Easy to Accept

The radio was on from beyond a wall and the sound was coming in through static. The Beatles were singing, "Do You Want to Know a Secret." They were so easy to accept, so solid. (Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Vol. 1, Simon & Schuster 2004, p. 204)

 

Dylan on Cecil Taylor

Of course I shouldn't have been surprised, but still it was nice to see...

It was mostly a jazz coffeehouse where Cecil Taylor played a lot. I played there with Cecil once. We played "The Water Is Wide," the old folk song. Cecil could play regular piano if he wanted to. (Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Vol. 1, Simon & Schuster 2004, p. 74)

 

Playlist, Week of 2025-01-05

Had a nice listening session last night, starting off with Hatfield and the North's first album, with Geoff Leigh's sax work on "Rifferama" leading me to Henry Cow's first record, and from both of them, back to Zappa's Uncle Meat... you can make a direct connection between "Son of 'There's No Place Like Homerton'" and "The Legend of the Golden Arches"...

Playlist 2025-01-06:

*B-52s: Cosmic Thing

*Johann Sebastian Bach: Concertos for Piano And Orchestra Nos. 1–5 & 7 (Gould/Bernstein) (disc 1)

*Beatles: The Early Beatles (mono 2024) (sides 1, 2)

*Beatles: The Beatles' Second Album (mono 2024) (sides 1, 2)

*Beatles: Something New (mono 2024) (sides 1, 2)

*Blood Incantation: Absolute Elsewhere

*Borderlands Trio: Rewilder (disc 2)

*Anthony Braxton with the Creative Jazz Orchestra: Composition No. 175, Composition No. 126 Trillium-Dialogues M (disc 1)

*Clash: London Calling

*Rosemary Clooney and Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Blue Rose

*Rodger Coleman and Sam Byrd: 2015-05-14 Nashville (wav) track 3

*Marilyn Crispell: Live at Mills College, 1995

*Miles Davis Quintet: Live in Europe 1967: The Bootleg Series Vol. 1 (disc 1)

*Miles Davis: The Cellar Door Sessions 1970 (disc 4) "Inamorata"

*Bob Dylan: Biograph (disc 3)

*Bob Dylan/Various artists: Theme Time Radio Hour S01 E17 "Friends and Neighbours"

*Duke Ellington: The Great Ellington Units

*Duke Ellington: All American in Jazz

*Farmers By Nature: Out of This World's Distortions

*Grateful Dead: Hundred Year Hall (1972-04-26 Frankfurt) (disc 2) "The Other One"

*Grateful Dead: Road Trips Vol. 4 No. 3 (1973-12-06 Cleveland) (bonus disc) "Dark Star"

*Milford Graves: Stories

*Mary Halvorson: Code Girl (disc 2)

*Herbie Hancock: The Prisoner

*Hatfield and the North: Hatfield and the North (side 1)

*Henry Cow: Leg End (Cow Box Redux)

*Billie Holiday: The Legacy (1933-1958) (disc 2)

*Bobby Hutcherson: Classic Bobby Hutcherson Blue Note Sessions 1963-1970 (discs 2, 3)

*Ravi Shankar: India's Master Musician "Morning Raag"

*Matt Mitchell: Vista Accumulation (disc 2)

*Matt Mitchell/Kate Gentile: Snark Horse (disc 1)

*OOIOO: Kila Kila Kila

*Tony Oxley/Derek Bailey: The Advocate

*Annette Peacock: 4 Emilia-Romagna W/LV

*Pere Ubu: Live at the Longhorn April 1, 1978 (sides 1, 2)

*Polyorchard: Ink (disc 1)

*Rascals: Peaceful World

*Elliott Sharp/Sally Gates/Tashi Dorji: Ere Guitar

*Tyshawn Sorey Trio: The Susceptible Now

*Sparks: Terminal Jive (sides 1, 2)

*Sun Ra: Kingdom of Discipline (side 2)

*Sun Ra: Lights on a Satellite: Live at the Left Bank (sides 2, 3, 4)

*Sun Ra Arkestra: Live At Pit-Inn Tokyo, Japan, 8, 8, 1988 (side 2)

*Cecil Taylor: The World of Cecil Taylor

*Cecil Taylor: Air

*Cecil Taylor: Garden (disc 1)

*McCoy Tyner/Joe Henderson: Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (disc 1)

*UYA: 1993-02-09 Water Damage (wav)

*Webber/Morris Big Band: Both Are True

*Frank Zappa: Uncle Meat (disc 1)

*John Zorn/Chaos Magick: 444

Reading List, Week of 2025-01-05

I thought I had done with Miss MacIntosh , My Darling for a while, but then I found out about this reading group, and damn if I haven't started it again... 

Reading List 2024-01-06:

*Harrow, Alix E. The Once and Future Witches (started)
*Young, Marguerite. Miss MacIntosh, My Darling (reread/started)
*Robey, Tim. Box Office Poison: Hollywood's Story in a Century of Flops (finished)
*Shakespeare, William. Macbeth (Arden 3rd ed., ed. Sandra Clark, Pamela Mason) (reread/finished)
*Dylan, Bob. The Philosophy of Modern Song (in progress)
*Mendelson, Cheryl. Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House (in progress)