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.

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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 read more here	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