Playlist Feb 1, 2012

Host: David Ryshpan

Bob Brookmeyer's New Art Orchestra - "K.P. '94" (Waltzing With Zoe)
Sam Rivers' Rivbea Orchestra - "Colours" (Aurora)
Herculaneum - "The Dragon's Office" (Uchu)
Miguel Zenón - "Olas y Arenas" (Alma Adentro)
*Frank Lozano's MTL4 - "Known to None" (Destin)
Vijay Iyer Trio - "Optimism" (Accelerando)
Joe Lovano's Us Five - "Moose the Mooche" (Bird Songs)
Dave Liebman Group - "Face of the Bass/Beauty is a Rare Thing" (Turnaround)
Ben Allison  - "Jackie-ing" (Action-Refraction) [@ L'Astral March 24] 
Steve Lacy - "Skippy" (School Days)
Starlicker - "Andromeda" (Double Demon)
*Turtleboy - "Smart Matter" (Smart Matter)
*Takk - "In Case of Fire" (s/t)
Tyshawn Sorey - "Twenty" (Oblique - I)
Rez Abbasi's Invocation - "Monuments" (Suno Suno)
Ran Blake - "Obama" (Grey December)
*Kevin Dean Quartet - "Pony Ride" (A Message From the Dean) [@ Lion D'Or February 8 - so long, Katie Malloch!]

Playlist January 25, 2012

Host: Sven von Fellenberg

1. Miles Davis - Shhh / Peaceful
2. Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage live
3. John McLaughlin live
4. Billy Cobham - Spectrum
5. Herbie Hancock - Raindance
6. Valentino Tomasi - Ebredes
7. Various Production - Queen Bee
8. Photek - KJZ
9. Squarepusher - Star Time 2
10. Free the Robots - The Eye (feat. Ikey Owens)
11. American Men - Good Po-lice
12. Anenon - Damiel
13. Dorian Concept - Trilingual Dance Sexperience
14. Dorian Concept - Her Tears Taste Like Pears

Playlist for Jazz Euphorium - Wednesday January 11, 2012

Host:  Lawrence Joseph

1.  Andrew Hill - Violence. Change (Blue Note, 7:01)
2.  Roscoe Mitchell - Noonah. Noonah (Nessa, 17:46)
3.  Jimmy Lyons Quartet - Give it Up.  Give it Up (Black Saint, 10:10)
4.  Nabatov/Reijseger/Schubert - Long Haul. Square Down (Leo, 16:44)
5.  Jurg Wickihalder European Quartet - Triple Rittberger Exercise (Jump!, 6:19)
6.  Irene Schweizer - To Whom it May Concern. To Whom it May Concern (Intakt, 10:48)
7.  Aki Takase & Han Bennink - Hat and Beard. 2 for 2 (Intakt, 3:44)
8.  Kirk Macdonald Jazz Orchestra - New Beginnings. Deep Shadows (Addo, 10:14)
9.  Carrier/Lapin/Lambert - Inner Spire (Leo, 13:13)
10. Donato/Bourassa/Lozano/Tanguay - Five (Effendi, 4:45)
11. Hasler/Paeffgen/Berger - Spiralthing (NoBusiness, 2:27) 

Playlist, January 4, 2012

Host: Nimalan Yoganathan

1. RAHSAAN ROLAND KIRK – BLACKNUSS – "OLD RUGGED CROSS"

2. SOWETO KINCH – CONVERSATIONS WITH THE UNSEEN – "INTERMISSION (SPLIT DECISION)"

3. DARONDO – LET MY PEOPLE GO – "LET MY PEOPLE GO"

4. TOMMY TATE – I’M SO SATISFIED  -  "JUST A LITTLE OVERCOME"

5. JOE HENDERSON – VA: FREEDOM, RHYTHM AND SOUND – "FORGONE CONCLUSION"

6. ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO - VA: FREEDOM, RHYTHM AND SOUND  - "OLD TIME RELIGION"

7. PHILIP COHRAN - VA: FREEDOM, RHYTHM AND SOUND  - "THE AFRICAN LOOK"

8. SUN RA - VA: FREEDOM, RHYTHM AND SOUND  - "NUCLEAR WAR"

9. SIR VICTOR UWAIFO – GUITAR BOY SUPERSTAR  1970 – 1976 -  "MOTHER WITCH (SHU’HUSU’HU)"

10. MULATU ASTATKE – NEW YORK, ADDIS, LONDON: THE STORY OF ETHIO JAZZ  1965 - 1975 -  "YEFIKIR TIZITA"

11. CEDRIC IM BROOKS – CEDRIC IM BROOKS & THE LIGHT OF SABA – "RASTA LEAD ON VERSION"

12. T.K. RAMAMOORTHY – FABULOUS NOTES &  BEATS OF THE INDIAN CARNATIC JAZZ – "SAHANA"

13. T.K. RAMAMOORTHY – FABULOUS NOTES &  BEATS OF THE INDIAN CARNATIC JAZZ –  "RASIKAPRIYA"

14. NINA SIMONE – NINA AT THE VILLAGE GATE – "ZUNGO"

15. BO DOLLIS & THE WILD MAGNOLIAS – 30 YEARS…AND STILL WILD – "HANDA WANDA"

16. THE WILD MAGNOLIAS – THEY CALL US WILD – "INJUNS, HERE WE COME"

17. REBIRTH BRASS BAND – WE COME TO PARTY – "ROLL WITH IT"

18. MILES DAVIS – ON THE CORNER – "BLACK SATIN"

19. JOHNNY GREENWOOD - BODYSONG OST – "CONVERGENCE"

20. GLEN VELEZ – INTERNAL COMBUSTION – "PYRAMID"

21. ENNIO MORRICONE – CRIME & DISSONANCE – "TRAFELATO"

22. ENNIO MORRICONE – CRIME & DISSONANCE – "PLACCAGGIO"

23. ENNIO MORRICONE – CRIME & DISSONANCE – "STUDIO DI COLORE"

Jazz Euphoriumm Playlist for December 21, 2011

Top 10 CDs for 2011

Host: Lawrence Joseph

1.  Brahja Walddman - The Holy Ghost  (Self) (4:48)
2.  Bill Dixon - Envoi Section I  (Victo) (24:31)
3.  Matana Roberts - Kersaia (Constellation) (7:33)
4.  David Ware - Crystal Palace (Aum Fidelity) (3:40)
5.  Billy Bang - Nobody Hear the Music the Same Way (NoBusiness) (12:17)
6.  Shift - Shot  (Leo) 6:14
7.  Bozzini Quartet - 4 solos violents (1:39) (Collection QB)
8.  Thom Gossage - Inari (Songlines)  (7:52)
9.  Olaf Rupp - Shantung (Creative Sources) (25:48)
10. Dixie's Death Pool - Sunlight is Collecting on my Face (Drip Audio) (5:40)

11. Bernard Stepien Orchestra - Hark! The Herald Angel Sings/Infinite Spirit (Self) (2:02)

Montreal Mirror Top 10s for 2011

December 14th, 2001

Monsieur B interviews Sam Vipond

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Playlist, November 30, 2011

Host: David Ryshpan

Bill Evans - "Gloria's Step" (Sunday at the Village Vanguard)
Keith Jarrett - "You & the Night & the Music" (At the Deer Head Inn)
Frank Kimbrough - "Conception Vessel" (Play)
Paul Motian - "Wednesday" (Time and Time Again)
Paul Motian - "Justice (Evidence)" (Monk in Motian)
Paul Motian Band - "Mandeville" (Psalm)
SFJazz Collective - "Family" (Live 2011)
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey - "Eye of the Dove" (The Race Riot Suite)
Miguel Zenón - "Tiemblas" (Alma Adentro)
*Ben Henriques - "A Theory of Consumption" (The Responsibility Club)
Maria Schneider - "Journey Home" (Allégresse)
Fabian Almazan - "H.U.Gs (Historically Under-represented Groups" (Personalities)
Gilad Hekselman - "The Bucket Kicker" (Hearts Wide Open)
Starlicker - "Andromeda" (Double Demon)
Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet - "Part II: Strike" (Apparent Distance)
Amir ElSaffar's Two Rivers Ensemble - "Inana's Dance (I-III)" (Inana)
*BEAN - "Fava" (s/t)

May Paul Motian rest in peace. Check out Peter Hum's Jazzblog for many remembrances from notable musicians.

Jazz Euphorium Playlist - Wednesday November 23, 2011

Host:  Lawrence Joseph

1 - Shibusashirazu Orchestra - Kujira (15:50)
    Something Difference (1994) Chitei Records

2 - Iskra 1903 - Cohesion 2B (12:43)
    Goldsmiths (2011) Emanem (recorded March 9 1972)
3 - Hasler / Paeffgen / Berger - Holtondimi (7:06)
    Self titled No Business Records (2011)

4 - Brahja Waldman's Quertet - The Quickness of the Spirit (7:38)
    Self-titled Self released (2011)
5 - Frank Lozano Montreal Quartet -  Twelve Toes / Leuvin Country (10:25)
    Destin Efendi (2011)
6 - Trio Derome Guilbault Tanguay - 17 West (4:36)
    Ambiance Magnetique

7 - Joe McPhee / Michael Zerang - Rise / After the Flood (9:18)
    Creole Gardens A New Orleans Suite No Business Records (2011)
8 - Darius Jones Trio - A Train (6:05)
    Big Gurl Aum Fidelity
9 - Aki Takase / Han Bennink - Locomotive (3:52)
    Two for Two (Intakt) (2011)

10 - Daniel Erdmann / Samuel Rohrer - Broken Tails (8:25)
     How to Catch a Cloud (2011) Intakt
11 - Jurg Wickihalder European Quartet - Last Jump (10:58)

12 - Miles Espanol - Flamenco Sketches (7:09)
     New Sketches of Spain Entertainment One          

Jazz Euphorium November 16th

On This Week's Jazz Euphorium, we take a listen to the music of Juma Sultan's
Aboriginal Music Society off the Father Of Origin Box set just put out on the
Eremite Label


1. Fan Dance, part I

2. Fan Dance, part II
3. Fan Dance, part III
4. Ode to a Gypsy Son
5. untitled
6. Sundance
7. untitled

8. untitled, part II

From Eremite's Site:

Deep archeology into a long buried & previously undocumented chapter in the history of the early ’70s loft era brings forth the revelatory Father of Origin (MTE-54/55/56), Eremite’s box set retrospective of percussionist/bassist Juma Sultan’s Aboriginal Music Society.  Drawn from Sultan’s mammoth private archive of recordings, this ground-breaking set includes two audiophile LPs & a CD, a 28 page 12x12" book featuring previously unpublished photographs & ephemera & a detailed historical essay by jazz scholar Michael Heller, all manufactured to highest quality-freak standards.  This old-school multi-media extravaganza exposes some of the most extraordinary & explosive free jazz of the period to the light of day for the first time.

 Established by Sultan & percussionist Ali Abuwi in Woodstock in 1968, Aboriginal Music Society was both a radical arts presenting organization & a killer band.  Dedicated to musician self-sufficiency and stubbornly non-commercial, AMS waged guerrilla cultural warfare against mainstream America from strongholds in rural Woodstock & from lofts on New York’s Lower East Side.  For ten years, Sultan & the loose alliance of like-minded musicians in AMS produced independent concerts, owned & operated its own recording studio, & collaborated with legendary artist-run New York loft space Studio We on performances & educational programs.  But during that whole time, they never released a record.

Inspired by an emerging understanding of African cultures & the political ideas of the black power movement, AMS synthesized an African approach to percussion and collective performance with the revolutionary jazz of its day.  In open-ended free improvisations they played an incendiary mix of massive trap kit & hand drum grooves & heaven-storming free jazz.  The music was a cry of freedom, a declaration of black cultural artistic & political independence; & until now it has not been heard since the day it was made.

Father of Origin for the first time reveals the cross fertilization between the New York loft scene & an extremely rich Woodstock music scene, a powerful confluence of artists & sensibilities that has long gone unacknowledged.  In Woodstock Sultan & Abuwi were tight with members of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, including saxophonist Gene Dinwiddie, guitarist Ralph Walsh, bassist Rod Hicks, & the late, great AACM drummer Philip Wilson, all of whom crop up on different sessions in Father of Origin.  Sultan himself easily bridged musical genres.  He was a member of Jimi Hendrix’s Gypsy Sun & Rainbows & performed in the band's legendary Woodstock Festival concert.  In New York, AMS worked with a huge cross section of the wildly fertile & creative loft scene, including saxophonists Frank Lowe & Julius Hemphill, trumpeter Earl Cross, cellist Abdul Wadud, & drummer Charles “Bobo” Shaw, who are all heard from on Father of Origin.

The first of the set’s two LPs, a 1970 Boston studio date, features a New York-Woodstock sextet—including Sultan, Abuwi, Dinwiddie, Wilson, Walsh, & Cross—engaged in a characteristically percussion-heavy improvisation.  The African-to-free percussion maintains a relentless rhythmic pressure on the band, and Dinwiddie responds with a powerful performance whose genuine free-jazz fire will completely re-write the book on the late saxophonist.  The fourteen minute "Ode to a Gypsy Son," Sultan's meditation on Hendrix, finds Sultan, Abuwi & Cross over-dubbing flutes, home-made wind instruments, chanting & percussion into a startlingly original & deeply psychedelic veneration.

The other vinyl disc features a private jam session by Sultan, Abuwi, & saxophonist Frank Lowe at the Broadway headquarters of AMS.  Recorded in April 1971, it predates by several months Lowe's recording debut on Alice Coltrane's World Galaxy & by over two years his debut recording as a leader, the classic ESP side Black Beings, making it the earliest example of the free jazz titan’s music currently available.  The circumstances were casual, but definitely not the music.  Lowe was reaching a coruscating early career peak & the percussionists goad him to some very intense playing.  The session is the best illustration we have of Lowe's stated early ambition to fuse Pharaoh Sanders & John Coltrane into a single cosmic cry.

The CD features yet another historic meeting—an undated concert with the Woodstock crew & a trio of Midwesterners recently relocated to New York—saxophonist Julius Hemphill, cellist Abdul Wadud, & drummer Charles “Bobo” Shaw, all members of the St. Louis music & arts collective, Black Artists Group.  Wadud & Hemphill are outstanding in this sprawling Aboriginal Music Society collective improvisation with soloists weaving in & out of the teeming drums & percussion.

Whenever they performed—whether in the studio, the bandstand, in private jam sessions or on the Woodstock village green—Juma Sultan & the Aboriginal Music Society played with a full sense of the occasion.  Every opportunity to make music was an event and they knew it, throwing everything they had into the music every time.  Father of Origin presents three of the most memorable of those events, played by a band previously lost to history.

Father of Origin is presented in a heavyweight telescoping box in paper wraps screen-printed by Alan Sherry at Siwa, who also screen-printed the LP sleeves, CD jacket & additional loose memorabilia.  Audio restoration & mastering from the original analog tapes by Michael King at Reel Recordings.  LPs cut by Steve Fallone at Sterling & manufactured by RTI.  Edition of 600 copies.  First 100 copies purchased at eremite.com include a promo only 7" featuring two-track "dub" re-mixes by Joshua Abrams of 'Ode to a Gypsy Son' & MTE-55 'untitled'.

Jazz Euphorium - Wednesday October 19, 2011

Host: Lawrence Joseph

1.  Paul Bley Quintet - Ictus - ESP Disk (5:40)
2.  Marion Brown Quartet - Capricorn Moon - ESP Disk (22:28)
3.  Brahja Waldman's Quartet - The Quickness of the Spirit - self (7:36)
4.  Remi Bolduc Jazz Ensemble - Donna Lee - Effendi (7:16)
5.  Lina Allemano Four - Wayne's Shorts - Lumo records (5:20)
6.  Anthony Braxton & Dave Holland - The Song is You - Sackville (11:44)
7.  Anthony Braxton - No. 69 M - Black Saint (7:14)
8.  John Coltrane - Mars - Impulse Records (10:41)
9.  Olaf Rupp / Joe Williamson / Tony Buck - Shantung - Creative Sources (25:48)
10. Aki Takase & Han Bennink - Hat and Beard - Intakt (3:12)