Playlist for the Unpopular Music webcast for November 14, 2015

or, Something awful has happened in Paris

I was on my way to hear John Zorn's Simulacrum at the Institute for Contemporary Art, when I spotted a TV through a window reporting last night's terrorist attacks in Paris. Having an hour or so to spend in one of my least favorite parts of Boston (partly because of it's lack of casual dining), I found myself in a doughnut shop reading news reports, being particularly sickened by the massacre at the music venue, not just because I was on my way to one myself, but because an abundance of live music is one of the pleasures of big city living.

Unpopular Music - November 14, 2015 by Unpopularfred on Mixcloud

Reading that last sentence back made it seem a bit self-indulgent (please Mr. Terrorist, don't kill me. I'm just here for the good vibes), but music brings together people and peoples, it's a way we can live among each other but also any way to present and experience our (personally and culturally) unique points of view.  If that sentiment (and the inclusion of "Give peace a chance") makes me to be a naive, pie in the sky optimist, so be it. I'd rather be that than a raving, violent lunatic forcing the world to be just like me. Even though I often end up feeling like the later when trying to be the former.

(And even that seems self-indulgent considering the many who are now dead, and the pain and sorrow of their loved ones, which I certainly don't mean to diminish, and who have my deepest sympathy.) 

But I know this will only extend the cycle of violence that I, as an American, am participating in anyway,  (as in earlier news of the week) whether I like it or not (and I don't). As Charles P. Pierce from the Esquire Politics Blog puts it - 

The body count will climb. The retribution will be swift and harsh, as will the inevitable reaction, and as will the retribution for the reaction. [...] Something awful has happened in Paris. Out of it will be born something awful in the collective mind and the collective heart and the collective soul. I wish I weren't so sure of this...

So for the time being, let's put that behind us and have some music, some of which is a testament to the greatness of the city of Paris, which has for centuries held a special place in imaginations, the collective mind, heart , and soul of persons all over the world, which we will not allow to taken from us. We will always have Paris.

artist	song	album	comment	label / date
Jonathan Richman	Give Paris one more chance	Jonathan Sings!	special guest 1st part of theme	Sire 1983
Naked City	Inside Straight	Naked City	2nd part of theme	Nonesuch 1989
Donald Byrd	Hank's Other Tune (aka The Late Show)	The Transition Sessions	Donald Byrd (trp) Hank Mobley (ts, tune) Horace Silver (p) Doug Watkins (b) Art Blakey (d) Recorded in Harvard Square, Cambridge, Mass on December 2, 1955. Originally issued as Byrd's Eye View	Blue Note 1955
Bud Powell	Parisian Thoroughfare	The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 1	Bud Powell (p) Curley Russell (b) Max Roach (d)	Blue Note 1951
Herman Chittison	My Old Flame	Masters of Classic Jazz: The Piano	song by Sam Coslow and Arthur Johnston	Soundies 1945
Wayne Horvitz	This New Generation	This New Generation	music behind DJ	Nonesuch 1985
Deerhoof	No one asked to dance	Deerhoof vs. Evil	John Dieterich, Ed Rodriguez (g) Satomi Matsuzaki (voc, b) Greg Saunier (d)	Polyvinyl 2011
Clusone Trio	Love Henry	Love Henry	Michael Moore (as, mld) Ernst Reijseger (vc) Han Bennink (d, prc) Recorded live at the 27th German Jazz Festival, Frankfurt, July 13, 1996, traditional arr. Michael Moore	Gramavision 1996
Kim Koschka	The Terminal Beach (Permutazione for Chamber Ensemble)	Bella Maniera	all instruments by Kim Koschka, Jim Goetsch (voc)	2000
The Maya Beiser / Steven Schick Project	Gada Yina African	Caught by the Sky with Wire	Maya Beiser (vc) Steven Schick (prc) traditional	oo discs 2001
Christina Åstrand / Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra / Thomas Dausgaard	Helle Nacht: Violin Concerto - IV: Poco allegro	Ligeti/Nørgård Violin Concertos	composition by Per Nørgård	Chandos 1999
Spaceheads	Trip to the Moon	Trip to the Moon EP	music behind DJ	Electric Brass 2014
Louis Armstrong	Give peace a chance	Louis Armstrong and His Friends	song by John Lennon and Paul McCartney	RCA 1970
Casiokids	En Vill Hest (Prins Thomas Remix) [edit]	Topp stemning på lokal bar	music behind DJ	Polyvinyl 2010
DKV and Gustafsson/Pupillo/Nilssen-Love	All out [excerpt]	SCHL8HOF	Ken Vandermark (clt, ts) Mats Gustafsson (ts, bs) Kent Kessler (b) Massimo Pupillo (electric b) Hamid Drake, Paal Nilssen-Love (d) recorded live at Schlachthof Wels, Austria in 2011	trost records 2011
Ran Blake	Paris	Ghost Tones	Ran Blake (p)	A-side Records 2010
Philip Glass Ensemble	Einstein on the Beach - Act I, scene 2: Trial - Paris	Einstein on the Beach	Samuel M. Johnson (voc) Michael Riesman (org) music by Philip Glass, text by Samuel M. Johnson	Tomato 1978
The Robins	I Love Paris	There's a riot goin' on - The Coasters on ATCO	the original incarnation of the Coasters song by Cole Porter	Rhino 1955
Souvenirs de Django Reinhardt	Swing de Paris	Souvenirs de Django Reinhardt, Vol. 1	Django Reinhardt (g) Gerard Leveque (cl) Eugene Vees (g) Emmanuel Soudieux (b) Andre Jourdan (d) song by Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli	Jazz Classics 1947
Arturo Benedetti Michelangelli	Préludes, Book 1 - 5. Les collines d'Anacapri	Claude Debussy: Préludes - Vol. 1 – Images	music by Claude Debussy	Deutsche Grammophon 1978
Wayne Shorter	Aung San Suu Kyi	Footprints Live!	Wayne Shorter (ss) Danilo Pérez (p) John Patitucci (b) Brian Blade (d)	Verve 2001
Naked City	The Sicilian Clan	Naked City	music behind DJ	Nonesuch 1989
Les Djinns	Nadia (Instrumental)	1970's Algerian Folk and Pop		Sublime Frequencies 197?
tUnE-yArDs	Left Behind	Nikki Nack	Merrill Garbus (voc, d, pads, uke, d prog) Nate Brenner (syn, prc) Thao Nguyen (voc, g) Lalin St. Juste, Michelle Alexander) song by Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner includes a sample of “Travels with Charlie” by Bill Garbus	4AD 2014
The Section	Lucky	Strung Out on OK Computer - The String Quartet Tribute to Radiohead	music behind DJ	Vitamin 2001
Kenny Kirkland	Celia	Kenny Kirkland	Kenny Kirkland (p, syn) Don Alais (prc) tune by Bud Powell	GRP 1991