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)