Some Playlists

Catching up on a few DJ sets from the past few months

I’m not going to pretend that my schedule has been packed with book tour events (there are none that the publisher is springing for) or a full DJ calendar (it isn’t), but nevertheless I have been busy with a few bits of travel here and there. At the end of April, I trained down to D.C. to have a book talk and spin a few records over the course of two days and then had an afternoon set at Eavesdrop in Greenpoint. My Virgo-ness led me to try and document all of those sets, which I did to the best of my documenting skillset.

Neptune Room (Washington, D.C.)

Much thanks to the homie Michael R. Bernstein, who brought me down to do a book talk and also set up a sweet lil DJ night in D.C. I also got to hit up his shop, HR Records, famous for hosting Kamala Harris when she did a lil dig as VP.

Arnie Lawrence- “Blessed is the Match”
Pharoah Sanders - “Let Us Go Into the House of the Lord”
Phil Cohran - “White Nile”
Brother Ah - “Sekou”
Michael White - “Journey of the Black Star” “The Blessing Song”
Joe Henderson - “Air”
Sun Ra - ??
Phil Musra+Michael Cosmic - “We Love You Malcolm X”
Pharoah Sanders - “Memories of JW Coltrane”
Don Cherry - “Malkauns”
Derf Reklaw - “Olé”
(some selections via Mike B.)
Kirk Lightsey & Rudolph Johnson - “Fresh Air”
Alice Coltrane - “Los Caballos”
Cecil McBee - “Mutima”
Dewey Redman - “Qom”
(a drunken tag team with Mike B. for the last hour of the night)
The Pyramids - “Mogho Naba (King Of Kings)”
Miles Davis - “Prelude”
Phil Ranelin - “Sounds from the Village”
Karma - “Funk de Mambo”
Eddie Harris - “Instant Death”
Weldon Irvine - “Love Your Brother”
Archie Shepp and Horace Parlan - “Swing Low Sweet Chariot”

Eavesdrop 5-2
Saturday afternoon breeziness in Brooklyn…