Playlist, Week of 2023-01-22

The Candid Mingus recordings contain some of Eric Dolphy's best playing ever... Nice to revisit some of the brilliant pop from Scott Brookman, a true local hero... Dug out the George Duke/Billy Cobham live album (the one with the truly horrible cover of heads and feet) and was reminded how great Alphonso Johnson was back then... saw that band in Williamsburg in a small club and was really flabbergasted by how powerful they were... then in a nostalgic rush I tried Johnson's first solo album Moonshadows and was reminded why I never go back and listen to that one... I love his bass playing with Weather Report and always thought he was so much a better fit for that band than Jaco... so I tortured myself by sampling some of his second album, Yesterday's Dreams... I can't believe I still own that album... oh well... 

Playlist 2023-01-23:

*Zoh Amba: O, Sun

*Beethoven: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D Major (Anne-Sophie Mutter/Berlin Philharmoniker)

*Beethoven: Symphony No. 6/Brahms: Symphony No. 2 (BBC Symphony Orchestra)

*Anthony Braxton/Gino Robair: Duets 1987

*Scott Brookman: Smellicopter Two

*Byrds: The Notorious Byrd Brothers

*Billy Cobham-George Duke Band: "Live" on Tour in Europe (selections)

*Rodger Coleman and Sam Byrd: 2022-11-26 Nashville (wav)

*Kris Davis: The Slightest Shift

*Miles Davis: The Prestige 10-Inch LP Collection, Vol. 2 (LP 3: sides 1, 2, LP 4: side 1)

*Duke Ellington: The Complete Ellington Indigos

*Gentle Giant: 1976-09-23 Dusseldorf (CDR)

*Andrew Hill: Mosaic Select (disc 1)

*Jefferson Pilot: The Return of Troubled Youth Orchestra

*Alphonso Johnson: Moonshadows

*Rob Mazurek: Desert Encrypts Vol. 1

*Charles Mingus Group: Debut Rarities Vol. 3

*Charles Mingus Jazz Workshop: 1959-07-04 Newport (CDR)

*Charles Mingus: The Complete Candid Recordings of Charles Mingus (discs 1, 2, 3)

*Charles Mingus: Oh Yeah

*Roscoe Mitchell: Not Yet: Six Compositions

*Roscoe Mitchell/Mike Reed: The Ritual and the Dance

*Pere Ubu: Live at the Longhorn April 1, 1978 (sides 1, 2)

*Tom Rainey Obbligato: Tom Rainey Obbligato

*Tom Rainey Obbligato: Float Upstream

*Omar Rodriguez-López: Old Money

*Arnold Schoenberg: String Trio, Op. 45/String Quartet, Op. 10 (Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center) (CDR)

*Arnold Schoenberg: Kammersymphonie, Op. 9 (Pierre Boulez/Ensemble InterContemporain)

*Arnold Schoenberg: Suite, Op. 29/Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4/3 Pieces for Chamber Orchestra (Pierre Boulez/Ensemble InterContemporain)

*Ches Smith: Interpret It Well

*Tyshawn Sorey: The Off-Off Broadway Guide to Synergism (disc 2)

*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: The Sun Myth (African Chant)

*Sun Ra: Bandcamp Tracks (CDR compilation) (discs 2, 3) 

*Sun Ra: Crystal Spears (Remastered)

*Sun Ra Arkestra: 1985-07-09 Stockholm (CDR) (discs 1, 2, 3)

*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: Prophet

*Cecil Taylor Feel Trio: Two Ts for a Lovely T (disc 10)

*Cecil Taylor and the Sound Vision Orchestra: 2002-06-21 Knitting Factory NYC (CDR) (disc 3)

*Henry Threadgill: Double Up, Plays Double Up Plus

*Henry Threadgill 14 Or 15 Kestra AGG: Dirt... And More Dirt

*Thumbscrew: Theirs

*UYA: Improvisations 3 (1993-94) (CDR) "Yes, a Man > Carefree > Saturn" 

*Mary Lou Williams: Zodiac Suite

*Mary Lou Williams Collective: Zodiac Suite: Revisited

*Stevie Wonder: Jungle Fever: Music from the Movie

*Stevie Wonder: Miscellaneous (CDR compilation)

*World Saxophone Quartet: Dances and Ballads

*John Zorn: Bagatelles Vol. 11: Jim Black Quartet