Playlist for the Unpopular Music webcast for January 5, 2019

We have a kind of subdued program (though not without moments of exuberance) for what turned out to be a rather grey Saturday afternoon in Union Square. It's one of those "let's see what played on my phone the past week" kind of shows, and that's how it came out.

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See the playlist after the break...

artist	title	album	comments	label / date
The Qualities	Happy New Year To You!	Sun Ra - Singles	special guest 1st part of theme unidentified male vocal group with Sun Ra on harmonium and sparse backing from unknown players of guitar, bells and wood block.	Strut Records 1956, 1960 or 1961
Naked City	Inside Straight	Naked City	2nd part of theme	Nonesuch Records 1989
Pat Metheny / Ornette Coleman	Mob Job	Song X	Pat Metheny (g, g syn) Ornette Coleman (as, vln) Charlie Haden (b) Jack DeJohnette, Denardo Coleman (d)	Geffen 1985
Power Tools	Wolf In Sheep's Clothing	Strange Meeting	Bill Frisell (g) Melvin Gibbs (b) Ronald Shannon Jackson (d, tune)	Antilles 1987
Myra Melford's Snowy Egret	Living Music	The Other Side Of Air	Myra Melford (p) Ron Miles (crn) Liberty Ellman (g) Stomu Takeishi (b) Tyshawn Sorey (d)	Firehouse 12 2017
Wayne Horvitz	This New Generation	This New Generation	music behind DJ	Nonesuch 1985
Eric Revis	Solstice….The Girls (For Max & Xixi)	Sing Me Some Cry	Eric Revis (b) Ken Vandermark (clt) Kris Davis (p) Chad Taylor (d)	Clean Feed Records 2016
Eric Dolphy	Out to Lunch	Out to Lunch	Eric Dolphy (b clt, as) Freddie Hubbard (trp) Bobby Hutcherson (vbs) Richard Davis (b) Tony Williams (d)	Blue Note 1964
Bobby Previte	3/4 Pole	Weather Clear, Track Fast	Bobby Previtte (d) Don Byron (clt, bs) Marty Ehrlich (flt) Robin Eubanks (tbn) Graham Haynes (trp) Anthony Davis (p) Anthony Cox (b)	Enja 1991
Walter Davis, Jr.	Bye-Ya	In Walked Thelonious	tune by Thelonious Monk	Mapleshade 1987
Nadia Sirota and Nico Muhly	Etude 1	First Things First	music behind DJ	New Amsterdam 2010
Mokoomba	Vimbe	Luyando	Mathias Muzaza (voc, prc) Trustworth Samende (g, voc) Abundance Mutori (b, voc) Donald Moyo (keys, voc) Ndaba Coster Moyo (d, voc) Miti Mugande (prc, voc)	Out Here Records 2017
Yo La Tengo	Georgia vs. Yo La Tengo	Summer Sun	music behind DJ	Matador 2003
Sun Ra	Island in the Sun	Of Abstract Dreams	Sun Ra (p) John Gilmore (ts) Marshall Allen (flt, as) Danny Ray Thompson (bs, prc)Atakatune (obe, cng) Eddie Thomas (d) Elo Omoe (b clt, hand claps) Akh Tal Ebah (trp, voc) James Jacson (cng, voc)	Strut 1974-5
Alice Coltrane	Er Ra	World Sprituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda	Alice Coltrane-Turiyasangitananda (voc, hrp)	Luaka Bop 1987
Sanford Sylvan, Alan Feinberg	Set No. 1 - II: Tolerance	When The Moon: Songs & Sets for Orchestra	music by Charles Ives, text by Rudyard Kipling	Decca 1995
John Cale	Heartbreak Hotel	Fragments of a Rainy Season	song by Mae Boren Axton, Tommy Durden, and Elvis Presley	Domino Recording 1992
Dennis Russell Davies; Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien	Lighthouse (for strings)	Flux	music by Erkki-Sven Tüür	ECM 1998
Herbie Hancock	Solitude	River: The Joni Letters	Herbie Hancock (p) Dave Holland (b) Vinnie Colaiuta (d) tune by Duke Ellington; Edgar de Lange; Irving Mills	Verve 2007
Joni Mitchell	Refuge of the Roads	Hejira	Joni Mitchell (voc, g) Jaco Pastorius (b) John Guerin (d) Chuck Findley (trp) Tom Scott (ts)	Asylum 1976
Herbie Hancock	Earth Beat	Future Shock	music behind DJ	Columbia 1983
The Beths	Little Death	Future Me Hates Me	Elizabeth Stokes (voc, g) Jonathan Pearce (g, voc) Ivan Luketina-Johnston (d, voc) Benjamin Sinclair (b, voc)	Carpark Records 2018