Playlist, Week of 2020-06-28

As the weather gets warmer, I often get drawn to fusion and funk... looking at this week's list, though, I don't see a lot of either... is that just an aspirational construct?... Lots of new Deerhoof coming out; more on that later... Longtime readers of this blog may notice a subtle difference in the playlist this week... I used to segregate the list broadly alphabetically into jazz and rock... those distinctions are often meaningless... my collection is organized strictly by artist, regardless of genre, so why not this playlist as well?... so, from now on, straight listing by artist...

Playlist 2020-06-29:

*AMM: Generative Themes

*Arctic Monkeys: Favourite Worst Nightmare

*Art Ensemble of Chicago: Chi-Congo

*Daniel Barbiero/Gary Rouzer: Postcards from Quarantine

*Beach Boys: Pet Sounds (mono 50th anniversary) (sides 1, 2)

*Beach Boys: Spirit of America (sides 1, 4)

*Beatles: The Beatles' Second Album (side 1)

*Beethoven: String Quartet No. 8 in E Minor (Emerson String Quartet)

*Anthony Braxton: 23 Standards (Quartet) 2003 (disc 1)

*Peter Brötzmann/Heather Leigh: Sparrow Nights

*Terri Lyne Carrington: The Mosaic Project: Love and Soul

*Billy Cobham: Spectrum

*Phil Collins: Face Value

*Kris Davis: Capricorn Climber

*Miles Davis: Bitches Brew (sides 3, 4)

*Deerhoof: Surprise Symphonies

*Deerhoof: Future Teenage Cave Artists

*Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited (sides 1, 2)

*Earth Wind & Fire: I Am (side 1)

*Mike Elder/Harry Forrest/Greg Jordan/Sam Byrd: New CDR Compilation (disc 1)

*Fire! Orchestra: 2018-03-03 Geneva (CDR)

*Funkadelic: Music for Your Mother: Funkadelic 45s  (disc 2)

*Grateful Dead: Dave's Picks Vol. 34 (1974-06-24 Miami) (discs 3, 4)

*Milford Graves: Bäbi (disc 1)

*George Harrison: All Things Must Pass (sides 1, 2)

*Heldon: Agneta Nilsson

*Henry Cow: 1974-5 (Cow Box Redux)

*François Houle/Alexander Hawkins/Harris Eisenstadt: You Have Options

*Keith Jarrett: Keith Jarrett At The Blue Note: The Complete Recordings (disc 1)

*Janis Joplin: Janis (disc 3)

*King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard: Flying Microtonal Banana

*Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey: Stir Crazy: Episode 10

*Steve Lehman Octet: Travail, Transformation, and Flow

*Garry Martin Project (CDR compilation) (discs 14, 15)

*Paul McCartney and Elvis Costello: The McCartney/MacManus Collaboration (boot CDR)

*Roscoe Mitchell Quartet: Before There Was Sound

*Hank Mobley: Soul Station

*Muffins: 1979-02-25 Bethesda MD (CDR) (selections)

*Evan Parker/Keith Rowe/Barry Guy/Eddie Prévost: Supersession

*Pere Ubu: Datapanik in the Year Zero (disc 1)

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

*Queens of the Stone Age: ...Like Clockwork

*Matana Roberts: Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis (sides 1, 2)

*Keith Rowe: The Room

*Devadip Carlos Santana & Turiya Alice Coltrane: Illuminations

*Wadada Leo Smith/Peter Kowald/Bobby Naughton: 1981-10-07 Richmond VA (CDR) (track 2)

*Sun Ra: 1968-03 Electric Circus, NYC (CDR) (discs 1, 2)

*Sun Ra: Cosmo Earth Fantasy: Sub Underground Series Vol. 1 & 2 (Art Yard) “Cosmo-Earth Fantasy”

*Cecil Taylor Unit: It Is in the Brewing Luminous "Part 1"

*Thing with Jim O'Rourke: Shinjuku Growl