Below are some recordings I’ve been listening to recently.
Updated: 2015-08-17 [These are in no particular order]
Charles Lloyd Quartet: 2014-10-25: Umea Jazz Festival, Sweden
Charles Lloyd Quartet: Rabo De Nube
Charles Lloyd Quartet: Mirror
Charles Lloyd Quartet: Live Karlsruhe, Germany 1994
Charles Lloyd Quartet: 2009 -07-03 Live at the Highline Ballroom, NYC
Ornette Coleman, McLean, Holzman – New Vocabulary
Howlin’ Wolf – 1969-02-23: Key Largo’s, Chicago, IL
Mats Gustafsson & The Nu Ensemble – Hidros One
The Modern Jazz Quartet – Space
Koko Taylor – An Audience With The Queen (Live From Chicago)
Bob Dylan – Street Legal
J.J. Cale – Number 10
James Cotton – Chicago Harp Showdown
Magic Sam – West Side Soul
Jimmy Dawkins– All For Business
Ali Akbar Khan – From The Concert Hall
The Complete Stax/Volt Singles 1959-1968
Wes Montgomery – Live At The Turf Club
Keith Jarrett – 1975-02-02: Die Glocke, Bremen, Germany
Bob Dylan – The Basement Tapes Complete: The Bootleg Series
Cecil Taylor/Marian McPartland – 1986 NPR Radio broadcast; NYC
Grateful Dead – 1977-11-04: Dave’s Picks Vol. 12: Colgate University Hamilton NY
Nels Cline & Julian Lage – Room
Magic Sam Blues Band – Look Out, Sam!
Hubert Sumlin – Hubert’s American Blues!
Muddy Waters – Live in Antibes, 1974
R.L. Burnside – 1996-06-10 – The Silver Dollar – Toronto, Canada
Hans Zimmer – Interstellar: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Deluxe Version)
John Coltrane – Offering: Live At Temple University
Sonny Boy Williamson – King Biscuit Time
Medeski Scofield Martin & Wood – Juice
Peter Brötzmann, Sonny Sharrock – What The F$@! Do You Want?
McCoy Tyner – Echoes Of A Friend
Recent Books Read:
Bathed In Lightning: John McLaughlin, the 60’s and the Emerald Beyond – Colin Harper
The Archaeology of Knowledge – Michel Foucault
Three Uses Of The Knife – David Mamet
This Changes Everything – Naomi Klein
The History of Rock ‘N’ Roll in Ten Songs – Greil Marcus
Inherent Vice – Thomas Pynchon
Jimmy Page – Jimmy Page
The Bone Clocks – David Mitchell
Life – Keith Richards
Moanin’ at Midnight: The Life and Times of Howlin’ Wolf – James Segrest
One Way Out – The Inside History Of The Allman Brothers – Alan Paul
Please Be With Me – A Song For My Father Duane Allman – Galadrielle Allman
Delta Blues – Ted Gioia
The Land Where The Blues Began – Alan Lomax
The History Of The Blues – Francis Davis
Cuba And It’s Music – Sublette
The World That Made New Orleans – Sublette
Light & Shade – Coversations With Jimmy Page – Brad Tolinski
Mind Body Prescription – Sarno
A Power Stronger Than Itself – George Lewis
Miles, Ornette,Cecil: Jazz Beyond Jazz – Howard Mandel
The Shock Doctrine – Naomi Klein
Miles Smiles and The Invention Of Post Bop
Guns Germs and Steel – Diamond
Collapse – Diamond
Black Swan Green – David Mitchell
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
Number 7 Dream – David Mitchell
The Secret Life of Water
Recent Movies Seen:
Awake: The Life of Yogananda
The Water Diviner
Strangerland
Birdman
Ex Machina
Mission Impossible Rogue Nation
What Happened, Miss Simone?
The Other One: The Long, Strange Trip of Bob Weir
Selma
Whiplash
Inherent Vice
Still Alice
Miss Julie
Boyhood
Top 5
Dreamcatcher
56 Plus
Chef
Serena
Interstellar
Maps To The Stars
The Imitation Game
The X-Men
Fast and Furious #6
House Of Cards – Season Three
House Of Cards – Season Two
House Of Cards – Season One
Eric Clapton – Planes, Trains and Eric
Albert King and Stevie Ray Vaughn
Johnny Winter – Live in the 70’s
Harold Lloyd Collection
The Fight Club
Seven
Life is a Bed Of Roses
Love Unto Death
Network
I Remember Mama
Jimi Hendrix – Live at Rainbow Bridge
We Don’t Live Here Anymore
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Holy Mountain
The Lower Depths
El Topo
Warner Brothers Cartoons
Sicko
Red Beard
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
49 Up
That Obscure Object of Desire
And God Created Woman
Jerry Maguire
Charlie Wilson’s War
The Birds
The Savages
Thelonious Monk: Straight No Chaser
Grindhouse: Planet Terror
Grindhouse: Death Proof
The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe
Woman in the Dunes
Tout Va Bien
Cabaret
Tsotsi
Old Joy
The Sopranos: Season 6
Super Size Me
My Architect: A Son’s Journey
Passion of Anna
Hour of the Wolf
Manderlay
Easy Rider
Solaris
Gray’s Anatomy
The Battleship Potemkin
Ivan the Terrible
Deadwood: Season 3
Sister Wendy’s American Collection
Joseph Campbell: The Power Of Myth
Children of Heaven
The Sheltering Sky
Howard Zinn: You Can’t Be Neutral
All the Pretty Horses
Belle de Jour
The Searchers
The Five Obstructions
Lost: Season 2
Diary of a Chambermaid
The Seventh Continent
Wagner: Die Walkure
Wagner: Das Rheingold (Pierre Boulez)
Mozart: Don Giovanni (Metropolitan Opera)
Henry V
8 1/2
Mirror
The Sacrifice (Andrei Tarkovsky)
L’Atalante
Richard III
Hamlet
King Lear
Rushmore
Garden State
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Squid and the Whale
Oldboy
Spring Summer Fall Winter Spring
The Seventh Continent(Michael Haneke)
Diary Of A Chambermaid(Luis Bunuel)
The Fountain(Aranofsky)
Ocean’s 13
La Vie En Rose
Medea(Lars Von Trier)
Rushmore(Wes Anderson)
The Conformist(Bertolucci)
Andrei Ruglyov (Tarkovsky)
The Royal Tenenbaums(Wes Anderson)
The Squid and The Whale (Noah Baumbach)
Oldboy (Chan-wook Park)
Weekend ( Jean-Luc Godard)
The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo)
In Praise of Love ( Jean-Luc Godard)
La Strada (Federico Fellini)
Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan: Season 1
High and Low (Akira Kurosawa)
My Life to Live ( Jean-Luc Godard)
Band of Outsiders( Jean-Luc Godard)
Cleo from 5 to 7 (Agnes Varda)
L’Avventura man (Michelangelo Antonioni)
Blow Up (Michelangelo Antonioni)
Children of Paradise (Marcel Carne)
Children of Men
An Inconvenient Truth
The Da Vinci Code
My Life To Live
The Aura
Amy Goodman Interviews with Desmond Tutu, Wangari Maathi, Nelson Mandela
Blow Up (Antonioni)
L’Ventura
Thank You For Smoking
Prairie Home Companion
Children of Paradise
Casino Royale
Social Profiles