Playlist, Week of 2026-08-09

 

Secret Life of Plants is sadly underrated... unavoidable, really, coming as it did right after Songs in the Key of Life... I just love it.... Hardcore sax excitement from Mars Williams on Boneshaker's Unusual Words... Blues in Orbit is one of Ellington's best '60s albums... 

Playlist 2026-08-10:

*Boneshaker: Unusual Words
*Anthony Braxton: 9 Compositions (Iridium) 2006 (selections)
*Bass/Jaime/Isasti: Vi La Pampa Arder
*James Brown: The Payback
*Miles Davis: Filles de Kilimanjaro
*Miles Davis: The Cellar Door Sessions 1970 (disc 3) "What I Say"
*Deerhoof: Custom Made
*Jack DeJohnette/Made in Chicago: 2015-07-11 Rotterdam (CDR) track 5
*Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra: The Ellington Era, Vol. 1: 1927-1940 (side 2)
*Duke Ellington and His Award Winners: Blues in Orbit (sides 1, 2)
*Fire! Orchestra: Arrival 
*Merzbow: Tauromachine (disc 2)
*Monstrance: Monstrance (disc 1)
*Eva Novoa: The Freedom Suite
*Ochibo No Ame: Studio Recording
*Maurice Ravel: Bolero (Lorin Maazel/Orchestre National de France)
*Ravi Shankar: Three Ragas
*Sun Ra and His Intergalactic Research Arkestra: Paradiso Amsterdam 1970 (side 3)
*Sun Ra: East Two + 7
*Sun Ra and His Omniverse Jet-Set Arkestra: 1980-12-31 Detroit (CDR) (disc 6)
*Cecil Taylor Unit: 1966-10-16 Stuttgart (CDR) (disc 1)
*Cecil Taylor Orchestra Humane: At Iridium 2004 (disc 12)
*UYA: Space Chunk (CDR compilation)
*Various artists: Stax Singles Vol. 4: Rarities and the Best of the Rest (disc 1)
*Mal Waldron: The Call (side 1)
*Kenny Wheeler: Deer Wan (side 1)
*Stevie Wonder: Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants (discs 1, 2)

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