Playlist, Week of 2023-03-26

Off to Big Ears...

Playlist 2023-03-27:

*Art Ensemble of Chicago: The Sixth Decade: From Paris to Paris (Live at Sons D’Hiver) (disc 2)

*Derek Bailey/Pat Metheny/Gregg Bendian/Paul Wertico: The Sign Of 4 (discs 1, 2)

*Daniel Barbiero: Timekeepers Map the Already Gone

*Beach Boys: The Smile Sessions (sides 1, 2, 3)

*Anthony Braxton: 12 Duets (DCWM) 2012 (discs 4, 5)

*John Carter: Fields

*Deerhoof: Miracle-Level

*Duke Ellington & His Orchestra: Up in Duke's Workshop

*Mary Halvorson: Belladonna

*Kinks: The Journey: Part 1 (sides 1, 2, 3, 4)

*Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey: Stir Crazy (Episode 46) 

*James Brandon Lewis Quartet: MSM Molecular Systematic Music Live (discs 1, 2)

*James Brandon Lewis: Eye of I

*Andrew Lisle/Alex Ward: Doors

*Rob Mazurek: Desert Encrypts Vol. 1

*New Ting: Hungry Mysteries

*New Ting: 2023-03-07 "Is This What You Seek?" (wav)

*Prince: Prince

*Sly and the Family Stone: Stand!

*Wadada Leo Smith: String Quartets Nos. 1-12 (disc 4)

*Soft Machine: 5

*Tyshawn Sorey: The Off-Off Broadway Guide to Synergism (discs 2, 3)

*Sun Ra: The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra (side 1)

*Sun Ra: Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow (sides 1, 2)

*Sun Ra and His Solar Arkestra: Other Planes of There (side 1)

*Sun Ra: Other Shades (CDR compilation)

*Sun Ra: Of Abstract Dreams

*Sun Ra: The Other Side of the Sun (side 1)

*Sun Ra Arkestra: Swirling

*Sun Ra Arkestra: Living Sky (side 2)

*Cecil Taylor: The Complete Candid Recordings of Cecil Taylor and Buell Neidlinger (disc 3)

*UYA: 1992-05-19 Fistfire (wav)

*UYA: 1992-06-02 Stellar Static (wav)

*UYA: 1992-06-20 Post-Butt (wav)

*Alex Ward: Gated

 

Reading List, Week of 2023-03-26

Reading List 2023-03-27:

*Lee, Stan, et al. Monster Masterworks (reread/started)
*Williams, William Carlos. The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, Vol. II 1939-1962 (started)
*Williams, William Carlos. The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, Vol. I 1909-1939 (finished)
*Mariani, Paul. William Carlos Williams: A New World Naked (in progress)
*Smollett, Tobias. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (reread/in progress)

Playlist, Week of 2023-03-19

Struggling to keep up... but there's so much music, and only so much time in the day... the relentless pressure of knowing that the more you know about, the more there is to know and the more you know you don't know... there's always the sweet pleasure of returning to an album you think you know pretty well and having it reinvigorate you all over again... like Pacific Ocean Blue... 

Playlist 2023-03-20:

*Art Ensemble of Chicago: The Sixth Decade: From Paris to Paris (Live at Sons D’Hiver) (disc 1)
*Beatles: Revolver (Super Deluxe 4 LP Edition 2022) (sides 1, 2)
*Paul Bley: With Gary Peacock
*Anthony Braxton: 4 Compositions (Ulrichsberg) 2005 Phonomanie VIII (discs 2,3)
*Circle: 1971-03-04 Hamburg (CDR) "There Is No Greater Love"
*Rodger Coleman and Sam Byrd: Cosmologies (sides 1, 2)
*Kris Davis: The Slightest Shift
*Miles Davis: The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings of the Miles Davis Quintet 1965-1968 (disc 2)
*Stephen Davis/Ralph Alessi/Kris Davis: Sugar Blade
*Decoy with Joe McPhee: AC/DC
*Duke Ellington: Duke Ellington 1938 (side 3)
*Robert Fripp: Exposure (sides 1, 2)
*Satoku Fujii: Hyaku: One Hundred Dreams
*Dominic Lash/Alex Ward: Antonyms
*Brandon Lopez/Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey: No es la Playa
*Charles Mingus Group: Debut Rarities Vol. 3
*Charles Mingus: The Clown
*Charles Mingus: Mingus Dynasty
*Charles Mingus: The Great Concert of Charles Mingus (side 2)
*Roscoe Mitchell: Not Yet: Six Compositions
*Tyler Mitchell featuring Marshall Allen: Dancing Shadows
*Thelonious Monk: Underground
*New Ting: 2023-03-07 "Is This What You Seek?" (wav)
*Prince: For You
*Alexander von Schlippenbach: Globe Unity
*Manfred Schoof: European Echoes
*Wayne Shorter: Creation
*Ches Smith: Interpret It Well
*Wadada Leo Smith: String Quartets Nos. 1-12 (disc 3)
*Soft Machine: Facelift (disc 1)
*Tyshawn Sorey: The Off-Off Broadway Guide to Synergism (disc 1)
*Sparks: Balls (sides 1, 2, 3)
*Sun Ra & His Myth Science Arkestra: We Travel the Spaceways
*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: Thunder of the Gods
*Sun Ra: Sun Ra Plays Gershwin
*Cecil Taylor: Jazz Advance
*Cecil Taylor Unit: 1976-04-15 Ann Arbor (CDR) Unknown title
*Cecil Taylor: Poschiavo
*Miroslav Vitous: Purple
*Alex Ward: Gated
*Dionne Warwick: Hidden Gems
*Dennis Wilson: Pacific Ocean Blue

Reading List, Week of 2023-03-19

Reading List 2023-03-20:

*Smollett, Tobias. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (reread/started)
*Harris, Zakiya Dalila. The Other Black Girl (finished)
*Mariani, Paul. William Carlos Williams: A New World Naked (in progress)
*Williams, William Carlos. The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, Vol. I 1909-1939 (in progress)

 

Playlist, Week of 2023-03-12

Living Sky keeps getting better and better every time I listen to it... Powerful trio playing from the new Ingrid Laubrock release... I've got to go back and listen to all of this music all over again, again....

Playlist 2023-03-13:

*Louis Armstrong: From the Original Okehs Vol. 5 1931/32

*Anthony Braxton: Creative Music Orchestra "Comp. 25" (part 3)

*Anthony Braxton: 12 Duets (DCWM) 2012 (disc 3)

*Tomas Fujiwara's Triple Double: March

*Grateful Dead: 1968-01-17 Carousel Ballroom, SF (CDR) (disc 2)

*Grateful Dead: 1968-01-20 "Viola Lee Blues"

*Gerry Hemingway: Kwambe

*Henry Cow: Glastonbury and Elsewhere

*Charles Ives: String Quartets (Blair String Quartet)

*Henry Kaiser Band: Heart's Desire

*James Brandon Lewis Quartet:  MSM Molecular Systematic Music Live (discs 1, 2)

*Brandon Lopez/Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey: No es la Playa

*Charles Mingus: Pithecanthropus Erectus

*Charles Mingus: A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry

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

*Nine Strings: No More Nine Strings

*Manfred Schoof Quintet: Voices

*Soft Machine: BBC Radio 1969-1971 (disc 2)

*Tyshawn Sorey Trio: Mesmerism

*Sparks: Hello Young Lovers (sides 1, 2, 3, 4)

*Sun Ra & His Solar-Myth Arkestra: The Solar​-​Myth Approach, Vol. 1

*Sun Ra & His Solar-Myth Arkestra: The Solar​-​Myth Approach, Vol. 2

*Sun Ra and His Spirit of Jazz Cosmos Arkestra: WUHY Radio, Philadelphia, 1978

*Sun Ra: Of Mythic Worlds

*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: 1990-10-06 Washington DC (CDR)

*Sun Ra Arkestra: Living Sky (sides 1, 2, 3, 4)

*Craig Taborn Trio: Chants

*Craig Taborn/Tomeka Reid/Ches Smith: 2023-03-05 Vienna (CDR)

*Cecil Taylor: Looking Ahead!

*Cecil Taylor: The Complete Candid Recordings of Cecil Taylor and Buell Neidlinger (disc 2)

*Cecil Taylor Quartet featuring Anthony Braxton: 2007-10-13 Reggio Emilia, Italy (CDR)

*Various artists: Jimmy Lyons Benefit 1986-02-01 NYC (disc 1)

*Stevie Wonder: Stevie Wonder's Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants (discs 1, 2)

*Nate Wooley: Mutual Aid Music (disc 1)

Reading List, Week of 2023-03-12

Reading List 2023-03-13:

*Harris, Zakiya Dalila. The Other Black Girl (started)
*Sorrentino, Gilbert. Something Said: Essays (selections) (reread/started/finished)
*Atkinson, Kate. Shrines of Gaiety (finished)
*Mariani, Paul. William Carlos Williams: A New World Naked (in progress)
*Williams, William Carlos. The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, Vol. 1 1909-1939 (in progress)

Playlist, Week of 2023-03-05

I find myself drawn to early Cecil Taylor... Jazz Advance, Looking Ahead!, Love for Sale, and all the absolutely killer Candid recordings... Sunny Murray was necessary, but it's wonderful to hear what Cecil was doing with the solid underpinning of a straight beat from Dennis Charles... later on, we get a small glimpse of how Cecil's playing to a "beat" had developed when Ronald Shannon Jackson occasionally threw in his stomping marches... It's not a pattern, but as I work my way chronologically through Charles Mingus's discography, I find myself missing his early stuff and looking forward to getting back to it... I'm talking the Debut recordings, the early Jazz Workshop sides, and the giant 1950s albums, from East Coasting and Tijuana Moods to Mingus Dynasty... all in good time... Okay, it really isn't a pattern, but I am also finding that what's floating my boat with Sun Ra these days is his piano playing on all the early Saturns... Mary Halvorson's Amaryllis deserves all the attention it's gotten since it came out last year... I think I am more intrigued by her compositions than by her playing... looking forward to seeing her at Big Ears this year... 

Playlist 2023-03-06:

*Zoh Amba: 2023-01-24 Vienna (CDR)
*Derek Bailey/Pat Metheny/Gregg Bendian/Paul Wertico: The Sign Of 4 (discs 2, 3)
*Anthony Braxton: 1969-10-25 Paris (CDR)
*Anthony Braxton: 12 Duets (DCWM) 2012 (discs 1, 2)
*John Coltrane: Live in Japan (disc 1) "Afro Blue"
*Dreams: Dreams
*Firesign Theater: Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him
*Mary Halvorson: Amaryllis
*Layers of Memory: 2019-12-07 RVA (wav)"No. 3"
*James Brandon Lewis: An UnRuly Manifesto
*James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet: Jesup Wagon
*Mat Maneri: Pentagon
*Charles Mingus: Revenge! (discs 1, 2)
*Charles Mingus: The Great Concert of Charles Mingus (side 1)
*Prince: 50 Essential Bootlegs Listening Companion (CDR) (discs 1, 2, 3, 4)
*Wadada Leo Smith: String Quartets Nos. 1-12 (discs 1, 2)
*Soft Machine: BBC Radio 1969-1971 (disc 1)
*Mike Sopko/Bill Laswell/Thomas Pridgen: Sopko Laswell Pridgen (selections)
*Sparks: Indiscreet (sides 1, 2)
*Sparks: Big Beat (side 1)
*Sparks: Gratuitous Sax & Senseless Violins (sides 1, 2)
*Sparks: Lil' Beethoven (sides 1, 2)
*Sun Ra: Ellingtonia, Vol. 2
*Sun Ra: Solo Piano at WKCR, 1977
*Sun Ra: Solo Piano, Vol. 1
*Sun Ra: Lanquidity (45rpm version) (sides 2, 3, 4)
*Sun Ra and His Intergalactic Solar Arkestra: 1990-05-05 Santa Cruz CA (CDR) (discs 1, 2)
*Sun Ra Arkestra: Living Sky (side 2)
*Cecil Taylor: The Complete Candid Recordings of Cecil Taylor and Buell Neidlinger (disc 1)
*Cecil Taylor: Indent
*Cecil Taylor Unit: 1975-07-25 Antibes (CDR)
*Cecil Taylor Unit: 1976-07-14 Bremen (CDR)
*Cecil Taylor: 1976-07-25 Antibes (CDR)

Reading List, Week of 2023-03-05

Reading List 2023-03-06:

*Atkinson, Kate. Shrines of Gaiety (started)
*Macdonald, Ross. The Name Is Archer (reread/started/finished)
*Mariani, Paul. William Carlos Williams: A New World Naked (in progress)
*Williams, William Carlos. The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, Vol. 1 1909-1939 (in progress)