#^d 2018-03-05
#^h Music Week
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<p>Music: current count 29452 [29423] rated (+29), 368 [367] unrated (+1).</p>

<p>Most of what follows, including all of this week's A- ratings,
already appeared in
<a href="/ocston/arch/rhap/rh1802-1.php">February's Streamnotes</a>,
posted last Wednesday. After that I guess I slowed down a bit. Damn
little more to report.</p>

<p>I suppose I could offer a link to
<a href="https://medium.com/@ktcita/the-new-uk-jazz-family-tree-b25db4b47cbe">
The new (UK) jazz family tree</a>, although I should note that it actually
offers only a rather thin slice of jazz in the UK, with nothing avant (aside
from Evan Parker), nothing trad, huge omissions elsewhere (some names that
leap to mind: Dave Holland, John McLaughlin, Howard Riley, Tommy Smith, and
John Surman, as well as younger musicians like Neil Cowley and Alexander
Hawkins). I haven't tried counting, but offhand I think I recognize about
a third of the names, mostly falling down where band members are expanded
(e.g., the other three-fourths of Camilla George Quartet). The author notes
that she started with Emma-Jean Thackray and Sons of Kemet and worked her
way out from there. Thackray didn't ring a bell, although I've heard of
her group Walrus. Sons of Kemet have a couple albums I like, especially
<i>Lest We Forget What We Came Here to Do</i> (2015).</p>

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<p><b>New records rated this week:</b></p>

<ul>
<li><b>Laurie Anderson/Kronos Quartet: <i>Landfall</i></b> (2018, Nonesuch): [r]: <b>A-</b></li>
<li><b>Brandi Carlile: <i>By the Way, I Forgive You</i></b> (2018, Low Country Sound/Elektra): [r]: <b>B-</b></li>
<li><b>Roberta Donnay &amp; the Prohibition Mob Band: <i>My Heart Belongs to Satchmo</i></b> (2018, Blujazz): [cd]: <b>B+(**)</b></li>
<li><b>Electric Squeezebox Orchestra: <i>The Falling Dream</i></b> (2015 [2018], OA2): [cd]: <b>B</b></li>
<li><b>GoGo Penguin: <i>A Humdrum Star</i></b> (2017 [2018], Blue Note): [r]: <b>B+(*)</b></li>
<li><b>Mike Jones/Penn Jillette: <i>The Show Before the Show: Live at the Penn &amp; Teller Theater</i></b> (2017 [2018], Capri): [cd]: <b>B+(***)</b></li>
<li><b>Femi Kuti: <i>One People One World</i></b> (2018, Knitting Factory): [r]: <b>B+(*)</b></li>
<li><b>Les Filles De Illighadad: <i>Eghass Malan</i></b> (2017, Sahelsounds): [r]: <b>B+(**)</b></li>
<li><b>Dave Liebman/Tatsuya Nakatani/Adam Rudolph: <i>The Unknowable</i></b> (2016 [2018], RareNoise): [cdr]: <b>B+(*)</b></li>
<li><b>Joe Lovano &amp; Dave Douglas: <i>Sound Prints: Scandal</i></b> (2017 [2018], Greenleaf Music): [cd]: <b>B+(***)</b></li>
<li><b>Youssou N'Dour: <i>Raxas Bercy 2017</i></b> (2017, self-released): [dl]: <b>A-</b></li>
<li><b>Amy Rigby: <i>The Old Guys</i></b> (2018, Southern Domestic): [r]: <b>A-</b></li>
<li><b>Shakers n' Bakers: <i>Heart Love: Plays the Music of Albert Ayler and Mary Maria Parks</i></b> (2017 [2018], Little i Music): [cd]: <b>B+(*)</b></li>
<li><b>Shopping: <i>The Official Body</i></b> (2018, FatCat): [r]: <b>A-</b></li>
<li><b>Steve Tyrell: <i>A Song for You</i></b> (2018, New Design): [cd]: <b>B+(**)</b></li>
<li><b>U.S. Girls: <i>In a Poem Unlimited</i></b> (2018, 4AD): [r]: <b>B+(**)</b></li>
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<p><b>Old music rated this week:</b></p>

<ul>
<li><b>Marion Brown: <i>Afternoon of a Georgia Faun</i></b> (1970, ECM): [r]: <b>B</b></li>
<li><b>Marion Brown: <i>Duets Vol. 1</i></b> (1970 [2012], 1201/Black Lion Vault): [r]: <b>B+(**)</b></li>
<li><b>Dorothy Donegan: <i>Live at the 1990 Floating Jazz Festival</i></b> (1990 [1991], Chiaroscuro): [r]: <b>B+(**)</b></li>
<li><b>Chico Freeman: <i>Tradition in Transition</i></b> (1982, Elektra Musician): [r]: <b>B+(*)</b></li>
<li><b>Chico Freeman/Mal Waldron: <i>Up and Down</i></b> (1992, Black Saint): [r]: <b>B+(**)</b></li>
<li><b>Jelly Roll Morton: <i>The Piano Rolls</i></b> (1924 [1997], Nonesuch): [r]: <b>B+(**)</b></li>
<li><b>Original Dixieland Jazz Band: <i>The 75th Anniversary</i></b> (1917-21 [1992], RCA Bluebird): [r]: <b>B+(***)</b></li>
<li><b>Original Dixieland Jazz Band: <i>In London 1919-1920 Plus the Okeh Sessions 1922-1923</i></b> (1919-23 [2001], Retrieval): [r]: <b>B+(**)</b></li>
<li><b>Amy Rigby: <i>Live at Cat's Cradle 02/26/2003</i></b> (2003 [2011], self-released): [r]: <b>B+(**)</b></li>
<li><b>Trio-X [Joe McPhee/Dominic Duval/Jay Rosen]: <i>The Sugar Hill Suite</i></b> (2004, CIMP): [r]: <b>B+(**)</b></li>
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<p><b>Unpacking:</b> Found in the mail last week:</p>

<ul>
<li><b>Martin Blume/Tobias Delius/Achim Kaufmann/Dieter Manderscheid: <i>Frames &amp; Terrains</i></b> (NoBusiness): cdr</li>
<li><b>Satoko Fujii Orchestra Berlin: <i>Ninety-Nine Years</i></b> (Libra)</li>
<li><b>Gerry Hemingway/Samuel Blaser: <i>Oostum</i></b> (NoBusiness): cdr</li>
<li><b>Kang Tae Hwan: <i>Live at Café Amores</i></b> (1995, NoBusiness)</li>
<li><b>The Doug MacDonald Quintet/The Roger Neumann Quintet: <i>Two Quintets: Live Upstairs at Vitello's</i></b> (2018, Blujazz, 2CD)</li>
<li><b>Todd Marcus: <i>On These Streets</i></b> (Stricker Street): April 27</li>
<li><b>Wynton Marsalis Septet: <i>United We Swing: Best of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Galas</i></b> (2003-07, Blue Engine): March 23
<li><b>Erin McDougald: <i>Outside the Soirée</i></b> (Miles High): March 16</li>
<li><b>Michael Morreale: <i>MilesSong: The Music of Miles Davis</i></b> (Summit, 2CD)</li>
<li><b>Peripheral Vision: <i>More Songs About Error and Shame</i></b> (self-released): March 30</li>
<li><b>Barre Phillips/Motoharu Yoshizawa: <i>Oh My, Those Boys!</i></b> (1994, NoBusiness)</li>
<li><b>Roberta Piket: <i>West Coast Trio</i></b> (13th Note): April 6</li>
<li><b>Jim Snidero &amp; Jeremy Pelt: <i>Jubilation</i></b> (Savant): advance, May 4</li>
<li><b>Spin Cycle [Scott Neumann/Tom Christensen]: <i>Assorted Colors</i></b> (Sound Footing): April 6</li>
<li><b>Dan Weiss: <i>Starebaby</i></b> (Pi): April 6</li>
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