Playlist, Week of 2024-07-21

 

The new Soft Machine 4-CD set is really strong: two nights of invigorating classic quartet sets, great sound, with Robert Wyatt's drumming particularly aggressive and driving... easily one of the best live recordings from this lineup... 

Playlist 2024-07-22:

*Muhal Richard Abrams Quintet: 2016-01-31 Milano (CDR)
*Bix Beiderbecke: Bix Restored: The Complete Recordings and Alternates, Vol. 5
*Jason Bivins/Ian Davis/Jimmy Ghaphery: 2003-11-15 Richmond VA (CDR)
*Paul Bley and Scorpio: Paul Bley & Scorpio
*Borderlands Trio: Rewilder (disc 1)
*Boulez: Le Marteau sans Maître/Sur Incises (Ensemble Intercontemporain) (CDR)
*Anthony Braxton: Eight Improvisations (Trio) 2014 (disc 1)
*Don Byas: 1946
*Cloud Sounds Trio: Cloud Sounds Trio
*Rodger Coleman: Guitar Experiments
*Rodger Coleman and Sam Byrd: 2019-05-02/03 Nashville (rough mix wav) (disc 3)
*D'Angelo: Live At The Jazz Cafe, London
*Bill Dixon: Tapestries for Small Orchestra (disc 2)
*Bob Dylan: The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964 (disc 1)
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: The Treasury Shows, Vol. 7 (disc 1)
*Duke Ellington: Anatomy of a Murder
*Foundations: Build Me Up Buttercup: The Complete Pye Collection (disc 1)
*Benny Goodman: Fletcher Henderson Arrangements (CDR compilation) (disc 3)
*Herbie Hancock: Thrust
*Alexander Hawkins/Tomeka Reid: Shards and Constellations
*Jimi Hendrix: Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision (disc 3)
*Pete Johnson: King of Boogie
*Ingrid Laubrock: The Last Quiet Place
*Joëlle Léandre/Craig Taborn/Mat Maneri: hEARoes
*Myra Melford's Happy Whistlings: 2010-04-09 New Haven CT (CDR)
*Tony Oxley Quintet: The Baptised Traveller
*William Parker: 2019-08-03 Stone, NYC (CDR)
*Don Pullen: Jazz a Confronto 21
*Soft Machine: Høvikodden 1971 (disc 1)
*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: Super-Sonic Jazz
*Sun Ra and His Myth Science Arkestra: When Angels Speak of Love
*Sun Ra: God Is More than Love Can Ever Be!
*Third Coast Ensemble: Wrecks
*Lennie Tristano: Personal Recordings 1946-1970 (disc 1)
*Various artists: The Rough Guide to Boogaloo 2
*Yardbirds: The Ultimate Live at the BBC (disc 1)
*John Zorn: Homenaje a Remedios Varo
*John Zorn: Bagatelles Vol. 16: Sam Eastmond

Reading List, Week of 2024-07-21

Reading List 2024-07-22:

*Hickman, Jonathan, et al. House of X/Powers of X (reread/started)
*Clowes, Daniel. Wilson (started/finished)
*Gaiman, Neil, and P. Craig Russell, Scott Hampton. American Gods, Vol. 3: The Moment of the Storm (finished)
*King, Stephen. Danse Macabre (reread/in progress)
*Mendelson, Cheryl. Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House (in progress)
*Young, Marguerite. Miss MacIntosh, My Darling (in progress)

 

Playlist, Week of 2024-07-14

Enjoyed checking out a younger, definitely energetic band with the New Loft session with bassist Pat Lawrence... I made some notes for an in-depth examination of Anthony Braxton's Echo Echo Mirror House music a while back... maybe someday I'll flesh them out, but I'll just say now the 2011 NYC version of it is the strongest... The 1963 John Coltrane Stuttgart "Mr. PC" is over a half-hour long... after a lengthy bass solo, which, okay, then Trane comes in for a good 17- or 18-minute solo that reminds me of Interstellar Space... 

Playlist 2024-07-15:

*Muhal Richard Abrams Orchestra: Blu Blu Blu
*Muhal Richard Abrams: Think All Focus One
*Muhal Richard Abrams: Song for All
*Muhal Richard Abrams: One Line, Two Views
*Beatles: Get Back: The Rooftop Performance
*Anthony Braxton: Echo Echo Mirror House (NYC) 2011
*Anthony Braxton: Quartet (New Haven) 2014 (disc 1)
*James Brown: At Studio 54 (side 1)
*Rodger Coleman and Sam Byrd: 2010-07-30 Nashville (wav)
*Rodger Coleman and Sam Byrd: 2019-05-02/03 Nashville (rough mix wav) (disc 2)
*John Coltrane: The Heavyweight Champion: The Complete Atlantic Recordings (disc 7)
*John Coltrane: 1963-11-04 Stuttgart "Mr. PC"
*Betty Davis: The Columbia Years 1968-69
*Miles Davis: The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965 (disc 5)
*Miles Davis Quintet: Complete Live at the Blue Coronet 1969 (disc 2)
*Miles Davis Quintet: Live in Europe 1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 2 (disc 3)
*Deerhoof: Miracle-Level (sides 1, 2)
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Masterpieces by Ellington
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Such Sweet Thunder
*Duke Ellington: The Girls' Suite/The Perfume Suite (sides 1, 2)
*Michael Formanek Elusion Quartet: As Things Go
*Four Freshmen: Greatest Hits
*Jimi Hendrix: Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision (discs 1, 2)
*Interstellar Fife & Drum: 2012-06-30 Richmond VA (streaming)
*Steve Lehman/Orchestre National de Jazz: Ex Machina
*Misha Mengelberg: 1967 Antibes (streaming)
*Myra Melford: Snowy Egret
*New Loft: Pieces 39 (2003): With Pat Lawrence
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2016-04-13 Musicircus, UR, Richmond (wav)
*Soft Machine: Høvikodden 1971 (discs 2, 3, 4)
*Sun Ra: Inside the Light World: Sun Ra Meets the OVC (sides 1, 2, 3)
*Henry Threadgill Very Very Circus: 1990-08-30 Willisau, Switzerland (CDR)
*Neil Young: Tonight's the Night
*Neil Young: Oh Lonesome Me (CDR compilation)

Reading List, Week of 2024-07-14

Reading List 2024-07-15:

*Gaiman, Neil, and P. Craig Russell, Scott Hampton. American Gods, Vol. 3: The Moment of the Storm (started)
*Young, Marguerite. Miss MacIntosh, My Darling (started)
*Gaiman, Neil, and P. Craig Russell, Scott Hampton. American Gods, Vol. 2: My Ainsel (finished)
*Harkaway, Nick. The Gone-Away World (finished)
*Shakespeare, William. Love's Labour's Lost (Arden 3rd ed., ed. H.R. Woudhuysen) (reread/finished)
*King, Stephen. Danse Macabre (reread/in progress)
*Mendelson, Cheryl. Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House (in progress)

Playlist, Week of 2024-07-07

Busy times... will get back to some commentary soon, I swear!

Playlist 2024-07-08:

*Arctic Monkeys: Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

*Beatles: Help! (2009 mono remaster)

*Borderlands Trio: Rewilder (disc 2)

*Deerhoof: Breakup Song

*Deerhoof: Devil Kids

*Billie Holiday: Lady in Satin

*Wadada Leo Smith: Divine Love

*Soft Machine: Høvikodden 1971 (disc 1)

*Sparks: Propaganda (sides 1, 2)

*Sun Ra: Pink Elephants on Parade (sides 1, 2) 

Reading List, Week of 2024-07-07

Beach reading...

Reading List 2024-07-08:

*Gaiman, Neil, and P. Craig Russell, Scott Hampton. American Gods, Vol. 2: My Ainsel (started)
*King, Stephen. Danse Macabre (reread/started)
*Gaiman, Neil, and P. Craig Russell, Scott Hampton. American Gods, Vol. 1: Shadows (started/finished)
*Hall, Rachel Howzell. They All Fall Down (started/finished)
*Macdonald, Ross. The Goodbye Look (reread/started/finished)
*Sorrentino, Gilbert. Lunar Follies (reread/started/finished)
*Atkinson, Kate. Normal Rules Don't Apply (finished)
*Carey, Mike, and Peter Gross. The Unwritten, Compendium 1 (finished)
*Macdonald, Ross. The Instant Enemy (reread/finished)
*Harkaway, Nick. The Gone-Away World (in progress)
*Mendelson, Cheryl. Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House (in progress)
*Shakespeare, William. Love's Labour's Lost (Arden 3rd ed., ed. H.R. Woudhuysen) (reread/in progress)

Playlist, Week of 2024-06-30

Beaches in mind...

Playlist 2024-07-01:

*Muhal Richard Abrams: Song for All
*André 3000: New Blue Sun (discs 1, 2)
*Beatles: Nothing Is Real (side 1)
*Tim Berne: The Shell Game
*Tim Berne's Snakeoil: Shadow Man "OC/DC"
*Paul Bley Quintet: Barrage
*Borderlands Trio: Rewilder (discs 1, 2)
*Anthony Braxton/Richard Teitelbaum: Silence/Time Zones "Behmoth Dreams (Dedicated to Maryanne Amacher)"
*Rodger Coleman and Sam Byrd: 2019-05-02/03 Nashville (rough mix wav) (disc 1)
*John Coltrane: The Classic Quartet: The Complete Impulse! Studio Recordings (disc 6)
*John Coltrane: Stellar Regions
*D'Angelo: 2000-07-08 Stockholm (CDR) (discs 1, 2)
*Miles Davis: The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965 (disc 2b)
*Miles Davis: Miles in the Sky
*Miles Davis: Filles de Kilimanjaro
*Miles Davis Quintet: Complete Live at the Blue Coronet 1969 (disc 1)
*Miles Davis Quintet: Live in Europe 1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 2 (discs 1, 2)
*Miles Davis: Miles Davis at Fillmore (side 1)
*Bill Dixon: Tapestries for Small Orchestra (disc 1)
*Grateful Dead: One from the Vault (disc 1)
*Joe Henderson: In Pursuit of Blackness
*Joe Henderson: Joe Henderson in Japan
*Joe Henderson: The State of the Tenor, Vol. 1 (side 1)
*Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey: Stir Crazy (CDR compilation) (disc 10)
*Joëlle Léandre/Craig Taborn/Mat Maneri: hEARoes
*Rob Mazurek/Exploding Star Orchestra: Dimensional Stardust
*Thelonious Monk: The Complete Blue Note Recordings (disc 3)
*Plymouth: Plymouth "Standish"
*Yamamoto Seiichi: Nu Frequency
*Sharp/Lopez/Kaiser/Amendola: Minus X: A Tribute to the Music of Iannis Xenakis (disc 2)
*Sun Ra: At the Showcase: Live in Chicago 1976-1977 (disc 1)
*Cecil Taylor: Unit Structures "Unit Structure/As of a Now/Section"
*Neil Young: Tonight's the Night
*John Zorn: Bagatelles Vol. 16: Sam Eastmond

 

Reading List, Week of June 30, 2024

Reading List 2024-07-01:

*Atkinson, Kate. Normal Rules Don't Apply (started)

*Carey, Mike, and Peter Gross. The Unwritten, Compendium 1 (started)

*Harkaway, Nick. The Gone-Away World (started)

*Macdonald, Ross. The Instant Enemy (reread/started)

*Dench, Judi, with Brendan O'Hea. Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent (finished)

*Veal, Michael E. Living Space: John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Free Jazz, from Analog to Digital (finished)

*Mendelson, Cheryl. Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House (in progress)

*Shakespeare, William. Love's Labour's Lost (Arden 3rd ed., ed. H.R. Woudhuysen) (reread/in progress)