Perfect Sounds Blog Ranks "State of Black America" #2
09:42 am December 21, 2010
Anyway, complaining about the records I haven't gotten around to is useless, so here is a list of the jazz records I have been able to hear, "won", as it were, by a record of vibrant post-Mingus jazz (even Ellingtonian at times) filtered through Loft Jazz and informed by avant-rock, full of both powerful and beautiful music: Adam Lane's Full Throttle Orchestra's Ashcan Rantings.
Adam Lane: Ashcan Rantings (Clean Feed)
The Mark Lomax Trio: The State of Black America (Inarhyme Records)
Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Forty Fort (Hot Cup)
Dual Identity (Rudresh Mahanthappa & Steve Lehman): Dual Identity (Clean Feed)
Angles: Epileptical West - Live in Coimbra (Clean Feed)
Wadada Leo Smith & Ed Blackwell: The Blue Mountain (Kabell, rec. 1986)
David S. Ware: Onecept (Aum Fidelity)
Mike Reed's Loose Assembly: Empathetic Parts (482)
The Nels Cline Singers: Initiate (Cryptogramophone)
Henry Threadgill's Zooid: This Brings Us To, vol. 2 (Pi Recordings)
Ten more:
Mary Halvorson Trio & Quintet: Saturn Sings (Firehouse 12)
Mike Reed's People, Places & Things: Stories and Negotiations (482)
Vandermark 5 Special Edition: The Horse Jumps & The Ship Is Gone (Not Two)
Jon Irabagon: Foxy (Hot Cup!)
Steve Swell Slammin' the Infinite: 5000 Poems (Not Two)
Henry Grimes & Rashied Ali: Spirits Aloft (Porter)
Zanussi Five: Ghost Dance (MoserĂ³bie)
Rudresh Mahanthappa & Bunky Green: Apex (Pi Recordings)
Juxtaposed: Tsar Bomba (Bolage)
Tarbaby: The End Of Fear (Posi-Tone Records)
