Playlist, Week of 2025-07-27

Quartet (England) 1985, the digital release of 8 sets from Anthony Braxton's tour of the UK in 1985 (I realize I am just basically repeating the information in the title!), is a cause for celebration... this music, 8 CDs' worth, was originally recorded in mono on cassette by Graham Lock, author of the indispensable Forces in Motion, and it's been digitally restored... it sounds just fine... the performances are uniformly stellar, and amazingly there are no repetitions in the material used across the four evenings... this quartet, of course, is one of the absolute greatest jazz groups of any era (or any sub-genre of "jazz," however you define it)...  pianist Marilyn Crispell deserves special mention for superlative playing, but the whole band is playing at peak levels here... 

Playlist 2025-07-28:

*Beatles: Kicks, Kudos, and Cash: The Making of the Silver Beatals (boot CDR) (discs 1, 2)
*Anthony Braxton: 1969-10-25 Paris (CDR) track 1
*Anthony Braxton Quartet: 1976-10-28 Graz, Austria (CDR) track 3
*Anthony Braxton: Quartet (England) 1985 (discs 7, 8)
*Anthony Braxton: Trillium R: Composition 162 - An Opera in Four Acts/Shala Fears for the Poor (disc 3)
*Clash: Sound System Extras (disc 2)
*Elvis Costello and the Attractions: Armed Forces (side 1)
*Miles Davis: Bitches Brew (UltraDisc One-Step) (sides 1, 2)
*Deerhoof: Noble and Godlike in Ruin
*Bob Dylan/Various artists: Theme Time Radio Hour S01 E43 "Colors"
*Duke Ellington: Afro-Bossa
*Duke Ellington: The Great Paris Concert (disc 1)
*Grateful Dead: 1970-02-08 Fillmore West, SF (CDR) "Dark Star"
*Grateful Dead: 1970-02-11 Fillmore East, NYC (CDR) "Dark Star > Spanish Jam"
*Grateful Dead: Dick's Picks 4 (1970-02-13 Fillmore East) (disc 1) "Dark Star"
*Eddie Hazel: Eddie Hazel: Game, Dames, and Guitar Thangs
*Muffins: Baker's Dozen (discs 8, 9)
*New Ting: 2024-07-14 "Magic Duck Feet" (wav)
*New Ting: 2024-07-21 "Red Canister Under Pressure" (wav)
*Sun Ra and His Inter-Galactic Research Arkestra: Nuits de la Fondation Maeght (side 3)
*Sun Ra: Stray Voltage (side 2)
*Sun Ra Arkestra Under the Direction of Marshall Allen: Babylon (disc 1)
*UYA: 1994-01-12 Cut Me, Dippy (wav)
*John Zorn: At the Gates of Paradise
*John Zorn: The Concealed