Playlist, Week of 2020-04-26

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Wayne Shorter's '60s run of Blue Note albums is life-sustaining and essential... Prince's album The Slaughterhouse is one of his strongest of the 2000s, certainly more interesting than the major label releases like 3121 or Musicology... with "Y Should 👁 Do That When 👁 Can Do This?" he wears his Tower of Power heart on his sleeve... great grooves throughout and no MOR sappiness... It's great hearing an entire side of Clifford Jarvis cooking on drums with David Murray without his taking an extended solo (with which he slowed down so, so many Sun Ra concerts)...

Playlist 2020-04-27:

*John Abrercrombie/Dave Holland/Jack DeJohnette: Gateway
*Muhal Richard Abrams: Celestial Birds
*Airto: Fingers
*Airto: Virgin Land
*Anthony Braxton Quartet: 1982-04-24 Detroit (CDR)
*Circle: Paris Concert (side 1)
*Gerald Cleaver & Violet Hour: Live At Firehouse 12
*Andrew Cyrille/Milford Graves: Dialogue Of The Drums
*Kris Davis and Craig Taborn: 2016-10-03 Washington DC (streaming)
*Alexander Hawkins Ensemble: No Now Is So
*Keith Jarrett: The Köln Concert
*Keith Jarrett: Sun Bear Concerts (disc 1)
*Keith Jarrett: Arbor Zena (side 1)
*Keith Jarrett: Keith Jarrett At The Blue Note: The Complete Recordings (discs 4, 5)
*Ingrid Laubrock’s Ubatuba Quintet: 2015-10-11 Barcelona (CDR)
*Ingrid Laubrock + Aki Takase: Kasumi
*Jimmie Lunceford: Jimmie Lunceford (side 4)
*Jimmy Lyons: The Box Set (disc 5)
*Rob Mazurek/Exploding Star Orchestra: Galactic Parables: Volume 1 (disc 1)
*Sergio Mendes: Quiet Nights
*Thurston Moore/Evan Parker/Walter Prati: The Promise
*Lee Morgan: The Procrastinator (side 1)
*David Murray: The London Concert (side 2)
*David Murray Octet: Murray's Steps (side 1)
*Tony Oxley: 4 Compositions for Sextet
*Charlie Parker: Volume 10: Out Of Nowhere (side 2)
*Flora Purim: Stories to Tell
*Rova :: Orkestrova: An Alligator in Your Wallet
*Santos Silva/Wodrascka/Meaas Svendsen/Berre: Rasengan!
*Schlippenbach Trio: First Recordings
*Wayne Shorter: Night Dreamer (side 2)
*Sun Ra and His Astro Infinity Arkestra: Strange Strings (side 1)
*Cecil Taylor Tentet: 1992-08-28 Saalfelden (CDR)
*McCoy Tyner: Atlantis
*Unstable Ensemble: The Liturgy of Ghosts
*Vector Trio: (quartet)
*Nate Wooley: Battle Pieces 2
*World Saxophone Quartet: Requiem for Julius
*3-2-1: Very Much 3-2-1 Band (cassette)
*3-2-1: Three to One Again (cassette)
*James Brown: Papa's Got a Brand New Bag (side 1)
*Gang Of Four:  Solid Gold (side 1)
*Happy the Man: 1975-10-30 Washington DC (CDR) (disc 2)
*Hugh Hopper:  Hopper Tunity Box (side 1)
*Eric Leeds: Times Squared
*Muffins: 1979-03-03 Bethesda MD (CDR) (discs 1, 2)
*Pointer Sisters: The Pointer Sisters (side 1)
*Robert Pollard: Not in My Airforce
*Prince: The Slaughterhouse
*Santana: Welcome
*Talking Heads: Speaking In Tongues (side 2)

Reading List, Week of 2020-04-26

Third time around....

Reading List 2020-04-27:

*Garber, Marjorie. “Cymbeline,” in Shakespeare After All (reread/started/finished)
*Tanner, Tony. “Cymbeline,” in Prefaces to Shakespeare (reread/started/finished)
*Erikson, Steven. Gardens of the Moon (reread/finished)
*Shakespeare, William. Cymbeline (Folio) (reread/finished)
*Carswell, Sean. Occupy Pynchon: Politics after Gravity's Rainbow (in progress)
*Einsohn, Amy, and Marilyn Schwartz. The Copyeditor's Handbook, 4th ed. (in progress)
*Gioia, Ted. The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire (in progress)
*How We Read: Tales, Fury, Nothing, Sound (ed. Kaitlin Heller, Suzanne Conklin Akbari) (in progress)

Playlist, Week of 2020-04-19

Sam Goff's Transmissions continues to blow me away... One reason Keith Jarrett At The Blue Note is so enjoyable is that Keith Jarrett keeps his groaning and moaning to a minimum... it's still jarring to be enthralled with these absolutely gorgeous piano lines only to have them interrupted by him sounding like he has a ruptured spleen... The deep, robust tone of Sonny Rollins is like a soothing aural balm... Most of Bubble Puppy's only album is a bitter disappointment, surprisingly lame soft rock compared to the hard glittering brilliance of "Hot Smoke and Sassafras" and its B-side "Lonely"... oh well...

Playlist 2020-04-20:

*Decoy with Joe McPhee: AC/DC
*Fire! Orchestra: Exit!
*Stan Getz: Captain Marvel
*Samuel Goff: Transmissions
*Joe Henderson: Black Miracle (side 2)
*Richard "Groove" Holmes:  On Basie's Bandstand
*Keith Jarrett: The Survivors' Suite
*Keith Jarrett: Keith Jarrett At The Blue Note: The Complete Recordings (discs 1, 2, 3)
*Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey: And Other Desert Towns
*Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey: Stir Crazy: Episode 4 (streaming)
*Jimmie Lunceford: Jimmie Lunceford (sides 2, 3)
*Jimmy Lyons: The Box Set (disc 4)
*Maybe Monday: Saturn's Finger
*Rob Mazurek/Exploding Star Orchestra Featuring Roscoe Mitchell: Matter Anti-Matter (disc 1)
*Mephista: Entomological Reflections
*Charles Mingus: The Jazz Experiments of Charles Mingus
*Ikue Mori: In Light of Shadows
*Sunny Murray's Untouchable Factor: 1975-06-29 Studio Rivbea, NYC (CDR)
*Sonny Rollins: Freedom Suite (sides 1, 2)
*Wayne Shorter: Night Dreamer (side 1)
*Soft Machine: Six
*Tyshawn Sorey: The Inner Spectrum of Variables "Movement III"
*Sun Ra: Monorails & Satellites: Works for Solo Piano Vols. 1, 2, 3 (disc 1)
*Cecil Taylor Unit: 1966-10-16 Stuttgart (CDR) (disc 1)
*Cecil Taylor--The Ensemble: The Light Of Corona "Two"
*3-2-1: The Internationally Unknown 3-2-1 Band (cassette)
*Art Bears: Winter Songs
*Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour (EP) (record 2, side 3)
*David Bowie: Lodger
*James Brown: Papa's Got a Brand New Bag (side 2)
*Bubble Puppy: A Gathering of Promises
*Caravan: Caravan
*Gentle Giant: Interview
*Happy the Man: 1975-10-30 Washington DC (CDR) (disc 1)
*Happy the Man: Crafty Hands
*Hotel X: [Untitled 2020] (wav)
*Muffins: 1979-02-25 Bethesda MD (CDR)
*Sean O'Hagan: Radum Calls, Radum Calls
*Pink Floyd: Ummagumma: The High Resolution Remasters (boot CDR) (disc 1) (selections)
*Robert Pollard: Waved Out
*Talking Heads: Speaking In Tongues (side 1)
*David Thomas and His Legs: Winter Comes Home (side 2)
*Various ‎artists: The Smithsonian Collection Of Classic Country Music (disc 5)
*Various artists: Bollywood Steel Guitar
*Various artists: Bokoor Beats: Vintage Afro-Beat, Afro-Rock, & Electric Highlife From Ghana

Reading List, Week of 2020-04-19

Reading List 2020-04-20:

*Erikson, Steven. Gardens of the Moon (reread/started)
*Shakespeare, William. Cymbeline (Folio) (reread/started)
*Granville-Barker, Harley. Prefaces to Shakespeare, Volume I. "Cymbeline" (started/finished)
*Franzen, Jonathan. Freedom (finished)
*Shakespeare, William. Cymbeline (Arden 2nd series, ed. James Nosworthy) (reread/finished)
*Carswell, Sean. Occupy Pynchon: Politics after Gravity's Rainbow (in progress)
*Einsohn, Amy, and Marilyn Schwartz. The Copyeditor's Handbook, 4th ed. (in progress)
*Gioia, Ted. The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire (in progress)
*How We Read: Tales, Fury, Nothing, Sound (ed. Kaitlin Heller, Suzanne Conklin Akbari) (in progress)

Playlist, Week of 2020-04-12

Even though it got its own side on Big Fun, I always felt "Ife" was kinda buried in the context of that album... the super-clean remastered version on the On the Corner box set is a revelation... I think this original studio version is stronger than the subsequent live reworkings, which focused mostly on the killer bass line... Speaking of killer, the two live sets of Fire! Orchestra that recently appeared are just that, monumental presentations of most of the material from Arrival... The music of Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi group is a deep well that merits continual revisiting... Jewel in the Lotus is one of the best Hancock albums not appearing under his own name... Love hearing Eddie Prévost's free jazz drumming in a non-AMM context like the Steve Miller Trio... One thing about working from home is the luxury to play music a bit louder than I can at the office, can you tell?... and believe me, I am counting my blessings that I even have a home... stay healthy and safe out there, folks... I feel really lucky to have seen both the Muffins and Happy the Man in intimate settings back in the late '70s...

Playlist 2020-04-13:

*AMM: Laminal (disc 1)
*Anthony Braxton: GTM (Syntax) 2017 (disc 7) (streaming)
*Dave Brubeck: All the Things We Are
*Rodger Coleman and Sam Byrd: 2019-08-28 Nashville (rough mix wav)
*Alice Coltrane: Universal Consciousness
*Alice Coltrane Sextet: Live at the Berkeley Community Theater 1972
*Company: 1979-03-04 London (CDR)
*Miles Davis: The Complete On The Corner Sessions (disc 2) "Ife"
*Fire! Orchestra: 2018-03-03 Geneva (CDR)
*Fire! Orchestra: 2018-11-18 Stockholm (CDR)
*Herbie Hancock: Treasure Chest (side 2)
*Fletcher Henderson: The Complete Fletcher Henderson 1927-1936 (sides 3, 4)
*Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey: Stir Crazy: Episode 3 (streaming)
*Steve Lehman Octet: Travail, Transformation, and Flow
*Liquid Friction Assemblage: 2019-02-01 Rhizome, Washington DC (CDR)
*Jimmie Lunceford: Jimmie Lunceford (side 1)
*Bennie Maupin: The Jewel in the Lotus
*Steve Miller Trio/Lol Coxhill: Miller's Tale (disc 1)
*Grachan Moncur III: New Africa/Aco Dei De Madrugada (One Morning I Waked Up Very Early)
*Thurston Moore: Spirit Counsel (discs 2, 3)
*Joe Morris Quartet: 2015-12-04 Amsterdam (CDR)
*Evan Parker: Strings with Evan Parker (disc 3)
*Gary Peacock: Guamba
*Barre Phillips: Mountainscapes
*Bud Powell: The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 1 (side 2)
*Nino Rota: A Selection of His Work with Federico Fellini (cassette compilation)
*Gary Rouzer: Studies and Observations of Domestic Shrubbery
*Devadip Carlos Santana & Turiya Alice Coltrane: Illuminations
*Sun Ra Arkestra: Reflections In Blue (side 2)
*Test: 2000-05-25 NYC (CDR)
*Mal Waldron: The Call (side 1)
*Alex Ward Item 10: Volition (Live At Cafe Oto) "Entreaty"
*Ben Webster: Ben Webster and Associates
*3-2-1: For Five (cassette)
*3-2-1: Three: 2; One: Zero (cassette)
*Cream: Goodbye Tour Live 1968 (disc 4)
*Happy the Man: Happy the Man
*Happy the Man: 1974-05-03 Harrisonburg VA (CDR)
*Henry Cow: Ex Box: Collected Fragments 1971-1978
*Material: Memory Serves
*Muffins: <185> (side 1)
*Pere Ubu: New Picnic Time (side 2)
*Talking Heads: Remain in Light (sides 1, 2)

Reading List, Week of 2020-04-12

Reading List 2020-04-13:

*How We Read: Tales, Fury, Nothing, Sound (ed. Kaitlin Heller, Suzanne Conklin Akbari) (started)
*Ma, Ling. Severance (started/finished)
*Carswell, Sean. Occupy Pynchon: Politics after Gravity's Rainbow (in progress)
*Einsohn, Amy, and Marilyn Schwartz. The Copyeditor's Handbook, 4th ed. (in progress)
*Franzen, Jonathan. Freedom (in progress)
*Gioia, Ted. The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire (in progress)
*Shakespeare, William. Cymbeline (Arden 2nd series, ed. James Nosworthy) (reread/in progress)

Playlist, Week of 2020-04-05

Prog rocks: Off...

Playlist 2020-04-06:

*Anthony Braxton: Creative Music Orchestra (NYC) 2011
*Company: 1979-03-03 London (CDR)
*Exploding Star Orchestra: Stars Have Shapes
*Jan Garbarek: Sart (side 1)
*Fletcher Henderson: The Complete Fletcher Henderson 1927-1936 (side 1)
*Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five: Louis Jordan's Greatest Hits (side 2)
*Henry Kaiser & Wadada Leo Smith: Yo Miles! (disc 2)
*Booker Little: Out Front
*Ingrid Laubrock Quintet: 2014-01-22 Brooklyn NY (CDR)
*Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey: Stir Crazy: Episode 2 (streaming)
*Jimmy Lyons: The Box Set (disc 3)
*John McLaughlin: Redevotion (boot CDR)
*Thurston Moore: Spirit Counsel (disc 1)
*Joe Morris/William Parker/Gerald Cleaver: Altitude
*David Murray Octet with Jimmy Lyons: 1984-07 NYC (CDR)
*Charlie Parker: Charlie Parker in Sweden 1950 (side 1)
*Evan Parker: Strings with Evan Parker (disc 2)
*Evan Parker ElectroAcoustic Septet: Seven
*Bud Powell: The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 1 (side 1)
*Flora Purim: Encounter
*Wadada Leo Smith: America's National Parks (disc 1)
*Sun Ra Arkestra: Reflections In Blue (side 2)
*Cecil Taylor Quartet: 1966-11-30? Paris (CDR)
*Cecil Taylor: Poschiavo
*John Zorn: Cobra: John Zorn's Game Pieces, Vol. 2
*David Torn/Tim Berne/Ches Smith: Sun Of Goldfinger "Eye Meddle"
*3-2-1: From 3 to 1 (cassette)
*3-2-1: Primitive (cassette)
*3-2-1: Three-Two-One Blasts Off! (cassette)
*3-2-1: That's Right, Additional 3-2-1 (cassette)
*Cream: Goodbye Tour Live 1968 (disc 3)
*Happy the Man: Crafty Hands (sides 1, 2)
*Lucas & Corey: L & C Live at Muchmore's (streaming)
*Skatalites: Ska Foundation (disc 2)
*Talking Heads: More Songs about Buildings and Food (sides 1, 2)
*David Thomas & The Pedestrians: More Places Forever (side 2)

Reading List, Week of 2020-04-05

Reading List 2020-04-06:

*Franzen, Jonathan. Freedom (started)
*Shakespeare, William. Cymbeline (Arden 2nd series, ed. James Nosworthy) (reread/started)
*Mantel, Hilary. The Mirror & the Light (finished)
*Carswell, Sean. Occupy Pynchon: Politics after Gravity's Rainbow (in progress)
*Einsohn, Amy, and Marilyn Schwartz. The Copyeditor's Handbook, 4th ed. (in progress)
*Gioia, Ted. The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire (in progress)