Playlist, Week of 2020-12-27

Holiday listening...

Playlist 2020-12-28:

*Beatles: Hard Day's Night (2009 stereo remaster) (sides 1, 2)
*Beatles: Beatles for Sale (2009 stereo remaster) (sides 1, 2)
*Clash: London Calling
*Elvis Costello: This Year's Model
*Dance Gavin Dance:  Downtown Battle Mountain
*Fall of Troy: Ghostship
*Vince Guaraldi Trio: A Charlie Brown Christmas
*Led Zeppelin: Physical Graffiti (disc 1)
*Mars Volta: Frances the Mute
*Opeth: Ghost Reveries
*Pere Ubu: The Modern Dance
*Pere Ubu: Dub Housing
*Pere Ubu: The Tenement Year
*Pere Ubu: Cloudland
*Phil Spector: A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector
*Squeeze: East Side Story
*Taylor Swift: Folklore (sides 1, 2, 3, 4)
*Ralph Towner: Solstice
*Wolf Alice: My Love Is Cool

Reading List, Week of 2020-12-27

Reading List 2020-12-28:


*Henderson, Erica et al. Assassin Nation (started/finished)
*Spurrier, Simon et al. Coda #1-12 (started/finished)
*Spurrier, Simon et al. The Spire #1-8 (started/finished)
*Vaughan, Brian K. et al. We Stand On Guard #1-6 (started/finished)
*Watters, Dan et al. Limbo #1-6 (started/finished)
*Shakespeare, William. A Midsummer Night's Dream (Arden 2nd series, ed. Harold F. Brooks) (reread/started)

*Crowley, John. Little, Big (finished)
*Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy (in progress)

Playlist, Week of 2020-12-20

Playlist 2020-12-21:

*Derek Bailey & Min Xiao-Fen: Viper
*Anthony Braxton: Quartet (New Haven) 2014 (disc 3)
*Rodger Coleman and Sam Byrd: 2009-07-23 Nashville (wav) track 3 (moon landing)
*Miles Davis: Rare Miles (CDR compilation) (disc 2)
*Miles Davis: Volume 1 [Blue Note]
*Miles Davis: Chronicle: The Complete Prestige Recordings 1951-1956 (disc 3)
*Miles Davis: Seven Steps: The Complete Columbia Recordings Of Miles Davis 1963-1964 (disc 2)
*Miles Davis: The Cellar Door Sessions 1970 (disc 6) "Directions"
*Duke Ellington: The Complete Capitol Recordings of Duke Ellington (disc 1)
*Duke Ellington: The Great London Concerts
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Harlem
*Duke Ellington: In the Uncommon Market
*Duke Ellington: The Private Collection, Vol. 10: New York, Chicago 1965, 1966, 1971
*Duke Ellington: The Afro-Eurasian Eclipse
*Duke Ellington: Live at the Whitney
*Fall of Troy: Mukiltearth
*Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas (sides 1, 2)
*Vince Guaraldi Trio: A Charlie Brown Christmas
*Jethro Tull: A Passion Play
*Ingrid Laubrock: Dreamt Twice, Twice Dreamt (disc 1)
*Prince: Sign O’ the Times (Super Deluxe Edition) (discs 4, 5)
*Mike Sopko/Bill Laswell/Tyshawn Sorey: On Common Ground
*Phil Spector: A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector

Reading List, Week of 2020-12-20

Reading List 2020-12-21:

*Marsh, Dave. The Heart of Rock and Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made (reread/finished)
*Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy (in progress)
*Crowley, John. Little, Big (in progress)

Playlist, Week of 2020-12-13

Last week I talked about my plans to dig in deep to Duke Ellington... you can see the beginnings of that in this week's list, wherein I cranked through most of the 10 CDs of the so-called "Private Collection," sessions from Ellington's stockpile of recordings he paid for himself that were released posthumously... I understand that there are lot more of these that have come out since this initial outpouring, and that's an area for future investigation... overall, these discs are wonderful... many earlier versions of pieces that came out, many reworkings of Ellington standards, a revisit to "Black, Brown, and Beige," and two fantastic longer suites ("The Degas Suite" and "The River")... much to explore here... and damn, two of the late suites that were released, The Afro-Eurasian Eclipse and New Orleans Suite, are just brilliant... As my plans for listening in 2021 firm up, I have to say that in addition to Ellington I'll be digging deep (again) into Miles Davis, especially the early stuff... I plan on rereading Jack Chambers's book Milestones as an accompaniment... I feel way more familiar with Miles's work overall than I do with later Ellington... anyway: 2021: Duke and Miles: bring it on!

Playlist 2020-12-14:

*Muhal Richard Abrams: Spiral: Live at Montreux 1978 (sides 1, 2)
*Marshall Allen/Elliott Levin/Tim Harding/Sam Byrd: 2007-12-13 Richmond VA (CDR)
*Area: Maledetti (Maudits) (side 2)
*Area: Event '76 (side 1)
*Kevin Ayers: Joy of a Toy (side 1)
*Anthony Braxton: The Montreux/Berlin Concerts (side 1)
*Anthony Braxton: Three Orchestras (GTM) 1998
*Anthony Braxton: Sonic Genome (2019-10-31 Berlin) (CDR)
*Rodger Coleman and Sam Byrd: 2015-05-14 Nashville (wav) track 6
*Miles Davis: Rare Miles (CDR compilation) (disc 1)
*Miles Davis: Chronicle: The Complete Prestige Recordings 1951-1956 (discs 1, 2)
*Miles Davis: Miles in the Sky
*Duke Ellington: Brunswick-Vocalion Rarities (sides 1, 2)
*Duke Ellington: The Complete Duke Ellington, Vol. 2: 1928-1930 (sides 2, 3)
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: 1939-40 (sides 1, 2)
*Duke Ellington: The Private Collection, Vol. 1: Studio Sessions, Chicago 1956
*Duke Ellington: The Private Collection, Vol. 2: Dance Sessions, California, 1958
*Duke Ellington: The Private Collection, Vol. 3: Studio Sessions, New York 1962
*Duke Ellington: The Private Collection, Vol. 4: Studio Sessions, New York 1963
*Duke Ellington: The Private Collection, Vol. 5: The Suites
*Duke Ellington: The Private Collection, Vol. 6: Dance Dates, California 1958
*Duke Ellington: The Private Collection, Vol. 7: Studio Sessions, Chicago 1957, New York 1962
*Duke Ellington: The Private Collection, Vol. 8: Studio Sessions, 1957-1967
*Duke Ellington: The Private Collection, Vol. 9: Studio Sessions, New York 1968
*Duke Ellington: New Orleans Suite
*Duke Ellington: The Afro-Eurasian Eclipse
*Grateful Dead: 1973-12-06 Cleveland (CDR) "Dark Star"
*Hatfield and the North: The Rotters’ Club (side 2)
*Earl Hines: Earl Hines Plays Duke Ellington (side 3)
*Keith Jarrett: Tribute (disc 2)
*George Jones and the Jones Boys: Live in Texas 1965
*Ingrid Laubrock: Dreamt Twice, Twice Dreamt (disc 2)
*Miles Okazaki: Trickster
*Alexander von Schlippenbach: Monk's Casino (The Complete Works of Thelonious Monk) (disc 1)
*Tyshawn Sorey: Pillars (disc 3)
*Various artists: Ad-Rock & Mike D's Alphabetical Jukebox (CDR compilation) (discs 21, 22, 23)

Reading List, Week of 2020-12-13

Reading List 2020-12-14:

*Crowley, John. Little, Big (started)
*Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus (finished)
*Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy (in progress)
*Cook, Richard, and Brian Morton. The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (5th ed.) (selections)
*Marsh, Dave. The Heart of Rock and Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made (reread/in progress)

Playlist, Week of 2020-12-06

Some absolutely brilliant music from Duke Ellington on the Mosaic Capitol box set... after my foray into rediscovery of Charlie Parker of a few weeks back, I am going to start on an in-depth, non-chronological deep dive into Ellington... everything I've pulled out so far in the last few weeks has just reminded me over and over again what a vast wealth of solid amazing music he left for us... many years ago I got in really, really deep with his music from the '20s to the early '40s... I hope to do the same over the coming year with the '50s to the '70s... won't have anything original to add to the discussion but I am still looking forward to it... I won't be listening alone... at some point in here I will also re-read Eddie Lambert's Listening Guide, which is chock full o' great insight and critical acumen... Gary Giddins's essays on Duke in Visions of Jazz, which I revisited this week, are also spot-on... and finally, Brian Morton and Richard Cook in the Penguin Guide to Jazz do a superb job of nailing, over and over, the crucial highlights of all the albums they cover... of course Duke has always been with me (as Bird, Sun Ra, the Beatles, the Beach Boys, Coltrane, Miles, Braxton, Cecil, and so many others also always are) on the Magic Jukebox... but this will be a special delving-into, with tons of unexplored goodies as well as happy returns to old friends... 

Playlist 2020-12-07:

*John Coltrane: Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album (Deluxe Edition) (disc 2)
*Kris Davis/Ingrid Laubrock: 2020-03-08 Toronto (CDR)
*Duke Ellington: Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (sides 1, 2)
*Duke Ellington: The Complete Capitol Recordings of Duke Ellington (discs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
*Explorers Club: Together
*Fable: Live 1978 (wav)
*Marvin Gaye: You're the Man
*Jimmy Giuffre 3: 1961 (disc 1)
*Fletcher Henderson Orchestra: Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra (sides 1, 2)
*Earl Hines: Earl Hines Plays Duke Ellington (sides 1, 2)
*Keith Jarrett: Tribute (disc 1)
*King Crimson: Starless (disc 8)
*Ingrid Laubrock/Sylvie Courvoisier/Mark Feldman/Tom Rainey: Tism
*Ingrid Laubrock: Dreamt Twice, Twice Dreamt (discs 1, 2)
*Okkyung Lee/Christian Marclay: Amalgam
*Rob Mazurek/Exploding Star Orchestra: Galactic Parables: Volume 1 "Free Agents of Sound"
*Roscoe Mitchell with Ostravská Banda: Distant Radio Transmission (side 1)
*Nicole Mitchell's Sonic Projections: The Secret Escapades of Velvet Anderson
*Thelonious Monk: Monk's Music
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2015-11-09 “Order That Number” (wav)
*Jean-Luc Ponty: Enigmatic Ocean (side 1)
*Matana Roberts: Coin Coin Chapter One: Les Gens de Couleur Libres
*Matana Roberts: Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile
*Matana Roberts: Coin Coin Chapter Three: River Run Thee
*Matana Roberts: Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis
*Springhouse: Dis Orderly
*Third Coast Ensemble: Wrecks
*Keith Tippett's Ark: Frames (Music For An Imaginary Film) (disc 2)
*Charles Tolliver: Mosaic Select (disc 3)
*Dan Weiss/Starebaby: Natural Selection
*Mary Lou Williams & Cecil Taylor: Embraced (side 1)

Reading List, Week of 2020-12-06

Reading List 2020-12-07:

*Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus (started)
*Mustich, James. 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die (finished)
*Nashe, Thomas. The Unfortunate Traveler (finished)
*Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy (in progress)
*Cook, Richard, and Brian Morton. The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (5th ed.) (selections)
*Marsh, Dave. The Heart of Rock and Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made (reread/in progress)

Playlist, Week of 2020-11-29

It's good to cleanse the palate every so often with some brain-scraping noise jazz, and Zu fits the bill, especially with Mats Gustafsson sitting in... WMWM reminds me how great a free drummer Robert Wyatt was... I knew of their first album, but I wasn't even aware there was a second one from Free Range Rat until I read the entry in the Penguin guide... nice sax work from my old UYA bandmate Eric Hipp... Start scratching the Blue Note surface and you'll find Joe Henderson everywhere... he's great on Pete La Roca Sims's Basra... there he is on Herbie Hancock's The Prisoner as well... and, outside the Blue Note universe, he also pops up on Butterfly Dreams... love me some Joe Henderson!

Playlist 2020-11-30:

*Mose Allison: The Word from Mose
*Jon Anderson: Olias of Sunhillow
*Beach Boys: California Girls (sides 1, 2)
*Beatles: Hard Day's Night (2009 mono remaster)
*Elvis Costello & the Attractions: Get Happy (side 1)
*Deerhoof: To Be Surrounded by Beautiful, Curious, Breathing, Laughing Flesh Is Enough
*Duke Ellington: Duke Ellington 1939 (side 2)
*Free Range Rat: Nut Club
*Mary Halvorson's Code Girl: Artlessly Falling
*Herbie Hancock: The Prisoner
*Andrew Hill: Solo (disc 3)
*Keith Jarrett: Standards in Norway
*King Crimson: Starless (discs 7, 9)
*Pete La Roca: Basra
*Ingrid Laubrock: Dreamt Twice, Twice Dreamt (disc 1)
*Mat Maneri Trio: So What?
*Pat Metheny/Ornette Coleman: Song X: Twentieth Anniversary
*Charles Mingus: Right Now
*Roscoe Mitchell Quartet: Come and See What There Is To See
*Bud Powell: The Genius of Bud Powell (sides 1, 2)
*Prince: Sign O’ the Times (Super Deluxe Edition) (disc 1)
*Flora Purim: Butterfly Dreams
*Sam Rivers and the Rivbea Orchestra: Trilogy (disc 3)
*Carlos Santana/John McLaughlin: 1973-09-05 Berkeley (boot CDR) (disc 1)
*Jimmy Smith: Groovin' at Small's Paradise
*Tomasz Stańko: Leosia
*Sun Ra: 1972-11-02/03 "Mystery Board" (CDR) (discs 1, 2)
*Sun Ra: Singles: The Definitive 45s Collection 1952-1991 (disc 3)
*Swollen Monkeys: After Birth of the Cool
*Cecil Taylor: Conquistador! "Conquistador"
*Cecil Taylor Unit: 1983-09-04 Saalfelden, Austria (CDR)
*Keith Tippett's Ark: Frames (Music For An Imaginary Film) (disc 1)
*Charles Tolliver: Mosaic Select (disc 2)
*Various artists: The Sound of Bossa Nova (disc 1)
*Various artists: Ad-Rock & Mike D's Alphabetical Jukebox (CDR compilation) (disc 20)
*WMWM: Live at the BBC 1973 (CDR)
*Zu/Mats Gustafsson: How to Raise an Ox

Reading List, Week of 2020-11-29

Reading List 2020-11-30:

*Nashe, Thomas. The Unfortunate Traveler (started)
*Barth, John. Giles Goat-Boy (reread/finished)
*Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy (in progress)
*Marsh, Dave. The Heart of Rock and Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made (reread/in progress)
*Mustich, James. 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die (in progress)

Playlist, Week of 2020-11-22

The new Ingrid Laubrock album is gorgeous... one disc of chamber orchestra with soloists, one with small group, playing (sort of) the same compositions... I think I prefer the chamber orchestra for its dreamy, focus-shifting uncertainty... Firestorm is an unrelenting blast of aggressive fire music... nice to hear Marshall Allen in this context... The Prisoner is a brilliant sedate meditation on the life of Martin Luther King Jr.... a recent discovery for me; wish I'd heard it earlier... As for Coltrane's Blue World, I didn't have a chance to hear it earlier, but I'm glad to hear it now... As I am glad to revisit the lush settings Gil Evans contrives for Miles Davis... 

Playlist 2020-11-23:

*Daniel Barbiero: In​/​Completion
*Béla Bartók: String Quartet No. 1 (Alban Berg Quartett)
*Tim Berne's Snakeoil: The Deceptive 4 (Live) (discs 1, 2)
*Terri Lyne Carrington: The Mosaic Project
*John Coltrane: Blue World
*Sylvie Courvoisier Trio: D'Agala
*Miles Davis/Gil Evans: The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings (disc 4)
*Miles Davis: Seven Steps: The Complete Columbia Recordings Of Miles Davis 1963-1964 (discs 1, 2)
*Duke Ellington: Duke Ellington 1938 (side 3)
*Duke Ellington: Soul Call
*Dizzy Gillespie: Birks Works: The Verve Big-Band Sessions (disc 1)
*Grateful Dead: Pacific Northwest '73-'74: Believe It if You Need It (disc 3)
*Mary Halvorson's Code Girl: Artlessly Falling
*Herbie Hancock: The Prisoner
*Andrew Hill: Solo (disc 2)
*King Crimson: Starless (discs 5, 6)
*Ingrid Laubrock: Dreamt Twice, Twice Dreamt (discs 1, 2)
*Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey: Stir Crazy (CDR compilation) (disc 8)
*Barbara Lewis: Don't Forget About Me (The Atlantic & Reprise Recordings) (discs 1, 2, 3)
*Barbara Lewis: The Many Grooves of Barbara Lewis
*Allen Lowe: Jews in Hell: Radical Jewish Acculturation (disc 2)
*Manna/Mirage: Rest of the World
*Paul Motian Trio: Sound of Love
*Don Pullen: Mosaic Select (disc 3)
*Flora Purim: Open Your Eyes You Can Fly
*Sam Rivers and the Rivbea Orchestra: Trilogy (disc 2)
*Sonny Rollins: this Is What I Do
*Tad Thaddock: Things 25 (1985: 5000 Hawaiians/Live at P.B. Kelly's)
*Cecil Taylor and Tony Oxley: Birdland, Neuburg 2011
*Lewis Taylor: The Lost Album
*Various artists: Ad-Rock & Mike D's Alphabetical Jukebox (CDR compilation) (disc 19)
*Weasel Walter Quartet and Double Trio: Firestorm
*Xiu Xiu: Women as Lovers
*John Zorn: Rimbaud

Reading List, Week of 2020-11-22

Reading List 2020-11-23:

*Chekhov, Anton. Early Short Stories 1883-1888 (transl. Constance Garnett) (stopped)
*Barth, John. Giles Goat-Boy (reread/in progress)
*Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy (in progress)
*Marsh, Dave. The Heart of Rock and Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made (reread/in progress)
*Mustich, James. 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die (in progress)

Playlist, Week of 2020-11-15

Deerhoof's latest slew of albums is a lot of fun, but the best of the lot is Love-Lore, an amazing mix of cover tunes which manages to include Sun Ra and Anthony Braxton AND Dionne Warwick AND "The Jetsons" AND P-Funk... starting to sound a lot like the Magic Jukebox!... John Gilmore's work on Pete Sims's Turkish Women at the Bath is nice enough... hell, it's wonderful... but it just confirms for me that Gilmore did his best work with Sun Ra... Nice to hear Robert Wyatt on three of the tracks from the new Code Girl album... as a longtime Wyatt fan, I've been intrigued to read in Mary Halvorson interviews how much she's been inspired by Wyatt, and this new album really nails that inspiration, with his vocals fitting in perfectly with the Code Girl aesthetic already in place from their first album... 

Playlist 2020-11-16:

*Muhal Richard Abrams Quintet: 1977-03-04 NYC (CDR) (disc 3)
*Daniel Barbiero: In​/​Completion
*Blood Incantation: Hidden History of the Human Race
*Daniel Carter/Matthew Shipp/William Parker/Gerald Cleaver: Welcome Adventure! Vol. 1
*John Coltrane: Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album (Deluxe Edition) (disc 1)
*Deerhoof: Love-Lore
*Explorers Club: Grand Hotel
*Fable: Live 1978
*Grateful Dead: Pacific Northwest '73-'74: Believe It if You Need It (disc 2)
*Mary Halvorson's Code Girl: Artlessly Falling
*Scott Hamilton: Scott Hamilton Plays Ballads
*Andrew Hill: Solo (disc 1)
*King Crimson: Starless (discs 3, 4)
*Ingrid Laubrock: Dreamt Twice, Twice Dreamt (disc 1)
*Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey: Stir Crazy (CDR compilation) (disc 7)
*Lemon Twigs: Songs for the General Public
*Allen Lowe: Jews in Hell: Radical Jewish Acculturation (disc 1)
*Jackie McLean: Let Freedom Ring
*Ollie & the Nightingales: Ollie & the Nightingales
*Mario Pavone: Arc Trio
*Prince: Surprise Jazz Night with Prince (boot CDR) (discs 2, 3)
*Don Pullen: Mosaic Select (disc 2)
*Carlos Santana/John McLaughlin: A Live Supreme: 1973-09-01 Chicago (boot CDR) (disc 2)
*Alexander von Schlippenbach: Monk's Casino (The Complete Works of Thelonious Monk) (disc 3)
*Sara Serpa: Close Up
*Pete La Roca Sims: Turkish Women at the Bath
*Mike Sopko/Bill Laswell/Tyshawn Sorey: On Common Ground
*Sun Ra: Egypt 1971: In Heliopolis: Unreleased Recordings (streaming)
*Sun Ra: Egypt 1971: Egyptian Oasis: Unreleased Recordings (streaming)
*Henry Threadgill Zooid: In for a Penny, In for a Pound (disc 2)
*Charles Tolliver: Mosaic Select (disc 1)
*Various artists: Ad-Rock & Mike D's Alphabetical Jukebox (CDR compilation) (discs 17, 18)
*Chick Webb & Ella Fitzgerald: The Complete Chick Webb & Ella Fitzgerald Decca Sessions (1934-1941) (disc 8)
*Dan Weiss/Starebaby: Natural Selection

Reading List, Week of 2020-11-15

Reading List 2020-11-16:

*Barth, John. Giles Goat-Boy (reread/started)
*Jemison, N. K. The Shadowed Sun (started/finished)
*Jemison, N. K. The Killing Moon (finished)
*Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy (in progress)
*Chekhov, Anton. Early Short Stories 1883-1888 (transl. Constance Garnett) (in progress)
*Marsh, Dave. The Heart of Rock and Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made (reread/in progress)
*Mustich, James. 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die (in progress)

Playlist, Week of 2020-11-08

Brilliant new recording from Daniel Barbiero: In/Completion... solo double bass renditions of works with graphic scores by Morton Feldman, Cristiano Bocci, and several others, beautifully rendered by Dan... he must have really gotten himself into a sublime meditative state to achieve these... gorgeous and stimulating... easily one of his best albums... 


Playlist 2020-11-09:

*Muhal Richard Abrams Quintet: 1977-03-04 NYC (CDR) (discs 1, 2)
*Pepper Adams: Pepper Adams Plays Charlie Mingus
*Daniel Barbiero: In​/​Completion
*Circle: 1971-03-03 Hamburg (CDR) "Comp. 6a"
*Elvis Costello: My Aim Is True (sides 1, 2)
*Anthony Davis: Middle Passage (side 1)
*Kris Davis Trio: Waiting for You to Grow
*Yamataka Eye and John Zorn: Naninani II
*Art Farmer: Portrait of Art
*Herbie Hancock: The Prisoner
*Julius Hemphill Quartet: Flat-Out Jump Suite
*Joe Henderson: The State of the Tenor: Live at the Village Vanguard, Volume 1 (side 1)
*King Crimson: Starless (disc 2)
*John Lennon: Gimme Some Truth: The Ultimate Mixes (disc 2)
*Sunny Murray: Homage to Africa
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2017-10-09 "Fight Back in the Kitchen" (wav)
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2017-11-20 "Fluid Dispersal" (wav)
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2018-01-15 "Slip Mixer Blend" (wav)
*Tony Oxley Celebration Orchestra: The Enchanted Messenger
*Charlie Parker: Bird's Eyes, Last Unissued, Vol. 17
*Evan Parker ElectroAcoustic Septet: Seven
*Prince: Sign O’ the Times (Super Deluxe Edition) (disc 4, 5, 6)
*Sonny Rollins: East Broadway Run Down (side 1)
*Alexander von Schlippenbach: Monk's Casino (The Complete Works of Thelonious Monk) (disc 2)
*Archie Shepp: Fire Music
*Leo Smith Creative Orchestra: Budding of a Rose "Harmonium > Mutumishi"
*Sun Ra: Cosmos (side 2)
*Sun Ra Arkestra: Swirling
*Cecil Taylor: Silent Tongues (side 1)
*Cecil Taylor: 1987-03-06 Rome (CDR)
*Cecil Taylor Quintet: 1991-09-09 Stockholm (CDR)
*Henry Threadgill Sextet: Just the Facts and Pass the Bucket (side 1)
*Henry Threadgill Zooid: In for a Penny, In for a Pound (disc 1)
*Thumbscrew: The Anthony Braxton Project
*McCoy Tyner: The Real McCoy (side 1)
*Various artists: Amarcord Nino Rota (side 1)
*Tony Williams: Mosaic Select (disc 1)

Reading List, Week of 2020-11-08

Reading List 2020-11-09:

*Chekhov, Anton. Early Short Stories 1883-1888 (transl. Constance Garnett) (started)
*Jemison, N. K. The Killing Moon (started)
*Marías, Javier. Your Face Tomorrow, vol. 3: Poison, Shadow, and Farewell (transl. Margaret Jull Costa) (finished)
*Cook, Richard, and Brian Morton. The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.) (selections)
*Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy (in progress)
*Marsh, Dave. The Heart of Rock and Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made (reread/in progress)
*Mustich, James. 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die (in progress)

Playlist, Week of 2020-11-01

Once again I find myself with not much to say... preoccupied with "current events" is a large part of it, but beyond that, I find that my listening outpaces my intellectual ability to synthesize my reactions... we'll see what happens... stay safe out there, folks, while voting... the fact that I even have to say that speaks volumes... What's Going On indeed... 

Playlist 2020-11-02:

*Beau Hunks: The Beau Hunks Play the Original "Little Rascals" Music
*Ran Blake Quartet: Short Life of Barbara Monk
*Paul Bley/Evan Parker/Barre Phillips: Time Will Tell
*Blood Incantation: Hidden History of the Human Race
*Terri Lyne Carrington: The Mosaic Project
*Earth Wind & Fire: I Am (side 1)
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Ellington Jazz Party in Stereo
*Gil Evans: Out of the Cool
*Marvin Gaye: What's Going On (Deluxe ed.) (disc 1)
*Jimmy Giuffre 3: 1961 (disc 2)
*Grant Green: The Complete Quartets with Sonny Clark (disc 1)
*Keith Jarrett: Changeless
*King Crimson: Starless (disc 1)
*Ingrid Laubrock: 2017-06-05 Moers (CDR) "Vogelfrei"
*Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey: Stir Crazy (CDR compilation) (disc 6)
*John Lennon: Gimme Some Truth: The Ultimate Mixes (disc 1)
*John McLaughlin: My Goal's Beyond (side 1)
*Charles Mingus: Jazz in Detroit/Strata Concert Gallery/46 Selden (discs 4, 5)
*Roscoe Mitchell Quartet: Come and See What There Is To See
*Miles Okazaki: Trickster
*Prince: Surprise Jazz Night with Prince (boot CDR) (disc 1)
*Don Pullen: Jazz A Confronto 21 (side 1)
*Don Pullen: Mosaic Select (disc 1)
*Sam Rivers and the Rivbea Orchestra: Trilogy (disc 1)
*Carlos Santana/John McLaughlin: A Live Supreme: 1973-09-01 Chicago (boot CDR) (disc 1)
*Alexander von Schlippenbach: Monk's Casino (The Complete Works of Thelonious Monk) (disc 1)
*Skatalites: Ska Foundation (disc 1)
*Sun Ra: Sun Song (side 1)
*Sun Ra Arkestra: Unity (discs 1, 2)
*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: Taking a Chance on Chances
*Sun Ra and His Intergalactic Myth Science Solar Arkestra: Sleeping Beauty (side 2)
*Craig Taborn Trio: Chants
*Cecil Taylor: Indent "Indent: Third Layer"
*Cecil Taylor Unit: 1976-04-15 Ann Arbor (CDR)
*Cecil Taylor/Art Ensemble of Chicago: 1984-10-30 Paris (CDR) (track 2)
*Cecil Taylor Quartet: Incarnation
*McCoy Tyner: Cosmos (side 4)
*Various artists: Afro-Cuban Jazz (sides 1, 2)
*Various artists: Ad-Rock & Mike D's Alphabetical Jukebox (CDR compilation) (disc 16)
*Weather Report: Sweetnighter
*Weather Report: Recordings of Wayne Shorter 2
*Chick Webb & Ella Fitzgerald: The Complete Chick Webb & Ella Fitzgerald Decca Sessions (1934-1941) (discs 6, 7)
*Tony Williams: Mosaic Select (discs 1, 2)
*Teddy Wilson: Teddy Wilson (Giants of Jazz) (sides 1, 2)
*Lester Young: The Lester Young Story Volume 2: A Musical Romance (sides 1, 2)

Reading List, Week of 2020-11-01

Reading List 2020-11-02:

*Cook, Richard, and Brian Morton. The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.) (selections)
*Marías, Javier. Your Face Tomorrow, vol. 3: Poison, Shadow, and Farewell (transl. Margaret Jull Costa) (started)
*Marías, Javier. Your Face Tomorrow, vol. 2: Dance and Dream (transl. Margaret Jull Costa) (started/finished)
*Marías, Javier. Your Face Tomorrow, vol. 1: Fever and Spear (transl. Margaret Jull Costa) (reread/finished)
*Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy (in progress)
*Marsh, Dave. The Heart of Rock and Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made (reread/in progress)
*Mustich, James. 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die (in progress)

Playlist, Week of 2020-10-25

Still listening....

Playlist 2020-10-26:

*Cannonball Adderley: Somethin' Else
*Air: Air Lore (side 2)
*Beach Boys: Sunflower (side 1)
*Anthony Braxton/Mario Pavone Quintet: Seven Standards 1995
*Tom Buckner/Gerald Oshita/Roscoe Mitchell: New Music for Woodwinds and Voice (side 1)
*John Coltrane Quartet: Africa/Brass (side 1)
*Sylvie Courvoisier/Mark Feldman/Ikue Mori/Evan Parker: Miller's Tale
*Sylvie Courvoisier Trio: D'Agala
*Kris Davis: Rye Eclipse
*Kris Davis/Ingrid Laubrock: 2020-03-08 Toronto (CDR)
*Mike Elder/Harry Forrest/Greg Jordan/Sam Byrd: New CDR Compilation (disc 3)
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: 1928-1933 (sides 1, 2)
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: The Duke Ellington Carnegie Hall Concerts: January 1943 (side 5)
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Suite Thursday/Controversial Suite/Harlem Suite (side 1)
*Bud Freeman: Great Original Performances 1927-1940
*Benny Goodman: The Complete RCA Victor Small Group Master Takes (disc 2)
*Mary Halvorson: Code Girl (discs 1, 2)
*High Llamas: Here Come the Rattling Trees
*Hugh Hopper: Hopper Tunity Box
*Keith Jarrett Trio: Still Live (discs 1, 2)
*King Crimson: Larks' Tongues in Aspic: The Complete Recordings (discs 10, 13)
*Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey: Stir Crazy (CDR compilation) (disc 5)
*Charles Mingus: Jazz in Detroit/Strata Concert Gallery/46 Selden (disc 3)
*Nicole Mitchell: Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds
*Roscoe Mitchell/Malachi Favors: 1993-10-16 Oakland CA (CDR)
*OOIOO: Armonico Hewa
*Charlie Parker: The Complete Dean Benedetti Recordings of Charlie Parker (disc 7)
*Evan Parker/Barry Guy/Paul Lytton: Music for David Mossman
*William Parker Trio: 2020-03-08 Toronto (CDR)
*Max Roach and Cecil Taylor: Historic Concerts (side 4)
*Cecil Taylor & Günter Sommer: Riobec "Riobec 1"
*Chester Thompson: Powerhouse
*Various artists: Charas Babu: Inspiring Colourful and Rare Sounds from India
*Various artists: Ad-Rock & Mike D's Alphabetical Jukebox (CDR compilation) (discs 14, 15)

Reading List, Week of 2020-10-25

Reading List 2020-10-26:

*Marías, Javier. Your Face Tomorrow, vol. 1: Fever and Spear (transl. Margaret Jull Costa) (reread/started)
*DeWitt, Helen. The Last Samurai (finished)
*Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy (in progress)
*Marsh, Dave. The Heart of Rock and Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made (reread/in progress)
*Mustich, James. 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die (in progress)

Playlist, Week of 2020-10-18

I'm struck by how much Tony Williams's late Blue Note compositions sound like the music of the great Miles Davis quintet of the '60s... I was foolish to be disappointed with Foreign Intrigue when I bought it when it first came out... what was I expecting? Lifetime?... the stupidity of youth... and I wonder: what mistakes am I making now?... at any rate, this music now sounds deeply rich and intriguing... I discovered another version of Duke Ellington playing "New World a-Comin'" from the First Sacred Concert, this time a piano solo... I prefer the band version... Haven't heard a lame Charlie Parker solo yet... 

Playlist 2020-10-19:

*Rodrigo Amado: This Is Our Language
*Art Ensemble: 1967/68 (disc 4) "A to Ericka"
*Beethoven: String Quartet No. 15 in A Minor (Emerson String Quartet)
*Blood Incantation: Hidden History of the Human Race
*Tom Buckner/Gerald Oshita/Roscoe Mitchell: New Music for Woodwinds and Voice (side 2)
*Centipede: Septober Energy (side 2)
*Rodger Coleman and Sam Byrd: 2015-05-14 Nashville (wav) Track 3
*John Coltrane: Live in Seattle "Out of This World"
*Deerhoof: Love-Lore
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: The Treasury Shows, Vol. 6 (disc 1)
*Duke Ellington: The Centennial Edition: The Complete RCA-Victor Recordings (disc 18)
*Farmers By Nature: Love and Ghosts (disc 2) "Bisanz"
*Jimmy Giuffre 3: 1961 (disc 1)
*Benny Goodman: The Complete RCA Victor Small Group Master Takes (disc 1)
*Fletcher Henderson: The Complete Fletcher Henderson 1927-1936 (sides 3, 4)
*King Crimson: Larks' Tongues in Aspic: The Complete Recordings (disc 9)
*Booker Little: Out Front (side 1)
*Charles Mingus: Jazz in Detroit/Strata Concert Gallery/46 Selden (disc 2)
*Roscoe Mitchell: Roscoe Mitchell and the Sound and Space Ensembles (side 2)
*Joe Morris Quartet: Balance
*Muffins: <185> (side 1)
*Charlie Parker: The Complete Dean Benedetti Recordings of Charlie Parker (discs 6, 7)
*Charlie Parker: Charlie Parker (sides 7, 8)
*Charlie Parker: The Complete Savoy Studio Sessions (side 6)
*Mario Pavone Dialect Trio: Philosophy
*Pere Ubu: Terminal Tower: An Archival Collection (sides 1, 2)
*Popol Vuh: Einsjäger und Siebenjäger
*RAIC: Lamentations
*Matthew Shipp: Sonic Fiction
*Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 (BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra)
*Sun Ra & His Arkestra: Live at Montreux (sides 1, 3)
*Sun Ra: 1977-07-08 WKCR-FM, NYC (CDR)
*Charles Tolliver Big Band: Mosaic Select (disc 3)
*Various artists: Studio One 007: Licensed to Ska
*Various artists: The Other Side of the Trax: Stax-Volt 45rpm Rarities 1964-1968
*Various artists: Ad-Rock & Mike D's Alphabetical Jukebox (CDR compilation) (disc 13)
*Various artists: Subradar Sampler #01
*Various artists: Subradar Sampler #02
*Chick Webb & Ella Fitzgerald: The Complete Chick Webb & Ella Fitzgerald Decca Sessions (1934-1941) (disc 5)
*Dan Weiss/Starebaby: Natural Selection
*Tony Williams: Mosaic Select (discs 2, 3)

Reading List, Week of 2020-10-18

Reading List 2020-10-19:

*DeWitt, Helen. The Last Samurai (started)
*Dutton, Danielle. Margaret the First (started/finished)
*Hallberg, Garth Risk. City on Fire (finished)
*Stewart, John. Naked Pictures of Famous People (finished)
*Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy (in progress)
*Marsh, Dave. The Heart of Rock and Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made (reread/in progress)
*Mustich, James. 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die (in progress)

Playlist, Week of 2020-10-11

Live at Montreux is one of the all-time greatest Sun Ra records... the whole band's firing on all cylinders, and I love how he integrates acoustic piano with synthesizer... "New World a-Comin'" is an underappreciated (by me, anyway) long-form composition by Duke Ellington, featuring a lot of solo piano... it was recorded several times, but it looks like the only versions I have are a Treasury show from 1946 and a 1945 version on the relatively obscure LP Jazz of the World War 2nd... I feel like I'm slowly working more post-1945 Duke into my listening regime... I may need to reread Eddie Lambert's excellent book Duke Ellington: A Listener's Guide soon... Any record with Ingrid Laubrock or Kris Davis on it is golden... Besides Henry Kaiser's and Wadada Leo Smith's Yo Miles reconstructions, Dave Douglas's Freak In is one of the best explorations of Miles Davis's 1970-1975 sonic territory... it passed me by when it first came out, and I got led to it by the appearance of Craig Taborn... good stuff!

Playlist 2020-10-12:

*Daniel Barbiero/Cristiano Bocci: Non-Places
*Booker T. & the MGs: Melting Pot
*Anthony Braxton: 2 Compositions (Ensemble) 1989/1991
*John Coltrane: The Major Works of John Coltrane "Kulu Sé Mama"
*Dave Douglas: Freak In
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Jazz of the World War 2nd: Volume 2: 1944/1945 (side 2)
*Duke Ellington: A Drum Is a Woman
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Ellington Jazz Party in Stereo
*Duke Ellington and Count Basie: First Time! The Count Meets the Duke
*Duke Ellington: Blues in Orbit (side 1)
*Explorers Club: Grand Hotel
*Grateful Dead: 1969-12-21 Fillmore West
*King Crimson: Larks' Tongues in Aspic: The Complete Recordings (disc 8)
*Denise LaSalle: Here I Am Again
*Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey/Kris Davis/Ralph Alessi: Lark
*Lemon Twigs: Songs for the General Public
*Mahavishnu Orchestra: The Lost Trident Sessions
*Charles Mingus: Jazz in Detroit/Strata Concert Gallery/46 Selden (disc 1)
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2018-08-13 "We Do Not Need to Stop Walking to Solve This Problem Now" (wav)
*Charlie Parker: The Complete Dean Benedetti Recordings of Charlie Parker (disc 5)
*Charlie Parker: Charlie Parker in Sweden 1950 (sides 1, 2)
*Ivo Perelman/Joe Morris/Gerald Cleaver: The Art of the Improv Trio, Volume 6
*Popol Vuh: In den Gärten Pharaos
*Prince: Sign O’ the Times (Super Deluxe Edition) (discs 4,5, 7, 8)
*Sonny Rollins: A Night at the Village Vanguard
*Ruins: Live At Kichijoji / Mandala II
*Carlos Santana/Mahavishnu John McLaughlin: Love Devotion Surrender
*Matthew Shipp Quartet: Not Bound
*Wayne Shorter: Native Dancer
*Sun Ra & His Intergalactic Solar Research Arkestra: 1971-11-11 Delft, The Netherlands (CDR) (discs 2, 3)
*Sun Ra & His Arkestra: Live at Montreux (disc 1)
*Cecil Taylor: 3 Phasis (side 2)
*Cecil Taylor: Garden "Garden II"
*Charles Tolliver Big Band: Mosaic Select (discs 1, 2)
*Charles Tyler: Saga of the Outlaws
*Various artists: Ad-Rock & Mike D's Alphabetical Jukebox (CDR compilation) (disc 12)
*Chick Webb & Ella Fitzgerald: The Complete Chick Webb & Ella Fitzgerald Decca Sessions (1934-1941) (disc 4)
*Wig Drop: Wig Drop 3
*Tony Williams: Mosaic Select (disc 1)
*Frank Zappa: Son of Hot Rats (boot CDR)
*John Zorn: Calculus
*John Zorn/Simulacrum: Baphomet

Reading List, Week of 2020-10-11

Reading List 2020-10-12:

*Stewart, John. Naked Pictures of Famous People (started)
*Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy (in progress)
*Hallberg, Garth Risk. City on Fire (in progress)
*Marsh, Dave. The Heart of Rock and Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made (reread/in progress)
*Mustich, James. 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die (in progress)

Playlist, Week of 2020-10-04

Hadn't dug out New Music for Woodwinds and Voice in ages... what an amazing record!

Playlist 2020-10-05:

*AMM: Laminal (disc 1)
*Tim Berne: Science Friction
*Boris: Dear
*Anthony Braxton: 1973-08-22/25: Chateauvallon (CDR)
*Anthony Braxton: Ninetet (Yoshi's) 1997 Vol. 4 (discs 1, 2)
*Tom Buckner/Gerald Oshita/Roscoe Mitchell: New Music for Woodwinds and Voice (side 1)
*Terri Lyne Carrington: The Mosaic Project
*Centipede: Septober Energy (side 1)
*Charlie Christian: The Genius of the Electric Guitar (disc 3)
*Clash: Black Market Clash (sides 1, 2)
*Rodger Coleman and Sam Byrd: 2019-08-27 Nashville (rough mix wav) Track 1
*Bill Connors: Of Mist and Melting (side 2)
*Deerhoof: Love-Lore
*Duke Ellington: The Indispensable Duke Ellington Volumes 5/6 1940 (side 3)
*Duke Ellington: Ellington at Newport (side 1)
*Joe Henderson Quintet: At the Lighthouse
*Henry Cow: 1974-5 (Cow Box Redux)
*Ronald Shannon Jackson and the Decoding Society: Earned Dreams
*King Crimson: Larks' Tongues In Aspic: The Complete Recordings (disc 7)
*Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Does Your House Have Lions: The Rahsaan Roland Kirk Anthology (disc 2)
*Charles Mingus: Mingus Ah Um (side 1)
*Thelonious Monk: Brilliant Corners
*Charlie Parker and the All-Stars: Summit Meeting at Birdland (sides 1, 2)
*Popol Vuh: Affenstunde
*Prince: Sign O’ the Times (Super Deluxe Edition) (discs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
*Max Roach and Cecil Taylor: Historic Concerts (side 3)
*David Sancious and Tone: Dance of the Age of Enlightenment
*Matthew Shipp Quartet Declared Enemy: Our Lady of the Flowers
*Sun Ra Arkestra: Blues at Midnight: A John Gilmore Anthology, Vol. 2
*Sun Ra & His Intergalactic Solar Research Arkestra: 1971-11-11 Delft, The Netherlands (CDR) (disc 1)
*Sun Ra: The Universe Sent Me
*Cecil Taylor Orchestra of Two Continents: 1984-10-20 Rubigen, Switzerland (CDR) (disc 1)
*Various artists: Ad-Rock & Mike D's Alphabetical Jukebox (CDR compilation) (discs 9, 10, 11)
*Chick Webb & Ella Fitzgerald: The Complete Chick Webb & Ella Fitzgerald Decca Sessions (1934-1941) (disc 3)

Reading List, Week of 2020-10-04

Reading List 2020-10-05:

*Hallberg, Garth Risk. City on Fire (started)
*Burns, Charles. Last Look (started/finished)
*VanderMeer, Jeff. Borne (started/finished)
*Jemison, N. K. The City We Became (finished)
*Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy (in progress)
*Marsh, Dave. The Heart of Rock and Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made (reread/in progress)
*Mustich, James. 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die (in progress)

Playlist, Week of 2020-09-27

Diving into the King Crimson Larks' Tongues box... to my ears, for most of the live stuff, Jamie Muir is sadly underrecorded... the interaction between him and Bill Bruford is amazing, and Robert Fripp's guitar work is consistently stellar... Digging too the Benny Goodman sides with Charlie Christian... getting all hepped up... I have finally decided: Welcome is my favorite Santana record... 

Playlist 2020-09-28:

*AMM: An Unintended Legacy (disc 1)
*Art Ensemble: 1967/68 (disc 4) "A to Ericka"
*Bach: Sonatas & Partitas (Nathan Milstein) (sides 1, 2, 3, 4)
*Alban Berg - Alban-Berg-Quartet: Streichquartett Opus 3/Lyrische Suite (side 1)
*Anthony Braxton: For Four Orchestras (sides 1, 3)
*Anthony Braxton: Ninetet (Yoshi's) 1997 Vol. 3 (discs 1, 2)
*Anthony Braxton: 19 Standards (Quartet) 2003 (discs 3, 4)
*Charlie Christian: The Genius of the Electric Guitar (discs 1, 2)
*Kris Davis Infrasound: Save Your Breath
*Deerhoof: Future Teenage Cave Artists
*Deerhoof: To Be Surrounded by Beautiful, Curious, Breathing, Laughing Flesh Is Enough
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: The Works of Duke: Integrale Volume 8 (sides 1, 2)
*Duke Ellington: Air Force 1960 (sides 1, 2)
*Grails: Doomsdayer's Holiday
*Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra: Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra (side 1)
*Ahmad Jamal Trio: At the Pershing: But Not for Me
*King Crimson: Larks' Tongues In Aspic: The Complete Recordings (discs 5, 6)
*New Loft: 2011-08-24 "Wet or Dry?" (wav)
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2018-10-08 "Corner Winds" (wav)
*New Ting: 2019-04-22 "Leaving Thirsty" (wav)
*Ed Palermo Big Band: The Adventures of Zodd Zundgren
*Charlie Parker: The Complete Dean Benedetti Recordings of Charlie Parker (discs 3, 4)
*Tom Rainey Obbligato: Float Upstream
*Don Redman and His All-Stars: Don Redman and His All-Stars (sides 1, 2)
*Rova :: Orkestrova: Electric Ascension
*David Sancious And Tone: Transformation (The Speed Of Love) (side 2)
*Santana: Welcome
*Santana: Moonflower (side 4)
*Sheriff Jack: What Lovely Melodies!
*UYA: Live at the Willow, Vol. 1 "Tales of Tillie"
*Various artists: Ad-Rock & Mike D's Alphabetical Jukebox (CDR compilation) (discs 7, 8)
*Weather Report: Mysterious Traveller (side 1)
*Chick Webb & Ella Fitzgerald: The Complete Chick Webb & Ella Fitzgerald Decca Sessions (1934-1941) (discs 1, 2)
*John Zorn: Tractatus Musico-Philosophicus

Reading List, Week of 2020-09-27

My third reading of Steven Erikson's amazing 10-books series Malazan Book of the Fallen... among so many other things, this series is an extended meditation on the redemptive qualities of compassion and empathy... a truly amazing achievement.

Reading List 2020-09-28:

*Jemison, N. K. The City We Became (started)
*Erikson, Steven. The Crippled God (reread/finished)
*Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy (in progress)
*Marsh, Dave. The Heart of Rock and Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made (reread/in progress)
*Mustich, James. 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die (in progress)

Playlist, Week of 2020-09-20

As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, the recent spate of PR around the centennial of Charlie Parker's death spurred me to go back to my Bird collection and do some in-depth listening... not that I stopped listening to Bird; after all, he (like the Beatles) regularly shows up on the Magic Jukebox (most of the Savoy and Dial master takes, plus a healthy helping of Royal Roost and Verve cuts)... but it'd been a while since I just pulled out a Bird disc and spinned it... needless to say, he sounds as great as ever... along with John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, and Miles Davis, his playing was what got me seriously into jazz in a way that hasn't relented for several decades now... I especially enjoyed this list by Mark Stryker of great live Bird... 20 years or so ago, I put together a 6-CD compilation of great Bird, based largely on Lawrence O. Koch's list of essential Bird in Yardbird Suite and Thomas Owens's list of greatest Bird solos in Bebop: The Music and Its Players... most of those songs are represented on Stryker's list, but there were a few I have since acquired (like the 1940 solo recording)... for live stuff, like I said last week, the Benedetti stuff still floors me... I am also partial to Complete Live at Birdland and Summit Meeting at Birdland... digging through my vinyl, it's been interesting to see what's been upgraded and improved, and what still sounds solid as is... Charlie Parker seems to be imprinted on my brain, and I love it... I go through stages of deep listening to particular artists... the thing is, there are so many of them!... I am absorbed by great music... it was also fun to reread all the reviews on Bird in the Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD (5th edition)... Morton and Cook really nail it, I think, over and over... 

Playlist 2020-09-21:

*AMM: 2003-11-12 Glasgow (CDR)
*Art Ensemble of Chicago: Full Force (side 1)
*Beatles: The Beatles (Super Deluxe Edition) (disc 5)
*Ken Boothe: Live Good
*Brand X: Moroccan Roll (side 1)
*Anthony Braxton: Ninetet (Yoshi's) 1997 Vol. 1 (discs 1, 2)
*Anthony Braxton: 19 Standards (Quartet) 2003 (discs 1, 2)
*Clifford Brown and Max Roach: Clifford Brown and Max Roach
*Terri Lyne Carrington: The Mosaic Project
*Alice Coltrane: Spiritual Eternal: The Complete Warner Bros. Studio Recordings (disc 2)
*Miles Davis: Pangaea (side 2)
*Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges: Side by Side
*Grieg/Schumann: Piano Concertos (Eugene Ormandy, cond.)
*Herbie Hancock: Maiden Voyage (side 2)
*Chaka Khan: I Feel for You
*Chaka Khan: The Platinum Collection
*King Crimson: Larks' Tongues In Aspic: The Complete Recordings (discs 1, 2, 3, 4)
*Charles Mingus: Pre-Bird (side 2)
*Charles Mingus Quintet featuring Eric Dolphy: Mingus In Europe Volume II (side 2)
*Roscoe Mitchell with Ostravská Banda: Distant Radio Transmission (side 1)
*Graham Nash/David Crosby: Graham Nash/David Crosby
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2013-08-26: “All or Something” (wav)
*New Ting: 2019-07-08 "Backhand Volley" (wav)
*Charlie Parker: The Complete Birth of the Bebop
*Charlie Parker: Charlie Parker's All Stars 1950 (side 2)
*Charlie Parker: The Complete Legendary Rockland Palace Concert 1952 (discs 1, 2)
*Charlie Parker with Quartet and The Orchestra: The Washington Concerts
*Charlie Parker: Montreal 1953
*Charlie Parker: Charlie Parker at the Open Door
*Residents: The Third Reich 'n Roll (pREServed Edition) (disc 1)
*Max Roach And Cecil Taylor: Historic Concerts (sides 1, 2)
*David Sancious And Tone: Transformation (The Speed Of Love) (side 1)
*Sheriff Jack: Laugh Yourself Awake
*Cecil Taylor/Art Ensemble of Chicago: 1984-10-30 Paris (CDR) (track 2)
*Lewis Taylor: The Lost Album
*McCoy Tyner: Cosmos (side 3)
*Various artists: Ad-Rock & Mike D's Alphabetical Jukebox (CDR compilation) (disc 6)
*Lester Young: The Aladdin Sessions (side 1)

Reading List, Week of 2020-09-20

Reading List 2020-09-21:

*Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy (in progress)
*Erikson, Steven. The Crippled God (reread/in progress)
*Marsh, Dave. The Heart of Rock and Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made (reread/in progress)
*Mustich, James. 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die (in progress)

Playlist, Week of 2020-09-13

Love how the Dead returned to "Dark Star" in the '90s... I'm finding all the chanting on Alice Coltrane's Radha-Krsna Nama Sankirtana strangely relaxing... usually not my cup of tea... I get impatient with the "spiritual" side of world music... Don Cherry's explorations in that realm leave me cold... Got blown away all over again by the utterly amazing playing of the "Lost Quintet" on Miles Davis's Live in Europe 1969... on "Milestones," Miles and Wayne Shorter lead the band in a peppy rendition of the head, with Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette swinging as hard as Paul Chambers and Philly Joe Jones ever did, only for the horns to drop out as Chick Corea pulls the rug out from the head and leads the rhythm section away to some kind of out, open space... then horn lines come back in, back to finger-snapping hard swinging, then... out again... Miles then jumps in on this tension, stomping all over the contrasts with burning lines that define gravity, followed by some of Shorter's most intense soloing ever... just staggering, masterful music...

Playlist 2020-09-14:

*Beatles: The Beatles' Second Album (side 2)

*Beatles: Something New (sides 1, 2)

*Beatles: The Beatles (Super Deluxe Edition) (disc 4)

*Anthony Braxton Quartet: 1976-10-28 Graz, Austria (CDR) track 3

*Alice Coltrane: Spiritual Eternal: The Complete Warner Bros. Studio Recordings (disc 1)

*John Coltrane: Live in Seattle (discs 1, 2)

*Miles Davis Quintet: Live in Europe 1969 (The Bootleg series, Vol. 2) (disc 1)

*Deerhoof: Surprise Symphonies

*Eric Dolphy: Stockholm Sessions (side 2)

*Eric Dolphy: Last Date (sides 1, 2)

*Mike Elder/Harry Forrest/Greg Jordan/Sam Byrd: New CDR Compilation (disc 2)

*Duke Ellington: All Star Road Band (side 4)

*Duke Ellington: Unknown Session

*Grateful Dead: Wake Up to Find Out (discs 2, 3)

*Guided By Voices: Mirrored Aztec

*Andrew Hill: One for One (side 2)

*Keith Jarrett: Standards Live

*Elvin Jones : The Prime Element (side 2)

*Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Does Your House Have Lions: The Rahsaan Roland Kirk Anthology (disc 1)

*Lemon Twigs: Songs for the General Public

*Lee Morgan: The Sidewinder

*Charlie Parker: The Complete Dean Benedetti Recordings of Charlie Parker (disc 2)

*Charlie Parker: Charlie Parker (Vol. 3, side 2)

*Charlie Parker Quintet: Complete Live at Birdland (discs 1, 2)

*Charlie Parker: Bird at St. Nick's

*Prince: 1999 (Super Deluxe Edition) (DVD: Live in Houston 12/29/82)

*David Sancious and Tone: Dance of the Age of Enlightenment

*Sun Ra Arkestra: Kosmos in Blue: A John Gilmore Anthology, Vol. 1

*Clifford Thornton & the Jazz Composer's Orchestra: The Gardens of Harlem

*Various artists: Ad-Rock & Mike D's Alphabetical Jukebox (CDR compilation) (discs 3, 4, 5)

Reading List, Week of 2020-09-13

No, I'm not reading Spanish; I just like this cover...

Reading List 2020-09-14:

*Erikson, Steven. The Crippled God (reread/started)
*Erikson, Steven. Dust of Dreams (reread/finished)
*Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy (in progress)
*Marsh, Dave. The Heart of Rock and Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made (reread/in progress)
*Mustich, James. 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die (in progress)

Playlist, Week of 2020-09-06

The end of summer, and the listening's good... Although Bird shows up a lot randomly on the Magic Jukebox 2, it's been good to delve a little deeper... the Dean Benedetti box set is really amazing, and the somewhat low fidelity doesn't bother me a bit... those damn solos!... and nice to hear Bird's treatment of lesser-recorded songs like "Byas a Drink" and "It's the Talk of the Town"... a real time capsule... Jumping ahead to just last year, great to hear Ingrid Laubrock playing Anthony's Braxton Zim Music... in my spare time, I'd like to compare this to the London run of Zim Music from May of 2018... My old original Beatles records from when I was a kid still sound damn solid... they just leap out of the grooves and grab you... they still haven't let go after all these years...

Playlist 2020-09-07:

*Lotte Anker/Sylvie Courvoisier/Ikue Mori: Alien Huddle
*Art Ensemble of Chicago: Tribute to Lester
*Art Ensemble of Chicago: Reunion
*Beatles: Meet the Beatles (side 1)
*Beatles: Help! (side 1)
*Beatles: The Beatles (Super Deluxe Edition) (disc 6)
*Anthony Braxton: 2019-11-03 Berlin (CDR)
*Bill Bruford: Fainting in Coils (sides 1, 4)
*Nels Cline Trio: Ground
*Alice Coltrane: Ptah the El Daoud
*Cul De Sac: Crashes to Light, Minutes to Its Fall
*Duke Ellington: Duke Ellington 1938 (side 4)
*Duke Ellington: Love You Madly (1952-11-14 Carnegie Hall) (side 2)
*Mike Elder/Greg Jordan/Harry Forrest/Sam Byrd: 2019-09-21 (wav)
*Mike Elder/Greg Jordan/Harry Forrest/Sam Byrd: 2020-01-04 (wav)
*Fire! Orchestra: Arrival
*Grateful Dead: Pacific Northwest '73-'74: Believe It if You Need It (disc 1)
*Guided By Voices: Do the Collapse
*Guided By Voices: Isolation Drills
*Hampton Hawes: Trio and Quartet 1951-1956: Live and Studio Sessions (disc 2)
*Andrew Hill: One for One (side 1)
*Lemon Twigs: Songs for the General Public
*Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66: Equinox
*Lee Morgan: The Procrastinator (side 4)
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2017-04-17: "Unsudden Settling into Grey Emotion" (wav)
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2019-01-28 "Rump Roost Tools of America" (wav)
*Charlie Parker: The Complete Dean Benedetti Recordings of Charlie Parker (disc 1)
*Charlie Parker: Charlie Parker Volume II (side 2)
*Charlie Parker: Cheers (side 2)
*Charlie Parker: Bird: The Complete Charlie Parker on Verve (disc 1)
*Charlie Parker: Unheard Bird: The Unissued Takes (disc 2)
*Matana Roberts: Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile
*Omar Rodriguez: Omar Rodriguez
*Rolling Stones: The Brussels Affair '73
*Sonny Rollins Quintet with Kenny Dorham And Max Roach: Rollins Plays for Bird (side 1)
*Ruins: Symphonica
*Sun Ra: Strange Worlds in My Mind
*Sun Ra & His Arkestra: The Cymbals​/​Symbols Sessions (New York, 1973) (disc 2)
*Sun Ra Arkestra: 1973-07-04 Queens NY (CDR)
*Sun Ra & His Arkestra: Oblique Parallax
*Cecil Taylor: In Transition (sides 2, 3)
*Thumbscrew: The Anthony Braxton Project
*Richard Teitelbaum with Anthony Braxton: Time Zones "Crossing"
*June Tyson/Sun Ra: Saturnian Queen of the Sun Ra Arkestra
*Various ‎artists: Reunion Tape 1 (cassette compilation) (side A)
*Various artists: Ad-Rock & Mike D's Alphabetical Jukebox (CDR compilation) (discs 1, 2)
*When: Homage Series Vol. 1: Sun Ra
*John Zorn/Simulacrum: Baphomet

Reading List, Week of 2020-09-06

 

Reading List 2020-09-07:

*Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy (in progress)
*Erikson, Steven. Dust of Dreams (reread/in progress)
*Marsh, Dave. The Heart of Rock and Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made (reread/in progress)
*Mustich, James. 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die (in progress)

Playlist, Week of 2020-08-30

I'm a sucker for that Canterbury keyboard sound, that almost-schlocky horror movie organ sound exemplified by Mike Ratledge and Dave Sinclair... it's in heavy evidence in the work of Dave Stewart on Hopper Tunity Box... Stewart cleaned his sound up for his stint with Bruford... while his playing is nice there, I prefer the dirtier sound of his playing with Hatfield and the North and National Health (the first two albums, anyway)... I like the pairing of Derek Bailey with the Ruins, but I think I prefer the Ruins on their own... perversely, their insanity is rather curbed with the addition of Bailey... Some great pop on the new Lemon Twigs album... I can tell it's one of those records that will bear up to repeated listening... I guess I can't avoid the hype, but it is fun picking through the lists and stories about Charlie Parker these days... he still sounds astounding... this is a good list... I hear a lot of Morton Feldman in Tyshawn Sorey... I am enjoying going back through some of my old Blue Note reissue albums... they just sound fantastic...

Playlist 2020-08-31:

*Art Ensemble of Chicago: The Meeting
*Beatles: Introducing the Beatles (sides 1, 2)
*Hamiet Bluiett: Im/possible to Keep (disc 2)
*Bill Bruford: Fainting in Coils (sides 2, 3)
*Buffalo Springfield: Last Time Around
*Don Cherry/Penderecki/The New Eternal Rhythm Orchestra: Actions "Actions"
*George Clinton Presents Parliament/Funkadelic: Mothership Connection Newberg Session
*John Coltrane: Kulu Sé Mama (side 2)
*Miles Davis & His Tuba Band: Pre-Birth of the Cool (sides 1, 2)
*Miles Davis: The Complete On The Corner Sessions (disc 2) "Ife"
*Elton Dean Quartet: 2004-07-26 London (CDR)
*Death Ambient: Drunken Forest
*Decoy with Joe McPhee: Spontaneous Combustion (disc 1)
*Derek and the Ruins: Saisoro
*Duke Ellington's Spacemen: The Cosmic Scene
*Agustí Fernández plus Big Ensemble Taller De Músics: Aura
*Fire! Orchestra/Krzysztof Penderecki: Actions
*Michael Formanek Elusion Quartet: Time Like This
*Benny Goodman: Small Groups 1941-1946 (CDR compilation) (disc 2)
*Guided By Voices: Mirrored Aztec
*Joe Henderson: Multiple
*Henry Cow and Friends: A Celebration of Lindsay Cooper: 2014-11-21 London (CDR) (discs 1, 2)
*Andrew Hill: One for One (side 2)
*Dave Holland: Emerald Tears (side 1)
*Hugh Hopper: Hopper Tunity Box (side 1)
*Keith Jarrett: Standards, Vol. 2
*Jefferson Pilot: Shadow Hobby
*Elvin Jones : The Prime Element (sides 1, 3)
*King Crimson: Radical Action to Unseat the Hold of Monkey Mind (disc 3)
*Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey: And Other Desert Towns
*Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey: Stir Crazy (CDR compilation) (disc 4)
*Lemon Twigs: Songs for the General Public
*Grachan Moncur III: Mosaic Select (disc 3)
*Necks: Body
*New Ting: 2019-07-29 "Tardy But Hardy" (wav)
*Charlie Parker: Charlie Parker Volume III (side 1)
*Elvis Presley: A Boy From Tupelo: The Complete 1953-55 Recordings (disc 2)
*Dudu Pukwana and Spirits Rejoice: 1980-06-01 Nyon Festival, France (CDR)
*Tom Rainey Trio: 2013-10-19 Brooklyn NY (CDR) "track 6"
*Rova :: Orkestrova: Electric Ascension
*Schubert: Octet (Michael Collins)
*Frank Sinatra: Nice 'n' Easy (side 1)
*Matthew Shipp Quartet: Not Bound
*Sonic Youth: Slaapkamers Met Slagroom
*Tyshawn Sorey: Alloy "A Love Song"
*Space Debris: Behind the Gate (disc 2)
*Cecil Taylor: In Transition (sides 1, 2)
*Tammi Terrell: Come On and See Me: The Complete Solo Collection (disc 2)
*McCoy Tyner: Cosmos (side 1)
*Various ‎artists: Crumb: Original Soundtrack (side 1)
*Various ‎artists: Reunion Tape 1 (cassette compilation) (side B)
*Various ‎artists: Random Radar Records (A Random Sampler) (side 2)
*XTC: Drums and Wires
*XTC: Black Sea (Surround Sound Series) (disc 1)
*XTC: English Settlement (2016 original master ed.)

Reading List, Week of 2020-08-30

Reading List 2020-08-31:

*Bolling, Ruben. The Super-Fun-Pak Comix Reader (finished)
*Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy (in progress)
*Erikson, Steven. Dust of Dreams (reread/in progress)
*Marsh, Dave. The Heart of Rock and Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made (reread/in progress)
*Mustich, James. 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die (in progress)

Playlist, Week of 2020-08-23

Fuck De Boere: easily as aggressive as Brötzmann's Machine Gun but with more Derek Bailey... Two ends of the spectrum, each deeply satisfying in its own way: Birth of the Cool vs. Pangaea... 

Playlist 2020-08-24:

*Daevid Allen Weird Quartet: Elevenses
*Beethoven: Piano Sonatas in B Flat, Op. 106 & in C Minor , Op. 111 (Edith Vogel)
*Hamiet Bluiett: Im/possible to Keep (disc 1)
*Anthony Braxton: 23 Standards (Quartet) 2003 (disc 4)
*Anthony Braxton: 2019-11-03 Berlin (CDR)
*Peter Brötzmann: Fuck De Boere
*Clifford Brown: The Complete Blue Note and Pacific Jazz Recordings (disc 2)
*Buffalo Springfield: Buffalo Springfield
*Buffalo Springfield: Buffalo Springfield Again
*Elvis Costello and the Attractions: Trust (ide 1)
*Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool (side 1)
*Miles Davis: Pangaea (side 1)
*Death Ambient: Synaesthesia
*Benny Goodman: Small Groups 1941-1946 (CDR compilation) (disc 1)
*Fletcher Henderson: A Study in Frustration: The Fletcher Henderson Story (side 8)
*Billie Holiday: 55 Original Hits by Billie Holiday (side 3)
*Keith Jarrett: Keith Jarrett at the Blue Note: The Complete Recordings (disc 6)
*King Crimson: Radical Action to Unseat the Hold of Monkey Mind (disc 2)
*Large Unit: Erta Ale (discs 1, 2, 3)
*Ingrid Laubrock + Kris Davis: Blood Moon
*Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey: Stir Crazy (CDR compilation) (discs 2, 3)
*Machine Gun: Machine Gun
*Sean O'Hagan: Radum Calls, Radum Calls
*Robert Pollard: The Best of 2012-2014
*Tom Rainey Trio: 2011-05-06 Firehouse 12, New Haven, CT (CDR) "track 3"
*Sam Rivers Quintet: Zenith
*David Sancious and Tone: Dance of the Age of Enlightenment
*Soft Machine: 5
*Soft Machine: Seven (side 1)
*Billy Strayhorn: The Peaceful Side
*Sun Ra: Intergalactic Research
*Tammi Terrell: Come On and See Me: The Complete Solo Collection (disc 1)
*Thumbscrew: The Anthony Braxton Project
*Various artists: Bombay Disco: Disco Hits from Hindi Films 1979-1985
*Otomo Yoshihide/Chris Pitsiokos: Live in Florence
*John Zorn/Simulacrum: Baphomet

Reading List, Week of 2020-08-23

Reading List 2020-08-24:

*Erikson, Steven. Dust of Dreams (reread/started)
*Erikson, Steven. Toll the Hounds (reread/finished)
*Bolling, Ruben. The Super-Fun-Pak Comix Reader (in progress)
*Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy (in progress)
*Marsh, Dave. The Heart of Rock and Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made (reread/in progress)
*Mustich, James. 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die (in progress)

Playlist, Week of 2020-08-16

And Other Desert Towns may be my favorite Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey duo record, if only because so much of Laubrock's sax playing is so aggressive on it... stay tuned... Would love to hear more from the quartet configuration that produced Tism... I was initially put off by the slowed-down vocal effects and the pseudo-religious crap Prince insists on spouting (well, I still am), but there are some great grooves on The Rainbow Children, and it's much stronger than I initially gave it credit for... The Stones' Satanic Majesties Request may not be their best album, but it's certainly my favorite... especially on the two "Sing This All Together" jams, they tapped into something tribal, psychedelic, and grooving all at the same time, something they managed to avoid afterwards but which I can't get enough of... Ruins is just insane... Teddy Wilson or Bud Powell?... why not both?

Playlist 2020-08-17:

*Art Ensemble: 1967/68 (disc 2) "Quartet No. 2"

*Art Ensemble Of Chicago: The Paris Session (side 1)

*Anthony Braxton: The Complete Arista Recordings Of Anthony Braxton (disc 3) "Comp. 76 (version 1)"

*Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet: Stone/Water

*Brötzmann/Schlippenbach/Bennink: Fifty Years After…

*Clifford Brown: The Complete Blue Note and Pacific Jazz Recordings (disc 1)

*Caravan: Waterloo Lily

*Rodger Coleman/Sam Byrd: Who Doesn't Fade? "Who Doesn't Fade?"

*Steve Coleman and Five Elements: Rhythm People (The Resurrection of Creative Black Civilization)

*Alice Coltrane: Spiritual Eternal: The Complete Warner Bros. Studio Recordings (disc 2)

*Miles Davis: Collector's Items (sides 1, 4)

*Miles Davis: Black Beauty (sides 2, 4)

*Death Ambient: Death Ambient

*Deerhoof: Future Teenage Cave Artists

*Duke Ellington: Primping for the Prom (side 1)

*Gentle Giant: Octopus

*George: Outside

*Globe Unity Orchestra: Globe Unity - 50 Years

*Benny Goodman: Small Groups 1941-1946 (CDR compilation) (disc 2)

*Alexander Hawkins Ensemble: Step Wide, Step Deep

*Alexander Hawkins/Tomeka Reid: Shards and Constellations

*Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks: Last Train to Hicksville (side 1)

*Joseph Jarman: As If It Were the Seasons (sides 1, 2)

*Keith Jarrett: Standards, Vol. 1

*Keith Jarrett: Keith Jarrett at the Blue Note: The Complete Recordings (disc 5)

*King Crimson: Radical Action to Unseat the Hold of Monkey Mind (disc 1)

*Art Lande: The Eccentricities of Earl Dant (side 1)

*Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey: And Other Desert Towns

*Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey: Stir Crazy (CDR compilation) (disc 1)

*Ingrid Laubrock/Sylvie Courvoisier/Mark Feldman/Tom Rainey: Tism

*Layers of Memory: Layers of Memory

*George Lewis/The NOW Orchestra: The Shadowgraph Series: Compositions For Creative Orchestra

*Charles Mingus: Music Written For Monterey 1965. Not Heard... Played In Its Entirety At UCLA (side 1)

*Roscoe Mitchell: Splatter

*Robert Pollard: Liquid Vacation Package: The Best of Robert Pollard 2015-2017 (CDR compilation)

*Prince: 1999 (Super Deluxe Edition) (disc 3)

*Prince and the Revolution: Parade

*Prince: The Rainbow Children

*Matana Roberts: Coin Coin Chapter Three: River Run Thee

*Rolling Stones: Their Satanic Majesties Request (side 1)

*Ruins: Hyderomastgroningem

*Ruins: Live At Kichijoji / Mandala II

*Matthew Shipp Quartet Declared Enemy: Our Lady of the Flowers

*Simulacrum: Beyond Good and Evil

*Clifford Thornton & the Jazz Composer's Orchestra: The Gardens of Harlem

*Thumbscrew: The Anthony Braxton Project

*McCoy Tyner: Song for My Lady

*UYA: 1992-03-15: Fresh or Frozen (wav)

*Teddy Wilson: Teddy Wilson (Giants of Jazz) (side 5)

*Yes: Progeny: Highlights From Seventy-Two (disc 2)

*John Zorn: Calculus

Reading List, Week of 2020-08-16

 

In it for the long haul...

Reading List 2020-08-17:

*Marsh, Dave. The Heart of Rock and Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made (reread/started)

*Gaustad, J.L. Someone's Missing...and I Think It's Me (finished)

*Bolling, Ruben. The Super-Fun-Pak Comix Reader (in progress)

*Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy (in progress)

*Erikson, Steven. Toll the Hounds (reread/in progress)

*Mustich, James. 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die (in progress)