Bonus Playlist from the Magic Jukebox 2

Time for another bonus playlist from the Magic Jukebox, this time, though, from the newly refurbished and repopulated Magic Jukebox 2: twice as much space, twice the musical fun! This list is from earlier this month.Lots of classics!

1. Chuck Berry - Havana moon
2. Duke Ellington - Dinah Lou
3. Jefferson Pilot - House and home
4. Sun Ra - Disco 2021
5. Rationals - I need you
6. National Lampoon - Police auditions
7. Beatles - Only a Northern song (Anthology 2)
8. Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane - Bye-ya
9. Beach Boys - Passing by (demo with lyrics)
10. Beatles - When I get home
11. Carla Thomas - Give it a try (demo)
12. Beck - Hell yes
13. Sun Ra - Space aura
14. Stock, Hausen, & Walkman - Duvet
15. Heldon - Marie et Virginie comp (live)
16. Billy Hart - Hymn for the old year
17. Sun Ra - The horo
18. Sun Ra - Hidden cosmic treasures
19. Beach Boys: Heroes and villains: barbershop
20. Tad Thaddock - Drugged baby
21. Praxis - Direct hit
22. Bee Gees - Monday's rain
23. George Clinton - Way up
24. Sun Ra - Reflections in blue
25. Residents - Baby skeletons & dogs
26. Charlie Parker All Stars - Steeplechase
27. Tad Thaddock - Fat, pink baby
28. Scott Brookman - Inspected by Curly
29. MC Lyte - Listen up
30. Billy Cobham - Taurian matador
31. Praxis - Flicker
32. James Blood Ulmer - Are you glad to be in America? (Odyssey)
33. Debbie Dovale - I'm my own doctor
34. Love - Can't explain
35. Andy Partridge - C side
36. James Brown - Come over here
37. Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Shot with his own gun
38. Sonic Youth - Thunderclap for Bobby Pyn
39. Dr. John - You lie
40. Sun Ra - Calling planet Earth
41. Yanni Martinelli - Coconut lime
42. Carla Thomas - He picked me
43. S. D. Burman - Jane kya pilaya tune
44. Rodger Coleman and Sam Byrd - 2015-05-14 track 3
45. Jimi Hendrix Experience - Foxy lady
46. Elvis Presley - Shake rattle & roll (live)
47. Eddie Floyd - Don't rock the boat
48. High Llamas - End on tick tock
49. Ikettes - (Never more) Lonely for you
50. Sonic Youth - Drunken butterfly
51. Rolling Stones - Who's been sleeping here?
52. Minutemen - This ain't no picnic
53. Eddie Floyd - High-heel sneakers
54. Sam Cooke - Sugar dumpling
55. Bob Dylan - I dreamed I saw St. Augustine
56. James Carr - Pouring water on a drowning man
57. Etta James - The same rope
58. Mahmoud Ahmed - Atawurulegn Lela
59. Plastic Ono Band  - Love
60. Jimi Hendrix Experience - Ain't no telling
61. Supremes - The boy that got away
62. Jimi Hendrix Experience - Fire (live Oakland)
63. Sun Ra - The code of interdependence
64. Stevie Wonder - Don't you worry 'bout a thing
65. Rex Stewart & His 52nd St. Stompers - Rexatious
66. Elder - Coordination of the tweezer
67. Fraternal Order of the All - Greetings from Planet Love
68. Sun Ra - Moon dance
69. Kip Anderson - Without a woman
70. Tad Thaddock - Choking Beverly Sills
71. Kinks - Love me till the sun shines
72. Otis Redding - Don't be afraid of love
73. Sun Ra - Stardust from tomorrow (live)
74. Duke Ellington - My gal is good for nothing but love
75. Etta James - Misty
76. Swamp Dogg - Knowing I'm pleasing you
77. Zephyr - Somebody listen
78. Beatles - I'm looking through you (Anthology version)
79. Stevie Wonder - Another star
80. Frank Zappa - Theme from Lumpy gravy
81. Miles Davis - When I fall in love
82. Animal Collective  - Spilling guts
83. Beach Boys - Don't hurt my little sister
84. Dan the Automator - Punjabis, pimps, & players
85. John Lennon - Mellotron improvisation (3)
86. Cootie Williams & His Rug Cutters  - Lost in meditation
87. Janis Joplin - Cry baby
88. Mary Wells - When your lover comes back
89. Santana - Savor (live Woodstock)
90. Valentinos - It's all over now
91. Flight of the Conchords - Boom
92. Asha Bhosle - Mera naam hai shabnam
93. Robert Johnson - Traveling riverside blues
94. Allied Chemical Brothers - Fart
95. Sun Ra - The double that
96. Chuck Willis - It's too late
97. Sun Ra - Mystery Mr. Ra (live)
98. Clarence Reid AKA Blowfly - Nobody but you
99. Jimi Hendrix - Message to love (live Hawaii)
100. Beatles - Birthday (2018 Giles Martin mix)

Playlist, Week of 2020-03-08

Washing my hands with music.....

Playlist 2020-03-09:

*Muhal Richard Abrams: Celestial Birds
*Arcana: 1997-06-07 Frankfurt (CDR)
*Rodger Coleman and Sam Byrd: 2018-11-19 Nashville (rough mix wav)
*Rodger Coleman and Sam Byrd: 2018-11-20 Nashville (rough mix wav)
*Rodger Coleman and Sam Byrd: 2019-05-02 Nashville (rough mix wav)
*Rodger Coleman and Sam Byrd: 2019-05-03 Nashville (rough mix wav)
*Tadd Dameron with John Coltrane: Mating Call
*Miles Davis: The Prestige 10-Inch LP Collection, Vol. 2 (LP 5 side 2)
*Dave Douglas: Freak In
*Jimmy Lyons: The Box Set (disc 1)
*Roscoe Mitchell Sextet: 2017-01-29 Milano (CDR)
*Evan Parker: Strings with Evan Parker (disc 1)
*Chano Pozo : El Tambor De Cuba (Life And Music Of The Legendary Cuban Conga Drummer) (disc 2)
*Tomeka Reid Quartet: Old New
*Matana Roberts: Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis
*Irene Schweizer/Louis Moholo: Irene Schweizer/Louis Moholo
*Spontaneous Music Ensemble: Biosystem
*Spontaneous Music Ensemble: Low Profile
*Keith Tippett Group: Dedicated to You, But You Weren't Listening
*Various artists: Afro-Cuban Jazz (side 1)
*Lester Young: The Aladdin Sessions (side 3)
*Various artists: History of Electronic/Electroacoustic Music (CDR compilation) (discs 47, 48)
*Beatles:  From Liverpool: The Beatles Box (LP 2, side 1)
*Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour (EP) (record 2, side 4)
*Boris: Boris at Last -Feedbacker
*Groundhogs: Thank Christ for the Bomb
*Guided By Voices: Bee Thousand (Director's Cut) (disc 2)
*Guided By Voices: Under the Bushes Under the Stars
*Guided By Voices: Hold on Hope EP
*Guided By Voices: Surrender Your Poppy Field
*Henry Cow: 1977-09-19 Firenze, Italy (CDR) (discs 1, 2)
*McDonald and Giles: McDonald and Giles
*News From Babel: Sirens & Silences/Work Resumed On The Tower
*Sean O'Hagan: Radum Calls, Radum Calls
*Orckestra (Henry Cow + Mike Westbrook Brass Band): 1977-09-16 Milano, Italy (CDR) (disc 1)
*Pere Ubu: Dub Housing (side 1)
*Pere Ubu: The Art of Walking (side 1)
*Pere Ubu: The Tenement Year (side 1)
*Robert Pollard: Not in My Airforce
*Robert Pollard: Waved Out
*Various artists: Country & Western Hit Parade 1969: Dim Lights, Thick Smoke, and Hillbilly Music

Reading List, Week of 2020-03-08

Reading List 2020-03-09:

*Schumacher, Julie. The Shakespeare Requirement (started)
*Watts, Graham. Shakespeare's Authentic Performance Texts: The Case for Staging from the First Folio (started)
*Livingston, Sonja. Queen of the Fall: A Memoir of Girls and Goddesses (finished)
*Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet (Folio) (reread/finished)
*Understanding Finnegans Wake (ed. Tatsuo Hamada) (finished)
*Einsohn, Amy, and Marilyn Schwartz. The Copyeditor's Handbook, 4th ed. (in progress)
*Goldbarth, Albert. The Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems 1972-2007 (in progress)

Old Times Good Times

...the fact that I can't understand people who want to go over and over old times, getting all nostalgic and stuff, the fact that I'm scared of old times, the fact that old times are soggy, saggy cradles of regret... (Lucy Ellmann, Ducks, Newburyport, p. 57)

Tyshawn Sorey at UVA

Went to Charlottesville last Friday for a performance by Tyshawn Sorey. It was billed as a concert, but beyond that I didn't really know what to expect--would he have a band? Would he play a mix of drums, piano, and trombone? He's equally adept on all three. Turns out it was a solo piano piece, a "spontaneous composition," as the program stated. Turns out it was amazing. The setting was a Unitarian church, and the lighting was minimal: one small lamp on top of the piano, which, about five minutes in, Sorey turned off, to pay the rest of the piece in darkness. He started off with long drawn-out Morton Feldman-esque low-end chords, sparsely scattered and somber. The chords built on themselves and morphed into an hour-long rumination of dynamic power shifts, including some of the fastest post-Cecil Taylor runs I've ever heard. These powerful runs grew in intensity to loud crescendo waves of thunderous swells only to be cut off and dynamically cut to sequences of quiet melodic chords. This pattern of a gradual build to overwhelming power/quick cut to quiet melody occurred several times as the piece progressed. Stunning.

[The picture above is not from UVA; it's from here.]

Playlist, Week of 2020-03-01

It's always interesting to hear AMM bring in outside players... I'm thinking particularly of their recordings with John Butcher...  it puts into focus exactly how singular, how sui generis their playing together always is... AAMM is no exception--even with the addition of the "A" Trio, you never once doubt that you're hearing anyone other than AMM...

Playlist 2020-03-02:

*"A" Trio & AMM: AAMM
*Arcana: The Last Wave
*Derek Bailey: Fairly Early with Postscripts
*Brötzmann/Schlippenbach/Bennink: Fifty Years After…
*Bill Bruford: Feels Good to Me
*Rodger Coleman and Sam Byrd: 2019-08-28 Nashville (rough mix wav)
*Colla Parte: 2019-11-24 Rhizome, Washington DC (wav) (set 1)
*John Coltrane: My Favorite Things: Coltrane At Newport "Impressions"
*Company: Company 1
*Lowell Davidson Trio: Lowell Davidson Trio
*Kris Davis: Diatom Ribbons
*Miles Davis: 1970-08-18 Tanglewood (CDR)
*Miles Davis/Marcus Miller: Music From Siesta (side 2)
*Nick Fraser/Kris Davis/Tony Malaby: Zoning
*Samuel Goff: Transmissions
*Illegal Crowns: The No-Nosed Puppet
*Robert Landfermann/Ingrid Laubrock/Achim Kaufmann/Tom Rainey: Topaz
*Bill Laswell: Baselines (side 1)
*Layers of Memory: Hence Thrice
*Myra Melford: Snowy Egret
*Myra Melford's Snowy Egret: The Other Side of Air
*Charles Mingus: The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (sides 1, 2)
*New Ting: 2020-02-17 "Still Waitin' for Cantankeroid" (wav)
*Tony Oxley/Derek Bailey Quartet: 1993-09 Crawley, England (CDR)
*Charlie Parker: Bird At The Roost, The Savoy Years: The Complete Royal Roost Performances, Vol. One (side 1)
*Evan Parker/Barry Guy/Paul Lytton: Music for David Mossman
*Evan Parker/Trance Map +: Crepuscule in Nickelsdorf
*David Sancious And Tone: Transformation (The Speed Of Love) (side 2)
*Three Body Problem: 2019-11-02 Washington DC (wav)
*VWCR: Noise of Our Time
*John Zorn: In the Hall of Mirrors
*John Zorn: Tractatus Musico-Philosophicus
*Various artists: History of Electronic/Electroacoustic Music (CDR compilation) (discs 45, 46)
*Beatles:  From Liverpool: The Beatles Box (LP 4, side 1)
*Elvis Costello & the Attractions: Get Happy (side 2)
*English Beat: Wha'ppen? (side 1)
*Grateful Dead: Sunshine Daydream “Dark Star"
*Guided By Voices: Bee Thousand (Director's Cut) (disc 1)
*Guided By Voices: Surrender Your Poppy Field
*Henry Cow: Unrest (Cow Box Redux)
*Henry Cow: 1976-11-18 Nancy, France (CDR)
*Sean O'Hagan: Radum Calls, Radum Calls
*Robert Pollard: Not in My Airforce
*Robert Pollard: Waved Out
*Skeleton Crew: Learn to Talk
*Various artists: Country & Western Hit Parade 1968: Dim Lights, Thick Smoke, and Hillbilly Music
*Zombies: The BBC Radio Sessions (side 1)

Reading List, Week of 2020-03-01

Reading List 2020-03-02:

*Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet (Folio) (reread/started)
*Summers, Courtney. This Is Not a Test (started/finished)
*Ware, Chris. Rusty Brown (started/finished)
*Gaddis, William. The Recognitions (reread/finished)
*Moore, Steven. A Reader's Guide to William Gaddis's The Recognitions (rev. ed.) (finished)
*Einsohn, Amy, and Marilyn Schwartz. The Copyeditor's Handbook, 4th ed. (in progress)
*Goldbarth, Albert. The Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems 1972-2007 (in progress)
*Livingston, Sonja. Queen of the Fall: A Memoir of Girls and Goddesses (in progress)
*Understanding Finnegans Wake (ed. Tatsuo Hamada) (in progress)