Playlist, Week of 2022-01-30

Really been enjoying the Sparks box set of Island LPs.... looking forward to seeing them at Big Ears... Bird Meets Wire is brooding and beautiful, a blend of dissonance, drones, and austere melodies paradoxically creates a sense of unrest and relaxation... With compositions by Andrew Hill and Joe Chambers and fantastic solos from Hill and Sam Rivers, Bobby Hutcherson's Dialogue is a classic... Standout track on Robert Wyatt's Flotsam Jetsam: the 1971 Symbiosis track with Mongezi Feza and Gary Windo... kind of a cross between Brotherhood of Breath and Fourth-era Soft Machine... great to hear Wyatt's drumming in this context … In light of all the news--all the news--I have been finding solace and comfort from Blue Note , especially the gorgeous tenor sax of Hank Mobley… nothing earth-shattering, just solid, thoughtful swing… Bobby Hutcherson, Joe Henderson, and Andrew Hill are also doing it for me… All of Ingrid Laubrock and Tom Rainey's Stir Crazy series episodes are worth listening to, but special attention should be paid to the final awesome episode (Episode 60): a huge mashup of the previous 20 episodes... a blend of 20 different Ingrids and Toms in a beautifully arranged synthesis of multiple sessions… hell, yeah!

Playlist 2022-01-31:

*Susan Alcorn/Leila Bordreuil/Ingrid Laubrock: Bird Meets Wire

*Beach Boys: Holland (Analogue Productions) (sides 1, 2, 4)

*Beatles: Get Back: The Rooftop Performance

*Anthony Braxton: 12 Comp (ZIM) 2017 (Comp. 402)

*Circle: 1971-03-03 Hamburg (CDR) "There Is No Greater Love"

*John Coltrane: Impressions (side 1)

*John Coltrane: My Favorite Things: Coltrane at Newport "Impressions" (1963)

*Kris Davis: Rye Eclipse

*Eloping with the Sun: Counteract This Turmoil Like Trees and Birds

*Stan Getz: The Complete Roost Recordings (disc 1)

*Joe Henderson: The Complete Joe Henderson Blue Note Sessions (disc 1)

*Andrew Hill: Mosaic Select (disc 1)

*Lightnin' Hopkins: Dirty House Blues (disc 2)

*Bobby Hutcherson: Dialogue

*Joseph Jarman: As If It Were the Seasons "As If It Were the Seasons"

*Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey: Stir Crazy (CDR compilation) (discs 15, 16)

*Roscoe Mitchell Discussions Orchestra: Discussions

*Hank Mobley: The Complete Blue Note Hank Mobley Fifties Sessions (disc 6)

*Louis Moholo Octet: 1978-10 BBC (CDR)

*Opeth: Damnation

*Charlie Parker: Bird: The Complete Charlie Parker on Verve (disc 6)

*Prince & the New Power Generation: Caught in the Act: The Classic 1993 Broadcast (boot CDR) (disc 1)

*Tomeka Reid Quartet: Old New

*Matana Roberts: 2009-04-01 London (CDR)

*Rolling Stones: Their Satanic Majesties Request (2017 stereo remaster)

*Sparks: Kimono My House (side 1)

*Sparks: Propaganda (sides 1, 2)

*Sparks: Indiscreet (sides 1, 2)

*Sparks: Big Beat (sides 1, 2)

*Sparks: The Rest of Sparks (sides 1, 2)

*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: Omniverse

*Sun Ra: Black Utopia Excerpts (CDR compilation)

*Horace Tapscott: The Dark Tree 1 & 2 (disc 2)

*Cecil Taylor: Garden (disc 1) "Garden II"

*Henry Threadgill Zooid: In for a Penny, In for a Pound (disc 2)

*Umlaut Big Band: Mary's Ideas (disc 2)

*Brian Wilson: At My Piano

*Stevie Wonder - Roddie Joy: Selections (CDR compilation)

*WSAM: Razz-Junk-Fock (cassette compilation) (side A)

*Robert Wyatt: Flotsam Jetsam