Saturday, March 21, 2009

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

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

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

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

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

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

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

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

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

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

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

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

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