Playlist, Week of 2019-01-27

Be sure and check out the new release from Rodger Coleman: Seven Seventeen... it's a wonderful melange of sonic explorations and electronic improvisations, with Rodger's unique sensibility and sense of adventure creating soundscapes of ingenuity and bedazzlement... sure, I'm prejudiced... My favorite of the current crop of working through Craig Taborn's discography: Mario Pavone's Arc Trio... It's great to hear Mel Collins shine on the newest live King Crimson releases... Soft Machine's Six and Seven often get bum raps from Robert Wyatt-era Soft fans, but John Marshall's drumming cooks...

Playlist 2019-01-28:

*Art Ensemble of Chicago: Message to Our Folks
*David Binney: Lifted Land
*Lester Bowie: The Great Pretender
*Lester Bowie: All the Magic! (disc 1)
*Jakob Bro: December Song
*Rodger Coleman: Seven Seventeen
*Jack DeJohnette: In Movement
*Eric Dolphy: Musical Prophet: The Expanded 1963 New York Studio Sessions (discs 1, 3)
*Farmers By Nature: Love and Ghosts
*Drew Gress: The Sky Inside
*Mary Halvorson: Code Girl (disc 2)
*Dave Holland: Prism
*Roscoe Mitchell/Fred Frith/George Lewis/BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra: 2014-02-22 Glasgow (CDR)
*Thurston Moore/John Moloney: Caught on Tape - Full Speed
*Evan Parker/Barry Guy/Paul Lytton: Music for David Mossman
*Mario Pavone: Arc Trio
*Leo Smith: Divine Love
*Soft Machine: Six
*Soft Machine: Seven
*Spring Heel Jack and Wadada Leo Smith with Pat Thomas and Steve Noble: Hackney Road (side 1)
*Craig Taborn: Junk Magic
*Various artists: History of Electronic/Electroacoustic Music (CDR compilation) (disc 22)
*VWCR: Noise of Our Time
*Carter Family: Volume 2 1935-1941 (disc 4)
*Mike Elder/Greg Jordan/Sam Byrd: 2019-01-19 (wav)
*Jimi Hendrix Experience: Electric Ladyland (50th anniversary ed.) (disc 1) (selections)
*King Crimson: Meltdown (discs 1, 2)
*Lemon Twigs: Go to School
*Various artists: Technicolor Paradise: Rhum Rhapsodies & Other Exotic Delights (disc 3)
*Various artists: Stax '68: A Memphis Story (disc 5)
*Various artists: WSAM: D.Reamin' (CDR compilation)
*Frank Zappa/Mothers of Invention: The Roxy Performances (disc 3)

Reading List, Week of 2019-01-27

Reading List 2019-01-28:

*McMurty, Larry. Lonesome Dove (started)
*Stevenson, Robert Louis. Treasure Island (started/finished)
*Ellroy, James. Brown's Requiem (reread/finished)
*Stanley, John, and Irving Tripp. Little Lulu: Sunday Afternoon (finished)
*Moore, Steven. My Back Pages: Reviews and Essays (in progress)
*Thomson, David. The New Biographical Dictionary of Film (4th ed.) (in progress)

Playlist, Week of 2019-01-20

Sorry to hear about the death of Joseph Jarman... As If It Were the Seasons is one of my favorite early AACM recordings...

Playlist 2019-01-21:

*Horacee Arnold: Tales of the Exonerated Flea
*Art Ensemble of Chicago: Nice Guys
*Art Ensemble of Chicago: Full Force
*Steve Ashby & Daniel Barbiero: The Elongated Path
*Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers: 1965-03-07 London
*Boris Bobby Jr.: 2012-04-22 RVA (wav)
*Anthony Braxton: GTM (Syntax) 2017 (disc 3) (streaming)
*Elliott Carter: A Nonesuch Retrospective (disc 4)
*Billy Cobham: Spectrum (selections)
*Rodger Coleman & Sam Byrd: Cosmologies
*Jack DeJohnette: New Directions
*Jack DeJohnette: New Directions: In Europe
*Eric Dolphy: Musical Prophet: The Expanded 1963 New York Studio Sessions (disc 2)
*Duke Ellington: The Complete 1932-1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 11)
*Duke Ellington: The Complete 1936-1940 Variety, Vocalion, and Okeh Small Group Sessions (disc 1)
*Michael Formanek: Small Places
*GRB Trio: 2018-12-08 Richmond VA (wav) (selections)
*Joseph Jarman: As If It Were the Seasons
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2018-10-08 "Corner Winds" (wav)
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2019-01-14 "Channeling the Bard" (wav)
*Chris Potter: The Sirens
*Ches Smith: The Bell
*Soft Machine: Seven
*Tyshawn Sorey: Pillars (discs 2, 3)
*Sun Ra: Crystal Spears (Remastered)
*Various artists: History of Electronic/Electroacoustic Music (Stockhausen: "Mantra") (CDR compilation) (discs 20, 21)
*John Zorn/Simulacrum: The True Discoveries of Witches and Demons
*John Zorn/Simulacrum: Inferno
*Tommy Bolin: The Best of Tommy Bolin (CDR compilation)
*Julia Holter: Aviary (disc 1)
*Jethro Tull: A Passion Play
*Carl Perkins: The Very Best of Carl Perkins: Blue Suede Shoes
*Residents: Duck Stab/Buster & Glen (pREServed Edition) (disc 2)
*Various artists: Country & Western Hit Parade 1946: Dim Lights, Thick Smoke, and Hillbilly Music
*Various artists: Stax '68: A Memphis Story (disc 4)
*Zephyr: Zephyr
*Zephyr: 45th Anniversary: Leaving Colorado (disc 2)

Reading List, Week of 2019-01-20

Reading List 2019-01-21:

*Ellroy, James. Brown's Requiem (reread/started)
*Stanley, John, and Irving Tripp. Little Lulu: Sunday Afternoon (started)
*Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women (finished)
*Moore, Steven. My Back Pages: Reviews and Essays (in progress)
*Thomson, David. The New Biographical Dictionary of Film (4th ed.) (in progress)

Playlist, Week of 2019-01-13

Another great week of music, capped by the new Ingrid Laubrock masterwork, Contemporary Chaos Practices... I had heard the radio broadcasts of these pieces from the Moers festival in 2017, which are wonderful, but these studio performances are beautifully presented and impeccably performed... check out the video teaser here...

Playlist 2019-01-14:

*Lotte Anker/Craig Taborn/Gerald Cleaver: Floating Islands
*Anthony Braxton Diamond Curtain Wall Trio: 2015-01-29 Schorndorf, Germany (CDR)
*Anthony Braxton 10+1tet: 2016-04-01 Knoxville TN (CDR)
*Anthony Braxton: GTM (Syntax) 2017 (disc 11) (streaming)
*Whit Dickey/Mat Maneri/Matthew Shipp: Vessel in Orbit
*Duke Ellington: The Complete 1932-1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 10)
*Shane Endsley and the Music Band: Then The Other
*Farmers By Nature: Out Of This World's Distortions
*Fire! Orchestra: Ritual
*Flaga: Flaga (Zorn/Masada Book Two: The Book of Angels Vol. 27)
*Globe Unity Orchestra: 1967-10-21 Donaueschingen, Germany (CDR) "Main Lines"
*Jerry Goodman & Jan Hammer: Like Children
*GRB Trio: 2018-12-08 Richmond VA (wav)
*Jan Hammer Group: Oh Yeah?
*Jan Hammer Group: Melodies
*Herbie Hancock: Mwandishi
*Alexander Hawkins-Elaine Mitchener Quartet: Uproot
*Andy Kirk and His Clouds of Joy: The Lady Who Swings the Band 1936-1938
*Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey/Kris Davis/Ralph Alessi: Lark
*Ingrid Laubrock: Contemporary Chaos Practices
*Roscoe Mitchell’s Note Factory: 1997-06-16 Knitting Factory, NYC
*Roscoe Mitchell & the Note Factory: Far Side
*Paradoxical Frog: Paradoxical Frog
*Patton, Mike: 1922 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
*Tyshawn Sorey: Pillars (disc 1)
*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: Taking a Chance on Chances
*Craig Taborn: Junk Magic
*Craig Taborn Trio: Chants
*Various artists: Blue Note Plays Bossa Nova (disc 3)
*John Zorn/Insurrection: Salem 1692
*Beatles: The Beatles (Super Deluxe Edition) (disc 6)
*Mike Elder/Harry Forrest/Greg Jordan/Sam Byrd: 2018-12-15 (wav)
*Gong: You
*Jefferson Pilot: The Optimist Field
*Various artists: Love Songs (1929-1935)
*Various artists: Technicolor Paradise: Rhum Rhapsodies & Other Exotic Delights (disc 2)

Reading List, Week of 2019-01-13

Reading List 2019-01-14:

*Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women (started)
*Moore, Steven. My Back Pages: Reviews and Essays (started)
*Stanley, John, and Irving Tripp. Little Lulu: My Dinner with Lulu (started/finished)
*The Beatles (book accompanying 50th Anniversary ed.) (finished)
*Schwartz, Jeff. Free Jazz: A Research and Information Guide (finished)
*Le Carré, John. The Mission Song (finished)
*Showcase Presents: Challengers of the Unknown (finished)
*Thomson, David. The New Biographical Dictionary of Film (4th ed.) (in progress)

New RAIC Release: Multiplicity

RAIC has a new release put out by Thirsty Leaves Music and on Bandcamp: Multiplicity. I am pleased to appear on the first track. It's a large-ensemble planned improvisation by Samuel Goff, structured in three parts. It was mighty fun to play, and nice to hear the finished version! I'm looking forward to checking out the rest of the recording.