Set List - January 26, 2015

Davis, Miles - Blues for Pablo - Miles Davis and Gil Evans - The Complete Collection - Columbia

Davis, Miles - Gone - Miles Davis and Gil Evans - The Complete Collection - Columbia

Davis, Miles - Summertime - Miles Davis and Gil Evans - The Complete Collection - Columbia

Davis, Miles - Solea - Miles Davis and Gil Evans - The Complete Collection - Columbia

Davis, Miles - Once Upon a Summertime - Miles Davis and Gil Evans - The Complete Collection - Columbia

Davis, Miles - My Ship - Miles Davis and Gil Evans - The Complete Collection - Columbia

Davis, Miles - All Blues - The Complete Concert 1964 - My Funny Valentine + Four and More - Columbia

Davis, Miles - So What - The Complete Concert 1964 - My Funny Valentine + Four and More - Columbia

Mingus, Charles - Better Get It In Your Soul - Mingus Ah Um - Columbia

Mingus, Charles - Diane - Mingus Dynasty - Columbia

Lateef, Yousef - Number 7 - Live at Pep's - Impulse!

Rollins, Sonny - Blessing In Disguise - East Broadway Rundown - Impulse!

Set List - January 19, 2015

Ayler, Albert - Holy, Holy - Witches & Devils - Arista

Ayler, Albert - Going Home - Swing Low Sweet Spiritual - Osmosis

Ayler, Albert - All Love - The Last Album - Impulse!

Burrell, Kenny - A Child is Born - God Bless the Child - CTI

Adderley, Cannonball - The Steam Drill - The Black Messiah - Capitol

Adderley, Cannonball - Eye of the Cosmos - The Black Messiah - Capitol

Adderley, Cannonball - Saudade - Inside Straight - Fantasy

Adderley, Cannonball - Libra: Patricia - Presents Love, Sex and the Zodiac - Fantasy

Bartz, Gary - I Don't Care - Singerella: A Ghetto Fairytale - Prestige

Duke, George - Love - Feel - MPS

Priester, Julian - Images/External World/Epilogue - Love, Love - ECM

Priester, Julian - Polarization - Polarization - ECM

Priester, Julian - Rhythm Magnet - Polarization - ECM

Set List - January 12, 2015

Smith, Wadada Leo - America Parts 1, 2, 3 - America - Tzadik

Smith, Wadada Leo - DeJohnette - Tabligh - Cuniform

Smith, Wadada Leo - South Central L.A. Culture - Spiritual Dimensions - Cuniform

New York Art Quartet - Short - New York Art Quartet - ESP Disk

Vitous, Miroslav - Interplay - Miroslav Vitous Group - ECM

Holland, Dave - What Goes Around - What Goes Around - ECM

Jamal, Ahmad - Effendi - Freeflight  - Impulse!
Smith, Lonnie - I Feel the Earth Move - Mama Wailer - Kudu

Late Century Dream: Movements in the US Indie Music Underground

Looks like "Late Century Dream" is a Superchunk song from my Google image search.  I sense a theme developing here.  Like "Our Band Could Be Your Life" except it pops around geographically.  I skipped around a lot too based on my interest.  Learned that Greg Anderson was in Engine Kid.  The more I learn about that dude, the more impressed with his resume I become.  Renaissance man, or something.

Set List - January 5, 2015

Shepp, Archie - Things Have Got to Change - Things Have Got to Change - Impulse!

Ellington, Duke - A Drum is a Woman - Part II (New Orleans/Hey, Buddy Bolden/Carribee Joe/Congo Square) - A Drum is a Woman - Columbia

Kenton, Stan - Fuego Cubano (Cuban Fire) - Cuban Fire - Capitol

Gillespie, Dizzy - Shabozz - The Greatest Trumpet of Them All - Verve

Gillespie, Dizzy - Duke on the Run - The Cool World - Philips

Burrell, Kenny - Suite for Guitar and Orchestra (So Little Time/Growing) - Recapitulation - Chess

Adderley, Nat - Mozart-in' - In the Bag - Jazzland

Ferguson, Maynard - Baltimore Oriole - Screamin' Blues - Mainstream

Fuller, Curtis - The Spirit - Crankin' - Mainstream

Lewis, Ramsey - Function at the Junction - Inside - Cadet

Bryant, Ray - In the Cut - In the Cut - Cadet

Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records - John Cook

Burning through the holiday reading stack.  It's weird reading a history of something that happened only 20 years ago that you were kind of familiar with at the time that it happened.  "Wait for the news in the history books. Like junkies who hate their heroin."  This book was just as much about Superchunk the band as it was about the label.  I have fond memories of cruising Parmatown Mall in my friend Doug's Ford Fairmont blasting "No Pocky for Kitty" on cassette and saying: "Superchunk is super punk."  I don't think I've listened to a note of Superchunk since that record.  Book was okay.  All of Jon Wurster's quotes were funny.  Not enough content on Neutral Milk Hotel, which is what I was looking for.  Know the name Arcade Fire, but that's about it.  Kudos to Merge Records for such a long history!

Love Goes to Buildings On Fire: Five Years in New York that Changed Music Forever - Will Hermes

Holiday reading.  Cranking through books since I don't really have to do anything and college football isn't on.  This book was a chronological look at music in New York City in the seventies.  What was cute about the book, and the hook, is that no one genre was featured and it painted a picture of the world where salsa and punk were happening at the same time in the same place.  My favorite parts, since I'm on this "classical" kick is the common man/working class stories of Steve Reich and Philip Glass.  Regular Joes, they seemed, and Thurston Moore was right to use their moving company, Chelsea Light Moving, as a band name.  Good name for a band, that one.

The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century - Alex Ross

Holiday reading.  New Year.  Goal to read more.  This could be an excellent and thorough history of 20th Century "classical" music or it could not.  I don't know.  I don't know enough about the subject to comment.  I enjoyed the book and it seems like a great stepping off point into further explorations on the topic.  I took a lot of notes.