Playlist, Week of 2026-06-21

 [Ahmed] continues to kick my butt and engage my brain... The newest Zorn/Brian Marsella Trio strikes me as more of the same, but the same is so, so good... Love the strings on the one side of the Andrew Hill two-record set One for One... I wish he had explored those textures more... I have tbr (to be read) piles, but I also have tlt (to listen to) piles, and mine are constantly growing faster than time allows to work through them... 

Playlist 2026-06-22:

*[Ahmed]: Play Monk (disc 2)
*Art Ensemble of Chicago: 1978-03-10 NYC (CDR) (disc 1)
*Beatles: Please Please Me (2009 mono remaster)
*Beatles: Hard Day's Night (2009 mono remaster)
*Beatles: Help! (2009 mono remaster)
*Beatles: The Beatles (2009 mono remaster)
*Boris: Heavy Rocks
*Anthony Braxton Quartet: 1976-10-28 Graz, Austria (CDR) "Four Winds"
*Tina Brooks: True Blue
*Sam Byrd/Jimmy Ghaphery/Eric Helm: 2026-06-13 Richmond VA (CDR)
*Byrds: The Essential Byrds (disc 1)
*John Coltrane: The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings (disc 3) "Chasin' the Trane"
*John Coltrane: Coltrane (side 1)
*Cream: Wheels of Fire (Super Deluxe Ed.) (disc 1)
*Miles Davis: Someday My Prince Will Come (side 1)
*Duke Ellington: Money Jungle
*Duke Ellington: The Afro-Eurasian Eclipse
*Entropic Hop: Live at Downtown Music Gallery
*Fire! Orchestra: Exit!
*Grateful Dead: Hundred Year Hall (1972-04-26 Frankfurt) (disc 2) "The Other One"
*Grateful Dead: 1991-06-22 Chicago (CDR) "Dark Star"
*Grateful Dead: 1991-08-16 Mountain View CA (CDR) "Dark Star"
*Grateful Dead: 1991-09-10 NYC (CDR) "Dark Star"
*Joe Henderson: Consonance: Live at the Jazz Showcase (disc 2)
*Andrew Hill: One for One (side 2)
*Neil Jendon/Mark Nagy: Cardew/Treatise, Vol. 4: Pages 76-100
*Fela Kuti: Roforofo Fight
*Ingrid Laubrock: Contemporary Chaos Practices
*Charles Mingus: Fables of Faubus: Slugs' Vol. 2
*National Health: Missing Pieces
*New Ting: 2026-06-08 "Carry This" (wav)
*Ivo Perelman: The Art of the Improv Trio, Vol. 6
*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: Jazz in Silhouette (Expanded Edition) (side 3)
*Sun Ra Arkestra: Live at the Red Garter (disc 1)
*Sun Ra: East Two + 7
*Sun Ra and His Omniverse Jet-Set Arkestra: 1980-12-30 Detroit (CDR) (discs 1, 2)
*Craig Taborn: Light Made Lighter
*Umlaut Big Band: Mary's Ideas (disc 2)
*UYA: 1995-02-01 Wet Smoke (wav)
*UYA: Space Chunk (CDR compilation)
*Various artists: A Bolus of Pop Chyme/7-Inchers of Pleasure (cassette compilation) (side A)
*Alex Ward Item 10: Volition (Live At Cafe Oto) "Entreaty"
*XTC: Live Boots: Emerald City, Cherry Hill, New Jersey 17th April 1981 (side 3)
*John Zorn/Brian Marsella Trio: Alea Iacta Est

Playlist, Week of 2022-03-06

 

Love the Andrew Hill sides with the string quartet… it adds an extra dimension to an already rich and intoxicating music… While much of Henry Threadgill's early Zooid performances left me a bit cold (or rather, indifferent), I am really enjoying his last four or five studio recordings…. The Wayne Shorter quartet shows of the 2000s are endlessly fascinating… As much as I enjoy Miles Davis's late live shows (post-1981), I just can't get behind the dated and cheesy keyboard sounds… 

Playlist 2022-03-07:

*Muhal Richard Abrams: SoundDance (disc 1)

*Art Bears: Hopes and Fears

*Albert Ayler: Holy Ghost (disc 4)

*Beatles: Help! (2009 stereo remaster) (sides 1, 2)

*Lester Bowie: Fast Last! (side 1)

*Anthony Braxton: Creative Orchestra (Köln) 1978 (selections)

*Anthony Braxton: 12 Comp (ZIM) 2017 (Comp. 412)

*Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet: Asphalt Flowers Forking Paths

*Ornette Coleman: Sound Museum - Three Women

*Curlew: Live in Berlin

*Miles Davis: Big Fun (side 1)

*Miles Davis: 1987-09-27 Boston (CDR) (disc 1)

*Duke Ellington: Duke Ellington 1938 (sides 1, 2, 3, 4)

*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Berlin 1959 (discs 1, 2)

*Duke Ellington: The Feeling of Jazz

*Amir Elsaffar/Rivers of Sound: The Other Shore

*Stan Getz: The Complete Roost Recordings (disc 3)

*Globe Unity Orchestra: Globe Unity ‘67 & ‘70 "Globe Unity '70"

*Jimi Hendrix Experience: An Evening with the Jimi Hendrix Experience (disc 1)

*Henry Cow: Stockholm & Göteborg (Cow Box Redux)

*Andrew Hill: One for One (side 2)

*Andrew Hill-Joe Henderson Quartet: 1988-03-25 Paris (CDR) (disc 2)

*Andrew Hill Quintet: 2006-10-29 San Francisco (CDR)

*Mars Volta: Frances the Mute (side 1)

*Roscoe Mitchell/Montreal-Toronto Art Orchestra: Ride the Wind

*Hank Mobley: The Complete Hank Mobley Blue Note Sessions 1963-70 (disc 8)

*Robert Pollard: Faulty Superheroes

*Max Roach + Dizzy Gillespie: Paris 1989 (disc 2)

*Sonny Rollins: This Is What I Do

*Sara Schoenbeck: Sara Schoenbeck

*Matthew Shipp/Roscoe Mitchell: 2-Z

*Wayne Shorter: 2006-07-11 Umbria, Italy (CDR)

*Wadada Leo Smith: The Great Lakes Suite (disc 1)

*Sparks: Propaganda (side 1)

*Sparks: Indiscreet (sides 1, 2)

*Sparks: The Rest of Sparks (sides 1, 2)

*Sun Ra: The Eternal Myth Revealed, Vol. 1 (disc 8)

*Sun Ra: The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume 2 "The Sun Myth"

*Sun Ra: The Other Side of the Sun (side 2)

*Cecil Taylor: The Willisau Concert

*Lewis Taylor: Lewis Taylor

*Lewis Taylor: Lewis II

*Lewis Taylor: Stoned- Part I

*Lewis Taylor: Stoned - Part II

*Lewis Taylor: Limited Edition 2004

*Lewis Taylor:  More Lewis Taylor (CDR compilation)

*Tad Thaddock: Enigma Waffles

*Henry Threadgill Zooid: Tomorrow Sunny/The Revelry, Spp

*Lennie Tristano: Lennie Tristano

*Lennie Tristano: The New Tristano

*Weather Report: Weather Report (sides 1, 2)

Playlist, Week of 2017-02-12

Damn, but Andrew Hill is brilliant. Doesn't hurt that he's got John Gilmore on two albums here, playing at his absolute best outside the Arkestra. There's also Point of Departure. Damn.

Playlist 2017-02-13:

*Shostakovich: The String Quartets (Emerson String Quartet) (disc 3)
*Tim Berne: Science Friction
*Anthony Braxton: 9 Compositions (Iridium) 2006 (disc 1)
*Anthony Braxton: Trillium J (disc 3)
*Rodger Coleman and Sam Byrd: 2015-05-15 Centennial Park Black Box Theater, Nashville (mp3)
*Rodger Coleman & Sam Byrd: 2016-12-28 Nashville (wav) (selections)
*Kris Davis: Duopoly
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: The Treasury Shows, Vol. 15 (disc 2)
*Duke Ellington: The Reprise Studio Recordings (disc 1)
*Andrew Hill: The Complete Blue Note Andrew Hill Sessions (1963-66) (disc 4)
*RAIC: 2017-02-01  "Balance of the Three" Richmond VA (mp3)
*RAIC: 2017-02-03 "Balance of the Three" WRIR Party, Renaissance Ballroom, RVA (mp3)
*Tom Rainey Trio: 2016-07-01 NYC (CDR)
*Manfred Schoof Sextett: Manfred Schoof Sextett
*Wadada Leo Smith: The Great Lakes Suite (disc 2)
*Sun Ra and His Intergalactic Research Arkestra: Planets of Life or Death, Amiens '73
*Various artists: 3 Nights at Cafe Oto (disc 1)
*Nate Wooley: Battle Pieces
*Serenus Zeitblom Oktett with Ingrid Laubrock: 2016-09-06 Sardinia, Italy (CDR)
*David Crosby: If I Could Only Remember My Name
*Deerhoof: The Magic
*Flaming Lips: Oczy Mlody
*Grateful Dead: Anthem of the Sun
*Grateful Dead: American Beauty
*Hatfield and the North with Robert Wyatt: 1973-01-02 Paris (CDR)
*Listening Woman: Getting Mystic
*Microdisney: The Clock Comes Down the Stairs
*Stock, Hausen, & Walkman: Oh My Bag!
*Stock, Hausen, & Walkman: Ventilating Deer
*Various artists: Take Me to the River: A Southern Soul Story 1961-1977 (disc 1)
*Various artists: WSAM: Hour of Power (CDR compilation)
*Stevie Wonder: Songs in the Key of Life (selections)
*Yes: Tales from Topographic Oceans (2016 stereo instrumental mixes) (sides 1-4)