Playlist for the Unpopular Music Webcast for March 18, 2017

A mixed bag today, we start with some hard bop and then jump around a bit. Maybe too many downers in the second hour, but it perks up towards the end.

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See the playlist after the break...

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
Misha Mengelberg	House Party Starting	Change of Season	Misha Mengelberg (p, RIP) Steve Lacy (ss) George Lewis (tbn) Arjen Gorter (b) Han Bennink (d) tune by Herbie Nichols	Soul Note 1985
Sun Ra & His Arkestra	Big City Blues	Singles	Sun Ra (p) Kelan Phil Cohran (trp) Marshall Allen (as) John Gilmore (ts) Nate Pryor (tbn) Ronnie Boykins (b) Jon Hardy (d)	Strutt Records 1960
Harold Land	One Second, Please	The Fox	Harold Land (ts) Dupree Bolton (trp) Elmo Hope (p, tune) Herbie Lewis (b) Frank Butler (d)	Contemporary 1959
Wayne Horvitz	This New Generation	This New Generation	music behind DJ	Nonesuch 1985
Herbie Nichols	All the way	Love, Gloom, Cash, Love	Herbie Nichols (p) George Duvivier (b) Dannie Richmond (d) song by Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn	Bethlehem 1957
John Surman	An Illusive Shadow	Coruscating	John Surman (ss, ctb clt) Chris Laurence (b) Trans4mation - Rita Manning, Keith Pascoe (vln) Bill Hawkes (vla) Nick Cooper (vc)	ECM 1999
Paul Motian Band	Fantasm	Psalm	Paul Motian (d) Billy Drewes (as) Joe Lovano (ts) Bill Frisell (g) Ed Schuller (b)	ECM 1981
Henry Threadgil Zooid	A Day Off	Tomorrow Sunny / The Revelry, Spp	Henry Threadgill (flt, as) Liberty Ellman (g) Christopher Hoffman (vc) Jose Davila (tbn, tba) Stomu Takeishi (b) Elliot Humberto Kavee (d)	Pi Recordings 2011
Naked City	The Sicilian Clan	Naked City	music behind DJ	Nonesuch 1985
Tycho	Slack	Epoch	Scott Hansen (g, syn, bass) Zac Brown (b, g) Rory O'Connor (d)	Ghostly International 2016
Asiko Rock Group	Lagos City	Asiko Rock Group	music behind DJ	EMI Nigeria 1972
Sō Percussion	Threads - V: Recitative	Threads	music by Paul Lansky	Cantaloupe Music
Leopold Stokowski; San Francisco Opera Chorus; San Francinso Symphony Orchestra	Boris Godunov: Act 4, Scene 1 - A forest clearing near Kromy (Revolutionary Scene)	Stokowski conducts scenes from Russian and German Opera	Nicola Rossi-Lemeni music by Modest Mussorgsky	Cala 1952
Pierre Boulez, Orchestre du Domaine Musical, Groupe Instrumental a Percussion de Strasbourg	Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum, for 34 winds & 3 percussion - I: Des profondeurs de l'abime...	Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum; Couleurs de la cité celeste	music by Olivier Messiaen	CBS Masterworks 1966
Bernard Herrmann	The .44 magnum is a monster	Taxi Driver – Original Soundtrack Recording	Herrmann died the evening after this recording	Arista 1975
Pierre Boulez; Le Domaine Musical	Hyperprisme	Le «Domaine Musical» de Pierre Boulez	music by Edgard Varèse	Ades 1958
The Art of Noise	Instruments of Darkness	In Visible Silence	music by Anne Dudley, J. J. Jeczalik and Gary Langan This track samples a speech by PW Botha (South African President, Durban, 15 August 1985) “destructive actions of barbaric communist agitators”, a speech by Rev Ian Paisley (1985, Belfast City Hall) “Never never never” and a sample of Neil Kinnock (Labour Party Leader) “Your agony must endure forever” [source]	Chrysalis 1986
Nico	Frozen Warnings	The Marble Index	Nico (voc, hrm) John Cale (other instruments and production)	Elektra 1969
The Baird Sisters	New Green Place	Until You Find Your Green	Laura and Meg Baird	Ba Da Bing Records 2012
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin	Dead Right (Wilmington demo)	Tape Club		Polyvinyl 2007
Cannonball Adderley	O Amor Em Paz [excerpt]	Ballads	music behind DJ	Blue Note 1962
Art Ensemble of Chicago	Zero	The Third Decade	Lester Bowie (trp) Joseph Jarman, Roscoe Mitchell (woodwinds) Malachai Favors (b) Don Moye (d) everyone plays percussion	ECM 1984