August 12, 2008

"Couvre-feu" - L'Orkestra Des Pas Perdus (Project 9)
"Composition no 345" - Anthony Braxton Sextet ((Victoriaville) 2005)
"Inner city blues" - Grover Washington, Jr. (Inner city blues)
"Theme for Darfur" - Cosmologic (Eyes in the back of my head)
"Reprise" - Adam Niewood & His Rabble Rousers (Epic journey)
"Relaxin'" - Willie "The Lion" Smith & Don Ewell (Stride piano duets: live in Toronto, 1966)
"One is the water" - Simon Fisk/Chris Gestrin/Jerry Granelli (Vague hotels)
"Concerto de aranjuez" - Buster Williams (Griot liberte)
"Benny's tune" - Lionel Loueke (Karibu)
"Snakes and spiders" - Robert Walter (Cure all)
"Favourite addiction" - Heather Blush and the Uppercuts (Vice)
"Langrage" - Michael Moore & Fred Hersch (This we know)
"Sinopia" - Bill Dixon (17 musicians in search of a sound: Darfur)
"Remember Rockefeller at Attica" - Mark Shim (Mind over matter)
"Chamalongo" - Jane Bunnett (Osian)
"The return" - Frank Vignola and Frank Wess (Without a doubt)
"Falling" - Elliot Sharp's Terraplane (Do the don't)
"Antiquity" - The Chicago Underground Trio (Flamethrower)
"If 6 was 9" - Don Byron (Nu blaxploitation)
"She has information" - Bobby Previte and the New Bump (Set the alarm for Monday)
"Stress talks" - Gone Fission (Phoenix)
"Right balance" - Maciek Grzywacz (Forces within)

This ended up being a more varied show than originally planned. Nothing wrong with that, though. I was also surprised that I managed to fit in 22 tunes, especially considering the first hour featured a lengthy tune (as have the past few shows), Anthony Braxton's "Composition no 345"; I didn't play even half of it, however (it goes on for nearly 70 minutes).

Fun tune of the day: The Hendrix cover, "If 6 was 9" by Don Byron, which incorporates the Turtles' "Happy together", believe it or not.

Guitar solo of the day: "Reprise" by Adam Niewood & His Rabble Rousers. The solo appears about half-way through the track. Good stuff. It reminds me of the guitar work on the Paul Motian Band record Garden of Eden.

Sax solo of the day: "Theme for Darfur" by Cosmologic. It pops up toward the end of the performance.

I'm doing a showfill on Pound Cake Jazz on Friday, August 15, 6-9 am. The regular programmer, Stewart, can't make the show so I'll be filling in. He'll be doing the same for me on September 30 (thanks, Stewart!). I'll still be back with a regular edition of Breaking The Tehters next Tuesday.

Andrew