Playlist for the Unpopular Music Webcast for September 8, 2018

Today's program follows the usual template of jazzy first hour, less-jazzy second hour. We remember Randy Weston and Khaira Arby. (Over on Mixcloud, PFKToledo gives Randy a proper sendoff.) There's a jazzy-yet -haunting piece from between-wars Germany. There's some afro-jazz, some swinging library music, a few, let's say, "jazz-aware" classical pieces. And more, including a song which reminds me of my time working in the CD department of a bookstore where I had no jazz, or really any good records to play (imagine a context where the James Taylor Christmas Album is the album you actually look forward to.)

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See the playlist after the break...

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 Records 1989
Pat Metheny	Tharsis	Tap: John Zorn's Book of Angels, Vol. 20	Antonio Sachez (d) Pat Metheny (all other instruments) composition by John Zorn, arr. Pat Metheny	Tzadik 2013
Machiko Ozawa, Ryo Yanagitani	Escualo	Mi Oblivion	Machiko Ozawa (vln) Ryo Yanagitani (p) music by Astor Piazzolla	Composers Concordance 2018
Naked City	Chinatown	Naked City	John Zorn (as) Bill Frisell (g) Wayne Horvitz (keys) Fred Frith (b) Joey Baron (d) composition by Jerry Goldsmith	Nonesuch 1989
Mulatu Astatke	Kulunmanqueleshi (Stereo Master)	Mulatu of Ethiopia		Worthy Records 1972
R. Weis	Parrot & Paperback, Pt. II	Parrot & Paperback	music behind DJ	CD Baby 2015
Thumbscrew	Words That Rhyme With Spangle (angle bangle dangle jangle mangel mangle strangle tangle wangle wrangle)	Ours	Michael Formanek (b, tune) Tomas Fujiwara (d) Mary Halvorson (g)	Cuneiform Records 2017
Ensemble Accanto	Blues - "Stimmen Aus Dem Massengrab" - Marsch	Counterpoise	Christian Dierstein (prc, voc) Tomoko Hemmi, Yukiko Sugawara (p) Marcus Weiss, Martin Neher (sax) Marco Blauuw (trp) Frank Wörner, Marco Blauuw, Marcus Weiss, Martin Neher (voc) composition by Stefan Wolpe, text by Erich Kästner	Hat [now]Art 1998
Archie Shepp	Naima	Four for Trane	Archie Shepp (ts) Alan Shorter (flg) Roswell Rudd (tbn, arr.) John Tchicai (as) Reggie Workman (b) Charles Moffett (d) tune by John Coltrane	Impulse! 1964
Randy Weston	Solemn Meditation	Solo, Duo & Trio	Randy Weston (p, RIP) Sam Gill (b, tune) Art Blakey (d) originally from Trio and Solo more music and interview here	Milestone 1955
Nadia Sirota and Nico Muhly	Etude 1	First Things First	music behind DJ	New Amsterdam 2010
Ron Sexsmith	Jazz At The Bookstore	Time Being	Ron Sexsmith (voc, g) Val McCallum (g) Mitchell Froom (keys) David Farragher (b) Pete Thomas (d)	V2 Records 2006
Asiko Rock Group	Lagos City	Asiko Rock Group	music behind DJ	EMI Nigeria 1974
Khaira Arby	Sallou	Timbuktu Tarab	Khaira Arby (voc, RIP) Abellow Yattara (lte) Zoumane Tereta (vln) Dramane Touré (g) Mahalmadane Traoré (d) Baba Laraw (b) M’Barka Dembelé (g) Inna Diarra, Abdrahamane Cissé (voc)	Clermont 2013
Fol Chen	The Holograms	Part II: The New December		Asthmatic Kitty 2010
Gerhard Trede & His Electronic Instruments	Motion Study 3	Phasing Drums & Electronic Sounds		Selected Songs 1973
Mia Wu	Toccata for Violin and Player Piano	A Continuum Portrait 5 - Conlon Nancarrow	music by Conlon Nancarrow	Naxos 1989
Pere Ubu	Young Miles in the Basement	Datapanik in the Year Zero [Box]	David Thomas (voc, org) Mayo Thompson (g, p, voc) Allen Ravenstine (syn) Tony Maimone (b, p, org) Scott Krauss (d, hrn, p) originally from The Art of Walking	DGC 1980
Group for Contemporary Music	Trio for bass instruments	Wuorinen Trios	Donald Palma (b) David Taylor (b tbn) David Braynard (tba) composition by Charles Wuorinen	Koch International 1991
Evelyn Glennie	To the Earth	Drumming	composition by Frederick Rzewski text: Homeric hymn for four clay pots played with knitting needles or light sticks	Catalyst 1994
Eclectic Music eXtravaganza	Migration Song	Eclectic Music eXtravaganza	Gene Pritsker (cnd, comp) Bell (beat boxer) Clair Obscur Sax Quartet (Jan Schulte Bunert (ss) Maike Krullmann (as) Christoph Enzel (ts) Kathi Wagner (bs)) Kai Schumacher (p) Nikolai Scharnofske (b) Philipp Bernhardt (d)	Composers Concordance 2018
Shintaro Sakamoto	Birth of the Super Cult	Let's Dance Raw	Shintaro Sakamoto (voc, g, bnj, prc, voc) Aya (b, elec p, voc) Fuko Nakamura (voc) Yuta Suganuma (d, prc, voc) Hiroshi Hatsuyama (vbs)	Zelone Records 2014
Khruangbin	Mr. White	The Universe Smiles Upon You	music behind DJ	LateNightTales 2015
Jimmy Smith	The Jumpin' Blues	The Best Of Jimmy Smith: The Blue Note Years	Jimmy Smith (org) Stanley Turrentine (ts) Kenny Burrell (g) Donald Bailey (d) originally on Midnight Special composed by Walter Brown, Jay McShann and Charlie Parker	Blue Note 1960