Playlist, Week of 2024-10-13

Hot damn, the small group sessions of Duke Ellington from the '30s and '40s are jumpin', quirky, and divine... "Frolic Sam"... Delving into some Sun Ra rarities as well, several from only a mere ten years or so later... then things diverge... or do they?

Playlist 2024-10-14:

*Muhal Richard Abrams featuring Malachi Favors: Sightsong (side 1)

*[Ahmed]: Giant Beauty (discs 1, 2)

*Mose Allison: The Word from Mose

*Johann Sebastian Bach: The Sonatas and Partitas for Unaccompanied Violin (Sergio Luca) (disc 2)

*Ran Blake Quartet: Short Life of Barbara Monk

*Rodger Coleman and Sam Byrd: 2019-05-02/03 Nashville (rough mix wav) (disc 1)

*Rodger Coleman and Sam Byrd: 2022-11-26 Nashville (wav)

*Alice Coltrane: The Carnegie Hall Concert (discs 1, 2)

*D’Angelo and the Vanguard: Black Messiah (sides 1 ,2)

*Bob Dylan: Time Out of Mind

*Duke Ellington: The Complete 1936-1940 Variety, Vocalion, and Okeh Small Group Sessions (discs 1, 2, 4, 5)

*Duke Ellington: All American in Jazz

*Duke Ellington: Midnight in Paris

*Mary Halvorson Quintet: Saturn Sings

*Joe Henderson: The Milestone Years (disc 6)

*Susie Ibarra: Folkloriko

*Irreversible Entanglements: Irreversible Entanglements

*Vijay Iyer: Compassion

*Roscoe Mitchell: L-R-G/The Maze/S II Examples

*New Ting: 2024-10-07 "Attention Kemar Shoppers! (He's Bald But He Can Hear)" (wav)

*Charlie Parker: Live and Private Recordings in Chronological Order (disc 9)

*Polyorchard: Ink (disc 1)

*Residents: Fingerprince (pREServed Edition) (disc 1)

*Soft Machine: The Soft Machine

*Soft Machine: Volume Two

*Soft Machine: Spaced

*Soft Machine: Høvikodden 1971 (disc 1)

*Soft Machine: Six (side 1)

*Sun Ra: Saturn Research: Rarities and Oddities (CDR compilation) (discs 1, 2)

*Sun Ra: Black Utopia Excerpts (CDR compilation)

*Sun Ra: Excelsior Mill

*Cecil Taylor Orchestra of Two Continents: 1984-10-20 Rubigen, Switzerland (CDR) (disc 1)

*Henry Threadgill's Zooid: This Brings Us To, Volumes I & II (side 2)

*Lennie Tristano: Personal Recordings 1946-1970 (disc 4)

*Various artists: Tenor Sax Battle 1982-07-18 Den Haag (CDR)

*John Zorn/Simulacrum: Spinoza

*John Zorn/Chaos Magick: Chaos Magick