A weekly tally of memorable things Steve Smith has stuck in his ears.
Regular playlists will resume next Monday, Jan. 8, on National Sawdust Log. Meanwhile, this is everything memorable that I spun or streamed between Dec. 18 and Dec. 31, 2017. Rest in peace, Kevin Mahogany and Roswell Rudd.
Dec. 18-24, 2017
Percy Grainger – Grainger Edition, Volume One: Orchestral Works – BBC Philharmonic/Richard Hickox (Chandos; 1996)
> The Duke of Marlborough Fanfare; Colonial Song (Sentimental No. 1); English Dance; Shepherd's Hey; There Were Three Friends; Fisher's Boarding House; We Were Dreamers; Harvest Hymn; Blithe Bells; Walking Tune (Symphonic Wind Band Version); In a Nutshell; Green Bushes
High Aura'd – No River Long Enough Doesn't Contain a Bend (Debacle; 2017)
Herbie Hancock – Maiden Voyage (Blue Note; 1965/1999)
Kevin Mahogany – Double Rainbow (Enja; 1993)
Alvear Courtis Jones – A távlat, ha hátulról (Glistening Examples; 2017)
Divination – Sacrifice (Meta/self-released; 1998/2016)
Spontaneous Music Ensemble – Karyobin (Island/Emanem; 1968/2017)
Kyle Landstra – ways and means (Boudoir; 2017)
Nat Evans – Coyoteways (Mon Amie; 2017)
Beatriz Ferreyra – GRM Works (Recollection GRM; 1967-2011/2015)
Jlin – Black Origami (Planet Mu; 2017)
Anouar Brahem – Blue Maqams (ECM; 2017)
Hafdís Bjarnadóttir – Já (self-released; 2017)
Nadia Sirota – Tessellatum (Bedroom Community; 2017)
Sarah Angliss – Ealing Feeder (self-released; 2017)
Cecil Taylor & Buell Neidlinger – New York City R&B (Candid; 1961/1972)
Gil Evans (Cecil Taylor) – Into the Hot (Impulse!; 1962/1998)
Steve Lacy/Roswell Rudd Quartet – School Days (hatOLOGY; 1963/2002)
XTC – Black Sea (Virgin/Ape House; 1980/2017)
Dec. 25-31, 2017
The Beatles – 1962-1966 (Apple/EMI; 1973/2015)
The Beatles – 1967-1970 (Apple/EMI; 1973/2015)
Van Halen – Best of Both Worlds (Warner Bros.; 2004)
Bent Knee – Land Animal (Inside Out/Epic; 2017)
HMS – Tetrad (Astral Spirits; 2017)
Tyshawn Sorey – Verisimilitude (Pi Recordings; 2017)
Michael Pisaro – July Mountain (three versions) – Greg Stuart (Gravity Wave; 2010)
Michael Pisaro – Close Constellations and a Drum on the Ground – Greg Stuart, Barry Chabala (Gravity Wave; 2011)
Michael Pisaro – Hearing Metal 2 – Michael Pisaro, Greg Stuart (Gravity Wave; 2011)
Michael Pisaro – Closed Categories in Cartesian Worlds – Greg Stuart (Gravity Wave; 2013)
Robert Curgenven + Richard Chartier – Built Through (Line; 2012)
Kevin Drumm – The Next World Is Better (Chondritic Sound; 2017)
Celer – Euromaidan (self-released; 2017)
Franz Joseph Haydn – Piano Concerto in D (Hob.XVIII:11) – Marguerite Roesgen-Champion, L'Orchestre de Paris/Marius-François Gaillard (YouTube; 1937)
Lei Liang – Garden Eight – Ricardo Descalzo (Vimeo; 2016)
Anthony Braxton ZIM Sextet – Live at Moers Festival 2017 (YouTube; 2017)
The Caretaker – Take care, it's a desert out there (History Always Favours the Winners)
Ensemble MusikFabrik – Stille (Wergo; 2017)
> Georg Friedrich Haas – Ich suchte, aber ich Fand ihn nicht; Evan Johnson – Die Bewegung der Augen; Jani Christou – Anaparastasis III: The Pianist; Georg Friedrich Haas – Wie stille Brannte das licht
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – Gumboot Soup (Flightless; 2017)
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