Playlist, Week of 2016-05-29

A quick reminder: Gilmore kicks ass in the 1960 Wonder Inn recordings here. "Play it, Sun Ray!"

Playlist 2016-05-30:

*Art Ensemble of Chicago: 1976-10-08 Vasteras, Sweden (CDR)
*Art Ensemble of Chicago: 1984-09-12 Minneapolis (CDR)
*Anthony Braxton 10+1tet: 2016-04-01 Knoxville TN (CDR)
*Circle: Paris Concert
*John Coltrane: Live in Seattle
*Dutch Jazz Orchestra: Portrait of a Silk Thread: Newly Discovered Works of Billy Strayhorn
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: The Treasury Shows, Vol. 3 (disc 2)
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: The Treasury Shows, Vol. 4 (disc 1)
*Ingrid Laubrock Quintet: 2014-01-22 Brooklyn NY (CDR)
*Living By Lanterns: 2013-08-25 Sant’Anna Arresi (CDR)
*Sun Ra: Music from Tomorrow’s World
*Sun Ra and His Myth Science Arkestra: Interstellar Low Ways
*Sun Ra: The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra
*Sun Ra: Live in London [1970-11-09]
*Sun Ra All Stars: Milan, Zurich, West Berlin, Paris (disc 1)
*Jeff Beck: There and Back
*Deerhoof: Fever 121614
*Fela Ransome Kuti and His Koola Lobitos: Highlife-Jazz And Afro-Soul (disc 1)
*Pavement: Wowee Zowee (selections)
*Various artists: Lullabies/Dreams (cassette compilation) (side B)

Reading List, Week of 2016-05-29

Reading List 2016-05-30:

*Morgan, Chris. The Comic Galaxy of Mystery Science Theater 3000 (started)
*Haskell, John. American Purgatorio (started/finished)
*Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare, ed. Arthur F. Kinney (finished)
*Segar, E. C. Complete E.C. Segar Popeye, Vol. 9: Dailies 1934-1935 (finished)
*Barthelme, Donald. The Teachings of Don B. (in progress)

Jazz and Improvised Music

Derek Bailey

One of the distinguishing characteristics between jazz and improvised music is that jazz has American-born subject matters such as romantic love, social justice and spirituality, while the subject of improvised music is the idealization of improvisation. (Bill Shoemaker, "Page One," Point of Departure 53 (2015-12)

Playlist, Week of 2016-05-22

New Sun Ra keeps cropping up all the time. This one is very special: it's primarily solo piano, but there are some electronic keyboard excursions as well that are quite nice. Standout track for me is the 20-minute "El Is a Sound of Joy," which is not on the vinyl version, although the song itself is only the last 6 minutes or so, preceded as it is by a long improvisation.

Playlist 2016-05-23:

*Ingrid Laubrock Anti-House:  2014-09-26 Darmstadt, Germany (CDR)
*Ingrid Laubrock Anti-House: Roulette of the Cradle
*Ingrid Laubrock Ubatuba: 2015-10-08 Bremen, Germany (CDR)
*Ingrid Laubrock’s Ubatuba Quintet: 2015-10-11 Barcelona (CDR)
*Sun Ra: Nubians of Plutonia
*Sun Ra and His Myth Science Arkestra: Fate in a Pleasant Mood
*Sun Ra and His Astro Infinity Arkestra: Holiday for Soul Dance
*Sun Ra: In Some Far Place: Roma '77
*Sun Ra Arkestra: Reflections in Blue
*James Brown: James Brown Plays James Brown: Today and Yesterday
*Dark Carpet: 2016-03-04 The Rock Shop, Brooklyn (wav) (selections)
*High Llamas: Here Come the Rattling Trees
*Kinks: Something Else by the Kinks (Deluxe Edition) (disc 2)
*Kinks: Arthur (Deluxe Edition) (disc 2)
*OOIOO: Kila Kila Kila
*OOIOO: Gold and Green
*Ravi Shankar: A Legend Lives On

Reading List, Week of 2016-05-22

Reading List 2016-05-23:

*Barthelme, Donald. The Teachings of Don B. (started)
*Lepore, Jill. “Joe Gould’s Teeth,” in New Yorker, 2015-07-27 (started/finished)
*Bryson, Bill. A Short History of Nearly Everything (finished)
*Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare, ed. Arthur F. Kinney (in progress)
*Segar, E. C. Complete E.C. Segar Popeye, Vol. 9: Dailies 1934-1935 (in progress)

Playlist, Week of 2016-05-15

Perfect rainy day music..and we've had a lot of rainy days here recently.

Playlist 2016-05-16:

*John Cage: The Complete String Quartets Vol. 2 (Arditti Quartet)
*Anthony Braxton Small Ensemble: 2009-04-30 Wesleyan: Echo Echo Mirror House Music (disc 1)
*Anthony Braxton 10+1tet: 2016-04-01 Knoxville TN (CDR)
*Circle: Live in German Concert
*John Coltrane: First Meditations
*John Coltrane: Meditations
*Dutch Jazz Orchestra: Portrait of a Silk Thread: Newly Discovered Works of Billy Strayhorn
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: The Treasury Shows, Vol. 3 (disc 1)
*Duke Ellington: Anatomy of a Murder
*Michael Formanek/Ensemble Kollosus: The Distance
*Herbie Hancock: Thrust
*Instant Composers Pool: Groupcomposing
*Ingrid Laubrock: Ubatuba
*Ingrid Laubrock Anti-House:  2014-09-26 Darmstadt, Germany (CDR)
*Micro-East Collective: Fabric
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2016-04-13 Musicircus, UR, Richmond (wav)
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2016-04-24 “Ear Density” RVA Noise Fest V, Gallery 5, Richmond VA (wav)
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2016-05-02 “Convo for Rent” (wav)
*Paradoxical Frog: Union
*Evan Parker & AMM: Title Goes Here
*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: Jazz in Silhouette
*Sun Ra Arkestra: 1980-12-27 Detroit Jazz Center (CDR) (discs 3, 4)
*Booker T. & the MGs: And Now!
*Broadcast: Broadcast & The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age
*Elvis Costello and The Roots: Wise Up Ghost
*DJ Spooky: Sound Unbound
*Bob Dylan: The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Volume 12 (disc 1)
*Bob Dylan: Another Self Portrait (1969-1971): The Bootleg Series, Vol. 10 (disc 2)
*Mike Elder/Harry Forrest/Greg Jordan/Sam Byrd: 2016-04-01 (wav) (selections)
*Fripp & Eno: Live in Paris 28.05.1975
*Mars Volta: Frances the Mute
*Massacre: Killing Time
*NRBQ: Interstellar (10-in. LP)
*OOIOO: Gamel
*Panda Bear: Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper
*Otis Redding: In Person at the Whisky a Go Go
*Otis Redding: Live in Europe
*Otis Redding: Tell the Truth
*Rolling Stones: 2002-08-16 Toronto (CDR)
*Rolling Stones: Light the Fuse
*Super Furry Animals: Mwng (2015 reissue) (disc 1)
*13th Floor Elevators: Live in California
*Various artists: Bollywood Movie Title Music (CDR)
*Various artists: Purple Snow: Forecasting the Minneapolis Sound (disc 1)

Reading List, Week of 2016-05-15

Gilbert Sorrentino

Reading List 2016-05-16:

*Akey, Stephen. “Shakespeare as God,” in The Millions (2012-10-02) (started/finished)
*Montressor, Jaye Berman. “The Artist as Accidental Tourist in Gilbert Sorrentino’s Blue Pastoral,” in Studies in American Humor, New Series 3, No. 1 (1994) (started/finished)
*Sorrentino, Gilbert. Blue Pastoral (reread/finished)
*Bryson, Bill. A Short History of Nearly Everything (in progress)
*Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare, ed. Arthur F. Kinney (in progress)
*Segar, E. C. Complete E.C. Segar Popeye, Vol. 9: Dailies 1934-1935 (in progress)