5-9-11 Playlist

More May, more musice.

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

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

Until next time.

5-2-11 Playlist

The day after May Day.

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

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

Keep your ears open.

4-25-11 Playlist

Music, music, music.

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

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

And more music next time.

4-18-11 Playlist

Many things, including a farewell to a great musician.

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

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

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

We'll miss you, Billy.

4-11-11 Playlist

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

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

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

Into the next 50 years...

4-4-11 Playlist

We all remember April.

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

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

More great sounds next week.

3-28-11 Playlist

Spring can really hang you up the most.

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

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

Keep listening.