Playlist, Week of 2022-05-29

With its sparse, stark setting--Annette Peacock on vocals and piano, accompanied only by a string quartet--An Acrobat's Heart is the closest I've heard to how she sounded at Big Ears... poignant, haunting, beautiful.... Finally caught up to Paul's Run Devil Run, a quite enjoyable set of rock-and-roll covers... Also revisiting some free jazz classics this week: Coltrane's Ascension still blows me away... Miles at the Fillmore with the "lost quintet" (plus Airto) features out-there wailing from Wayne Shorter... Manfred Schoof's European Echoes is killer, and not just because it's 1969... 

Playlist 2022-05-30:

*Allied Chemical Brothers: Meet Mr. Beat
*AMM: Laminal (disc 1)
*Beatles: Kicks, Kudos, and Cash: The Making of the Silver Beatals (bootleg CDR) (disc 3)
*Paul Bley: Open, To Love
*Paul Bley/Gary Peacock/Paul Motian: Not Two, Not One
*Anthony Braxton's Sonic Genome Project: 2010-01-31 Vancouver (CDR) (disc 1)
*Anthony Braxton: Quartet (New Haven) 2014 (disc 2)
*Anthony Braxton Zim Music: 2019-02-15 Vitry-sur-Seine (CDR)
*Anthony Braxton: Sonic Genome 2019-10-31: Jazzfest Berlin 2019 (CDR) (disc 6)
*Burial: Antidawn
*John Coltrane: Ascension (Edition II)
*Miles Davis: Live at the Fillmore East (March 7, 1970): It's About That Time (disc 2)
*Michel Edelin Quartet: Resurgence
*Amir Elsaffar/Rivers of Sound: The Other Shore

*Guided By Voices: Crystal Nuns Cathedral
*Herbie Hancock: Inventions and Dimensions
*Herbie Hancock: Empyrean Isles
*Andrew Hill: The Complete Blue Note Andrew Hill Sessions (1963-66) (disc 3)
*Ingrid Laubrock Anti-House: 2016-11-12 Wels, Austria (CDR)
*Paul McCartney: Run Devil Run
*Myra Melford's Fire and Water Quintet: For the Love of Fire and Water
*Matt Mitchell/Kate Gentile: Snark Horse (discs 1, 6)
*Hank Mobley: The Complete Hank Mobley Blue Note Sessions 1963-70 (disc 3)
*New Ting: 2022-05-09 "Slo Chew Manakin" (wav)
*Tony Oxley: Unreleased 1974-2016
*William Parker: Mayan Space Station
*Andy Partridge: My Failed Songwriting Career, Vol. 2
*Annette Peacock: An Acrobat's Heart
*Manfred Schoof: European Echoes
*Wayne Shorter: 2003-08-02 Goshen, CT (CDR)
*Ches Smith: The Bell
*Sonic Youth: Battery Park, NYC: July 4, 2008
*Sparks: Kimono My House (sides 1, 2)
*Sparks: Propaganda (sides 1, 2)
*Sparks: The Rest of Sparks (sides 1, 2)
*Sparks: Hello Young Lovers
*Sparks: Exotic Creatures of the Deep (sides 1, 2, 3, 4)
*Sun Ra: Ellingtonia, Vol. 1 (streaming)
*UYA: Improvisations 2 (1994-1995): The Fan Is "Nobody Live"
*Anna Webber: Simple
*Xiu Xiu: Nina
*XTC: Agony (CDR compilation)
*John Zorn: Bagatelles Vol. 1: Mary Halvorson Quartet
*John Zorn: Bagatelles Vol. 2: Michael Nicolas/Erik Friedlander

 

Reading List, Week of 2022-05-29

Reading List 2022-05-30:

*Jenkins, Todd S. Free Jazz and Free Improvisation: An Encyclopedia (in progress)
*Shakespeare, William. All's Well That Ends Well (Arden 3rd series, ed. Suzanne Gossett and Helen Wilcox) (reread/in progress)
*Winn, John C. Way Beyond Compare: The Beatles' Recorded Legacy, Vol. 1: 1957-1965 (in progress)

 

Playlist, Week of 2022-05-22

Summer approaching, and the music is sweet....

Playlist 2022-05-23:

*Beatles: Kicks, Kudos, and Cash: The Making of the Silver Beatals (bootleg CDR) (disc 2)
*Anthony Braxton: 9 Compositions (Iridium) 2006 (selections)
*Anthony Braxton: Sonic Genome 2019-10-31: Jazzfest Berlin 2019 (CDR) (discs 3, 4, 5)
*Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet & 7-tette: Navigation (The Complete Firehouse 12 Recordings) (disc 3)
*Clash: Combat Rock (sides 1, 2)
*Ornette Coleman Prime Time with Don Cherry: 1987-07-23 Stockholm (CDR)
*Curlew: 1st Album + Live at CBGB 1980 (disc 1)
*Miles Davis: The Cellar Door Sessions 1970 (disc 5) "What I Say"
*Decoy & Joe McPhee: Oto "Breakout"
*Deerhoof: Halfbird
*Whit Dickey/William Parker/Matthew Shipp: Village Mothership
*Godley & Creme: L (side 1)
*Johnny Hodges: Triple Play
*Hüsker Dü: New Day Rising (side 1)
*Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey: Stir Crazy (CDR compilation) "Episode 60 (Final Mash-Up)"
*Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra: Galactic Parables: Vol. 1 "Make Way to the City/The Arc of Slavery #72 (Part 1)"
*Merzbow/Balázs Pándi/Mats Gustafsson/Thurston Moore: Cuts Up Cuts Out
*Matt Mitchell/Kate Gentile: Snark Horse (disc 5)
*Roscoe Mitchell's Cards For Orchestra Project: 2009-08-30 Sant'Anna Arresi, Italy (CDR)
*Roscoe Mitchell: Not Yet: Six Compositions
*Roscoe Mitchell: Splatter "Distant Radio Transmission"
*New Ting: 2022-05-09 "Slo Chew Manakin" (wav)
*Alexandre Pierrepont/Mike Ladd: Maison Hantée
*Manfred Schoof: European Echoes
*Wayne Shorter: Night Dreamer
*Alan Silva and His Celestrial Communication Orchestra: Luna Surface
*Sparks: Angst in My Pants
*Cecil Taylor Feel Trio: Two Ts for a Lovely T (disc 6)
*Umlaut Big Band: Mary's Ideas (disc 2)
*Various artists: Gittin' To Know Y'All
*Various artists: No Filler: USHC 1978-1985 (CDR compilation)
*Stevie Wonder: Songs in the Key of Life (side 2)
*XTC: Agony (CDR compilation)
*John Zorn: Bagatelles Vol. 7: Brian Marsella
*John Zorn: Bagatelles Vol. 8: John Medeski Trio

Reading List, Week of 2022-05-22

Reading List 2022-05-23:

*Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man (reread/finished)
*Jenkins, Todd S. Free Jazz and Free Improvisation: An Encyclopedia (in progress)
*Shakespeare, William. All's Well That Ends Well (Arden 3rd series, ed. Suzanne Gossett and Helen Wilcox) (reread/in progress)
*Winn, John C. Way Beyond Compare: The Beatles' Recorded Legacy, Vol. 1: 1957-1965 (in progress)

Playlist, Week of 2022-05-15

Very pleased to be getting back together with New Ting for two new sessions... we played the one outside gig at Hell's Door and a couple of sessions at Orbital over the past two years, but that's been it, after years of playing almost every week, so it feels so good to get back to it... the sessions are here and here... for the second one we welcomed guest Erik Schroeder from RAIC and Ask the Trees... so at one point, with Fred McGann and Jimmy Ghaphery also on sax, we had a sax trio going for a little bit... but as these things go, it morphed in and out of all kinds of other textures, anchored by Tommy Birchett's outrageous electronic wizardry and Tim Harding's deft guitar work... lots of stuff going on... 

Playlist 2022-05-16:

*AMM: The Crypt - 12th June 1968 (disc 2) "Coffin nor Shelf"
*AMM: An Unintended Legacy (disc 2)
*Anthony Braxton: GTM (Syntax) 2017 (discs 7, 8, 10, 11) (streaming)
*Anthony Braxton: 12 Comp (ZIM) 2017 (Comp. 418, 419, 420)
*Anthony Braxton: Sonic Genome 2019-10-31: Jazzfest Berlin 2019 (CDR) (discs 1, 2)
*Broadcast: Maida Vale Sessions
*Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet & 7-tette: Navigation (The Complete Firehouse 12 Recordings) (disc 2)
*John Coltrane & Don Cherry: The Avant-Garde
*John Coltrane: Live in Japan (disc 3) "Peace on Earth"
*Fred Frith Trio with Lotte Anker, Susana Santos Silva: Road (disc 2)
*Julius Hemphill: Dogon A.D.
*Andrew Hill: Passing Ships
*Johnny Hodges and His Orchestra: Hodge Podge (sides 1, 2)
*Freddie Hubbard: Breaking Point
*Kinks: The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society (disc 1)
*Brian Marsella: Gatos Do Su
*Rob Mazuerk Quartet: Father's Wing
*Mr. Bungle: The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny Demo
*Matt Mitchell/Kate Gentile: Snark Horse (disc 4)
*Nicole Mitchell & an_ARCHE NewMusic Ensemble: Arc Of O: For Improvisers, Chamber Orchestra & Electronics
*Fats Navarro and Tadd Dameron: The Complete Blue Note and Capitol Recordings of Fats Navarro and Tadd Dameron (discs 1, 2)
*New Ting: 2022-04-25 "Organization Nation" (wav)
*Andy Partridge: My Failed Songwriting Career, Vol. 1
*Andy Partridge: My Failed Songwriting Career, Vol. 2
*Annette Peacock/Paul Bley: Dual Unity
*Wadada Leo Smith: America's National Parks (disc 2)
*Sparks: Indiscreet (sides 1, 2)
*Sparks: Propaganda (sides 1, 2)
*Sparks: Gratuitous Sax & Senseless Violins (sides 1, 2)
*Sparks: Balls (sides 1, 2, 3, 4)
*Sparks: Lil' Beethoven (sides 1, 2)
*Cecil Taylor: Spring of Two Blue-J's (side 1)
*Cecil Taylor Unit: 1985-05-02 Chicago (CDR) (disc 2)
*Henry Threadgill Zooid: In for a Penny, In for a Pound (disc 2)
*Brian Wilson: No Pier Pressure (side 2)
*Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road
*Stevie Wonder: Stevie Wonder's Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants (side 4)
*Robert Wyatt: Shleep
*Yes: Close to the Edge "Close to the Edge"
*John Zorn: Chimeras
*John Zorn/Simulacrum: Nostradamus: The Death of Satan
*John Zorn: Bagatelles Vol. 6: Brian Marsella Trio 

Reading List, Week of 2022-05-15

Reading List 2022-05-16:

*Shakespeare, William. All's Well That Ends Well (Arden 3rd series, ed. Suzanne Gossett and Helen Wilcox) (reread/started)
*Shakespeare, William. All's Well That Ends Well (Arden 2nd series, ed. G.K. Hunter) (reread/finished)
*Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man (reread/in progress)
*Jenkins, Todd S. Free Jazz and Free Improvisation: An Encyclopedia (in progress)
*Winn, John C. Way Beyond Compare: The Beatles' Recorded Legacy, Vol. 1: 1957-1965 (in progress)

 

Playlist, Week of 2022-05-08

 I cannot do justice with words to the grandeur and deep beauty of all the music I listen to... 

Playlist 2022-05-09:

*Muhal Richard Abrams: SoundDance (disc 2)
*Rashied Ali Quartet: New Directions In Modern Music (side 1)
*Art Ensemble of Chicago with Cecil Taylor: Thelonious Sphere Monk: Dreaming of the Masters Vol. 2
*Borderlands Trio: Asteroidea
*Boris: W
*Anthony Braxton: Town Hall (Trio & Quintet) 1972
*Anthony Braxton: 4 (Ensemble) Compositions 1992 "Comp. 163"
*Anthony Braxton: GTM (Syntax) 2017 (disc 6) (streaming)
*Anthony Braxton: 12 Comp (ZIM) 2017 (Comp. 416)
*Peter Brötzmann Group: Alarm
*Chick Corea: Circling In (side 4)
*Miles Davis: Live at the Fillmore East (March 7, 1970): It's About That Time (disc 1)
*Miles Davis: The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions (disc 5) "Right Off"
*Michel Edelin Quintet: Echoes of Henry Cow
*Duke Ellington: The Girl's Suite/The Perfume Suite (side 1)
*Joe Farrell Quartet: Joe Farrell Quartet
*Fred Frith/Anne Bourne/John Oswald: Dearness
*Fred Frith Trio with Lotte Anker, Susana Santos Silva: Road (disc 1)
*Joe Giardullo Open Ensemble: Red Morocco
*Andrew Hill: Andrew! (side 2)
*Freddie Hubbard: Ready for Freddie
*John Lennon and Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band: Some Time in New York City (sides 3, 4)
*John McLaughlin: Where Fortune Smiles
*Myra Melford's Snowy Egret: The Other Side of Air
*Charles Mingus Workshop and Cecil Taylor Unit: 1965-09-10 Village Gate, NYC (youtube)
*Charles Mingus: Music Written for Monterey 1965, Not Heard, Played in its Entirety at UCLA (side 3)
*Matt Mitchell/Kate Gentile: Snark Horse (disc 3)
*Nicole Mitchell's Sonic Projections: Emerald Hills
*Roscoe Mitchell: Splatter "Distant Radio Transmission"
*New Ting: 2022-04-25 "Organization Nation" (wav)
*Andy Partridge: My Failed Songwriting Career, Vol. 2
*Archie Shepp and the New York Contemporary Five: Archie Shepp and the New York Contemporary Five (Savoy)
*Wayne Shorter: The All Seeing Eye (side 1)
*Sparks: Gratuitous Sax & Senseless Violins (sides 1, 2)
*Sparks: Balls (sides 1, 2)
*Sparks: Hello Young Lovers (sides 1, 2, 3, 4)
*Sun Ra and His Solar Arkestra: Secrets of the Sun
*Sun Ra: Continuation (Saturn/Corbett vs. Dempsey 2CD) (disc 2)
*Sun Ra: Crystal Spears (Remastered)
*Sun Ra: Cosmos (Remastered)
*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: Omniverse (side 2)
*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: Of Mythic Worlds
*Cecil Taylor: In Transition (side 1)
*Cecil Taylor Quintet: 1965-07-02 Newport (CDR)
*Henry Threadgill Zooid: In for a Penny, In for a Pound (disc 1)
*Various artists: Afro-Cuban Jazz (side 1)
*Various artists: Luigi Nono Retrospective (2004-05-27 London) CDR) (disc 2)
*John Zorn: Heaven and Earth Magick
*John Zorn: Bagatelles Vol. 4: Ikue Mori
*John Zorn: Bagatelles Vol. 5: Kris Davis Quartet

Reading List, Week of 2022-05-08

Reading List 2022-05-09

*Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man (reread/started)
*Nguyen, Viet Thanh. The Sympathizer (finished)
*Jenkins, Todd S. Free Jazz and Free Improvisation: An Encyclopedia (in progress)
*Shakespeare, William. All's Well That Ends Well (Arden 2nd series, ed. G.K. Hunter) (reread/in progress)
*Winn, John C. Way Beyond Compare: The Beatles' Recorded Legacy, Vol. 1: 1957-1965 (in progress)

 

Playlist, Week of 2022-05-01

In the world of Anthony Braxton albums of cover tunes devoted to the work of single artists, Eight (+3) Tristano Compositions 1989 stands out, along with the Charlie Parker Project, as the best... his playing is absolutely on fire here... amply complemented by the baritone sax of John Raskin, with a killer rhythm section of Dred Scott, who I need to check out more of, Cecil McBee, and Andrew Cyrille... just brilliant... I continue to be blown away by Black Messiah, a true masterpiece of the last decade... I used to enjoy Of Mist and Melting mostly for the acerbic sax of Jan Garbarek, but now I go back for the superb drumming of Jack DeJohnette... so well-recorded... 

Playlist 2022-05-02:

*Anthony Braxton: Eight (+3) Tristano Composition 1989: For Warne Marsh

*Anthony Braxton: Trillium R: Composition 162 - An Opera in Four Acts/Shala Fears for the Poor (disc 3)

*Anthony Braxton Diamond Curtain Wall Quartet + Jason Moran: 2012-12-15 Kennedy Center (CDR)

*Anthony Braxton: Quartet (Standards) 2020 (discs 12, 13) (streaming)

*Bruford: 1979-07-19 Falls Church, VA (CDR)

*Circle: 1971-03-04 Hamburg (CDR) "There Is No Greater Love"

*Alice Coltrane: Carnegie Hall '71

*John Coltrane/Alice Coltrane: Cosmic Music (side 1)

*Bill Connors: Of Mist and Melting (side 1)

*Sylvie Courvoisier/Mary Halvorson: Searching for the Disappeared Hour

*D’Angelo and the Vanguard: Black Messiah

*Duke Ellington: The Girl's Suite/The Perfume Suite (sides 1, 2)

*Estamos Trio: People's Historia

*Hatfield and the North: Hatfield and the North (side 1)

*Joe Henderson: An Evening with Joe Henderson

*Andrew Hill: Point of Departure

*Jacob Lindsay/Ava Mendoza/Damon Smith/Weasel Walter: Jus

*Lindsays: The String Quartet (Haydn/Beethoven)

*Tony Malaby's Sabino: The Cave of Winds

*M.I.A.: Kala

*Hank Mobley: The Complete Hank Mobley Blue Note Sessions 1963-70 (disc 2)

*Ikue Mori: One Hundred Aspects of the Moon

*Andy Partridge: My Failed Songwriting Career Volume Two

*Annette Peacock: X-Dreams

*Matana Roberts: Coin Coin Chapter Three: River Run Thee

*Rolling Stones: Let It Bleed

*Manfred Schoof Quintet: Voices

*Archie Shepp & the New York Contemporary Five: The New York Contemporary Five (Storyville)

*Sly and the Family Stone: There's a Riot Goin' On

*Sonic Youth: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star

*Tyshawn Sorey and Marilyn Crispell: The Adornment of Time

*Sparks: Indiscreet

*Sparks: Music That You Can Dance To (selections)

*Sparks: Balls (sides 1, 2, 3, 4)

*Sparks: Lil Beethoven

*Sparks: Hello Young Lovers

*Sparks: Hippopotamus (sides 1, 2, 3, 4)

*Stereolab: Refried Ectoplasm (selections)

*Sun Ra: The Eternal Myth Revealed, Vol. 1 (discs 9, 10)

*Sun Ra: Mastering Comparisons (CDR compilation)

*Sun Ra & His Arkestra: The Cymbals​/​Symbols Sessions (New York, 1973) (side 3)

*Anna Webber: Idiom (disc 2)

*John Zorn: Bagatelles Vol. 3: Trigger 

Reading List, Week of 2022-05-01

 

Reading List 2022-05-02:

*Jenkins, Todd S. Free Jazz and Free Improvisation: An Encyclopedia (started)
*Shakespeare, William. All's Well That Ends Well (Arden 2nd series, ed. G.K. Hunter) (reread/started)
*Shakespeare, William. Sonnets (Arden 3rd series, ed. Katherine Duncan-Jones) (reread/finished)
*Nguyen, Viet Thanh. The Sympathizer (in progress)
*Winn, John C. Way Beyond Compare: The Beatles' Recorded Legacy, Vol. 1: 1957-1965 (in progress)