Playlist, Week of 2023-02-12

Interesting to how much the 1968 music of AMM, particularly "Like A Cloud Hanging In The Sky?" on The Crypt, sounds like the Grateful Dead's various "Feedback" pieces from 1968 to 1970... heavy distortion, controlled feedback, slabs of near-industrial sound... Love Bird's playing on the informal Apartment Jam Sessions... Charles Mingus's Black Saint and the Sinner Lady is considered his masterpiece, but I'll take Mingus Dynasty over that any day... of course, it's nice to have both... Don't listen to it as much because it's on DVD, but Anthony Braxton's Nine Compositions (DVD) 2003 is really special, especially the large ensemble pieces (with Dan Plonsey of Manufacturing of Humidifiers)... Keeping it going with Sun Ra and Cecil Taylor...

Playlist 2023-02-13:

*AMM: The Crypt - 12th June 1968 (disc 1)

*Beach Boys: California Girls (sides 1, 2)

*Beach Boys: Pet Sounds (mono 50th anniversary) (side 1)

*Alban Berg: Streichquartett Opus 3/Lyrische Suite (Alban Berg Quartet)

*Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers: 'S Make It

*Anthony Braxton: Nine Compositions (DVD) 2003 "Comp. 190 (13tet)"

*Sylvie Courvoisier Trio: D'Agala

*Duke Ellington: The Duke at Fargo, 1940: Special 60th Anniversary Edition (disc 2)

*Duke Ellington: The Piano Player

*Firesign Theatre: How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All (side 2)

*Firesign Theatre: Not Insane (side 1)

*Marvin Gaye: What's Going On (50th Anniversary) (side 4)

*Gentle Giant: Playing the Fool (side 2)

*Grateful Dead: 1974-06-18 Louisville (disc 2)

*Annette Hanshaw: The Twenties Sweetheart

*Joe Henderson: The Complete Joe Henderson Blue Note Sessions (disc 4)

*Andrew Hill: Mosaic Select (disc 2)

*Johnny Hodges: Triple Play

*Jefferson Pilot: The Return of Troubled Youth Orchestra

*Ingrid Laubrock + Aki Takase: Kasumi

*Steve Lehman Trio + Craig Taborn: The People I Love

*Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 10 (Wigglesworth, BBC National Orchestra of Wales)

*Charles Mingus: The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (sides 1, 2)

*Charles Mingus Sextet: Cornell 1964 (disc 2)

*Charles Mingus: The Jazz Workshop Concerts 1964-65 (disc 2)

*Roscoe Mitchell Sound Ensemble: Live in Detroit (side 1)

*Paal Nilssen-Love: New Brazilian Funk

*Charlie Parker: Apartment Jam Sessions (side 1)

*Omar Rodriguez-López: Se Dice Bisonte, No Búfalo

*Omar Rodriguez-López: Calibration (Is Pushing Luck and Key Too Far)

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

*Igor Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring (SWR Sinfonieorchester/Sylvain Cambreling) (CDR)

*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: In the Orbit of Ra (discs 1, 2)

*Sun Ra: Hiroshima (side 2)

*Sun Ra and His Ethnic Structural Cosmo Arkestra: 1986-08-10 Liverpool, NY (CDR) (discs 1, 2)

*Sun Ra and His Alter-Destiny Omniversal Arkestra: 1987-01-22 Philadelphia (CDR)

*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: Prophet (sides 1, 2)

*Sun Ra and His Omniverse Arkestra: 1988-09-01 Detroit (CDR) (discs 1, 2)

*Cecil Taylor: Live in the Black Forest

*Cecil Taylor/Han Bennink: Spots, Circles, and Fantasy

*Cecil Taylor: Complicité (disc 3)

*Various artists: Bollywood Bliss (CDR compilation)

*John Zorn: In the Hall of Mirrors

*John Zorn's Cobra: Live at the Knitting Factory