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The Goings On About Town section in The New Yorker remains suspended indefinitely in its conventional format, replaced with a mix of album reviews and listings for events taking place online—some live, others pre-recorded. (Click on the image to enlarge it, or hit the link to read the text on the New Yorker website.)
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The Goings On About Town section in The New Yorker remains suspended indefinitely in its conventional format, replaced with a mix of album reviews and listings for events taking place online—some live, others pre-recorded. (Click on the image to enlarge it, or hit the link to read the text on the New Yorker website.)
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears…
Archie Shepp - Things Have Got to Change (Impulse!; 1971)
Charles Mingus, Max Roach, Eric Dolphy, Roy Eldridge, Jo Jones - Newport Rebels (Candid; 1961)
Nicole Mitchell and Moor Mother - Offering - Live at Le Guess Who (Don Giovanni; 2020)
Anthony Davis - The Ghost Factory - Kansas City Symphony Orchestra/William McGlaughlin (Gramavision; 1988)
> Maps (Violin Concerto) - Shem Guibbory, Gerry Hemingway; Wayang No. 5 - Anthony Davis, Pheeroan akLaff
Irreversible Entanglements - Entanglements in Italy (self-released; 2020)
Art Ensemble of Chicago - People in Sorrow (Nessa; 1969)
Carman Moore - Personal Problems (Music from the Motion Picture) (Reading Group; 2020)
G. Calvin Weston with the Phoenix Orchestra - Dust and Ash (577 Records; 2019)
Sun Ra - Crystal Spears (Modern Harmonic; 1973/2018)
Bad Brains - Bad Brains (ROIR; 1981)
Julius Hemphill - Big Band (Elektra Musician; 1988)
Body Count - Carnivore (Century Media; 2020)
Laraaji - Celestial Music 1978-2011 (All Saints; 2013)
Duke Ellington - Black, Brown and Beige (Columbia/Legacy; 1957/1999)
Run the Jewels - RTJ4 (BMG; 2020)
Herbie Hancock - Mwandishi (Warner Bros.; 1971/1994)
Anthony Braxton - Quartet (Santa Cruz) 1993, 1st Set (hat ART/hatOLOGY; 1997/2015)
Anthony Davis - Episteme (Gramavision/Rykodisc; 1981/1995)
Julius Eastman - Unjust Malaise - Julius Eastman, Petr Kotik, S.E.M. Ensemble, further collaborators (New World; 1973-80/2005)
Courtney Bryan - Quest for Freedom (self-released; 2006)
Moor Mother - Clepsydra (self-released; 2020)
A Space for Sound (Rena Anakwe) - Sound Bath Mixtape, Vol. 1 (A Space for Sound; 2020)
Tanya Morgan - Be Right Back (self-released; 2020)
Zachary James Watkins - Black Light (SIGE; 2020)
Henry Threadgill Sextett - You Know the Number (RCA Novus; 1986)
David Murray Big Band - Live at Sweet Basil, Vol. 1 (Black Saint; 1985)
Leroy Jenkins - Space Minds, New Worlds, Survival of America (Tomato; 1978)
William Grant Still - Afro-American Symphony; In Memoriam; Africa - Fort Smith Symphony/John Jeter (Naxos; 2005)
George Walker - Sinfonia No. 5 ("Visions") - Sinfonia Varsovia/Ian Hobson (Albany; 2017)
John Carter - Dauwhe (Black Saint; 1982)
James Newton – The Manual of Light (Orenda; 2018)
> Amazing Grace (version 1) – string orchestra/Grant Gershon; Looking Above the Faith of Joseph – Yegor Shevstov; Elisha’s Gift – Eric Shetzen, Lyris String Quartet/Grant Gershon; The Voice of One Crying in the Wilderness – Daniel Rosenboom; Gethsemane – Yegor Shevstov; Dos Danzas para Arpa – Alison Bjorkedal; Multicolored Reflections Within the Orion Nebula – Yegor Shevstov; Amazing Grace (version 2) – string orchestra/Grant Gershon
Louis Armstrong - The Hot Fives, Vol. 1 (OKeh/Columbia; 1926/1988)
Alice Coltrane - Translinear Light (Impulse!; 2004)
The Goings On About Town section in The New Yorker remains suspended indefinitely in its conventional format, replaced with a mix of album reviews and listings for events taking place online—some live, others pre-recorded. (Click on the image to enlarge it, or hit the link to read the text on the New Yorker website.)
[link]
A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears…
Robert Rich - Offering to the Morning Fog (Soundscape; 2020)
Endless Field - Alive in the Wilderness (Biophilia; due June 12, 2020)
Dustin Laurenzi’s Snaketime - Behold (Astral Spirits; 2020)
Ryley Walker - Bozo in Big Smoke (Husky Pants; 2020)
Horse Lords - The Common Task (Northern Spy; 2020)
Sunburned Hand of the Man - Headless (Microdose/Sunburned/Cardinal Fuzz; 2020)
Sarah Hennies - SOVT - Karl Larson (ESS Quarantine Concerts; 2020. Video archived here.)
Keiji Haino/Jim O’Rourke/Oren Ambarchi - only wanting to melt beautifully away is it a lack of contentment that stirs affection or those things said to be as of yet unseen (Black Truffle; 2014)
Keiji Haino/Jim O’Rourke/Oren Ambarchi - Tea time for those determined to completely exhaust every bit of this body they've been given (Black Truffle; 2015)
Keiji Haino/Jim O’Rourke/Oren Ambarchi - I wonder if you noticed ”I’m sorry” Is such a lovely sound It keeps things from getting worse (Black Truffle; 2016)
Keiji Haino/Jim O’Rourke/Oren Ambarchi - This Dazzling, Genuine "Difference" Now Where Shall It Go? (Black Truffle; 2017)
Keiji Haino/Jim O’Rourke/Oren Ambarchi - In the past only geniuses were capable of staging the perfect crime (also known as a revolution) Today anybody can accomplish their aims with the push of the button (Black Truffle; 2019)
Keiji Haino - The Consonants Are Rusting Let the Consonants Yawn a Little More (Urbanguild; 2020)
Steve Roach and Serena Gabriel - Nectar Meditations (Timeroom; 2020)
Anthony Davis - X, The Life and Times of Malcolm X - Eugene Perry, Thomas J. Young, Priscilla Baskerville, Hilda Harris, Herbert Perry, Orchestra of St. Luke's/William Henry Curry (Gramavision; 1992)
David Grubbs & Taku Unami - Comet Meta (Blue Chopsticks; 2020)
Michael Pisaro-Liu - Tai Pi (AMPLIFY2020: quarantine; 2020)
Robert Fripp - Music for Quiet Moments 5: Time Promenade (Date and Venue Unknown) (DGMLive; 2020)
Dead & Company - Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA, 5/31/2019 (Los Muertos/Rhino; 2020)
Angharad Davies/Klaus Lang/Anton Lukoszevieze - unfurling (Another Timbre; 2020)
Ernstalbrecht Stiebler - Für Biliana (Another Timbre; 2020)
> Für Biliana; Glissando - Biliana Voutchkova; Extension für Streichtrio - Biliana Voutchkova, Michael Rauter, Nurit Stark; Duo 4/Parallelen - Biliana Voutchkova, Michael Rauter
Cecil Taylor/Tony Oxley - Birdland, Neuberg 2011 (Fundacja Słuchaj; 2020)
Magnus Granberg & Skogen - Let Pass My Weary Guiltless Ghost (Another Timbre; 2020)
Giuliano d'Angiolini - Antifonia (Another Timbre; 2020)
> Ad ora incerta - Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna/Tonino Battista; Aria1 - Giuliano d’Angiolini; Antifona - Manuel Zurria, Mark Knoop; Litania - Apartment House
Cyril Bondi/Pierre-Yves Martel/Christoph Schiller - hyazo (Another Timbre; 2020)