Playlist, Week of 2020-09-13

Love how the Dead returned to "Dark Star" in the '90s... I'm finding all the chanting on Alice Coltrane's Radha-Krsna Nama Sankirtana strangely relaxing... usually not my cup of tea... I get impatient with the "spiritual" side of world music... Don Cherry's explorations in that realm leave me cold... Got blown away all over again by the utterly amazing playing of the "Lost Quintet" on Miles Davis's Live in Europe 1969... on "Milestones," Miles and Wayne Shorter lead the band in a peppy rendition of the head, with Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette swinging as hard as Paul Chambers and Philly Joe Jones ever did, only for the horns to drop out as Chick Corea pulls the rug out from the head and leads the rhythm section away to some kind of out, open space... then horn lines come back in, back to finger-snapping hard swinging, then... out again... Miles then jumps in on this tension, stomping all over the contrasts with burning lines that define gravity, followed by some of Shorter's most intense soloing ever... just staggering, masterful music...

Playlist 2020-09-14:

*Beatles: The Beatles' Second Album (side 2)

*Beatles: Something New (sides 1, 2)

*Beatles: The Beatles (Super Deluxe Edition) (disc 4)

*Anthony Braxton Quartet: 1976-10-28 Graz, Austria (CDR) track 3

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

*John Coltrane: Live in Seattle (discs 1, 2)

*Miles Davis Quintet: Live in Europe 1969 (The Bootleg series, Vol. 2) (disc 1)

*Deerhoof: Surprise Symphonies

*Eric Dolphy: Stockholm Sessions (side 2)

*Eric Dolphy: Last Date (sides 1, 2)

*Mike Elder/Harry Forrest/Greg Jordan/Sam Byrd: New CDR Compilation (disc 2)

*Duke Ellington: All Star Road Band (side 4)

*Duke Ellington: Unknown Session

*Grateful Dead: Wake Up to Find Out (discs 2, 3)

*Guided By Voices: Mirrored Aztec

*Andrew Hill: One for One (side 2)

*Keith Jarrett: Standards Live

*Elvin Jones : The Prime Element (side 2)

*Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Does Your House Have Lions: The Rahsaan Roland Kirk Anthology (disc 1)

*Lemon Twigs: Songs for the General Public

*Lee Morgan: The Sidewinder

*Charlie Parker: The Complete Dean Benedetti Recordings of Charlie Parker (disc 2)

*Charlie Parker: Charlie Parker (Vol. 3, side 2)

*Charlie Parker Quintet: Complete Live at Birdland (discs 1, 2)

*Charlie Parker: Bird at St. Nick's

*Prince: 1999 (Super Deluxe Edition) (DVD: Live in Houston 12/29/82)

*David Sancious and Tone: Dance of the Age of Enlightenment

*Sun Ra Arkestra: Kosmos in Blue: A John Gilmore Anthology, Vol. 1

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

*Various artists: Ad-Rock & Mike D's Alphabetical Jukebox (CDR compilation) (discs 3, 4, 5)