Updoc 59: He Means Us: 8/25/09
Opening theme: Art Ensemble of Chicago: Nice Guys [title tune] (ECM)
1. Thelonious Monk/Gerry Mulligan: I Mean You; Mulligan Meets Monk (Riverside/Original Jazz Classics)
2. John Cage/Margaret Leng Tan: Daughter of the Lonesome Isle; Daughters of the Lonesome Isle (New Albion)
3. Alan Hovhaness: To Hiroshige’s Cat; Shalimar - Piano Solos (Celestial Harmonies)
4. Georgi Ivanovich Gurdjieff/Thomas de Hartmann: Prayer and Despair; The Music of Gurdjieff/de Hartmann (G-H Recordings)
5. Ingram Marshall/Sarah Cahill: Authentic Presence; Savage Altars (New Albion)
6. Duke Ellington: The Single Petal of a Rose; The Ellington Suites [The Queen’s Suite]; (Pablo/OJC)
7. John Cage/Boris Berman: Mysterious Adventure; Music for Prepared Piano, Volume 2 (Naxos American Classics)
8. Alan Hovhaness: Love Song Vanishing into Sound of Crickets; Shalimar (Celestial Harmonies)
9. Ravi Coltrane: Ask Me Now; Mad 6 (Eighty-Eights/Columbia)
10. Thelonious Monk: Little Rootie Tootie; The Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall (Riverside/OJC)
11. Radiohead: In Memory of Harry Patch (WASTE download)
12. John Zorn/Ilya Kaler/George Taylor/Perrin Yang: Kol Nidre; Jewish String Quartets (Naxos American Classics)
13. Benjamin Britten/Britten Singers/David Hickox: Chorale After Old French Carol; Britten/Finzi/Holst-Sacred Works (Chandos)
14. Kim Kashkashian/Komitas/Tigran Mansurian: Oror; Neharót (ECM)
15. Thelonious Monk: Melancholy Baby; The London Collection (1201)
16. Thelonious Monk/John Coltrane: I Mean You; Discovery! Live at the Five Spot (Blue Note)
Out theme: Art Ensemble of Chicago: Strawberry Mango; Coming Home Jamaica (WEA/Atlantic)