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Wayne Shorter: NIGHT DREAMER (1964)

This is in my LP collection and in regular rotation. You may think it’s sacrilege, but I greatly prefer Shorter to Coltrane

Collected Tracks

• Night Dreamer
• Oriental Folk Song
• Virgo
• Black Nile
• Charcoal Blues
• Armageddon
• Virgo (Alternate Take)

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Wayne Shorter: THE SOOTHSAYER (1965)*

Big catalog. Double dipping.

Collected Tracks

• Angola
• The Big Push
• Lady Day

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Weather Report: WEATHER REPORT (1971)*

Triple-dipping on Shorter. Honestly, I’ve never been able to get into Weather Report, but I feel obligated to try again.

I always thought HEAVY WEATHER was overrated and dull. This one is much better and the best successor to BITCHES BREW I’ve heard, so far.

Much like my Sam Rivers listens, the lack of track collection is not a function of it’s likeability, but a function of not wanting to have long complicated tracks in my collection when I’d rather listen to that stuff in a sitting, rather than randomly.

Collected Tracks

• N/A

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White Denim: LAST DAYS OF SUMMER (2010)*

I really, really like this band.

Collected Tracks

• I’d Have It Just the Way We Were
• Tony Fatti
• If You’re Changing
• Through Your Windows

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Whitney: LIGHT UPON THE LAKE (2016)*

I’ve loved “The Falls” for several yaers, now. Finally getting around to the catalog. They remind me a bit of America, with less good harmonies. It’s telling that the only other track I took was an instrumental. I think they’ll not stay in the rotation.

Collected Tracks

• The Falls
• Red Moon

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What is The Rotation?

The primary way I build my digital music collection is by maintaining a playlist called, “The Rotation.” On this list, I load albums of artists I’m interested in hearing; mostly new-to-me artists or albums. Because I need some organizational principle to conduct this survey, I go by the alphabetical listing of the artist. I typically move from earlier records to later records, although there are exceptions. If I’m excited to hear a new album by a favorite artist I’ll add it in an apparent random placement to hear it sooner than later. From this list I’ll select tracks to add to my collection. It’s rare that I DNF a record, and uncommon for me to not select a single track from it. I’ve been doing this for a while and am currently on my 9th trip around the alphabet. Above are the albums heard in a given session and what thoughts, if any, I have about them. These are mostly first impressions, so don’t expect in-depth analysis.

Asterisks (*) after the album title indicate that it is a new-to-me record.