Playlist, 2024-01-21

Matana Roberts' remarkable Coin Coin project continues with another strong chapter... this is devastating stuff thematically, with some wonderful sax passages... I am digging the recent attention Mary Lou Williams' Zodiac Suite is getting, with interesting new versions from Aaron Diehl and the Umlaut Chamber Orchestra... her own piano versions remain my favorite, though... Every once in a while I like to warp my understanding of jazz standards with Art Tatum's amazing convolutions... Yes, it is mostly jazz in all its wonderful permutations that's floating my boat these days... Over the next few weeks, I am going to embark on a roughly chronological outing through my Muhal Richard Abrams collection (as a leader and as a sideman)... I am always listening to AACM folks these days so I think it's time to go back to the source... 

Playlist 2024-01-22:

*AACM Great Black Music Ensemble: Umbria Jazz 2009, Perugia, Italy (CDR) (disc 3)

*Art Ensemble of Chicago: 1982-03-23 Copenhagen (CDR) (discs 1, 2)

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

*Mulatu Astatke: New York-Addis-London: The Story of Ethio Jazz 1965-1975

*Anthony Braxton: Tentet (Paris) 2001

*Anthony Braxton: Echo Echo Mirror House (NYC) 2011

*Circle: Circle 1: Live in Germany Concert "There Is No Greater Love"

*Rodger Coleman and Sam Byrd: Aphelion "Out of Orbit"

*John Coltrane: 1965-07-27 Antibes (CDR) "Blue Valse (Ascension)" 

*Miles Davis: The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965 (disc 2b)

*Miles Davis: The Complete On the Corner Sessions (disc 4) "He Loved Him Madly"

*Aaron Diehl and the Knights: Zodiac Suite

*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: The Treasury Shows, Vol. 21 (disc 1)

*Ingebrigt Håker Flaten/Paal Nilssen-Love: Guts & Skins

*George: Leave It

*Jimmy Giuffre 3: 1961 (disc 1)

*Glass Triangle: Blue and Sun-Lights

*Grateful Dead: Dark Star Comp 1 (1967-1969) (CDR compilation)

*Grateful Dead: Fillmore West 1969: The Complete Recordings (discs 10, 11)

*Layers of Memory: 2019-12-07 RVA (wav)"Improvisation No. 3"

*London Brew: London Brew (disc 2)

*Matt Mitchell/Kate Gentile: Snark Horse (discs 3, 4)

*Roscoe Mitchell and the Note Factory: 2000-09-02 Chicago (CDR)

*Grachan Moncur III: Some Other Stuff

*Larry Ochs/Nels Cline/Gerald Cleaver: What Is To Be Done "Outcries Rousing"

*Annette Peacock: Abstract-Contact

*Annette Peacock: Paradiso, Amsterdam February 21 1991

*Plymouth: Plymouth "Standish"

*Stephanie Richards: Fullmoon

*Matana Roberts: Coin Coin Chapter One: Les Gens de Couleur Libres (sides 2, 3, 4)

*Matana Roberts: Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the Garden (sides 1, 2, 3, 4)

*David Sancious: The Bridge

*Knoel Scott featuring Marshall Allen: Celestial

*Sparks: Whomp That Sucker (sides 1, 2)

*Sparks: Angst in My Pants (sides 1, 2)

*Sun Ra And His Intergalactic Research Arkestra: Paradiso Amsterdam 1970 (sides 2, 3, 4)

*Sun Ra Arkestra: 1970-11-18 Amsterdam (CDR) (discs 1, 2)

*Art Tatum: The Art Tatum Solo Masterpieces Vol. 4

*Henry Threadgill Zooid: In for a Penny, In for a Pound (disc 2) "Tresepic (for trombone and tuba)"

*Henry Threadgill: Double Up, Plays Double Up Plus

*Cal Tjader: Soul Sauce

*Umlaut Chamber Orchestra: Zodiac Suite

*John Zorn: Bagatelles Vol. 5: Kris Davis Quartet

*John Zorn: Perchance to Dream