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)