Playlist, Week of 2016-10-09

Wasn't there something announced from Irwin Chusid about this being remastered soon without the horrible pressing defect present in all circulating vinyl rips? I hope so, because there's some primo Gilmore on this, especially "What's New?"

Playlist 2016-10-10:

*Muhal Richard Abrams: One Line, Two Views
*Daniel Barbiero/Sam Byrd/Jimmy Ghaphery: 2016-08-27 Rhizome, Washington DC (wav)
*Anthony Braxton Sextet: 2005-11-05 Boston (CDR) (disc 1)
*Dutch Jazz Orchestra: Portrait of a Silk Thread: Newly Discovered Works of Billy Strayhorn
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: The Treasury Shows, Vol. 10 (disc 1)
*Ellery Eskelin: The Secret Museum
*Ingrid Laubrock Anti-House: 2014-09-16 Koln, Germany (CDR)
*Ingrid Laubrock: Ubatuba
*Paradoxical Frog: 2012-09-21 Firehouse 12, New Haven CT (CDR) (disc 1)
*Sonny Rollins: East Broadway Run Down
*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: 1976-08-24 Châteauvallon, France (CDR)
*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: 1976-08-25 Châteauvallon, France (CDR)
*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: 1977-04-17 Smuckers, NYC (CDR) (selections)
*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: Some Blues But Not the Kind That’s Blue
*Sun Ra Arkestra: Unity
*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: Taking a Chance on Chances
*Sun Ra Quartet: New Steps
*Sun Ra Quartet: Other Voices, Other Blues
*Beach Boys: Alternates (disc 2) (CDR compilation)
*Opeth: Watershed

Reading List, Week of 2016-10-09

Reading List 2016-10-10:

*Klosterman, Chuck.  But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past (started)
*Crumb, Aline and R. Drawn Together (in progress)
*Hernandez, Gilbert. Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories (reread/in progress)
*Hernandez, Jaime. Locas (reread/in progress)
*Martin, Judith. Miss Manners' Guide to Domestic Tranquility (in progress)
*Mizumura, Minae. A True Novel (transl. Juliet Winters Carpenter) (in progress)

Mary Halvorson on the influence of Braxton

TC: What is the most important thing you feel you learned from Braxton?
MH: It’s really hard to narrow it down to just one thing! So I might cheat and mention a few things. When I first met Anthony and started taking his classes at age 17, his music inspired me deeply (and it still does today). During those early years as a student he constantly encouraged me to explore, and to get out of my comfort zone. He encouraged mistakes, and encouraged taking risks even if it meant failing. His musical universe is and was so expansive and diverse, and seeing the scope of what he’s done and how he continues to change and evolve is inspiring in itself. He is fearless, and makes no compromises. In my mind, all kinds of boundaries started dissolving. Anthony also taught me to value musical tradition of all kinds, to be open-minded, and to check out absolutely everything. He never qualified one kind of music as “better” than another kind. And maybe most importantly, he gave me the courage to pursue music as a career. When I was 19 and trying to decide if I should become a musician, I really wanted to but just didn’t think I could pull it off. Fortunately, I had Anthony, and my guitar teacher Joe Morris (Joe was the other really important figure during my college years) pushing me to go for it. I needed that. (Troy Collins, Mary Halvorson: Variety and Contrast, Point of Departure, issue 52, 2015)

Photos from Strange Matter Gig

Here are some photos (taken by Jimmy Ghaphery) from New Ting Ting Loft's gig last week at Strange Matter.

Getting ready to play....

Fred in his element:

A closeup of some of Fred's equipment:

Playlist, Week of 2016-10-02

The new Ra Slug's material that recently appeared on Dime is a revelation. Compositions I'd never heard before, plus another astonishing Gilmore solo on "Space Aura"!

Playlist 2016-10-03:

*Muhal Richard Abrams: Vision Towards Essence
*Tim Berne's Snakeoil: You've Been Watching Me
*Anthony Braxton: The Complete Arista Recordings of Anthony Braxton (discs 7, 8)
*Sam Byrd: Sound Row No. 7 (various versions) (wav)
*Rodger Coleman and Sam Byrd: Imaginary LP (wav)
*Eric Dolphy: The Complete Prestige Recordings (disc 6)
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: The Ellington Suites
*Bill Evans: The Complete Riverside Recordings (disc 3)
*Barry Guy/London Jazz Composers Orchestra: Ode
*Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey: 2009-01-07 The Stone, NYC (CDR)
*George Lewis: Homage to Charlie Parker
*Joe Morris Quartet: Balance
*Music Improvisation Company: Music Improvisation Company (side 2)
*Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble: 2010-05-13 Koln (Break-Ups) (CDR)
*RAIC: 2016-09-01 "Lovers Never Leave" Sound of Music Studios, RVA (youtube)
*Sun Ra Arkestra: ca. 1969-1970 Slug's Saloon, NYC (CDR)
*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: 1974-09-08 Jazz Showcase, Chicago (CDR)
*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: 1974-12-11 Santa Cruz, CA (CDR)
*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: 1975-06-11 "New" Five Spot, NYC (CDR)
*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: 1975-12 Jordan Hall, Boston (CDR)
*Sun Ra and His Interplanetary Vocal Arkestra: The Space Age Is Here to Stay
*Cecil Taylor: Conquistador! “With (Exit”)
*Henry Threadgill Zooid: In for a Penny, In for a Pound (disc 2)
*Beach Boys: Alternates (disc 1) (CDR compilation)
*Heldon: Stand By
*High Llamas: Here Come the Rattling Trees
*Hummingbird: We Can't Go On Meeting Like This (selections)
*Hummingbird: Diamond Nights (selections)
*Chaka Khan and Rufus: selections
*King Crimson: Radical Action to Unseat the Hold of Monkey Mind (disc 1)
*Minutemen: ...Just a Minute Men
*Muffins: 1977 Washington DC (CDR)
*Opeth: Deliverance
*Opeth: Ghost Reveries
*Richard Pinhas/Yoshida Tatsuya: 2014-12-01 Tokyo (CDR)
*UYA: 1989-11-28 Lip (wav)
*UYA: 1989-12-03 Void Snacking (wav)
*UYA: 1989-12-05 Pelvic Antler (wav)
*UYA: 1989-12-12 Open Your Mouth Open Your Mind (wav)

Reading List, Week of 2016-10-02

Reading List 2016-10-03:

*Hernandez, Gilbert. Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories (reread/started)
*Hernandez, Jaime. Locas (reread/started)
*Mizumura, Minae. A True Novel (transl. Juliet Winters Carpenter) (started)
*Njal's Saga (transl. Magnus Magnusson and Hermann Pálsson) (started/finished)
*Hornby, Nick. More Baths, Less Talking (finished)
*Knausgaard, Karl Ove. My Struggle, Book Five: Some Rain Must Fall (transl. Don Bartlett) (finished)
*Crumb, Aline and R. Drawn Together (in progress)
*Martin, Judith. Miss Manners' Guide to Domestic Tranquility (in progress)

Misha Mengelberg on Improvisation

Han Bennink and Misha Mengelberg

Part of improvisation, the act of improvisation, playing with other people, has very much to do with survival strategy. You have, of course, all your expectations and plans, which are destroyed the moment you play with other people. They all have their own ideas of how the musical world at that moment should be. So there are two, three, five six composers there at the same time destroying each other's ideas. (John Corbett, Microgroove)