There were only four tracks played in this episode of Breaking The Tethers, which might be an all-time low. There's a good reason; two of the tracks took up over half of the program and the other two weren't short either. A few notes on three of the pieces:
"Actions for free jazz orchestra" by Krzysztof Penderecki .This is the companion piece to the Don Cherry composition, "Humus: the life exploring force" (which I accidentally called "Humus: the life affirming force" on air, sorry) which I played on the Nov. 27 BTT show. Both appear on a record released in 1971, Actions. Both are crazy, in good ways.
"Sri Rama Ohnedaruth" by Alice Coltrane. I'm getting on an Alice Coltrane kick, which is always a good thing. Fantastic strings on this song. Spiritual jazz before there was Spiritual Jazz.
"Una New York" by Luther Thomas Human Arts Ensemble. More free jazz meets hard funk. I played the other track from this re-release from 1973, "Funky donkey", on January 1.
This was a great show, I think. You should give it a listen.
You should also tune into the next Breaking The Tethers show, which will be on Monday, January 22, 10 to 11 am MT, at cjsw.com or 90.9 FM. See you then and there!
Thanks.
Andrew
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