Playlist, Week of 2021-05-02

I still don't know what I think about A Drum Is a Woman... there are some interesting musical moments, but Duke Ellington's narration is often coy and irritating... maybe if I'd seen it in the context of the TV show I'd feel differently... there's not a lot of swing in it, but I feel like I'm probably missing the boat... further research needed... Midnight in Paris, with only two Ellington compositions on it, is a great case for Ellington and Billy Strayhorn as excellent arrangers (recomposers)... In addition to the Duke, I have also been digging a little deeper into my Jimi Hendrix collection... can't get enough... still and all, with all the incredible live shows and studio outtakes that have been released since his death, to me there's nothing better than the three original studio albums, plus Band of Gypsys and Cry of Love... 

Playlist 2021-05-03:

*Brahms & Schumann String Quartets (The Lindsays)
*James Carter: In Carterian Fashion
*Company: Trios
*Declared Enemy: Salute to 100001 Stars: A Tribute to Jean Genet
*Hamid Drake & Bindu: Blissful
*Michel Edelin Trio: Kuntu
*Duke Ellington: Ellington Uptown
*Duke Ellington: Duke 56/62 Vol. 1 (sides 1, 2)
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: A Drum Is a Woman
*Duke Ellington: His Piano and His Orchestra at the Bal Masque

*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Midnight in Paris
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Featuring Paul Gonsalves
*Scott Fields Ensemble: We Were the Phliks
*Alexander Hawkins feat. Evan Parker + Riot Ensemble: Togetherness Music (For Sixteen Musicians)
*Jimi Hendrix: The Jimi Hendrix Experience (discs 1, 2, 3, 4)
*Jimi Hendrix: West Coast Seattle Boy (deluxe ed.) (discs 3, 4)
*Kassap/Lavant/Lopez/Médioni/Tchamitchian: Ascension, Tombeau de John Coltrane
*Roscoe Mitchell: Bells for the South Side "Red Moon In The Sky/Odwalla"
*Monash Art Ensemble/George Lewis: Hexis
*Moving Gelatine Plates: The World of Genius Hans
*News From Babel: Sirens & Silences/Work Resumed On The Tower
*OOIOO: Nijimusi
*Alexander von Schlippenbach: Monk's Casino (The Complete Works of Thelonious Monk) (disc 1)
*Matthew Shipp: Art of the Improviser (discs 1, 2)
*Skeleton Crew: Learn to Talk
*Speaker Music: Black Nationalist Sonic Weaponry (disc 2)
*Sun Ra: The Eternal Myth Revealed, Vol. 1 (disc 3)
*Sun Ra: Of Abstract Dreams
*Steve Swell's Fire Into Music: Swimming in a Galaxy of Goodwill and Sorrow
*Cecil Taylor & Günter Sommer: Riobec "Riobec 1"
*Carla Thomas: Let Me Be Good to You (The Atlantic & Stax Recordings 1960-1968) (disc 2)
*David Torn/Tim Berne/Ches Smith: Sun Of Goldfinger "Eye Meddle"
*Various artists: History of Electronic/Electroacoustic Music (CDR compilation) (disc 1)
*Anna Webber: Simple
*Teddy Wilson: Teddy Wilson (Giants of Jazz) (side 3)