Playlist, Week of 2020-09-20

As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, the recent spate of PR around the centennial of Charlie Parker's death spurred me to go back to my Bird collection and do some in-depth listening... not that I stopped listening to Bird; after all, he (like the Beatles) regularly shows up on the Magic Jukebox (most of the Savoy and Dial master takes, plus a healthy helping of Royal Roost and Verve cuts)... but it'd been a while since I just pulled out a Bird disc and spinned it... needless to say, he sounds as great as ever... along with John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, and Miles Davis, his playing was what got me seriously into jazz in a way that hasn't relented for several decades now... I especially enjoyed this list by Mark Stryker of great live Bird... 20 years or so ago, I put together a 6-CD compilation of great Bird, based largely on Lawrence O. Koch's list of essential Bird in Yardbird Suite and Thomas Owens's list of greatest Bird solos in Bebop: The Music and Its Players... most of those songs are represented on Stryker's list, but there were a few I have since acquired (like the 1940 solo recording)... for live stuff, like I said last week, the Benedetti stuff still floors me... I am also partial to Complete Live at Birdland and Summit Meeting at Birdland... digging through my vinyl, it's been interesting to see what's been upgraded and improved, and what still sounds solid as is... Charlie Parker seems to be imprinted on my brain, and I love it... I go through stages of deep listening to particular artists... the thing is, there are so many of them!... I am absorbed by great music... it was also fun to reread all the reviews on Bird in the Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD (5th edition)... Morton and Cook really nail it, I think, over and over... 

Playlist 2020-09-21:

*AMM: 2003-11-12 Glasgow (CDR)
*Art Ensemble of Chicago: Full Force (side 1)
*Beatles: The Beatles (Super Deluxe Edition) (disc 5)
*Ken Boothe: Live Good
*Brand X: Moroccan Roll (side 1)
*Anthony Braxton: Ninetet (Yoshi's) 1997 Vol. 1 (discs 1, 2)
*Anthony Braxton: 19 Standards (Quartet) 2003 (discs 1, 2)
*Clifford Brown and Max Roach: Clifford Brown and Max Roach
*Terri Lyne Carrington: The Mosaic Project
*Alice Coltrane: Spiritual Eternal: The Complete Warner Bros. Studio Recordings (disc 2)
*Miles Davis: Pangaea (side 2)
*Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges: Side by Side
*Grieg/Schumann: Piano Concertos (Eugene Ormandy, cond.)
*Herbie Hancock: Maiden Voyage (side 2)
*Chaka Khan: I Feel for You
*Chaka Khan: The Platinum Collection
*King Crimson: Larks' Tongues In Aspic: The Complete Recordings (discs 1, 2, 3, 4)
*Charles Mingus: Pre-Bird (side 2)
*Charles Mingus Quintet featuring Eric Dolphy: Mingus In Europe Volume II (side 2)
*Roscoe Mitchell with Ostravská Banda: Distant Radio Transmission (side 1)
*Graham Nash/David Crosby: Graham Nash/David Crosby
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2013-08-26: “All or Something” (wav)
*New Ting: 2019-07-08 "Backhand Volley" (wav)
*Charlie Parker: The Complete Birth of the Bebop
*Charlie Parker: Charlie Parker's All Stars 1950 (side 2)
*Charlie Parker: The Complete Legendary Rockland Palace Concert 1952 (discs 1, 2)
*Charlie Parker with Quartet and The Orchestra: The Washington Concerts
*Charlie Parker: Montreal 1953
*Charlie Parker: Charlie Parker at the Open Door
*Residents: The Third Reich 'n Roll (pREServed Edition) (disc 1)
*Max Roach And Cecil Taylor: Historic Concerts (sides 1, 2)
*David Sancious And Tone: Transformation (The Speed Of Love) (side 1)
*Sheriff Jack: Laugh Yourself Awake
*Cecil Taylor/Art Ensemble of Chicago: 1984-10-30 Paris (CDR) (track 2)
*Lewis Taylor: The Lost Album
*McCoy Tyner: Cosmos (side 3)
*Various artists: Ad-Rock & Mike D's Alphabetical Jukebox (CDR compilation) (disc 6)
*Lester Young: The Aladdin Sessions (side 1)