Playlist, week of 2025-10-07

Even after all these years of living with this album, I continue to be knocked out by Stevie Wonder's drumming... I am enjoying going back and exploring the early soul of Lewis Taylor... In "Dark Star" land, I am finally moving out of the güiro era and into Keith Godchaux territory... now things will really get serious... Prog props for Egg's second LP The Polite Force... I am digging this now way more than I did when I first got it way back when... The title track of Sun Ra's Space Probe is one of his finest sonic explorations... 

Playlist 2025-10-06:

*Adorables: The Adorables
*Beatles: Sgt. Peppers Lonely Heart Club Band (2009 stereo remaster) (side 2)
*Beau Hunks/Metropole Orchestra: LeRoy Shield's Our Relations (The Lost Laurel & Hardy Music)
*John Blum: Nine Rivers
*Booker T. & the MGs: Time Is Tight (disc 1)
*Anthony Braxton: Five Pieces 1975 (side 2)
*Anthony Braxton: 4 (Ensemble) Compositions 1992 "Comp. 100"
*Nels Cline: Consentrik Quartet
*John Coltrane: The Other Village Vanguard Tapes (side 1)
*Deerhoof: Surprise Symphonies
*Egg: The Polite Force
*Duke Ellington: Afro-Bossa
*Duke Ellington: Ellington '66 (side 2)
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Concert in the Virgin Islands (side 2)
*Grateful Dead: 1971-02-18 Port Chester, NY (CDR) "Dark Star > Wharf Rat > Dark Star"
*Grateful Dead: 1971-02-20 Port Chester, NY (Enjoying the Ride, disc 6)
*Grateful Dead: 1971-04-08 Boston (CDR) "Dark Star"
*Grateful Dead: 1971-04-26 Fillmore East, NYC (CDR) "Dark Star"
*Grateful Dead: 1971-04-28 Fillmore East, NYC (CDR) "Dark Star"
*George Harrison: Wonderwall Music
*Joe Henderson: The Standard Joe
*Hugh Hopper/Kramer: A Remark Hugh Made
*Vijay Iyer: Compassion
*Makoto Kawashima: Arteria
*Joachim Kühn: Échappée (disc 2)
*Led Zeppelin: Live EP
*Jackie McLean: Right Now! (side 1)
*Myra Melford's Fire and Water Quintet: 2024-03-23 Knoxville TN (CDR)
*Ikue Mori: Labyrinth
*Prince: Blast from the Past 6.0 (excerpts)
*Elliott Sharp/Zeena Parkins: Psycho-Acoustic
*Sonic Liberation Front: Jetway Confidential
*Tyshawn Sorey/Kirsten Carey: Vociferously Yours "The Cruelest Goodbye"
*Sun Ra: Jazz by Sun Ra, Vol. 1 [Sun Song] (side 2)
*Sun Ra: Space Probe
*Sun Ra and His Inter-Galactic Research Arkestra: Nuits de la Fondation Maeght (side 8)
*Sun Ra: Kingdom of Discipline (side 2)
*Sun Ra: Stray Voltage (side 2)
*Sun Ra: Uncharted Passages (side 1)
*Cecil Taylor: Unit Structures (side 1)
*Cecil Taylor Unit: Live in Vienna
*Lewis Taylor: Lewis Taylor
*Lewis Taylor: The Lost Album
*Lewis Taylor: Limited Edition 2004
*McCoy Tyner: The Real McCoy (side 1)
*UYA: 1994-01-30 Up to 800 (wav)
*UYA: 1994-02-13 Streaks of Extrusion (wav)
*Various artists: Stax Revue: Live in '65! (disc 2)
*Various artists: The Songs Lennon and McCartney Gave Away
*Various artists: Treader Duos
*Weather Report: 1976-05-27 Seattle (CDR)
*Stevie Wonder: Music of My Mind

Playlist, Week of 2019-11-17

Been on a bit of a Lewis Taylor kick lately... I am particularly quite taken with The Lost Album, with its Todd Rundgren/Beach Boys grandeur and its combination of neo-soul, '70s rock, and sweeping prog guitar... Digging through a lot of recent New Ting improvisations for a possible cassette release... Beautiful, relatively quiet (for him) playing by Mats Gusatsson on A Quietness of Water... Ingrid Laubrock and Tom Rainey always sound great in a quartet setting... There's not much that's cooler than the Duke Ellington version of "All My Loving"... Entire sound universes are contained within the 9-CD Iridium Anthony Braxton box set... as much as I've listened to it over the last 12 years, I feel like I've barely scratched the surface... infinitely rewarding, continually self-renewing, always inspiring...

Playlist 2019-11-18:

*"A" Trio & AMM: AAMM
*Marshall Allen/Danny Ray Thompson/Jamie Saft/Trevor Dunn/Balazs Pandi/Roswell Rudd: Ceremonial Healing
*Anthony Braxton: 9 Compositions (Iridium) 2006 (selections)
*Peter Brötzmann/Heather Leigh: Sparrow Nights
*Taylor Ho Bynum 9-Tette: The Ambiguity Manifesto
*Stephan Crump/Ingrid Laubrock/Cory Smythe: Channels
*Miles Davis: Tribute to Jack Johnson (side 2)
*Paul Dolden: L'Ivresse De La Vitesse (disc 2)
*Duke Ellington: The Reprise Studio Recordings (discs 3, 4)
*Peter Evans/Agusti Fernández/Mats Gustafsson: A Quietness Of Water
*Mary Halvorson Quartet: Paimon (Zorn/Book of Angels Vol. 32)
*Robert Landfermann/Ingrid Laubrock/Achim Kaufmann/Tom Rainey: Topaz
*Large Unit: Erta Ale (disc 1)
*Chris Lightcap: SuperBigmouth
*New Ting: 2019-07-08 "Backhand Volley" (wav)
*New Ting: 2019-07-29 "Tardy But Hardy" (wav)
*New Ting: 2019-09-09 "Peace in Transit" (wav)
*New Ting: 2019-09-16 "Simmertime Lubricity Challenge" (wav)
*New Ting: 2019-09-30 "Emulsify My Desires" (wav)
*New Ting: 2019-10-07 "We All Answered" (wav)
*New Ting: 2019-11-11 "Five-Minute Infinity" (wav)
*Craig Taborn: Junk Magic
*Cecil Taylor: Conquistador! (side 1)
*Cecil Taylor: 1997-10-03 NYC (CDR)
*Tri-Centric Vocal Ensemble: Anthony Braxton's Syntactical Ghost Trance Music : 2019-01-25 Brooklyn (CDR)
*Weather Report: Live in Tokyo
*John Zorn: The Hierophant
*Various artists: History of Electronic/Electroacoustic Music (CDR compilation) (disc 35)
*Dark Carpet: Factory Side
*Gentle Giant: Free Hand
*Grateful Dead: 1973-03-24 Philadelphia (CDR) (disc 3)
*Paul McCartney: Pure McCartney (Deluxe Ed.) (disc 1)
*Thurston Moore: 1997-10-03 NYC (CDR)
*Lewis Taylor: Lewis Taylor
*Lewis Taylor: The Lost Album
*Sheriff Jack: Everybody Twist
*Various artists: Latin Rhythms in Hi Fi
*Various artists: Country & Western Hit Parade 1957: Dim Lights, Thick Smoke, and Hillbilly Music
*Yes: Progeny: Highlights From Seventy-Two (disc 1)