For an excellent example of Duke Ellington (and/or Billy Strayhorn?) as arranger, try "Stomping at the Savoy" from The Private Collection, Vol. 2... and dig Sam Woodyard's bass drum driving the arrangement!... Kinda on a little Bob Dylan kick these days, don't know why... maybe it's in anticipation of starting that new Dylan book... and I did thoroughly enjoy Chronicles, which I finally got around to reading... I think "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight" is my favorite Dylan song... I'm really enjoying rediscovering the Bill Dixon in Italy albums... I've owned them for years but never gave them the attention they deserve... trying to catch up now... Kudos to Irwin Chusid and Cosmic Myth Records for another fine Sun Ra release... Strange Strings is as strange as ever... I especially like the unreleased material... my only quibble: putting "Worlds Approaching" in stereo means you're missing the Bugs Hunter reverb effects, which are only on the mono version and are especially strong in John Gilmore's solo... definitely worth tracking down the mono version...
Playlist 2024-10-21:
*[Ahmed]: Giant Beauty (disc 3)
*Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: 1965-06-11 NYC (CDR)
*Anthony Braxton Saxophone Quartet: Sax QT (Lorraine) 2022 (discs 1, 2, 3, 4)
*Peter Brötzmann Octet: The Complete Machine Gun Sessions "Machine Gun Live"
*James Brown: Live at the Apollo (Vol. 2) (sides 2, 3)
*Rodger Coleman and Sam Byrd: 2015-05-14 Nashville (wav) track 4
*Miles Davis: Bitches Brew (SACD) "Spanish Key"
*Bill Dixon: Bill Dixon in Italy, Vol. 2 (side 1)
*Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited (side 1)
*Bob Dylan: 1965-07-25 Newport Folk Festival (CDR)
*Bob Dylan: Blood on the Tracks
*Duke Ellington: The Complete 1936-1940 Variety, Vocalion, and Okeh Small Group Sessions (disc 3)
*Duke Ellington: The Private Collection, Vol. 2: Dance Concerts, California, 1958
*Everly Brothers: The Very Best of the Cadence Era
*Lee Hazlewood: Requiem for an Almost Lady
*Joe Henderson: The Milestone Years (disc 7)
*Dave Holland: Prism
*Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey: Brink
*Layers of Memory: 2019-12-07 RVA (wav)"Improvisation No. 4"
*Medeski Martin and Wood: The Dropper
*Charlie Parker: Live and Private Recordings in Chronological Order (disc 10)
*Rolling Stones: Aftermath (Expanded mono ed.)
*Wadada Leo Smith & Roscoe Mitchell Creative Orchestra: 1979-06-03 Moers "track 3"
*Soft Machine: 1967-11-10 London (CDR) (disc 1)
*Soft Machine: 1969 Patasoft Demo & Other Rare
*Tyshawn Sorey: Alloy "Movement"
*Tyshawn Sorey: The Off-Off Broadway Guide to Synergism (disc 3)
*Sparks: Live at the Record Plant 1974 (side 1)
*Sun Ra: Saturn Research: Rarities and Oddities (CDR compilation) (disc 3)
*Sun Ra and His Astro Infinity Arkestra: Strange Strings (Expanded Edition) (sides 1, 2, 3, 4)
*Sun Ra and His Astro-Infinity Arkestra: Other Strange Worlds
*Sun Ra and His All-Star Inventions: 1991-11-15 NYC (CDR) (discs 1, 2)
*Tarbaby: Fanon
*Cecil Taylor Orchestra of Two Continents: 1984-10-20 Rubigen, Switzerland (CDR) (disc 2)
*Cecil Taylor: 2016-04-14 Whitney Museum, NYC (CDR) (disc 1)
*Various artists: Tenor Sax Battle 1982-07-18 Den Haag (CDR)
*Various artists: Subradar Sampler #01
*Anna Webber: Shimmer Wince
*Lester Young Trio: Lester Young Trio
*John Zorn/Simulacrum: Nostradamus: The Death of Satan
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