A few days ago, when it was still November for a few more hours, I was in line at the supermarket check out, with headphones on as per usual, over which, before I took them off to interact with the cashier1, was playing the Beatles' "In my life" (one of John Lennon's greatest songs) to be greeted, for the first time of the season, by the strains of "Happy Xmas (War is Over)", one of Lennon's worst.2 And so, this is Christmas...
Today we offer some music other than what bothers you while you're waiting in the check-out line when you feel it's too early for Christmas music (who does Christmas shopping at the grocery store anyway?). A jazzy first hour, that ends with a couple of pop songs. An, I-don't-know, atmospheric, contemplative, ponderous second hour follows.
Playlist and footnotes after the break...
1 For those of you who have never worked in retail, this is the civilized thing to do. This applies to talking on your mobile phone as well.
2 The most irredeemable part - "Now - ow - ow - ow." Even before the children start singing it.
| artist | song | album | comment | label / date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Katie Lee | Real Sick Sounds | Songs of Couch and Consultation | 1st part of theme | Commentary Records 1957 |
| Naked City | Inside Straight | Naked City | 2nd part of theme | Nonesuch 1989 |
| Thelonious Monk | Off Minor | Monk's Music | Take 4 Ray Copeland (trp) Gigi Gryce (as) Coleman Hawkins, John Coltrane (ts) Wilbur Ware (b) Art Blakey (d) |
Riverside 1957 |
| Wayne Shorter | Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum | Speak No Evil | Wayne Shorter (ts) Freddie Hubbard (trp) Herbie Hancock (p) Ron Carter (b) Elvin Jones (d) | Blue Note 1964 |
| Sonny Clark | Blues Mambo | Blues Mambo | Sonny Clark (p) George Duvivier (b) Max Roach (d) | West Wind 1960 |
| Wayne Horvitz | This New Generation | This New Generation | music behind DJ | Elektra Musician 1985 |
| Ground Zero | Yume no Hansyu | Ground Zero Plays Standards | Otomo Yoshihide (turntables) Uchihaski Kazuhisa (g) Matsubara
Sachiko (syn) Kikucki Naruyoshi (ss, ts) Tanaka Yukimo (shamisen,
voc) Nasuno Mitsuru (b, voc) Uemura Masahiro, Yoshigaki Yasuhiro
(prc), Phew (voc) composition by Phew and Yamamoto Seiichi |
DIW 1997 |
| Thomas Stevens, members of the Westwood Woodwind Quintet | Two Little Serious Pieces - I: Allegro | Thomas Stevens, Trumpet | Thomas Stevens (trp) Gretel Shanley (pcc) Peter Christ (obe)
David Atkins (clt) Roger Greenberg (bs) composition by Silvestre Revueltas |
Crystal Records |
| John Tchicai & Cadentia Nova Danica | This is Heaven | Afrodisiaca | John Tchicai (as, ss) Hugh Steinmetz (trp) Willem Breuker (ts)
Pierre Doerge (g) Theo Rahbek (trp) Mauritz Tchicai (trb, sph)
Joergen Thorup (clt) Michael Schou (as, flt) Willy Jagert
(oph)Sune Weimar (as) Christian Kyhl (as, ss) Mogens Bollerup (ts)
Ole Kühl (ts, as) Ole Matthissen, Ole Thilo (org) Claus Boeje,
Jon Finsen (d) Anthony Barnett (prc, tbl) music by Talbot O'Farrell |
MPS 1969 |
| Orrin Evans | Mumbo Jumbo | Liberation Blues | Sean Jones (trp) JD Allen (ts) Orrin Evans (p) Luques Curtis
(b) Bill Stewart (d) tune by Paul Motian |
Smoke Sessions Records
2014 |
| Bud Powell | Ornithology | The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 1 | Bud Powell (p) Tommy Potter (b) Roy Haynes (d) tune by Charlie Parker and Barry Harris |
Blue Note 1949 |
| Tinariwen | Imidiwan Ma Tenam | Tassili |
with guest guitarist Nels Cline
song by Ibrahim Ag Alhabib |
Anti 2010 |
| Spaceheads | Trip To The Moon | Trip To The Moon EP | music behind DJ | Electric Brass 2014 |
| Sean Rowe | Horses | The Salesman & The Shark | Sean Rowe (voc, g) Woody Jackson (g, keys) Gus Seyffert (b) Danny Frankel (d) Davey Chegwidden (prc) Jennavive Varga (vln) Octetto Magnifico | Anti 2012 |
| Nick Lowe & Los Straitjackets | Raging Eyes | The Quality Holiday Revue (Live) | Nick Lowe (voc, g) Eddie Angel, Danny Amis (g) Pete Curry (b) Jason Smay (d) | Yep Roc Records 2014 |
| Yo La Tengo | Georgia vs. Yo La Tengo | Summer Sun | music behind DJ | Matador 2003 |
| Thomas Stevens and Michael Peters | Encounters III, for trumpet and percussion - I: Strategy | Thomas Stevens, Trumpet | composition by William Craft | Crystal Records 1989 |
| John Medeski and Sō Percussion | Terminals 5 [excerpt] | Terminals | composition by Bobby Previte | Cantaloupe
2014 |
| Bing & Ruth | And Then It Rained | City Lake | David Moore (p, composer) Jeremy Viner, Patrick Breiner (clt) Greg Heffernan, Leigh Stuart (vc) Becca Stevens, Jean Rohe (voc) Jeff Ratner(b) Myk Freedman (lap-steel g) Mike Effenberger (tape-delay) Chris Berry (prc) | RVNG Intl. 2010 |
| Ennio Morricone | Astrazione Con Ritmo | Crime And Dissonance | From the film Il Serpente | Ipecac Records 1973 |
| amalgamated | Borborygmus IX | amalgamated | Amalgamated is: Phil Klampe Bob Newell Cory Bengtsen Mike Richards D. Petri |
Intangible Cat sometime between 2004 and 2007 |
| Jace Clayton | Gay Guerrilla - Part V | The Julius Eastman Memory Depot | David Friend, Emily Manzo (p) Jace Clayton (aka DJ/rupture) (elec) |
New Amsterdam 2013
|
| Roomful of Teeth | The Ascendant - The Fence is Gone | Render | composition by Wally Gunn special guest Jason Treuting on percussion |
New Amsterdam 2015 |
| Boston Symphony Chamber Players | Contrasts, for violin, clarinet and piano, BB 116 - III: Sebes (first dance) | Harold Wright - Clarinet Concert No. 5 | Joseph Silverstein (vln, RIP) Harold Wright (clt) Gilbert Kalish (p) |
Boston Records
1977 |
| Manu Dibango | Lakisane | Manu Dibango (aka Collection Blanche) | music behind DJ |
disques fesstival
1971 |
| Dave Douglas | Etiquette | High Risk | Dave Douglas (trp) Shigeto (elec) Johnathan Maron (b) Mark Guiliana (d) |
Greenleaf
2015 |
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