Top 20 recordings of 2015

Thundercat The Beyond/Where Giants Roam

Thundercat The Beyond/Where Giants Roam

1. ThundercatThe Beyond/Where Giants RoamBrainfeeder Records
2. McPhee/Saft/Morris/DownsTiconderogaClean Feed
3. Uneven ElevenLive at Café OTOSub Rosa
4. Steve Coleman and the Council of BalanceSynovial JointsPi Recordings
5. Henry Threadgill’s ZooidIn for a penny, in for a pound– Pi Recordings
6. Kendrick LamarTo pimp a butterflyTop Dawg Entertainment
7. Cécile Mclorin SalvantFor one to loveMack Avenue Records
8. Raheem DeVaughnLove, Sex and PassionEntertainment One Music
9. Alan JenkinsThe Kettering Vampires perform The Velvet Underground and NicoCordelia Records
10. Ikue MoriLight in the shadowTzadic
11. Kamasi WashingtonThe EpicBrainfeeder
12. The ThingShakeThe Thing Records
13. Tim Berne’s SnakeoilYou’ve been watching meECM Records
14. The NecksVertigoRecommended Records
15. FiliaMotsaLike it isAagoo records
16. Dominique PifarelyTime Before and AfterECM
17. Ben NeillHorizonalAudiokult Records
18. Stephen Haynes QuintetPomegranateNew Atlantis Records
19. Prince BujuWe are in the warMakkum Records
20. The AndThe AndTractor Notown

My brush with fame

Sun Ra 1989 release Blue Delight on A&M Records

Sun Ra 1989 release Blue Delight on A&M Records

A few years ago I needed to clear out some of my cd collection and I started selling cds at the usual spots to sell music online. Some of the cds had been in my collection for 20 years and I thought it best to looking into replacing them on vinyl anyway. I sold a lot of great recordings by Fela Kuti, Ornette Coleman, and Last Poets to name a few. One day I looked in the account and noticed an order from Penn Jillette. It was for the Sun Ra title ‘Blue Delight‘.
I remember thinking how that made selling records online fun for a while. Thanks Penn and as I remember writing in a note with the sale- you have good taste in music.