Playlist, Week of 2024-05-12

The Muhal Richard Abrams cassette I discovered is an audience recording from 1995, a quartet performance at Chapel Hill NC... with Patience Higgins on sax... it's a nice set, lots of great Muhal piano... Blue Rose is absolutely sublime... Ivie Anderson was Duke Ellington's best vocalist, bar none, but Rosemary Clooney sure gives her a run for her money here... what a shame she didn't record more with Duke... Billy Strayhorn's arrangements are the perfect setting for Clooney's understated vocals... all the more remarkable that she recorded them after the fact, in a different city... The new At the Showcase release of Sun Ra is wonderful, especially the 1977 show, which heavily features John Gilmore... The Dave Holland 2023 Pori set is the same band (playing some of the same material) that I saw at Big Ears, which means generous helpings of brilliant Kris Davis piano playing... All of my listening is just scratching the surface... All of this music demands to be heard, over and over! Keep listening!

Playlist 2024-05-13:

*Muhal Richard Abrams: 1995-07-22 Chapel Hill, NC (cassette)

*Lily Allen: Sheezus

*Beatles: Revolver (Super Deluxe 4 LP Edition 2022) (side 8)

*Bix Beiderbecke: Bix Restored: The Complete Recordings and Alternates, Vol. 1 (Feb. 1924-Sept. 1927) (disc 1)

*Anthony Braxton: Orchestra (Pisa) 1980

*Anthony Braxton: 10 Comp (Lorraine) 2022 (discs 5, 6) (streaming)

*Sonny Clark: The Complete Sonny Clark Blue Note Sessions (disc 3)

*Rosemary Clooney and Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Blue Rose

*Greg Cohen: Golden State

*Ornette Coleman: Ornette at 12

*Rodger Coleman and Sam Byrd: 2009-07-23 Nashville (wav) track 6 "What You Said"

*John Coltrane: Live in Japan (disc 3) "Peace on Earth"

*Kris Davis: The Slightest Shift

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

*Kiku Day/Henry Kaiser: Zen Kaiju

*Dimitriadis/Dörner/Freedman/Parkins/Williams: BeingFive

*Bill Dixon: 17 Musicians in Search of a Sound: Darfur

*Bill Dixon: Tapestries for Small Orchestra (disc 2)

*George Duke: Faces in Reflection

*Grateful Dead: Road Trips Vol. 2 No. 2 (1968) (disc 2)

*Dave Holland New Quartet: 2023-07-13 Pori, Finland (CDR)

*Ned Lagin: Seastones (disc 1)

*Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey: Stir Crazy (CDR compilation) (disc 4)

*Steve Lehman/Orchestre National de Jazz: Ex Machina

*Michael Mantler: Folly Seeing All This

*Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra: Galactic Parables: Vol. 1 (disc 1) "Free Agents of Sound"

*Butch Morris: Butch Morris Conducts Berlin Skyscraper (disc 1)

*Evan Parker/Electro-Acoustic Ensemble: The Eleventh Hour "Shadow Play"

*Leo Smith Creative Orchestra: Budding of a Rose "Harmonium/Mutumishi"

*Sparks: Lil' Beethoven (sides 1, 2)

*Sun Ra and His Astro-Infinity Arkestra: Continuation (side 1)

*Sun Ra: Spaceways [Outer Spaceways Inc.]

*Sun Ra: College Tour Vol. 1:  The Complete Nothing Is… (disc 2)

*Sun Ra: Cosmo Earth Fantasy: Sub Underground Series Vol. 1 & 2 (Art Yard) “Cosmo-Earth Fantasy”

*Sun Ra: At the Showcase: Live in Chicago 1976-1977 (disc 1)

*Sun Ra: Disco 3000 (Complete Milan Concert 1978) (disc 1)

*Thollem/Wimberly/Cline: Radical Empathy

*Two Much: Reut Regev/Igal Foni: Never Enough

*UYA: 1992-12-30 Cord (wav)

*UYA: 1993-01-03 Denny, Kenny, 'n' Me (wav)

*UYA: 1993-01-10 Menudo Space Station (wav)

*Stevie Wonder: Innervisions (sides 1, 2)

*Yong Yandsen/Christian Meaas Svendsen/Paal Nilssen-Love: Hungry Ghosts