Monday, April 30, 2018

Playlist, Week of 2018-04-29



Lots more new Sun Ra making the scene... always a pleasure... I'm really digging the newly released music from the Cymbals sessions in 1973.... Note that two tracks here also appeared (under different names) on Sign of the Myth... and "The Universe Is Calling" originally appeared as "Jazz and Romantic Sounds" on Out There a Minute... still, it's wonderful to have the entire session all in one place, and in much improved sound... Also thoroughly entranced by Mats Gustafsson's Fire! Orchestra... skronk big-band with great grooves and mesmerizing vocals... Dug up an old cassette I recorded of Arthur Blythe with John Hicks, Steve McCall, and Fred Hopkins at the Village Vanguard... I saw Blythe several times in the '80s, but this was the only time I saw his In the Tradition quartet... really amazing, blistering alto sax... and great to hear McCall in this free-bop/swing context... he is just burning!...

Playlist 2018-04-30:

*Muhal Richard Abrams: One Line, Two Views
*Tony Allen: The Source
*Arthur Blythe/In the Tradition: 1982-02-18 Village Vanguard, NYC (CDR) (disc 1)
*Peter Brötzmann Trio: Mayday
*Sylvie Courvoisier/Mark Feldman/Ikue Mori/Evan Parker: Miller's Tale
*Fire! Orchestra: Exit!
*Fire! Orchestra: Enter
*Fire! Orchestra: Ritual
*Stan Getz and Joano Gilberto: Getz/Gilberto
*Annette Hanshaw: The Twenties Sweetheart
*Graham Haynes: Transition
*Rob Mazurek/Exploding Star Orchestra Featuring Roscoe Mitchell: Matter Anti-Matter (disc 1)
*Steve Miller/Lol Coxhill: "The Story So Far​.​.​." ".​.​.​Oh Really?" (disc 2)
*Roscoe Mitchell: Songs in the Wind
*Roscoe Mitchell: Bells for the South Side (disc 2)
*Ray Noble & His Orchestra featuring Al Bowlly: The Very Thought of You
*Sun Ra & His Astro-Infinity Arkestra: Sign of the Myth
*Sun Ra & His Arkestra: The Cymbals​/​Symbols Sessions (New York, 1973) (streaming)
*Sun Ra: 1980-02-05 Squat Theatre, NYC (CDR)
*Craig Taborn: Daylight Ghosts
*Cecil Taylor Quartet: 1969-11-02 London (CDR)
*Cecil Taylor Big Band: 1995-07-03 NYC (CDR) (discs 1, 2)
*Cecil Taylor/Tony Oxley: 2007-06-08 London (CDR)
*Cecil Taylor/Tony Oxley: 2007-10-11 Modena, Italy (CDR)
*Fred Astaire: Starring Fred Astaire (disc 1)
*John Barry: Goldfinger (Original Motion Picture Score)
*Flight of the Conchords: Flight of the Conchords
*Grateful Dead: 1969-02-22 Vallejo CA (CDR) (disc 2)
*George Harrison: All Things Must Pass (disc 2)
*King Crimson: Live In Vienna (disc 1)
*Dean Martin: The Essential Dean Martin
*Lee Perry: I Am the Upsetter (disc 4)
*Todd Rundgren: Runt + The Alternate Runt (disc 2)
*Sonic Youth: NYC Ghosts & Flowers
*Sonic Youth: Murray Street
*Sonic Youth: Sonic Nurse
*Sonic Youth with Mats Gustafsson and Merzbow: Andre Sider Af Sonic Youth
*Various artists: History of Electronic/Electroacoustic Music (CDR compilation) (discs 5, 6)
*Various artists: Eccentric Soul: Smart's Palace
*Yes: 1975-07-23 Providence RI (CDR) (disc 2)

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