Marzette WattsPlaylist for
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
February 15, 2008

Hosted by Greg Lyon on FRIDAYS at 2-4 pm
on WPVM Asheville (103.5 FM and www.wpvm.org)

This show is available for listening as an archive for one week after its airing at WPVM’s Archive Page (click on the STREAM button for this show–under the letter ‘G’)

Notes:

– Catching up on my notes, so I’ll be brief. The highlights of this show for me were the following:

– The Duke Ellington suites (the Girl’s Suite from 1961 and the Perfume Suite from 1957) were the background music, and somehow I had never slapped this wax on the turntable. How could I have overlooked this one?

– Marzette Watts’ 1966 disk is really wild, and it has vibes (!) (Karl Berger), not to mention Byard Lancaster (flute and alto), Sonny Sharrock (guitar, and his first appearance on record), Clifford Thornton (trombone), Henry Grimes (bass), and J.C. Moses (drums). What a line-up! I believe Marzette only released two albums under his own name, and I’ve never seen the other one (evidently on Savoy, with Bill Dixon and Patty Waters).

– Mary Lou Williams. This 1977 LP, My Mama Pinned a Rose on Me, is one of her better later records, featuring mostly her own compositions.

Background Music: Duke Ellington - The Girl’s Suite and the Perfume Suite (1961 Columbia)

Artist Song Album Label Comments New
Eliades Ochoa Si es un final Tribute to the Cuarteto Patria Virgin 2000  
Neriman Altindag Soyledi Yok Yok (Talk, No No) VA - Black Mirror: Reflections In Global Musics (1918 - 1955) Dust-to-Digital mid-1940s *
Eastern Blok Balkan Healer Folk Tales s/r Chicago *
A Hawk and a Hacksaw and the Hun Hangar Ensemble Oriental Hora A Hawk and a Hacksaw and the Hun Hangar Ensemble Leaf Hungarians and indie rockers together at last *
Sun City Girls Deception Reception Dulce Abduction with Eyvind Kang violin/guitar  
Duke Ellington Clementine The Girl’s Suite and the Perfume Suite Columbia 1961  
Marzette Watts Geno Marzette and Company ESP-Disk 1966  
K. Curtis Lyle Lemon’s Comin’ on Strong Blues The Collected Poem for Blind Lemon Jefferson Ikef/Mbari 1971 with Julius Hemphill  
Mike Ladd Black Orientalist Nostalgialator Definitive Jux new one *
Gong You Can’t Kill Me Camembert Electrique Decal 1971  
Apes Which Witch Wuz Ghost Games Gypsy Eyes Washington, DC *
Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention I’m Not Satisfied Freak Out! Ryko 1966  
Dan Melchior Bureau of Neurotic Grins Hello, I’m Dan Melchior Shake It 2005  
Michael Hurley Knockando The Ancestral Swamp Gnomonsong *
Jacob Hoffman & Kandal’s Orchestra Diona & Hora I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore 1927-1948 Mississippi  
Mary Lou Williams Baby Bear Boogie My Mama Pinned a Rose on Me Pablo 1977  
Michael Hurley Dying Crapshooter’s Blues the Ancestral Swamp Gnomonsong *
Wooden Shjips Dance, California [Radio Edit] Bonus Disc Holy Mountain  
Antietam King Me Opus Mixtum Carrot Top their second for Carrot Top *
Black Mountain Angels In The Future Jagjaguwar *
L. Voag Toilet The Way Out Alcoholic 1979  
Marc Wilkinson Peter Fights Devil, Severs Hand Blood on Satan’s Claw Trunk 1971 *
Tindersticks El diablo en el ojo Tindersticks (II) London 1995  
Andrew Cyrille The News The Loop Ictus 1978 solo drums  

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