The most well-known version of "Dark Star" has to be the first one the Grateful Dead released, on Live/Dead... and that really was the best version they'd played (that was recorded, anyway) up to that point... everything comes together... up to then, Bill Kreutzmann had kept himself to half-heartedly playing shakers, with only occasional tentative forays on the drum kit, until 1969-02-22, and that must have felt good, because here, a few days later, he plays the kit forcefully for part of the song, driving Garcia in a different way and adding a new dimension, which to my ears kicks it to the next level... "Dark Star" is becoming more and more of a full-group improvisatory exploration... This week my listening was focused, it seems, on "Dark Star," Duke Ellington, Roscoe Mitchell, Anthony Braxton, and Sun Ra... so what else is new?
Playlist 2025-03-17:
*[Ahmed]: Wood Blues
*[Ahmed]: Giant Beauty (disc 2)
*All Set: All Set
*Johann Sebastian Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier (Glenn Gould) (disc 1)
*Beatles: The Early Beatles (mono 2024) (side 1)
*Blue Notes: Blue Notes for Mongezi (disc 2)
*Hamiet Bluiett: Orchestra, Duo, & Septet (sides 1, 2)
*Anthony Braxton: Ninetet (Yoshi's) 1997, Vol. 3 (disc 2)
*Anthony Braxton Ensemble: 2006-06-10 Kerava, Finland (CDR)
*Anthony Braxton Sextet: 2006-08-12 Lisboa (CDR)
*Anthony Braxton Quartet: Standards (Brussels) 2006 (disc 1)
*Peter Brötzmann Octet: The Complete Machine Gun Sessions "Machine Gun"
*Clear Frame: Clear Frame
*Gerald Cleaver & Violet Hour: Live At Firehouse 12
*John Coltrane: One Down, One Up: Live at the Half Note (disc 1)
*John Coltrane: First Meditations (For Quartet) (side 1)
*Miles Davis: In Person Friday and Saturday Nights at the Blackhawk, Complete (disc 3)
*Miles Davis Quintet: 1967-11-07 Karlsruhe, Germany (CDR)
*Bob Dylan/Various artists: Theme Time Radio Hour S01 E24 "Time"
*Bob Dylan/Various artists: Theme Time Radio Hour S01 E25 "Guns"
*Duke Ellington: The Girls' Suite/The Perfume Suite (side 2)
*Duke Ellington/Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Song Book (disc 3) "Portrait of Ella Fitzgerald"
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Ellington Indigos (sides 1, 2)
*Duke Ellington: His Piano and His Orchestra at the Bal Masque
*Duke Ellington's Spacemen: The Cosmic Scene
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Live at Newport 1958 (discs 1, 2)
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Jazz at the Plaza Vol. II (side 1)
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Ellington Jazz Party in Stereo (side 1)
*Kate Gentile: Mannequins
*George: Leave It (side 2)
*George: Letters to George (side 2)
*Grateful Dead: Fillmore East 2-11-69 (disc 2) "Dark Star"
*Grateful Dead: 1969-02-14 Philadelphia (CDR) "Dark Star"
*Grateful Dead: 1969-02-15 Philadelphia (CDR) "Dark Star"
*Grateful Dead: 1969-02-21 Vellejo, CA (CDR) (disc 1)
*Grateful Dead: 1969-02-22 Vellejo, CA (CDR) "Mountains of the Moon > Dark Star"
*Grateful Dead: Live/Dead "Dark Star"
*Grateful Dead: The Complete Fillmore West 1969 (disc 4) "Dark Star"
*Grateful Dead: The Complete Fillmore West 1969 (disc 7) "Dark Star"
*Mary Halvorson: Reverse Blue
*Billie Holiday: The Complete Billie Holiday on Verve 1945-1959 (disc 1)
*Vijay Iyer: Compassion
*Jefferson Pilot: The Return of Troubled Youth Orchestra
*Jefferson Pilot: Sad Magazine
*Ned Lagin: Seastones (1975 versions)
*Lama + Chris Speed: Lamaçal
*Allen Lowe and the Constant Sorrow Orchestra: Louis Armstrong's America, Vol. 1 (discs 1, 2)
*Jimmie Lunceford: The Complete Jimmie Lunceford Decca Sessions (disc 4)
*Brian Marsella’s iMAGiNARiUM: Mediatas (discs 1, 2)
*Roscoe Mitchell: Songs in the Wind
*Roscoe Mitchell: 2012-03-10 London (CDR)
*Roscoe Mitchell/Brus Trio: After Fallen Leaves
*Roscoe Mitchell and the Note Factory: The Bad Guys
*Thelonious Monk: Piano Solos (side 1)
*Ikue Mori: Class Insecta
*New Ting: 2025-03-03: "Cleaning Out the Corners" (wav)
*NRBQ: Interstellar (side 1)
*Tony Oxley Quintet: The Baptised Traveller
*Zeena Parkins: Dam Against the Spring Tide
*Matana Roberts: Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile
*Matana Roberts: Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the Garden (sides 3, 4)
*Sonny Rollins: Worktime (side 1)
*Otis Rush: 1956-1958 Cobra Recordings
*Secret People: Secret People
*Ravi Shankar: The Sounds of India
*Sun Ra and His Solar Arkestra: Other Planes of There (side 2)
*Sun Ra and His Myth Science Arkestra: When Angels Speak of Love (sides 1, 2)
*Sun Ra: Heliocentric Worlds Vol. 3: The Lost Tapes
*Sun Ra: Spaceways [Outer Spaceways Inc.]
*Sun Ra: Monorails & Satellites: Works for Solo Piano Vols. 1, 2, 3 (disc 3)
*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: Thunder of the Gods (side 1)
*Sun Ra: Egypt 1971 (disc 3)
*Henry Threadgill's Zooid: Pop Start the Tape, StoP
*Mary Lou Williams Trio: Free Spirits
*John Zorn: New Masada Quartet Vol. 3
*John Zorn/Brian Marsella Trio: Ballades
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