December 15, 2009

"Battle of the forms" - Chicago Goes West (Chicago goes west)
"My favorite things" - John Coltrane (Afro-blue impressions)
"In your own sweet way" - Terrence Brewer (Groovin' Wes)
"You're my thrill" - Kate McGarry (If less is more… nothing is everything)
"Crossing Sirat" - Wadada Leo Smith (Spiritual dimensions)
"Dewel" - Mulatu Astatke (NewYork-Addis-London: The story of Ethio jazz 1965-1975)
"C jam blues" - Canadian Jazz Quartet (Just friends)
"Tanguillo" - Vince Mendoza/Arif Mardin (Jazzpana - the music)
"Ranjani ranjani" - Karukurichi Arunachalam (Nadhaswaram)
"Alba" - Alvin McQueen (Mighty long way)
"Disco 3000" - Sun Ra (Disco 3000)
"Jingle bells (reprise)" - Bela Fleck and the Flecktones (Jingle all the way)
"Nightmare" - Yannick Rieu (Spectrum)
"Well tempered choros: shadow flowers" - William Beauvais (Invisible cities)
"The separation of stones" - Dennis Gonzalez New Dallas Sextet (Namesake)
"Captain courageous" - Lester Bowie (African children)
"Finger on the pulse" - Fred Frith (Impur II)
"I've never been in love before" - The Cory Weeds Quintet (Everything's coming up weeds)

A nice mixed bag program, leaning to the more avant/experimental/free side of things. I even snuck in a Christmas tune, though it's a banjo-throat singing version of "Jingle Bells".

This was my last show until Tuesday, January 12, 2010. I will be out of the country for the next three editions of Breaking The Tethers. I'm not sure who will be filling in for me (I believe it will be a variety of folks) but I'm sure they will do a great job. More postings (and music) next year.

Andrew

December 8, 2009

"Blues for Jervis" - Richard Whiteman Trio (Live in Vancouver)
"Burning spirits no. 1" - Sonny Simmons (Burning spirits)
"The children and the rats" - Zevious (After the air raid)
"Vietnam 2" - Revolutionary Ensemble (Vietnam 1 & 2 (at the peace church))
"Sounds on silence" - Fieldtrip with Jim Head and Kelly Jefferson (No destination)
"The griots" - Jason Adasiewicz's Rolldown (Varmit)
"Yamandu" - Ted Quinlan (Streetscape)
"USQ/Trilogy" - Donald Bailey (Blueprints of jazz vol. 3)
"Ghost ride" - Muskox (5 pieces)
"Moon over the great wall, part b" - Beijing Trio (Jazzno Jazz Festival, Zurich, Switzerland, October 28, 2001)
"Passion dance" - Terry Clark (It's about time)
"Minor 101" - The Dave Young Quartet (Mean what you say)
"Lachyrmae - movement #11" - The Tony Wilson Sextet (The people look like flowers at last)
"Little shadow" - Ergo (Multitude, solitude)
"Today on earth" - Joe Morris Quartet (Today on earth)
"Warmth" - Keith Price (Breakfast of champions)
"Salty" - Darius Jones Trio (Man'ish boy (a raw & beautiful thing))
"By invitation only" - Kirk MacDonald Quartet (Songbook vol. 1)

I was joined behind the board today by Brent Constantine, the new host of Off The Page, the Gauntlet news program on CJSW. Brent needed some familiarization with broadcast procedures at CJSW and did a great job.

Fave tracks this week: Sonny Simmons (even though I played the wrong song! haven't played any Sonny Simmons for a long time), "Vietnam 2" by the Revolutionary Ensemble (I aired "Vietnam 1" yesterday), and "The griots" by J.A.'s Rolldown.

One week left, one last show before my Christmas break.


Andrew

December 7, 2009

"Destinos" - Billy Cobham and Asere (Jazz around the world)
"No man's land" - Bill Frisell (Is that you?)
"Song h" - Yannick Rieu (Spectrum)
"Billie's bounce" - Greg Burk (Ivy trio)
"Dance of the cosmo aliens" - Sun Ra (Disco 3000)
"Follow the leader" - Bobby Selvaggio (Unspoken dialogue)
"Ice mountain" - Spyro Gyra (Down to the wire)
"Gratte-moi le dos" - Vivian Houle (Trieze)
"Oxamu" - Andy Narell (Live in South Africa)
"Vietnam 1" - Revolutionary Ensemble (Vietnam 1 & 2 (at the peace church))
"323 shuter" - The Cory Weeds Quintet (Everything's coming up weeds)
"Yegelle tezeta" - Mulatu Astatke (NewYork-Addis-London: The story of Ethio jazz 1965-1975)
"Invocation" - Melody Diachun (EQ )
"Dead sea" - Fred Frith (Impur II)
"Joy: spiritual fire: joy" - Wadada Leo Smith (Spiritual dimensions)
"To undertake my corners open" - Henry Threadgill Zooid (This brings us to, volume I)
"Suite for the wolfman: the tribe" - Barry Romberg's Random Access (Was shall why because)
"Stimming" - The Rick Jensen Trio (Snowdrift)
"Summer hair" - Canaille (Potential things)


This was a showfill for the Monday morning jazz program on CJSW, The Jazz Baby. The regular host, Kat Lord, couldn't make it this week so I filled in. I very much liked the line-up of tunes this week; the tracklist was put together with a little less care and a little more haste than usual but things worked out well. I was particularly fond of the music that was new to me, including the Revolutionary Ensemble and the Sun Ra track (not that Sun Ra is new to me, of course, but the track I played was).

I'll be back on air tomorrow with Breaking The Tethers, the second last show until my break.

Andrew

December 1, 2009

"Cakewalk" - Oliver Jones-Hank Jones (Pleased to meet you)
"Strange uhuru" - Charles Tyler Ensemble (Charles Tyler Ensemble)
"Crystal " - Weather Report (I sing the body electric)
"Take the Coltrane" - The Stanley Clarke Trio (Jazz in the garden)
"Cast the first stone? (…if you yourself have no sins)" - Billy Harper (Blueprints of jazz vol. 2)
"Yekermo sew" - Mulatu Astatke (New York-Addis-London: The story of Ethio jazz 1965-1975)
"Roosevelt" - Darius Jones Trio (Man'ish boy (a raw & beautiful thing))
"Cry out" - Darius Jones Trio - Man'ish boy (a raw & beautiful thing)
"If you could read my mind" - Jake Langley (Here and now)
"The tippin' point" - Spyro Gyra (Down to the wire)
"I was a celestial body in a contents sale" - Barry Romberg's Random Access (Was shall why because)
"Silver sun" - Joe Morris (Colorfield)
"Free man in Paris" - Melody Diachun (EQ )
"After some time" - Henry Threadgill Zooid (This brings us to, volume I)
"I love you" - Terell Stafford-Dick Oatts Quintet (Bridging the gap)
"Early bedtime" - Canaille (Potential things)
"Hamdouchi" - Maleen Mahmoud Ghania with Pharoah Sanders (The trance of the seven colors)
"Bumpin' on sunset" - Terrence Brewer (Groovin' Wes)
"Rim of fire suite, II" - Jeanette Lambert (Sand underfoot)
"Jungle animals" - Bobby Selvaggio (Unspoken dialogue)
"A crooked road" - Ranee Lee (Live upstairs)
"Hupid stumid" - Greg Burk (Ivy trio)

This a fun show with a fairly wide variety of tracks. Lots of great stuff here: Ethio-jazz, Morocco meets Pharoah Sanders, the late Charles Tyler, early Weather Report, and more!

Two more shows to go and then I am off to Barbados for a couple of weeks or so. I'll be doing Breaking The Tethers on December 8 and 15 and then will be skipping the December 22 and 29 and January 5 programs. I'm not sure yet who is covering for me but I'm sure whoever it is will do a great job in my absence. My first show of 2010 will be January 12.

Andrew

November 24, 2009

"Fleeting" - Kirk MacDonald Quartet (Songbook vol. 1)
"Umar at the Dome of the Rock, parts 1 & 2" - Wadada Leo Smith (Spiritual dimensions)
"Summertime at Bamako" - Keletigui Diabate with Habib Koite & Bamada (Jazz around the world)
"Kramer vs. Kramer vs. Godzilla" - Ben Allison (Think free)
"Feel free" - Terry Clark (It's about time)
"Dry " - Fay Victor Ensemble (The freesong suite)
"No destination" - Fieldtrip with Jim Head and Kelly Jefferson (No destination)
"Throw down your heart" - Bela Fleck (Throw down your heart: tales from the acoustic planet vol. 3: Africa sessions)
"After the air raid" - Zevious (After the air raid)
"Polka dot blues" - Sherele (Jazz around the world)
"Punchbug" - Jason Adasiewicz's Rolldown (Varmit)
"Infinity's window" - William Beauvais (Invisible cities)
"Le conti" - Ted Quinlan (Streetscape)
"Zoom zoom (part two)" - Keith Price (Breakfast of champions)
"Chan chan" - Kora Jazz Trio (Jazz around the world)
"Fluke" - Blast4tet (Sift)
"Nanya tamgu" - Sinistrio (Ride the dragon)
"Bare bones" - Madeline Peyroux (Bare bones)
"Current" - Brad Shepik (Human activity suite)
"Actuator" - Ergo (Multitude, solitude)
"Gatekeeper" - Harris Eisenstadt (Canada day)
"Mu-turn" - Andy Milne-Benoit Delbecq (Where is pannonica?)

A few interesting things about this show:

*This was the second edition of Breaking The Tethers to come from the new CJSW broadcast facilities.

*Everything played on the show was "new"; newly released, fairly recently released, recently re-released, etc. I do shows like this now and again and this was one of them, largely unplanned (until I realized that I had a big pile of "new" CDs).

*There were a number of African-sounding tunes on the program, including the Bela Fleck track and "Chan chan" by the Kora Jazz Trio (there's a great piano solo on this).

*Best title this week: "Kramer vs. Kramer vs. Godzilla" by Ben Allison.


Back in a week. Three more shows before my Christmas break.

Andrew

November 17, 2009

"Seven minds" - The Dave Young Quartet (Mean what you say)
"Rubbing stone" - Jeremy Brown (Rubbing stone)
"Hamp's boogie woogie" - Lionel Hampton (Centennial celebration: 100)
"Truth is marching in" - Brotherhood Consort (Cite de al musique, Paris, France, February 9, 2008)
"Alvarado" - Brad Mehldau (Largo)
"Sphere" - Brandford Marsalis Quartet (Metamorphosen)
"Stay on message" - David Widelock Trio (Skating on the sidewalk)
"Netsanet" - Mulatu Astatke (NewYork-Addis-London: The story of Ethio jazz 1965-1975)
"Good news from the desert" - Erik Truffaz/Murcof (Mexico)
"Bass folk song no. 5 & 6" - The Stanley Clarke Trio (Jazz in the garden)
"A grand night for swinging" - Gary Wolfe (Sun up)
"Molehills mumps' betters and bards" - Vivian Houle (Trieze)
"Sids ahead" - Miles Davis (Broadcast sessions: 1958-59)
"My funny valentine" - Deepak Ram (Steps)
"Song of the soul" - Catherine Meunier (Night chill)
"Ambiente" - Ploug/Pettersen/Badenhorst (Equilibrium)
"Looking for the lake" - The Fonda Stevens Group (Memphis)
"Here and now" - Jake Langley (Here and now)
"B.B.'s blue blues" - The Cory Weeds Quintet (Everything's coming up weeds)
"Walk back" - Medeski, Martin, & Wood (Radiolarians III)
"In between moods" - Tony Foster (In between moods)
"Pentatonic tune" - John Wojciechowski (Lexicon)
"Let the monkeys dance" - The Tony Wilson Sextet (The people look like flowers at last)
"Unnamed" - Jerry Granelli V16 (Vancouver '08)

This was the first Breaking The Tethers show in the new CJSW studios. While they are still being moved into, the new digs are spacious and comfortable and most of the equipment in the booth is new. Plus, there are windows - I saw the sunrise yesterday! After the totally windowless environment of the old location, this was a very nice change. There will be more settling in to do but, so far, so good. I look forward to next week's program.

Andrew

November 10, 2009

"Humphries' tide" - Muskox (5 pieces)
"Funk city-ola" - Buddy Rich (Time out)
"Taoue" - Abdoulaye N'Diaye (Taoue)
"Air" - Jon Hassell (Power spot)
"Embarrassment of riches" - Joe Morris Quartet (Today on earth)
"Motherless child" - John Scofield (Piety street)
"Time to let go" - Terell Stafford-Dick Oatts Quintet (Bridging the gap)
"Blue monk" - Abbey Lincoln (Abbey sings Abbey)
"Intro" - Barry Romberg's Random Access (Was shall why because)
"Platypus" - Ben Allison (Think free)
"Delightful Deggy" - Ralph Moore (Who it is you are)
"Chairmaster" - Henry Threadgill Zooid (This brings us to, volume I)
"Chasing the ghost" - Darius Jones Trio (Man'ish boy (a raw & beautiful thing))
"Hooked" - Kellylee Evans (Fight or flight?)
"Lachyrmae - movement #4" - The Tony Wilson Sextet (The people look like flowers at last)
"Dock Boggs" - Canaille (Potential things)
"Don't gild the lily" - Harris Eisenstadt (Canada day)
"(Smell my) special ingredients" - Stanton Moore Trio (Kuumbwa Jazz Center, Santa Cruz, CA, May 12, 2008)
"Time's up" - ESP (Time's up)
"M & m" - Beaux J Poo Boo (All things are new)
"Mahkota kotor window" - Arrington de Dionyso (Malaikst dan singa)
"Nowhere" - Michael Gibbs (Lancaster University 1969)
"Reflections" - Dean McNeill (Prairie fire: large jazz ensemble)

This was an enjoyable show, at least from my perspective. Plenty of new "out there" jazz and more good stuff. My favourties this week include "Platypus" from the new Ben Allison release, "Chasing the ghost" by the Darius Jones Trio, and the totally crazy "Mahkota kotor window" by Arrington de Dionyso.

Also, I think this might have been the last edition of Breaking The Tethers in the old CJSW studio space. As has been mentioned, the station is definitely moving and is moving now. Walls are bare, the library is being emptied, and furniture is disappearing. We could be broadcasting out of the new space, on the 3rd floor of MacEwan Hall (the CJSW studio and offices are in the basement at present) within a matter of days. For more info, see the CJSW expansion blog; there's lots of photos and videos that give a good idea of what the new digs will look like.

Andrew

November 3, 2009

"When beauty reigns" - Melody Diachun (EQ )
"Family affair" - Harry Miller's Isipingo (Which way now)
"Matitu" - Bela Fleck (Throw down your heart: tales from the acoustic planet vol. 3: Africa sessions)
"Abe Vigoda" - Brandford Marsalis Quartet (Metamorphosen)
"Skating on the sidewalk" - David Widelock Trio (Skating on the sidewalk)
"Honey pie" - Sarah Corman (Happy little tune)
"Jolly rogers" - Stan Kenton and His Orchestra (Une anthologie 1950/1957)
"Theo's place" - Jeanette Lambert (Sand underfoot)
"Look to the neutrino" - Greg Burk (Ivy trio)
"Biru kirusai" - The Cory Weeds Quintet (Everything's coming up weeds)
"No two eyebrows" - Mannington (Sweet treats: live sessions from CJSW 90.9 FM)
"Blues for Shyam Babu" - Deepak Ram (Steps)
"Push" - John Wojciechowski (Lexicon)
"Talking with electrons" - Rachel Z (Room of one's own)
"Georgia" - Quadro nuevo (Cine passion)
"Mandrake" - Vivian Houle (Trieze)
"Our hospitality (version II)" - Ken Aldcroft's Convergence Ensemble (Our hospitality)
"Serious grease" - Tony Foster (In between moods)
"In the whitecage" - The Fonda Stevens Group (Memphis)
"Spy movie" - Bobby Selvaggio (Unspoken dialogue)
"Flying, part II" - Keith Jarrett/Gary Peacock/Jack DeJohnette (Setting standards)

This was the post-funding drive show, the return to the usual format of Breaking The Tethers (i.e. mostly music, a bit of talk, rather than the other way around, which is what happens during funding drive). I think what was played this week was a nice mix of things, perhaps leaning to the avant/experimental side. Also, I actually played four tracks with vocals (excluding Keith Jarrett's vocalizations on "Flying, part II"); what is the world coming to? Fave piece: "Look to the neutrino" by Greg Burk.

Andrew

October 27, 2009

"The cannonball" - Rubim de Toledo (The river)
"Pigling bland" - Soft Machine (Fourth/fifth)
"Gregorian" - Steve Coleman and Five Elements (Weaving symbolics)
"Reptoid alliance" - The Fully Celebrated (Drunk on the blood of the holy ones)
"Open window" - David Friesen (Castles and flags)
"Time has no ending" - The Jazz Crusaders (Old socks, new shoes…New socks, old shoes)
"A prayer for my family" - McCoy Tyner (Sahara)
"Outro (let them eat steak)" - Jazz Liberatorz (Clin d'oeil)
"Modal trane" - Turtle Island Quartet (A love supreme: the legacy of John Coltrane)
"Irish tacos" - Sinistrio (Live sessions at CJSW)
"You never know" - Tanya Kalmanovitch Hut Five (Out where the trains don't run)
"Big eater" - The Bad Plus (These are the vistas)
"Void" - Julius Hemphill Quartet (At Dr. King's table)
"Jazzy Jeff's theme" - Nuyorcian soul (Nuyorcian soul)
"Batucada" - Walter Wanderley (Sounds from Verve hi-fi compiled by Thievery Corporation)

Only 15 tunes in today's show? Well, that's because this was the Funding Drive 2009 edition of Breaking The Tethers and featured much more talk than music. All but one of the tracks had been previously played on Breaking The Tethers before (mostly in the past year) and were also included in the mixed incentive CDs that were offered during the show (all were taken, BTW). The sole exception was "Irish tacos" by Sinistrio, which appears on this year's "live at CJSW" double CD set (which is also an incentive offered during this funding drive).

BTW, $910 was pledged during the show today. This is a little less than what I had hoped for (I was hoping for $1000) but it's still great. Many thanks to those who made pledges!

I'll be back next week with the usual kind of show.

Andrew

October 20, 2009

"Visage de Cathryn" - Free Trade (Free trade)
"Au revas" - Vivian Houle (Trieze)
"King Kong itself (as played by the Mothers in a studio" - The Mothers Of Invention (Uncle meat)
"King Kong II (its magnificence as interpreted by Dom DeWild) - The Mothers Of Invention (Uncle meat)
"King Kong III (as Motorhead explains it)" - The Mothers Of Invention (Uncle meat)
"King Kong IV (the Gardner varieties)" - The Mothers Of Invention (Uncle meat)
"King Kong V (as played by 3 deranged Good Humor trucks)" - The Mothers Of Invention
(Uncle meat)
"King Kong VI (live on a flat bed diesel in the middle of a race track at a Miami Pop Festival… the Underwood ramifications)" - The Mothers Of Invention (Uncle meat)
"Driftwood" - Ran Blake (Driftwoods)
"What if?" - Kenny Barron (What if?)
"Lil' darlin'" - Julian Lage (Sounding point)
"Perfoming arts center" - The TriBattery Pops (Happy days are here again!)
"The people look like flowers at last" - The Tony Wilson Sextet (The people look like flowers at last)
"Happy little tune" - Sarah Corman (Happy little tune)
"Pimpin' ain't easy" - Luther Thomas Quintet (CIMPosium - volume 8)
"Dizzy moods" - Jerry Granelli V16 (Vancouver '08)
"Bluedo" - Carlos Jimenez (Thoughts (pensamientos))
"Congo chant" - Big John Patton (Blue planet man)
"Notability" - Marilyn Crispell & Andrew Cyrille Duet (Live at the Knitting Factory, volume 3)
"Hurricane" - Trio Hurricane (Vision volume one: Vision Festival 1997 compiled)
"Every day is Canada Day" - Harris Eisenstadt (Canada day)
"Another planet" - Chip White (Harlem sunset)
"Divide comedy" - Andy Milne-Benoit Delbecq (Where is pannonica?)
"Birds of fire" - Visions of an Inner Mounting Apocalypse (Visions of an inner mounting apocalypse: a fusion guitar tribute)
"Axis mundi" - Ralph Peterson Presents The Fo'Tet (Ralph Peterson presents the Fo'Tet)
"Sunset on the night on the river Nile" - Sun Ra (Black Saint/Soul Note: critics' pick sampler (vol. 3))

I have to admit, I really enjoyed this show (not that I don't enjoy them all, of course). There was a fair mix of styles but it all pretty much fit my palate and, hopefully, that of many listeners as well. I was particularly pleased to be able to play the entire "King Kong" "suite" from the 2nd CD/4th side of the Mothers of Invention's Uncle Meat recording. I also drew on a fair number of compilations from the CJSW library this week; this produced some interesting finds so I think I'll do more of that in the future.... but not next week!

Next week, as mentioned, is the annual Breaking The Tethers CJSW Funding Drive show. Your support will be very welcome. More information can be found at http://cjsw.com/funding.html. As well, see my recent posts on this blog.

Andrew

Funding Drive Update: One More CD Incentive

I've added one more commercially-produced CD to the list of pledge incentives for the Oct. 27 Funding Drive edition of Breaking The Tethers. It's a great one, the Akhenaten Suite from the Roy Campbell Ensemble. Like the other incentive CDs, music from this recording was played on Breaking The Tethers. Here's the complete list of CDs:

Blast4tet -"Sift"
Roy Campbell Ensemble - "Akhenaten Suite"
Crash - "The doctor is in"
Mark DeJong - "The unknown"
Steve Reid Ensemble - "Daxaar"
Mike Rud - "Live from Lotusland"
Kevin Smith Trio - "Afterthought"

Please listen in on Tuesday!

Andrew

CJSW Funding Drive 2009 and Breaking The Tethers

As I've mentioned over the last few weeks, both on air and in this blog, CJSW will be holding its annual funding drive later this month, from Friday, October 23 through Friday, October 30. This is the time of the year when CJSW, an almost all-volunteer-run station, calls upon its loyal listeners to help out financially. The goal this year is $200,000, which covers all of the capital expenditures for the station.

The Breaking The Tethers funding drive show will take place on Tuesday, October 27, 2009. Please listen and, if you can, make a pledge. My goal for the show this year is to get into quadruple-digits; $1000 or more. Every year, starting in 2006, the amount pledged by the Tethers audience has increased by about $250 every year; last year, we hit $750 (or thereabouts), hence my 2009 goal. If you dig the music on Breaking The Tethers, if you like to hear jazz on the radio, please consider donating.

For those that do donate, there are a number incentives that are given in thanks (apart from keeping CJSW going, something that is worthy in and of itself). First, there are some incentives that come from the station ("swag" it is called in CJSW quarters). These incentives match various levels of giving and can be seen here . Second, there are incentives that will only be offered on the Breaking The Tethers funding drive show. There are some commercial CDs that will be available for donations of $60 or more. These include:

Blast4tet -"Sift"
Crash - "The doctor is in"
Mark DeJong - "The unknown"
Steve Reid Ensemble - "Daxaar"
Mike Rud - "Live from Lotusland"
Kevin Smith Trio - "Afterthought"

Tracks from all of these recordings have been played on Breaking The Tethers, including some quite recently e.g. Blast4tet and the Kevin Smith Trio.

A few more commercial CDs may be available on the Tethers funding drive show on the 27th.

Also, I've put together seven mix CDs featuring a variety of music that has been played on Breaking The Tethers, mostly in the last year, since the last funding drive. It's all great stuff and can be picked up at the $60 level. Here's what's on each CD:

CD 1
1. Lee Morgan – “The Gigolo”
2. Pat Metheny – “Finding & Believing”
3. Soft Machine – “Pigling Bland”
4. The Fully Celebrated – “Reptoid Alliance”
5. Claudio Fasoli – “Monsieur Guy Thar”
6. McCoy Tyner – “A Prayer For My Family”
7. Nuyorcian Soul – “Jazzy Jeff’s Theme”
8. Rubim De Toledo – “The Cannonball”
9. Turtle Island Quartet – “Modal Trane”
10. Stanton Moore – “Tang The Hump”
11. Gordon Grdina/Paul Motian/Gary Peacock –
“Think Like The Waves”
12. Walter Wanderley – “Batacuda”
13. Lee Morgan – “The Gigolo” (alternate take)

CD 2
1. Fela Kuti – “No Agreement”
2. Chris Potter 10 – “Chief Seattle”
3. Ed Blackwell – “Mallet Song”
4. Sienna Dahlen – “One Man”
5. Julius Hemphill Sextet – “Void”
6. Ryan Meagher – “Poetry In Motian”
7. Shakti – “Lady L”
8. The Three Sounds – “African Sweets”
9. The Bad Plus – “Big Eater”
10. Red Holloway – “Snu-Fu”
11. Enrico Rava – “Outsider”
12. The Crusaders – “Time Has No Ending”

CD 3
1. Miles From India – “All Blues”
2. Steve Coleman – “Gregorian”
3. Pat Collins Quartet – “Halfway There”4. Sun Ra – “Journey Through The Outer Darkness”
5. Rubim De Toledo – “The Winter Samba”
6. Colors Of Mime – “23”
7. Archie Shepp – “Black Gipsy”
8. Miles From India – “So What”

CD 4
1. Andy Milne-Benoit Delbecq – “Water’s Edge Part I”
2. Don Cherry – “Humus: The Life Exploring Force”
3. The Paul Butterfield Blues Band – “Song For Lee”
4. Rudresh Mahanthappa & Kadri Gopalnath – “Snake!”
5. The Tom Warrington Trio – “Living Room”
6. Medeski, Martin, & Wood – “Chasen Vs. Suribachi”
7. The Ed Palermo Big Band – “Moggio”
8. Joachim Kuhn – “Prince Of Whales”
9. Lee Morgan – “Search For The New Land”
10. McCoy Tyner with Bill Frisell – “Boubacar”
11. Andy Milne-Benoit Delbecq – “Water’s Edge Part II”

CD 5
1. Soft Machine – “Drop”
2. Amanda Tosoff Quartet – “Upon Reflection”
3. McCoy Tyner with Bela Fleck – “My Favorite Things”
4. Tanya Kalmanovitch Hut Five – “You Never Know”
5. The Bad Plus – “Tom Sawyer”
6. Franz Koglmann – “Leopard Lady”
7. Bob Berg – “Nature Of The Beast”
8. Miles From India – “Great Expectations”
9. David Gilmore – “Law Of Balance”
10. Matt Darriau – “Kopanitsa”
11. Gordon Grdina/Paul Motian/Gary Peacock – “Yellow Spot Into The Sun”
12. Ran Blake – “You Are My Sunshine”

CD 6
1. Brotherhood Consort – “Song Of Praise/Jesu Meine Freude”
2. The Bruce Freedman African Groove Band – “Oasis”
3. Baluji Shrivastav – “The Seven Wonders”
4. Metalwood – “Pressure”
5. David Friesen – “Open Window”
6. Lee Morgan – “Mr. Kenyatta”
7. Soft Machine – “Teeth”
8. Beaver Harris & The 360 Degree Music Experience – “Round Trip, Pt. 2”
9. Jazz Liberatorz – “Outro (Let Them Eat Steak)”

CD 7
1. Erik Truffaz – “Yay!”
2. Rick Frank – “Yellow Mountain”
3. Geoff Keezer – “Accra”
4. Looping Jaw Harp Orchestra – “Soft Metal Tongue”
5. Patty Waters – “Black Is The Colour Of My True Love’s Hair”
6. Abdullah Ibrahim/Cecil McBee/Roy Brooks – “Yukio Khalifa”
7. Medeski, Martin, & Wood – “Padirecto”
8. James Moody – “Mutt & Jeff”
9. Michael Wolff – “Bengal”

Once these are gone, they're gone; there will be no duplicates offered during the show. Grab them while you can.


That's all for now. The whole shebang begins in just a few days.

Andrew

October 13, 2009

"White bread brigade" - Sinistrio (Ride the dragon)
"Tarana" - Erik Truffaz (Benares)
"Carvin' the rock (alternate take #1)" - Clifford Brown (Memorial album)
"Stolen moments" - Hendrik Meurkens (Slidin')
"Son de Patato" - Ritmo Y Candela (Ritmo Y Candela II)
"From Beverly Hills" - Random Touch (A way from the heard)
"Wildflower" - Roger Baird & MuseArt (Great canadian jazz)
"Somalia" - Billy Harper (Somalia)
"Panic" - Todar Kobakov (Pop music)
"Modal scallopini" - Jeff Palmer (Ease on)
"Bob and weave" - Fay Victor Ensemble (The freesong suite)
"Leelander" - Dan Moretti (Tres muse)
"Desert" - Alex Bellegarde Quartet (Caminando)
"Our hospitality (version I)" - Ken Aldcroft's Convergence Ensemble (Our hospitality)
"Lovely Rita" - BeatleJazz (With a little help from our friends)
"Distant shores" - Joe Sealey (Great canadian jazz)
"Little orphunk Annie" - David Widelock Trio (Skating on the sidewalk)
"Refuge" - Andrew Hill (Point of departure)

Only 18 tracks played in three hours this week but it was all good stuff, IMHO. Fave tune: Probably the first one, "White bread brigade" by Sinistrio. I've only heard this CD on CJSW but I think I need to buy a personal copy. Good, good stuff!

A brief reminder about Funding Drive 2009: It starts soon (Oct. 24) and will be a fun time for all. I'll have more postings on this soon but, in the meantime, check out the CJSW home page and click on the "delicious radio" image.

Andrew

October 9, 2009

"Dave's blues" - George Kofogiannakis (Generations: greek oud jazz)
"52nd street theme" - Roger Kellaway (Live at the Jazz Standard)
"Spring in New York" - Gilad Atzmon (Refuge)
"For my brother" - The Fonda Stevens Group (Memphis)
"The trip" - Bobbi Humphrey (Fancy dancer)
"First impressionism" - Paul Renz (In my own hands)
"Summertime" - Gene Harris Quartet (It's the real soul)
"Ice storm"- Andy Milne-Benoit Delbecq (Where is pannonica?)
"Chitchat" - David Widelock Trio (Skating on the sidewalk)
"Feelin' good" - Pharoah Sanders Quartet (Crescent with love)
"Lulu" - Enrico Rava (New York days)
"He came all the way down" - Brother John Sellers (Paris 1957)
"Crow" - Joe Morris (Wildlife)
"Right brain patrol" - Marc Johnson (Right brain patrol)
"Gungapooch" - Sinistrio (Ride the dragon)
"You've changed" - Keith Jarrett/Gary Peacock/Jack DeJohnette (Yesterdays)
"The DT's" - Franco Proietti Morph-tet (Morphology)
"Little Niles" - Paul Glasse (One more night)
"One for Pop" - Ron Eschete (A closer look)
"Cajun the squirrel" - Dan Moretti (Tres muse)
"Flip" - The October Trio + Brad Turner (Looks like it's going to snow)
"Waves" - Brad Shepik (Human activity suite)

This was a showfill for Jazz Stains, one of the alternating jazz programs on Friday mornings on CJSW. Looking back, it was kind of on the mellow for the shows I do. Oh well. Such is how things go. I'll have to lean a bit to the freakier side in future programs, just to make up for it :-)

Andrew

October 6, 2009

"Keep casting rods " - Harris Eisenstadt (Canada day)
"Hamid's on fire" - Fred Anderson (On the run )
"G.F.O.P." - Klang (Tea music)
"Lullabye" - Kenny Barron (What if?)
"Look at the sky" - Carlos Jimenez (Thoughts (pensamientos))
"Bells hung in a tree" - Vivian Houle (Trieze)
"Swerves" - Blast4tet (Sift)
"You are my sunshine" - Ran Blake (Driftwoods)
"The loose" - Jon Ballantyne (The loose)
"Such sweet thunder" - Sarah Corman (Happy little tune)
"Avant l'aube" - Erik Truffaz/Murcof (Mexico)
"Inservible" - Tango Crash (Baila querida)
"Where" - Beat Keastli (Far from home: a tribute to european song)
"Harlem nocturne" - McGill Jazz Ensemble (Poppin' the cork)
"Satan your kingdom must come down" - Medeski, Martin, & Wood (Radiolarians III)
"Conchita's dance" - Mike Clark (Blueprints of jazz, vol. 1)
"Smells like teen spirit" - The TriBattery Pops (Happy days are here again!)
"Lachyrmae - movement #10" - The Tony Wilson Sextet (The people look like flowers at last)
"Jazz folk song" - John Wojciechowski (Lexicon)
"A froposito" - Milan Latin Jazz Quartet (Sentimento latino)
"Slow red building" - Jason Kenemy's UpSideDownTown (Jason Kenemy's upsidedowntown)
"Titicaca" - Magic Malik (Altiplano)
"No introduction" - Black/Note (Jungle music)
"Quiet, through and through" - Julian Lage (Sounding point)
"Chant for peace eternal" - B.K. Blue (Another blue)

I'm about a day or so late with this list. Apologies for my tardiness.

A nice mix of music in today's show, I thought. A bit of everything, including plenty of new stuff (newly released or newly re-released).

I'll be doing a showfill tomorrow, October 9, 6-9 am, for Jazz Stains. Please join me then. Of course, I'll also be behind the mike for Breaking The Tethers on Tuesday, October 13, 6-9 am. Please join me then, too.

Things are coming together nicely for the 2009 CJSW Funding Drive. I've talked about it a bit in the posting for the last few shows. I'll have more to report in a future post, fairly soon. Stay tuned.

Andrew

September 29, 2009

"The truth" - Jerry Granelli V16 (Vancouver '08)
"Scrapple from the apple' - Keith Jarrett/Gary Peacock/Jack DeJohnette (Yesterdays)
"Blindspot" - Brad Shepik (Human activity suite)
"Maiden voyage" - Chuck Marohnic/David Friesen/Joe LaBarbara (Now alone)
"Portrait of Giorgio Thelos" - Andy Milne-Benoit Delbecq (Where is pannonica?)
"Dry " - Fay Victor Ensemble (The freesong suite)
untitled track - Jazz Liberatorz (Clin d'oeil)
"Irish tacos" - Sinistrio (Ride the dragon)
"Yay!" - Erik Truffaz (Benares)
"Part 1: serpentine" - Tigran Hamasyan (Red hail)
"Qow' - Clusone Trio (I am an indian)
"I'm beginning to see the light" - Roger Kellaway (Live at the Jazz Standard)
"Let petomane" - Taylor Ho Bynum & SpiderMonkey Strings (Madeline dreams)
"Blue ice" - Random Touch (A way from the heard)
"Wait" - The October Trio + Brad Turner (Looks like it's going to snow)
"500 miles high" - Return to Forever (Returns)
"Outsider" - Enrico Rava (New York days)
"Four on six" - Wes Montgomery (The incredible jazz guitar of Wes Montgomery)
"Off the cuff" - Paul Renz (In my own hands)
"Monsieur guy thar" - Claudio Fasoli (Ten tributes)
"Break song" - The Fonda-Stevens Group" (Memphis)

Fave tunes this week: "Irish tacos" by Sinistrio (bet this got some people out of bed); "Yay!" by Erik Truffaz; "Four on six" by Wes Montgomery (a request!); and "Monsieur guy thar" by Claudio Fasioli.

Following up on last week's post, here's a few more things about this year's Funding Drive (i.e. the thing that keeps the radio station going) at CSJW:

*It will run from Oct. 23-30. The Funding Drive edition of Breaking The Tethers will be on Tuesday, October 26.

*While donations of all sizes will be very welcome, my goal for this year is to go over $1000 for Breaking The Tethers. The pledges have increased every year from a few hundred to several hundred (thanks!) and I'm thinking that we could get into 4 digits for the first time in 2010.

*There will be a variety of incentives available for those that pledge during Breaking The Tethers. There will be some regular CJSW incentives plus I'll have some other stuff, including both commercial and "specially-made" CDs. More on incentives next week.

*Listeners can pledge during Funding Week but you can also pledge early, online at http://www.cjsw.com/. Click on the "Make a Pledge Today!" link on the left-hand side.

Andrew

September 15, 2009

"Intimate awkward" - Andy Sheppard (Andy Sheppard)
"Snu-fu" - Red Holloway (In the red)
"Pale" - Blast4tet (Sift)
"Lover come back to me" - John Coltrane (Black pearls)
"You can fly" - Brian McCree (Changes in the wind)
"China black" - Klang (Tea music)
"Sode" - Michael Herring's Vertigo Featuring David Binney (Dark materials)
"Loft jazz" - Mike Clark (Blueprints of jazz, vol. 1)
"Django" - Ray Bryant (Montreux '77)
"Jam and eggs" - Looping Jaw Harp Orchestra (Elephant road)
"The preacher" - Jimmy Smith (Hobo flats)
"Theme of the stargazers" - Sun Ra Sextet (At the Village Vanguard)
"Gwyra mi" - Medeski, Martin, & Wood (Radiolarians III)
"La cumpadesky" - Tango Crash (Baila querida)
"Toca loca" - P*P (Toca loca)
"Safari walk" - Teddy Edwards (Mississippi lad)
"Out and about" - John Surman (Way back when)
"Bolivia" - John Stetch (Carpathian blues)
"La arenosa" - Magic Malik (Altiplano)
"The conflict of colour" - David Torkanowsky (Steppin' out)

Another show featuring a number of performers I haven't played before, including Red Holloway (I quite liked "Snu-fu"), Ray Bryant, Teddy Edwards, and David Torkanowsky.

Fave tune this week: "Out and about" by John Surman. I kinda dig that late-60s UK jazz. I wasn't able to listen to the entire CD but I'll have to do that sometime.

I also had a request this week, the first in a few months, I believe. It was a good one: All the caller asked was that I play some Sun Ra of my choosing. Can do gladly, no problem. I picked one of the tunes the Man From Saturn's 1991 recording, At The Village Vanguard, which featured a sextet plucked from the Arkestra (I think it must have been one the last records he released while he was alive but I'm not sure). The track was "Theme of the stargazers".

One last note: The 2009 CJSW funding drive is coming up next month, from October 23-30. CJSW is listener-supported radio so help we can get from our fine listeners is very welcome. Any pledges during the Breaking The Tethers funding drive show (Tuesday, October 27) would be particularly welcome. I'll be posting more information about funding drive week but, to start with, here's a list of 2009 funding drive week events: http://www.cjsw.com/about/news.html?id=94. The logo for the funding drive can be seen on the main CJSW page, centre right bottom.

Andrew

September 15, 2009

"My only friends are the pigeons" - Brandi Disterheft (Second side)
"Song to the pharoah kings" - Return to Forever (Returns)
"It just so happens" - Barbara Dennerlein (Straight ahead!)
"Equaled" - Joey Baron (We'll soon find out)
"Murder ballad" - Jerry Granelli V16 (Vancouver '08)
"Control passion" - Tom Varner (The mystery of compassion)
"Love song" - Tigran Hamasyan (Red hail)
"Morphing Jupiter" - Random Touch (A way from the heard)
"Cain and Abel" - John Lewis (Evolution II)
"Current" - Brad Shepik (Human activity suite)
"Last night when we were young" - Cheryl Fisher (Moments like this)
"Uffe's woodshop" - Tyondai Braxton (Central market)
"(soundtrack)" - By Hearts + Horses (Park avenue music)
"Water's edge part I" - Andy Milne-Benoit Delbecq (Where is pannonica?)
"Bird colony" - The October Trio + Brad Turner (Looks like it's going to snow)
"The horseshoe curve" - Trey Anastasio (The horseshoe curve)
"Ohnedaruth" - Alice Coltrane (A monastic trio)
"What reason could I give" - Taylor Ho Bynum & Spidermonkey Strings (Madeline dreams)
"5000 miles" - Nils Landgren Funk Unit (5,000 miles)
"Blue & green" - Christoph Lauer (Evidence)
"Magnum, PI" - Ripplegroove (Under the microscope)
"Water's edge part II" - Andy Milne-Benoit Delbecq (Where is pannonica?)

Another wide and varied show, with a lot of performers who I have never played before (at least as leaders); about half of what is listed above falls into the this category.

The second last track played is called "Magnum, PI". If I have my information right, it wasn't written by members of the group (Ripplegroove). Was this a version of the theme song to the TV show of the same name? I wasn't sure; it's been a long while since I watch Magnum PI. If anyone heard the tune and can answer this question, let me know.

Andrew

September 8, 2009

"Telegraphy"- Lorna MaLachlan (Telegraphy)
"Rabach" - Looping Jaw Harp Orchestra (Elephant road)
"Prince of whales" - Joachim Kuhn (Dynamics)
"Yes or no, stay or go" - Virginia Mayhew (Nini green)
"Geomantic" - Joe Morris (Wildlife)
"Pandemonium" - Lisa Hilton (Twilight & blues)
"Fibrodoiccannez splice" - Toca Loca (P*P)
"Wonton" - Medeski, Martin, & Wood (Radiolarians III)
"Rectilinear" - ichie Beirach and George Coleman (Convergence)
"The lights in the sky are stars" - Darol Anger/Barbara Higbie Quintet (Live at Montreux)
"Zone 4" - Led Bib (Sensible shoes)
"Better git it in your sould (alternate take)" - Charles Mingus (Mingus ah um)
"The seven wonders" - Baluji Shrivastav & Re-Orient (Baluji Shrivastav & Re-Orient)
"Presque lent et berceur" - Nadia Ratsimandresy & Matteo Ramon Arevalos (Messiaen et autour de messiaen for onde martenot and piano)
"Quasimodo" - Andrew Scott Quartet Meets Jon-Erik Kelso & Dan Block (Nostalgia)
"Sift" - Blast4tet (Sift)
"What's new in Baltimore" - The Ed Palermo Big Band (Eddy loves Frank)
"Le Sony'r" - Terry Adams (Terrible)
"Love is a many-splendored thing" - Kirk Lightsey Trio Featuring Freddie Hubbard (Temptation)
"L's P" - Larry Karush (Art of the improvisor)
"Up from under" - Larry Ochs (Sax & drumming core)

Just one show this week, a regular episode of Breaking The Tethers. Perhaps my fave tune this week was the last one played, "Up from under" by Larry Ochs; tenor sax and two drummers - a good recipe, I think.

Andrew

September 2, 2009

This was a showfill for the Wednesday morning jazz program on CJSW, The Morning After:

"Db's blues" - Jason Kenemy's UpSideDownTown (Jason Kenemy's upsidedowntown)
"Far away" - Freddie Hubbard (Breaking point)
"Lonely woman" - Marzette Watts Ensemble (Marzette Watts Ensemble)
"Contusion waltz" - Bob Shimizu & Signal Strength (Cuchillero)
"Constellation " - Sun Ra Quartet (Other voices, other blues)
"Nayzak" - Anouar Brahem (Conte de l'incroyable amour)
"Yia yia k." - George Kofogiannakis (Generations: greek oud jazz)
"Salute to the bandstand" - Andrew Scott Quartet meets Jon-Erik Kellso & Don Block (Nostalgia)
"Soft metal tongue" - Looping Jaw Harp Orchestra (Elephant road)
"Okonkole y trompa" - Jaco Pastorius (Jaco Pastorius)
"Uptown afterburn" - Benny Golson (New time, new 'tet)
"Iola" - Ronald Shannon Jackson and the Decoding Society (Man dance)
"Goderich" - Michael Herring's Vertigo featuring David Binney - "Dark materials"
"Giant child within us - ego" - George Duke (I love the blues, she heard my cry)
"Part four" - Pat Metheny (Zero tolerance for silence)
"Colors of mime" - "'23'" (Always the sun)
"Kota" - Medeski, Martin, & Wood (Radiolarians III)
"Morning bell" - Chris Potter (Underground)
"Little sonny" - Sonny Clark (My conception)
"The traveler" - Air (80 degrees below '82)
"Ratio" - Nicholas D'amato's Royal Society (Nullius in verba)

Despite the fact that I tripped over my tongue and the board a bit too much for my likely, I found this show satisfying, at least from a musical perspective. I thought the tracks fitted together particularly nicely today. Some high points: "Kota" by Medeski, Martin, & Wood (new MMW - yay! Radiolarians III! 3rd CD in this series in less than a year! Will there be a Radiolarians IV?) and the crazy "Soft metal tongue" by Looping Jaw Harp Orchestra.

Only one program for me next week, Breaking The Tethers on Tuesday, September 8.

Andrew

September 1, 2009

"Fanyola num-bum" - Hot Club of Calgary (Hot Club of Calgary)
"Sweet earth flying part 3" - Marion Brown (Sweet earth flying)
"Follow the melody of your soul" - Bill Banfield Band (Spring forward)
"Most distant galaxy" - Jane Ira Bloom (Art & aviation)
"Beyond all limits" - Larry Young (Unity)
"The little suite" - Roscoe Mitchell Sextet (Sound)
"Slow burn fever" - Steuart Liebig/The Mentones (Angel city dust)
"Cookie" - Brian McCree (Changes in the wind)
"Tour de force"- Adrian Vedady (In three acts)
"Nature of the beast" - Bob Berg (Enter the spirit)
"Poem" - Wynton Marsalis (He and she)
"The razor line" - Wynton Marsalis (He and she)
"Priestess" - Masbumi Kikuchi and Gil Evans (Masbumi Kikuchi and Gil Evans)
"Shorelines" - Adrian Legg (Fingers and thumbs)
"Red hail" - Tigran Hamasyan (Red hail)
"Split decision" - Beyond The Pale (Postcards)
"Better wrapped/better unrapped" - Henry Threadgill (Too much sugar for a dime)
"B1" - Cecil Taylor & Tony Oxley (Ailanthus - Alitissima)
"Positively negative" - Kevin Breit & Jesse Stewart (Collisions)
"Encore" - Kidd Jordan/Joel Futterman/Alvin Fielder Quartet (Live at the Tampere jazz happening 2000)
"Moose and grizzly bear's villa" - The Fully Celebrated (Drunk on the blood of the holy ones)
"Last love song" - Klang (Tea music)

As with last week, this show featured a number of performers that I hadn't played before e.g. Henry Threadgill, Adrian Legg, Masabumi Kikuchi, Bob Berg, Jane Ira Bloom. Always glad to feature the "previously-unplayed".

Looking at the post for last week's show, I said that I was going to be doing a showfill for Philip Barker's Morning Joy show on Thursday. Things have been juggled and now I will be covering The Morning After tomorrow. Chef Wayne from South Louisiana Gumbo will be taking Morning Joy instead. Works for me.

Andrew

August 25, 2009

OK, I'm just a little late in getting this up:

"All about the Hank" - Richard Whiteman Trio (All or nothing at all)
"Duo exchange (side one)" - Rashied Ali and Frank Lowe (Duo exchange)
"Jupiter" - John Coltrane (Interstellar space)
"Teardrop butterfly" - Praful (One day deep)
"Tang the hump" - Stanton Moore (Flyin' the koop)
"Conversation with you in a dream - 1" - Tiresas (Delicate fires)
"Ow! " - Coleman Hawkins (Supreme)
"The turning " - Jason Kenemy's UpSideDownTown (Jason Kenemy's upsidedowntown)
"Afro blue " - Anthony Braxton Standards Quartet (Bergamo Jazz 2003, Teatro Donizetti, Bergamo, Italy, February 21, 2003)
"Howlin' " - Eric Mingus (Healin' howl)
"Locomotive " - Peter Brotzmann and Bill Laswell (Low life)
"Honeysuckle rose " - Dicky Hyman (In concert at the Old Mill Inn)
"Round trip, pt .2 " - Beaver Harris and the 360 Degree Music Experience (From ragtime to no time)
"Mtume " - Bobby Hutcherson (Head on)
"Diffusus " - Mark Takeshi McGregor (Different stones)
"King Michael" - Bob Shimizu & Signal Strength (Cuchillero)
"Introduction " - Tindersticks (Hungry saw)
"Hit single " - Sonny Sharrock (Space ghost)
"Moonlight on Vermont" - Mario Schiano Trio (If not ecstatic we refund)
"Tanjah" - Randy Weston (Tanjah)
"Seasons/Serenade to a cuckoo" - Rahasaan Roland Kirk (Brotherman in the fatherland)
"Onyx-topaz" - Sam Rivers (Hues)
"Cadillac for each foot " - Flattstreet (This dog is big)
"Formal garden" - Rob Clutton (Dubious pleasures)
"Bearings on cair paravel" - Michael Herring's Vertigo featuring David Binney (Dark materials)

This was a fun show, I thought. Lot's of wild stuff from the 70s that go in some interesting directions (e.g. "Round trip" by Beaver Harris, "Tanjah" by Randy Weston) plus two duets featuring the recently-deceased Rashied Ali, who died on August 12.

Next week, I'll be doing Breaking The Tethers on Tuesday (Sept. 1) as usual and I'll also be filling in for Philip Barker on Morning Joy on Thursday (Sept. 3).

Andrew

August 18, 2009

"Creature of habit" - Mike Murley Quintet (Extra time)
"Muhammad Ali" - Barrett Martin (The painted desert)
"Poem " - Wynton Marsalis (He and she)
"Fears" - Wynton Marsalis (He and she)
"Cat creeps" - Medeski, Martin, & Wood (Let's go everywhere)
"Latin tinge" - Bill Summers & Irvin Mayfield (Los hombres calientes: vol. 4: vodou dance)
"Meditation" - Beyond The Pale (Postcards)
"Part 2: moneypulated" - Tigran Hamasyan (Red hail)
"Faithful" - Sillan & Young (Under my feet)
"O argaleios" - George Kofogiannakis (Generations: greek oud jazz)
"Fingeroo" - Steuart Liebig/The Mentones (Angel city dust)
"Excuse me, but did you know your pants are ripped" - Michael Herring's Vertigo featuring David Binney (Dark materials)
"Fire waltz" - Eric Dolphy with Booker Little (At the five spot, vol. 1)
"If the stars were mine" - Melody Gardot (My one and only thrill)
"Lament on ash Wednesday" - Klang (Tea music)
"Fire song" - The Uri Caine Ensemble (The Othello syndrome)
"Jazz oddyssey III" - Spinal Tap (Back from the dead)
"Equinox" - Bill Banfield Band (Spring forward)
"Holiday Joel" - Tin Hat Trio (The rodeo eroded)
"Upsidedowntown" - Jason Kenemy's UpSideDownTown (Jason Kenemy's upsidedowntown)
"Hunky & dory" - Kevin Breit & Jesse Stewart (Collisions)
untitled - Sondre Lerche and the Faces Down Quartet (Duper sessions)
"Eleven thrice" - John Lindberg Ensemble (Bounce)
"Nothing will ever be the same again" - John Klemmer (Arabesque)
"The fly" - Erik Truffaz/Sly Johnson (Paris)
"Secret life of the forbidden city" - Charles Lloyd Quartet (Hyperion with Higgins)

Some notable things about this week's edition of Breaking The Tethers:

*Four tracks with vocals, including one in Norwegian (I think; this was the Sondre Lerche track). I don't think I've had that many in one show before. What is the world coming to.

*First appearance of the late Booker Little, on "Fire waltz" with Eric Dolphy. I'm surprised I've never played Booker Little before but he didn't appear on that many recordings in his short life.

*11 tracks were played in the first hour. Was this a record for 60 minutes? Maybe. The total for the program was 26, a tad higher than average but not the record for Breaking The Tethers (I've played in the range of 32 or 33).

This was my first show back after a week's break. Philip Barker from Morning Glory ably filled in for me. Many thanks to Philip. I'll be doing his September 3 show.

Andrew

July 21, 2009

I just realized that I hadn't posted the list from the July 21 show. I am bad but here it is:

"Yo mo oud" - George Kofogiannakis (Generations: greek oud jazz)
"Leo" - John Coltrane (Live in Japan)
"Trippin' home from Sunday school" - Oliver Jones (Justin Time Records: a tenth anniversary collection)
"Rise and shine" - Robert Glasper (Canvas)
"Particle" - Sorcerer sessions (The blue series continuum: the sorcerer sessions, featuring the music of Matthew Shipp)
"Snake eyes" - Chopteeth (Afrofunk big band)
"Goin nowhere" - Curt Ramm/Dan Moretti/Bill Cunliffe (Foundations)
"Inner urge" (Arkadia Jazz presents: thank you, Joe! )
"War dance of the wooden indians" - Russ Case and His Orchestra (Mallets in wonderland: space age pop, vol 2)
"Tension" - Sortie (Justin Time Records: a tenth anniversary collection)
"This here" - Bobby Timmons (This is Bobby Timmons)
"Stress" - Ken Aldcroft Trio + 1 (From our time)
"A prayer for Lester Bowie" - Hugh Ragin Trumpet Ensemble (Fanfare & fiesta)
"That old black magic" - Richard Bliwas (Uncovered)
"Shogher jan (dear shoger)" - Tigran Hamasyan (Red hail)
"Trane station" - The Greg Hatza Organization (Snake eyes)
"Pleasing you" - Paul Bley (Justin Time Records: a tenth anniversary collection)
"Even you can tell" - Mark Templeton (Inland)
"Mr. Slick" - Joel Haynes Trio (The time is now)

This was a program with wide and varied tunes, including several from compilations and much that was new to me. My fave (surprise, surprise) has to be the lengthy (approx. 45 min) version of "Leo" from Coltrane's Live In Japan; I was glad to be able to fit this in - it took up almost all of the first hour (6-7 am) of the show (on the subject of Live In Japan, there are only six tracks on four CDs in this recording; two tunes go on for 1 hour each).

I was absent for the August 11 version of Breaking The Tethers and just found out that Philip Barker from Morning Joy ended up filling in for me. Many thanks, as always, to Philip.

I'll be back behind the boards for the August 18 program.

Andrew

August 4, 2009

"Introduction" - Dancehall Free For All (9-5 lives)
"Eyi su ngaangaa" - Chopteeth (Afrofunk big band)
"Talk to me" - Avery Sharpe (Extended family)
"The french fiddler" - Oscar Peterson (Trail of dreams)
"Liquor bickering" - Tom Richards Orchestra (Smoke and mirrors)
"Collisions" - Kevin Breit & Jesse Stewart (Collisions)
"Tired corn" - Curt Ramm/Dan Moretti/Bill Cunliffe (Foundations)
"German expressionist cheerleader" - Michael Herring's Vertigo featuring David Binney
(Dark materials)
"As poume" - George Kofogiannakis (Generations: greek oud jazz)
"Think like the waves"- Gordon Grdina/Gary Peacock/Paul Motian (Think like the waves)
"Peter Miller's discovery" - Bill Frisell (Disfarmer)
"Slippery" - Rabnett 5 (Reclamation)
"Monsters over Bangkok" - The Lounge Lizards (Queen of all ears)
"Extra spicy" - Beyond The Pale (Postcards)
"Ghosts/Spirits" - Aaly Trio + Ken Vandermark (Hidden in the stomach)
"Keith Lowe" - Steve Dawson (Telescope)
"Patron Bentley" - Guh (We are sunburning)
"Sensation whereby space" - Carl Maguire's Floriculture (Sided silver solid)
"The spawn of Abe" - MC Maguire (Trash of civilizations)
"Ugly beauty - var V" - Quatuor du Nord (Quatuor du Nord)

I liked this show a lot. Lots of variation, both in time and content, but there were still a few concentrations e.g. there were a number of tracks that leaned in an experimental direction and over half the pieces played qualified as "Canadian"; I don't think I've played that many Canadian tunes and performers in one show before, though I might have come close.

I won't be on the air for next week's show, Tuesday, August 4; I will be on a short vacation. I'm not sure who will be filling in for me but I'm sure they will do a good job. I will be back behind the board on August 11.

BTW, this is the 100th post on the Breaking The Tethers blog.

Andrew

July 28, 2009

"Leaves for Laura" - Jon Miller Quartet (Orchidology)
"Revelations" - Archie Shepp/Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio (Conversations: Archie Shepp meets Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio)
"Come rain or come shine" - Ralph Towner (Time line)
"Echoes" - Steve Lehman Octet (Travail, transformation, and flow)
"Harlem lullabye" - Junior Mance (Nadja)
"Visionary of an abstrakt" - Corey Wilkes & Abstrakt Pulse (Cries from tha ghetto)
"Oba intro" - Donald Malloy (Spirituality)
"Empty" - Steuart Liebig/The Mentones (Angel city dust)
"Impro I" - Stefano Bollani (Solo piano)
"Jacob's new crib" - Ian Hendrickson-Smith (Blues in the basement)
"Invariants" - Vijay Iyer (Panoptic modes)
"Sunflower" - Milt Jackson (Sunflower)
"Quik" - Javon Jackson (Have you heard)
"Something to remember you by" - Thad Jones (The magnificent Thad Jones)
"Free us" - Bill Banfield Band (Spring forward)
"Les voisines" - Francois Couture (My little book - tome 1)
"Power to the people" - Joe Henderson (Power to the people)
"Dance with la diablesse" - Etienne Charles (Folklore)
"Up north" - Ganesh Anandan/Malcolm Goldstein/Rainer Wiens (Speaking in tongues)
"A corrective jerk" - Iconoclast (The body never lies)
"The sick man"- Anderskov Accident (Unity of action)
"Brother B. Harper" - Kenny Garrett (Happy people)

A nice, varied show, featuring a number of tracks from CDs that I just pulled from the CJSW library. These included the Anderskov Accident, Iconoclast, and Anandan/Goldstein/Weins. I don't think I'd heard many of these before but I liked them.

"Sunflower" by Milt Jackson was a request. I actually received it last week but couldn't track down the recording until this week. The LP was in the CJSW library but I didn't find it until this week. Basically, it was starting me in the face. Sometimes I miss the obvious.

I just realized that I haven't posted the list for last week's show, July 21, 2009. Ooops. I should have that up later today.

Andrew

July 20, 2009

"Sa-ba-da-ow!" - Gypsophilia (Sa-ba-da-ow!)
"Esther's nose job" - Soft Machine (Third (remastered edition))
"Pedal point blues" - Charles Mingus (Mingus ah um)
"More than you know" - Sonny Rollins (Road shows, vol. 1)
"Wes on four" - Jake Shimabukuro (Walking down rainhill)
"Free you" - Bill Banfield Band (Spring forward)
"Headlock" - Steuart Liebig/The Mentones (Angel city dust)
"Zeno" - D'Arcy James Argue's Secret Society (Presents infernal machines)
"Oriental flowers" - Elvin Jones & Jimmy Garrison (Illumination!)
"Nettle" - Joe Morris (Wildlife)
"A heartache on the side" - Patrick Rydman (I will do it)
"Afreaka" - Lee Morgan (The sixth sense)
"Pitfalls" - Richard Thompson & Danny Thompson (Industry)
"Dub" - Steve Lehman Octet (Travail, transformation, and flow)
"Salle d'attente" - Francois Couture (Tape speed ins./sec.)
"Get caught up" - Simon Fisk Trio (Unless)
"Laja who?" - Etienne Charles (Folklore)
"The first circle" - Pat Metheny Group (First circle)
"Blues for Andrew" - Jon Miller Quartet (Orchidology)
"Deep Lee" - Lee Konitz and Minsarah (Deep Lee)
"Where all paths meet" - Nigel Kennedy Quartet (A very nice album)

This was a showfill for the Monday 6-9 am jazz program, The Jazz Baby. The track list is a nice mix of things and I managed to fit in another tune from Soft Machine, one of my faves. I'll be on the air again tomorrow morning, this time hosting my usual gig, Breaking The Tethers.

Andrew

July 14, 2009

"Little nezumi blues" - Darren Sigesmund (Strands)
"Locustland" - Steuart Liebig/The Mentones (Angel city dust)
"Cloud " - Nigel Kennedy Quartet (A very nice album)
"Flat pack fantasy" - Led Bib (Sensible shoes)
"SICK JJ" - Corey Wilkes & Abstrakt Pulse (Cries from tha ghetto)
"Sugar for pan" - Narell and Relator (University of Calypso)
"Elijah" - Nomo (Invisible cities)
"Cancion sin nombre" - Huascar Barradas (My favorite things)
"One out" - Jon Miller Quartet (Orchidology)
"Depth of field" - Simon Fisk Trio (Unless)
"Thicket" - Joe Morris (Wildlife)
"Undecided" - Bill Tapia (Livin' it live)
"Voyage" - Laura Klein & Ted Wolff (Cerulean blue)
"Jazz oddyssey II" - Spinal Tap (Back from the dead)
"Contrecoeur" - Adrian Vedady (In three acts)
"Folklore" - Etienne Charles (Folklore)
"Back home in cowtown" - Kevin Smith Trio (Afterthought)
"Yukio khalfia" -Abdullah Ibrahim (Banyana)
"Blue bolero" -Abdullah Ibrahim (Senzo)
"Orunmila" - Donald Malloy (Spirituality)
"No neighborhood rough enough" - Steve Lehman Octet (Travail, transformation, and flow)
"Free me" - Bill Banfield Band (Spring forward)

First off, apologies for not posting this earlier but I've had a busy few days: a day-long meeting, medical appoints, a sick pet I had to take to and from the vet, etc.

The main thing this week was another focus on "new" music, though it wasn't a complete "new" show (I did one of those a few weeks back); there were some older, previously-released tunes. This was manifest in a way in the double-set of Abdullah Ibrahim that I played; one piece from 1976 ("Yukio khalifa") and the other from 2008 ("Blue bolero").

I ended up being away for the July 7 Breaking The Tethers (Philip Barker ably filled in - thanks to Philip!). I should be around for a while though I will miss one Tuesday in August. I'll definitely be behind the mic for July 21 and will also be filling in on July 20 program (the Jazz Baby show).

Andrew

June 30, 2009

"Rules of play" - Ralf Buschmeyer (Renewal)
"Kungusisches arbeitslied: miemand weiss hinten, wie er vorn dran ist" - Davis/Ulrich/Baumann/Lutek/Richards/Jefferson (Urs Blochlinger Tribute)
"You take care of me" - The Jerrold Dubyk Quartet (The maverick)
"Call centre labyrinth" - Led Bib (Sensible shoes)
"Blue plate special" - Will Bernard (Blue plate special)
"Transitoire 4" - Nigel Kennedy Quartet (A very nice album)
"Still life" - Jon Miller Quartet (Orchidology)
"Aung San Suu Kyi" - Laura Klein & Ted Wolff (Cerulean blue)
"Travels parts 3 & 4" - Positive catastrophe (Garabatos volume one)
"Color" - Lee Konitz and Minsarah (Deep Lee)
"MCT-4 with duos" - Bruce Friedman (O.P.T.I.O.N.S.)
"Chamacos" - Roberto Occhipinti (A bend in the river)
"Willisau suite 2" - Sexmob with John Medeski (Sexmob meets Medeski: live in Willisau 2006)
"La reine de la salle" - John Hebert (Byzantine monkey)
"Phobos" - Darcy James Argue's Secret Society (Presents infernal machines)
"Basic botany" - Carl Maguire's Floriculture (Sided silver solid)

There were two features this week. First, all the music played could be said to be "new" or "fairly recently released" (e.g. late 2008). I didn't plan the show to be this way but, once I saw the amount of new stuff that was on deck, I said "what the heck" and went for it. Second, there were a number of quite long pieces played. Nothing odd there (it is jazz; tunes can be lengthy) but there were more than usual and only 16 tracks were played over three hours.

I might be away next week, I might not be. I could do the show but something has popped where it would be best if I passed on Breaking The Tethers on July 7. So, you might hear my voice in seven days or not. I'll definitely be on the air on July 14, barring disaster.

Andrew

June 23, 2009

"UV dream" - Simon Fisk Trio (Unless)
"The winding way" - Scolohofo (Oh!)
"Drunk on the blood of the holy ones" - The Fully Celebrated (Drunk on the blood of the holy ones)
"Bird calls (alternate take)" - Charles Mingus (Mingus ah um (Legacy edition))
"Kung-fu world champion" - Hiromi (Brain)
"Oshun" - Donald Malloy (Spirituality)
"Shack" - Medeski, Martin, & Wood (Friday afternoon in the universe)
"Abstrakt #1" - Corey Wilkes & Abstrakt Pulse (Cries from tha ghetto)
"Le garnement" - Francois Couture (My little book - tome 1)
"Two shadows" - Tony Malaby Cello Trio (Warblepeck)
"Rudreshm" - Steve Lehman Octet (Travail, transformation, and flow)
"Happy birthday, John Zorn" - The Shuffle Demons (Alive in Europe)
"The dungeon (interlude)" - Mark Shim (Mind over matter)
"A thousand autumns" - Bradford Marsalis Trio (The dark keys)
"The silent fool" - Erik Mongrain (Equilibrium)
"Teo" - Miles Davis (Sketches of Spain (Legacy edition))
"Jazz oddyssey i" - Spinal Tap (Back from the dead)
"Swingin' machine" - Mose Allison (Swingin' machine)
"Dadar" - Adrian Vedady (In three acts)
"Duke's dead" - Brandi Disterheft (Debut)
"Blossom" - Sonny Rollins (Road shows, vol. 2)
"Whoopi" - Cyrus Chestnut (Earth stories)
"For Ha Ling" - Kevin Smith Trio (Afterthought)
"Freedom suite/1st part" - Yannick Rieu (Saint-Gervais)
"Ocean & the river" - Abdullah Ibrahim (Senzo)

The main theme in this show related to the 2009 Calgary Jazz Festival, which is happening this week (June 22-28, 2009). Several of the tracks played were by performers who will be at the festival, including Simon Fisk, Hiromi, MMW (who I will see tonight), the Shuffle Demons, Bradford Marsalis, Mose Allison, Brandi Disterheft, and Yannick Rieu. Please check out the festival if you can.

Andrew

June 16, 2009

"Umbria" - Roberto Occhipinti (A bend in the river)
"Out of this world" - Kenny Burrell with Coleman Hawkins (Bluesy Burrell)
"Out of this world"- John Coltrane (Live in Seattle)
"Silent serenity" - Harry Skoler (Two ones)
"Spinetree"- Ray Russell (Secret asylum)
"Intrepid Norris" - The Jerrold Dubyk Quartet (The maverick)
"Sweet science" - Larry Goldings Trio (Sweet science)
"Lookin' good, but feelin' bad" - Aki Takase (Aki Takase plays Fats Waller)
"Upon reflection" - Amanda Tosoff Quartet (Still life)
"Amber gris" - Medeski, Martin, & Wood (Radiolarians II)
"Great expectations" - Miles From India (Miles from India)
"Are you real?" - Benny Golson (The best of Benny Golson)
"Hima" - Israel M (Nareah)
"Improvisation #1" - Marilyn Lerner (Miss overboard!)
"Acrid landscape" - John Hebert (Byzantine monkey)
"Willisau suite 3" - Sexmob with John Medeski (Sexmob meets Medeski: live in Willisau 2006)
"The magnolia triangle" - Yusef Lateef (Live at Pep's)
"Modern enunciator" - Carl Maguire's Floriculture (Sided silver solid)
"Day fever" - Marc Moulin (Top secret)
"Yesterdays" - Cannonball Adderley (Une anthologie 1955/1957)

This was an all-round good show, IMO. Some fairly "straight" stuff, some "out there" stuff, and plenty in-between. The program also featured a few tracks from performers who will be at the 2009 Calgary Jazz Festival (e.g. Martin, Medeski, and Wood; Marilyn Lerner; Amanda Tosoff); more of this next week.

Andrew

June 9, 2009

"Warblepeck" - Tony Malaby Cello Trio (Warblepeck)
"Slightly all the time" - Soft Machine (Third) (remastered edition)
"Thou swell" - Carmen McRae (Live at the Flamingo Jazz Club, London May 1961)
"Right now" - John Abercrombie (Animato)
"Echidna's arf (of you)" - The Ed Palermo Big Band (Eddy loves Frank)
"Metro mono" - Positive catastrophe (Garabatos volume one)
"Son of a gun" - Sisters Euclid (John and the Sisters)
"Latigo" - The Red Band (Les oies sauvages)
"Yes, again" - Led Bib (Sensible shoes)
"Us and them" - Jazz side of the moon (Jazz side of the moon)
"Le gendarme" - Francois Couture (My little book - tome 1)
"Monochromatic textures (MCT-1)" - Bruce Friedman (O.P.T.I.O.N.S.)
"I concentrate on you" - Sophie Milman (Take love easy)
"Splayed fingers" - Michael Musillami Trio + 3 (From seeds)
"Peace" - George Robert & Kenny Barron (Peace)
"Hietzing: the lightning round" - Gypsophilia (Sa-ba-da-ow!)
"Abstrakt #3" - Corey Wilkes & Abstrakt Pulse (Cries from tha ghetto)
"Yirgacheffe" - Jon Miller Quartet (Orchidology)
"Little sketch" - Adrian Vedady (In three acts)
"Alive tonight (Bobby Hughes combination mix)" - Mo' Horizons (A jazzelicious joint of nujazz sessions)
"Cerulean blue" - Laura Klein & Ted Wolff (Cerulean blue)
"Conotocarius" - The Fully Celebrated (Drunk on the blood of the holy ones)
"Invisible cities" - Nomo (Invisible cities)
"Forest path" - The Jim Seeley/Arturo O'Farrill Quintet (The Jim Seeley/Arturo O'Farrill Quintet)

This was my first show for three weeks. I was away in Ottawa and Montreal for about a week-and-a-half. Philip Barker did the May 26 show and Stewart Elton took the June 2 edition. Many thanks to both of them!

Lots of interesting tracks played this week, both long and short (the Gypsophilia tune is all of 39 seconds long!). Perhaps my favourite tracks were the first two played, the jumpy "Warblepeck" by the Tony Malaby Cello Trio and "Slightly all the time" by Soft Machine. The latter track was played in honor of the original Soft Machine bass player, Hugh Hopper (who plays on "Slightly..."), who died on June 7.

The next edition of Breaking The Tethers (with me on board) will be June 16. I should be around for most Tuesdays for the next few months or so.

Andrew

May 19, 2009

"Signal" - Alain Caron (5)
"Jabulani (joy)" - Abdullah Ibrahim (The journey)
"Linus and Lucy" - Bela Fleck and the Flecktones (Jingle all the way)
"Just have fun" - Marvin "Smitty" Smith (Keeper of the drums)
"Sunflower" - Paul Motian (Live at the Village Vanguard, vol. II)
"Fast man" - Romane (Pere et fils)
"Mystery ship" - Ken Hatfield and Friends (To be continued… Ken Hatfield and Friends play the music of Bill McCormick)
"Jacobin Club" - Darcy James Argue's Secret Society (Presents infernal machines)
"Time" - Jazz side of the moon (Jazz side of the moon)
"Long, long journey" - Allen Toussaint (The bright mississippi)
"Afterthought" - Kevin Smith Trio (Afterthought)
"Smiles remembered" - Thierry Peala (Inner traces: a Kenny Wheeler songbook)
"Reptoid alliance" - The Fully Celebrated (Drunk on the blood of the holy ones)
"Hot n' ready" - The Jerrold Dubyk Quartet (The maverick)
"Blister" - Will Bernard (Blue plate special)
"Going what's what" - Torngat (La petit Nicole)
"Silt" - Jeff Younger's Sandbox (The nudger)
"Jewish dance party!" - Gypsophilia (Sa-ba-da-ow!)
"United states" - The Very Big Carla Bley Band (The Very Big Carla Bley Band)

In some ways, this was a somewhat mellower show than usual, at least at points. Still, there was the usual spoonful or two of experimental/freaky music.

Fave stuff this week: Ibrahim Abdullah, Jazz Side of the Moon (did you know that there is a reggae version of Dark Side of the Moon? there's probably a version of DSOTM in every genre of music!), The Fully Celebrated (who can resist a title like "Reptoid alliance"?), and Will Bernard (I've been waiting to hear the Blue Plate Special CD for a long time).

I'm going to be away for a week and a bit and will miss hosting two episodes of Breaking The Tethers, May 26 and June 2. Philip Barker from Morning Joy will be taking over for me on May 26 and will do his usual great job. I'm not sure who will be doing the June 2 show but all should be well. My first show back will be on June 9.

Andrew

May 12, 2009

"Anything" - Gypsophilia (Sa-ba-da-ow!)
"Willisau suite 1" - Sexmob with John Medeski (Sexmob meets Medeski: live in Willisau 2006)
"Tell her" - Julia Hulsmann (Good morning midnight)
"Little melody in F" - The Bruce Freedman African Groove Band (Live at the Cellar)
"Manhattan bounce" - Vito Rezza (Drums of avila)
"Plena organization" - Positive catastrophe (Garabatos volume one)
"20% free extra (extract)" - Derek Bailey (Fairly early with postscripts)
"Facelift" - Soft Machine (Third (remastered edition))
"Dpree's paradise" - The Ed Palermo Big Band (Eddy loves Frank)
"Donnerwetter (extract)" - Hans Bennink (Tempo comodo)
"Rossli hu (grosse pferde - kleine reiter)" - Davis/Ulrich/Baumann/Lutek/Richards/Jefferson) (Urs Blochlinger Tribute)
"Crescent" - Nomo (Invisible cities)
"Sopranelan" - Bill Brennan (Solo piano 2)
"Squirrel carnage" - Led Bib (Sensible shoes)
"XE (extract)" - VHF (Extracts)
"Five-lane parasite" - Mayo Groutt's Known Universe (Mayo Groutt's Known Universe)
"Interested benevolence" - The Souljazz Orchestra (Manifesto)
"Ga-ga-goosebumps" - Michael Musillami Trio + 3 (From seeds)
"Locomotion" - Michael Shrieve (Two doors)
"First mind" - Corey Wilkes & Abstrakt Pulse (Cries from tha ghetto)

Musically, I really liked this show. It featured lots of new stuff, an African-influenced tune per hour, live Soft Machine, and much more goodness. The top new tune, I think, was "Squirrel carnage" by Led Bib, a crazy track from a crazy album.

In terms of my performance behind the mic, I wasn't too impressed with myself. Nothing really bad happened but I could have been wittier and not tripped over my tongue as much as I did. Having a coughing fit on air doesn't help either. Oh well. I will be vocal smoothness next week.

Andrew

May 5, 2009

"Gotham" - The Jerrold Dubyk Quartet (The maverick)
"Taking Jude out for breakfast" - Ion Zoo (Set free at the Cellar)
"Winin' boy blues" - Allen Toussaint (The bright mississippi)"Drum solo" - Billy Cobham's Glassmenagerie (Stratus)
"Second rare duet (extract)" - Lol Coxhill (Alone and together)
"Padrecito" - Medeski, Martin, & Wood (Radiolarians II)
"Jingle bells" - Bela Fleck and the Flecktones (Jingle all the way)
"Transit" - Darcy James Argue's Secret Society (Presents infernal machines)
"Sometimes I feel like a motherless child/Nonet" - Bob Stewart (First line)
"Down under" - Art Blakey (Mosaic)
"Flaxman" - Steve Beresford/Pat Thomas/Veryan Weston (Three pianos)
"Bittersweet" - Alex Clements/John Abraham/Zara Tellander (Between stops)
"Soul power" - T.J. Kirk (T.J. Kirk)
"Toccata in C major: Fugue" - Jacques Loussier Trio (Play Bach no. 5)
"Summer afternoon sequence I (extract)" - Roger Smith (Extended plays (1993-1996))
"The mad wife" - Phillip Johnston (Page of madness)
"Thorsburger: the works" - The NOW Orchestra (Animal tales)
"Fiasco" - Paul Motian (Live at the Village Vanguard, vol. II)
"Sometimes" - Ian Smith (Daybreak)
"Little B's poem" - The Blue Note 7 (Mosaic)
"Carla Lisa" - Chris Andrew (Not so fast)
"The ghost series 2" - Evan Parker (Strings with Evan Parker)
"The spirit of soul" - Ken Hatfield and Friends (To be continued… Ken Hatfield and Friends play the music of Bill McCormick)


This week featured a fairly wide and varied set of tracks, including some short(ish) avant/experimental pieces (Lol Coxhill, Beresford/Thomas/Weston, Roger Smith, Evan Parker), two artists who will be at the Calgary Jazz Festival later this year (Allen Toussaint, MMW), some personal faves (Paul Motian), some out-and-out crazy stuff (Bela Fleck), a funky tune (T.J. Kirk), and much more. I just wish I hadn't tripped over my tongue so much when I was talking about these tunes... oh well, there's always next week...

Andrew

April 28, 2009

"Start to move" - Elizabeth Shepherd Trio (Start to move)
"Unknown Kohoutek" - Sun Ra (Concert for the comet Kohoutek)
"King Arthur meets Hanns Eisler in Hollywood" - Davis/Ulrich/Baumann/Lutek/Richards/Jefferson (Urs Blochlinger Tribute)
"Snuffy" - Wilbur Harden/John Coltrane (Mainstream 1958)
"Rue du depart" - Land of Kush (Against the day)
"Mallet song" - Ed Blackwell Project (What it is?)
"Parasite" - The Souljazz Orchestra (Manifesto)
"A.R.C." - Chick Corea/David Holland/Barry Altschul (A.R.C.)
"Goodbye pork-pie hat" - Art Farmer (Maiden voyage)
"Colourbox" - Sinistrio (Sinistrio)
"Gregorian" - Steve Coleman and Five Elements (Weaving symbolics)
"Ayahuasca" - Speak in tones (Subaro)
"Kitchen sink" - Amon Tobin (Foley room)
"Re: creation" - Ryan Meagher (Atroefy)
"Hospital loop" - Joel Miller (Tantramar)
"Death and the flower" - Keith Jarrett (Death and the flower)
"Zen death poem" - The Bruce Freedman African Groove Band (Live at the Cellar)
"Newness" - Mayo Groutt's Known Universe (Mayo Groutt's Known Universe)

A few more tracks than last week, though there were still a number of long tunes on this show (Keith Jarrett, the Bruce Freedman African Groove Band). Overall, it was a good show - any show with Sun Ra on it is a good show!

Andrew

April 21, 2009

"Slap and tickle" - The NOW Orchestra (Animal tales)
"Concierto de aranjuez" - Jim Hall (Concierto)
"Modal trane" -Turtle Island Quartet (A love supreme: the legacy of John Coltrane)
"L'axe du fou (axis of madness)" - Forgas Band Phenomena (L'axe du fou/Axis of madness)
"Pond life IV" - Ann Southam (Pond life)
"Chasen vs. suribachi" - Medeski, Martin, & Wood (Radiolarians II)
"Brother, can you spare a dime?" - Ray Anderson (Every one of us)
"Succor" - Flow Trio (Rejuvenation)
"T.A. the W. (tender as the wind)" - Lost tribe (Lost tribe)
"The queen's drone" - The Bruce Freedman African Groove Band (Live at the Cellar)
"Uncharted" - Joshua Redman (Compass)
"Erghen diado" - Indigone Trio & Strings (Cycles)
"Lazy snake" - Dave Holland Sextet (Pass it on)
"Four winds" - David Holland Quartet (Conference of the birds)
"Enlightenment" - Graham Haynes (The griot's footsteps)

A whopping 15 tracks here, perhaps the lowest number of items ever played on Breaking The Tethers. The reason for this is because of the length of the tunes; jazz pieces are often long but some in this set went on for quite some time e.g. "Enlightenment" by Graham Haynes is nearly 27 minutes long.

Fave track this week: "Chasen vs. suribachi" by MMW from the brand-new release Radiolarians II. I saw this in Vancouver last week and grabbed it.

Andrew

April 14, 2009

"Samuel" - Sienna Dahlen (Off the floor… into the garden)
"Love for sale" - Miles Davis (Kind of blue: legacy edition)
"Slow down sagg" - Tony Monaco (Live at the Orbit Room: the ultimate jam)
"C'mon it's just a dollar" - Gutbucket (A modest proposal)
"Dark state of mind" - Tuatara (Breaking the ethers)
"E" - Dave Kikoski (Dave Kikoski)
"Irresistible" - Moe Clark (Circle of she)
"Ethiopia" - Sonny Greenwich (Hymns to the earth)
"Can't complane" - Ryan Meagher (Atroefy)
"Sailing" - Ion Zoo (Set free at the Cellar)
"City lights" - Brenda Earle (Happenings)
"Figwig" - Flute Force Four (Flutistry)
"We're not from around here" - Bill Frisell (The best of Bill Frisell: vol. 1, folk songs)
"Aquatic adventures, episode 19: the unceremonious demise of waterbugs" - Jeff Younger's Sandbox (The nudger)
"Leopard lady" - Franz Koglmann (L'heure bleue)
"Mixed grill" - Bill Evans/Randy Brecker (Soulbop band live)
"Jazz trash" - Ellery Eskelin (Jazz trash)
"Against the day" - Land of Kush (Against the day)
"Stalker" - Time Jazz Quartet (Studies in jazz in studie: aspects of jazz from the Netherlands
"It's all good" - Hank Crawford/Jimmy McGriff (Crunch time)

Perhaps the most notable thing about this show was that 1/5 (4/20) of the tracks feature vocals prominently. Four songs out of 20 may not seem like much but I used to program weeks on end of shows without vocals. Oh well, times change.

Andrew

April 7, 2009

"Blame it on the muchachas" - Michael Farquharson (Michael Farquharson)
"Rivers run" - Dave Holland Sextet (Pass it on)
"Upper four hundred" - The Three Sounds (Soul symphony)
"Brown bag" - Booglaoo Joe Jones (Legends of acid jazz)
"The great blue orb and the well hung chads" -The NOW Orchestra (Animal tales)
"Agua de paz" - Dino Saluzzi (Kultrum)
"Pond life III" - Anne Southern (Pond life)
"Reflections of romance" - Jefferson Grant Quintet (As one)
"Teeth" - Soft Machine (Fourth/fifth)
"Mr. Kenyatta" - Lee Morgan (Search for the new land)
"Accra" - Geoff Keezer (Waiting in the wings)
"Concorrencia desleal" - Antonio Valdetaro & Grupo (Leticia)
"He's a hero" - Clifford Jordan (The adventurer)
"Void" - The Julius Hemphill Sextet (At Dr. King's table)
"The one that got away" - Rubim de Toledo (The river)
"Oasis" - The Bruce Freedman African Groove Band (Live at the Cellar)
"Open window" - David Friesen (Castles and flags)
"Double-sens (double entendre)" - Forgas Band Phenomena (L'axe du fou/Axis of madness)
"Life" - Palle Mikkelborg (Song…. tread lightly)
"Munchkins" - Mark Helias (Loopin' the cool)

I have to admit, I really liked this show, favourites galore, new and old. I'm particularly fond of the pairing of Soft Machine and Lee Morgan, two of my main likes. Looking at the Soft Machine track in particular, I hadn't heard either their Fourth or Fifth albums until recently and was not sure if they would hold up to the great Third record; they aren't quite as good as Third but they are better than I expected so I played one track on Breaking The Tethers today.

Andrew

March 31, 2009

"Malabar" - Curtis Andrews (The offering of)
"No agreement" - Fela Anikulapo-Kuti (Black man's cry)
"Daydream" - Cedar Walton (One flight down)
"Kopanitsa" - Matt Darriau (Paradox trio)
"A matterapat" - Dr. Lonnie Smith (Rise up!)
"In love?" - Mark Alban Lotz & Lotz Of Music (Bite!)
"Pressure" - Metalwood (The recline)
"J.P." - Normand Guilbeault Ensemble (Dualisimus)
"Karteh khah" - Gerald Cleaver/William Parker/Craig Taborn (Farmers by nature)
"Big in Japan" - Ion Zoo (Set free at the Cellar)
"The low road" - John Scofield (This meets that)
"Poetry in motian" - Ryan Meagher (Atroefy)
"Everything I love" - The Tom Warrington Trio (The mountain)
"Caravan" - Mimi Fox (Perpetually hip)
"Rug stain saint" - Jeff Younger's Sandbox (The nudger)
"S'bout time" - Tony Monaco (Live at the Orbit Room: the ultimate jam)
"Brain born outside of it's head" - Gutbucket (A modest proposal)
"Horn OK please" - The Indica Project (Horn OK please)
"Hobo comedies" - Jerry Granelli (The V16 project)
"My favorite things" - McCoy Tyner (Guitars)
"Barretts bag" - HAR-You Percussion Group (Sounds of ghetto youth)

Another fun and varied show. There were a number of new tracks, first appearances (Fela!), lots of guitar (especially in the middle hour), some organ, and Indian, African, and Balkan-influenced sounds. A nice mix in all, I think.

Andrew

March 24, 2009

"Bella" - Indigone Trio & Strings (Cycles)
"Titled" - Keefe Jackson's Project Project (Just like this)
"Wishful walk" - Praful (Pyramid in your own backyard)
"Complete communion" - Don Cherry (Live at the Café Montmarte 1966, vol. 3)
"The runt"- Forth Inversion (Forth inversion)
"Davey's purple powerline" - Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey (Sameness of difference)
"Blowdart" - The Rick Jensen Trio (Snowdrift)
"Mosaic" - The Blue Note 7 (Mosaic: a celebration of Blue Note Records)
"Reza" - Jaco Pastorius (The birthday concert)
"Joy spring" - Tricia Edwards (Joy spring)
"Bless my soul" - Nightmares On Wax (Smokers delight)
"Semi-simple variations (alternate version)" - The Bad Plus joined by Wendy Lewis (For all I care)
"Comfortably alone" - Simon Fisk Trio (Trainwrecks)
"Smog cutter" - James Carney (Green-wood)
"Sometimes" - Ian Smith (Daybreak)
"Eternal joy" - Joe Lovano (Symphonica)
"HAR-YOU theme" - HAR-You Percussion Group (Sounds of ghetto youth)
"Acookarache" - Jerry Bergonzi (Tenor of the times)
"Chief Crazy Horse" - Wayne Shorter Quartet (Usher Hall, Edinburgh, Scotland, March 8, 2003)
"Telematic" - Fieldwork (Simulated progress)
"American buffalo" - Scott Fields Ensemble (Mamet)

Perhaps the most notable thing about this week's show is that I actually played two tracks by local performers (Tricia Edwards and Simon Fisk); normally, I manage one. I don't consciously avoid playing local musicians but I guess they sometimes get lost in the mix; there is loads more content from elsewhere in Canada and internationally. Still, I must remember the local scene, which isn't shabby.

Andrew

March 20, 2009

This was a showfill for the Friday morning program, Jazz Stains:

"Autumn solstice" - Rubim de Toledo (The river)
"Free jazz" - Ornette Coleman Double Quartet (Free jazz)
"Tico" - You Percussion Group (Sounds of ghetto youth)
"Boubacar" - McCoy Tyner with Bill Frisell (Guitars)
"Fisch tanz" - Petr Cancura (People music)
"Alexander the great" - Joe Lovano (Symphonica)
"Moment to moment" - Joe Locke Quartet (Moment to moment)
"Freedom tickler" - Charlie Hunter Trio (Friends seen and unseen)
"High-higher-her" - Jesse Van Ruller (Trio)
"Make up your mind" - Barry Romberg (Accidental beef)
"Felix major" - The Jeff Presslaff Trio (Red goddess)
"The theme" - Paul Chambers (Bass on top)
"Nataraj" - David S. Ware (Shakti)
"Pick up sticks" - Flow Trio (Rejuvenation)
"Signs & wonders" - Denny Zeitlin/David Friesen (Denny Zeitlin/David Friesen)

Two things to note here: First, believe it or not, this is the only time I've played Ornette Coleman's "Free jazz" on any CJSW show. I played the "First take" of "Free jazz" a couple of years ago but never the original release. Glad to be able to put it on air. Second, only 15 tracks were played today; there were a number of long tunes, including "Free jazz". This might be the fewest number of pieces played in a show I have hosted.

I'll be back on Tuesday with Breaking The Tethers.

Andrew

March 17, 2009

"One man" - Sienna Dahlen (Off the floor… into the garden)
"So what" - Miles Davis (Kind of blue: legacy edition)
"Well you needn't" - Tricia Edwards (Joy spring)
"La 13eme lune (the 13th moon)" - Forgas Band Phenomena (L'axe du fou/Axis of madness)
"Chiquilin de bachin" - Bobo Stenson Trio (Cantando)
"Jellyfish lullaby" - Mark Alban Lotz & Lotz Of Music (Bite!)
"Tisra misra" - Curtis Andrews (The offering of)
"Doo-dah for three alto saxophones" - William Street and Roger Admiral (My very first solo)
"Rossignol" -Dee Alexander (Wild is the wind)
"Rejuvenation" - Lonnie Liston Smith (Astral travelling)
"Voodoo doll" - Dr. Lonnie Smith (Rise up!)
"Saturn 5" - Tribal tech (Rocket science)
"Leo Leo" - Bess Drury (Artic)
"Halfway there" - Pat Collins Quartet (In the moment)
"Passion dance" - McCoy Tyner with Marc Ribot (Guitars)
"Woodstock" - Leora Cashe and the Ross Taggart Trio (Another side now)
"Side effects may include" - Gutbucket (A modest proposal)
"Out jam/via mwandishi" - Christian McBride (Live at Tonic)
"Living room" - The Tom Warrington Trio (The mountain)
"W.W.T.W.D." - The Gordon Grdina Trio (… if accident will)
"Santa Anna" - James Cohen (High side of lowdown)

This show featured loads of guitar (not deliberate, just kinda turned out that way), plenty of electric piano (again, not deliberate) and FOUR tracks with singing! (actually, there are vocalizations on the Dr. Lonnie Smith tune as well) What on earth am I doing? :-) I used to go weeks on end without playing any tracks with vocals. Things change, I guess.

Two other things: I was pleased to get the new McCoy Tyner CD in my hands. It came out late last year so it's been a while but it's still fresh to me and most listeners (I hope). The lengthy live version of "So what" from Miles Davis was good to hear too. There's nice work from Coltrane on this performance (I know, what else would you expect).

I'll be doing the Friday, March 20 edition of Jazz Stains on CJSW, 6-9 am, so feel free to listen in then. After that, it's back to Breaking The Tethers on Tuesday, March 24.

Andrew

March 10, 2009

"Samba de janeiro" - Pacific Salt (Better late than never)
"Ostinato (suite for Angela)" - Herbie Hancock (Mwandishi)
"There will never be another you" - Matthew Shipp Trio (Harmonic disorder)
"Neice's lament" - Spencer Hoveskeland Trio (Harbinger)
"Length of the tail doesn't really matter but it has to be bushy" - Michael Vlatkovich (Three3)
"Long distance runaround" - The Bad Plus joined by Wendy Lewis (For all I care)
"Bengal" - Michael Wolff (Impure thoughts)
"Karifa" - Petr Cancura (People music)
"'Nother monkish thing" - The Jeff Presslaff Trio (Red goddess)
"Remembrance" - Don Cherry (Live at the Café Montmarte 1966, vol. 3)
"New year's eve" - Horde of Two (Guitar & bass actions)
"Oua-train" - HAR-YOU Percussion Group (Sounds of ghetto youth)
"Rejoicin'" - Charles Tolliver Big Band (With love)
"Batucada" - Walter Wanderley (Sounds from Verve hi-fi compiled by Thievery Corporation)
"The winter samba" - Rubim de Toledo (The river)
"The outlaw" - The Blue Note 7 (Mosaic: a celebration of Blue Note Records)
"Onan (suite): III. Dreams in the mirror" - Nels Cline (Coward)
"Slow cab" - Flow Trio (Rejuvenation)
"Chief Seattle" - Chris Potter 10 (Song for everyone)
"You'd be so nice to come home to" - Dan Adler (All things familiar)
"The fakir" - Cal Tjader with Lalo Schifrin (Sounds from Verve hi-fi compiled by Thievery Corporation)
"Black is the color of my true love’s hair" - Patty Waters (Sings)

This was a fun show to do. The music was good and the words flowed off my tongue fairly well. This show also featured the 3000th tune played on Breaking The Tethers; and the winner is... "Remembrance" by Don Cherry. A fitting piece, I think.

Andrew

March 3, 2009

"Sidewinder" - Tricia Edwards (Joy spring)
"Song of praise/Jesu meine freude" - Brotherhood Consort (Cite de al musique, Paris, France, February 9, 2008)
"Pourquoi, Laurent?" - Ran Blake Quartet (Short life of Barbara Monk)
"Son of ice bag" - Lonnie Smith (Think!)
"Dans la ville sombre" - Hagans/Belden (Re-animation live!)
"Footprints" - Patti Littlefield/Mark Weaver (Resonance)
"Manto azul" - David Sanchez (Cultural survival)
"Dogs" - Blah Blah 666 (It's only life!)
"La clef (the key)" - Forgas Band Phenomena (L'axe du fou/Axis of madness)
"Anthracite" - Jay T. Vonada Quartet (Jammin')
"In this city" - Bess Drury (Artic)
"Faraway" - Johsua Redman (Compass)
"Get along with mating squids" - Mark Alban Lotz & Lotz Of Music (Bite!)
"Refraction 1" - Jason Moran (Artist in residence)
"Pillars" - Jerry Granelli (Koputai)
"Spacejunk" - Rick Frank (Yellow mountain)
"Shahgely" - Indigone Trio & Strings (Cycles)
"Shakti" -David S. Ware (Shakti)
"Feeling good" - Dee Alexander (Wild is the wind)
"Ode to odomos" - Curtis Andrews (The offering of)
"I am a jelly doughnut (or a commentary on U.S. german relations post WWII)" - Gutbucket
(A modest proposal)
"With purpose" - Michel Bisceglia (Inner you)
"Algorithmic" - Rinse The Algorithm (Locutions)
"Doki (remixed by DJ Vadim)" - Beats On Canvas (Beats on canvas)

I was pretty sick when I did this show (still am; I'm fighting a bad cold; I've had it for the better part of a week) and I'd driven to CJSW in an early morning snow/slushstorm. Still, it worked out OK, save for a couple of technical "butterfingers" moments and some trips of the tongue.

Fave tune this week: The Brotherhood Consort's medling of Coltrane and Bach.

Next week's show will be noteworthy in that it will feature the 3000th track played on Breaking The Tethers. This will likely happen sometime in the first half of the second hour (8-9 am MST). I'm not planning to play any particular tune or song but I hope to remember to say a few words at the momentous moment.

Andrew

February 24, 2009

"Fig bun" - Petr Cancura (People music)
"Antidromic" - David S. Ware (Shakti)
"Moz" - Hugh Masakela (Phola)
"May-reh" - Gerry Mulligan (The Gerry Mulligan songbook)
"People make the world go round" - Dr. Lonnie Smith (Rise up!)
"Let them go" - Okgiraffe (Okgiraffe)
"Union canal" - Horde of Two (Guitar & bass actions)
"Geewa" - Andy Milne (Solo piano)
"The climb" - Ron Davis (The bestseller)
"Dakar darkness" - World Saxophone Quartet (Four now)
"Mel chi 1" - Matthew Shipp Trio (Harmonic disorder)
"When the tulips blow in my imaginary orchestra" - Martin & Haynes (Freedman)
"Intro gardens" - Arrington de Dionyso (I see beyond the black sun)
"Jazzy Jeff's theme" - Nuyorcian soul (Nuyorcian soul)
"Black holes" - Renee Rosnes and the Danish Radio Big Band (Renee Rosnes and the Danish Radio Big Band)
"Trance chant" - Gene Ess (Modes of limited transcendence)
"Fem (etude no. 8)" - The Bad Plus joined by Wendy Lewis (For all I care)
"The river (intro)" - Rubim de Toledo (The river)
"Yellow spot into the sun" - The Gordon Grdina Trio (… if accident will)
"The night" - Gerald Cleaver/William Parker/Craig Taborn (Farmers by nature)
"Composition 356" - Anthony Braxton/Kyle Brenders (Toronto (duets) 1999)
"Going south" - Ben Henriques (The responsibility club)
"Where is Wanda Skutnick?" - Michael Vlatkovich (Three3)
"Misturada ("mixing")" - Airto Moreira/Flora Purim/Joe Farrell (Three-way mirror)
"Spencer Hoveskeland Trio" - Harbinger (Harbinger jump)

This was a show with lots of new tracks and a fair amount of Canadian experimental music. I wish I had more time to play "Composition 356" by Braxton and Brenders but it goes on for 45+ minutes; I'll have to plan better in the future but at least some of the track was played (several minutes).

Andrew

February 17, 2009

"Product of love" - Bess Drury (Artic)
"Music is the healing force of the universe" - Albert Ayler (Impulse years)
"Blues for Alice" - Michel Bisceglia (Inner you)
"Off the record" - Ronny Jordan (Off the record)
"Yellow mountain" - Rick Frank (Yellow mountain)
"Sample one" - Steve Reid
"Night sweats" - Larry Carlton (Sapphire)
"Sample two" - Steve Reid
"Smacked" - Indigone Trio & Strings" (Cycles)
"My little brown book" - Duke Ellington & John Coltrane (Duke Ellington & John Coltrane)
"La toconde et ses trios fantomes" - Beats On Canvas (Beats on canvas)
"Identity thief" - Johsua Redman (Compass)
"A grain of mustard seed" - Patti Littlefield/Mark Weaver (Resonance)
"Haitian fight song (studio version)" - Pentangle (Sweet child)
"No blues" - Miles Davis (Ronnie Scott's Club, London, UK, November 2, 1969)
"Lonnie's lament" - Marcus Miller (The ozell tapes: the official bootleg)
"System 2.3/7" - Rollf Boon (Cult figures)
"Paso" - Blah Blah 666 (It's only life!)
"Premonition: ! Earth II. Contorted" - Esbjorn Svensson Trio (Leucocyte)
"Kaju fenny" - Curtis Andrews (The offering of)
"Constellation 149" - Rinse The Algorithm (Locutions)
"Coast to coast" - David Sanchez (Cultural survival)

Another wide and varied show, marking the first appearance of Larry Carlton, a "salute" to the bass (the Pentangle track - Danny Thompson; the Miles Davis track - Dave Holland' and the tune perfomed by Marcus Miller), and three tracks with singing (Bess Durey, Albert Ayler, and Patti Littlefield/Mark Weaver). I was also pleased that I had enough time to play the lengthy piece by the Esbjorn Svensson Trio, off their final album, Leucocyte.

Andrew

February 10, 2009

"The cannonball" - Rubim de Toledo (The river)
"Cosmos" - Saxophone Summit (Seraphic light)
"Redial" - Oregon (Ecotopia)
"Someday my prince will come" - Matthew Shipp Trio (Harmonic disorder)
"Finger snappin'" - Maynard Ferguson (Octet)
"Discovery in three" - Gene Ess (Modes of limited transcendence)
"Song of Delilah" - James Carter (Present tense)
"Szeptyilzy" - Pat Metheny & Anna Maria Jopek (Upojenie)
"Ella's walk" - The Ross Taggart Trio (Presenting)
"Namah" - David S. Ware (Shakti)
"Worrisome heart" - Melody Gardot (Worrisome heart)
"The get over (move)" - Madlib (Beat konducta vo. 5-6: tribute to…)
"Zombies love dancin' to this number" - Martin & Haynes (Freedman)
"Song to John" - Mads Tolling Trio (Speed of light)
"You are a protocol droid, are you not?" - Ben Henriques (The responsibility club)
"Ten thousand year vision" - Arrington de Dionyso (I see beyond the black sun)
"Not later than now" - The Bennie Maupin Quartet (Early reflections)
"Interlude - jazzin" - Ron Davis (The bestseller)
"The monk" - The Gordon Grdina Trio (… if accident will)
"Barracuda" - The Bad Plus joined by Wendy Lewis (For all I care)
"Exotic thoughts" - Global Noize (Global Noize)
"In trees" - Gerald Cleaver/William Parker/Craig Taborn (Farmers by nature)
"Wait and see" - Amanda Tosoff (Wait and see)
"Pent-up house" - Billet-Deux (Deux)
"Improvisation 5" - Derek Bailey & The Ruins (The Purcell Rooms, South Bank, London, April 3, 1997)
"Double nickel" - Yellowjackets featuring Mike Stern (Lifecycle)
"Composition 199" - Anthony Braxton/Kyle Brenders (Toronto (duets) 1999)

I think this was a great show, with a wide variety of tracks played and more in number than usual (nearly 30). A interesting feature was some of the interesting titles e.g. "Zombies love dancin' to this number" and "You are a protocol droid, are you not?" I also loved the crazed version of Heart's "Barracuda" from the new Bad Plus with Wendy Lewis CD.

This was my first show back after two week's absensce. Philip Barker, the Morning Joy host on CJSW, ably filled in for me twice. I am in his debt.

Andrew

January 20, 2009

"Joy" - Rob Mosher's Storytime (The tortoise)
"Shangri-la" - Donald Byrd (Royal flush)
"The left hand of God" - Charlie Haden (The best of Quartet West)
"Danish dessert" - Mads Tolling Trio (Speed of light)
"Dr. Mganga" - Eddie Henderson (Heritage)
"Song in b minor - Satie" - Chris Donnelly (Solo)
"Matters not" - John Santos and Machete (Tribute to the masters)
"Goodbye pork-pie hat" - Billet-Deux (Deux)
"A theory of consumption" - Ben Henriques (The responsibility club)
"Respiration" - Ben Allison (Buzz)
"Gati shadows within" - The Royal Hartigan Ensemble (Blood drum spirit: live in China)
"Work" - Steve Lacy (Soprano sax)
"Serpahic light" - Saxophone Summit (Seraphic light)
"Lady of the lavender mist" - The Ross Taggart Trio (Presenting)
"Star crossed" - Dream Algebra (Burma)
"Rhythmaron" - Ron Davis (The bestseller)
"Ca'purange" - Dexter Gordon (Ca'purange)
"A jam 4 Joe" - Global Noize (Global Noize)
"Split screen" - Erik Friedlander (Skin)
"Harmonic disorder" - Matthew Shipp Trio (Harmonic disorder)
"Ajar" - Esbjorn Svensson Trio (Leucocyte)
"The outer view" - George Russell Sextet (The outer view)
"We've got Silver at six" - Horace Silver (The hardbop grandpop)

Lots of notable tunes this week, including:

"Dr. Mganga" by Eddie Henderson - funky '70s stuff without being mushy
"Respiration" by Ben Allison - I think I like everything that this guy does
"Seraphic light" by the Saxophone Summit - a great cover of a less-well-known, (very) late period Coltrane tune
"Ca'purange" by Dexter Gordon - things really take off in this piece when Dexter kicks in; Stanley Clarke's electric bass works very well here
"Harmonic disorder" by Matthew Shipp - Matthew Shipp good!!
"The outer view" by George Russell - this must have been way out by 1962 standards

Hmm, I think I really liked the stuff I played this week...

I'll be away for the next two weeks (one week business, one week pleasure). Philip Barker from Morning Joy will be filling in for me on both shows. Many thanks to Philip! I am definitely in his debt. The first Breaking The Tethers with me back will be Tuesday, February 10.

Andrew

January 13, 2009

I'm a few days later than I thought I would be in getting this list out. My apologies.

"Shorinji kempo" - Amanda Tosoff (Wait and see)
"Stolen moments" - The Phil Norman Tentet (Totally live at Catalina Jazz Club)
"Suspension" - Dave Burrell & Billy Martin (Consequences)
"All that I need is love" - Melody Gardot (Worrisome heart)
"Skull hill" - Hugh Ragin (Revelation)
"The groove" - Brian Culbertson (Bringing back the funk)
"The bird dances" - Patrick Zimmerli (Phoenix)
"Blues for Alagarn" - Joe Pass (Virtuoso in New York)
"Baiao for Vinnie" - Ray Piper & Fantazea (Ray Piper & Fantazea)
"A gathering of spirits" - Michael Brecker/Dave Liebman/Joe Lovano (Saxophone summit: gathering of spirits)
"Boo and scout" - Bill Frisell (History, mystery)
"Kobe" - Bill King's Rhythm Express (Beat street)
"The jewel in the lotus" - The Bennie Maupin Quartet (Early reflections)
"Offshoot 3" - The Peggy Lee Band (New code)
"Children's song no. 1" - Chick Corea (Children's songs)
"Isla de las mujeres" - Quadro Nuevo (Tango bitter sweet)
"Entre funerailles I" - Mark Applebaum (Sock monkey)
"Walkin'" - Joey DeFrancesco/Guido Basso/Vito Rezza/Lorne Lofsky (One take, volume one)
"Shadowdy sands" - James Carter (Present tense)
"Meaure of a man" - Yellowjackets (Lifecycle)
"God fire" - Medeski, Martin, & Wood (Radiolarians I)
"Ryo's first flight" - Gene Ess (Modes of limited transcendence)
"Infant eyes" - Chris Davis (A night remembered)
"Theme: Koko" - Charlie Parker (Bird in time 1940-1947)

This edition of Breaking The Tethers featured a nice mix of tracks, performers, styles, old and new, etc. I even played a tune from a "smooth jazz" performer, Brian Culbertson (it was the only track I liked from the album). Variety is the spice of life.

I'll be doing the show on January 20 and then I'm away for two weeks, back behind the mike on February 10. Philip Barker from Morning Joy will be taking the Jan. 20 program (thanks, Philip!). I'm not sure who will be doing the Feb. 3 show yet.

Andrew