
*George Clinton: R&B Skeletons in the Closet
*Emerson Lake & Palmer: Emerson Lake & Palmer
*Hatfield and the North with Robert Wyatt: Calyx (boot CDR)
*Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live at the Isle of Fehmarn
*Hurray For The Riff Raff: The Navigator
*Kinks: 1969-11-27/29 Fillmore West, SF (CDR)
*Prince: Originals
*Shirelles: Tonight's the Night
*Shirelles: The Shirelles Sing to Trumpets and Strings
*Shirelles: Baby It's You
*Shirelles: The Shirelles and King Curtis Give a Twist Party
*Shirelles: Swing the Most
*Shirelles: Hear & Now
*Bruce Springsteen: The Ties That Bind: The River Collection (disc 4)
*Various artists: Let's Do the Boogaloo
*Weeklings: The Weeklings
*Stevie Wonder: Music of My Mind (side 1)
*Yes: Tales from Topographic Oceans (2016 remaster) (side 4)
*Frank Zappa: Nostalgia (boot CDR)

Reading List, Week of 2019-08-04

After finishing Finnegans Wake for the second time, I am ready to start it a third. I will say this: the more you know, the better it gets. My reading plan for my next rereading is to read the section on each chapter in two books: Kaleidoscope: An Invitation to Finnegans Wake by Philip Kitcher, and A Guide Through Finnegans Wake by Edmund Lloyd Epstein, then read each chapter in the Rose/O'Hanlon edition (the Folio Society version) while listening to Patrick Horgan's reading. It really helps to listen while reading ---both, not one or the other. The visual and the aural overlap and coalesce. Epstein's take is more informational, closer in spirit to the Tindall guide. But I really like Kitcher's take on the book as a whole, where he is less focused on minutiae and more concerned with the notion of an ageing dreamer trying to come to terms with his life.

Reading List 2019-08-05:

*Epstein, Edmund Lloyd. A Guide Through Finnegans Wake (started)
*Joyce, James. Finnegans Wake (ed. Rose/O'Hanlon) (reread/started)
*Kitcher, Philip. Joyce's Kaleidoscope: An Invitation to Finnegans Wake (started)
*Nelson, Michael J. Mike Nelson's Movie Megacheese (reread/started)
*Joyce, James. Finnegans Wake (ed. Henkes, Bindervoet, Fordham) (reread/finished)
*Tindall, William York, A Reader's Guide to Finnegans Wake (finished)
*Dreyer, Benjamin. Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style (in progress)
*Goldbarth, Albert. Across the Layers: Poems Old and New (in progress)