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)