Playlist, Week of 2021-01-17

A new year, and the listening's good... Roscoe Mitchell's Splatter is a companion piece to Distant Radio Transmission, with two works featuring the Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bolagno, one being an alternate version of the composition "Distant Radio Transmission" featuring Thomas Buckner on mindblowing vocals... but the core of Splatter is devoted to "Breath and Pipes," a 45-minute improvisational duet from Mitchell and Francesco Filidei on this huge church organ... really moving, deeply beautiful simpatico playing...  In the universe of Miles Davis, standouts for me this week included Wynton Kelly's solo on "Pfrancing"... what the hell... Miles Ahead has always been my favorite of the Gil Evans collaborations... sublime orchestrations and gorgeous soloing... For whatever reason, the late Duke Ellington suites are tapping directly into where my brain is right now... I can't get enough of these... I do listen to other things, but it'd be super-easy to crank through nothing but 1960s Duke for the next few weeks... and not just because of Paul Gonsalves, who is consistently brilliant... and also in spite of Cat Anderson, who can be quite irritating (I have a limit on how many super-high-register screechy high trumpet notes I can tolerate, and it's way lower, evidently, than Duke's was)... 

Playlist 2021-01-18:

*Beatles: With the Beatles (2009 stereo remaster) (sides 1, 2)
*Beatles: Beatles for Sale (2009 stereo remaster) (sides 1, 2)
*Beatles: Rubber Soul (2009 stereo remaster) (side 1)
*Booker T. & the MGs: Soul Selections (CDR compilation)
*Anthony Braxton: Echo Echo Mirror House
*Daniel Carter/Matthew Shipp/William Parker/Gerald Cleaver: Welcome Adventure! Vol. 1
*Miles Davis: Chronicle: The Complete Prestige Recordings 1951-1956 (discs 4, 5)
*Miles Davis: Ascenseur pour l'Echafaud
*Miles Davis: Someday My Prince Will Come (side 1)
*Miles Davis/Gil Evans: The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings (disc 1)
*Miles Davis: The Complete On The Corner Sessions (disc 1) "On the Corner (Unedited Master)"
*Duke Ellington: The Complete Duke Ellington, Vol. 4: 1932 (side 2)
*Duke Ellington: 1940 "Fargo Encores" (side 2)
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: The Duke Ellington Carnegie Hall Concerts, December, 1947 (disc 1)
*Duke Ellington: The Complete Capitol Recordings of Duke Ellington (disc 3)
*Duke Ellington: Ellington Uptown
*Duke Ellington: Soul Call
*Duke Ellington: New Orleans Suite
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Latin American Suite
*Duke Ellington: Togo Brava Suite
*Explorers Club: Together
*Grateful Dead: 1969-02-29 Fillmore West (CDR) "That's It for the Other One"
*Mary Halvorson's Code Girl: Artlessly Falling
*Herbie Hancock: The Prisoner (sides 1, 2)
*Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live in Maui (disc 1)
*Junk Magic: Compass Confusion
*Ingrid Laubrock: Dreamt Twice, Twice Dreamt (disc 1)
*Led Zeppelin: Led Zeppelin (2014 remaster) (disc 1)
*Roscoe Mitchell: Splatter
*Mario Pavone: Arc Trio
*Sun Ra & His Solar-Myth Arkestra: The Solar-Myth Approach Vols. 1 and 2 (disc 2)
*Sun Ra & His Arkestra: The Cymbals​/​Symbols Sessions (New York, 1973) (side 3)
*Sun Ra: The Other Side of the Sun
*Sun Ra: A Fireside Chat with Lucifer (side 1)
*Sun Ra Arkestra: Swirling
*Cecil Taylor/The Ensemble: The Light of Corona "One"
*Lennie Tristano: Lennie Tristano
*Various artists: 1000 Volts of Stax
*Various artists: 2000 Volts of Stax
*Various artists: 3000 Volts of Stax