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