Monday, February 6, 2023

Playlist, Week of 2023-02-05

My Charles Mingus, Cecil Taylor, and Sun Ra journeys continue... From this distance, the Mingus 1962 Town Hall concert, supposedly a fiasco, sounds pretty damn solid to me... I don't mind the slight roughness around the edges... Mingus's solo piano album is beautiful... I've always dug his piano playing, and this album is the best example of it... Meanwhile, Cecil's all over the place on the 1973 Town Hall recording... what a treat... Indent continues to stun me... And to conclude our piano etude, Sun Ra's guiding piano on the title track of Other Planes of There is equally stunning, if not as extrovertly expressionist...  

Playlist 2023-02-06:

*Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E flat, "Eroica" (Toscanini/NBC Symphony Orchestra)
*James Brown: The James Brown Story: Ain't That a Groove 1966-69
*Kris Davis: Lifespan
*Grateful Dead: Dark Star Comp 1 (1967-1969) (CDR compilation)
*Charles Mingus: The Complete Town Hall Concert
*Charles Mingus: Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus
*Charles Mingus: Mingus Plays Piano (Spontaneous Compositions and Improvisations)
*Charles Mingus Sextet: Cornell 1964 (disc 1)
*New Ting: 2019-09-16 "Simmertime Lubricity Challenge" (wav)
*Miles Okazaki: Trickster
*Tony Oxley Celebration Orchestra: The Enchanted Messenger
*Charlie Parker Quintet: Complete Live at Birdland (disc 2)
*Ivo Perelman/Mat Maneri/Joe Morris/Gerald Cleaver: Breaking Point
*Tom Rainey Obbligato: Untucked in Hannover
*Alexander von Schlippenbach: The Living Music
*Soft Machine: Facelift: France & Holland (disc 2)
*Mike Sopko/Bill Laswell/Thomas Pridgen: Sopko Laswell Pridgen
*Tyshawn Sorey Trio: Mesmerism
*Sparks: Kimono My House
*Sparks: Indiscreet
*Sparks: Introducing Sparks
*Sparks: Interior Design
*Sparks: Hello Young Lovers (sides 3, 4)
*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: To Those of Earth... and Other Worlds (Gilles Peterson) (discs 1, 2)
*Sun Ra and His Solar Arkestra: Other Planes of There
*Sun Ra Arkestra: 1985-11-30 Berkeley (CDR) (disc 1)
*Sun Ra: Solo Works (CDR compilation)
*Cecil Taylor: The Complete, Legendary, Live Return Concert at the Town Hall NYC November 4, 1973 "Spring of Two Blue-Js Pts. 1 & 2"
*Cecil Taylor: Indent
*Cecil Taylor: 3 Phasis
*Cecil Taylor: In East-Berlin (disc 1)
*Cecil Taylor: Erzulie Maketh Scent
*Cecil Taylor Feel Trio: Two Ts for a Lovely T (disc 5)
*Thundercat: Thundercat (CDR compilation)
*World Saxophone Quartet: Rhythm and Blues

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