Playlist, Week of 2024-08-25

Primo Gilmore on Taking a Chance on Chances, especially side 2... I was a little disappointed when Prophet first came out, but I have to say it's growing on me... There's not enough large-ensemble Cecil Taylor in the world... Anyway, this week, it was mostly Sun Ra, Cecil, and Prince... 

Playlist 2024-08-28:

*Area: Maledetti (Maudits) (sides 1, 2)
*Borderlands Trio: Rewilder (disc 1)
*John Carter Octet: Dauwhe
*John Carter: Castles of Ghana
*Grateful Dead: 1973-03-26 Baltimore (CDR) "Truckin'"
*Mary Halvorson: 2009-06-28 NYC (CDR)
*Billy Hart: Enchance (side 1)
*Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra: Galactic Parables: Vol. 1 (disc 2)
*New Ting: 2024-08-19 Richmond VA (wav)
*Prince: 1981-12-20 Houston (CDR)
*Prince: 2009-07-18 Montreux Jazz Festival (CDR) (disc 2)
*Prince: Small Club Jams (CDR compilation)
*Ravi Shankar: The Sounds of India
*Matthew Shipp Trio: The Trio Plays Ware
*Sun Ra and His Blue Universe Arkestra: Universe in Blue
*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: Taking a Chance on Chances
*Sun Ra: Of Mythic Worlds
*Sun Ra: Ra to the Rescue
*Sun Ra Arkestra: 1986-02-06 Toronto (CDR) (disc 4)
*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: Prophet
*Sun Ra Arkestra: 1986-10-11 Washington DC (CDR) (discs 1, 2, 3)
*Horace Tapscott: The Dark Tree 1 & 2 (disc 2)
*Cecil Taylor: 1983-07-27 Genoa (wav)
*Cecil Taylor/Music from Two Continents: 1984-10-27 Belfort, France (wav)
*Cecil Taylor and the Sound Vision Orchestra: 2002-06-21 Knitting Factory NYC (CDR) (disc 3)
*Cecil Taylor/Tony Oxley: 2003-11-07 Berlin (wav)
*Cecil Taylor/Tony Oxley: 2008-02-24 Vienna (CDR) (discs 1, 2)
*Henry Threadgill Zooid: Poof

Reading List, Week of 2024-08-25

Reading List 2024-08-28:

*Dylan, Bob. Chronicles, Vol. 1 (started)
*Shakespeare, William. Julius Caesar (Arden 2nd ed., ed. T.S. Dorsch) (reread/started)
*Lovecraft, H.P. "The Colour out of Space" (started/finished)
*Freeman, Philip. In the Brewing Luminous: The Life and Music of Cecil Taylor (finished)
*Mendelson, Cheryl. Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House (in progress)
*Young, Marguerite. Miss MacIntosh, My Darling (in progress)

 

Playlist, Week of 2024-08-18

Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra, Sparks... lots of good tunes out there! Hope you're listening...

Playlist 2024-08-19:

*Horacee Arnold: Tales of the Exonerated Flea
*Anthony Braxton: Orchestra (Pisa) 1980 "Comp. 46"
*John Carter: Shadows on a Wall
*Miles Davis: 1969-07-27 New Brunswick NJ (CDR)
*Miles Davis: Bitches Brew Live
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: The Treasury Shows, Vol. 8 (disc 2)
*Forebrace: Steeped
*Grateful Dead: Dick's Picks 4 (1970-02-13 Fillmore East) "Dark Star"
*Mary Halvorson Trio: Dragon's Head
*Mary Halvorson: 2009-02-13 NYC (CDR)
*Joseph Jarman: As If It Were the Seasons "As If It Were the Seasons/Song to Make the Sun Come Up"
*Prince: The Chocolate Invasion
*Matana Roberts: Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile
*Matana Roberts: Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the Garden (sides 3, 4)
*Tyshawn Sorey: Unfiltered (disc 1)
*Sparks: Kimono My House
*Sparks: Indiscreet
*Sparks: Whomp That Sucker
*Sparks: Hello Young Lovers
*Sparks: Hippopotamus
*Sun Ra and His Solar Arkestra: Visits Planet Earth
*Sun Ra: Bandcamp Tracks (CDR compilation) (disc 1)
*Sun Ra and His Mythic Science Arkestra: The Paris Tapes: Live at Le Théâtre du Châtelet 1971 (disc 2)
*Sun Ra Arkestra: 1986-02-06 Toronto (CDR) (discs 1, 2, 3)
*Sun Ra: Inside the Light World: Sun Ra Meets the OVC (side 4)
*Cecil Taylor: Love for Sale
*Cecil Taylor: The Complete Candid Recordings of Cecil Taylor and Buell Neidlinger (discs 2, 3, 4)
*Cecil Taylor Unit: 1966-10-16 Stuttgart (CDR) (discs 1, 2)
*Cecil Taylor: Calling It the Eighth (side 1)

Reading List, Week of 2024-08-18

Reading List 2024-08-19:

*Levin, Ira. A Kiss Before Dying (started/finished)
*Van Sciver, Noah. As a Cartoonist (finished)
*Freeman, Philip. In the Brewing Luminous: The Life and Music of Cecil Taylor (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 2024-08-11

Lots of affinities between Matana Roberts' Coin Coin series and John Carter's 5-album series Roots and Folklore: Episodes in the Development of American Folk Music... Miles Davis played some of the hottest trumpet of his life on the 1969 Newport Jazz Festival (as heard on Bitches Brew Live)... Wayne Shorter was a no-show (stuck in traffic), so Miles led a quartet as the only horn... On a Cecil Taylor kick while reading the new Philip Freeman biography (well, I am often on a Cecil kick anyway, so what's new?)... On a Sun Ra kick, too, well, just because... 

Playlist 2024-08-12:

*Louis Armstrong: The Complete Louis Armstrong Decca Sessions (1935-1946) (discs 1, 2)
*Horacee Arnold: Tales of the Exonerated Flea
*Art Ensemble: 1967/68 (disc 1) "Quartet No. 2"
*Art Ensemble of Chicago: Non-Cognitive Aspects of the City: Live at Iridium (disc 1) "On the Mountain"
*Beatles: Past Masters (2009 stereo remaster) (side 1)
*Beatles: Sgt. Peppers Lonely Heart Club Band (2009 stereo remaster) (side 1)
*Gus Bodenheim: Slouching Towards Bodenheim (discs 1, 2)
*Anthony Braxton/Joe Morris: Four Improvisations (Duo) 2007 (disc 2)
*Anthony Braxton/Eugene Chadbourne: Duo (Improv) 2017 (disc 1)
*John Carter: Dance of the Love Ghosts
*John Carter: Fields
*Sonny Clark: The Complete Sonny Clark Blue Note Sessions (disc 1)
*Rodger Coleman: Guitar Experiments
*Miles Davis: Bitches Brew Live
*Bob Dylan: The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964 (disc 2)
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: The Works of Duke: Integrale Vol. 16 (side 2)
*Duke Ellington: Centenary Celebration 1999: Vol. 3: The Great Bands of the 1940s
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: The Treasury Shows, Vol. 8 (disc 1)
*Grateful Dead: Road Trips Vol. 4 No. 3 (1973-12-06 Cleveland) (bonus disc) "Dark Star > Eyes of the World"
*Joe Henderson: An Evening with Joe Henderson
*Arve Henriksen: Towards Language
*Roscoe Mitchell Discussions Orchestra: Discussions
*Gerry Mulligan/Lee Konitz: Revelation (side 1)
*Elvis Presley: The Complete Elvis Presley Masters (discs 1, 2)
*Matana Roberts: Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the Garden (sides 1, 2)
*Ravi Shankar: India's Master Musician
*Ravi Shankar: Three Ragas "Raga Jog"
* 夢遊病者 [Sleepwalker]: 5772
*Sonic Youth: Washing Machine "The Diamond Sea"
*Sparks: Propaganda
*Sparks: Balls
*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: In the Orbit of Ra (side 1)
*Sun Ra: Disco 3000 (Complete Milan Concert 1978) (disc 2)
*Sun Ra: Inside the Light World: Sun Ra Meets the OVC (side 1)
*Sun Ra: 1985-10-27 Hamburg (CDR) (disc 1, 2)
*Sun Ra Arkestra: Reflections in Blue
*Sun Ra Arkestra under the direction of John Gilmore: 1992-12-30 Northampton MA (CDR) (disc 1)
*Cecil Taylor: In Transition [Jazz Advance] (side 1)
*Cecil Taylor: The Complete Candid Recordings of Cecil Taylor and Buell Neidlinger (disc 1)
*Cecil Taylor with Albert Ayler: 1962-11-16 Copenhagen (Holy Ghost disc 1)
*Cecil Taylor: Rotterdam 1967-07-01 (CDR)
*Cecil Taylor: For Olim
*Cecil Taylor Ensemble: Always a Pleasure
*Various artists: Little Club Jazz: Small Groups in the '30s (side 1)
*Neil Young with Crazy Horse: Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
*Neil Young: On the Beach
*John Zorn: Insurrection

Reading List, Week of 2024-08-11

Reading List 2024-08-12:

*Van Sciver, Noah. As a Cartoonist (started)
*King, Stephen. Danse Macabre (reread/finished)
*Freeman, Philip. In the Brewing Luminous: The Life and Music of Cecil Taylor (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 2024-08-04

Lots of Sun Ra this week... as always, it's really good for the soul, especially in stressful and trying times... the more I listen to Disco 3000, the more I love it...  the depths of John Gilmore's tone and his approach to constructing his solos are continually intriguing to me... and Ra's playing is truly sublime...  

Playlist 2024-08-05:

*Muhal Richard Abrams Sextet: 1973-11-04 Berlin (CDR)

*Beach Boys: Friends

*Beach Boys: 20/20

*Anthony Braxton/George Lewis/Derek Bailey: 1982-07-13 Pisa (CDR)

*John Carter: Castles of Ghana

*Rodger Coleman and Sam Byrd: 2019-08-27 Nashville (rough mix wav)

*Miles Davis: Directions (side 2)

*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: The Treasury Shows, Vol. 7 (disc 2)

*Grateful Dead: The Twenty-Nine Ones (CDR compilation) (disc 1)

*Grateful Dead: 1974-07-25 Chicago (CDR) "Dark Star"

*Grateful Dead: One from the Vault (disc 2)

*Anna Högberg Attack: Lena

*Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey: Stir Crazy (CDR compilation) (disc 11)

*Rob Mazurek/Exploding Star Orchestra Featuring Roscoe Mitchell: Matter Anti-Matter (disc 1)

*Roscoe Mitchell: Sound Songs (discs 1, 2)

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

*Soft Machine: Høvikodden 1971 (disc 4)

*Sparks: Lil' Beethoven

*Sun Ra: Sun Song (side 1)

*Sun Ra: At the Showcase: Live in Chicago 1976-1977 (discs 1, 2)

*Sun Ra: 1976-11-27 Chicago (CDR) (disc 1)

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

*Sun Ra: Sleeping Beauty

*Sun Ra: 1988-06-30 Bremerhaven, Germany (CDR)

*Cecil Taylor: Respiration

*Cecil Taylor and the Sound Vision Orchestra: 2002-06-21 Knitting Factory NYC (CDR) (disc 2)

*Various artists: That Devilin' Tune (Vol. I, disc 1)

*Various artists: Rimshots & Reverbs: The Best in Instrumental Rock and Pop (disc 2)

*Yardbirds: The Ultimate Live at the BBC (disc 4)

Reading List, Week of 2024-08-04

Reading List 2024-08-05:

*Freeman, Philip. In the Brewing Luminous: The Life and Music of Cecil Taylor (started)
*Gaiman, Neil, Andy Kubert, and Richard Isanove. Marvel 1602 (reread/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 2024-07-28

I have really been enjoying the two Myra Melford Fire and Water Quintet records... For the Love of Fire and Water is a suite which deftly emphasizes and affirms the individual personalities and strengths of the players... Hear the Light Singing is a follow-up with several pieces intended as modular "inserts" which are designed to fit in the suite different ways on different performances... I got to hear this in action with the Quintet's Big Ears performance... 

Playlist 2024-07-29:

*Muhal Richard Abrams: Afrisong
*AMM: Place Sub. V.
*AMM: Until the Next Time
*Borderlands Trio: Rewilder (disc 2)
*Anthony Braxton: 19 [Solo] Compositions, 1988
*Anthony Braxton/Ensemble Braxtonia: 2 Compositions (Järvenpää) 1988
*Anthony Braxton: Eight Improvisations (Trio) 2014 (disc 2)
*John Carter Octet: Dauwhe
*Chicago/London Underground: A Night Walking Through Mirrors
*John Coltrane: The Classic Quartet: The Complete Impulse! Studio Recordings (disc 5)
*Brian Eno: Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks
*Grateful Dead: 1972-09-27 Jersey City, NJ (Dick's Picks 11) (disc 2)
*Herbie Hancock: Empyrean Isles
*Alexander Hawkins Ensemble: No Now Is So
*Joe Henderson: Black Is the Color
*Keith Jarrett: Paris Concert
*Jens Joneleit featuring Roscoe Mitchell: Illuviation
*Brian Jones Quintet: Spell Canon
*Ned Lagin: Seastones (disc 2)
*Ingrid Laubrock: Monochromes
*Andrew Lisle/Alex Ward: Doors
*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
*Myra Melford's Fire and Water Quintet: 2024-03-23 Knoxville TN (CDR)
*Roscoe Mitchell & the Note Factory: Song for My Sister
*Roscoe Mitchell: Sustain and Run
*György Szabados/Roscoe Mitchell: Revelation (Jelenés)
*Soft Machine: Høvikodden 1971 (discs 2, 3)
*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: Super-Sonic Jazz
*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: Bad and Beautiful
*Sun Ra: Cosmo Mystery Concert 1978
*Sun Ra: 1978-11-03 Washington DC (CDR) (disc 4)
*Cecil Taylor and the Sound Vision Orchestra: 2002-06-21 Knitting Factory NYC (CDR) (disc 1)
*Various artists: Rimshots & Reverbs: The Best in Instrumental Rock and Pop (disc 1)
*Various artists: The Rough Guide to Boogaloo 3
*Yardbirds: The Ultimate Live at the BBC (discs 2, 3)

Reading List, Week of 2024-07-28

Reading List 2024-07-29:

*Gaiman, Neil, Andy Kubert, and Richard Isanove. Marvel 1602 (reread/started)
*Hickman, Jonathan, et al. House of X/Powers of X (reread/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)