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