Playlist for the Unpopular Music webcast for March 30, 2019

Today we belatedly celebrate World Piano Day, which was yesterday, as March 29 is the 88th day of the year. (I only heard about this in a promotional email, so as far as I know, Deutsche Grammophon made the whole thing up.) We feature a variety of jazz, contemporary classical and one or two oddities, all featuring the piano.

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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
Billy Taylor Trio	Local Color/Can you dig it ?	Urban Griot	Billy Taylor (p) Chip Jackson (b) Winard Harper (d)	Soundpost 2000
Randy Weston	Hi-Fly	African Rhythms	Randy Weston (p) Henry Texier (b) Art Taylor (d) Azzedin Niles Weston, Reebop Kwaku Baah (prc)	Comet Records 1969
Bud Powell	Sure Thing	The Amazing Bud Powell, Volume Two	Bud Powell (p) George Duvivier (b), Art Taylor (d) tune by Jerome Kern and Ira Gershwin	Blue Note 1953
Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn	Tonk	Piano Duets: Great Times!		Riverside 1950
Thelonious Monk Trio	Nutty	Thelonious Monk & Sonny Rollins	Thelonious Monk (p) Percy Heath (b) Art Blakey (d)	Prestige 1954
Wayne Horvitz	This New Generation	This New Generation	music behind DJ	Nonesuch 1985
Maro Ajemian	Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano - Sonata II	The 25 Year Retrospective Concert of the Music of John Cage	music by John Cage	Wergo 1958
Bobby Previte	Quinella	Weather Clear, Track Fast	Bobby Previte (d) Don Byron (clt) Anthony Cox (b) Marty Ehrlich (flt) Robin Eubanks (tbn) Graham Haynes (trp) Steve Gaboury (p)	enja 1991
Andrew Hill	Sophisticated Lady	Hommage	tune by Duke Ellington, Irving Mills and Mitchell Parish	East Wind 1975
Lester Young Trio	Mean to Me	Lester Young Trio	Lester Young (ts) Nat "King" Cole (p) Buddy Rich (d)	Verve 1946
Spaceheads	Trip to the Moon	Trip to the Moon EP	music behind DJ	Electric Brass 2014
Kenny Barron & Dave Holland	In Walked Bud	The Art of Conversation	Kenny Barron (p) Dave Holland (b) tune by Thelonious Monk	Impulse! 2014
Casiokids	En Vill Hest (Prins Thomas Remix) [edit]	Topp stemning på lokal bar	music behind DJ	Polyvinyl 2010
Red Garland	I can't give you anything but love	Red Garland's Piano	Red Garland (p) Paul Chambers (b) Art Taylor (d)	Prestige 1956
Herman Chittison	As Time Goes By	Masters of Classic Jazz: Piano	song by Herman Hupfeld	Soundies 1945
Vicky Chow	Bones (from Aorta)	A O R T A	music by Daniel Wohl	New Amsterdam 2016
Pierre-Laurent Aimard	Piano Études (Book Two) - VIII: Fém	György Ligeti Edition Vol. 3 - Works for Piano	music by György Ligeti	Sony Classical 1996
Paul Motian	Ruby, my dear	Monk in Motian	Paul Motian (d) Joe Lovano (ts) Bill Frisell (g) Geri Allen (p)	JMT 1988
Paul Bley	Closer	Open, To Love	music by Carla Bley	ECM 1972
Ran Blake / Jaki Byard	Victoria	Improvisations	Ran Blake (in the right channel) Jaki Byard (on the left) tune by Greg Silberman	Northeastern 1981
Alan Feinberg	Piano Sonata No. 3 – III	Charles Wuorinen - Piano Works	composition by Charles Wuorinen	Col Legno 1994
Don Pullen	Reap the Whirlwind	New Beginnings	Don Pullen (p) Gary Peacock (b) Tony Williams (d)	Blue Note 1989
Marco Benevento	Fearless	Live on WFMU's Irwin 10-10-12	with Dave Dreiwitz (b) song by David Gilmour and Roger Waters	available on the Free Music Archive
Michael Gordon	My Frig	Light Is Calling	music behind DJ	Nonesuch 2004
Kenny Kirkland	Criss Cross	Kenny Kirkland	Kenny Kirkland (p) Branford Marsalis (ts) Andy Gonzalez (b) Steve Berros (d) Jerry Gonzales (prc)tune by Thelonious Monk	GRP 1991