This month we have a sort of
new-additions-to-the-Unpopular-Music-Library program. A couple of
Bandcamp binges, a couple of record fair picks and one from the back
catalog to help us transition out of the ether to the sublimely
ridiculous (you'll figure it out). Not terribly jazzy, but a number
of hard to classify selections.
See the playlist after the jump...
This month, things start a bit raucous before mellowing out for a while, before getting noisy again around the 50 minute mark, before heading to a swinging ending.
See the playlist after the break...
A program featuring some new discoveries, some rediscoveries, and some stuff I should have discovered decades ago.
I for some reason had poo-pooed the early-70's Charles Mingus big-band albums, mostly because the arrangements were farmed out to Sy Johnson, fearing the results would be like the kind of meh Monk's Dream from a few years earlier. After a kind of random introduction to both albums, my sincere apologies to Mr. Johnson.
A pit stop at a record store in Vermont led me to the Gil Mellé and Elmo Hope albums. Digging through my own boxes revealed a David Byrne soundtrack album I'd not really given full consideration. And more...
And for the opener, as this program likes to remind you, just because it's played by an orchestra doesn't mean you can't turn it up!
See the playlist after the break...
Well here we posting a little bit later each moth. This month it's a sort of what-have-I-heard-lately program without any (intended) connecting theme As always I fail at trying to repeat certain artists too often. Here's Dave Holland again, and Bill Frisell sneaks in through a side door. All and all it's a mostly jazzy show, a couple of pop songs with outside influences thrown in. And if your the unlucky person who had "Chopin Etude" on their bingo card, well this program's for you.
See the playlist after the break...
artist
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title
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album
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comments
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label / date
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Roy Haynes Quartet |
Snap Crackle |
Out of the Afternoon |
Roy Haynes (d) Roland Kirk (tenor saxophone, manzello, stritch, C flute, nose flute) Tommy Flanagan (p) Henry Grimes (b) |
Impulse! 1962 |
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George Russell and his Smalltet |
Livingstone, I presume |
The Jazz Workshop |
Barry Galbraith (g) Art Farmer (trp) Hal McKusick (as) Milt Hinton (b) Bill Evans (p) Joe Harris (d) |
RCA 1956 |
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Artie Shaw and his Gramercy Five |
Dr. Livingstone, I presume |
Self Portrait |
Artie Shaw (clt) Billy Butterfield (trp) Johnny Guarnieri (hpd) Al Hendrickson (g) Jud DeNaut (b) Nick Fatool (d) |
Bluebird 1940 |
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Russ Garcia and His Orchestra |
Volcanoes of Mercury |
Fantastica - Music from Outer Space |
electronic devices and effects created by Ted Keep |
Liberty 1958 |
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Bill Evans |
Time Remembered |
Bill Evans with Symphony Orchestra |
Bill Evans (p) Chuck Israels (b) Larry Bunker (d) Claus Ogerman (arranger, conductor) |
Verve 1965 |
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The Clientele |
Stems of Anise |
I Am Not There Anymore |
Alasdair MacLean (voc, g, tps, beats, bouzouki,) Mellotron (org) James Hornsey (b, p) Mark Keen (d, prc, p, clst) Sarah Field (trp) Dave Oxley (hrn) Ruth Elder, Non Peters (vln) Stella Page (vla) Sebastian Millett (vc |
Merge 2023 |
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Joni Mitchell |
In France They Kiss on Main Street |
Shadows and Light |
Joni Mitchell (voc, g) Pat Metheny (g) Jaco Pastorius (b) Don Alias (d, prc) Lyle Mays (keys) Live at the Santa Barbara County Bowl, September 9, 1979 |
Asylum 1979
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Kris Davis |
Bird Suite, Part 2: Bird Call Blues |
Diatom Ribbons Live At The Village Vanguard |
Kris Davis (p, syn) Val Jeanty (turntables and electronics) Julian Lage (g) Trevor Dunn (b) Terri Lyne Carrington (d) includes the voices of Olivier Messiaen and Paul Bley, and is influenced by Messiaen’s “Petites Esquisses D’Oiseaux” |
Pyroclastic 2022 |
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Heinz Holliger, Aurèle Nicolet, Ursula Holliger, Basel Ensemble, Jürg Wyttenbach |
Eucalypts I |
Garden Rain |
Heinz Holliger (obe) Aurèle Nicolet (flt) Ursula Holliger (hrp) composition by Tōru Takemitsu |
Deutsche Grammophon 1972 |
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Anthony Davis, James Newton, Abdul Wadud |
After You Said Yes |
I've Known Rivers |
Anthony Davis (p) James Newton (flt, comp) Abdul Wadud (vc) |
Gramavision 1982 |
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Ron Miles |
Mother Juggler |
I Am a Man |
Ron Miles (trp) Bill Frisell (g) Jason Moran (p) Thomas Morgan (b) Brian Blade (d) |
yellowbird 2017 |
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Dave Holland, Zakir Hussain & Chris Potter |
Bedouin Trail |
Good Hope |
Dave Holland (b, tune) Zakir Hussain (tbl) Chris Potter (ts) aka Crisscurrents Trio |
Edition Records 2018 |
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Vladimir Horowitz |
Étude in c-sharp minor, op. 25 no. 7 |
Great Pianists of the 20th Century, Volume 49: Vladimir Horowitz III |
music by Frédéric Chopin |
Philips 1980 |
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Bud Powell |
Woody N' You |
Inner Fires: The Genius of Bud Powell |
Bud Powell (p) Charles Mingus (b) Roy Haynes (d) tune by Dizzy Gillespie |
Elektra Musician 1953 |
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David Murray Octet |
Train Whistle |
New Life |
David Murray (ts, b clt) Baikida Carroll, Hugh Ragin (trp) Craig Harris (tbn) John Purcell (as) Adegoke Steve Colson (p) Wilbur Morris (b) Ralph Peterson Jr. (d) |
Black Saint 1985 |
A day late with the blog entry once again. One of these months.
We have a jazz program this month, but a variety show within the genre, even hitting divergent points on the Herbie Hancock spectrum. Mostly culled from recent additions to the Unpopular Music library, including items I coulda shoulda bought 30 years ago.
See the playlist after the break...
Despite this February having a built in overtime, I only barely managed to finish this month's post in time, but alas not to post it. (I've been putting off putting up a tribute to Peter Schickele for even longer.)
This a variety show mix for sure. Jazz, film music, classical from a variety of centuries, some oddball pop music. Perhaps a bit haphazardly sequenced, but that's how I like it and I'm taking you with me.
See the playlist after the break...
The first offering of 2024. Nothing particularly special. Just some tracks that have been lying around which stood out to me and I thought you all (whoever you are) might enjoy, too.
See the playlist after the jump...
