Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Playlist, Week of 2025-06-29

 

Impossible to keep up with Ivo Perelman, but I am always impressed with everything he puts out... Water Music is exceptional not only for Matthew Shipp's piano playing, but also for Tom Rainey's inevitably invaluable support... I am starting to get tired of what is known as the "Feelin' Groovy" jam portions of "Dark Star"... it just feels too peppy for that composition... but I know they did it a lot, so I am steeling myself... Except for some compilation cuts, I somehow had never gotten around to absorbing Al Green's The Belle Album... my loss... 

Playlist 2025-06-30:

*Art Bears: Revisited (disc 1)
*Beatles: Live in Essen 1966 (CDR)
*Jeff Beck Group: 1972-06-29 London (CDR)
*Anthony Braxton: Willisau (Quartet) 1991 (disc 2) "No. 23C + 32 + 105B (+ 30)"
*Anthony Braxton: Composition No. 174
*Anthony Braxton: Solo (NYC) 2002
*Anthony Braxton: 10+1tet (Knoxville) 2016
*Patsy Cline: Imagine That: The Lost Recordings 1954-1963 (disc 2)
*Rodger Coleman: Seven Seventeen
*Rodger Coleman/Sam Byrd: Imaginary Vinyl
*Rodger Coleman and Sam Byrd: 2022-11-26 Nashville (wav)
*Rodger Coleman and Sam Byrd: 2023-07-17 Nashville (wav)
*Deerhoof: Noble and Godlike in Ruin
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: The Works of Duke: Integrale Vol. 16 (sides 1, 2)
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: 1959-10-09 Zurich (CDR)
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: A Drum Is a Woman
*Duke Ellington: Anatomy of a Murder
*Duke Ellington and His Award Winners: Blues in Orbit (side 1)
*Duke Ellington: Money Jungle
*Duke Ellington: The Reprise Studio Recordings (disc 1)
*Duke Ellington Octet: 1964-03-22 Sanremo Jazz Festival (CDR)
*Grateful Dead: 1969-12-04 San Francisco (CDR) "Dark Star"
*Grateful Dead: 1969-12-11 Los Angeles (CDR) "Dark Star"
*Al Green: The Belle Album
*Alexander Hawkins Ensemble: No Now Is So
*Led Zeppelin: How the West Was Won (disc 3)
*Joe Maneri Trio: The Trio Concerts (disc 1)
*Metaphysical Animation: Metaphysical Animation
*Muffins: Baker's Dozen (disc 5)
*Ivo Perelman Quartet: Water Music
*Sparks: Big Beat (sides 1, 2)
*Sparks: The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte
*Sparks: MAD! (sides 1, 2)
*Steely Dan: Pretzel Logic
*Sun Ra and His Myth Science Arkestra: Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy
*Sun Ra and His Astro Infinity Arkestra: Atlantis
*Sun Ra: Nuits de la Fondation Maeght (discs 1, 2, 3, 4)
*Sun Ra: Dance of Innocent Passion
*Sun Ra: Excelsior Mill
*Sun Ra: Ellingtonia, Vol. 2
*Cecil Taylor: 1984-11-01 Paris (CD) "Womb Waters Scent of the Burning Armadillo Shell"
*McCoy Tyner/Joe Henderson: Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (disc 1)
*Various artists: Really the Blues? A Blues History 1893-1959 Vol. 1 (1893-1929) (disc 7)
*Various artists: Tazz
*Muddy Waters: The Anthology (disc 2) 
*Weird of Mouth: Weird of Mouth
*John Zorn: Dictée/Liber Novus

Reading List, Week of 2025-06-29

Reading list 2025-06-30:

*Dickens, Charles. Oliver Twist (started)
*Herriman, George. Krazy Kat (reread/finished)
*Leslie, Ian. John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs (finished)
*Shakespeare, William. Othello (Arden 2nd ed., ed. M.R. Ridley) (reread/finished)
*Lambert, Eddie. Duke Ellington: A Listener's Guide (reread/selections)