Monday, May 4, 2026

Playlist, Week of 2026-05-03


Still absorbing and getting new insights from Deerhoof's Miracle-Level and Ingrid Laubrock's Serpentines... Prog rocks gotten off: Passion Play and Tarkus... Overall I have preferred the 1974 "Dark Stars" to the 1973 ones... I am almost at the end of the fantastic run of Bill Kreutzmann-only versions... Slowly working my way through the epic Sun Ra Detroit run of December 1980...

Playlist 2026-05-04:

*Art Ensemble of Chicago: 1977-07-29 NYC (CDR) (discs 2, 3)
*Béla Bartók: 6 String Quartets (Emerson String Quartet) (disc 1)
*Borderlands Trio: Asteroidea "Borderlands"
*Anthony Braxton: Quartet (England) 1985 (disc 4)
*Nels Cline: Dirty Baby (disc 1)
*John Coltrane: Transition
*John Coltrane: First Meditations (For Quartet) (sides 1, 2)
*John Coltrane: A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle
*Miles Davis & Gil Evans: The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings (disc 2)
*Miles Davis: The Columbia Years 1955-1985 (disc 1)
*Deerhoof: Miracle-Level (side 1)
*Duke Ellington: The Complete 1932-1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 9)
*Duke Ellington: Duke 56/62 Vol. 1 (sides 3, 4)
*Duke Ellington: The Private Collection: Vol. 10, Studio Sessions New York & Chicago 1965, 1966, 1971 "Harlem"
*Emerson Lake and Palmer: The Atlantic Years (disc 1) "Tarkus"
*Flying Sutra with Ayumi Ishito: Out Beyond Orbit
*Grateful Dead: Dick's Picks 12 (1974-06-28 Boston) (disc 3) "Weather Report Suite > Jam> U.S. Blues"
*Grateful Dead: 1974-07-25 Chicago (CDR) (disc 2) "Dark Star"
*Grateful Dead: Dick's Picks 7 (1974-09-10 London) (disc 3) "Dark Star"
*Grateful Dead: 1978-04-11 Atlanta (CDR) (disc 1)
*Guru Guru: UFO
*Jimi Hendrix: Hendrix in the West
*Charles Ives: Symphonies No. 1 & 4 (Michael Tilson Thomas)
*Jethro Tull: A Passion Play
*Kinks: The Journey: Part 2 (side 1)
*Steve Lacy/Andrea Centazzo: Tao
*Ingrid Laubrock: Serpentines
*Lightning Bolt: The Horizon Viral
*Allen Lowe: Jews and Roots: An Avant-Garde of Our Own (discs 7, 8)
*Charles Mingus: Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (disc 2)
*New Ting: 2025-10-20 "Tethered Dream" (wav)
*OOIOO: The Horizon Spiral
*Keith Rowe/John Tilbury: E.E. Tension and Circumstance
*Todd Rundgren: Healing
*Fie Schouten: Open Space
*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: Supersonic Jazz (21st Century Expanded Ed.) (side 1)
*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: Sound of Joy
*Sun Ra: The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra (sides 1, 2)
*Sun Ra and His Omniverse Jet-Set Arkestra: 1980-12-28 Detroit (CDR) (discs 3, 4)
*Cecil Taylor Big Band: 1995-07-03 NYC (CDR) (disc 1) track 1
*UYA: 1994-12-07 Frosty the Newt
*Yes: Tales from Topographic Oceans (Super Deluxe Ed.) (discs 11, 12)

Reading List, Week of 2026-05-03

Reading List 2026-05-04:

*King, Stephen, and Peter Straub. Black House (reread/started)
*King, Stephen, and Peter Straub. The Talisman (reread/finished)
*Garner, Bryan A. Modern American Usage, 2nd ed. (in progress)
*Munday, Anthony et al. Sir Thomas More (Arden Shakespeare 3rd series, ed. John Jowett) (in progress)