Tuesday, December 13, 2011

10-10-11 Playlist


1. Kris Davis / All The Things You Are / AERIOL PIANO (Clean Feed)
2. Points / White Dominique / POINTS (Animal Music)
3. The Blueprint Project w/Han Bennink / Herbie Nichols / PEOPLE I LIKE (Creative Nation)
4. Kirk Knuffe / Normal / BIG WIG (Clean Feed)

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5. Francois Carrier / Far North (three) / FAR NORTH (Ayler)

6. Ras Moshe-Dave Ross-Federico Ughi / Red River Flows / RED RIVER FLOWS (577 Records)
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7. Malachi Thompson / We Speak / NEW STANDARDS (Delmark)
8. Szilard Mezei / Tonk-Ho/Stump-Snow / TONK (Slam)
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9. Joe Morris & Agusti Fernandez / Ambrosia 3 / AMBROSIA (Riti)
10. The Thing / Aluminum / GARAGE (Smalltown Superjazz)
11. Little Women / Throat I-II / THROAT (Aum Fidelity)

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

10-3-11 Playlist


1. Marcin Wasileski Trio / Big Foot / FAITHFUL (ECM)
2. Mark Dresser & Ray Andrson / One Plate / NINE SONGS TOGETHER (CIMP)
3. FAB Trio / Implications / THE HISTORY OF JAZZ IN REVERSE (Tum)
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4. Triage / Rong Tones / AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY (Okkadisk)
5. Michael Formanek ? Too Big To Fail / THE RUB AND SPARE CHANGE (ECM)
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6. Miles Davis / Agitation (Antwerp) / LIVE IN EUROPE 1967 (Columbia Legacy)

7. Miles Davis / Footprints (Antwerp)/ ibid.
8. Dead Cat Bounce / Big Dyno Man / CHANCE EPISODES (Cuneiform)
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9. Michael Bisio / Nitro, Don't Leave Home Without It / LIVE AT VISION FEST XII (Not Two)

10. Ahmed Abdullah / Love In Outer Space / TRAVELING THE SPACEWAYS (Planet Arts)

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

9-26-11 Playlist


1. Kris Davis / Saturn Return / AERIOL PIANO (Clean Feed)
2. Michael Dessen / FORGET THE PIXEL (Clean Feed)
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3. Joe Fonda / Rocks In My Head / LOADED BASSES (CIMP)
4. Andrew Cyrille / Debloozy / ROUTES DE FRERES (Tum)
5. Pete Robbins / Somnabulist / CENTRIC (Telepathy)
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6. John Coltrane & Rashied Ali / Leo / INTERSTELLAR SPACE (Impulse)
7. Angles / Today Is Better Than Tomorrow / EPILEPTICAL WEST (Clean Feed)
8. Dennis Gonzalez / Loft / SONGS OF EARLY AUTUMN (NoBusiness)
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9. Ingrid Laubrock / Tulipmania / THE MADNESS OF CROWDS (Intakt)
10. Joelle Leadre, Nicole Mitchell & Dylan van der Schyff / Before After / BEFORE AFTER (Rogue Art)

Saturday, December 3, 2011

9-19-11 Playlist


1. Trio M / For Bradford / BIG PICTURE (Crytogramophone)
2. Rich Halley w/Bobby Bradford / The Blue Rims / THE BLUE RIMS (Louie)
3. Steve Coleman and Five Elements / Water-Oyeku / THE MANCY OF SOUND (Pi Recordings)
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4. Ingrid Laubrock / Does Your Mother Know You're Out? / THE MADNESS OF CROWDS (Intakt)
5. Jeff Platz, Kit Demos & John Mclellan / Five Reasons / OH PULSAR (Skycap)
6. Carlos Actis Dato & Baldo Martinez / Ashanti / FOLKLORE IMAGINARIO (Leo)
7. Active Ingredients / Song For Dyani / TITRATION (Delmark)
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8. Graham Collier / Song Three (Nine-Eight Blues) / SONGS FOR MY FATHER (Disconforme)
9. Ken Aldcroft & Dave Clark / Green Chimneys / HT AND BEARD: THE MUSIC OF THELONIOUS MONK (Trio)
10. Respect Sextet / Capricorn-Saturn / SIRIUS RESPECT (Avant Mode)
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11. Empty Cage Quarter / Attack Of The Eye People-Who Are They If We Are Them-The Mactavish Rag / HELLO THE DAMAGE (pfMENTUM)

Thursday, December 1, 2011

9-12-11 Playlist

Charlie Kohlhase (Research And Development, WMBR Mondays 2-4 PM) did my show last week while I was on vacation in Amsterdam. (No coffee shop jokes, please.) Thanks, Charlie.

1. John Taylor / Up Too Late / ANGEL OF THE PRESENCE (Cam Jazz)
2. Jen Shyu & Mark Dresser / Slope A Dope / SYNASTRY (Pi Recordings)
3. Free Fall / Argentus / GRAY SCALE (Smalltown Superjazz)
4. Mike Reed / Be-Ware / PROLIFERATION (482 Music)

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5. Zanussi 5 / Alborado / ALBORADO (Moserobie)
6. Frode Gjerstad, Fred Longborg-Holm, Amit Sen & Paal Nilssen-Love / Four Strings / THE CELLO QUARTET (FMR)
7. William Parker / James Baldwin To The Rescue / Raining On The Moon (Thirsty Ear)
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8. Kees Hazevoet / Pleasure / PLEASURE (Atavistic Unheard Music Series)
9. Evil Eye / 3AM Swedetown Bluff / DOIN' IT ALL FOR MY BABY (KMB Jazz)
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10. What We Live / Especially The Traveller Tomorrow / ESPECIALLY THE TRAVELLER TOMORROW (Metalanguage)

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

8-29-11 Playlist

1. Trio Braam DeJoode Vatcher / Green (Groen / COLORS (BBB)
2. Tin/Bag / Maslow / BRIDGES (Mabnotes)
3. Darius Jones & Matthew Shipp / Bleed / COSMIC LIEDER (Aum Fidelity)
4. Hamid Drake, Albert Beger & William Parker / EVOLVING SILENCE NO. 2 (Earsay)
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5. Fieldwork / Trangression / SIMULATED PROGRESS (Pi Recordings)
6. Stahls Bla / Harads / SCHLACHPLATTE (Moserobie)
7. Chris Kelsey / Fangle / THE CROOKEDEST STRAIGHT LINE VOL. 1 (CIMP)
8. Harris Eisenstadt / September 1 / SEPTEMBER TRIO (Clean Feed)
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9. Charles Mingus / Goodbye Pork Pie Hat / MINGUS AH UM (Columbia)
10. Lester Young / The Man I Love / LESTER YOUNG TRIO (Verve)

11. Vandermark 5 / Stranger Blues (For Lester Young) / / ACOUSTIC MACHINE (Atavistic)
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12 Peter Rotzmann Chicago Tentet / Bird Notes (For Bengt Nordstrom ) SIGNS (Atavistic)
13. Exuberance / Innvocation / LIVE AT THE VISION FESTIVAL (Ayler)

Sunday, October 16, 2011

8-22-11 Playlist

1. Eri Yamamoto Trio / Every Day / IN EACH DAY, SOMETHING GOOD (Aum Fidelity)
2. Laurence Cook & Jim Hobbs / Rumored Return / TRAGEDIES OF LOVE (Blaq Lightn)
3. Atomic / Edit / THEATER TILTERS VOL. 2 (Jazzland)
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4. Tin/Bag / Bobo / BRIDGES (Mabnotes)

5. Paul Dunmall, Neil Metcalfe, Paul Rodgers & Phiillip Gibbs / IThink Therefore I Don't Know / NOT A BIT LKE COCO (Duns Ltd. Edition)
6. Gerry Hemingway / Backabacka / RIPTIDE (Clean Feed)
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7. Jeanne Lee / Mingus Meditations / NATURAL AFFINITIES (Owl) Past Master
8. Herb Robertson and the Space Cadets / Blues for Anna Isabel / SKETCHES FROM THE OTHER SIDE, FOR A.I. (Rubyflower)
9. Erik Friedlander / Hanky Panky / BONEBRIDGE (Skipstone)
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10. Odyssey The Band / Water Tree / BACK IN TIME (Pi Recordings)
11. Muhal Richard Abrams, George Lewis & Roscoe Mitchell / Scrape / STREAMING (Pi Recordings)
12. Liberty Ellman / Helios / TACTILES (Pi Recordings)

And again, thanks for listening.

Saturday, October 15, 2011

8-15-11 Playlist

I've fallen way behind, so it's time to play catch-up.

1. Frank Kimbrough Trio / Six / RUMORS (Palmetto)
2. Chris Dingman / Vijayavagara / WAKING DREAMS (Between Worlds)
3. Chris Dingman / Jet Lag / WAKING DREAMS (Between Worlds)
4. Jeb Bishop / 900 / 2009 (Better Animal)
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5. Gerry Hemingway / Sumna / RIPTIDE (Clean Feed)
6. John Lindberg's Tripolar / One For Ayler / (A)LIVE AT ROULETTE (Jazzwerkstatt)

7. Starlicker / Skull Cave / DOUBLE DEMON (Delmark)
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8. Jaki Byard / Twelve / JAKI BYARD QUARTET LIVE! (Prestige) Past Master
9. Daisy / In The Palm Of Her Hand / DAISY'S PLACES (Moserobie)
10. Cosmologic / C.T. / STARTING AT THE SUN (Circumvention)
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11. The Electrics / Chain Of Accidents / CHAIN OF ACCIDENTS (Ayler)
12. Gunter Sommer / Sommertime / LIVE IN JERUSALEM (Kadima)


Remember, for more up-to-date playlists, check www.track-blaster.com. Thanks for listening.

Sunday, August 14, 2011

8/8/11 Playlist

A lazy summer evening, so I played some loooong tracks.

1. Hommage a Coco Schulmann / Marilyn Lerner-Ken Filiano-Lou Grassi / ARMS SPREAD WIDE (NoBusiness)
2. I Stepped Onto A Bee Pt. 1 / Sunny Murray-John Edwards-Tony Bevan / I STEPPED ONTO A BEE (Foghorn)
3. Double Demon / Starlicker / DOUBLE DEMON (Delmark)
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4. Bob's Pink Cadillac / William Parker Clarinet Trio / BOB'S PINK CADILLAC (Eremite)
5. Dubya's Flying Lesson / Whit Dickey / IN A HEARTBEAT (Clean Feed)

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6. Cosmos / Ken McIntyre / THE COMPLETE UNITED ARISTS SESSIONS (Blue Note)
7. Chorales / Peter Evans Quintet / GHOSTS (More Is More)
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8. Communication Two / Calling Signals / LIVE AT CAFE OTO (Loose Torque)

Saturday, August 13, 2011

8/1/11 Playlist

The return of the true and rightful...oh, heck. I'm back from vacation. Thanks again, Charlie.

1. Starmelodics / Mark Dresser & Denman Maroney / LIVE IN CONCERT (Kadima)
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2. To Eh / Harris Eisenstadt Canada Day / CANADA DAY II (Songlines)

3. Vol / Aki Takase & Louis Sclavis / YOKOHAMA (Intakt)
4. When Tulips Were Gold / The Reed Trio / LAST TRAIN TO THE FIRST STATION (Kilogram)
5. Chair / Happy House / INOXYDABLE (Circum-disc)
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6. Snake Out / Mal Waldron / HARD TALK (Enja)
7. You're The Tonic / Matt Lavelle / GOODBYE NEW YORK, HELLO WORLD (Music Now!)
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8. Rhythm Generation / Bassdrumbone / THE OTHER PARADE (Clean Feed)
9. Samael/Smash Hits On Several Exits (we won't let you in) / LIVE AT GLENN MILLER CAFE (Ayler)

Thursday, August 11, 2011

7/25/11 Playlist--With Charlie Kohlhase

My friend and associate, Charlie Kohlhase, host of Research and Development (Mondays 2-4 PM) filled in while I was on vacation in Oregon. Thanks, Charlie!

Here's his playlist:

1. Clouds Moving / Anat Fort / AND IF (ECM)
2. Glass Notes / George Schuller Trio / LIFE'S LITTLE DRAMAS (Fresh Sound New Talent)
3. Her Exacting Light / Jane Ira Bloom / WINGWALKER (Outline)
4. Squatters / James Carney / WAYS AND MEANS (Songlines)
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5. The Removal Act II / Jacques Coursil / TRAIL OF TEARS (Sunnyside)
6. Invocation / Marily Crispell & David Rothenberg / ONE DARK NIGHT I LEFT MY SILENT HOUSE (ECM)
7. For The Sake Of Edgar Pollard / Jason Stein / IN EXCHANGE FOR A PROCESS (Leo)
8. Small Footprints Of Unidentified Creatures / Taylor Ho Bynum-Joe Morris-Sara Schoenbeck / NEXT (Porter)
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9. Aggression / Booker Little & Eric Dolphy / THE GREAT CONCERT OF ERIC DOLPHY (Prestige)
10. Foggy / Darren Johnston / THE EDGE OF THE FORREST (Clean Feed)
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11. Variable Density #1 / Garrison Fewell Variable Density Sound Orchestra / SOUND PARTICLE 47 (Creative Nation)

12. Th-Outward / Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra / CELEBRATION OF THE SPIRIT (CIMP)
13. Paul Motian / Anat Fort / AND IF (ECM)R

Saturday, August 6, 2011

7/18/11 Playlist

Its hot, hot, hot....

1. Blessed Feet / Tord Gustavsen Trio / BEING THERE (ECM)
2. Issues / Tom Arthurs / CENTRIPEDE (Babel)

3. Two Days In Amsterdam / Gianni Lenoci w/William Parker / SECRET GARDEN (Silta)
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4. Continuing / Mario Pavone / ARC SUITE T/PI T/PO (Playscape)
5. Passage Wudang / David S. Ware, Cooper-Moore, William Parker & Muhammad Ali / PLANETARY UNKNOWN (Aum Fidelity)
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6. Return To The East / Charles Tyler / VOYAGE FROM JERICHO (Bleu Regard)
7. Expectation / Bruce Eisenbeil, Michael Attias, David Taylor & Jay Rosen / OPIUM (CIMP)
8. Like Mozart / Greg Ward's Fitted Shards / SOUTH SIDE STORY (19-8 Records)
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9. Somewhere Over The Seine / The Nu Band / LIVE IN PARIS (NoBusiness)

Keep cool

Friday, August 5, 2011

7-11-11 Playlist

Back to the regular time. Same crazy, weird music, though.

1. Sir Snack Tray Speaks / Farmers By Nature / OUT OF THIS WORLD'S DISTORTIONS (Aum Fidelity)
2. Old School / Daniel Levin Quartet / ORGANIC MODERNISM (Clean Feed)
3. Street Angel House Devil / Rob Reddy's Sleeping Dogs / SEEING BY THE LIGHT OF MY OWN CANDLE (Knitting Factory)
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4. Magnum Bonum / Filip Augustson / ICH BIN FILIP AUGUSTSON (Moserobie)
5. A Matter Of Tactic / Rosa Luxembourg Quintet / NIGHT ASYLUM (NotTwo)
6. A Fine Line / Rob Brown / UNKNOWN SKIES (Rogue Art)

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7. Ghost Town / Jackie McLean / ONE STEP BEYOND (Blue Note)
8. Spaghetti Canon / Joost Buis / ASTRONOTES (Data)
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9. East Village / Harrison Bankhead Sextet / MORNING SUN HARVEST MOON (Engine)
10. Ballade Of The Fallen African Warrior / Joseph Daley / THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS (Jaro)

That's it for this week.

Thursday, August 4, 2011

7/4/11/Playlist--The Great 4th Of July Switcheroo!

On at 2 PM today, as Sound Principles and Research and Development switch for this week only.

1. Beautiful Ugly / Russ Lossing Trio / ORACLE (Hatology)
2. Three And One / John McNeil-Bill McHenry Quartet / CHILL MORN HE CLIMB JENNY (Sunnyside)
3. The Blue Light Down The Line / Bassdrumbone / THE OTHER PARADE (Clean Feed)
4. Coal Car Blues / Louis Armstong w/Sidney Bechet / THE COMPLETE LOUIS ARMSTRONG DECCA SESSIONS (1935-1946) (Mosaic)
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5. Crossings / Cylinder / CYLINDER (Clean Feed)
6. Ancestry/Supramental / David S. Ware, Cooper-Moore, William Parker & Muhammah Ali / PLANETARY UNKNOWN (Aum Fidelity)
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7. Cornet Chop Suey / Louis Armstrong / HOT FIBES AND SEVENS VOL. 1 (JSP)
8. Center Of The Earth / Nicole Mitchell / AWAKENING (Delmark)
9. I Before E Before I / Ben Goldberg / THE DOOR, THE HAT, THE CHAIR, THE FACT (Cryptogramophone)
10. Renegade Spirits / Dennis Gonzalez / RENEGADE SPIRITS (Furthermore)
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11. Lazy River / Louis Armstrong / THE COMPLETE DECCA STUDIO RECORDINGS OF LOUIS ARMSTONG AND THE ALL STARS (Mosaic)

12. Fifth House / Odean Pope Quartet / FRESH BREEZE (CIMP)
13, Stone Shift / Larry Ochs Sax and Drumming Core / STONE SHIFT (Rogue Art)

Hope you had a great holiday!

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

6/27/11 Playlist

Then play on...

1. Glass Notes / George Schuller Trio / LIFE'S LITTLE DRAMAS (Fresh Sound New Talent)
2. Sock Puppeteer / Ralph Alessi / WIRY STRONG (Clean Feed)
4. Soft / Rudresh Mahanthappa & Bunky Green / APEX (Pi)
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5. Jehudis Bas Zion / Steven Bernstein / DIASPORA HOLLYWOOD (Tzadik)
6. Trouble Distribution / The Engines / WIRE AND BRASS (Okkadisk)
7. Alpha 60 / William Parker / ALPHAVILLE SUITE (Rogue Art)
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8. Tatsu's Groove / Fred Anderson / ON THE RUN (Delmark)
9, Curley Top / Nicole Mitchell / AWAKENING (Delmark)
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10. Mahanhao / IMI Kollectief / SNUG AS A GUN (Clean Feed)
11. Step Forward / Greg Ward's Fitted Shards / SOUTH SIDE STORY (19-8 Records)

12. Tiny Moment Pt. 1 & 2 / Time Berne, Jim Black & Nels Cline / THE VEIL (Cryptographophone)

Thanks for listening.

Thursday, July 21, 2011

6/20/11 Playlist

So there's this team, uh, a hockey team, and they win a trophy, I mean, a cup, and then they have a parade...

1. Perpetua / Yaron Herman / MUSE (Sunnyside)
2. Ontology / Connie Crothers / LIVE AT THE STONE (New Artists)
3. Loquator and Tacitunator / Charlie Kolhase's Explorers Club / ADVENTURES (Boxholder)
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4. Far Side-Cards-Farside / Roscoe Mitchell and the Note Factory / FARSIDE (ECM)
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5. Unity / Walt Dickerson / VIBES IN MOTION (Fresh Sound)
6. You Don't Want To Rile Me, Man / Ross Hammond / TEAKAYO MISSION (Prescott)
7. Leap Of Faith / Fay Victor / CARTWHEELING THROUGH THE COSMOS (Artist Share)
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8. Rejuvenation / Odean Pope Quartet / FRESH BREEZE (CIMP)
9. Tuzugras (Fire Jumping) / Eastern Boundary Quartet . EASTERN BOUNDARY (Artisjus)


Thanks for listening.

6/13/11 Playlist

Back with a vengeance. Well...back, anyway.

1. Skies Spin Around / Marilyn Lerner-Ken Filiano-Lou Grassi / ARMS SPREAD WIDE (NoBusiness)
2. Sura Hinda / JD Allen Trio / VICTORY (Sunnyside)
3. Memba' (Magam Barat/Jourina) / Amir ElSaffar / TWO RIVERS (Pi)
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4. Junction / Terrance McManus-Mark Helias-Gerry Hemingway / TRANSCENDENTAL NUMBERS (NoBusiness)

5. Andersonville / Atomic / THEATER TILTERS VOL. 1 (Jazzland--Norway)
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6. MA / Assif Tsahar-Peter Kowald-Sunny Murray / MA--LIVE AT FUNDACIO JOAO MIRO (Hopscotch)
7. Pieces Of We / Matana Roberts / LIVE IN LONDON (Central Control)
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8. Chicago Senorita / Harrison Bankhead / MORNING SUN HARVEST MOON (Engine)
9. Chance Taken / Bruno Chevillon & Time Berne/ OLD AND UNWISE (Clean Feed)
10. Ashcan Ranting / Adam Lane's Full Throttle Orchestra / ASHCAN RANTINGS (Clean Feed)

And that's it for this week

6-6-11 Playlist

Good buddy and fellow WMBR Dj (Lost Highway) Filled in this week. Here's his playlist--

1. Phantom Of The Bopers / Fred Hersch Trio / LIVE AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD (Palmetto)
2. Stake / Jason Adawiewicz/ SUN ROOMS (Delmark)
3. Mother Daughter / Bill Frisell / SIGHN OF LIFE (Savoy Jazz)
4. Collage / Chuck Deardoff / TRANSPARENCE (Origin)
5. To New Orleans / Sarah Wilson / TRAPEZE PROJECT (Brass Tonic)
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6. Concerto For Saxophones And Orchestra, Third Movement / James Carter / CARIBBEAN RHAPSODY (Universal Music)
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8. American Dipper / Jenny Scheinman / SHALAGASTER (Tzadik)

9. Geraldo's Hideaway / Sonic Explorers / SO FAR SO NEAR (Nada Brahma)
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10. De Pois Do Amor, O Vazio (After Love, Emptiness) / Wayne Shorter / ODYSSEY OF ISKA (Blue Note)
11. Friday The 13th / Microscopic Seeptet / FRIDAY THE 13TH (Cuneiforn)
12. Sad Waltz / Robin Holcomb / THE POINT OF IT ALL (Songlines)
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13. Cerberus Reigning / Jason Robinson / THE TWO FACES OF JANUS (Cuneiform)
14. Bowie / Dave Douglas / UNITED FRONT: BRASS ECSTASY AT NEWPORT (Greeenleaf)
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15. Voodod / Brian Carpenter's Ghost Train Orchestra / HOTHOUSE STOMP (Accurate)

Thanks, Doug. Not bad for a country boy!

Friday, June 24, 2011

5-30-11 Playlist

1. Crocodle / Craig Taborn / LIGHT MADE LIGHTER (Thirsty Ear)
2. A New Day / Tomas Ulrich's Cargo Cult / DISCOVERS (CIMP)
3. We Do? / David Borgo / INITIAL CONDITIONS (Circumvention)
4. Draco / Arthur Kell Quartet / VICTORIA (Brooklyn Jazz Underground)
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5. Station Wagon Trip / Ralph Alessi / WIRY STRONG (Clean Feed)
6. Planetary / Rova Saxophone Quartet / PLANETARY (SoLyd)
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7. If I Loved You / Rahsaan Roland Kirk / BRIGHT MOMENTS (Rhino/Atlantic)
8. Three Sepals / Michael Dessen / FORGET THE PIXEL (Clean Feed)
9. Y / Kartet / THE BAY WINDOW (Songlines)

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10. Exhibit A / Plunge (Swedish) / PLUNGE (Kopasetic)
11. Whatever Worlds / Eddie Prevost Trio / THE VIRTUE OF IF (Matchless)

Keep your ears open...

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

5-23-11 Playlist

First post-Rapture show. Music to make up for not ascending to heaven.

1. Ando / Benoit Delbecq / CIRCLES AND CALLIGRAMS (Songlines)
2. Moose Shit / 100NKA & Herb Robertson / SUPERDESERT (NotTwo)
3. Mal-Lester / Ernest Dawkins' New Horizons Ensemble / THE PRAIRIE PROPHET (Delmark)
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4. Rip, Rig And Panic Suite / Vandermark 5 / FREE JAZZ CLASSICS VOLS. 3&4 (Atavistic)
5. In A Silent Way / Taylor Ho Bynum / THE MIDDLE PICTURE (Firehouse 12)
6. Prospectus / The Rent / MUSIQUE DE STEVE LACY (Ambiances Magnetiques)
7. No Agreement / Tommy Meier's Root Down / THE MASTER AND THE RAIN (Intakt)
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8. Mayan Temples / Sun Ra / MAYAN TEMPLES (Black Saint)
9. The Poor Chew Words To Fill Their Stomachs / Crackleknob(Mary Halvorson, Reuben Radding & Nate Wooley) / CRACKLEKNOB (Hat ology)
10. Silvertone / Chris Lightcaps's Big Mouth / DELUX (Clean Feed)

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11. Cosmic Monster, take 2 / William Gagliardi / YOUNGER DRYAS (CIMP)
12. DeJohnette / Wadad Leo Smith / TABLIGH (Cuneiform)

Saturday, June 18, 2011

5-16-11 Playlist

1. Peace / Torbjorn Gulz / TORBJORN GULZ TRIO (Moserobie)
2. This Is Not A Tango / The Rempis Percussion Quartet / MONTREAL PARADE (482 Music)

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3. Don't Look Daown / Rosa LuxembourgNew Quintet / NIGHT ASYLUM (NotTwo)
4. Blue Tara / Stephen Gauci-Nels Cline-Ken Filiano-Mike Pride / RED FEAST (Cadence)
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5. Extras / Tony Williams / SPRING (Blue Note)
6. East Of Baghdad / Alaniaris / LIVE AT SOMEWHERE ELSE (Trio)
7. The Bats In Belfrey / Mostly Other People Do The Killing / THIS IS OUT MOOSIC (Hot Cup)

8. Elsa / Nate Wooley / (PUT YOUR) HANDS TOGETHER (Clean Feed)
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9. Summoning Good Spirits / Paul Dunmall & Paul Rogers / REPERCUSSIONS (FMR)

Two videos for waiting so long before I posted this.

Saturday, June 4, 2011

5-9-11 Playlist

More May, more musice.

1. Perpetuum Mobile / Agusti Fernandez-Barry Guy-Ramon Lopez / MORNING GLORY (Maya)
2. Pangolin / Trio Deurome Guilbeault Tanguay / 10 COMPOSITIONS (Amiances Magnetiques)
3. Dominant Fang / Dennis Gonzalez / NY MIDNIGHT SUITE (Clean Feed)
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4. Hymn For A Hip King / Ernest Dawkins' New Horizons Ensemble / THE PRARIE PROPHET (Delmark)
5. Holler / Tom Hall-Marty Ballou-Jeff Galindo / SESSION III (Bee Boy)
6. Improvisation 4 / Pete Robbins Unnamed Quartet / LIVE IN BROOKLYN (NotTwo)

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7. All Night Long-Rivers / Mike Osborne Trio / ALL NIGHT LONG (Ogun)
8. Metallic Dragon Fruit / Weasel Walter-Mary Halvorson-Peter Evans / ELECTRIC FRUIT (Thirsty Ear)
9. Vitesse De Laumiere / Michael Attias / TWINES OF COLESION (Clean Feed)
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10. Empathetic Parts / Mike Reed's Loose Assemply w/Roscoe Mitchell. EMPATHETIC PARTS (482 Music)

Until next time.

Sunday, May 29, 2011

5-2-11 Playlist

The day after May Day.

1. Ode / Frank Kimbrough / LULLABLUEBYE (Palmetto)
2. Double Negative / Curtis Hasselbring / THE NEW MELLOW EDWARDS (Skirl)
3. Rose Room / Klang / OTHER DOORS (AllosDocuments)
4. Don't Gild The Lily / Harris Eisenstadt / CANADA DAY (Clean Feed)
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5. Song Of The Miracle Lives / Andrew Lamb / THE HUES OF DESTINY (CIMP)
6. The Pier (For Yutaka Takanashi) / Resonance Ensemble / KAFKA IN FLIGHT (NotTwo)

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7. When Will The Blues Leave / Don Cherry / ART DECO (A&M)
8. The Afreet / Zanussi 5 / GHOST DANCE (Moserobie)
8. Terpishore / Exuberance / THE OTHER SHORE (Boxholder)
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9. Bells-Train-Winter Sun-Crying-Earth-Moon-Orphans / William Parker & the ICI Ensemble/ WINTER SUN CRYING (NEOS Music)

Keep your ears open.

Friday, May 27, 2011

4-25-11 Playlist

Music, music, music.

1. Ovala Takter 1 / Sten Sandell Trio / OVAL (Intakt)
2. Message Of TheStories / Positive Knowledge / FIRST ONES (Charles Lester Music)
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3. Oberek Sokkyo / New Haven Improvisers Collective / INTERFERENCE (NHIC Records)
4. Angles Sing / Klang / OTHER DOORS (AllosDocuments)
5. Bowie / Dave Douglas Brass Ecstacy / SPIRIT MOVES (Greenleaf)

6. Cerberus Rising / Jason Robinson / THE TWO FACES OF JANUS (Cuneiform)
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7. Arithmetical Mystic / The Musi Ensemble / THE MUSIC ENSEMBLE (Roaratorio)
8. Cecelia / Nate Wooley Quintet / (PUT YOUR) HANDS TOGETHER (Clean Feed)
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9. Annaherugen III / Frank Gratkowski Quartet / SPECTRAL REFLECTIONS (Leo)
10. Red Kites / Peter Brotzmann. Michiyo Yagi & Paal Nilssen-Love / HEAD ON (Idiolect)

And more music next time.

Saturday, April 23, 2011

4-18-11 Playlist

Many things, including a farewell to a great musician.

1. Duality / Vijay Iyer w/Prasanna & Nitin Mitta / TIRTHA (ACT)
2. Pensive / CK5 / CK5 LIVE! (Creative Nation)
3. African Rhythm Tongues / Khan Jamal / BALAFON DANCE (CIMP)
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4. The Deep Disciplines / Cylinder / CYLINDER (Clean Feed)
5. Drag Head / Steve Noble, John Edwards & Alan Wilkinson / OBLIQUITY (Bo'Weavil)
6. Kite / Rob Brown / UNEXPLAINED PHENOMENA (Marge)
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Tribute to Billy Bang, who passed away one week ago today.

7. Valve No. 10 / Billy Bang / VALVE NO 10 (Soul Note)
8. Subway Ride With Giuseppi Logan / String Trio Of New York / FIRST STRING (Black Saint)
9. TET Offensive / Billy Bang / VIETNAM: THE AFTERMATH (Justin Time)

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10. Composition No. 323c (exerpt) / Anthony Braxton / TRIO (VICTORIAVILLE) 2007 (Leo)

We'll miss you, Billy.

4-11-11 Playlist

WMBR is 50 years old. Thankfully it refuses to act its age.

1. Harlequin / Frank Carlberg / TIVOLI TRIO (Red Piano Records)

2. Canal And Lafeyette / Reuben Radding / INTERSECTIONS (Pine Ear)
3. Traane/A Phase / Carlo De Rosa's Cross-Fade / BRAIN DANCE (Cuneiform)
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4. There Was... / Aram Shelton's Arrival / THERE WAS...(Clean Feed)
5. Ish / Nate Wooley-Taylor Ho Bynum Quartet / THE THROES (CIMP)
6. The Big Sir / Fredrik Nordstrom / BLUE (Moserobie)
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7. Under The Incalculable Sky, Listless, Diseased With Stars / Glenn Spearman ? FIRST AND LAST (Eremite)
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8. Voices Like Trumpets / Aardvark Jazz Orchestra / TRUMPET MADNESS (Leo)
9. Ninth House / Fred Hess Big Band / INTO THE OPEN (Alison)

Into the next 50 years...

Friday, April 15, 2011

4-4-11 Playlist

We all remember April.

1. Barragan / Benoit Delbecq Trio / THE SIXTH JUMP (Songlines)
2. Voyages / Stephan Crump & Steve Lehman / KALEIDOSCOPE & COLLAGE (Intakt)
3. Duel / Ralph Alessi / COGNITIVE DISSONANCE (CamJazz)
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4. German Taco / Brad Shepik / ACROSS THE WAY (Songlines)
5. Up Above / Jeff Chan / HORNS OF PLENTY (Asian Improv)
6. The Throes / Nate Wooley & Taylor Ho Bynum / THE THROES (CIMP)

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7. Dancing Damen / Harry Miller / IN CONFERENCE (Ogun)
8. I Hear You / Magnus Broo / SWEDISH WOOD (Moserobie)
9. Two Face / Chris Lightcap's Big Mouth / DELUX (Clean Feed)
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10. Improvisaient / Joe Morris, Simon H. Fell & Alex Ward / THE NECESSARY AND THE POSSIBLE (Victo)
11. Last Of The Chicken Wings / Kidd Jordan, Hamid Drake & William Parker / PALM OF SOUL (Aum Fidelity)

More great sounds next week.

3-28-11 Playlist

Spring can really hang you up the most.

1. Tomorrow Is Today / Greg Burk Trio / CHECKING IN (Soul Note)
2. A Cajen Raven / Garrison Fewell & Eric Hofbauer / THE LADY OF KHARTOUM (Creative Nation)
3. Early Color / Vandermark 5 / THE HORSE JUMPS AND THE SHIP IS GONE (NotTwo)
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4. The Stench Of Cyber-Durian / Wesel Walter, Mary Halvorson & Peter Evans / ELECTRIC FRUIT (Thirsty Ear)
5. Powder & Paint / Ken Filiano / DREAMS FROM A CLOWN CAR (Clean Feed)

6. Let's Climb A Hill / ICP Orchestra / AAN (ICP)
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7. Desert Fairy Princess / Adele Sebastian / DESERT FAIRY PRINCESS (Nimbus West)
8. White Birch / Taylor Ho Bynum, John Hebert & Gerald Cleaver / BOOK OF THREE (Rogue Art)
9. Ghost Writer / Mike Reed / LAST YEAR'S GHOST (482 Music)
10. Kirui / Co Streiff / LOOPS, HOLES & ANGELS (Intakt)
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11. Polisation 1 / Lucas Niggli's Big Zoom / POLISATION (Intakt)
12. Picnic: A Beautiful Day / ICP Orchestra / AAN (ICP)

Keep listening.

Saturday, April 2, 2011

3-21-11 Playlist

March Madness of another kind.

1. Bemsha Swing / Fred Hersch Trio / LIVE AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD (Palmetto)
2. Old Thoughts / Ton Trio / THE WAY (Singlespeed)
3, Drum Music / Paul Motian w/Chris Potter & Jason Moran / LOST IN A DREAM (ECM)
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4. Maryanne Revisted / Other Dimensions In Music w/Fay Victor / KAISO STORIES (Aum Fidelity)

5. Clarity / Carl Testa / UNCERTAINTY (Uncertainty Music)
6. The Wrangler / Cosmologic / III (Circumvention)
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7. Wee Sneezawee / Jimmy Lyons / THE BOX SET (Ayler)
8. Two Boxes / Atomic / HAPPY NEW EARS (Jazzland)
9. Curt's Escape / Pandelis Karayorgis Quintet / SYSTEM OF 5 (Hatology)
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10. Set Theory / Flow Trio / SET THEORY: LIVE AT THE STONE (Ayler)

3-14-11 Playlist

Maybe March is the cruelest month.....

1. Kaligandhaki / Myra Melford & Tanya Kalmanovitch / HEART MOUNTAIN (Persicacity)
2. YX 2C / Stephen Haynes & Taylor Ho Bynum / THE DOUBLE TRIO (Engine0
3. Villages (The Vanguard And All) / Paulo Curado / THE BIRD, THE BREEZE AND MR. FILIANO (Clean Feed)
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4. Elastic / Pandelis Karayorgis Quintey / SYSTEM OF 5 (Hatology)
5. Thoughts Are Things / Magnus Broo / SWEDISH WOOD (Moserobie)
6. Looking/Lurking / Rob Brown / UNEXPLAINED PHENOMENA (Marge)
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7. New Monastery (alt.take) / Andrew Hill / POINT OF DEPARTURE (Blue Note)

8. Wollstonecraft / Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! / SELF RULE (Fire & Flux)
9. Pillow Circle 88 / Jorrit Dijkstra / PILLOW CIRCLES (Clean Feed)
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10. Friction / Vandermark 5 / THE HORSE JUMPS AND THE SHIP IS GONE (NotTwo)
11. Headbanger's Bawl / Carlo De Rosa's Cross-Fade / BRAIN DANCE (Cunieform)
12. Face Of The Deep / Harris Eisenstadt / THE ALL SEEEING EYE AND OCTETS (Poo-Bah Records)

Until next time...

Sunday, March 27, 2011

3-7-11 Playlist

Will the winter of our discontent become spring this month? Not quite.

1. Attraction Of The Moon / Eri Yamamoto Trio / IN EACH DAY, SOMETHING GOOD (Aum Fidelity)
2. No Neighborhood Rough Enough / Steve Lehman Octet / TRAVAIL, TRANSFORMATION AND FLOW (Pi)
3. Redundant Triangulation / Tom Abbs Frequency Response / CONSCRPTION (CIMP)
4. Chantal / The Thirteenth Assembly / (UN)SENTIMENTAL (Important Records)\
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Interview with Tomas Fujiwara, the drummer with The Tirteenth Assembly and Tomas Fujiwara and the Hook-up.
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5. Folly Cove / Tomas Fujiwara And The Hook-Up / ACTIONSPEAK (482 Music)
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More interview with Tomas Fujiwara
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6. Opel / Tomas Fujiwara And The Hook-Up / ACTIONSPEAK (482 Music)
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7. What's Your Story Morning Glory #2 / Mary Lou Williams / NITE LIFE (Chiaroscuro)
8. Afrika Rising Trilogy: Movement I-The Ancient Power Awakes / Nicole Mitchell Black Earth Ensemble / AFRIKA RISING (Dreamtime)
9. Movement II-Metamorphosis / Nicole Mitchell Black Earth Ensemble / AFRIKA RISING (Dreamtime)
10. Movement III-Intergalactic Healing / Nicole Mitchell Black Earth Ensemble / AFRIKA RISING (Dreamtime)

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11. Unconscious Forces / Jane Ira Bloom / LIKE SILVER, LIKE SONG (Artist Share)
12. Dressed Like A Horse / Mokuto / DRESSED LIKE A HORSE (Ninth World)

Keep your ears open...

2-28-11 Playlist

The harder I go, the behinder I get/

1. Take The A-Train / Matthew Shipp Trio / ART OF THE IMPROVISER (Thirsty Ear)
2. Good Looking Android / Jason Adasiewicz / ROLLDOWN (432 Music)
3. Thirty-Five / Either/Orchestra / MOOD MUSIC FOR TIME TRAVELERS (Accurate)
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4. Naked Truth / Hamid Drake, Alvert Beger & William Parker / EVOLVING SILENCE VOL. 1 (Earsay)
5. Bronx #3 / Daniel Levin Quartet / BACALHAU (Clean Feed)
6. Enshakoota / Gord Grdina Trio w/Mats Gustafsson / BARREL FIRE (Drio Audio)

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7. On A Country Road / John Carter / FIELDS (Gramavision)
8. St. Louis Sonority / Stephen Haynes / PARHESSIA (Engine)
9. Udentity III / Denman Maroney / UDENTITY (Clean Feed)
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10. Trictrac / Return Of The New Thing / TRAQUE (Ayler)

Keep listening.

Sunday, March 6, 2011

2-21-11 Playlist

The days are getting longer. Really.

1. Where Does That Tunnel Go / Kris Davis Trio / GOOD CITIZEN (Fresh Sound)
2. Sanctum / Adam Lane, Lou Grassi and Mark Whitecage / DRUNK BUTTERFLY (Clean Feed)
3. Lahk Laka / Francois Carrier / ENTRANCE 3 (Ayler)
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4. Platinum Inside Straight / Henry Threadgill / EVERYBODY'S MOUTH'S A BOOK (Pi)
5. February-Locomotive-February / Sakoto Fujii / DESERT SHIP (NotTwo)

6. Cherry Pop / All Ears / LINE (BBB)
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7. The Silent Drum / John Carter / DANCE OF THE LOVE GHOSTS (Gramavision)
8. The Buried Quilt / Rova and the Nels Cline Singers / THE CELESTIAL SEPTET (New World)
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9. Fertility Dance / Frequency / s/t (Thrill Jockey)
10. J20 19-23 / Waclaw Zimpel, Wotjek Traczyk and Robert Rasz / THE LIGHT (Multikulti Project)
11. Svettpalor / Moksha / s/t (Moserobie)

Let's do this again next week.

2-14-11 Playlists

Proof positive that there are no avant garde jazz Valentine's Days songs.

1. The New Fact / Matthew Shipp Trio / ART OF THE IMPROVISER (Thirsty Ear)
2. Our Hospitality (ver. 1) / Ken Aldcroft's Convergence Ensemble / OUR HOSPITALITY (Trio Records)
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3. Suspended In Amber / New Haven Improvisers Collective / INFLECTION (NHIC Records)
4. Outspoken / Avram Fefer / RITUAL (Clean Feed)
5. Big Oil Tango / Aaardvark Jazz Orchestra / AMERICAN AGONISTES (Leo)
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6. Capture / John Carter / CASTLES OF GHANA (Gramavision)
7. #4 / Chris Welcome Quartet / s/t (Tigerasylum)
8. Reborn Not Gone / Matt Bauder / DAY IN PICTURES (Clean Feed)
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Tribute To Tony Levin, R.I.P.

9. There's No Going Back Now (exerpt) / Mujician / THERE'S NO GOING BACK NOW (Cuneiform)


But at least the show was done with love.

Saturday, March 5, 2011

2-7-10 Playlist

Groundhogs need great sounds for the long winter.

1. Ando / Benoit Delbecq Trio / THE SIXTH JUMP (Songlines)
2. Between Shadow and Space / Michael Dessen Trio / BETWEEN SHADOWS AND SPACE (Clean Feed)
3. A Drunk Monk / Eric Hofbauer and the Infrared Band / MYTH UNDERSTANDING (Creative Nation)

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4. Questions / Tomas Fujiwara and the Hookup / ACTIONSPEAK (482 Music)
5. Freak Seen / Crepuscule Trio / UNVEIL (Circumvention)
6. Gray Stones/Shards Of Sky / Rich Halley Quartet / LIVE AT THE PENOFIN JAZZ FESTIVAL (Pine Eagle0
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7. Dauwhe / John Carter / DAUWHE (Black Saint)
8. Torus III / Ken Vandermark and Kent Kessler / COLLECTED FICTION (Okkadisk)
9. Mister Barista / Fredrik Nordstrom / LIVE IN COIMBRA (Clean Feed)
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10. Methone / David S. Ware / SATURNIAN (Aum Fidelity)
11. Red Cage / The Engines / WIRE AND BRASS (Okkadisk)

Thanks for listening. More next week.

Saturday, February 5, 2011

1-31-11 Playlist

Stop snowing!!! I mean it!!!

1. Peal, Repeal / Dan Tepfer Trio / FIBE PEDALS DEEP (Sunnyside)
2. AM / Michael Bisio Quartet / AM (CIMP)
3. Post-Modern Pharoahs / Rudresh Mahanthappa & Steve Lehman / DUAL IDENTITY (Clean Feed)
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4. Chan Chan / Billy Bang / PRAYER FOR PEACE (TUM)
5. Basenji / Alexander Hawkins, Domenic Lash, Paul May & Ales Ward / BARKINGSIDE (Emanem)
6. The Daily Dance / Tom Varner / HEAVEN AND HELL (Omnitone)
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7. Promises Kept / Sonny Sharrock / ASK THE AGES (Axiom)

8. Tobiko / Food / QUIET INLET (ECM)
9. Planet Earth / Mike Reed's People Places And Things / PROLIFERATION (482 Music)
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10. Newts In Space / Go Go Fightmaster / GO GO FIGHTMASTER (Pax Recordings)
11. Lick My Decals Off, Baby / Lisa Mezzcappa's Bait & Switch / WHAT IS KNOWN (Clean Feed)
12. The Disappointment Of Parsley/ The Rempis Percussion Quartet / THE DIAPPOINTMENT OF PARSLEY (NotTwo)

Keep shovelling!

1-24-11 Playlist

A loooong wingter....

1. Blues For Piet / Misha Mengelberg / SENNE SING SONG (Tzadik)
2. Nothing's Open / Bridge 61 / JOURNAL (Atavistic)
3. Root And Branch / Ben Goldberg / GO HOME (BAG Productions)
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4. Dance Of The Mannekin / Billy Bang / PRAYER FOR PEACE (TUM)
5. Mission Rocker / The Flatlands Collective / MAATJES (Clean Feed)

6. Black Beard / Jeff Davis / WE SLEEP OUTSIDE (Loyal Label)
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7. Bannar / Charles Brackeen / WORSHIPPERS COME NIGH (Silkheart)
8. Sevens First Edition / Taylor Ho Bynum, John Hebert & Gerald Cleaver / BOOK OF THREE (Rogue Art)
9. Ninth Ward Trotsky / Jeff Albert Quartet/ SIMILAT IN THE OPPOSITE WAY (Fora Sound)
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10. Along Came Joe / Eddie Prevost w/ Alan Wilkinson & Joe Williamson / ALONG CAME JOE (Matchless)

Until next week....

1-17-11 Playlist

1. Black And Tan Fantasy / Vijay Iyer / SOLO (ACT)
2. Motion And Thought / Ellery Eskelin & Gerry Hemingway / INBETWEEN SPACES (Auricle)
3. Consolation Cake / John Tchicai, Charlie Kohlhase & Garrison Fewell / GOOD NIGHT SONGS (Boxholder)
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4. Stolen Time / Patrick Battstone & Richard Poole / THROUGH AN OPEN DOOR (self-release)
5. Composition 244 / Anthony Braxton / FOUR COMPOSITION (GTM) 2000 (Delmark)

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6. Strange Fruit / Billie Holiday / THE COMMODORE STORY (Commodore)
7. In The Upper Room / Mahalia Jackson / GOSPELS, SPIRITUALS & HYMNS (Columbia Legacy)
8. The Freedom Suite Pt. 1 / David S. Ware Quartet / THE FREEDOM SUITE (Aum Fidelity)
9. The Freedom Suite Pt. 2 / David S. Ware Quartet / THE FREEDOM SUITE (Aum Fidelity)
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10. Spontaneous Flowers / William Parkers"s Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra / SPONTANEOUS (Splasc(h))

Keep warm.

Saturday, January 22, 2011

1-10-11 Playlist

Onward into 2011.

1. Chipped Chopsticks / David Haney/ CONSPIRACY A GO GO (CIMP)
2. Sun (Hedgehog) / Szilard Mezeii Trio / THE TREMBLING OF THE PUPPY (Gyot)
3. The Elliptical Blues / Jeb Bishop Trio / 2009 (Better Animal Recordings)
4. Mr. MC / Julian Arguelles / GROUND RUSH (Clean Feed)
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5. Give Me The Eleven / Daniel Humair / LIBERTE SURVEILLE (Sketch)
6. Flexology / Aardvark Jazz Orchestra / TRUMPET MADNESS (Leo)

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7. Free Huey / Clifford Thornton / FREEDOM AND UNITY (Atavistic Unheard Music)
8. Shape / Daniel Levin / FUHUFFAH (Clean Feed)
9. Hati / Ernest Dawkins' New Horizons Ensemble / MEAN AMEEN (Delmark)
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10. Primate / Dennis Gonzalez / NO PHOTOGRAPH AVAILABLE (Clean Feed)
11. Velvet Fire / Douglas R. Ewart & Inventions / VELVET FIRE (Arawark)

1-3-11 Playlist

...and a happy new year.

1. The Forking Paths / Copperhead Trio / LABYRINTHS (Ayler)
2. Untitled (CD 4, Track 2) / Joe McPhee, Fred Lonberg-Holm & Michael Zerang / 3 NIGHT IN OSLO (Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet + 1) (Smalltown Superjazz)
3. Where The Two Worlds Touch / Myra Melford's The Tent / WHERE THE TWO WORLDS TOUCH (Arabesque)
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4. Les Puits Noir / Michael Attias / TWINES OF COLESION (Clean Feed)
5. Zychron / Faruq Z. Bey & the Northwoods Improvisers / AUZAR (Entropy Stereo)

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6. Amoeba's Dance / Herbie Nichols / THE COMPLETE BLUE NOTE RECORDINGS OF HERBIE NICHOLS (Mosaic)
7. Karma Kangi / The Herbie Nichols Project / STRANGE CITY (Palmetto)
8. Twelve Bars / Steve Lacy & Roswell Rudd / EARLY AND LATE (Cuneiform)
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9. Dog Days / Ken Filiano / DREAMS FROM A CLOWN CAR (Clean Feed)
10. The Mad Yak / The Rent / MUSIQUE DE STEVE LACY (Ambiances Magnetiques)
11. Phoenix / Lucas Niggli's Big Zoom / BIG BALL (Intakt)

And stay tuned....

12-27-10 Playlist--The Cure for Post-Holiday Letdown

Hope you had a happy winter solstice.

1. All I Heard Was Nothing / Dan Tepfer Trio / FIVE PETALS DEEP (Sunnyside)
2. Bag's Mood / Michel Edelin Trio / KUNTU (Rogue Art)

3. Forest Cover / Jason Robinson/ FINGERPRINT (Circumvention)
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4. This Imbalance And Its Consequences / Jean-Marc Folz & Bruno Chevillon / CETTE OPACITE (Clean Feed)
5. Music For Clocks / Free Fall / THE POINT IN A LINE (Smalltown Superjazz)
6. In Cycles / Aram Shelton's Fast Citizens / TWO CITIES (Delmark)
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A set for some of the artists who left us this year...
7. You Won't Forget Me / Abby Lincoln & Hank Jones / WHEN THERE IS LOVE (Verve)
8. Iditus / Marion Brown / JUBA-LEE (Fontana)
9. Black Woman / Fred Anderson & Hamid Drake / BACK TOGETHER AGAIN (Thrill Jockey)
10. Ashtray Heart / Captain Beefheart / THE DUST BLOWS FORWARD (Rhino)
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For Billy Ruane...
11. The Evening Of The Blue Men Pt. 3 / Jemeel Moondoc & Muntu / MUNTU RECORDINGS (NoBusiness)
12. I Plan To Stay A Believer / William Parker / I PLAN TO STAY A BELIEVER: THE INSIDE SONGS OF CURTIS MAYFIELD (Aum Fidelity)

Saturday, January 1, 2011

12-20-10 Playlist--Winter Solstice Show

Bring back the sun...

1. Race Face / Bobo Stenson Trio / GOODBYE (ECM)
2. Overtones Of China / Jason Adasiewicz / SUN ROOMS (Delmark)
3. Airtight / Steve Swell / PLANET DREAM (Clean Feed)
4. Totally Opaque / Mary Halvorson / DRAGON'S HEAD (Firehouse 12)
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5. Sho Yo Right / Indigo Trio / ANAYA (Rogue Art)
6. Goodbye, Sir / The Convergence Quartet / LIVE IN OXFORD (FMR)
7. Up From Under / Larry Ochs Sax And Drumming Core / UP FROM UNDER, OUT TRIOS VOL. 5(Atavistic)
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8. Is it Eternal / Sun Ra / COLLEGE TOUR BOL. 1 THE COMPLETE NOTHING IS (ESPDisk)
9. State Street / Sun Ra / ibid.
10. The Exotic Forest #2 / Sun Ra / ibid.
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11. Environmental Stud / Ingrid Laubrock/ SLEEPTHIEF (Intakt)
12. Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man / Captain Beefheart / THE DUST BLOWS IN (Rhino)

13. When I see Mommy I Feel Like A Mummy / Fast 'n' Bulbous / PORK CHOP BLUE AROUND THE RIND: THE CAPTAIN BEEFHEART PROJECT (Cuneiform)
14. Chipmunk Christmas / John Scofield / YULE STRUTTIN' (Blue Note)

Farewell, Captain. My head is my only home when it rains.

12-13-10 Playlist

Only twelve more listening days to Xmas...

1. Teetal Song / Dan Weiss / TIMSHEL (Sunnyside)
2. Transluscence / Jason Robinson & Anthony Davis / CERULEAN LANDSCAPE (Clean Feed)
3. The Hunt / Tomas Fujiwara & the Hook Up / ACTIONSPEAK (482 Music)
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4. Beaucoup Kookoo / Either/Orchestra / MOOD MUSIC FOR TIME TRAVELERS (Accurate)
5. Abstinence / John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble / A BLESSING (Omnitone)
6. Tuinek / ICP Orchestra / AAN(ICP)

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7. Thoughts Under A Dark Blue Light / Sun Ra / THE GREAT LOST SUN RA ALBUMS (Evidence)
8. Travels Pts. 3 & 4 / Positive Catastrophe / GARABATOS (Cuneiform)
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9. Let It Drop / Louis Sclavis, Craig Taborn & Tom Rainey / EL DORADO TRIO (Clean Feed)
10. Patterns On Faces / Joe Moris / CAMERA (ESPDisk)