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:
Return To Seoul
Past Lives
Anatomy Of A Fall
I Think We’re Alone Now
The Lost City Of Z
Role Play
Inside
Saltburn
The Creator
The Man In The High Castle_seasons 1-4
Oppenheimer_Film
Fisk_
Local Hero
The Burial
Taylor Swift_The Eras Tour Concert Film
Maestro
Leave The World Behind
The Bear_seasons 1-2
The Crown_Season 5-6
Koyaanisqatsi
The Killer_Netflix
Killers of the Flower Moon_Scorsese
All The Light You Can Not See_Series
Nyad_Netflix
Beast
The Umbrella Academy_four episodes
The Lost Daughter_Netflix
The incredible Jessica James_Netflix
Mudbound_Netflix_ Noah Baumbach film
Marriage story_Netflix
Sense8_ Wachowskis’ Netflix series
Billie Eilish_ David Letterman Interview
The Diplomat_season1
Inside
Reptile
Daliland
Marvelous Mrs. Maisel_seasons 4, 5
Sitting In Bars With Cake
The Fallen Sun
Wayne Shorter_Zero Gravity
Barbie
Wakanda forever
Moonage Daydream_Amazon
EO
White Noise_Noah Baumbach film
Babylon
The Fablemans
The Banshees of Inisherin
The Pale Blue Eye
Carmel: Who Killed Maria Marta?_Netflix
Top Gun_Maverick
Glass Onion_Netflix
Tar
L’Eclisse_Antonioni
La Notte_Antonioni
L’Aventura_Antonioni
White Lotus_seasons 1, 2
The Sound of 007
George and Tammy
NOPE_2022
House Of The Dragon_Full Series
How To Change Your Mind_Netflix 4 part series
CCR at the Royal Albert Hall
ZZ TOP That Little Old Band From Texas
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power_Full Series
Count Me In_Drummer documentary
Where the Crawdads Sing
Stranger Things_All Seasons
The Grey Man
The Tragedy of McBeth_Joel Cohen_Apple TV
The Tender Bar_Amazon
“Don’t look up”_Netflix
Being The Ricardos_Lucille Ball_Amazon Prime
Adele concert at Griffith Observatory
the Matrix-Resurections_HBO
The Beatles_Get Back
SOPRANOS_all seasons
Billions_all seasons
Money Heist_Season 3
Billie Eilish_Hollywood Bowl Concert
A French Village_Amazon
Amarcord_Fellini
“Sullivan’s Travels” (1941)_Amazon
Aretha_Jennifer Hudson version
Black Widow
Jaco documentary
Faces Places
8 ½_Fellini
Il Sorpasso
Summer Of Soul_Documentary made by Questlove
The Tunnel_seasons 1-3
Aretha Franklin_Amazing Grace Concert Documentary_Amazon
No Sudden Move_ Steven Soderberg_HBO
Miles Davis: Birth Of The Cool
COOKED_Netflix 4 part series
Schtisel_season 3
East Side Sushi
The Mauritanian
Minari
Land_Robin Wright
The United States v. Billie Holiday
Nomadland
The Rider
Mank_Netflix
Zarafa
Full Mantis_Milford Graves
Fatboy: The Billy Stewart Story
The Professor and the Madman_Netflix
What About Bob?_Bill Murray
Sound Of Metal_Amazon_drummer goes deaf
The Midnight Sky
Soul
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
The Crown_Season 3, 4, 5, 6
The Undoing_Kidman, Grant Series
Midnight Diner_Japanese Series on Netflix
The Gentlemen_Hugh Grant, Matthew McHonnehy
Borat new movie
The Queen’s Gambit
The Lorax
ZZ Top
Jeff Beck: Still On The Run_Amazon
UTOPIA
Berlin Babylon SERIES
Yellowstone SERIES
The King Of Staten Island
Star Wars_The Last Jedi
The Good Liar
Zootopia
Echo In The Canyon
Unorthodox_Netflix_4 episodes
“Too Hot to Handle.”_Netflix_Professional TV writers Pick
“Money Heist_Netflix”_ Professional TV writers Pick
Ozarks
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