The new album from Deerhoof, Noble and Godlike in Ruin, is a gas... easily the strongest release they've had since the live-in-the-studio Devil Kids... this album finds them as progressive, strong, and playful as ever, and it ends with a four-minute section of totally out playing that I knew they've always had in them... Revisiting Sly and the Family Stone's Small Talk, I found a lot more to like than I had previously absorbed... some great grooves there... Warmer weather gets me feeling funky, but damn: between Duke Ellington and Sun Ra, I don't know... this new Nuits box set has me humming... more on that at some point... still trying to come to terms with "Princess Blue"... And the "Dark Star" listening journey continues... still waiting for the cowbell and guiro to go away!
Playlist 2025-05-19:
*Marshall Allen: 2009-07-06 London (CDR)
*Art Bears: Revisited (disc 1)
*Art Ensemble of Chicago: Non-Cognitive Aspects of the City: Live at Iridium (disc 1) "On the Mountain"
*Chet Baker: My Funny Valentine
*Tim Berne's Snakeoil: The Deceptive 4 (Live) (disc 1) "Deception"
*Tim Berne/Tom Rainey/Gregg Belisle-Chi: Yikes Too (disc 2)
*Paul Bley Quintet: Barrage
*Anthony Braxton: 12 Comp (ZIM) 2017 (Comp. 411)
*John Butcher/Eddie Prévost: Interworks
*Frédéric Chopin: Favourite Piano Works (Vladimir Ashkenazy) (disc 2)
*Nels Cline: Consentrik Quartet
*Miles Davis: Kind of Blue (side 1)
*Miles Davis: In Concert (side 4)
*Miles Davis Septet: 1974-01-26 Willimantic, CT (CDR) (disc 1)
*Deerhoof: Noble and Godlike in Ruin
*Dietrichs: No Bahdu
*Bob Dylan: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack (disc 2)
*Bob Dylan/Various artists: Theme Time Radio Hour S01 E37 "Musical Instruments"
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Live at Newport 1958 (disc 1) "Princess Blue"
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Newport 1958 "Princess Blue"
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Festival Session (side 2)
*Duke Ellington: Piano in the Foreground
*Duke Ellington: The Girl's Suite/The Perfume Suite "The Girl's Suite"
*Duke Ellington and Count Basie: First Time! The Count Meets the Duke
*Duke Ellington/Ray Brown: This One's for Blanton
*Grateful Dead: 1969-06-21 Fillmore East, NYC (CDR) "Dark Star"
*Grateful Dead: 1969-06-22 Central Park, NYC (CDR) "Dark Star > The Other One"
*Grateful Dead: 1969-06-27 Santa Rosa CA (CDR) "Dark Star"
*Grateful Dead: 1969-07-05 Chicago (CDR) "Dark Star"
*Grateful Dead: 1969-07-07 Atlanta (CDR) "Dark Star"
*Grateful Dead: 1969-07-12 Queens, NY (CDR) "Dark Star"
*Hallowed Plant: The Hallowed Plant
*Andrew Hill Sextet Plus 10: A Beautiful Day, Revisited (disc 1)
*Allen Lowe and the Constant Sorrow Orchestra: Louis Armstrong's America, Vol. 1 (disc 2)
*Warne Marsh: Music for Prancing
*Ikue Mori: Myrninerest
*Sal Mosca/Warne Marsh Quartet: Volume 1
*Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 21 & 23 (Clifford Curzon/BBC)
*New Ting: 2025-05-12 "Safety First Consignment Auto Sales" (wav)
*Larry Ochs/Nels Cline/Gerald Cleaver: What Is to Be Done "Shimmer Intend Spark Groove Defend"
*Mario Pavone/Dialect Trio +1: Blue Vertical
*Phantom Orchard: Hit Parade of Tears
*Tito Puente: Tito Puente (CDR compilation)
*Sly and the Family Stone: Small Talk
*Sparks: The Rest of Sparks (side 1)
*Sun Ra and His Inter-Galactic Research Arkestra: Nuits de la Fondation Maeght, Vol. 1 "Shadow World"
*Sun Ra and His Inter-Galactic Research Arkestra: Nuits de la Fondation Maeght (sides 1, 2, 3, 4)
*Sun Ra: Calling Planet Earth
*Sun Ra: Other Shades (CDR compilation)
*Cecil Taylor: Unit Structures "Unit Structure/As of a Now/Section"
*Ululating Mummies: 1987-07-25 New Horizons, Richmond VA (CDR)
*UYA: 1993-10-27 Exodus Determination Button (wav)
*Various artists: Really the Blues? A Blues History 1893-1959 Vol. 1 (1893-1929) (discs 1, 2)
*Frank Zappa: Apostrophe (50th Anniversary Ed.) (disc 4)
*John Zorn/Brian Marsella Trio: Ou Phrontis
