Desert Island Top 30 Songs (pt. 1)
Ghosts - Albert Ayler
What Love - Charles Mingus
Ruby My Dear - Thelonious Monk w/ John Coltrane
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Dirty Strange / Bustin Timberfakes Live in Jamacia Plain
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Dakar - John Coltrane
As a young jazz nerd, I fell too far under the sway of Morton and Cook’s Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. Some of their critical pronouncements led me away from interesting albums. I recall them being particularly ambivalent about this one. To me, it’s a good, straight-ahead early Coltrane recording that also features Pepper Adams on baritone sax.
Click through to listen to this album on Last.fm.
J.D. Sallinger
“But what if there were real stuff up there? Real Salinger-esque stuff. (Wouldn’t it be a brilliant jest on us all, for example, if Salinger himself had actually written the Holden Caulfield sequel 60 years later, hired this (apparently) Swedish guy to impersonate the pseudonymous author, then sued himself to insure no one would guess the real author? It reminds me of radio talker John Calvin Batchelor’s brilliant stunt: a mock-scholarly speculative essay published in the mid-’70s considering whether Salinger was Thomas Pynchon, who would then have been not a recluse but a pseudonym.)”
Click through for the full Slate article on the suit over this pseudo-sequel to Catcher in the Rye and other Sallinger speculation.
The Crypt - AMM
I finally bought my own copy! I nearly picked up several other albums at Weirdo, but I put them all back and left with this two CD set. Thus far, it’s been amazing. Better than I remembered. Several years ago, I had preferred AMMusic, but I think I was just being a contrarian. This is as fantastic as all the noise kids say it is.
AMM (c. 1968)
On “To Hear and Back Again,” Lou Gare, far right with the saxophone, impreses me with his tone, moving from gritty to clear and back as the interaction demands, and his lines, which play with more traditional melodic fragments and rhythms as well as more stripped down sounds.
