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Saturday, October 21, 2017

Playlist for the Unpopular Music Webcast for October 21, 2017

After immersing myself in Monk last week, the temptation to make this week's program out of last week's leftovers was rather strong. The temptation became even stronger as the time and energy to assemble a new program was getting shorter. So while there's one leftover, we have a somewhat arbitrary assortment of jazz, afro-pop, electronic, film music and a contemporary classical extravaganza.


Plus, if you love bass solos, well the second set is for you.



The latter refers to Arvo Pärt's Credo, itself a combination of various influences, somewhat in the "poly-stylic" method of Pärt's contemporary Alfred Schnittke. Both composers were somewhat fed up with the limitations forced on them by the Soviet music system. Pärt also wished to express his religious beliefs, which was forbidden in Soviet music. So, in 1970 to write a piece this avant-garde while also setting the Credo from the Latin Mass Latin translations of a passage from the Gospel of Matthew was a rather dangerous thing. It's avant-garde, but also anti-avant-garde. Bach and God battle against the howling of modernism (with the chorus chanting "eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth"), ending it all on a giant emphatic divine C major chord. It was at this point where Pärt began his retreat into the solemn, contemplative music for which he eventually became famous.


artist
title
album
comments
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
Mulatu Astatke Chifara (Stereo Master) Mulatu of Ethiopia

Strut
1972
Ornette Coleman Sound Museum Sound Museum: Hidden Man Ornette Coleman (as, trp) Geri Allen (p) Charnette Moffet (b) Denardo Coleman (d)
Harmolodic
1996
Herbie Nichols Every Cloud Love, Gloom, Cash, Love Herbie Nichols (p) George Duvivier (b) Dannie Richmond (d)
Bethlehem
1957
Wayne Horvitz This New Generation This New Generation music behind DJ
Nonesuch
1985
John Coltrane Ascent - Take 7, Complete Insert 4 Sun Ship - The Complete Session John Coltrane (ts) McCoy Tyner (p) Jimmy Garrison (b) Elvin Jones (d)
Impulse!
1965
Eric Revis Glyph Sing Me Some Cry Eric Revis (b) Ken Vandermark (ts) Kris Davis (p) Chad Taylor (d)
Clean Feed Records
2017
Charlie Haden with Hampton Hawes Turnaround The Golden Number
Charlie Haden (b) Hampton Hawes (p)
tune by Ornette Coleman
A&M / Horizon
1976
Air B. K. Air Mail
Henry Threadgill (flt) Fred Hopkins (b) Steve McCall (d, tune)
dedicated to Bobbie Kingsley, credited as a photographer on several AACM albums
Black Saint
1980
Nadia Sirota and Nico Muhly Etude 1 First Things First music behind DJ
New Amsterdam
2010
Chris Spedding Work That's the way I feel now - A tribute to Thelonious Monk Chris Spedding, Peter Frampton (g) Marcus Miller (b) Anton Fig (d)
A&M
1984
Yo La Tengo Georgia vs. Yo La Tengo Summer Sun music behind DJ
Matador
2003
Mokoomba Mokole Luyando Mathias Muzaza (voc, prc) Trustworth Samende (g, voc) Donald Moyo (keys, voc) Abundance Mutori (b, voc) Ndaba Coster Moyo (d) Miti Mugande (prc, voc)
Out Here Records
2017
Laurie Spiegel Drums The Expanding Universe
1970s Computer Music from Bell Labs
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Unseen Words
1975
Holger Czukay Hollywood Symphony Movies Holger Czukay (voc, g, keys. short waves, b) Jaki Liebezeit (d, prc) Harvest
1980
Hélèn Grimaud;
Swedish Radio Choir; Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra;
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Credo Credo music by Arvo Pärt
Deutsche Grammophon
2003
Bernard Gerard Finale (To Yelasto Pedi) Z [original soundtrack] music by Mikis Theodorakis adapted by Bernard Gerard
"The smiling boy"
Columbia
1969
Yo La Tengo Tired Hippo And then nothing turned itself inside-out music behind DJ
Matador
2000
Kraftwerk Franz Schubert / Endless Endless Trans-Europe Express music by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider
Capitol
1977

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