Playlist, Week of 2018-11-25

catching up...

Playlist 2018-11-26:

*Herbie Hancock: Mwandishi
*Elvin Jones: Genesis
*Les McCann: Invitation to Openness
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2018-10-15 "Who Needs Another Repair Job?" (wav)
*Atomic Rooster: In Hearing of Atomic Rooster
*Sam Cooke: Greatest Hits
*Prince: 1982-03-08 Minneapolis (CDR)
*Ronettes: Be My Baby: The Very Best of the Ronettes
*Shirelles: The Very Best of the Shirelles
*Supremes (selections)
*Talk Talk: Spirit of Eden

Reading List, Week of 2018-11-25

Slowly but surely...

Reading List 2018-11-26:

*Chazal, Malcolm de. Sens-Plastique (trans. Irving Weiss) (in progress)
*Knausgaard, Karl Ove. My Struggle, Book Six (transl. Don Bartlett and Martin Aitken) (in progress)
*Schwartz, Jeff. Free Jazz: A Research and Information Guide (in progress)
*Thomson, David. The New Biographical Dictionary of Film (4th ed.) (in progress)

Nashville Dreams

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              In the studio for the first of two days of recording with Rodger Coleman!!!! Whoo-hooooo!

Playlist, Week of 2018-11-18

Lots of traveling music this week, getting ready to go to Nashville for the holiday (and for recording sessions with Rodger Coleman!)

Playlist 2018-11-19:

*Anthony Braxton: Quintet (London) 2004
*Anthony Braxton: Trio (Victoriaville) 2007
*Anthony Braxton: Quartet (Mestre) 2008
*Anthony Braxton Falling River Quintet: 2012-10-10 Berlin (CDR) (disc 1)
*Elliott Carter: A Nonesuch Retrospective (disc 2)
*Mary Halvorson Quartet: Paimon (Zorn/Book of Angels Vol. 32)
*Mary Halvorson: Code Girl (disc 2)
*Jan Hammer Group: Oh Yeah?
*Jan Hammer Group: Melodies
*Ivo Perelman: The Art of Perelman-Shipp Volume 4: Hyperion
*Ivo Perelman: The Art of Perelman-Shipp Volume 5: Rhea
*Chris Potter: Underground
*Prezens: Slipped on a Bar
*Flora Purim: Butterfly Dreams
*Flora Purim: Open Your Eyes You Can Fly
*Flora Purim: Flora Purim Sings Milton Nascimento
*Tyshawn Sorey: Alloy
*Sun Ra: selections (Bandcamp streaming)
*Sun Ra and His Astro Ihnfinity Arkestra: The Intergalactic Thing (disc 2)
*Cecil Taylor: Air Above Mountains
*Cecil Taylor & Pauline Oliveros: Solo-Duo-Poetry (DVD)
*Henry Threadgill 14 Or 15 Kestra AGG: Dirt... And More Dirt
*John Zorn: Rimbaud
*John Zorn/Simulacrum: Simulacrum
*John Zorn/Simulacrum: The True Discoveries of Witches and Demons
*John Zorn/Simulacrum: Inferno
*John Zorn: Insurrection
*Acid Mothers Temple And The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.: Pink Lady Lemonade: You're From Inner Space
*Amon Duul II: Yeti
*Band: Music from Big Pink
*Beach Boys: 2012-04-26 Grand Prairie, TX (CDR) (disc 2)
*Beatles: The Beatles (Super Deluxe Edition) (discs 3, 4)
*Boston Spaceships: Let It Beard
*Scott Brookman: For Those Who Like POP
*Car Seat Headrest: Teens of Style
*Cramps: Songs the Lord Taught Us
*Egg: The Civil Surface
*Emerson Lake & Palmer: The Atlantic Years (selections)
*Gong: Flying Teapot (Radio Gnome Invisible Part 1)
*Grateful Dead: 1968-03-29 San Francisco (CDR)
*Grateful Dead: Live/Dead "Dark Star"
*Grateful Dead: Pacific Northwest '73-'74: Believe It if You Need It (disc 2)
*George Jones and the Jones Boys: Live in Texas 1965
*King Crimson: 1972: unknown
*Pere Ubu: Ray Gun Suitcase
*Prince: 1980-03-06 Atlanta (CDR)
*Prince: 1981-03-22 Ritz NYC (CDR)
*Prince: 1981-12-09 Houston (CDR)
*Otis Redding and His Orchestra: Live on the Sunset Strip (disc 1)
*Sonic Youth: Anagrama
*Dusty Springfield: The Dusty Springfield Anthology (disc 2)
*Stevie Wonder: A Time to Love

Reading List, Week of 2018-11-18

Better this than the news....

Reading List 2018-11-19:

*Barry, Dave. Dave Barry's Book of bad songs (reread/started/finished)
*Chazal, Malcolm de. Sens-Plastique (trans. Irving Weiss) (in progress)
*Knausgaard, Karl Ove. My Struggle, Book Six (transl. Don Bartlett and Martin Aitken) (in progress)
*Schwartz, Jeff. Free Jazz: A Research and Information Guide (in progress)
*Thomson, David. The New Biographical Dictionary of Film (4th ed.) (in progress)

New Ting Ting Loft Gig This Weekend

New Ting Ting Loft is opening up for Dave Bryant (pictured above) this Saturday night, at Sediment, right here in RVA. Also paying are Ceremonial Scissors. Promises to be a fun evening!

More info about Dave Bryant, and the show itself, here.

Playlist, Week of 2018-11-11

Continuing my slow romp through the discography of Craig Taborn... his contributions to the pair of Transatlantic Art Ensemble ECM discs by Roscoe Mitchell and Evan Parker are crucial... his self-effacing playing on David Torn's Prezens is harder to tease out... I am looking forward to revisiting the several live recordings I have from the Torn 2007 and 2008 European shows... Adam Shatz does a great job of trying to capture the elusive quality of Taborn's art in his lengthy article on him in the New York Times... Shatz also reaffirms my sense that Avenging Angel is a masterwork...

Playlist 2018-11-12:

*Albert Ayler Quartet: Copenhagen Live 1964
*Anthony Braxton/Falling River Music Quartet: 2012-10-11 Ulrichsberg, Austria (CDR)
*Drew Gress: 7 Black Butterflies
*Drew Gress Quintet: 2006-01-22 Bimhuis, Amsterdam (CDR)
*Mary Halvorson: Code Girl (disc 1)
*Dave Holland: Prism (selections)
*Dave Holland: Uncharted Territories (disc 1)
*Roscoe Mitchell/Transatlantic Art Ensemble: Composition/Improvisation Nos. 1, 2 & 3
*David Murray Octet: Picasso
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2018-10-15 "Who Needs Another Repair Job?" (wav)
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2018-11-05 "Doin' the Carpet Bag Rag" (wav)
*Evan Parker/Transatlantic Art Ensemble: Boustrophedon
*Hermeto Pascoal & Grupo: No Mundo Dos Sons (disc 1)
*Danielle Palardy Roger: Le Caillou
*Devadip Carlos Santana & Turiya Alice Coltrane: Illuminations
*David Torn: Prezens
*Beatles: The Beatles (Super Deluxe Edition) (discs 1, 2)
*Mike Elder/Harry Forrest/Greg Jordan/Sam Byrd: 2018-09-22 (wav)
*Daniel Johnston: Please Don't Feed the Ego
*Ravi Shankar/Ali Akhbar Khan: Ragas
*Dusty Springfield: The Dusty Springfield Anthology (disc 1)
*Staple Singers: Uncloudy Day
*Stereolab: Margerine Eclipse
*Touch: Touch
*Unthanks: Diversions Vol. 1
*Various artists: History of Electronic/Electroacoustic Music (CDR compilation) (disc 19)
*Brian Wilson: Brian Wilson
*Stevie Wonder: A Time to Love