Playlist, Week of 2024-04-07

SoundDance has primo live piano work from Muhal Richard Abrams, duetting with Fred Anderson (and joined by George Lewis on disc 2)... The trio recordings with Lewis and Roscoe Mitchell are key later AACM works... I'll be wrapping up my runthrough of Muhal's work soon but there are still lots of loose ends and repeats to come... I'm liking the new Myra Melford Fire and Water Quintet album more than the first one... it's more cohesive... just lovely playing... Duke Ellington never had a better singer than Ivie Anderson... I swoon when "A Lonely Coed" comes on... Not so sure about the new High Llamas... too much autotune, not enough strong melodies... this, after 5-6 listenings... the title track is nice... Bandmate Fred lent me this old Sun Ra LP to identify it... he bought it from the band in the late '70s... totally blank white cover, white label, but markings on the vinyl plus the music itself revealed it to be Media Dreams... I got chills playing it: the first Saturn I've ever actually touched and played... it sounded great... 

Playlist 2024-04-08:

*Muhal Richard Abrams: Lifea Blinec (side 2)

*Muhal Richard Abrams/George Lewis/Roscoe Mitchell: 2008-08-17 Antwerp (CDR)

*Muhal Richard Abrams/George Lewis/Roscoe Mitchell: 2009-08-29 S. Anna Arresi, Italy (CDR)

*Muhal Richard Abrams/Roscoe Mitchell: Spectrum

*Muhal Richard Abrams: SoundDance (discs 1, 2)

*Erykah Badu: Mama's Gun

*Anthony Braxton: Quartet (Standards) 2020 (discs 2, 3)

*Anthony Braxton: 10 Comp (Lorraine) 2022 (discs 2, 3, 4) (streaming)

*James Brown: In the Jungle Groove (sides 3, 4)

*Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band: Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)

*Ornette Coleman: Love Call (side 1)

*Rodger Coleman: Guitar Experiments

*Rodger Coleman and Andrew Dickson: 2016-11-02 Nashville (CDR)

*Kris Davis Trio: 2022-05-13 NYC (CDR)

*Mike Elder/Harry Forrest/Greg Jordan/Sam Byrd: New CDR Compilation (disc 1) "Dental Clarity"

*Duke Ellington: Duke Ellington Presents Ivie Anderson (sides 2, 3, 4)

*Tomas Fujiwara's Triple Double: March

*Frode Gjerstad/Isach Skeidsvoll: Twenty Fingers

*Grateful Dead: 1970-02-04 San Francisco (Download Series Vol. 8)

*Grateful Dead: 1971-11-07 San Francisco (CDR) "Dark Star"

*Alexander Hawkins Trio: Carnival Celestial

*Fletcher Henderson: A Study in Frustration (side 2)

*Jimi Hendrix Experience: Miami Pop Festival

*High Llamas: Hey Panda

*Ahmad Jamal: The Complete Ahmad Jamal Trio Argo Sessions 1956-62 (disc 3)

*Layers of Memory: 2019-12-07 RVA (wav)"Improvisation No. 4"

*Myra Melford's Fire and Water Quintet: For the Love of Fire and Water

*Myra Melford's Fire and Water Quintet: Hear the Light Singing

*Matt Mitchell: Fiction

*Neighbours: Neighbours with Anthony Braxton

*P-Funk Guitar Army: Tributes to Jimi Hendrix, Vol. 1

*Zeena Parkins/Ikue Mori: Phantom Orchard

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

*Annette Peacock: Abstract-Contact

*Tomeka Reid Quartet: 3+3 (sides 1, 2)

*Bessie Smith: The Complete Recordings Vol. 1 (selections)

*Sonic Youth: Evol

*Sparks: The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte (sides 1, 2)

*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: In the Orbit of Ra (side 1)

*Sun Ra and his Arkestra: Media Dreams (sides 1, 2)

*Sun Ra: On Jupiter (side 2)

*Henry Threadgill Sextet: Subject to Change (side 2)

*Henry Threadgill Society Situation Dance Band: 1997-07-12 Den Haag (CDR)

*Henry Threadgill's Zooid: This Brings Us To, Volumes I & II (sides 1, 2, 3, 4)

*UYA: 1992-11-08/10: Double Load Love (wav)

*UYA: 1992-11-10 O.D.-in' w/Donald (wav)