Updoc 189: S & M & M: 6/22/12
Opening theme: Art Ensemble of Chicago: The Ninth Room; Tutankhamun (Black Lion)
1. Dmitri Shostakovich/Borodin String Quartet: String Quartet No. 3; Shostakovich String Quartets Nos. 2 & 3 (EMI)
2. Charles Mingus: The Shoes of the Fisherman’s Wife Are Some Jive-Ass Slippers; Let My Children Hear Music (Columbia)
3. Thelonious Monk: Blue Sphere; The London Collection Vol. 1 (1201 Music)
4. Charles Mingus: Peggy’s Blue Skylight; Passions of a Man - The Complete Atlantic Recordings 1956 – 1961 (Atlantic)
5. Thelonious Monk: Epistrophy; Live in Paris Vol. 3 (SCFM)
6. Charles Mingus: The Children’s Hour of Dream; Epitaph (Sony)
7. Thelonious Monk/John Coltrane: Bye-Ya; Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane At Carnegie Hall (Blue Note)
8. Charles Mingus: Memories of You; Mingus Plays Piano (Impulse)
9. Dmitri Shostakovich/Quatuor Danel: String Quartet No. 14; Shostakovich: The Complete String Quartets (Fuga Libera)
Out theme: Dmitri Shostakovich/Borodin String Quartet: String Quartet No. 8 (excerpt); Shostakovich String Quartets No. 7 & 8, Piano Quintet (EMI)
Great hangin’ out in the Ninth Room with the Marquis de Monk, etc. It made me want to buy that box set of the Danel Quartet playing Shostakovich.