Set List - August 30, 2010

Coltrane, Alice - Isis and Osiris - Journey in Satchidananda - Impulse!
Shorter, Wayne - More Than Human - Super Nova - Blue Note
Shorter, Wayne - De Pois Do Amor O Vazio - Odyssey of Iska - Blue Note
Kool & the Gang - Summer Madness - Light of the World - De-Lite
Phillips, Esther - Home is Where the Hatred Is - From a Whisper to a Scream - Kudu
Toussaint, Allen - Cruel Way to Go Down - Southern Nights - Warner Bros.
24 Carat Black - Ghetto: Misfortune's Wealth - Ghetto: Misfortune's Wealth - Stax
24 Carat Black - 24 Carat Black Theme - Ghetto: Misfortune's Wealth - Stax
The Last Poets - Black Is . . . (chant) - This is Madness - Douglas
The Last Poets - Black Is . . . - This is Madness - Douglas
Hutch, Willie - Theme from the Mack - The Mack - Motown
The Ohio Players - Jive Turkey - Skin Tight - Mercury
Sister Sledge - He's the Greatest Dancer - We Are Family - Atlantic
Chairmen of the Board - Life and Death Pt. I and II - Skin I'm In - Invictus
Khan, Chaka - Life is a Dance - Chaka - Warner Bros.
Davis, Tyrone - I Keep Coming Back - Turn Back the Hands of Time - Brunswick
Hughes, Jimmy - Chains Of Love - The Complete Stax-Volt Soul Singles 1968-1971 - Vol. 2 (Disc 3) - Stax
Thomas, Carla - I've Fallen In Love (With You) - The Complete Stax-Volt Soul Singles 1968-1971 - Vol. 2 (Disc 3) - Stax
Bell, William - Born Under A Bad Sign - The Complete Stax-Volt Soul Singles 1968-1971 - Vol. 2 (Disc 4) - Stax

Set List - August 23, 2010

Evans, Gil - Blues in Orbit - Svengali - Atlantic
Russell, Gene - For Heaven's Sake - Listen Here - Ovaition
Jamal, Khan - Space Traveller - Dark Warrior - Steeplechase
Jamal, Ahmad - Patterns - The Awakening - Impulse!
Jones, Quincy - Gula Matari - Gula Matari - CTI
Mitchell, Blue - Cry Me a River - Step Lightly - Blue Note
Ervin, Booker - L.A. After Dark - Booker 'n' Brass - Pacific
Beckett, Harry - Rolly's Tune - Flare Up - Phillips
Flack, Roberta - Gone Away - Chapter II - Atlantic
Dees, Sam - Child Of The Streets - The Show Must Go On - Atlantic
Rose Royce - You're On My Mind - Car Wash - MCA
Dorsey, Lee - Who's Gonna' Help Brother Get Further - Yes We Can - Polydor
Honey Cone - Are You Man Enough . . . - Sweet Replies - Hot Wax
Joseph, Margie - Sweeter Tomorrow - Margie Joseph Makes A New Impression - Volt
Summer, Donna - Hot Stuff - Bad Girls - Casablance
LaSalle, Denise - Heartbreaker of the Year - Trapped By A Thing Called Love - Westbound
Robinson, Smokey - Baby That's Backatcha - A Quiet Storm - Motown
The O'Jays - Don't Call Me Brother - Ship Ahoy - Philadelphia International

Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia by Jennifer Mundy (editor)

I like the thought of being able to knock ideas around with your buddies.

Exquisite Corpse: Surrealism and the Black Dahlia Murder by Mark Nelson and Sarah Hudson Bayliss

Before reading this book, anything I knew about the Black Dahlia murder was framed by the noir vision of James Ellroy. Not an entirely bad thing, but, sometimes, it's like, enough of the tough guy L.A. thing already. This book does what it can to connect the Black Dahlia Murder with the surrealism movement in art. I guess one of the main suspects for the murder was friends with Man Ray. So, not an entirely crackpot premise. The book makes its point by mixing images, both well known and not so much, of surrealist art with pictures of or by the suspect and the crime scene. Good book, this one.

Charles Bukowski - The Continual Condition

Today is Charles Bukowski's birthday. He's been dead for 16 years. The passage of time, while unremarkable on many levels, continues to blow me away when you consider how fast it all goes down the drain. While Bukowski has been dead for some time, his estate continues to publish books of his poetry. I guess he was on a tear there, you know. Bukowski is an almost completely artless poetry writer, but they are funny and insightful and worth reading.

Here's some good ones from The Continual Condition, the most recently released volume of the never ending stream of his previously unpublished poems.

from this flag not waiving fondly

now it's computers and more computers
and soon everybody will have one,
3-year-olds will have computers
and everybody will know everything
about everybody else
long before they meet them
and so they won't want to meet them.
nobody will want to meet anybody
else ever again
and everybody will be
a recluse
like I am now.

from heavy dogs in cement shoes

I never consider a man
insane
when he disagrees or acts
contrary to
the few things I believe
have value.
I then only consider him
to be
a dull and dumb
fellow
more to be avoided
than to be
attacked.

from moving toward age 73

yes, it's true-I'm mellowing.
in the old days
to cross my room you'd have to
step around and between empty
bottles.
now after I empty them
I stack them neatly in paper
cartons.
I'm a good citizen now, I save
the bottles for the city of Los
Angeles to
recycle.
and I haven't seen the inside
of a drunk tank for a good ten
years.
(I lock the door when I drink
and only inflict damage upon
myself.)
boring, isn't it?
but not too bad, listening to
Mahler as the walls
dance.
as a recluse it's enough for
me.
so now I'm turning the streets back
over to you,
tough guy.

Set List - August 16, 2010

Young, Larry - The Hereafter - Heaven On Earth - Blue Note
Lincoln, Abbey - African Lady - Straight Ahead - Candid
Lincoln, Abbey - Retribution - Straight Ahead - Candid
Roach, Max - Freedom Day - Radio Bremen 1964 - Boot
Lincoln, Abbey - Africa - People In Me - Inner City
Brown, Odell - South of 63rd - Odell Brown - Paula
Cymande - Dove - Cymande - Janus
McDaniels, Eugene - Jagger The Dagger - Headless Heroes of The Apocalypse (Full Album) - Atlantic
Moses, Lee - Every Boy And Girl - Time And Place - Maple
The Jacksons - Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground) - Destiny - Epic
Staton, Candi - You Don't Love Me No More - I'm Just A Prisoner - Fame
The Staple Singers - Washington We're Watching You - City In The Sky - Stax
The Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop - The Ramones - Sire
Davis, Betty - Gettin Kicked Off, Havin Fun - Nasty Gal - Island
Mason, Barbara - World War Three - Lady Love - Buddah
Paul, Billy - War of the Gods - War Of The Gods - Philadelphia International

The Inmates

Cement Shoes (Sandal Version).

Set List - August 9, 2010

Young, Larry - Street Scene - So Blue So Funky - Vol. 2 - Blue Note
Patton, Big John - I Want to Go Home - So Blue So Funky - Vol. 2 - Blue Note
Dorham, Kenny - Confirmation - BeBop Revisited - Vol. 5 - Xanadu
Tolliver, Charles - Plight - The Dedication Series - Vol. 8 "The New Breed" - Impulse!
Axelrod, David - Holy Thursday - Blue Breakbeats - Vol. 4 - Blue Note
Henderson, Eddie - Inside You - Blue Breakbeats - Vol. 4 - Blue Note
Ike & Tina Turner - Whole Lotta Love - Blue Breakbeats - Vol. 4 - Blue Note
Hayes, Isaac - Pursuit Of The Pimpmobile - Can You Dig It? The Music and Politics Of Black Action Films - Soul Jazz
Sons & Daughters of Lite - A Real Thing - California Soul - Luv N' Haight
Brown, Andrew - You Made Me Suffer - Light: On The South Side - Numero Group
Davis, Walter "Butterball" - Baby Watcha' Doing - Light: On The South Side - Numero Group
Davis, Willie - I Learned My Lesson - Light: On The South Side - Numero Group
S.O.U.L. - Burning Spear - Super Breaks - Beat Goes Public
The Detroit Emeralds - Baby Let Me Take You (In My Arms) - Super Breaks - Beat Goes Public
Taylor, Hound Dog - Watch Out (Hound Dog Taylor) - Two Decades of Killer Fretwork - Chess
Floyd, Eddie - I've Never Found A Girl (To Love Me Like You Do) - The Complete Stax-Volt Soul Singles 1968-1971 - Vol. 2 (Disc 1) - Stax
The Soul Children - Give 'Em Love - The Complete Stax-Volt Soul Singles 1968-1971 - Vol. 2 (Disc 1) - Stax
The Epsilons - The Echo - The Complete Stax-Volt Soul Singles 1968-1971 - Vol. 2 (Disc 2) - Stax
Joseph, Margie - One More Chance - The Complete Stax-Volt Soul Singles 1968-1971 - Vol. 2 (Disc 2) - Stax

Lives of the Artists by Calvin Tomkins

Kind of fluffy profiles of several contemporary artists. The profiles matched the artists' work, which is, for the most part, lacking - both visually and in substance. Also, I think that these quicky profiles/bios do a disservice to the idea that there had to be some degeree of stuggle in creating the work, in spite of the artists' remarkable success. Although you'd never know it by the quality of his work or the size of his bank account, I'm sure that Jeff Koons spent some time looking into the abyss. The abyss was glossed over in this book.

Set List - August 2, 2010

Amy, Curtis - Shaker Heights - Mustang - Verve
Amy, Curtis - Native Land - Katanga - Blue Note
Ellington, Duke - Copout Extension - Festival Session - Columbia
Byrd, Donald - Free Form - Free Form - Blue Note
Skalpel - The Dream Of The Sleepless Man - Polish Jazz - Demo
Hewitt, P.E. Jazz Ensemble - Oma Rakas - Winter Winds - Now Again
Szabo, Gabor - Sophisticated Wheels - Jazz Raga - Impulse!
Earland, Charles - Journey Of The Soul - Odyssey - Mercury
Harris, Gene and the Three Sounds - Put On Train - Gene Harris and the Three Sounds - Blue Note
Kirkland, Mike James - Where's The Soul of Man - Hang On In There - Bryan
Simon, Joe - Drowning in the Sea of Love - Drowning in the Sea of Love - Polydor
Simon, Joe - You Are The One - The Power Of... (Polydor Lp) - Polydor
Banks, Darrell - Here Comes The Tears - Darrell Banks Is Here! - Atco
Banks, Darrell - Don't Know What To Do - Here To Stay - Stax
Patterson, Bobby - I Get My Groove From You - It's Just A Matter Of Time - Paula
Cane and Able - Found A Child - Cane and Able - AKT
Hutch, Willie - Brother's Gonna Work It Out - Can You Dig It? The Music and Politics Of Black Action Films - Soul Jazz