Playlist, Week of 2021-11-28

Starting to get excited about the upcoming Big Ears festival... here's hoping it really happens... many favorites are slotted to play, including playlist stalwarts Simulacrum, Kris Davis, and Craig Taborn...

Playlist 2021-11-29:

*Beach Boys: 1967: Sunshine Tomorrow (disc 1)

*Beach Boys: Love You

*Beethoven: Piano Trio Op. 97 / Dvořák: Piano Trio Op. 90 (Pauk/Kirschbaum/Frankl)

*Anthony Braxton: Octet (New York) 1995

*Anthony Braxton/Miya Masaoka: Duo (DCWM) 2013 (disc 2)

*Anthony Braxton: Quartet (Standards) 2020 (disc 11 streaming)

*John Coltrane: Live in Seattle (disc 2)

*John Coltrane: 1965-09 Seattle (CDR) (unreleased tracks)

*Scotty Hard: Scotty Hard's Radical Reconstructive Surgery

*Ikue Mori/Brian Marsella/Sae Hashimoto: Archipelago X

*Joe Morris/ Tomeka Reid: Combinations

*Muffins: Loveletter #2: The Ra Sessions

*Quiet Sun: Mainstream

*Rova Saxophone Quartet/Kyle Bruckmann/Henry Kaiser: Steve Lacy's Saxophone Special Revisited

*Matthew Shipp String Trio: Symbolic Reality

*Steve Swell's Fire Into Music: Swimming in a Galaxy of Goodwill and Sorrow

*Henry Threadgill Sextet: When Was That?

*Henry Threadgill Sextet: Just the Facts and Pass the Bucket

*Tiger Trio: Unleashed

*Watershed: Watershed

*John Zorn/Simulacrum: Baphomet

 

Reading List, Week of 2021-11-28

Reading List 2021-11-29:

*Pynchon, Thomas. Against the Day (reread/started)
*Shakespeare, William. Pericles (Arden 2nd series, ed. E.D. Hoeniger) (reread/started)
*Austen, Jane and Seth Grahame-Smith. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (started/finished)
*Delisle, Guy. Factory Summers (transl. Helge Dascher and Rob Aspinall) (started/finished)
*Gaiman, Neil and Fábio Moon, Gabriel Bá. How to Talk to Girls at Parties (started/finished)
*Jusay, Jeremy. The Strange Ones (started/finished)
*Stephenson, Eric, et al. They're Not Like Us, Vol. 2: Us Against You (started/finished)
*Stephenson, Eric, et al. They're Not Like Us, Vol. 1: Black Holes for the Young (started/finished)
*Ellroy, James. Clandestine (reread/finished)
*The Book Lover. Compiled by Ali Smith (in progress)
*Booth, Stephen. Shakespeare's Sonnets (ed. with analytic commentary by Booth) (in progress)
*Brennan, Matt. Kick It: A Social History of the Drum Kit (in progress)
*Shakespeare, William. Sonnets (1609 Quarto) (reread/in progress)
*Shakespeare, William. Sonnets (ed. Helen Vendler) (reread/in progress)

Playlist, Week of 2021-11-21

The remastered Pere Ubu discs on Fire sound fantastic, best they've sounded on digital (still prefer the original vinyl)...

Playlist 2021-11-22:

*Beatles: Please Please Me (2009 stereo remaster) (sides 1, 2)
*Beatles Remixers Group: Tuned to a Natural E Vol. 7
*Beatles Remixers Group: Tuned to a Natural E Vol. 8 (disc 1)
*Paul Chambers: Chambers' Music: A Jazz Delegation from the East
*Paul Chambers: Mosaic Select (disc 1)
*Nels Cline/Henry Kaiser/Jim Thomas/Weasel Walter/Allen Whitman: Jazz Free: A Connective Improvisation
*Milford Graves/John Zorn: 50²
*Jazzmen: Detroit
*Henry Kaiser/Bob Bralove: Ultraviolet Licorice
*Henry Kaiser/Damon Smith/Weasel Walter: Plane Crash 2
*Brian Marsella: Gatos Do Sul
*Roscoe Mitchell: Duets with Anthony Braxton
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2015-10-24 “Swift Creation” Cheap Fest VI, Richmond VA (wav)
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2016-02-05 “Up and Atom” RVA Noise Showcase, WRIR Party, Richmond VA (wav)
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2016-09-28 "Ankle, Rain, Pack" Strange Matter, RVA (wav)
*Pere Ubu: The Modern Dance
*Richard Pinhas: Tranzition
*Craig Taborn/Vadim Neselovskyi: Da'at
*Cecil Taylor: Indent "Indent (Third Layer)"
*Wilde Flowers: The Wilde Flowers (disc 1)

 

Reading List, Week of 2021-11-21

Reading List 2021-11-22:

*The Book Lover. Compiled by Ali Smith (started)
*Ellroy, James. Clandestine (reread/finished)
*Remender, Rick, et al. Low, Vol. 1: The Delirium of Hope (started/finished)
*Segar, E. C. Complete E.C. Segar Popeye, Vol. 10: Dailies 1935-1937 (started/finished)
*Badman, Keith. The Beach Boys: The Definitive Diary of America's Greatest Band: On Stage and In the Studio (reread/finished)
*Harrison, John M. Climbers (finished)
*Booth, Stephen. Shakespeare's Sonnets (ed. with analytic commentary by Booth) (in progress)
*Brennan, Matt. Kick It: A Social History of the Drum Kit (in progress)
*Shakespeare, William. Sonnets (1609 Quarto) (reread/in progress)
*Shakespeare, William. Sonnets (ed. Helen Vendler) (reread/in progress)

Playlist, Week of 2021-11-14

The music is good......

Playlist 2021-11-15:

*Beach Boys: 1970-02-28 Seattle (CDR)

*Beach Boys: Carl and the Passions….So Tough

*Beach Boys: 1972-11-23 Carnegie Hall NYC (CDR)

*Beach Boys: Holland

*Beatles: Beatles for Sale (2009 stereo remaster) (sides 1, 2)

*Rob Brown/Matthew Shipp: Then Now

*Rob Brown Quartet: From Here to Hear

*Chicago: Chicago at Carnegie Hall Complete (selections CDR) (disc 2)

*Chicago: Chicago V

*Ornette Coleman: Dancing in Your Head "Theme from a Symphony (Variation One)"

*John Coltrane: Live in Seattle (disc 1)

*John Coltrane: A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle

*Miles Davis: The Complete Studio Recordings of the Miles Davis Quintet 1965–1968 (disc 4) "Circle in the Round"

*Deerhoof: Actually, You Can

*Hamid Drake/Sylvain Kassap: Heads or Tails (disc 1)

*Paul Dunmall/Matthew Shipp/Joe Morris/Gerald Cleaver: The Bright Awakening

*Michel Edelin Quartet: Resurgence

*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: The Duke Ellington Carnegie Hall Concerts, January, 1943 "Black," "Brown"

*Duke Ellington: Live in Mexico "The Mexican Suite"

*Tim Hodgkinson: Under the Void

*Yusef Lateef: Roots Run Deep

*Dave Liebman/Steve Dalachinsky: The Fallout of Dreams

*Mat Maneri/Matthew Shipp: Conference of the Mat/ts

*Hank Mobley: The Complete Blue Note Hank Mobley Fifties Sessions (discs 5, 6)

*Colin Moulding: The Hardest Battle

*Evan Parker Quartet: All Knavery and Collusion

*Pere Ubu: The Modern Dance (sides 1, 2)

*Pere Ubu: Dub Housing (sides 1, 2)

*Lee "Scratch" Perry, the Upsetters, & Friends: The Upsetter Compact Set (disc 1)

*Cash Rivers and the Sinners: Blue Balls Lincoln

*Matthew Shipp Trio/Nicole Mitchell: All Things Are

*Matthew Shipp/Nate Wooley: What If?

*Claudia Solal/Benoît Delbecq: Hopetown

*Sparks: Hello Young Lovers

*Sparks/Franz Ferdinand: FFS

*Steve Swell Quintet Soul Travelers: Astonishments

*Turbine!: Entropy/Enthalpy (disc 1)

*Chick Webb & Ella Fitzgerald: The Complete Chick Webb & Ella Fitzgerald Decca Sessions (1934-1941) (disc 7)

*John Zorn/Simulacrum: Simulacrum

Reading List, Week of 2021-11-14

Reading List 2021-11-15:

*Harrison, John M. Climbers (started)
*Atkinson, Kate. When Will There Be Good News? (started/finished)
*Atkinson, Kate. Started Early, Took My Dog (started/finished)
*Atkinson, Kate. Big Sky (started/finished)
*Badman, Keith. The Beach Boys: The Definitive Diary of America's Greatest Band: On Stage and In the Studio (reread/in progress)
*Booth, Stephen. Shakespeare's Sonnets (ed. with analytic commentary by Booth) (in progress)
*Brennan, Matt. Kick It: A Social History of the Drum Kit (in progress)
*Shakespeare, William. Sonnets (1609 Quarto) (reread/in progress)
*Shakespeare, William. Sonnets (ed. Helen Vendler) (reread/in progress)

 

Playlist, Week of 2021-11-07

Glad they kept the released version of "Passing By" instrumental, but it sure is nice to have the version with added vocals as well....

Playlist 2021-11-08:

*Beach Boys: Wake the World: The Friends Sessions
*Beach Boys: Feel Flows: The Sunflower & Surf's Up Sessions 1969-1971 (disc 3)
*black midi: Cavalcade
*Borderlands Trio: Wandersphere (discs 1, 2)
*Paul Chambers: Go…
*Paul Chambers: 1st Bassman
*Chicago: Chicago at Carnegie Hall Complete (selections CDR) (disc 1)
*Gerald Cleaver/Larry Ochs: Songs of the Wild Cave
*John Coltrane: A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle
*Jacques Coursil with Alan Silva: FreeJazzArt
*Deerhoof: Actually, You Can
*Robert Dick/Tiffany Chang: Raise the River
*East-West Collective: Humeurs
*Michel Edelin's Flute Fever Orchestra: Kalamania (disc 2)
*Farmers By Nature: Farmers By Nature
*Dexter Gordon: Our Man in Paris
*Jefferson Pilot: Long Distance
*Hank Mobley: The Complete Blue Note Hank Mobley Fifties Sessions (discs 3, 4)
*Jemeel Moondoc Quartet: The Astral Revelations: Live at Bimhuis
*Joe Morris/Mary Halvorson: Traversing Orbits
*Olivia Tremor Control: Presents: Singles and Beyond
*Lee Perry: Scratch Attack!
*Sam Rivers and the Rivbea Orchestra: Trilogy (disc 3)
*Matthew Shipp/John Butcher/Thomas Lehn: The Clawed Stone
*Sparks: Whomp That Sucker
*Spring: Spring
*Cecil Taylor Unit: 1966-10-16 Stuttgart (CDR) (disc 1)
*Tiger Trio: Map of Liberation
*Weasel Walter/Henry Kaiser/Damon Smith: Plane Crash
*Chick Webb & Ella Fitzgerald: The Complete Chick Webb & Ella Fitzgerald Decca Sessions (1934-1941) (discs 5, 6)
*John Zorn/Simulacrum: The Painted Bird
*John Zorn/Simulacrum: 49 Acts of Unspeakable Depravity in the Abominable Life and Times of Gilles de Rais
*John Zorn/Insurrection: Insurrection
*John Zorn/Insurrection: Salem 1692

Reading List, Week of 2021-11-07

Reading List 2021-11-08:

*Atkinson, Kate. When Will There Be Good News? (started)
*Smith, Ali. Girl Meets Boy (started/finished)
*Macdonald, Ross. The Doomsters (reread/finished)
*Badman, Keith. The Beach Boys: The Definitive Diary of America's Greatest Band: On Stage and In the Studio (reread/in progress)
*Booth, Stephen. Shakespeare's Sonnets (ed. with analytic commentary by Booth) (in progress)
*Brennan, Matt. Kick It: A Social History of the Drum Kit (in progress)
*Shakespeare, William. Sonnets (1609 Quarto) (reread/in progress)
*Shakespeare, William. Sonnets (ed. Helen Vendler) (reread/in progress)

Playlist, Week of 2021-10-31

Packy....

Playlist 2021-11-01:

*Charles "Packy" Axton: Late Late Party 1965-67 (sides 1, 2)

*Beach Boys: The Smile Sessions (sides 2, 3)

*Anthony Braxton/Miya Masaoka: Duo (DCWM) 2013 (disc 1)

*Anthony Braxton: Quartet (Standards) 2020 (discs 9, 10 streaming)

*John Coltrane: 1965-04-02 Half Note, NYC (CDR) (disc 3)

*John Coltrane: A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle

*Deerhoof: Actually, You Can

*Michel Edelin Quintet: Echoes of Henry Cow

*Duke Ellington: All American in Jazz

*Duke Ellington's Spacemen: The Cosmic Scene

*Duke Ellington: The Jaywalker

*John Gilmore: Non-Sun Ra Sax Solos (youtube)

*Grateful Dead: Listen to the River: St. Louis '71 '72 '73 (disc 20) "Dark Star"

*Joe Henderson: Black Narcissus

*Bobby Hutcherson: Oblique

*Jefferson Pilot: Long Distance

*Hank Mobley: The Complete Blue Note Hank Mobley Fifties Sessions (discs 1, 2)

*Monstrance: Monstrance (discs 1, 2)

*RAIC: Gestalt

*Sam Rivers and the Rivbea Orchestra: Trilogy (disc 2)

*Matthew Shipp: Magnetism(s) (disc 2)

*Wadada Leo Smith/Milford Graves/Bill Laswell: Sacred Ceremonies (discs 2, 3)

*Tyshawn Sorey: Unfiltered (discs 1, 2)

*Sparks: Balls

*Stravinsky/Columbia Symphony Orchestra: Three Favorite Ballets: Stravinsky Conducts Firebird, Petrushka, The Rite of Spring (side 1)

*Sun Ra: Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow

*Sun Ra: Haverford College 1980 Solo Piano

*Henry Threadgill Zooid: This Brings Us To, Volume II

*Various artists: The Wire Tapper 57

*Nate Wooley: Mutual Aid Music (disc 2)

*World Saxophone Quartet: W.S.Q. 

*World Saxophone Quartet: Revue 

Reading List, Week of 2021-10-31

Reading List 2021-11-01:

*Macdonald, Ross. The Doomsters (reread/started)
*King, Owen, Mark Jude Poirier, and Nancy Ahn. Intro to Alien Invasion (started/finished)
*Lemire, Jeff. Essex County (started/finished)
*Mitchell, David. Utopia Avenue (started/finished)
*Smith, Ali. The Whole Story and Other Stories (started/finished)
*Steig, William. Abel's Island (started/finished)
*Smith, Ali. Like (finished)
*Badman, Keith. The Beach Boys: The Definitive Diary of America's Greatest Band: On Stage and In the Studio (reread/in progress)
*Booth, Stephen. Shakespeare's Sonnets (ed. with analytic commentary by Booth) (in progress)
*Brennan, Matt. Kick It: A Social History of the Drum Kit (in progress)
*Shakespeare, William. Sonnets (1609 Quarto) (reread/in progress)
*Shakespeare, William. Sonnets (ed. Helen Vendler) (reread/in progress)