Playlist, Week of 2021-02-28

The two best pieces from Duke Ellington's Bethlehem recordings are the two Billy Strayhorn numbers "Midriff" and "Upper Manhattan Medical Group"... The 1940 aircheck recordings on Stereo Reflections in Ellington are just outstanding... great to hear Jimmy Blanton and Ben Webster with the rest of the band in live settings... those remote recordings are just solid gold... time machine material for sure...

Playlist 2021-03-01:

*Noël Akchoté: Compositions 72 - 148 (Plays Anthony Braxton)
*Noël Akchoté: Composition 199 & 304 (Plays Anthony Braxton)
*Noël Akchoté: Composition 220 (Plays Anthony Braxton)
*Art Ensemble: 1967/68 (disc 3) "Number 1"
*Anthony Braxton/Eugene Chadbourne: Duo (Improv) 2017 (disc 3)
*Circle: 1971-03-03 Hamburg (CDR) "Comp. 6A"
*Ornette Coleman: The Great London Concert "Forms and Sounds for Wind Quintet"

*Miles Davis: The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965 (disc 5)
*Eric Dolphy: Other Aspects (side 2)
*Duke Ellington: Stereo Reflections in Ellington
*Duke Ellington: The Complete Duke Ellington, Vol. 4: 1932 (side 4)
*Duke Ellington: The Complete 1932-1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 6)
*Duke Ellington: Flying Home
*Duke Ellington: Welcome to the Club
*Duke Ellington: Duke's Mood
*Jan Garbarek: Paths, Prints (side 1)
*Jimi Hendrix with Curtis Knight and the Squires: George's Club 20, Hackensack, NY 1965 (CDR)
*Jimi Hendrix: Songs for Groovy Children (The Fillmore East Concerts) (disc 2)
*Henry Cow: Unrest (Cow Box Redux)
*Junk Magic: Compass Confusion
*Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey: Stir Crazy (CDR compilation) (disc 10)
*Luis Russell: 1929-1930 (CDR compilation) (disc 1)
*Dmitri Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op.87 (Keith Jarrett) (discs 1, 2)
*Stephen Stills: Stephen Stills
*Sun Ra and His Myth Science Arkestra: Nubians of Plutonia
*Sun Ra and His Myth Science Arkestra: Fate in a Pleasant Mood
*Sun Ra: A Fireside Chat with Lucifer (side 2)
*Cecil Taylor: 1998-12-05 Yoshi's, Oakland CA (CDR) (disc 2)
*Ben Webster: The Big Tenor: The Complete Ben Webster on EmArcy (side 1)
*World Saxophone Quartet: W.S.Q. (side 1)