Playlist, Week of 2020-11-29

It's good to cleanse the palate every so often with some brain-scraping noise jazz, and Zu fits the bill, especially with Mats Gustafsson sitting in... WMWM reminds me how great a free drummer Robert Wyatt was... I knew of their first album, but I wasn't even aware there was a second one from Free Range Rat until I read the entry in the Penguin guide... nice sax work from my old UYA bandmate Eric Hipp... Start scratching the Blue Note surface and you'll find Joe Henderson everywhere... he's great on Pete La Roca Sims's Basra... there he is on Herbie Hancock's The Prisoner as well... and, outside the Blue Note universe, he also pops up on Butterfly Dreams... love me some Joe Henderson!

Playlist 2020-11-30:

*Mose Allison: The Word from Mose
*Jon Anderson: Olias of Sunhillow
*Beach Boys: California Girls (sides 1, 2)
*Beatles: Hard Day's Night (2009 mono remaster)
*Elvis Costello & the Attractions: Get Happy (side 1)
*Deerhoof: To Be Surrounded by Beautiful, Curious, Breathing, Laughing Flesh Is Enough
*Duke Ellington: Duke Ellington 1939 (side 2)
*Free Range Rat: Nut Club
*Mary Halvorson's Code Girl: Artlessly Falling
*Herbie Hancock: The Prisoner
*Andrew Hill: Solo (disc 3)
*Keith Jarrett: Standards in Norway
*King Crimson: Starless (discs 7, 9)
*Pete La Roca: Basra
*Ingrid Laubrock: Dreamt Twice, Twice Dreamt (disc 1)
*Mat Maneri Trio: So What?
*Pat Metheny/Ornette Coleman: Song X: Twentieth Anniversary
*Charles Mingus: Right Now
*Roscoe Mitchell Quartet: Come and See What There Is To See
*Bud Powell: The Genius of Bud Powell (sides 1, 2)
*Prince: Sign O’ the Times (Super Deluxe Edition) (disc 1)
*Flora Purim: Butterfly Dreams
*Sam Rivers and the Rivbea Orchestra: Trilogy (disc 3)
*Carlos Santana/John McLaughlin: 1973-09-05 Berkeley (boot CDR) (disc 1)
*Jimmy Smith: Groovin' at Small's Paradise
*Tomasz Stańko: Leosia
*Sun Ra: 1972-11-02/03 "Mystery Board" (CDR) (discs 1, 2)
*Sun Ra: Singles: The Definitive 45s Collection 1952-1991 (disc 3)
*Swollen Monkeys: After Birth of the Cool
*Cecil Taylor: Conquistador! "Conquistador"
*Cecil Taylor Unit: 1983-09-04 Saalfelden, Austria (CDR)
*Keith Tippett's Ark: Frames (Music For An Imaginary Film) (disc 1)
*Charles Tolliver: Mosaic Select (disc 2)
*Various artists: The Sound of Bossa Nova (disc 1)
*Various artists: Ad-Rock & Mike D's Alphabetical Jukebox (CDR compilation) (disc 20)
*WMWM: Live at the BBC 1973 (CDR)
*Zu/Mats Gustafsson: How to Raise an Ox