Playlist, Week of 2020-05-17

Like all weeks, this past one was a mixture of old and new... enjoying revisiting old friends while making new ones... doing some major catch-up on Alice Coltrane... love her organ work... warm and luscious tenor from Archie Shepp on Mariamar... two divergent paths for American prog: melodic and classical with Happy the Man, free jazz and experimental with the Muffins... 

Playlist 2020-05-18:

*Airto: Free

*AMM: Newfoundland

*AMM/MEV: Apogee (disc 1)

*Rodger Coleman & Sam Byrd: 2014-12-30 Nashville (selections)

*Rodger Coleman/Sam Byrd: Perihelion

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

*George Duke: Liberated Fantasies (side 1)

*Joe Henderson: Barcelona

*Anna Högberg Attack: Lena

*Keith Jarrett: Sun Bear Concerts (disc 4)

*Henry Kaiser: 1980-05-03 Richmond Artists Workshop (CDR) (disc 1)

*Roland Kirk Quartet: Rip, Rig, and Panic

*Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey: Stir Crazy: Episodes 5, 6, 7, 8

*George Lewis: Homage To Charles Parker

*Music Now Ensemble 1969: Silver Pyramid

*Flora Purim: Nothing Will Be as It Was… Tomorrow

*Flora Purim: That's What She Said

*Matana Roberts: Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile

*Keith Rowe and John Tilbury: Duos for Doris (disc 1)

*David Sancious: Forest of Feelings (side 2)

*Archie Shepp: Mariamar (side 1)

*Bessie Smith: The World's Greatest Blues Singer (sides 1, 4)

*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: 1976-08-24 Châteauvallon, France (CDR) (discs 1, 2)

*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: 1976-08-24 Châteauvallon, France (CDR) (disc 1)

*Thumbscrew: Ours

*David S. Ware/Apogee: Birth Of A Being

*World Saxophone Quartet: Revue

*3-2-1: More than 3 Minutes of 3-2-1 (cassette)

*3-2-1: Under the Influence of 3-2-1

*3-2-1: 3-2-1 plus Tad Thaddock

*Clash: Sandinista (sides 1, 2, 3, 4)

*Aretha Franklin: I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You (sides 1, 2)

*Gentle Giant: 1975-11-24 Basel (CDR)

*Happy the Man: Happy the Man

*Happy the Man: Crafty Hands

*Henry Cow: Ex Box: Collected Fragments 1971-1978

*Ned Lagin: Seastones

*Paul McCartney: iMac (CDR compilation) (disc 2)

*Muffins: Open City (side 1)

*Sean O'Hagan: Radum Calls, Radum Calls

*Prince: Xpectation