aworks ordered list :: top five of the day /not out of kilter/

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1. Bemusha Swing. Cecil Taylor and John Coltrane.
2. Psychedelic (Психоделика). Sergey Kuryokhin
3. Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors. Radiohead
4. Linus and Lucy. Vince Guaraldi
5. Kilter. Mary Ellen Childs

Taylor/Coltrane: This is so inferior to any version of Bemsha Swing by Monk but an interesting oddity nonetheless. I don't think you could say Taylor swings on the piano but he clearly his own peculiar aesthetic, evident even in this recording from his earlier days.

Kuryokhin: Russian artist and composer who among other claims to fame, "proved" on Russian TV that Lenin was a mushroom. If nothing else, this music is eclectic.

Radiohead: Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors is as outré as Radiohead gets.

Guaraldi: Listening to some jazz compositions by Vince Guaraldi as played by George Winston led me back to the hit.

Childs: While listening to this piano work again, I had to confirm the precise definition of "kilter."

lala: top 5 today :: 2/6/10

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Comments

[Alex V. Cook]

Monk swings his piano like a wrecking ball, whereas Taylor sees his as a loose cinder block, one that he just might, with persistance, peck into dust. Either way, they are both gettin' through that wall.