Playlist, Week of 2023-08-20

Still deep into my Braxton/Cecil/Dead/Duke/Mingus/Sun Ra dive... That doesn't mean I can't enjoy other stuff as well... Case in point: Notes on a Century, the new album by OCON (Colin OCon, one-third of Dark Carpet)... an attractive mix of psychedelia, country funk, and exotica, vaguely reminiscent at times of Shuggie Otis's Inspiration Information... OCON plays almost all the instruments all the time... nice drumming, strong psyched-out guitar... extra vocals on three tracks by Jefferson Pilot... definitely worth checking out... 

Playlist 2023-08-21:

*Area: Crac! 

*Anthony Braxton: The Complete Braxton 1971 (side 1)

*Anthony Braxton: Piano Quartet, Yoshi's 1994 (disc 1)

*Anthony Braxton: Composition No. 46 (+168 and Language Music)

*Cold Blood: 1971-06-30 Fillmore West, SF (CDR)

*Rodger Coleman and Andrew Dickson: Sometimes Knowledge Is a Curse

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

*Rodger Coleman and Sam Byrd: 2023-07-17 Nashville (wav)

*John Coltrane: Evenings at the Village Gate (side 4)

*Miles Davis: 1970-10-18 Fillmore West (CDR)

*Miles Davis: Pangaea (side 3)

*Dope: American Apathy

*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: The Duke and His Men (side 2)

*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: The Duke Ellington Carnegie Hall Concerts, December 1944 (disc 1)

*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: The Treasury Shows, Vol. 3 (disc 2)

*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Festival Session (side 1)

*Funkadelic: One Nation Under a Groove (sides 1, 2, 4)

*Grateful Dead: Live/Dead (side 1)

*Grateful Dead: Fillmore West 1969: The Complete Recordings (disc 2)

*Grateful Dead: Dave's Picks Vol. 14 (1972-03-26 Academy of Music, NYC) (disc 3)

*Grateful Dead: Rockin' the Rhein with the Grateful Dead (disc 3)

*Grateful Dead: 1973-05-20 Santa Barbara CA (CDR) (discs 3, 4)

*Jimi Hendrix Experience: 1969-01-16 Nuremberg (CDR)

*Lionel Hampton: The Complete Lionel Hampton Victor Sessions 1937-1941 (disc 4)

*Buddy Holly: The New Complete Buddy Holly v2.0 (disc 10)

*Charles Mingus: Changes One "Sue's Changes"

*Matt Mitchell/Kate Gentile: Snark Horse (disc 1)

*Roscoe Mitchell Discussions Orchestra: Discussions

*OCON: Notes on a Century

*Parliament: Live P. Funk Earth Tour (side 1)

*Santana: 1973-09-30 Panama City, Panama (CDR) (disc 1)

*Soft Machine: Facelift (disc 2)

*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: Jazz in Silhouette (Expanded Edition) (sides 3, 4)

*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: Pictures of Infinity

*Sun Ra: Nuits de la Fondation Maeght Vol. 2

*Sun Ra: Discipline Variations: A Compilation 1970-1972 (CDR compilation) (disc 3)

*Sun Ra Arkestra: Hours After

*Sun Ra: Hendersonia: Sun Ra Performs Fletcher Henderson

*Sun Ra Arkestra: Living Sky

*Cecil Taylor/The Ensemble: The Light of Corona "One"

*Cecil Taylor Orchestra Humane (Ubuntu): 2005-12-14 (CDR) (disc 2)

*Tool: Undertow

*UYA: 1992-08-19/26: Valu-Pack of Sounds (wav)

*UYA: 1992-08-26: Knock First (wav)

*Various artists: Written in Their Soul: The Stax Songwriter Demos (disc 7)

*Dionne Warwick: The Complete 1960s Singles Plus (disc 3) (selections)

*O.V. Wright: That's How Strong My Love Is

*John Zorn: Calculus