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Unpopular Music - March 31 2024

 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. 

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 See the playlist after the break...


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Ghost Train Orchestra & Kronos Quartet

The Viking of 6th Avenue

Songs and Symphoniques: The Music of Moondog

composition by Moondog, arr. Curtis Hasselbring

GHOST TRAIN ORCHESTRA

Brian Carpenter, (trp, hrm, voc, musical director) Andy Laster (as, clt) Dennis Lichtman, (b clt) Matt Bauder (bs clt, ts, bs) Sara Schoenbeck (bsn) Colin Stetson (bass sax) Curtis Hasselbring (tbn, g) Ron Caswell (tba) Brandon Seabrook (g) Maxim Moston (vln) Chris Lightcap (b) Rob Garcia (d, xyl) David Cossin (mrb), cajon,

prc)

KRONOS QUARTET

David Harrington, John Sherba (vla) Hank Dutt (vla) Sunny Yang (vc)

Cantaloupe Music

2023

Maya Dunietz

ahoooah

Thank You Tree

Maya Dunietz

(p) Barak Mori (b) Amir Bresler (d)

Raw Tapes

2023

Sonny Rollins with orchestra conducted by Oliver Nelson

Street Runner with Child

Alfie - Original Music from the Score

Sonny Rollins (ts) Oliver Nelson (arr., cnd) Jimmy Cleveland, J. J. Johnson (tbn) Phil Woods (as) Bob Ashton (ts) Danny Bank (bs) Kenny Burrell (g) Roger Kellaway (p) Walter Booker (b) Frankie Dunlop (d)

Impulse!

1966

Hungry March Band

Blue Pepper

Critical Brass

tune by Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington

2005

Teddy Wilson

Minute Steak

Solo Piano: Keystone Transcriptions 1939-1940


Storyville

1939-40

Jimmy Giuffre 3

Flight

1961

Jimmy Giuffre (clt, comp) Paul Bley (p) Steve Swallow

(b)

originally on Thesis

ECM
1961

Jaki Byard

My One and Only Love

At Maybeck - Maybeck Recital Hall Series Volume Seventeen

tune by Guy Woodand Robert Mellin

Concord

1991

Dave Holland Quartet

The Oracle

Extensions

Dave Holland (b) Steve Coleman (as) Kevin Eubanks (g) Marvin "Smitty" Smith (d)

ECM

1989

Herbie Hancock

Rain Dance

Sextant

Mwandishi Herbie Hancock (keyboards, electronics) Mwile Bennie Maupin (woodwinds) Mgana Dr. Eddie Henderson (trp, flg) Julian Priester (tbn, cowbell) Mchezaji Buster Williams (b) Jabali Billy Hart (d) Dr. Patrick Gleeson (syn) Buxck Clarke (bng, cng)

Columbia Legacy

1973

Geri Allen / Charlie Haden / Paul Motian

Mambo Jumbo

Live at the Village Vanguard - Unissued Tracks

Geri Allen (p) Charlie Haden (b) Paul Motian (d, comp)

aka Munbo Jumbo

diskunion / DIWPRODUCTS

1990

Frank Carlberg Trio

Nicknames

Reflections 1952

Frank Carlberg (p) John Hébert (b) Francisco Mela (d) Paul Lichter (spoken word)

577 Records

2021

Herbie Hancock

Round Midnight

The Other Side of Round Midnight

music by Thelonious Monk, Cootie Williams, Bernard Hannigan

Blue Note

1986

Tomas Fujiwara

Breath

Pith

Tomas Fujiwara’s 7 Poets Trio:

Tomas Fujiwara (d) Tomeka Reid (vc) Patricia Brennan (vbs)

Out Of Your Head Records


Kris Davis

Dolores, Take 1

Diatom Ribbons Live at the Village Vanguard

Kris Davis (p) Val Jeanty (turntables, elec) Julian Lage (g) Trevor Dunn (b) Terri Lyne Carrington (d)

tune by Wayne Shorter

Pyroclastic Records

Jay Rozen

Sofa No. 2

Killer Tuba Songs, Vol. 2: Naked Singularity

tune by Frank Zappa

Composers Concordance Records

2015


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