Playlist, Week of 2021-07-25

Couple of weeks' gap there while I was on vacation... lots of good listening along the way, mostly Magic Jukebox playlists... lots of Beach Boys, Beatles, Pere Ubu, Elvis Costello, XTC... Over the next couple of weeks I am planning to do a deep dive into Charles Mingus... one logical extension from Duke Ellington... but for now it's just going to be more scattered... 

Playlist 2021-07-26:

*Beatles: Help! (2009 stereo remaster) (side 2)
*Jeff Beck Group: Rough and Ready
*Anthony Braxton/Miya Masaoka: Duo (DCWM) 2013 (disc 2)
*Anthony Braxton: 12 Comp (ZIM) 2017 (Comp. 419, 420)
*Duke Ellington: 1899-1974 (sides 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
*Duke Ellington: All American in Jazz
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Togo Brava Suite (Storyville)
*Fred Frith/René Lussier: Nous Autres
*Jimi Hendrix Experience: Winterland (disc 3)
*High Llamas: Snowbug
*Susie Ibarra Trio: Songbird Suite
*Jethro Tull: Stand Up
*Massacre: Love Me Tender
*Mr. Bungle: The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny Demo
*Horace Silver Quintet & Trio: Blowin' the Blues Away
*Leo Smith Creative Orchestra: Budding of a Rose "Harmonium > Mutumishi"
*Art Tatum: The Tatum Group Masterpieces, Vol. 8
*Various artists: Ad-Rock & Mike D's Alphabetical Jukebox (CDR compilation) (disc 33)
*Chick Webb & Ella Fitzgerald: The Complete Chick Webb & Ella Fitzgerald Decca Sessions (1934-1941) (disc 1)
*XTC: Black Sea (side 1)
*XTC: Skylarking (side 1)

Reading List, Week of 2021-07-25

Beach reading.....

Reading List 2021-07-26:

*Kepnes, Caroline. You (started)
*Smith, Ali. How to Be Both (started/finished)
*Yokoyama, Hideo. Six Four (transl. Jonathan Lloyd-Davies) (started/finished)
*Le Guin, Ursula K. A Wizard of Earthsea (started/finished)
*Chen, Mike. Here and Now and Then (started/finished)
*James, Marlon. Black Leopard, Red Wolf (finished)
*Brooks, Cleanth and Robert Penn Warren. Understanding Poetry (rev. ed.) (in progress)

Playlist, Week of 2021-07-04

What better way to celebrate July 4th than by this 1962 extravaganza from Duke Ellington?... with All American in Jazz, Ellington and Strayhorn take the music from a Broadway "hit" (was it? I'd never heard of it before this, but then again I don't follow Broadway) and make it their own... typically brilliant, and not as well-known as it should be... I really like Jeff Beck's playing on his first two solo albums, but Rod Stewart just doesn't do it for me... never has... I'll have way more to say about Anthony Braxton's Zim disc in future... 

Playlist 2021-07-05:

*John Abercrombie: Night

*Joshua Abrams' Cloud Script: Cloud Script
*Jeff Beck: Truth
*Jeff Beck: Beck-Ola
*Anthony Braxton/Miya Masaoka: Duo (DCWM) 2013 (disc 1)
*Anthony Braxton: 12 Comp (ZIM) 2017 (Comp. 409, 410, 412, 413, 414, 415, 416)
*Curlew: North America
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Midnight in Paris
*Duke Ellington: All American in Jazz
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Togo Brava Suite (Storyville)
*Guided by Voices: Sweating the Plague
*Alexander Hawkins feat. Evan Parker + Riot Ensemble: Togetherness Music (For Sixteen Musicians)
*Jimi Hendrix Experience: Winterland (disc 2)
*Elvin Jones: The Complete Blue Note Elvin Jones Sessions (discs 4, 5, 6)
*John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band: John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (Ultimate Collection) (disc 2)
*Ikue Mori/Brian Marsella/Sae Hashimoto: Archipelago X
*Muffins: Chronometers
*Sean O'Hagan: Radum Calls, Radum Calls
*Mark O'Leary/Mat Maneri/Matthew Shipp: Chamber Trio
*Mario Pavone: Arc Trio
*Matthew Shipp Trio: Harmonic Disorder
*Matthew Shipp: Art of the Improviser (discs 1, 2)
*Skeleton Crew: The Country of Blinds
*Cecil Taylor Orchestra of Two Continents: 1984-10-20 Rubigen, Switzerland (CDR) (disc 2)
*Various artists: Ad-Rock & Mike D's Alphabetical Jukebox (CDR compilation) (disc 29)
*Various artists: 13 Miniatures for Albert Ayler
*Watershed: Watershed

Reading List, Week of 2021-07-04

Ali Smith's seasonal quartet is flat-out amazing... beautifully written, moving me in ways I didn't think "political" novels ever could...

Reading List 2021-07-05:

*Smith, Ali. Summer (started)
*Smith, Ali. Spring (started/finished)
*Smith, Ali. Winter (started/finished)
*Brooks, Cleanth and Robert Penn Warren. Understanding Poetry (rev. ed.) (in progress)