Playlist Week of 2014-05-17

* Handel: Concerti grossi, Op.3 (Academy of Ancient Music/Egarr) (Harmonia Mundi SACD)

* Berio: Sinfonia/Ekphrasis (DG CD)

* Miles Davis: The Complete On The Corner Sessions (d.1-4) (Columbia/Legacy 6CD)

* Pharoah Sanders: Message From Home (Verve CD)

* Pharoah Sanders: Save Our Children (Verve CD)

* James “Blood” Ulmer: Tales Of Captain Black (Artists House LP)

* Terje Rypdal: After The Rain (ECM LP)

* William Parker Quartet Featuring Leena Conquest: Raining on the Moon (Thirsty Ear CD)

* William Parker Violin Trio: Scrapbook (Thirsty Ear CD)

* Ingrid Laubrock & Tom Rainey: And Other Desert Towns (Relative Pitch CD)†

* D’Angelo: Brown Sugar (EMI CD)

* Pharrell Williams: G I R L (Columbia LP)(†/‡)

* Grateful Dead: Holleder Stadium, Rochester, NY 1979-09-01 (selections) (SBD 2CDR)

* Grateful Dead: Capital Centre, Landover, MD 1982-09-15 (selections) (SBD 2CDR)

* The Cure: Happily Ever After (A&M 2LP)

* The Flaming Lips: 7 Skies H3 (Warner Bros. LP)

* Stereolab: Dots And Loops (Drag City 2-45RPM LP)

* Wilco: The Whole Love (Nonesuch 2LP)

* Kyuss: Blues For The Red Sun (Dali/Elektra LP)

* The Black Keys: Turn Blue (Nonesuch LP)

* Broken Bells: Broken Bells (Columbia CD)

* Ensemble Pearl: (ensemble pearl) (Drag City 2LP)

* Agalloch: Marrow Of The Spirit (Profound Lore 2LP)

* Agalloch: The Serpent & The Sphere (Profound Lore ALAC)†

* White Hills: So You Are…So You’ll Be (Thrill Jockey LP)

* ASG: Win Us Over (Volcom/Relapse 2-45RPM LP)

* Ancestors: In Dreams And Time (Teepee 2LP)

* Windhand: Soma (Relapse 2LP)

* London Grammar: If You Wait (Columbia 2LP)

†=iPod/iTunes

‡=car

Commentary:

The amazing Ingrid Laubrock and Tom Rainey are currently on a rare U.S. tour and, as you can see, they are covering quite a lot of ground out here in “flyover country”:

05/15 Cleveland/Mahall's 20 Lanes (+ Oblique Orchestra)

05/16 Ann Arbor/Kerrytown Concert House

05/17 Chicago/Constellation (+ Tomeka Reid/Katherine Young, 2nd set)

05/18 Milwaukee/Sugar Maple

05/20 St. Louis/Kerr Foundation Building (New Music Circle)

05/22 Nashville/Zeitgeist Gallery
                 ('Indetermanacies' series concert + workshop at the Nashville Public Library)

05/23 Tuscaloosa/University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa New Music Collective)

05/24 New Orleans/Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center

05/25 New Orleans/Cafe Istanbul

05/26 Houston/Avant Garden, "They Who Sound" series
                 (duo + quartet with Damon Smith (b) and David Dove (tbne)

05/27 Austin/Museum of Human Achievement (presented by Epistrophy Arts)

05/29 Santa Fe/Gig Performance Space

05/30 Lafayette (CO) /Ceraso Gallery + Studio

06/01 Kansas City/The Record Bar

06/02 Minneapolis/The Icehouse (J T's Jazz Implosion series)

06/03 Madison/Audio for the Arts
06/05 Pittsburgh/Thunderbird

Be sure to catch them if you can. They will be here in Nashville on Thursday, May 22 for an all-day celebration of their music and avant-garde jazz, with an “Out of the Lunchbox” talk by Vanderbilt professor Robert Fry at noon at the downtown Public Library, followed by a workshop/masterclass with Ingrid and Tom in the library auditorium. Then, at 7:00pm, the duo will perform at “Indeterminacies” at Zeitgeist Gallery with a discussion segment led by Prof. Fry. This, sadly, will be the final "Indeterminacies" event--but we're going out with a bang. Not to be missed!!