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