Playlist, Week of 2020-08-16

And Other Desert Towns may be my favorite Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey duo record, if only because so much of Laubrock's sax playing is so aggressive on it... stay tuned... Would love to hear more from the quartet configuration that produced Tism... I was initially put off by the slowed-down vocal effects and the pseudo-religious crap Prince insists on spouting (well, I still am), but there are some great grooves on The Rainbow Children, and it's much stronger than I initially gave it credit for... The Stones' Satanic Majesties Request may not be their best album, but it's certainly my favorite... especially on the two "Sing This All Together" jams, they tapped into something tribal, psychedelic, and grooving all at the same time, something they managed to avoid afterwards but which I can't get enough of... Ruins is just insane... Teddy Wilson or Bud Powell?... why not both?

Playlist 2020-08-17:

*Art Ensemble: 1967/68 (disc 2) "Quartet No. 2"

*Art Ensemble Of Chicago: The Paris Session (side 1)

*Anthony Braxton: The Complete Arista Recordings Of Anthony Braxton (disc 3) "Comp. 76 (version 1)"

*Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet: Stone/Water

*Brötzmann/Schlippenbach/Bennink: Fifty Years After…

*Clifford Brown: The Complete Blue Note and Pacific Jazz Recordings (disc 1)

*Caravan: Waterloo Lily

*Rodger Coleman/Sam Byrd: Who Doesn't Fade? "Who Doesn't Fade?"

*Steve Coleman and Five Elements: Rhythm People (The Resurrection of Creative Black Civilization)

*Alice Coltrane: Spiritual Eternal: The Complete Warner Bros. Studio Recordings (disc 2)

*Miles Davis: Collector's Items (sides 1, 4)

*Miles Davis: Black Beauty (sides 2, 4)

*Death Ambient: Death Ambient

*Deerhoof: Future Teenage Cave Artists

*Duke Ellington: Primping for the Prom (side 1)

*Gentle Giant: Octopus

*George: Outside

*Globe Unity Orchestra: Globe Unity - 50 Years

*Benny Goodman: Small Groups 1941-1946 (CDR compilation) (disc 2)

*Alexander Hawkins Ensemble: Step Wide, Step Deep

*Alexander Hawkins/Tomeka Reid: Shards and Constellations

*Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks: Last Train to Hicksville (side 1)

*Joseph Jarman: As If It Were the Seasons (sides 1, 2)

*Keith Jarrett: Standards, Vol. 1

*Keith Jarrett: Keith Jarrett at the Blue Note: The Complete Recordings (disc 5)

*King Crimson: Radical Action to Unseat the Hold of Monkey Mind (disc 1)

*Art Lande: The Eccentricities of Earl Dant (side 1)

*Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey: And Other Desert Towns

*Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey: Stir Crazy (CDR compilation) (disc 1)

*Ingrid Laubrock/Sylvie Courvoisier/Mark Feldman/Tom Rainey: Tism

*Layers of Memory: Layers of Memory

*George Lewis/The NOW Orchestra: The Shadowgraph Series: Compositions For Creative Orchestra

*Charles Mingus: Music Written For Monterey 1965. Not Heard... Played In Its Entirety At UCLA (side 1)

*Roscoe Mitchell: Splatter

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

*Prince: 1999 (Super Deluxe Edition) (disc 3)

*Prince and the Revolution: Parade

*Prince: The Rainbow Children

*Matana Roberts: Coin Coin Chapter Three: River Run Thee

*Rolling Stones: Their Satanic Majesties Request (side 1)

*Ruins: Hyderomastgroningem

*Ruins: Live At Kichijoji / Mandala II

*Matthew Shipp Quartet Declared Enemy: Our Lady of the Flowers

*Simulacrum: Beyond Good and Evil

*Clifford Thornton & the Jazz Composer's Orchestra: The Gardens of Harlem

*Thumbscrew: The Anthony Braxton Project

*McCoy Tyner: Song for My Lady

*UYA: 1992-03-15: Fresh or Frozen (wav)

*Teddy Wilson: Teddy Wilson (Giants of Jazz) (side 5)

*Yes: Progeny: Highlights From Seventy-Two (disc 2)

*John Zorn: Calculus