Playlist, Week of 2023-05-28

 

Sure to be in heavy rotation... 

Playlist 2023-05-29:

*Beatles: Something New (sides 1, 2)

*Anthony Braxton: Quintet (Tristano) 2014 (discs 3, 4, 5)

*Anthony Braxton: 12 Comp (ZIM) 2017 (Comp. 420)

*Congotronics International: Where's the One?

*Duke Ellington: Blues in Orbit (side 1)

*Grateful Dead: Workingman's Dead

*Grateful Dead: American Beauty

*Grateful Dead: Pacific Northwest ’73–’74: Believe It if You Need It (disc 1)

*Mary Halvorson: Belladonna

*Freddie Hubbard: Open Sesame

*Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 10 (Eliahu Inbal/Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra)

*Lovely Little Girls: Cleaning the Filth from a Delicate Frame

*Michael Mantler: Concertos

*Matching Mole: Matching Mole’s Little Red Record (expanded ed.) (disc 2)

*William Parker Mayan Space Station: 2023-04-01 Big Ears Festival, Knoxville TN (CDR)

*Picchio dal Pozzo: Picchio dal Pozzo

*Prince: C-Note

*Alexander von Schlippenbach: The Living Music

*Wayne Shorter: Creation

*Ches Smith: Interpret It Well

*Soft Machine: NDR Jazz Workshop, Hamburg, Germany, May 17, 1973 (selections)

*DJ Spooky: Adbusters: Live without Dead Time

*Sparks: The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte

*Sun Ra and His Solar Arkestra: The Magic City (remastered and expanded stereo version) "The Magic City"

*Sun Ra: Pathways to Unknown Worlds (sides 1, 2)

*Sun Ra and His Intergalactic Solar Arkestra: Space Is the Place (previously unreleased tracks) (streaming)

*Horace Tapscott with the Pan-Afrikan Peoples Arkestra: Live at I.U.C.C. (disc 1)

*Art Tatum: The Art Tatum Solo Masterpieces Vol. 3

*Various artists: Jimmy Lyons Benefit 1986-02-01 NYC (discs 2, 3)

*Velvet Underground: White Light/White Heat

*Anna Webber: Idiom (disc 1)

*Mary Lou Williams: Zodiac Suite

*Mary Lou Williams Collective: Zodiac Suite: Revisited

*Work: Rubber Cage

*Neil Young: Olden Days (CDR compilation)

Reading List, Week of 2023-05-28

Reading List 2023-05-29:

*Robison, Mary. Believe Them (started)
*Segar, E. C. The Complete E.C. Segar Popeye: Vol. 4 Sundays 1936-1938 (started)
*Shakespeare, William. Twelfth Night (Arden 3rd ed., ed. Keir Elam) (reread/started)
*Robison, Mary. An Amateur's Guide to the Night (started/finished)
*Robison, Mary. Days (finished)
*Segar, E. C. The Complete E.C. Segar Popeye: Vol. 3 Sundays 1934-1936 (finished)
*Shakespeare, William. Twelfth Night (Arden 2nd ed., ed. J.M. Lothian and T.W. Craik) (reread/finished)
*Barth, John. Final Fridays (reread/in progress)

Playlist, Week of 2023-05-21

Again, not much to say... listening.... words don't always cut it... Ra, Braxton, Cecil, the Dead... 

Playlist 2023-05-22:

*AMM: Indústria

*Art Ensemble of Chicago: 1980-05-09 Milano, Italy (CDR) (disc 2)

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

*Anthony Braxton: 4 Compositions (Ulrichsberg) 2005 Phonomanie VIII (disc 2)

*Anthony Braxton: Quintet (Tristano) 2014 (discs 1, 2)

*Terri Lyne Carrington: The Mosaic Project

*Nat King Cole Trio: The Vintage Years (side 1)

*Michel Edelin Trio: Kuntu

*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: The Treasury Shows, Vol. 2 (disc 2)

*Duke Ellington: The Jaywalker

*Fire! Orchestra: Echoes (disc 2)

*Grateful Dead: Grateful Dead

*Grateful Dead: Anthem of the Sun

*Grateful Dead: Aoxomoxoa

*Grateful Dead: Dark Star Comp 5 (1990) (CDR compilation)

*Grateful Dead: 1990-03-15 Landover MD "Terrapin Station > Mock Turtle Jam," "Space"

*Fela Kuti: Music Is the Weapon of the Future "No Agreement"

*Rob Mazurek/Exploding Star Orchestra featuring Roscoe Mitchell: Matter Anti-Matter (disc 1)

*Rob Mazurek/Exploding Star Orchestra: Dimensional Stardust

*Rob Mazurek/Exploding Star Orchestra: 2023-03-30 Big Ears Festival, Knoxville TN (CDR)

*Charles Mingus: East Coasting

*New Ting: 2023-05-15 Bandito's, Richmond VA (wav)

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

*Tyshawn Sorey: The Off-Off Broadway Guide to Synergism (disc 1)

*Sun Ra and His Myth-Science Arkestra: Fate in a Pleasant Mood

*Sun Ra and His Myth Science Arkestra: When Angels Speak of Love

*Sun Ra: ESP Radio Tribute Highlights (CDR compilation) (disc 1)

*Sun Ra Arkestra: 2023-04-01 Big Ears Festival, Knoxville TN (CDR)

*Art Tatum: The Art Tatum Solo Masterpieces Vol. 2

*Cecil Taylor: Student Studies "Student Studies Pt. 1"

*Cecil Taylor Feel Trio: Two Ts for a Lovely T (disc 1)

*Lewis Taylor: Limited Edition 2004

*Anna Webber: Simple

*John Zorn/Brian Marsella Trio: The Fourth Way

Reading List, Week of 2023-05-21

Reading List 2023-05-22:

*Barth, John. Final Fridays (reread/started)
*Robison, Mary. Days (started)
*Jackson, Shirley. The Haunting of Hill House (started/finished)
*Diderot, Denis. Jacques the Fatalist and His Master (transl. J. Robert Loy) (finished)
*Segar, E. C. The Complete E.C. Segar Popeye: Vol. 3 Sundays 1934-1936 (in progress)
*Shakespeare, William. Twelfth Night (Arden 2nd ed., ed. J.M. Lothian and T.W. Craik) (reread/in progress)

Playlist, Week of 2023-05-14

Good stuff....

Playlist 2023-05-15:

*Zoh Amba: O, Sun
*Art Ensemble of Chicago: 1980-05-09 Milano, Italy (CDR) (disc 1)
*Art Ensemble of Chicago: The Sixth Decade: From Paris to Paris (Live at Sons D’Hiver) (disc 1)
*Beatles: Beatles for Sale (2009 stereo remaster) (sides 1, 2)
*Anthony Braxton: Trillium J (disc 4)
*Peter Brötzmann/Chicago Octet/Tentet: 1/2/3 (disc 3)
*John Carter: Fields
*John Carter: Shadows on a Wall
*Circle: Live in German Concert "Toy Room/Q&A"
*Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young: Take My Hand (Fillmore East 1970-06) (disc 1)
*Kris Davis: The Slightest Shift
*Miles Davis: The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965 (disc 5)
*Duke Ellington: The Far East Suite (side 1)
*Fire! Orchestra: Echoes (disc 1)
*Gojira (youtube playlist)
*Grateful Dead: Fillmore West 1969: The Complete Recordings (disc 11)
*Grateful Dead: Dark Star Comp 4 (1984, 1989, 1990) (CDR compilation)
*Grateful Dead: 1974-07-19 Fresno CA (CDR) (selections)
*Grateful Dead: Dick's Picks 21 (1985-11-02 Richmond VA) (disc 2)
*Guided By Voices: Scalping the Guru
*Jimi Hendrix: Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Jimi Hendrix
*Charles Ives: String Quartets (Blair String Quartet)
*Ahmad Jamal: The Complete Ahmad Jamal Trio Argo Sessions 1956-62 (disc 2)
*Ingrid Laubrock: The Last Quiet Place
*Brandon Lopez/Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey: No es la Playa
*Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra: Galactic Parables: Vol. 1 (disc 2)
*Rob Mazurek/Exploding Star Orchestra: Lightning Dreamers
*Wadada Leo Smith: String Quartets Nos. 1-12 (disc 3)
*Wadada Leo Smith and Orange Wave Electric: Fire Illuminations
*Sparks: Hello Young Lovers
*Sun Ra: Haverford College, Jan. 25, 1980
*Sun Ra: Hendersonia: Sun Ra Performs Fletcher Henderson
*Craig Taborn/Tomeka Reid/Ches Smith: 2023-03-05 Vienna (CDR)
*Work: The 4th World
*XTC: Black Sea (sides 1, 2)
*John Zorn: Les Maudits
*John Zorn/Chaos Magick: 444

Reading List, Week of 2023-05-14

 

Reading List 2023-05-15:

*Diderot, Denis. Jacques the Fatalist and His Master (transl. J. Robert Loy) (started)
*Segar, E. C. The Complete E.C. Segar Popeye: Vol. 3 Sundays 1934-1936 (started)
*Shakespeare, William. Twelfth Night (Arden 2nd ed., ed. J.M. Lothian and T.W. Craik) (reread/started)
*Williams, William Carlos. The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, Vol. II 1939-1962 (finished)

Sun Ra: Hendersonia - a Quick Review

Hendersonia: Sun Ra Performs Fletcher Henderson is another gem of a release from Bandcamp. In the vein of the two recent Ellingtonia releases, this one is digital-only. As is well known, Ra worked for Henderson in the 1940s, and he celebrated this legacy by featuring several songs associated with Henderson over the years, almost all of them featured here. Several of these (especially "Big John's Special," "Blue Lou," and "Yeah Man!") remained in the book for years and were actually played more often than Ellington tunes--not surprising, given the personal connection. The versions here are well-chosen and repesentative of the arrangements, which for the most part do not stray far from Fletcher's (and his brother Horace's) own. All of the tracks are live, and only two of them come from previously released CDs ("Big John's Special," from the Utrecht Love in Outer Space and "Can You Take It?" from Live at Pit-Inn). As with the Ellingtonia sets, it'd have been nice if they had included the exact performance dates when available. Some of these selections are quite rare, especially "Great Caesar's Ghost"--there is no record of this in RLC's discography. As Irwin Chusid points out in his liner notes, there's a great John Gilmore solo on "Rose Room," and there are generous helpings of Gilmore in other tracks too, on both tenor sax and clarinet. It's great to have curated collections like this--I wonder what's next in store?

Playlist, Week of 2023-05-07

Old and new, old and new... 

Playlist 2023-05-08:

*"A" Trio & AMM: AAMM
*Anthony Braxton Trio: 1974-12-08 Toronto (CDR) "Impressions"
*Anthony Braxton: Trillium R: Composition 162 - An Opera in Four Acts/Shala Fears for the Poor (disc 3)
*John Carter: Dance of the Love Ghosts
*Sonny Clark: Cool Struttin'
*Kris Davis: Aeriol Piano
*Deerhoof: Miracle-Level
*Fire! Orchestra: Echoes (discs 1, 2)
*Tomas Fujiwara's Triple Double: March
*Marvin Gaye: What's Going On (Deluxe Ed.) (disc 1)
*Grateful Dead: Dark Star Comp 3 (1973, 1979, 1981) (CDR compilation)
*Bobby Hutcherson: Dialogue
*Ahmad Jamal: The Complete Ahmad Jamal Trio Argo Sessions 1956-62 (disc 2)
*King Crimson: Lizard
*Fela Kuti: Original Suffer Head
*Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble: NOW
*Charles Mingus: The Great Concert of Charles Mingus (side 3)
*Tyler Mitchell featuring Marshall Allen: Dancing Shadows
*OOIOO: ∞8∞
*Max Roach + Dizzy Gillespie: Paris 1989 (disc 1)
*Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers (Super Deluxe Ed.) (disc 3)
*Ches Smith: Interpret It Well
*Wadada Leo Smith: String Quartets Nos. 1-12 (disc 2)
*John Philip Sousa: Stars & Stripes Forever and Other Famous Marches (Philip Jones Ensemble)
*Sparks: Kimono My House (sides 1, 2)
*Sparks: Propaganda (sides 1, 2)
*Sparks: The Rest of Sparks (side 1)
*Steely Dan: Citizen Dan (disc 1)
*Sun Ra and His Solar Arkestra: Other Planes of There (side 2)
*Sun Ra and His Solar Arkestra: The Magic City (remastered and expanded stereo version) (side 1)
*Sun Ra: Haverford College, Jan. 25, 1980
*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: Prophet
*Horace Tapscott with the Pan-Afrikan Peoples Arkestra: Live at I.U.C.C. (discs 1, 2)
*Cecil Taylor: The Complete, Legendary, Live Return Concert at the Town Hall NYC November 4, 1973
*Tower of Power: Urban Renewal
*UYA: Improvisations 4 (1990-1992) (CDR compilation) "Black Drone"
*Miroslav Vitous: Purple
*Wendy and Lisa: Wendy and Lisa
*XTC: Black Sea (side 1)
*Zombies: Odessey and Oracle
*John Zorn: Azoth

Reading List, Week of 2023-05-07

Reading List 2023-05-08:

*Booth, Stephen. "Shakespeare's Twelfth Night," in Precious Nonsense (started/finished)
*Gass, William. On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry (started/finished)
*Robison, Mary. Why Did I Ever? (started/finished)
*Dirda, Michael. Browsings (finished)
*Pessl, Marisha. Night Film (finished)
*Williams, William Carlos. The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, Vol. II 1939-1962 (in progress)

 

New Ting Gig Next Monday at Bandito's

New Ting playing Monday, May 15, at Bandito's. Tire X Silver is also from Richmond; Autoreverse is a duo from France: Nina Garcia and Arnaud Rivière. Should be fun! It's been a while since the full quintet has played in public....

 

Playlist, Week of 2023-04-30

Someday I'll get back to saying something....

Playlist 2023-05-01:

*Daevid Allen: Banana Moon

*Paul Bley: Live in Haarlem

*Anthony Braxton: 12 Duets (DCWM) 2012 (disc 6)

*Gerald Cleaver/Veil Of Names: Adjust

*Gerald Cleaver/Uncle June: Be It as I See It

*Rodger Coleman and Sam Byrd: 2015-05-15 Centennial Park Black Box Theater, Nashville (mp3)

*Colla Parte: 2015-08-15 RVA (CDR)

*John Coltrane & Friends: Sideman: Trane's Blue Note Sessions (disc 1)

*Deerhoof: Miracle-Level (sides 1, 2)

*Duke Ellington: At the Hollywood Empire

*Duke Ellington: Midnight in Paris

*Herbie Hancock: Mwandishi

*Ahmad Jamal: The Complete Ahmad Jamal Trio Argo Sessions 1956-62 (disc 2)

*Ingrid Laubrock: The Last Quiet Place

*Rob Mazurek/Exploding Star Orchestra: Dimensional Stardust

*Roscoe Mitchell: Nonaah (disc 1)

*New Ting Ting Loft: 2015-08-15 RVA (CDR)

*Picchio dal Pozzo: Picchio dal Pozzo

*Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers (Super Deluxe Ed.) (discs 1, 2)

*Wadada Leo Smith: String Quartets Nos. 1-12 (discs 1, 6, 7)

*Steely Dan: Can't Buy a Thrill (50th Anniversary Remaster)

*Sun Ra/Walt Dickerson: 1980-01-25 Haverford PA (CDR)

*Sun Ra: Hendersonia: Sun Ra Performs Fletcher Henderson

*Sun Ra and His Intergalactic Arkestra: 1991-04-26 Binghamton, NY (CDR) (disc 2)

*John Zorn/Brian Marsella Trio: Suite for Piano

*John Zorn/Brian Marsella Trio: The Fourth Way

*John Zorn/Chaos Magick: 444

Reading List, Week of 2023-04-30

Reading List 2023-05-01:

*Dirda, Michael. Browsings (started)
*Pessl, Marisha. Night Film (started)
*Worthen, W. B. Shakespeare and the Authority of Performance (started/finished)
*Mariani, Paul. William Carlos Williams: A New World Naked (finished)
*Williams, William Carlos. The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, Vol. II 1939-1962 (in progress)