December 9, 2008

"Thru traffic" - Chris Davis (A night remembered)
"25th street" - Kieran Hebden/Steve Reid (NYC)
"Automme" - Florin Niculescu (Plays Stephane Grappelli)
"Grooveyard" - Benny Green (Naturally)
"Rolling son" - Medeski, Martin, & Wood (Radiolarians I)
"You can't lose a broken heart" - Laika (Misery)
"Peace, unknown" - The Royal Hartigan Ensemble (Blood drum spirit: live in China)
"Dona Maria" - Trio da Paz (Black orpheus)
"Hoax" - Simon Legault Quartet (Misrememberings)
"A prayer for my family" - McCoy Tyner (Sahara)
"Saro-Wiwa" - Ted Sirota's Rebel Souls (56 years of jazz)
"Mutt & Jeff"" - James Moody (Honey)
"Nobody" - Pete M. Wyer (Stories from the city at night)
"1920s car chase" - Rob Mosher's Storytime (The tortoise)
"Offshoot 2" - The Peggy Lee Band (New code)
"For another time (1)" - James Davis Quintet (Angles of refraction)
"Secret meeting' - Michel Benita featuring Manu Codjia (Ramblin')
"Escape tones" - Jim McAuley (The ultimate frog)
"Blues clair" - The Bow Djangos (Hot! Swing & gypsy jazz!)
"Scant frame" - Mary Halvorson Trio (Dragon's head)
"Lonesome death of Hattie Carroll" - Michael Moore Trio (De Singel, Antwerpen, Belgium, December 4, 2005)
"Andrew" - Mario Pavone (Double tenor quintet)
"Sempre amore" - Bruno Hebert Trio (Live @ the Cellar)
"Damn Nam (ain't going to Viet Nam)" - Nucleus with Leon Thomas (Montreux, June 20, 1970)
"This is the pig" - Edgar Meyer & Chris Thile (Edgar Meyer & Chris Thile)
"Long ago and far away" - John Abercrombie/Don Wall/Adam Nussbaum (Tactics)

This was an interesting show for a few reasons. There was a wide variety of styles of music played (including two gypsy jazz pieces; how often has this happened on Breaking The Tethers??) and there were a few more tracks played than usual; 26 instead of the regular 22-24 (I've gone higher, over 30, but not for a long while). Who knows what next week will bring.

Faves this week: "25th Street" by Hebden and Reid, "Rolling Son" by MMW, and "A prayer for my family" by Tyner. I also very much liked the Ted Sirota and Rob Mosher tunes.

Andrew