Playlist, Week of 2023-12-24

Garry Krimble (and Rudolph too)! I've seen it spelled "Crimble" also, but I've always spelled it with a K...

Playlist 2023-12-25:

*Muhal Richard Abrams/Roscoe Mitchell: Spectrum
*Beatles: The Christmas Records (record 3)
*Beatles: 1962-1966 (2023 Edition) (sides 2, 5)
*Paul Bley: Ballads
*Paul Bley: Turning Point
*Anthony Braxton: Tentet (Wesleyan) 1999 (discs 1, 2)
*Anthony Braxton: 4 Compositions (Ulrichsberg) 2005 Phonomanie VIII (disc 4)
*Anthony Braxton: Sextet (FRM) 2007 (disc 1)
*Circle: Circle 1: Live in Germany Concert "There Is No Greater Love"
*Rodger Coleman and Sam Byrd: 2018-11-20 Nashville (rough mix wav) (disc 2)
*Deerhoof: Devil Kids
*ESG: A South Bronx Story
*Kate Gentile: Find Letter X (discs 1, 2)
*Grateful Dead: Dave's Picks Vol. 16 (1973-03-28 Springfield, MA) (disc 3)
*Grateful Dead: 1974-08-06 Jersey City NJ (CDR) (disc 2)
*Grateful Dead: 1974-10-18 Winterland, SF (CDR) "Dark Star"
*Katie Grennan: Far Away
*Prince & the New Power Generation: Diamonds and Pearls (Super Deluxe Ed.) (disc 7)
*Sam and Dave: Double Dynamite (selections)
*Woody Shaw: The Complete Muse Sessions (disc 7)
*Soft Machine: BBC Radio 1967-1971 (disc 2)
*Sparks: Propaganda (side 1)
*Sun Ra: Exotica (discs 1, 2)
*Art Tatum: The Art Tatum Solo Masterpieces Vol. 2
*Tool: Ænima
*Xenakis: Electronic Music
*XTC: Drums and Wires (side 2)
*Frank Zappa/Mothers of Invention: Over-Nite Sensation (5oth Anniversary Super Deluxe Ed.) (disc 4) 

Reading List, Week of 2023-12-24

Reading List 2023-12-25:

*Harkaway, Nick. Gnomon (finished)
*The Beatles through a Glass Onion, ed. Mark Osteen (in progress)
*Moon, Tom. 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die: A Listener's Life List (in progress)
*Shakespeare, William. King Henry IV, Part 2 (Arden 3rd ed., ed. James C. Bulman) (reread/in progress)

 

Playlist, Week of 2023-12-17

Sometimes words don't do it...

Playlist 2023-12-18:

*Art Ensemble of Chicago: Non-Cognitive Aspects of the City: Live at Iridium (disc 1) "On the Mountain"
*Derek Bailey/Pat Metheny/Gregg Bendian/Paul Wertico: The Sign Of 4 (disc 2)
*Jeff Beck: You Had It Coming
*Book of Three: Continuum
*Anthony Braxton: Composition 98 "Part II"
*Anthony Braxton: Nine Compositions (DVD) 2003 "Comp. 190 (13tet)"
*Rodger Coleman and Andrew Dickson: No Why, Just Is
*Miles Davis: The Complete In a Silent Way Sessions (disc 1) "Two Faced"
*Dimitriadis/Dörner/Freedman/Parkins/Williams: BeingFive
*Duke Ellington: Uptown (side 1)
*Exploding Star Orchestra: Stars Have Shapes
*Ingebrigt Håker Flaten/Paal Nilssen-Love: Guts & Skins
*Grateful Dead: Dave's Picks Vol. 48 (1971-11-20 UCLA) (disc 2) "The Other One"
*Grateful Dead: Dave's Picks Vol. 16 (1973-03-28 Springfield, MA) (disc 2)
*Grateful Dead: 1974-08-06 Jersey City NJ (CDR) (disc 1)
*Al Green: Let's Stay Together (selections)
*Al Green: Call Me (selections)
*Jimi Hendrix with Curtis Knight and the Squires: George's Club 20, Hackensack, NY 1965 (CDR)
*Dave Holland Prism: 2013-10-25 Umea, Sweden (CDR) (discs 1, 2)
*London Brew: London Brew (discs 1, 2)
*Mendoza Hoff Revels: Echolocation
*Fats Navarro and Tadd Dameron: Complete Blue Note and Capitol Sessions (disc 2)
*Pere Ubu: Terminal Tower (sides 1, 2)
*Edith Piaf: The Voice of the Sparrow
*Sasha: Global Underground 013: Ibiza (disc 1)
*Woody Shaw: The Complete Muse Sessions (discs 5, 6)
*Wadada Leo Smith: Najwa "Ornette Coleman´s Harmolodic Sonic Hierographic Forms: A Resonance Change in the Millennium"
*Soft Machine: The Peel Sessions (discs 1, 2)
*Sparks: No. 1 in Heaven (40th Anniversary Ed.) (sides 1, 2)
*Steely Dan: Northeast Corridor: Steely Dan Live!
*Cecil Taylor: Mixed [Into the Hot]
*Cecil Taylor: 3 Phasis (side 1)
*Cecil Taylor: One Material Complex from Cecil Taylor's 1988-91 Music
*Henry Threadgill Zooid/Silke Eberhard Potsa Lotsa XL: 2023-11-04 Berlin (CDR)
*Various artists: Santa Swings
*Frank Zappa/Mothers of Invention: Over-Nite Sensation (50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Ed.) (disc 3)

Reading List, Week of 2023-12-17

Reading List 2023-12-18:

*The Beatles through a Glass Onion, ed. Mark Osteen (started)
*Harkaway, Nick. Gnomon (in progress)
*Moon, Tom. 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die: A Listener's Life List (in progress)
*Shakespeare, William. King Henry IV, Part 2 (Arden 3rd ed., ed. James C. Bulman) (reread/in progress)

 

Playlist, Week of 2023-12-10

More exciting large orchestra arrangements from Roscoe Mitchell, with hefty helpings of Thomas Buckner vocals... always up for that... Planning on further explorations of Muhal Richard Abrams over the next few weeks... continuing my AACM listening... Tapering off of Mingus for a while now... although I must say his melodies reverberate in my head, like, all the time... Of Abstract Dreams is an excellent example of mid-70s Sun Ra, one of the best of the discoveries to come out most recently... definitely some choice John Gilmore there... 

Playlist 2023-12-11:

*Muhal Richard Abrams: Spiral: Live at Montreux 1978 (side 2)
*Muhal Richard Abrams: Blues Forever (sides 1, 2)
*Muhal Richard Abrams: Rejoicing with the Light (side 1)
*Art Ensemble Of Chicago: 1980-07-19 Den Haag, Netherlands (CDR)
*Derek Bailey/Pat Metheny/Gregg Bendian/Paul Wertico: The Sign Of 4 (disc 3)
*Book of Three: Continuum
*Rodger Coleman and Andrew Dickson: No Why, Just Is
*John Coltrane: Live in Paris (side 3)
*John Coltrane: Live in Japan (disc 1) "Peace on Earth"
*Dr. Octagon: Dr. Octagonecologyst
*George Duke: A Brazilian Love Affair
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Featuring Paul Gonsalves (sides 1, 2)
*Ensemble Dedalus & Erikm: Fata Morgana
*Jerry Garcia/Merl Saunders: 1971-05-20 San Francisco (CDR)
*Kate Gentile: Find Letter X (discs 2, 3)
*Grateful Dead: Dave's Picks Vol. 16 (1973-03-28 Springfield, MA) (disc 1)
*Grateful Dead: 1974-10-17 Winterland, SF (CDR) (disc 2)
*Grateful Dead: 1982-09-20 NYC (CDR) (discs 2, 3)
*Ned Lagin: Seastones (discs 1, 2)
*Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey/Kris Davis/Ralph Alessi: Lark "Nit Splitting"
*Charles Mingus: The Jazz Workshop Concerts 1964-65 (disc 7)
*Matt Mitchell: Phalanx Ambassadors
*Roscoe Mitchell: Roscoe Mitchell Orchestra and Space Trio at the Fault Zone Festival
*Fats Navarro and Tadd Dameron: Complete Blue Note and Capitol Sessions (disc 1)
*Django Reinhardt: The Classic Early Recordings in Chronological Order (disc 1)
*Woody Shaw: The Complete Muse Sessions (discs 3, 4)
*Horace Silver Quintet: The Cape Verdean Blues
*Soft Machine: 1971-03-14 Breda, The Netherlands (CDR) (disc 2)
*Tyshawn Sorey: The Inner Spectrum of Variables (disc 1)
*Sun Ra and His Myth Science Arkestra: Angels and Demons at Play
*Sun Ra: Astro Black (side 2)
*Sun Ra: Of Abstract Dreams
*Art Tatum: The Art Tatum Solo Masterpieces Vol. 1
*Cecil Taylor Big Band: 1995-07-03 NYC (CDR) (disc 1)
*Henry Threadgill Ensemble: The Other One
*Birgit Ulher/Franz Hautzinger: Kleine Trompetenmusik
*Frank Zappa: Nostalgia (boot CDR)
*John Zorn/Simulacrum: The True Discoveries of Witches and Demons
*John Zorn/The Dreamers: A Dreamers Christmas
*John Zorn: Bagatelles Vol. 3: Trigger

Reading List, Week of 2023-12-10

Reading List 2023-12-11:

*Harkaway, Nick. Gnomon (started)
*Shakespeare, William. King Henry IV, Part 2 (Arden 3rd ed., ed. James C. Bulman) (reread/started)
*Alam, Rumaan. Leave the World Behind (started/finished)
*Barthelme, Donald. Paradise (reread/started/finished)
*James, Henry. The Ambassadors (reread/finished)
*Shakespeare, William. King Henry IV, Part 2 (Arden 2nd ed., ed. A.R. Humphreys) (reread/finished)
*Moon, Tom. 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die: A Listener's Life List (in progress)

 

Playlist, Week of 2023-12-03

Still blown away thinking about the magical, mystical evening of seeing Annette Peacock at Big Ears... the closest music I've heard of hers is still An Acrobat's Heart... The new Miles Davis quintet recording from Paris is dynamite... More to say about more things, but maybe later...

Playlist 2023-12-04:

*AACM Great Black Music Ensemble: Umbria Jazz 2009, Perugia, Italy (CDR) (disc 6)

*Area: 1975-08 Ferrara, Italy (CDR)

*Beatles: 1962-1966 (2023 Edition) (sides 1, 4, 6)

*Paul Bley: Paul Bley Trios Play Annette Peacock Revisited

*Borderlands Trio: Wandersphere (discs 1, 2)

*Anthony Braxton: Trillium J (disc 3)

*Baikida Carroll: Shadows and Reflections

*Rodger Coleman/Sam Byrd: Who Doesn't Fade?

*Rodger Coleman and Sam Byrd: The Mathematics of War "New Landscape"

*Miles Davis Quintet: In Concert at the Olympia, Paris 1957

*George Duke: A Brazilian Love Affair

*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Three Suites

*Michael Formanek Elusion Quartet: As Things Go

*Vince Guaraldi Trio: A Charlie Brown Christmas

*Kate Gentile: Find Letter X (disc 1)

*Grateful Dead: 1982-09-20 NYC (CDR) (disc 1)

*Kip Hanrahan: Tenderness

*Jefferson Pilot: Sad Magazine

*Philly Joe Jones Sextet & Quintet: Live at Birdland: Historic Unreleased 1962 Recordings

*Kinks: The Journey, Part 2 (side 1)

*Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra: Galactic Parables: Vol. 1 (disc 2)

*Matt Mitchell: A Pouting Grimace

*Roscoe Mitchell/Jerzy Mazzoll/Sławek Janicki/Qba Janicki: Four Sure

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

*New Ting: 2023-11-06 "Lately Better Never" (wav)

*Annette Peacock: 1982-09-16 BBC Radio 3 "Jazz in Britain" (CDR)

*Annette Peacock: I Have No Feelings

*Dewey Redman/Cecil Taylor/Elvin Jones: Momentum Space

*Woody Shaw: The Complete Muse Sessions (discs 1, 2)

*Soft Machine: BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert

*Soft Machine: 1971-03-14 Breda, The Netherlands (CDR) (disc 1)

*Tyshawn Sorey: Verisimilitude

*Sun Ra: Pathways to Unknown Worlds (side 2)

*Cecil Taylor Unit:  It Is in the Brewing Luminous "Part 1"

*Cecil Taylor: Algonquin

*Cecil Taylor Orchestra Humane: 2004-03-23 NYC (CDR) (disc 1)

*Yes: The Yes Album

*Frank Zappa/Mothers of Invention: Over-Nite Sensation (5oth Anniversary Super Deluxe Ed.) (disc 2)

Reading List, Week of 2023-12-03

Reading List 2023-12-04:

*Chast, Roz. What I Hate from A to Z (started/finished)
*Chast, Roz. Theories of Everything (reread/finished)
*James, Henry. The Ambassadors (reread/in progress)
*Moon, Tom. 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die: A Listener's Life List (in progress)
*Shakespeare, William. King Henry IV, Part 2 (Arden 2nd ed., ed. A.R. Humphreys) (reread/in progress)