Playlist, Week of 2024-10-06

A beautifully relaxing solo guitar album from Henry Kaiser... Tyshawn Sorey's drumming on Vijay Iyer's Compassion is outstanding... primo piano trio stuff!... nice to hear a Stevie Wonder cover in this context... Every time I delve into Two T's for a Lovely T I am astounded by the rich interplay and vitality of all three players... Such Sweet Thunder is still floating my boat... It's fun listening to Bud Powell through a Cecil Taylor lens... I plan on doing the same with Horace Silver... Of course, Cecil is drenched with Duke Ellington...

Playlist 2024-10-07:

*[Ahmed]: Giant Beauty (discs 4, 5)

*Art Ensemble: 1967/68 (disc 2) "Trio (Oh Susanna)"

*Johann Sebastian Bach: The Sonatas and Partitas for Unaccompanied Violin (Sergio Luca) (disc 1)

*Beatles: Hard Day's Night (2009 stereo remaster) (sides 1, 2)

*Beatles: 1962-1966 (2023 Edition) (side 5)

*Beyonce: Lemonade

*Peter Brötzmann Octet: The Complete Machine Gun Sessions "Machine Gun"

*Sonny Clark: The Complete Sonny Clark Blue Note Sessions (disc 2)

*Stephan Crump: Slow Water

*Bill Dixon: Bill Dixon in Italy, Vol. 1 (sides 1, 2)

*Dave Douglas: Spirit Moves

*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Such Sweet Thunder (side 1)

*Duke Ellington: The Far East Suite (sides 1, 2)

*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Featuring Paul Gonsalves (side 1)

*Joseph Haydn: Complete Symphonies, Vol. 3: Nos. 82, 88, 95 (Heidelberger Sinfoniker)

*Henry Cow: Glastonbury and Elsewhere

*Freddie Hubbard: Hub Cap

*Vijay Iyer: Compassion

*Henry Kaiser: Everything Forever

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

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

*Roscoe Mitchell: Duets with Tyshawn Sorey and Special Guest Hugh Ragin

*Roscoe Mitchell: Not Yet: Six Compositions

*New Ting: 2024-08-27 Richmond VA "Dated a Rockefeller: Live at Scuffletown" (wav)

*New Ting: 2024-09-30 "It's Raining, Understood" (wav)

*Charlie Parker: Live and Private Recordings in Chronological Order (discs 6, 7, 8)

*Polyorchard: Ink (disc 2)

*Bud Powell: The Genius of Bud Powell (side 1)

*Tyshawn Sorey: Alloy "Movement"

*Tyshawn Sorey: The Off-Off Broadway Guide to Synergism (disc 2)

*Sparks: A Woofer in Tweeter's Clothing (sides 1, 2)

*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: Bad and Beautiful

*Sun Ra: Exotica (discs 1, 2)

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

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

*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: 1989-08-11 Cambridge MA (CDR) (disc 3)

*Sun Ra Sextet: At the Village Vanguard

*Masayuki Takayanagi New Direction Unit: April Is the Cruellest Month

*Cecil Taylor Orchestra of Two Continents: 1984-10-20 Rubigen, Switzerland (CDR) (disc 2)

*Cecil Taylor Feel Trio: Two Ts for a Lovely T (disc 5)

*YoshimiOizumikiYoshiduO: To the Forest to Live a Truer Life

*John Zorn/Insurrection: Salem 1692