Another Bonus Playlist from the Magic Jukebox

Still another Magic Jukebox listing...here's what was going on in my head in late September 2018 while I was doing dishes, taking out the trash, and walking around Monroe Park…

1. Zach Hill - Burner in the video
2. Patsy Cline - I'm walking the dog (live)
3. UYA - QOW
4. Mrs. Miller - Hard day's night
5. Frank Zappa - Dense slight
6. Tad Thaddock - Cheesy dogs pt. 2
7. High Llamas - Clarion Union Hall
8. Mary Wells - To lose you
9. Brian Wilson - The right time
10. James Carr - You've got my mind messed up
11. D'Angelo & the Vanguard - Sugah daddy
12. Fletcher Henderson - Harlem madness
13. Sun Ra - New steps
14. Drifters - This magic moment
15. Beatles - Shout
16. Sun Ra - Hours after
17. Flight of the Conchords - Business time
18. Beatles - she's a woman (live, Shea Stadium)
19. Kelley Stoltz - I remember you were wild
20. Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings - Introduction
21. Duke Ellington - Dinah Lou
22. Duke Ellington - Move over
23. Barney Bigard - Mardi Gras madness
24. Billie Holiday - It's too hot for words
25. Sonic Youth - Calming the snake
26. Flaming Embers - Filet de soul
27. Funkadelic - Take your dead ass home
28. Sun Ra - Lost horizon (live 1981)
29. Cryptic Snippets - disc 2, track 13
30. Patsy Cline - She's got you
31. De La Soul - Bitties in the BK lounge
32. Beatles - Dizzy Miss Lizzie
33. Muddy Waters - Good morning little schoolgirl
34. Eric Dolphy - Iron man
35. Beatles - Here there and everywhere (early take)
36. James Brown - Think
37. Soul Brothers Six - Your love is such a wonderful love
38. Beach Boys - Slip on through (a capella mix)
39. Flirtations - Nothing but a heartache
40. Beach Boys - It's about time (live)
41. Jimi Hendrix - Love or confusion
42. Rodger Coleman/Sam Byrd - No. 6 (2006-12-28)
43. Beatles - You're gonna lose that girl
44. Duke Ellington - The laborers
45. Sun Ra/James Scales/Wilbur Ware - Space aura
46. Lester Young - Body and soul
47. Sun Ra - Love in outer space
48. Major Lance - Rhythm
49. Howdy Doody - Time to play again
50. Ronnie Dee - Action packed
51. Joan Scott - Mighty long road
52. Otis Redding - Any ole way (live)
53. Red Saunders and His Orchestra - Probably
54. Fred Astaire - Cheek to cheek
55. Beatles - I've just seen a face
56. High Llamas - Take my hand
57. Aretha Franklin - Call me
58. Beach Boys - Barnyard blues
59. Beatles - Friendship
60. Elvis Costello - High fidelity
61. Beach Boys - I just wasn't made for these times (alternate version)
62. Beatles - Beautiful dreamer (BBC)
63. Smokey Robinson & the Miracles - (I need some) money
64. Cryptic Jr. - disc 2, track 40
65. Parliament - What comes funky
66. Beatles - Yesterday (live Munich 1966)
67. Ruby Johnson - Keep on keeping on
68. Captain Beefheart - Floppy boot stomp
69. Beatles - Hard day's night (live Hollywood Bowl)
70. Husker Du - Celebrated summer
71. Zu - Erinys
72. Beatles - Long tall Sally (live 1964)
73. Lucia Pamela - You and your big ideas
74. Robert Wyatt - Little Red Riding Hood hits the road
75. Johnny Hodges - You can count on me
76. Jefferson Airplane - Streetmasse
77. Naked City - Ujaku
78. Rolling Stones - Ain't that loving you baby
79. NPG - Acknowledge me #2
80. Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane - Blue Monk
81. Dusty Springfield - Stay awhile
82. Clash - Rock the Casbah
83. Eddie Hazel - I want you (She's so heavy)
84. Ellie Greenwich - I don't know
85. Smokey Robinson & the Miracles - Yes, no, maybe so
86. Booker T. & the MGs - In the midnight hour
87. Beatles - Drive my car
88. Rodger Coleman/Sam Byrd - Number 1 (Eras)
89. Steely Dan - King of the world
90. Fletcher Henderson - Hotter than 'ell
91. Sun Ra - Sometimes I'm happy (live Red Garter 1970)
92. Tower of Power - Both sorry over nothing (live)
93. Circus Devils - Wizard
94. Duke Ellington - Little Posey
95. Wig Drop - Diaper drive
96. National Lampoon - For $15,000
97. Chuck Jackson - I wake up crying
98. Mary Wells - Me and my baby
99. Duke Ellington - Stompy Jones
100. Sun Ra - Memories of you

Eddie Prévost on Sun Ra

Eddie Prévost on Sun Ra:

Jazz has often been in an unwittingly innocent postmodern state due to its references to the past--by way of the popular song--and unprepossessing self-referencing "quoting." Much of what I have heard of the New York based Lincoln Center project, curated and produced by Wynton Marsalis, falls into a more self-conscious category. This initiative is aggressively postmodern, suggesting a self-satisfied stasis happy to consolidate the innovative gains of the "jazz masters."

Contrast this with the wildly confident, uninhibited, unconventional output of Sun Ra: cod-Egyptology and fantastic sci-fi interwoven with joyous popular song; shades of free music together with big band jazz in a circus extravaganza; an -ism-busting complex whose archness audaciously defied categorization; an otherworldly postmodernism unconcerned with market motives. With extravagant costumes and fantastic ideology as soul-preserving strategies, the Arkestra remained firmly outside of the newly emerging black, middle class aspirational nexus. Sun Ra proved to be an exceptional exception. The general ethos of jazz now fully embraces the need to be understood and popular: it measures success by how well it commands the market. (Eddie Prévost, "Confronting a Darkening World: AMM at 50 years--An Aesthetic Memorandum," in Critical Studies in Improvisation, 11:1-2 (2017), pp. 6-7.

Playlist, Week of 2018-09-30

I am starting an informal (and not necessarily chronological) romp through the discography of Craig Taborn (at least through what I have access to)... as I think back on my experience at the Big Ears Festival earlier this year, besides Roscoe Mitchell and Evan Parker the musician whose performances I find myself ruminating over the most is Taborn... I missed his quartet, which was on the one day I wasn't there, but he shined in sets with Rocket Science, the Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble, and Roscoe Mitchell... I was especially impressed by two things: his super-sensitive approach to the piano with Rocket Science, presenting a lyrical counterpoint to the atonal flutterings of Sam Pluta's electronics and Peter Evans' trumpet, and his majestic electronics statement as part of the huge Roscoe Mitchell Bells for the South Side ensemble... Taborn's earliest recording, James Carter's JC on the Set, places him firmly in the jazz quartet tradition, albeit one that's stretched inside and out both by Carter's stylistic breadth and by his choice of material, which ranges from Don Byas and Duke Ellington to Sun Ra and three seasoned originals... Taborn proves himself as comfortable as Carter is with both taking it out and grooving on the inside... he continues this multi-faceted approach on Conversin' with the Elders... it's partially this versatility, I think, that so attracts me to his playing, and his career ever since has thrived on this multiplicity of approaches... he can hold his own in the Cecil Taylor arena, he can swing with the best of them, and he is equally adept with electronics in both the noise sphere (Junk Magic) and the fusion sphere (Dave Holland's Prism)...

Playlist 2018-10-01:

*Anton Webern: Complete Webern - Boulez (disc 3)
*AMM: An Unintended Legacy (discs 1, 2, 3)
*Daniel Barbiero/Ken Moore/Dave Vosh: Transparent Points on Four Axes
*Anthony Braxton: Trillium E (disc 2)
*James Carter: JC on the Set
*James Carter: The Real Quietstorm
*James Carter: Conversin' with the Elders
*James Carter: In Carterian Fashion
*Francisco Mora Catlett: World Trade Music
*Mary Halvorson: Code Girl
*Alexander Hawkins: Unit[e] (discs 1, 2)
*Mat Maneri: Sustain
*Wolfgang Muthspiel: Rising Grace
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2018-09-11 Venable St., Richmond, VA. "Kitchen Cousins" (mp3)
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2018-09-24 "How Easily I Can Lie" (wav)
*Evan Parker: Strings with Evan Parker (disc 1)
*Hugh Ragin: An Afternoon in Harlem
*David Rogers Sextet: The World Is Not Your Home
*Archie Shepp: Attica Blues
*Sun Ra: The Stranger
*Sun Ra and His Intergalactic Infinity Arkestra: The Night of the Purple Moon
*Sun Ra and His Intergalactic Myth Science Solar Arkestra: Horizon "The Shadow World"
*Band: Music from Big Pink
*Jeff Beck Group: Jeff Beck Group
*Dark Carpet: 2018-04-27 Brooklyn, NY (CDR)
*Mike Elder/Harry Forrest/Greg Jordan/Sam Byrd: 2018-09-22 (wav)
*Emerson Lake & Palmer: Emerson Lake & Palmer
*Emerson Lake & Palmer: Tarkus (side 1)
*Esquivel & His Orchestra: Complete 1954-1962 Recordings (disc 4)
*King Crimson: 1972-03-08 Milwaukee
*Paul McCartney: Egypt Station
*National Health: Missing Pieces
*Various artists: Charas Babu: Inspiring Colourful and Rare Sounds from India
*Various artists: Brian Wilson: Visions: His Complete Outside Productions (boot CDR) (disc 1)
*Various artists: History of Electronic/Electroacoustic Music (CDR compilation) (discs 16, 17)

Reading List, Week of 2018-09-30

Reading List 2018-10-01:

*Prévost, Edwin. "Confronting a Darkening World: AMM at 50 years--An Aesthetic Memorandum," in Critical Studies in Improvisation, 11:1-2 (2017)
*Way, Geoffrey. "Together, Apart: Liveness, Eventness, and Streaming Shakespearean Performance," in Shakespeare Bulletin, 35:3 (2017) (started/finished)
*Chazal, Malcolm de. Sens-Plastique (trans. Irving Weiss) (in progress)
*Poe's Children: The New Horror: An Anthology (ed. Peter Straub) (in progress)
*Rutherfurd, Edward. London (in progress)
*Thomson, David. The New Biographical Dictionary of Film (4th ed.) (in progress)

Playlist, Week of 2018-09-23

Daniel Barbiero's new trio release with Ken Moore and Dave Vosh is wonderful.... check out the Avant Music News review here...  I obviously don't have a problem with the "repetitive sequencer driven drivel that is currently being produced by so many contemporary musicians using analog and modular synths" that the reviewer disdains here, but I do also appreciate the understated, almost naked use of analog synths here, and Dan's bass playing , as always, is superb... a real treat... Balancing the new with the comfortable, I find that absorbing new music is an ongoing task... there's just so much of it, and no time for the repeated close-listening sessions of my youth... so for me the "comfortable" is relegated to the Magic Jukebox, while extended listening is reserved for newer stuff.. this isn't a hard and fast rule, though... in fact, there really aren't any rules in my listening... I'm just rambling... the mind is a strange thing, though... why else would it summon up, on a recent two-week trip away from music, out of nowhere really, since I hadn't listened to it for ages, the Genesis song "Can-Utility and the Coastliners?"...  I mean, why that one?... anyway, I of course dug out Foxtrot as soon as I got back home, and was rewarded immensely with that beautifully strange masterpiece... god knows what they're on about lyrically but damn, Phil Collins' drumming is excellent... At some point I'll have to do a side-by-side comparison of all the Cecil Taylor/Anthony Braxton live performances, but I think the 2007-10-13 set from Reggio Emilia may be the most exciting... it's certainly aggressive, with Braxton weighing in heavily on both alto and sopranino...

Playlist 2018-09-24:

*AMM: An Unintended Legacy (discs 1, 2, 3)
*AMM: 2016-11-12 Budapest (CDR)
*Daniel Barbiero/Ken Moore/Dave Vosh: Transparent Points on Four Axes
*Anthony Braxton: Sax Quintet (New York) 1998 (streaming)
*Anthony Braxton: Echo Echo Mirror House (NYC) 2011 (streaming)
*Anthony Braxton: Trillium E (disc 1)
*John Coltrane: Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album (Deluxe Edition) (disc 2)
*Miles Davis: Bitches Brew "Pharaoh's Dance"
*DJ Spooky: Optometry
*Stan Getz/Charlie Byrd: Jazz Samba
*Barry Guy/Blue Shroud Band: Tensegrity (Small Formations) (disc 4)
*Alexander Hawkins: Unit[e] (discs 1, 2)
*Coleman Hawkins: Wrapped Tight
*Large Unit: Erta Ale (discs 1, 2, 3)
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2018-09-11 Venable St., Richmond, VA. "Kitchen Cousins" (mp3)
*RAIC: Symbiosis, Vol. 1 (cassette)
*Cecil Taylor Quartet featuring Anthony Braxton: 2007-10-13 Reggio Emilia, Italy (CDR)
*Dan Weiss: Starebaby
*Jeff Beck Group: Rough and Ready
*Tommy Bolin: Whirlwind (disc 2)
*James Brown: Star Time (disc 4)
*Caravan: If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You
*Esquivel: The Space Age Sound of Esquivel (disc 2)
*Genesis: Nursery Cryme
*Genesis: Foxtrot
*Grateful Dead: One from the Vault (San Francisco 1975-08-13) (disc 1)
*Jefferson Pilot: The Optimist Field
*King Crimson: 1972-03-06 Pittsburgh
*Parliament: Medicaid Fraud Dogg (selections)
*Touch: Touch
*Various artists: History of Electronic/Electroacoustic Music (CDR compilation) (disc 15)

Reading List, Week of 2018-09-23

Reading List 2018-09-24:

*Chazal, Malcolm de. Sens-Plastique (trans. Irving Weiss) (started)
*Rutherfurd, Edward. London (started)
*Nabokov, Vladimir. "Mansfield Park," in Lectures on Literature (reread/started/finished)
*Sullivan, Erin. " 'The forms of things unknown': Shakespeare and the Rise of the Live Broadcast," in Shakespeare Bulletin, 35:4 (2017) (started/finished)
*Pritchett, Laura. The Blue Hour (finished)
*Poe's Children: The New Horror: An Anthology (ed. Peter Straub) (in progress)
*Thomson, David. The New Biographical Dictionary of Film (4th ed.) (in progress)

Reading List, Week of 2018-09-16

No Playlist this week...normal activities will now resume!

Reading List 2018-09-17:

*Pritchett, Laura. The Blue Hour (started)
*James, P. D. The Mistletoe Murder (started/finished)
*Straub, Peter. Interior Darkness: Selected Stories (selections) (started/finished)
*Austen, Jane. Mansfield Park (reread/finished)
*Poe's Children: The New Horror: An Anthology (ed. Peter Straub) (in progress)
*Thomson, David. The New Biographical Dictionary of Film (4th ed.) (in progress)