Playlist, Week of 2020-08-09

Old friends, new friends... old: revisiting Muhal Richard Abrams's brilliant big band albums...  the sublime Duke Ellington and two '50s classics... "49 Bye-Byes," one of my favorite CS&N songs... Art Ensemble's "Ninth Room"... new: Ingrid Laubrock and Kris Davis on their first duo recording... getting into early Clifford Brown... maybe more old than new here, but it's all good... and I am finding myself, as always, deeply moved by how varied and satisfying "jazz" (in all its permutations) can be... I mean, damn, Clifford Brown was amazing... as was Benny Goodman, especially the small group stuff with Charlie Christian and Fletcher Henderson... Am enjoying exploring the quite esoteric but beautifully otherwordly music of Alice Coltrane... The Milestone records of Joe Henderson... that particular late-night Latin-y feel... The massive Cecil Taylor big band recordings from "Cecil Taylor in Berlin"...The orchestrated structural improvs of Sun Ra's "Fireside Chat with Lucifer"...  It's all so nourishing and moving... 

Playlist 2020-08-10:

*Muhal Richard Abrams: Blues Forever (sides 1, 2)

*Muhal Richard Abrams Orchestra: Rejoicing with the Light (sides 1, 2)

*Art Ensemble Of Chicago: The Paris Session (sides 2, 3)

*Derek Bailey & Min Xiao-Fen: Viper

*Daniel Barbiero: Electronic Remediations for Double Bass

*Anthony Braxton: 23 Standards (Quartet) 2003 (disc 3)

*Anthony Braxton: Sonic Genome (2019-10-31 Berlin) (CDR)

*Clifford Brown: The Complete Blue Note and Pacific Jazz Recordings (disc 4)

*Buffalo Springfield: Buffalo Springfield

*Buffalo Springfield: Buffalo Springfield Again

*Buffalo Springfield: Last Time Around

*Charlie Christian: First Master of the Electric Guitar (Selected Broadcasts & Jam Sessions, Remastered) (disc 1)

*Stanley Clarke: Journey to Love (side 1)

*Alice Coltrane: Ptah the El Daoud

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

*Chick Corea: Circulus (side 1)

*Crosby, Stills, & Nash: Crosby, Stills, & Nash (side 2)

*Cul De Sac: Crashes to Light, Minutes to Its Fall

*Miles Davis: The Complete On The Corner Sessions "Helen Butte/Mr. Freedom X (master)"

*Death Ambient: Synaesthesia

*Death Ambient: Drunken Forest

*Deerhoof: Surprise Symphonies

*Duke Ellington: Blues in Orbit (sides 1, 2)

*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Such Sweet Thunder

*Fela: Fear Not for Man

*Fela: Opposite People

*Aretha Franklin: Runnin' Out of Fools/Take It Like You Give It (side 2)

*Benny Goodman: Small Groups 1941-1946 (CDR compilation) (disc 1)

*Grateful Dead: Dave's Picks Vol. 11 (1972-11-17 Wichita KS) (disc 3)

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

*Joe Henderson: Canyon Lady

*Billie Holiday: 55 Original Hits by Billie Holiday (side 2)

*Keith Jarrett: Changes

*Keith Jarrett: Keith Jarrett At The Blue Note: The Complete Recordings (disc 4)

*Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Does Your House Have Lions: The Rahsaan Roland Kirk Anthology (disc 2)

*Ingrid Laubrock + Kris Davis: Blood Moon

*George Lewis/Roscoe Mitchell: Voyage and Homecoming

*Garry Martin Project (CDR compilation) (disc 4)

*Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66: Crystal Illusions

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

*Patrick Moraz: The Story Of I 

*Joe Morris/Nate Wooley: Tooth and Nail

*National Health: Of Queues and Cures (side 1)

*Hugh Ragin: An Afternoon in Harlem

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

*Ruins: Symphonica

*Hal Russell NRG Ensemble: The Hal Russell Story

*Wayne Shorter: Native Dancer

*Sun Ra: A Fireside Chat with Lucifer

*Cecil Taylor European Orchestra: Alms/Tiergarten (Spree) (disc 2)

*Tammi Terrell: Come On and See Me: The Complete Solo Collection (discs 1, 2)

*Various artists: Little Club Jazz: Small Groups in the '30s (side 2)