Playlist, Week of 2024-12-29

Tingen and Chambers both rate Pangaea lower than Agharta, but I have to disagree... Agharta may be more energetic overall, but side 1 of Pangaea is as fierce as anything from the afternoon show, and Pete Cosey's solo spots are outstanding... the closest thing we'll ever get to guess at what Jimi Hendrix might have sounded like with Miles... but Cosey is more than just a Hendrix stand-in... he bends sound and incorporates atonal "noise" elements in ways that Hendrix touched on but didn't immerse himself in... not like this... With both Run the Gauntlet and her work with David Holland, Kris Davis is on fire these days... there's always been a strong rhythmic element to her playing that really comes to the fore on Gauntlet... I miss, a bit, the more abstract leanings of some of her earlier work, but I love what she's doing here... well, there's always the Borderlands Trio... would love to hear a return of Paradoxical Frog... 

Playlist 2024-12-30:

*Art Ensemble of Chicago: Urban Bushmen (side 4)
*Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concertos 1–6 (English Chamber Orchestra/B. Britten) (disc 1)
*Beatles: Meet the Beatles! (mono 2024)
*Beatles: Something New (mono 2024) (side 1)
*Beatles: Happy Christmas Beatle People! (The Christmas Records) (side 4)
*Al Bowlly: Greatest Hits
*Anthony Braxton: Willisau (Quartet) 1991 (disc 2) "No. 23C + 32 + 105B (+ 30)"
*Peter Brötzmann/Fred Hopkins/Rashied Ali: Songlines
*Kris Davis Trio: Run the Gauntlet
*Miles Davis: The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings of the Miles Davis Quintet 1965-1968 (disc 6)
*Miles Davis: Pangaea (side 1)
*Bob Dylan/Various artists: Theme Time Radio Hour S01 E15 "Eyes"

*Bob Dylan/Various artists: Theme Time Radio Hour S01 E16 "Dogs"
*Duke Ellington: Dance Date Air Force U.S.A. March 1958 (sides 1, 2)
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Jazz at the Plaza Vol. II (side 2)
*Duke Ellington: His Piano and His Orchestra at the Bal Masque
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Three Suites "The Nutcracker Suite"
*Bobby Hutcherson: Classic Bobby Hutcherson Blue Note Sessions 1963-1970 (disc 1)
*Korekyojinn: Isotope
*Matt Mitchell: Vista Accumulation (disc 1)
*Mozart: The Concertos for Piano & Orchestra (Murray Perahia/English Chamber Orchestra)
*Jon Rose/Mark Dresser: Band Width
*Tyshawn Sorey Trio: The Susceptible Now
*Sparks: Introducing Sparks (sides 1, 2)
*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: Thunder of the Gods (sides 1, 2)
*Sun Ra: Lights on a Satellite: Live at the Left Bank (side 1)
*Sun Ra Arkestra: Live At Pit-Inn Tokyo, Japan, 8, 8, 1988 (side 1)
*Sun Ra Arkestra under the Direction of Marshall Allen: Lights on a Satellite (sides 1, 2)
*Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker: Favorite Excerpts (London Symphony Orchestra)
*UYA: 1993-02-07: Cosmoplasm (side A) (wav)
*Various artists: Santa Swings
*Webber/Morris Big Band: Both Are True
*Brian Wilson: At My Piano