2-28-11 Playlist

The harder I go, the behinder I get/

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

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

Keep listening.

2-21-11 Playlist

The days are getting longer. Really.

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

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

Let's do this again next week.

2-14-11 Playlists

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

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

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


But at least the show was done with love.

2-7-10 Playlist

Groundhogs need great sounds for the long winter.

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

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

Thanks for listening. More next week.

1-31-11 Playlist

Stop snowing!!! I mean it!!!

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

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

Keep shovelling!

1-24-11 Playlist

A loooong wingter....

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

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

Until next week....

1-17-11 Playlist

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

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

Keep warm.