Sound Principles

10-28-11 Playlist

2012-02-12T13:47:00.000-08:00

...and then we listened to...

1. Maria Kannegaard / Camel Walk / CAMEL WALK (Jazzland)
2. Matt Bauder / Cleopatra's Mood / DAY IN PICTURES (Clean Feed)
3. Geof Bradfield / John Gilmore / RULE OF THREE (Liberated Zone)
4. Lina Allemano / Jargon / JARGON (Lumo)

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5. Jason Adasiewicz / The Volunteer / SPACER (Delmark)
6. Bizingas / Money Market / BIZINGAS (NCM East)
7. Jason Roebke / Any American / RAPID CROCHE (482 Music)
8. Roy Campbell / The Opening /IT'S KRUNCH TIME (Thirsty Ear)
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9. John Carter & Bobby Bradford / Sticks And Stones (prev. unreleased) / MOSAIC SELECT: JOHN CARTER & BOBBY BRADFORD (Mosaic)
10. Jen Shyu & Mark Dresser / Floods, Flames, Blades / SYNASTRY (Pi Recordings)

11. Joe Morris / King Cobra / BEAUTIFUL EXISTENCE (Clean Feed)
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12. Calling Signals / Untitled (track 1) / LIVE IN THE UK (FMR)

10-17-11 Playlist

2012-01-18T11:36:00.000-08:00

1. Pandelis Karayorgis Trio / Winmooth / CARAMELUIA (Ayler)
2. Samuel Blaser / Lamento dells Ninfa / CONSORT IN MOTION (Kind Of Blue)
3. Tony Malaby / Floating Head / NOVELA (Clean Feed)
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4. Matthew Shipp / Nu Bop / NU BOP LIVE (Rai Trade)
5. Trespass Trio / "...was there to illuminate the night sky," / ...WAS THERE TO ILLUMINATE THE NIGHT SKY (Clean Feed)

6. Jeff Chan / Waiting / IN CHICAGO (Asian Improv)
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7. Thelonious Monk / Misterioso / THE COMPLETE RIVERSIDE RECORDINGS (Riverside)
8. Trio 3 / Medea / TIME BEING (Intakt)

9. Vandermark 5 / Outside Ticket (For John Gilmore) / ELEMENTS OF STYLE...EXERCISES IN SURPRISE (Atavistic)
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10. Steve Swell / Journey To Omphalos / NEWS FROM THE MYSTIC ORACLE (Not Two)

Thanks for listening.

10-10-11 Playlist

2011-12-13T13:41:00.000-08:00

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)

10-3-11 Playlist

2011-12-07T17:14:00.001-08:00

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)

9-26-11 Playlist

2011-12-06T12:33:00.001-08:00

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)

9-19-11 Playlist

2011-12-03T15:21:00.001-08:00

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)

9-12-11 Playlist

2011-12-01T12:46:00.000-08:00

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)

8-29-11 Playlist

2011-11-30T15:06:00.000-08:00

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)

8-22-11 Playlist

2011-10-16T14:57:00.000-07:00

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.

8-15-11 Playlist

2011-10-15T12:53:00.000-07:00

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.

8/8/11 Playlist

2011-08-14T12:35:00.000-07:00

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)

8/1/11 Playlist

2011-08-13T12:35:00.000-07:00

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)

7/25/11 Playlist--With Charlie Kohlhase

2011-08-11T12:08:00.000-07:00

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

7/18/11 Playlist

2011-08-06T12:24:00.000-07:00

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

7-11-11 Playlist

2011-08-05T07:26:00.000-07:00

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.

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

2011-08-04T09:44:00.000-07:00

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!

6/27/11 Playlist

2011-08-03T09:30:00.000-07:00

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.

6/20/11 Playlist

2011-07-21T15:03:00.000-07:00

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

2011-07-21T12:11:00.000-07:00

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

2011-07-21T09:04:00.000-07:00

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!

5-30-11 Playlist

2011-06-24T08:07:00.000-07:00

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...

5-23-11 Playlist

2011-06-21T09:29:00.000-07:00

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)

5-16-11 Playlist

2011-06-18T12:58:00.000-07:00

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.

5-9-11 Playlist

2011-06-04T12:24:00.000-07:00

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.

5-2-11 Playlist

2011-05-29T15:41:00.000-07:00

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.

4-25-11 Playlist

2011-05-27T07:00:00.000-07:00

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.

4-18-11 Playlist

2011-04-23T11:54:00.000-07:00

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

2011-04-23T11:36:00.000-07:00

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...

4-4-11 Playlist

2011-04-15T13:00:00.000-07:00

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

2011-04-15T12:43:00.000-07:00

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.

3-21-11 Playlist

2011-04-02T13:43:00.000-07:00

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

2011-04-02T13:21:00.000-07:00

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...

3-7-11 Playlist

2011-03-27T13:21:00.000-07:00

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

2011-03-27T13:01:00.000-07:00

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.

2-21-11 Playlist

2011-03-06T12:06:00.000-08:00

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

2011-03-06T07:58:00.000-08:00

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.

2-7-10 Playlist

2011-03-05T18:16:00.000-08:00

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.

1-31-11 Playlist

2011-02-05T11:54:00.000-08:00

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

2011-02-05T11:34:00.000-08:00

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

2011-02-05T11:18:00.000-08:00

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.

1-10-11 Playlist

2011-01-22T14:30:00.000-08:00

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

2011-01-22T08:00:00.000-08:00

...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

2011-01-22T07:34:00.000-08:00

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)

12-20-10 Playlist--Winter Solstice Show

2011-01-01T12:43:00.000-08:00

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

2011-01-01T12:24:00.000-08:00

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)

12-6-10 Playlist

2010-12-28T12:36:00.000-08:00

And into December....

1. Arcades / Havard Wiik Trio / THE ARCADES PROJECT (Jazzland)
2. Truth In the Abstract Blues / Joe McPhee & Ingebrigt Haken-Flaten / BLUE CHICAGO (NotTwo)
3. In The Center Of The Earth, Looking For Mike / Adam Lane's Full Throttle Orchestra / NEW MAGICAL KINGDOM (Clean Feed)
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4. Kinda Bear / Ab Baars Quartet / KINDA DUKE (Wig)

5. 47th Street Ghost / David Boykin Expanse / LIVE AT THE VELVET LOUNGE (Sonic Healing)
6. The Five Faces / Matt Lavelle Quartet / HANDLING THE MOMENT (CIMP)
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7. Somewhere There / Sun Ra / OUTER SPACEWAYS (Freedom)
8. One / Lawnmower / WEST (Clean Feed)
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9. Cajun Christmas / John Hebert / BYZANTINE MONKEY (Firehouse 12)
10. Mish Mumkin / The Engines / THE ENGINES (Okkadisk)
11. Modul 47 / Nik Bartsch's Ronin / LLYRIS (ECM)

11-29-10 Playlist

2010-12-28T12:15:00.000-08:00

Let the Holiday madness begin. But not the "holiday" music.

1. Washed Away / Sophian Domancich Trio/ WASHED AWAY-LIVE AT THE SUNSIDE (Marge)
2. Earthbound / Kalaparush Maurice McIntyre Quartet / EXTREMES (CIMP)
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3. Rings / Aram Shelton Quartet / THESE TIMES (Singlespeed)
4. Bailout Blues / Eric Hofbauer / AMERICAN FEAR (Creative Nation)
5. Yinothanot / Okkyung Lee, Peter Evans & Steve Beresford / CHECK FOR MONSTERS (Emanem)
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6. Space Fling / Sun Ra / THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SUN (Universe)
7. Aperture (For Walker Evans) / Vandermark 5 / A DISCONTINUOUS LINE (Atavistic)

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8. Composition 345 (exerpt) / Anthony Braxton / SEXTET (VICTORIAVILLE) 2005

Keep listening.

11-22-10 Playlist

2010-12-04T12:53:00.000-08:00

Pre-Thankgiving show. No turkeys, promise.

1. Gazzelloni / Pandelis Karayorgis / WE WILL MAKE A HOME FOR YOU (Clean Feed)
2. The Story Of A Word / Jim Hobbs, Joe Morris and Luther Gray / THE STORY OF MANKIND (NotTwo)
3. #32 Busonius / Klang / TEA MUSIC (Allos Documents)

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4. Damasa / Michael Bates' Outside Sources / LIVE IN NEW YORK (Greenleaf)
5. Three Bag Mary / Tom Rainey Trio / POOL SCHOOL (Clean Feed)
6. Africa / Magnus Broo / PAINBODY (Moserobie_
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7. Celestial Road / Sun Ra / STRANGE CELESTIAL ROAD (Rounder)
8. Thryllkyll On The Schyllkylll/Psychopath On The Bikepath / Charlie Kohlhase's Explorers Club / ADVENTURE (Boxholder)
9. Song For My Sister / Roscoe Mitchell and the Note Factory / SONG FOR MY SISTER (Pi)
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10. One In Mind / Bobby Zankel / MANY IN BODY, ONE IN MIND (CIMP)
11. Bindu #1 For Ed Blackwell / Hamid Drake and Bindu / BINDU (Rogue Art)

11-15-10 Playlist--Post-Fundraising Edition

2010-12-04T12:28:00.000-08:00

More music, no pleading.

1. Valsa / John Hebert Trio / SPIRITUAL LOVER (Clean Feed)
2. Sans Titre / Samuel Blaser Quartet / 7TH HEAVEN (Between The Lines)
3. Phoenica And Cordelia / Carl Maguire / SIDED SILVER SOLID (Firehouse 12)
4. Falash Shimmy / Kayla Quintet / END TIMES (Jazzwerkstatt)
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5. Scene 1 / Evan Parker, Barry Guy and Paul Lytton w/Peter Evans / SCENES FROM THE HOUSE OF MUSIC (Clean Feed)
6. Betterboon / Ingrid Laubrock / ANTI-HOUSE (Intakt)

7. Song For Tomorrow / Marty Ehrlich / THINGS HAVE GOT TO CHANGE (Clean Feed)
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8. There Are Other Worlds (They Have Not Told You Of) / Sun Ra / LANQUIDITY (Evidence)
9. Electricity / Luis Lopes Humanization 4tet / DEHUMANIZATION BLUES (Ayler)
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10. The Aquarist / Lisa Mezzacappa's Bait And Switch / WHAT IS KNOWN (Clean Feed)
11. No Color Of Its Own / Stephen Gauci's Stockholm Conference / LIVE AT GLENN MILLER CAFE (Ayler)

11-8-10 Playlist--Fundraising Edition

2010-11-21T13:19:00.000-08:00

Will play free jazz for $$$$$.

1. brainFire And bugLight / Trio M / BIG PICTURE (Cryotogramophone)
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2. It Never Moved / Henry Threadgill Zooid / THIS BRINGS US TO, VOL. 2 (Pi)
3. Renegades / Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Strings Ensemble / RENEGADES (Delmark)
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4. Prelude (Unidentified Spanish Bebop Selection No. 1 / Alexander Hawkins Ensemble / NO NOW IS SO (FMR)
5. Code View / Cosmologic \ EYES IN THE BACK OF MY HEAD (Cuneiform)
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6. Crack In Sky / Mary Halvorson Quintet / SATURN SINGS (Firehouse 12)

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7. Plutoian Nights / Sun Ra / ANGELS AND DEMONS AT PLAY/THE NUBIANS OF PLUTONIA (Evidence)
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8. Pidgin / Lucas Niggli's Big Zoom / CELEBRATING DIVERSITY (Intakt)
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9. Ready Enough / Keefe Jackson's Fast Citizens / READY ENOUGH (Delamark)
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10. Petit Oiseau / William Parker / PETIT OISEAU

Two videos for being so good. Thanks for your support.

11-1-10 Playlist

2010-11-20T12:27:00.000-08:00

Winter's a-coming, the sun is getting low...

1. Something 'Bout Camels / Anat Fort Trio / AND IF (ECM)
2. Bessie's Blues / Khan Jamal & Dylan Taylor / FIRE & WATER (CIMP)
3. Waitin' / Gerry Hemingway Quartet / THE WHIMBLER (Clean Feed)
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4. Tides Of Consciousness Fading / Jason Robinson / THE TWO FACES OF JANUS (Cuneiform)
5. Tezeleaye Antchi Lidj / Mike Reed;s Loose Assembly / THE SPEED OF CHANGE (482 Music)
6. Moon Traps In Seven Rings / Mary Halvorson Quintet / SATURN SINGS (Firehouse 12)
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7. Rapids / Alan Shorter / ORGASM (Verve)
8. These Times / Aram Shelton / THESE TIMES (Singlespeed)

9. Cyklone Song / Firehouse / LIVE AT GLENN MILLER CAFE (Ayler)
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10. Floating / Lotte Anker, Craig Taborn & Gerald Cleaver / FLOATING ISLANDS (Ilk)
11. Ritual/ ibid.

Next week......FUNDRAISING!!

10-25-10 Playlist

2010-11-03T13:24:00.000-07:00

No versions of "Autumn Leaves" on this show. Instead....

1. Just Another Trip / Correction / CORRECTION (Ayler)
2. Thoughts And Memories / Peter Van Huffel & Sophie Tassignon / HUFFLIGNON (Clean Feed)
3. Agog / Bruno Raberg / LIFELINES (Orbis)
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4. Leak Over Six Five / Mary Halvorson Quintet / SATURN SINGS (Firehouse 12)
5. You Can't / Jason Adasiewicz / SUN ROOMS (Delmark)
6. Chroma / Dave Douglas / SPARK OF BEING (Greenleaf)
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7. Inside The Box / Michael Formanek / THE RUB AND SPARE CHANGE (ECM)
8. Bardo/ David S. Ware / ONCEPT (Aum Fidelity)
9. Looking Up / Liberty Ellman / OPHIUCHUS BUTTERFLY (Pi)

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10. West India / Marion Brown/ THREE FOR SHEPP (Impulse)
11. Blood Eagle / Julian Arguelles / GROUND RUSH (Clean Feed)
12. Dew Point / George Schuller / LIKE BEFORE, SOMEWHAT AFTER (Playscape)
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13. Babel 1 / Pierre Favre & Samuel Blaser / VOL A VOILE (Intakt)
14. The Epic / Kris Davis / LIFESPAN (Fresh Sound)

And rest in peace, Marion Brown.

10-18-10 Playlist

2010-10-31T09:33:00.000-07:00

Octoberfest continues...

1. Quest / Mario Pavone / TRIO ARC (Playscape)
2. Spin With the EARth / Adam Lane Quartet / BUFFALO (Cadence)
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3. Last Seen Headed II / Joelle Leandre, Francois Houle & Raymond Strid / LAST SEEN HEADED (Ayler)
4. Stake / Jason Adasiewicz / SUN ROOMS (Delmark)
5. Chanting / Erik Friedlander / PRWL (Crytogramophone)
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6. Monk's Dream / Steve Lacy & Roswell Rudd / SCHOOL DAYS (Hat Art)
7. Diasporadiation / David Boykin / DIASPORADIATION (Dreamtime)

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8. Inserted Space / Milford Graves & John Zorn / MILFORD GRAVES-JOHN ZORN (Tzadik)
9. Psirouk / Grix / SWEET, SOUR, SHARP & SOFT (Jazzwerkstaff)
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10. The New York Suite : Part 3-Improvisors / Vandermark 5 / BEAT READER (Atavistic)

More next week.

10-11-10 Columbus Day Playlist

2010-10-23T08:41:00.000-07:00

Hope you had a nice holiday weekend, however you feel about Columbus.

1. Small Beggar / Eric Zinman / ENSEMBLE (Cadence Jazz Records)
2. Pablo / Tomas Ulrich's Cargo Cult / TOMAS ULRICH'S CARGO CULT (CIMP)
3. Frosted / Aram Shelton / ARRIVE-LIVE AT ELASTIC (Singlespeed)
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4. Book of Krittika / David S. Ware / ONCEPT (Aum Fidelity)
5. Circus / Rudresh Mahanthappa & Steve Lehman / DUAL IDENTITY (Clean Feed)
6. Imaginary Solutions / Joe Morris / TODAY ON EARTH (Aum Fidelity)
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7. Nice Work If You Can Get It (mst. tk.)/ Thelonious Monk / GENIUS OF MODERN MUSIC VOL. 1 (Blue Note)
8. Criss Cross (mst. tk.)/ Thelonious Monk / GENIUS OF MODERN MUSIC VOL. 2 (Blue Note)
9. Bye-Ya / Thelonious Monk w/John Coltrane /THELONIOUS MONK QUARTET W/JOHN COLTRANE AT CARNEGIE HALL (Blue Note)

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10. East Kent Goldings / Evan Parker & Ingebrigt Flater-Haken / THE BREWERY TAP (Smalltown Superjazz0
11. Silence Becomes A Roar / Jason Robinson / FINGERPRINT (Circumvention)
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12. 4th Avenue, Adam's Block / Rodrigo Amado / SEARCHING FOR ADAM (Not Two)

More to come.

10/4/10 Playlist

2010-10-22T09:55:00.000-07:00

The begining of Sound Principles Octoberfest. The sounds are the same--it's just a little cooler outside, and darker a little earlier. And you're on your own for the beer. But the music is great!

1. Play to Live / Jason Moran / TEN (Blue Note)
2. Stomping / Magnus Broo and Paal Nilssen-Love / GAME (PNL Records)
3. Turn It Up / Assif Tsahar, Cooper-Moore, & Chad Taylor / DIGITAL PRIMITIVES (Hopscotch)
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4. A Widow's Last Penny / Vijay Anderson / HARDBOILED WONDERLAND (NotTwo)
5. We Are The People Who Are Darker Than Blue / William Parker / I PLAN TO STAY A BELIEVER: THE INSIDE SONGS OF CURTIS MAYFIELD (Aum Fidelity)
6. Too Sweet / The Thirteenth Assembly / (UN)SENTIMENTAL (Important Records)
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7. Blue Nile / Alice Coltrane / TRANSLINEAR LIGHT (Impulse)
8. Acuppa / Mauger / THE BEAUTIFUL ENABLER (Clean Feed)
9. Black Hawk Dance / Scott DuBois / BLACK HAWK DANCE (Sunnyside)

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10. Freedom. Disc One, Track One / Paul Rogers Freedom Orchestra / LIVE AT THE RUDERSDORF JAZZ FESTIVAL (FMR)

More next week. Thanks for listening.

9/27/10 Playlist

2010-10-16T09:09:00.000-07:00

Last week I was in Nova Scotia, Cape Breton and Prince Edward Island. No jazz in any of those places, but if you like fiddle tunes....
Thanks to Jesse Kaminsky for filling in.

1. Beginning / Frank Kimbrough Trio / PLAY (Palmetto)
2. New Rugs / Joe Fiedler Trio / THE CRAB (Clean Feed)
3. The Liar / Paul Dunmall / SOLO BAGPIPES (Duns Ltd. Editions)
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4. Something From Nothing / Stephen Gauci-Kris Davis-Michael Bisio / SKM (Clean Feed)
5. RBHK-KNNK / Fred Hess Big Band / HOLD ON (Dazzle)
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6. Quick Draw / Ingrid Laubrock / ANTI-HOUSE (Intakt)
7. Spirits Entering / FAB Trio / A NIGHT IN PARIS (Marge)
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8. India (Live) / John Coltrane / THE COMPLETE 1961 VILLAGE VANGUARD SESSIONS (Impulse)
9. Out Of This World (Live) / John Coltrane / LIVE IN SEATTLE (Impulse)
10. My Favorite Things (Live) / John Coltrane / LIVE AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD AGAIN! (Impulse)

Coltrane Lives!!!

9/13/10 Playlist

2010-10-15T07:57:00.000-07:00

The beat goes on...

1. Coming Out Of Nothing / Pandelis Karayorgis Trio / BLOOD BALLAD (Leo)
2. Think Like The Waves / Gordon Grdina, Gary Peacock & Paul Motian / THINK LIKE THE WAVES (Songlines)
3. The Rub / Rich Halley / MOUNTAINS AND PLAINS (Louie)
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4. Can't Wait To Go Om / Paul Dunmall / UNDISTRACTED (Duns Ltd. Editions)

5. Soledad / William Parker / CORN MEAL DANCE (AUM FIDELITY)
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6. Ponzi / Lisa Mezzacappa's Bait and Switch / WHAT IS KNOWN (Clean Feed)
7. Don't Ruin Me / Angles / EVERY WOMAN IS A TREE (Clean Feed)
8. Walking On Fire / Transit / QUADROLOGUES (Clean Feed)
9. Put My Finger On It / Keefe Jackson / SEEING YOU SEE (Clean Feed)

On vacation next week. Behave yourselves.

9/6/ 10 Playlist

2010-10-03T10:36:00.000-07:00

September Song(s)....

1. Broken Promise / Dave Burrell / MOMENTUM (High Two)
2. (Kalap)(Hat) / Szilard Mezei Trio / THE TREMBLING OF THE PUPPY (Gyot)
3. Anti-House / Ingrid Laubrock / ANTI-HOUSE (Intakt)
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4. Toward Fall / Stephan Crump Rosetta Trio / RECLAMATION (Sunnyside)
5. Welcome Steps / Jacob William Quartet / SECONDARY DEVATIONS (Ayler)
6. Bend / Fieldwork / DOOR (Pi)
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7. Richard's House Of Blues / Lisa Mezzacappa's Bait and Switch / WHAT IS KNOWN (Clean Feed)

8. Baobabs / The Convergence Quartet / SONG/DANCE (Clean Feed)
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9. Mount Fuji / Noah Howard / THE BLACK ARK (Bo'Wevil)
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10. Start Frame and Soft Hard (Interpolation 1) / SFQ / THIRTEEN RECTANGLES (Bruce's Fingers)
11. Rectangle 1 / SFQ / THIRTEEN RECTANGLES (Bruce's Fingers
12. Rectangle 2 / SFQ / ibid.
13. Rectangle 3 / SFQ / ibid.
14. Rectangles 4 & 5 / SFQ / ibid.
15. Rectangle 6 / SFQ / ibid.

No room for squares, but plenty of rectangle.

8/30/10

2010-10-02T14:34:00.000-07:00

On vacation last week in Oregon, visiting my daughter and son-in-law. Thanks to Charlie Kohlhase for filling in.

1. Giant (Steps) / John Law Trio / GIANT LEAVES (AUTUMN STEPS) (FMR)
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2. Calling All Portraits / Mary Halvorson-Jessica Pavone-Devin Hoff-Ches Smith / CALLING ALL PORTRAITS (Skycap)
3. Underground / Daniel Levin / DON'T GO IT ALONE (rITI)
4. Attila 02 (Dawning Ritual) / Steve Coleman and Five Elements / HARVESTING SEMBLANCES AND AFFINITIES (Pi)
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5. Crow Soul / Dennis Gonzalez' Yells At Eels with Rodrigo Amado / THE GREAT BYGDOSZCZ CONCERT (Ayler)

6. Papa's Midnight Hop / Ideal Bread / TRANSMIT (Cuneiform)
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7. Thumbs Up / Ed Blackwell Project / WHAT IT IS? (Enja)
8. Untitled (Disc 2, Track 2 / Sonore (Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet Plus 1) / 3 NIGHTS IN OSLO (Smalltown Superjazz)
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9. Shoes, Jump / Stephan Crump Rosetta Trio / RECLAMATION (Sunnyside)
10. Circus / Rudresh Mahanthappa / MOTHER TONGUE (Pi)
11. Dart Night At The Willow / Charlie Kohlhase Quintet / DART NIGHT (Accurate)

...and that's it.

8/16/10 Playlist

2010-10-01T09:14:00.000-07:00

So many playlists, so little time....

Today had an interview with trumpeter Jerry Sabatini of Sonic Explorers.

1. Dogon A.D. / Vijay Iyer Trio / HISTORICITY (ACT)
2. The Cradle / Aram Shelton / ARRIVE--LIVE AT ELASTIC (Singlespeed)
3. Nonau / Bob Magnusson-Tom DeSteno Quartet / OMENS (CIMP)
4. Let's Go Down To The River / William Parker Organ Quartet / UNCLE JOE'S SPIRIT HOUSE (Centering)
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5. Exodus / Sonic Explorers / LORE OF THE LAND (self released)
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6. Geraldo's Hideaway / Sonic Explorers / SO NEAR, SO NEAR (self- released)
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7. The Alarm Clock Is My Only Kryptonite / Charlie Kohlhase's Explorers Club / ADVENTURES (Boxholder)
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8. Mendacity / Max Roach w/ Abby Lincoln / PERCUSSION BITTER SWEET (Impulse)

9. To The Roach Pt 2 / Odean Pope / TO THE ROACH (CIMP)
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10. No More Net / Cross Border Trio / NEW DIRECTIONS (Circumvention)
11. Suburban Angst / Sean Conly / RE:ACTION (Clean Feed)

And farewell to Abby Lincoln, a true original.

8/9/10 Playlist

2010-09-03T10:12:00.000-07:00

Another playlist enters the electronic maze...

1. RFK In The Land Of Apartheid / Jason Moran / TEN (Blue Note)
2. Star Dust Splatter / Marshall Allen, Matthew Shipp and Joe Morris / NIGHT LOGIC (Rogue Art)
3. Shrouded Over With Fog / Cosmologic / STARING AT THE SUN (Circumvention)
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4. Rough Ride II / Lucas Niggli's Zoom / ROUGH RIDE (Intakt)
5. 60K / george Burt-Raymond MacDonald Septet / THE GREAT SHARK HUNT (FMR)
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6. Three On Two / Fred Anderson / BLACK HORN LONG GONE (Southport)
7. Delerium / Peter Van Huffel / SILVESTER BATTLEFIELD (Fresh Sound)

8. Kill Her / Shayna Dulberger / THE KILLME TRIO (self-released)
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9. Untitled (Disc 1, Track !, exerpt) / Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet + 1 / 3 NIGHTS IN OSLO (Smalltown Superjazz)

Net neutrality forever!!

8/2/10 Playlist

2010-09-02T15:44:00.000-07:00

I'm just a playlist, a little ol' playlist....

1. Bottled Water Princess / Eri Yamamoto / REDWOODS (Ayler)
2. Appointment With Disappointment / Stephen Gauci / WISPS OF AN UNKNOWN FACE (CIMP)
3. Coney / Tom Rainey Trio / POOL SCHOOL (Clean Feed)
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4. Ganesh Sound / David S. Ware Quartet / RENUNCIATION (Aum Fidelity)

5. 'Round and 'Round / Jeff Chan / JEFF CHAN IN CHICAGO (AsianImprov)
6. New Dirt/King to Crown Pt. 2 / Powerhouse Sound / OSLO/CHICAGO BREAKS (Atavistic)
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7. Fractals / Raphe Malik / LOOKING EAST (Boxholder)
8. Berlin 9.35 / Ullman-Swell 4 / NEWS? nO NEWS! (Jazzwerkstatt)
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9. Yellow Bass and Silver Cornet II Part 1 / Circulasione Totale Orchestra / BANDWIDTH (Rune Grammophone)
10. Yelow Bass and Silver Cornet II Part 2 / Circulasione Totale Orchestra / BANDWITH (Rune Grammophone)

...and until next time.

7/26/10 Playlist

2010-09-02T15:30:00.000-07:00

1. Jangle / Steven Lantner Trio / SAYING SO (Riti)
2. Gargoyles / James Carney Group / WAYS ABD MEANS (Songlines)
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3. Turning Around / Francois Carrier / KALA (Ayler)
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4. We Don't / Denis Charles / CAPTAIN OF THE DEEP (Eremite)
5. Buddha's Joy / William Parker Organ Quartet / UNCLE JOE'S SPIRIT HOUSE (Centering)
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6. Bend / Scott Dubois / BANSHEES (Sunnyside)

7. Chickpea / Food / VEGGIE (Rune Grammophone)
8. Let's Pretend / Josh Berman / OLD IDEA (Delmark)
9. Crinkles / Tom Rainey Trio / POOL SCHOOL (Clean Feed)

7/19/10 Playlist

2010-07-25T11:42:00.000-07:00

...we're having a heat wave, a tropical heat wave...

1. Drifting Down The Nile / Maria Kannegaard Trio / CAMEL WALK (Jazzland)
2. China / FAB Trio / A NIGHT IN PARIS (Marge)

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3. Song for Tracy The Turtle / Eric Boeren 4tet / SONG FOR TRACY THE TURTLE (Clean Feed)
4. Cancel Values / John Tchicai-Charlie Kohlhase Quintet / LIFE EVERLASTING (Nada)
5. Visitations / Nicole Mitchell's Sonic Projections / EMERALD HILLS (Rogue Art_
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6. Modal / Joe Harriott Quintet / ABSTRACT (Redial)
7. Parallel / Joe Harriott Quintet / FREE FORM (Redial)
8. Straight Lines / Ken Vandermark's Joe Harriott Project / STRAIGHT LINES (Atavistic)
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9. Type Jones Positive / Jones Jones / WE ALL FEEL THE SAME (SoLyd)
10. Dead Red / Mokuto / DRESSED LIKE A HORSE (Ninth World)

Stay cool.

7/12/10 Albert Ayler Birthday Celebration (7/13/36)

2010-07-17T12:37:00.000-07:00

An abbreviated show due to the transmitter being down. I ended up down something I was going to do as a sub on Charlie Kohlhase's Research and Development
that day.

1. Ghosts (Live in Cleveland) / Albert Ayler / HOLY GHOSTS (Revenant)
2. The Truth Is Marching In / Witches and Devils / AT THE EMPTY BOTTLE (Knitting Factory)
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3. Bells Pts. 1 and 2 / Prima Materia with Rashied Ali / BELLS (Knitting Factory)
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4. Spirits / Albert Ayler / THE COPENGAGEN TAPES (Ayler)
5. Spirits / Marc Ribot / SPIRITUAL UNITY (Pi)
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6. Omega Is The Alpha / Albert Ayler / LIVE IN GREENWICH VILLAGE (Impulse)

Hopefully, the show will be the usual two hours next week.

6/28/10 Playlist

2010-07-17T09:48:00.000-07:00

...and RIP, Fred Anderson

1. Don's Kora Song / Bobo Stenson Trio / CANTANDO (ECM)
2. Inner Conversations / Sabir Mateen Ensemble / SECRETS OF WHEN (Bleu Regard)
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3. When Space Can Hold The Liberty Of A Line / Michael Dessen Trio / LINEAL (Circumvention)
4. Slow Burn / Kris Davis, Ingrid Laubrock, & Tyshawn Sorey / PARADOXICAL FROG (Clean Feed)
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5. Overreach / Stephan Crump Rosetta Trio / RECLAMATION (Sunnyside)
6. Falling Asteriods / Central Artery Project / LIVE RECORDINGS, 2001-2003 (CNM Productions)
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7. Juke Box Jazz / Fred Anderson / MADE IN CHICAGO 2007 (Estrada Poznanske)
8. Planet E / Fred Anderson / THE MILWAUKEE TAPES VOL. 1 (Atavistic Unheard Music)
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9. Timeless / Fred Anderson / TIMELESS (Delmark)

A great life, full of great music that we shall always have. Thanks, Mr. Anderson.

7/5/10 Fourth of July Weekend

2010-07-17T09:41:00.000-07:00

No Boston Pops and certainly NO Toby Keith, but some good stuff, nonetheless.

1. Au depart, les oiseaux puis Part I / Free Unfold Trio / BALLADES (Ayler)
2. Straw Man / Josh Berman, Aram Shelton, Weasel Walter / LAST DISTRACTIONS (Singlespeed)
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3.Ritual & Rebellion / Nicole Mitchell's Sonic Projections / EMERALD HILLS (Rogue Art)
4. Pearl's Blues--Your What Hurts / The Fully Celebrated / DRUNK ON THE BLOOD OF THE HOLY ONES (Aun Fidelity)
5. Tijiuana Moods Montage / Dok Wallach / LIVE IN LISBON (Jazzwerkstatt)
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6. Potato Head Blues / Louis Armstrong / HOT FIVES & SEVENS VOL. 2 (JSP)
7. I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby, And My Baby's Crazy 'Bout Me / Louis Armstrong / SATCH PLAYS FATS (Columbia)
8. Tight Like This / Louis Armstrong / HOT FIVES & SEVENS VOL. 3 (JSP0

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9. King Fish / Fred Anderson / BACK AT THE VELVET LOUNGE (Delmark)
10. Next Convergence / The Convergence Quartet / SONG/DANCE (Clean Feed)
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11. Boogie Woogie Waltz / Nels Cline Singers / INITIATE (Cryptogramophone)

6/21/10 Playlist--Special Vision Fest Show

2010-07-16T13:26:00.000-07:00

This is the week of the famous Vision Festival in downtown Manhattan. All selections were recorded live at previous festivals

1. Vision Statement / Rob Brown and Matthew Shipp / VISIONONE (Aum Fidelity)
2. Patient Explorer--For Frank Lowe / Steve Swell's Slamming The Infinite / LIVE @ THE VISION FESTIVAL (Not Two)
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3 Braggadocio / Trio Viriditas / LIVE AT VISION FESTIVAL VI (Clean Feed)
4. Coalescence One / Whit Dickey / VISION 3 (Arts For Art)
5. Opulent Continuum / Jemeel Moondoc Jus' Grew Orchestra / LIVE AT VISION FESTIVAL 2001 (Ayler)
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6. Trying To Catch The Rabbit / Fred Anderson and Harrison Bankhead / THE GREAT VISION CONCERT (Ayler)
7. Pharoah's Revenge Pt. 1 / Roy Campbell Ensemble / THE AKHENATION SUITE (Aum Fidelity)
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8. Lights Of Lake George / William Parker / DOUBLE SUNRISE OVER NEPTUNE (Aum Fidelity)
This video is a 'different' (pre-?) Vision Festival, but it gives you the idea.

Note: Playlists can now also be found at www.track-blaster.com. Enjoy.

6/7/10 Playlist

2010-07-03T14:37:00.000-07:00

And Now we come to June...

1. Box Stop / Chad Taylor Trio / CIRCLE DOWN (482 Music)
2. As Usual / Ideal Bread / TRANSMIT (Cuneiform)
3. Rumbone / ICP Orchestra / WEER IS EEN DAG VOORBIJ (ICP)
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4. Red Hook / Samuel Blaser Quarter / PIECES OF OLD SKY (Clean Feed)
5. Hot For Teacher / Eric Hofbauer/ AMERICAN FEAR (CNM Productions)
6. Electrash / The Electrics / LIVE AT GLENN MILLER CAFE (Ayler)
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7. Velvet Lounge Bounce / Indigo Trio / LIVE IN MONTREAL (Greenleaf)
8. Paterna Terra / Claudia Quintet / ROYAL TOAST (Cuneiform)

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9. Blue Notes For Mogezi-Third Movement* / The Blue Notes / COLLECTION (Ogun)

*Mogezi Feza was a South African trumpeter who left that country in the 60s with Chris McGregor and the rest of the Blue Notes because of the apartheid system. He was a member of the Brotherhood of Breath. He died much too young of mis-diagnosed pneumonia. The surviving Blue Notes recorded this tribute to him.

On vacation next week. See you in two!

5/31/10 Playlist

2010-06-05T08:00:00.000-07:00

Memorial Day weekend show.

1. Flight of the Blue Jay / Marilyn Crispell Trio / STORYTELLER (ECM)
2. Karamag / Claudia Quintet with Gary Versace / ROYAL TOAST (Cuneiform)
3. Reminiscing On The Fourth Quartet of Bela Bartok / Chris Dahlgren and Lexicon / MYSTIC MAZE (Jazzwerkstatt)
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4. I Thought You Had It / Tm Berne Hard Cell / FEIGN (Screwgun)
5. Ten Thousand Things / Warren Smith / RACE CARDS (Freedom Art)
6. Convergence / The Convergence Quartet / LIVE IN OXFORD (FMR)
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7. Astigmatic / Krzysztof Komeda / ASTIGMATIC (Power Brothers)
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8. EFF-Time / Keefe Jackson Quartet / SEEING YOU SEE (Clean Feed)
9. Blind Pig / John Hebert / BYZANTINE MONKEY (Firehouse 12)
10. Togetherness / Hamid Drake and Bindu / REGGAEOLOGY (Rogue Art)
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11. Oikesulku / Raoul Bjorkenheim, Ingebrigt Haken-Flaten and Paal Nilssen-Love / SCORCH TRIO (Rune Grammofone)

That's It for now

5/24/10 Playlists

2010-06-05T07:38:00.000-07:00

Up-to-date music, late playlists.

1. Can Ghosts Neigh / Trio Braam DeJoode Vatcher/ CHANGE THIS SONG (BBB)
2, The Road to El Paso / Kris Tiner and Mike Baggetta / THERE, JUST AS YOU LOOK FOR IT (pfmentum)
3. The international Wingo Conspiracy / CK5 / CK5 LIVE! (Creative Nation)
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4. Mr Hubbard's Shock Installation / Cosmologic / SYNTAXIS (Circumvention)
5. Nothing But Love / Ahmed Abdulah's Ebonic Tones / TARA'S SONG (Tum)
6. Turns to Everything / Keefe Jackson Quartet / SEEING YOU SEE (Clean Feed)
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7. Sheleke / Dudu Pukwana / FLUTE MUSIC (Caroline)
8. Vandama Trayee / Rudresh Mahanthappa's Indo-Pak Coalition / APTI (Innova)

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9. Bright Light / Bright Light Group (Jeff Platz) / s/t (Skycap)
10. Some Kind Of Prayer / Marty Ehrlich Rites Quarter / THINGS HAVE GOT TO CHANGE (Clean Feed)
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11. Lighthousekeeping / Michael Bates Outside Sources / CLOCKWISE (Greenleaf)
12. In Step / Szilard Mezei's International Ensemble / DRAUGHT (Leo)

And so it goes....

5/17/10 Playlist

2010-05-23T12:36:00.000-07:00

The beat goes on.

1. Quiet Space / Alberto Pinton Clear Now / COMMON INTENT (Moserobie)
2. Intermission / Allison Miller / BOOMTICBOOM (Foxhaven)
3. The Big Return / Paul Dunmall, Phillip Gibbs and Paul Rogers / THE BIG RETURN (Duns Limited Editions)
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4. 2-3-4-5 / Michel Edelin Trio / KUNTA (Rogue Art)
5. Momentary Lapse / Mary Halvorson Trio / DRAGON'S HEAD (Firehouse 12)
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6. DizBirdMonkBudMax / Muhal Richard Abrams / FAMILY TALK (Black Saint)
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7. Kleesh / Ken Filiano and Steve Adams / THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS (Clean Feed)
8. Ajo Cuomo / Angelica Sanchez / MIRROR ME (Omnitone)
9. Infant Happiness / Zero Point / PLAYS ALBERT AYLER (Ayler)
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10. Giant Steps / Charles Gayle Trio / LIVE AT GLENN MILLER CAFE (Ayler)
11. Night Logic / Marshall Allen, Matthew Shipp and Joe Morris / NIGHT LOGIC (Rogue Art)

Hope you enjoyed the show.

5/10/10 Playlist

2010-05-16T07:52:00.000-07:00

Still more music. Every week On WMBR, Mondays 6-8 PM.

1. The Year Of The Rat / Erik Lindeborg Trio / LIVE AT FASCHING (Stockholm Jazz)
2. Fiza / Ravish Momin's Trio Tarana / MIREN (A LONGING) (Clean Feed)

3. Ancestors / Mario Pavone Double Tenor Quintet / ANCESTORS (Playscape)
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4. Myrrh / Tasuya Nakatani-Forbes Graham / ESSCENCES (Blaq Lghtn)
5. In One Heart (For Jeanne Lee) / Positive Knowledge / LIVE IN NEW YORK (Edgetone)
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6. Broadway Blues / Hal Russell's Chemical Feast / ELIXIR (Atavistic)
7. Wooden Horse / Tobias Delius / APA INI (Data)
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8. Sahawara / TAO / TOMORROW NIGHT'S GIG (Leo)
9. No Strauss / New Generation Quartet / DANCES (Ayler)
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10. For Percy Heath Pt. 4 / William Parker's Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra / FOR PERCY HEATH (Victo)

Stay tuned.

5/3/10 Playlist

2010-05-16T07:27:00.000-07:00

I've fallen a little behind in posting these. Will try to do better.

1. Lima / Brad Shepik / HUMAN ACTIVITY SUITE (Songlines)
2. Oof / Ethnic Heritage Ensemble / MAMA'S HOUSE--LIVE (Katalyst)
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3. R&D #2 / David Wertman-Charlie Kohlhase-Lou Grassi / NORTHCOUNTRY PIE (CIMP)
4. Cheyenne / Allison Miller / BOOMTICBOOM (Foxhaven0
5. Echoes / Steve Lehman Octet / TRAVAIL TRANSFORMATION AND FLOW (Pi)
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6. Nothing/New Thing / Rodrigo Amado-Carlos Xingaro-Ken Filiano / THE SPACE BETWEEN (Clean Feed)
7. Intonations For Being / Adam Lane Quartet / FO(U)R BEING(S) (CIMP)
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8. Exchange Pt. 2 / Rashied Ali and Frank Lowe / DUO EXCHANGE (Knitting Factory)
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9. A Bridge Thrown Over / Eddie Prevost Trio / TTHE BLACKBIRD'S WHISTLE (Matchless)
10. Nile River / Satoko Fujii Ma-Do / DESERT SHIP (NotTwo)

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11-!3. Facet One, Facet Two, Facets Three/Four / Amir ElSaffar and Hafiz Modirzadeh / RADIF SUITE (Pi)

More to come. Stay tuned

4/26/10 Playlist

2010-04-30T09:50:00.000-07:00

More music, more music....

1. Metamorphing / Plunge with Bobo Stenson / ORIGO (Kopasetic)
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2. Chasing The Ghost / Darius Jones Trio / MAN'ISH BOY (Aum Fidelity)
3. Round Two / Jeb Bishop-Harris Eisenstadt-Jason Roebke / TIEBREAKER (NotTwo)

4. Silver Sun / Joe Morris / COLORFIELD (ESP-Disk)
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5. Rios Negroes / Lester Bowie / THE GREAT PRENTENDER (ECM)
6. Red Door / Vaslav Zimpel-Tim Daisey / FOUR WALLS (Alchemia)
7. Constantinople / Russ Johnson / SAVE BIG (Omnitone)
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8. Pep / Tricolor/ MIRTH + FECKLESS (Atavistic)
9. Trouble Ticket / Rova and the Nels Cline Singers / THE CELESTIAL SEPTET (New World)
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10. Ghosts and Spirits / Atomic-School Days / DISTILL (Okkadisk)

Thanks for listening.

4/19/10 Playlist

2010-04-24T11:50:00.000-07:00

There is a volcanic cloud over Europe--but the music plays on.

1. Canopy / Pandelis Karayorgis Trio / CARAMELUIA (Ayler)
2. Western Promenade / Aram Shelton's Fast Citizens / TWO CITIES (Delmark)
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3. Terminal / Tomasz Stanko Quintet / DARK EYES (ECM)
4. Tiger Honey / Mark O'Leary and Han Bennink / TELEVISION (Ayler)
5. Dreams / Calling Signals / DREAMS IN DREAMS (FMR)
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6. Blues for Saara / Per Henrik Wallin Trio / BLUES FOR ALLAN (Flash)
7. Split Lip / Sunny Murray-John Edwards-Tony Bevan / HOMECOOKING IN THE UK (Foghorn)
8. Cristadingo / Luis Lopes / HUMANIZATION 4TET (Clean Feed)

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9. Acrid Landscape / John Hebert / BYZANTINE MONKEY (Firehouse 12)
10. Rae / Matthew Shipp Trio / HARMONIC DISORDER (Thirsty Ear)
11. Mother Tongue / Kevin Norton's Bauhaus Quartet / TIME-SPACE MODULATOR (Barking Hoop)
12. White Wedding / Revolutionary Snake Ensemble / FORKED TONGUES (Cunieform)

Hope you enjoyed the show.

4/12/10 Playlist

2010-04-14T13:22:00.000-07:00

...and play on.

1. Kali's Children No Cry / Hamid Drake and Bindu / REGGEAOLOGY (Rogue Art)
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2. Don Miguel / Agusti Fernandez-Barry Guy-Ramon Lopez / AURORA (Maya)
3. Transmissions / Ethan Winograd / TANGLED TANGO (Clean Feed)
4. Bridges From Good / Lucas Niggli's Big Zoom / CELEBRATING DIVERSITY (Intakt)

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5. C / Julius Hemphill / RAW MATERIALS AND RESIDUALS (Black Saint)
6. Two Cities / Aram Shelton's Fast Citizens / TWO CITIES (Delmark)
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7. Ceasar Chavez / Rova and the Nels Cline Singers / THE CELESTIAL SEPTET (New World)
8. Black Tunnel / Kris Davis / RYE ECLIPSE (Fresh Sound)
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9. Movement One: Paths / Nuts / SYMPHONY FOR OLD AND NEW DIMENSIONS (Ayler)

Keep listening...

4/5/10 Playlist

2010-04-09T14:13:00.000-07:00

Hey, a Monday without rain! That's different. Hope you find this week's music different, too...in a good way.

1. Blue Humans / Lisbon Improvisation Players / LIVE IXMESKA (Clean Feed}
2. Post-Idiomatic Blues-Cells A / Amir ElSaffar and Hafez Modezadeh / RADIF SUITE (Pi)
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3. Jawboning / Ken Wessel-Ken Filiano-Lou Grassi / JAWBONING (CIMP)
4 Vehement / Queen Mab Trio / THIN AIR (Wig)
5. Rites Rhythm / Marty Ehrlich Rites Quintet / THINGS HAVE GOT TO CHANGE (Clean Feed)
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6. Happy House / Old and New Dreams / PLAYING (ECM)
7. Rome-Istanbul / Alberto Mandarini's Phoebus Ensemble / ROME-ISTANBUL (Splasch)
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8. Z.D.W.A. / Schlippenbach Trio / GOLD IS WHERE YOU FINE IT (Intakt)

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9. Colonial Mentality / Stick and Stones / SHED GRACE (Atavistic)
10. Magnus Bonum / Surd / LIVE AT GLENN MILLER CAFE (Ayler)
11. Bloom / Khan Jamal Quintet / BLACK AWARNESS (CIMP)

And a very happy birthday to Evan Parker.

3/29/10 Playlist

2010-04-04T11:29:00.000-07:00

...and then, after spending several hours in the basement of the Walker Memorial Building (you didn't think I was going out in that deluge, did you?), I did my own show.

1. Jessie's Little Freakout / Joe Fiedler Trio / THE CRAB (Clean Feed)
2. Thief of Sleep / Dave Rempis-Frank Rosaly / CYRILLIC (482 Music)
3. Crossroads / Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Strings / RENEGADES (Delmark)

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4. Across From Over / Larry Ochs Sax and Drumming Corps / STONE SHIFT (Rogue Art)
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5. Angolian Cry / Johnny Dyani Quartet / ANGOLIAN CRY (Steeplechase)
6. Stringding / Ingrid Laubrock / FORENSIC (f-ire)
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7. Improvisation II / Paul Dunmall-Evelyn Chang-Paul Gibbs-Trevor Taylor / ATMOSPHERES WITHOUT OXYGEN (FMR)
8. Nashon / Masada / LIVE IN SEVILLA 2000 (Tzadik)
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9. El Sueno De La Hija Del Rey / Anthony Coleman's Sephardic Tinge /OUR BEAUTIFUL GARDEN IS OPEN (Tzadik)
10. Free Klex 3 &4 / Naftule's Dream / SMASH, CLAP (Tzadik)
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11. Transcendence / Hasidic New Wave / PSYCHO-SEMETIC (Knitting Factory)
12. Venus / Garrison Fewell's Variable Density Sound Orchestra / VARIABLE DENSITY SOUND ORCHESTRA (creative Nation)

A long day. Hope you stayed dry.

Lost and Found Playlist--3/29/10

2010-04-03T07:43:00.001-07:00

Yes, I played that hippie music this week! Decided to post this on the Sound Principles site so you can see that I'm not just a jazz snob. (BTW, the (c) stands for collection.)

1. David Watts / The Kinks / SOMETHING ELSE BY THE KINKS (Reprise)
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2. People of the Night / The Ill Wind / FLASHES (Sunbeam)
3. Don't Let It Get You Down / Shadrack Chameleon / FORGE YOUR OWN CHAINS (c) (Now-Again)
4. Treme de Pototo / Almendra / LOVE, PEACE AND POETRY-LATIN AMERICAN PSYCHEDELIC MUSIC (c) (QDX)
5. Boogie Children / John Fred and his Playboys / MINDROCKERS (c) (Past & Present)
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6. Author's Message / The Hobbitt / HIGH ALL THE TIME VOL. 1 (c) (Past & Present)
7. Thing in "E" / The Savage Resurrection/ THE SAVAGE RESURECTION (Progrssive Line0
8. Yagnour / Erkin Kuray / LOVE, PEACE AND POETRY-TURKISH PSYCHEDELIC MUSIC (c) (QDX)
9. In My Own Dream / Karen Dalton / IN MY OWN TIME (Light In The Attic)
10. Rain / Kak / KAK-OLA (Big Beat)
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11. Why Do I Cry / The Remains / GARAGE BEAT '66: VOL. 2 CHICKS ARE FOR KIDS (c) (Sundazed)
12. Can You Please Crawl Out Of Your Window / Jimi Hendrix Experience / BBC SESSIONS (MCA-Experience Hendrix)
13. Horse / Sam Gopal / PSYCHEDELIC SALVAGE COMPANY (c) (Past & Present)
14. Ghetto Raga / Third Ear Band / ALCHEMY/ELEMENTS (BGO)
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15. Sara Wells / The Stone Circus / THE STONE CIRCUS / (Fallout)
16. Dear Louise / The Open Mind / THE OPEN MIND / (Sunbeam)
17. Who Will Buy (These Wonderful Evils) / The Shakers / HIGH ALL THE TIME VOL. 1 (c) (Past & Present)
18. Lady Friend / The Byrds / YOUNGER THAN YESTERDAY (Columbia Legacy)
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19. Somebody's Calling My Name / Baby Grandmothers / FORGE YOUR OWN CHAINS (c) (Now_Again)
20. You Burn Me Up And Down / We The People / MINDROCKERS (c) (Past & Present)
21. Must Be The Devil / Wigwam / PSYCHEDELIC PHINLAND (c) (Love)
22. Mascot / Castle Farm / PSYCHELIC SALVAGE COMPANY (c) (Past & Present0
23. Beety Boon-Little monster-Dogie And People At The Witches' Castle / LOVE, PEACE AND POETRY-LATIN AMERICAN PSYCHEDELIC MUSIC (c) (QDX)
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24. 25th Century Quaker / Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band / THE MIRROR MAN SESSIONS (BMG-Buddah)

Amazingly, all this is on cd. No scratchy vinyl today!! Peace and love, people.

3/22/10 Playlist

2010-03-27T12:23:00.000-07:00

A lot of great bands visiting the Boston-Cambridge area this week. Hope you got out to see one of them.

1. Thicket / Joe Morris-Petr Cancura-Luther Grey / WILDLIFE (Aum Fidelity)
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2. Angels And Demons At Play / Respect Sextet / SIRIUS RESPECT (Avant Mode)
3. Jasper Jaguar-Deceptor / Charlie Kohlhase's Explorers Club / ADVENTURES (Boxholder)
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4. Space Aura / Sun Ra / SECRETS OF THE SUN (Atavistic)
5. Walkabout / Rob Brown Trio / LIVE AT FIREHOUSE 12 (NotTwo)
6. Siwa / Co Streiff Sextet / QUATAR (Intakt)
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7. The Rumpus / Cosmologic / EYES IN THE BACK OF MY HEAD (Cuneiform)
8. Given Pt. 1 / Steven Lantner Quartet / GIVEN-LIVE AT MUENSTER (Hatology)
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9. A Dispatch From Reuters / Michael Thieke-Christan Weber-Michael Grienerr / THE AMAZING DR. CLITTERHOUSE (Ayler)
10. Waves (Asia) / Brad Shepik / HUMAN ACTIVITY SUITE (Songlines)
11. Springing Winter / Fred Anderson / STAYING IN THE GAME(Engine)

And a happy 81st birthday to the great Fred Anderson. May he play for many more years.

3/15/10 PLAYLIST

2010-03-17T13:16:00.000-07:00

Amongst other things, a trio led by a tuba player (Ben Stapp, music from Serbia (Szilard Mezei) and the first new recording in about 40 years from Giuseppi Logan.

1. Ancestral Voyage-Mystery Succeed / Daniel Carter and Reuben Radding / LUMINESCENCE (Aum Fidelity)
2. Morning Sunset / Linda Oh Trio / ENTRY (self-released)
3. Stellar / Mike Baggetta Quartet / SMALL SPACES (Fresh Sound)

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4. Al Shadhili's Litany of the Sea: Sunrise / Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quintet / SPIRITUAL DIMENSIONS (Cuneiform)
5. Legal Action / James Carney Group / WAYS AND MEANS (Songlines)

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6. Steppin' / Giuseppi Logan Quintet / GIUSEPPI LOGAN QUINTET (Tompkins Square)
7. Painted Sharks / Ben Stapp Trio / ECSTASIS (Uqbar)
8. The 3/4 Tune / Peter Evans / THE PETER EVANS QUARTET (Firehouse 12)

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9. Fasching / Bengt "Frippe" Nordstrom / THE ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL OFFICE (Ayler)

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10. Jaquar / Szilard Mezei Quintet / CERKNO (Leo)
11. Doin' the Dust-Up / Slavic Soul Party / IN MACEDONIA (Knitting Factory JAM)

BTW, if you're interested, the Ben Stapp and Linda Oh cds are available at CD Baby (see links.) The others are available at most of the other on-line sellers.

3/8/10--2nd Show

2010-03-10T14:37:00.000-08:00

Yes, they actually let me be on for a second week. Here's music from France, Scandinavia, Italy and the ol' USA. (A note I should have included before: the format is song title, artist, album name and label.)

1. Waves / Kartet / JYVASKYLA (Naive)
2. Genius Syndrome / Skull Session / RISE ABOVE (Skycap)
3. Rom / Atomic / HAPPY NEW YEARS (Jazzland)
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4. Pragma / Enten Eller / TRAIT D'UNION (Splacsh)
5. Dreams of An Alternate Future/Remembering the Past / Cosmologic / EYES IN THE BACK OF MY HEAD (Cuneiform)
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6. That's Not A Closet / Jason Stein's Locksmith Isadore / A CALCULUS OF LOSS (Clean Feed)
7. Be The Frog / Darren Johnston / THE EDGE OF THE FOREST (Clean Feed)
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8. The Uh Uh Uh / Steve Lacy Quartet / REVENUE (Soul Note)
9. Night / Myra Melford's Be Bread / THE WHOLE TREE GONE (Firehouse 12)

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10. Toward "To West" / Sakoto Fujii w/Mark Dresser and Jim Black / TOWARD "TO WEST" (Enja)

Hope you enjoyed the show. If you missed it, check the archives at the WMBR website.

3/1/10 PLAYLIST--1st Show!!!

2010-03-05T13:14:00.000-08:00

Welcome to the blog for Sound Principles, a radio show on WMBR 88.1 FM on Mondays from 6-8 PM. Here is the playlist for that show.

Theme: Groove / William Parker Quartet

1. Moon Bird / Myra Melford Be Bread / THE WHOLE TREE GONE(Firehouse 12)
2. Thingin' / Michael Attias / RENKU IN COINBRA (Clean Feed)
3. Army of Strangers / The Thirteenth Assembly / (UN)SENTIMENTAL (Important)
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4. The Progress Suite / The October Trio w/Brad Turner / LOOKS LIKE ITS GOING TO SNOW (Songlines)
5. For Fela Kuti #2 / Tony Wilson Sextet / PEARLS BEFORE SWINE (Drip Audio)
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6. Fourth Limb / Linda Oh Trio / ENTRY (self-released)
7. Nuru Light: Prince of Peace / The Alexander Hawkins Ensemble / NO NOW IS SO (FMR)
8. Soul Samurai / Pinton, Kullhammar, Zetterberg and Nordeson / CHANT (Clean Feed)
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9. Thoughts of Dar Es Salaam / Horace Tapscott / THOUGHTS OF DAR ES SALAAM (Arabesque)
10. The Star of the Show / Charlie Kohlhase's Explorer's Club / ADVENTURES (Boxholder)
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11. Lithotone I: Parts 3,4,and 5 / Raoul Bjorkenheim, William Parker and Hamid Drake / DMG @ THE STONE (DMG ARC)

That's all you get this week. Tune in next time.