Unpopular Music - January 18, 2021

The first upload of 2021 is a grab-bag of recent acquisitions to the Unpopular Music library. A lot of the same old faces, and not even the first stunt arrangement of Satie's First Gnossienne that I've posted, but all worthy of checking out.

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See the playlist after the break...

artist	title	album	comments	label / date
Dave Nelson	Seeking the Warmth of Crowds	Seeking the Warmth of Crowds	Instruments used: Ciat-Lonbarde Cocoquantas 2, Teenage Engineering OP-1, Moog Minitaur, trombone, voice, cassette loops	self-release 2020
Maisha	Africa	Welcome To A New Welcome	Jake Long (d) Nubya Garcia (ts) Shirley Tetteh (g) Amane Suganami (keys) Twm Dylan (b) Tim Doyle (prc) tune by John Coltrane	jazz re:freshed 2016
Dan Willis and Velvet Gentlemen	First Gnossienne	The Satie Project	Dan Willis (ts, ss, obe, eng hrn, flt, pcc, clt, b clt) Duduk) Chuck MacKinnon (trp, flg, elec) Pete McCann (g) Ron Oswanski (org, acrd) Kermit Driscoll (b, prc) Jonathan Owens (trp) Tim Sessions (tbn) Richard Sosinsky (b) John Hollenbeck (d, prc) Antoine Silverman (vln) music by Erik Satie, arr. Dan Willis	Daywood Drive Records 2010
Juana Molina	Paraguaya / Paraguaya Punk	ANRMAL	with Odín Schwartz (keys, b, Guitar, voc) Pablo González (d) Recorded at the NRMAL Festival in Mexico, in early March 2020	Crammed Discs 2020
Dave Holland, Chris Potter, Lionel Loueke, Eric Harland	Blue Sufi	AZIZA	Dave Holland (b) Chris Potter (ts, tune) Lionel Loueke (g) Eric Harland (d)	self release 2016
Thelonious Monk	Well, You Needn’t	Palo Alto	Thelonious Monk (p) Charlie Rouse (ts) Larry Gales (b) Ben Riley (d)	Impusle! 1968
Bill Frisell	A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing	Valentine	Bill Frisell (g) Thomas Morgan (b) Rudy Royston (d) song by Billy Strayhorn	Blue Note 2020
Bob Dylan	Goodbye Jimmy Reed	Rough and Rowdy Ways	Bob Dylan (voc, g, hrmc) Charlie Sexton, Bob Britt (g) Donnie Herron (stl gtr) Tony Garnier (b) Matt Chamberlain (d)	Columbia 2020
Mary Halvorson's Code Girl	Mexican War Streets (Pittsburgh)	Artlessly Falling	Mary Halvorson (g) Amirtha Kidambi (voc) Maria Grand (ts, voc) Adam O'Farrill (trp) Michael Formanek (b) Tomas Fujiwara (d)	Firehouse 12 Records 2020
John Coltrane	Naima (take 1)	Blue World	John Coltrane (ts) McCoy Tyner (p) Jimmy Garrison (b) Elvin Jones (d)	Impulse! 1964
Miles Davis	Maze	Rubberband	Miles Davis (trp) Bob Berg (ss) Mike Stern (g) Robert Irving III (keys) Angus Thomas (b) Vince Wilburn Jr. (d) Steve Thorton, Marilyn Mazur (prc)	Rhino 1985/2019