Playlist, Week of 2020-07-12

Sweet soul from Ken Boothe... Getting off on "Nowhere Man" and "What Goes On"... American single only, but gaddam what a double smash... the soul of Ringo... Black Messiah continues to resonate more and more, and is easily one of the top albums of the last decade... Pianists blowing my mind: Kris Davis, Matthew Shipp, Craig Taborn (stellar work on Nicole Mitchell's Secret Escapades of Velvet Anderson), Alexander Hawkins... Favorite Pollard solo album? maybe Waved Out... Current fave track on Wig Drop 3: "Stick around"...

Playlist 2020-07-13:

*Muhal Richard Abrams/George Lewis/Roscoe Mitchell: 2003-09-20 Venice (CDR)

*Airto: Fingers

*Beatles: Meet the Beatles (sides 1, 2)

*Beatles: Yesterday and Today (sides 1, 2)

*Beatles: Revolver (sides 1, 2)

*Anthony Braxton: 23 Standards (Quartet) 2003 (disc 2)

*John Coltrane: Coltrane (side 1)

*John Coltrane: The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings (disc 2)

*D’Angelo and the Vanguard: Black Messiah

*Dark Carpet: Factory Side

*Kris Davis: Good Citizen

*Miles Davis: Miles Davis At Fillmore (side 1)

*Deerhoof: Future Teenage Cave Artists

*Deerhoof: To Be Surrounded by Beautiful, Curious, Breathing, Laughing Flesh Is Enough

*Giorgio Gaslini/Anthony Braxton: Four Pieces

*Gentle Giant: Free Hand

*Groundhogs: Thank Christ for the Bomb

*Guided By Voices: Alien Lanes

*Herbie Hancock: Sextant

*Hampton Hawes: Trio and Quartet 1951-1956: Live and Studio Sessions (disc 1)

*Alexander Hawkins/Tomeka Reid: Shards and Constellations

*Henry Cow: Hamburg (Cow Box Redux)

*Keith Jarrett: Nude Ants (disc 2)

*Keith Jarrett: Keith Jarrett At The Blue Note: The Complete Recordings (disc 2)

*Robert Landfermann/Ingrid Laubrock/Achim Kaufmann/Tom Rainey: Topaz

*Ingrid Laubrock + Kris Davis: Blood Moon

*George Lewis/Roscoe Mitchell: Voyage and Homecoming

*Sérgio Mendes & Brasil '66: Foursider

*Nicole Mitchell's Sonic Projections: The Secret Escapades of Velvet Anderson

*Modest Mouse: We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank

*Joe Morris/Agusti Fernandez/Nate Wooley: From the Discrete to the Particular

*Muffins: Air Fiction

*Robert Pollard: Waved Out

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

*Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2 in E Minor (BBC Philharmonic/Edward Downes)

*Residents: A Nickle If Your Dick's This Big (disc 1)

*Sviatoslav Richter: The Piano: Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, & Schumann

*Terry Riley: In C, Conducted by Anthony Pirog (streaming)

*Matana Roberts: Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis (side 2)

*Matthew Shipp Chamber Ensemble: The Gospel According to Matthew & Michael

*Simulacrum: Beyond Good and Evil

*Dave Slusser: Delight at the End of the Tunnel

*Steely Dan: Citizen Steely Dan 1972-1980 (disc 4)

*Sun Ra: Of Abstract Dreams

*Sun Ra And His Intergalactic Myth Science Solar Arkestra: Sleeping Beauty (sides 1, 2)

*Cecil Taylor Orchestra of Two Continents: 1984-10-20 Rubigen, Switzerland (CDR) (disc 2)

*Tool: Lateralus

*Various artists: The Concerto: Works by Cirelli, Vivaldi, Bach, and Beethoven

*Various artists: Leslie Kong's Connection Vol. 2

*Wig Drop: Wig Drop 3