Episode 63:: Controlling Chaos

Ignore the (oxy)moronic title for this week's episode, but beware the warning: Despite being wondrous to behold, Chaos is rarely a friend to its admirers. It's a lesson well-learned by generations of one-armed Bear trainers and eyebrow-less lab technicians. It's a fact: Entropy can be a bitch. But in the right circumstances, the proper containment, and under careful observation, it also produces spectacles of beauty, passion, and intellectual bedazzlement.

And so the knife cuts, between unbridled chaos and the illusion of controlling such an elemental force.

As much as I enjoy the opportunity to wax poetic, I actually prefer to just spin wax.

Here's a handful of cuts that dance along the line, hope you enjoy.

Audio

Playlist

1. Sun Ra - Where is Tomorrow - We Are in the Future
2. Charles Mingus - Solo Dancer - Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
3. Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Slippery, Hippery, Flippery - Rip, Rig & Panic
4. Eric Dolphy - Status Seeking - Here and There
5. John Coltrane - Seraphic Light - Stellar Regions
6. Pharoah Sanders - High Life - Wisdom Through Music

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Episode 62:: Second-Hand Vinyl

New York is arguably the Jazz capital of the world, but more relevant to this week's episode, it is the Uncontested Jazz Record Store capital of the world. However, after desperately seeking good record stores throughout Texas (that is, those with a good variety of Jazz and reasonable prices), and even being driven to eBay desperation, since moving to NYC I have not purchased a single LP. In part, this is because I no longer had a salary, and in part it was because part of buying vinyl - for me - is the thrill of the hunt. If you can just walk down the street and buy any record you want, for a good price, what's the challenge?

I may need to amend this posture before I leave NYC, and capitalize on the advantages it provides, but for now, I only buy records when I go out of town. In mid-April, I made one such trip to VT, and found exceptional record stores in both Burlington and nearby Montpelier. This week's episode is a showcase of my recent acquisitions, a celebration of the vinyl format, and a strong push for those of you with a like mind to keep up the LP obsession.

I certainly plan to.

Audio

Playlist

1. Stanley Turrentine - Shake - Rough'n'Tumble
2. Herbie Mann - Bitch - London Underground
3. Jimmy Knepper/ Bill Evans - Idol of the Flies - Idol of the Flies
4. Kai Winding - Idaho - The Swingin' States
5. Kai Winding - Oklahoma! - The Swingin' States
6. Budd Johnson - The Message - ... and the 4 Brass Giants
7. Chaka Khan - I Hear Music - Echoes of an Era
8. Duke Ellington - Creole Love Call -
9. Duke Ellington - Mainstem - In a Mellotone
10. Oscar Peterson - It Happened in Monterrey - A Portrait of Frank Sinatra

::WSRP:: This isn't an episode you'll want to skip-want to skip-want to skip...