Playlist August 9, 2006

Host: David Ryshpan

Special feature on Post-Vietnam War Jazz, inspired by Dave Douglas' essay here and follow-up posts 1, 2, 3.
Other resources: Visionsong; Destination Out

Myra Melford - "Where the Two Worlds Touch" (Where The Two Worlds Touch)
*Michael Herring's Vertigo - "Coniferous Revenge" (Coniferous Revenge)
Guillermo Klein y los Guachos - "Child's Play" (Live In Barcelona)
Ellery Eskelin/Andrea Parkins/Jim Black - "Four Chords" (12(+1) Imaginary Views)
*Kamosc - "Kopfspinnennetz" (Kamosc)
Vijay Iyer - "Composites" (Reimagining)
Gil Evans - "Jambangle" (Gil Evans & Ten)

Dave Douglas - "Blues to Steve Lacy" (Meaning & Mystery)
Julius Hemphill - "Rites" (Dogon A.D.)
Anthony Braxton - "Composition 40(O)" (Quartet (Dortmund) 1976)
Kenny Wheeler - "Smatter" (Gnu High)
Air - "Do Tell" (80° Below '82)
Michael Mantler - "Twenty" (Something There)
Don Cherry - "When Will the Blues Leave?" (Art Deco)

*FACT - "Partout" (FACT)

Playlist July 19, 2006

Host: David Ryshpan

Miles Davis - "Capricorn" (Water Babies)
Mario Pavone - "Ocbo" (Deez To Blues)
*Miles Perkin - "Fragile Innocence" (Common Thread)
*Michael Herring's Vertigo - "The Mindtaker" (Coniferous Revenge)
Ran Blake - "How 'Bout That" (All That is Tied)
Greg Osby - "Self-Portrait in Three Colors" (Inner Circle)
*Frederic Alarie - "Brico" (Tap Bass)
Hal Crook - "Night and Day" (Hero Worship)
Jazz Big Band Graz - "Just Like Him" (Joys and Desires: The Music of John Hollenbeck)
Duke Ellington - "Charpoy" (...and his mother called him Bill)
*Michael Bates' Outside Sources - "On Equilibrium" (A Fine Balance)
Cuong Vu - "Expressions of a Neurotic Impulse" (It's Mostly Residual)
Gilfema - "Akwe" (Gilfema)
David Murray 4tet & Strings - "Sparkle" (Waltz Again)
Uri Caine - "Cheek to Cheek" (Live at the Village Vanguard)

Jazz Euphorium

Jazz Euphorium

Playlist April 19, 2006
Host: Natalie Simmons

Ahmad Jamal - "The Awakening" (The Awakening)
Ahmad Jamal - "I Love Music" (The Awakening)
Jimmy Smith - ''Dot Com Blues" (Only in it for the Money)
Jimmy Smith - ''Back at the Chicken Shack" (Fourmost Return)
Cannonball Adderly - "Groove Samba" (Cannonball's Bossa Nova)
Ernest Ranglin - "Papa's Bag Juice" (Memories of Barber Mack)
Ernest Ranglin - "Fade Away" (Memories of Barber Mack)
Ernest Ranglin - "Love and Happiness" (Now is the Time)
Ernest Ranglin - "54-46, that's My Number" (Below the Bassline)
Ernest Ranglin - "Below the Bassline" (Below the Bassline)
Ernest Ranglin - "Freeway" (Now is the Time)
Sonny Sharock - "Little Rock" (Ask the Ages)
Sonny Sharock - "As we Used to Sing" (Ask the Ages)
Hammiet Bluett, D.D. Jackson, Kahil El Zabar - "Open my Eyes" (The Calling)
Hammiet Bluett, D.D. Jackson, Kahil El Zabar - "Ask and You Shall Find" (The Calling)
Hammiet Bluett, D.D. Jackson, Kahil El Zabar - "We Are" (The Calling)
Rahsaan Roland Kirk - "Black Diamond" (Talkin Verve)
Jaco Pastorius - "Teen Town" (Jaco Pastorius Big Band II)
Toots and the Maytals - "Pressure Drop" (54-46 thats my Number)

Playlist April 5, 2006

Funding Drive Edition
Hosts: David Ryshpan & Natalie Simmons

Herbie Hancock - "You Got It Bad, Girl" (The New Standard) (f. Don Alias [RIP])
Jackie McLean (RIP) - "Cheers" (Vertigo)
*Talking Pictures - "Rat Race" (Ciao Bella)
Sam Newsome - "Dread Man Walking" (Global Unity)
Tom Harrell - "Daily News" (Time's Mirror)
*Richard Underhill - "Big" (Tales from the Blue Lounge)
Misako Kano - "Well You Needn't" (Watch Out)
Michael Musillami - "Squid Fantasy" (The New Standard)
Terrence Blanchard - "Passionate Courage" (Bounce)
John Scofield - "Boozer" (A Go Go)
*Joel Miller - "Sinking Colours" (...and then everything started to look different...)
Guillermo Klein y Los Guachos - "Con Brasil Adentro - Fuga X" (Live In Barcelona)

Playlist March 29, 2006

Host: David Ryshpan

*Michael Herring's Vertigo - "Monkey" (Coniferous Revenge)
Greg Osby - "Please Stand By" (Channel Three)
Guillermo Klein & Los Guachos - "El Espejo" (Live in Barcelona)
Kenosha Kid - "Modern Times" (Projector)
*David Occhipinti - "Reason Over Passion" (Intersection)
Paul Motian - "Bye-Ya" (Monk In Motian)
Jazz Big Band Graz - "After A Dance or Two, We Sit Down for a Pint with Gil and Tim" (Joys & Desires: The Music of John Hollenbeck)
Orange Then Blue - "Ornette's Muse" (Orange Then Blue)
*Normand Guilbeault Ensemble - "Tricotism" (Basso Continuo)
Either/Orchestra - "Heavily Amplified Hairpiece" (Neo-Modernism)
*Thom Gossage & Other Voices - "Swamp Suite" (The Now Beyond)
Dave Douglas - "Ageless" (Soul on Soul)
Roberto Rodriguez - "Hadida" (Baila! Gitanto Baila!)

Playlist March 15, 2006

Host: David Ryshpan

The Claudia Quintet - "Growth" (Semi-Formal) - Cuneiform
The Claudia Quintet - "Limp Mint" (Semi-Formal) - Cuneiform
Vandermark 5 - "Suitcase (For Ray Charles, Elvin Jones and Steve Lacy)" (The Color of Memory) - Atavistic
John McNeil - "Deadline" (East Coast Cool) - OmniTone
Mark Helias' Open Loose - "Mistral Angel" (Verbs of Will) - Radio Legs
Marty Ehrlich - "Dance No. 2" (News on the Rail) - Palmetto
*Francois Marcaurelle (RIP) - "Will You Need It?" (Opus no. 6: Mode d'emploi) - Effendi
*Joel Miller - "Aqua Land" (Mandala) - Effendi
*Kenny Wheeler - "Sophie" (Music for Large & Small Ensembles) - ECM
Steve Swallow - "Misery Loves Company" (Always Pack Your Uniform On Top) - XtraWatt
Ralph Alessi - "Soy Ink" (This Against That) - RKM Music
*Ross Taggart - "Don't Call Before Ten" (Thankfully) - Cellar Live
Henry Threadgill & Make A Move - "Shake It Off" (Everybody's Mouth's a Book) - Pi
Andrew Hill - "New Pinocchio" (A Beautiful Day) - Palmetto
Jenny Scheinman - "Moe Hawk" (12 Songs) - Cryptogramophone
Dave Douglas - "Czardas" (Tiny Bell Trio) - Songlines

Playlist February 1, 2006

Hosts: David Ryshpan & Natalie Simmons

Black History Month - Profile on AACM
Inspired by Vijay Iyer's essay "Steve Coleman, M-Base, and Music Collectivism"
Also see: M-Base & Black Rock Coalition

Art Ensemble of Chicago - "New York is Full of Lonely People" (Urban Bushmen)
Art Ensemble of Chicago - "Ja" (Nice Guys)
Ernest Dawkins New Horizons Ensemble - "Maghostut" (South Side Street Songs)
Muhal Richard Abrams - "Things to Come from Those Now Gone" (Things to Come from Those Now Gone)
Anthony Braxton - "Piece 1" (Creative Orchestra Music 1976)
Air - "The Traveller" (80° Below '82)
Art Ensemble of Chicago - "Peter and Judith" (Urban Bushmen)
Art Ensemble of Chicago - "Promenade: Cote Bamako II" (Urban Bushmen)
8 Bold Souls - "Brown Town" (Last Option)
Sticks and Stones - "Turning the Mark" (Sticks and Stones)
Kahil El'Zabar Ritual Trio - "Ornette" (Renaissance of the Resistance)
Vijay Iyer - "Father Spirit" (Panoptic Modes)
Steve Coleman & Five Elements - "Urban" (Resistance is Futile)
Don Byron - "Basquiat" (Romance with the Unseen)

Jazz Euphorium

Jazz Euphorium

Playlist Jan 25, 2006

Host: Natalie Simmons
Interview with Natasha P from Natasha P Trio
Performance @ Lion D'or Tuesday Feb. 7th 2006

Louis Armstrong- "What did I do to be so Black and Blue""
Duke Ellington and Irie Anderson- "It don't mean a thing if it aint got that Swing"
King Pleasure- "Parkers Mood"
Miles Davis- "All Blues"
Dave Brubeck Quartet- "Maori Blues"
John Coltrane- "Miles Mode" rec. 1962 w/McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones and Jimmy Carrison
Kahil ElZabar and Ethnic Heritage Ensemble- "Running in the Streets"
4Hero Remix with Vanessa Freeman (Horace Silver)- "Won't you Open Up yourSenses"
Lena Horne- "The Lady is Tramp""
-"Every Time we say Good Bye"
Antonio Carlos Jobim-"Corcovado"
Antonio Carlos Jobim- "Viva Sonhando"
Natasha P- "Alright ok, You Win"
"La Traitesse"
Interview/Discussion
"Mack the knife"
"Cry me a river"
Interview/Discussion
"Guess Who I saw Today"
"Fly me to the Moon"
"Chega de Saudade"

Playlist January 18, 2005

Host: David Ryshpan

*Thom Gossage Other Voices - Ring Around the Rainer (The Now Beyond)
Moutin Reunion Quartet - MRC (Something Like Now)
Paul Motian - Trinkle Tinkle (Monk In Motian)
Muhal Richard Abrams - March of the Transients (Things to Come From Those Now Gone)
Marty Ehrlich - Hear You Say (News On The Rail)
*Daniel Thouin - Blues pour Blackwell II (Organique)
Vandermark 5 - Full Deck (Simpatico)
*Chris Gestrin - To Give Again (Trio)
John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble - Abstinence (A Blessing)
Geoffrey Keezer - Venus As A Boy (Wildcrafted: Live at the Dakota)
Anderskov Accident - The Sick Man (Unity of Action)
Chris Speed - Constance and Georgia (Emit)
Jane Ira Bloom - Monk's Rec Room (The Red Quartets)
Robert Glasper - Enoch's Meditation (Canvas)
Tim Berne - Huevos (Science Friction)

happy new year to you!

Treating the common cold with massive doses of free jazz...

playlist for january 4 2006 (click the links for related stuff):

art ensemble of chicago "people in sorrow part 1" (the pathe sessions) - emi july 7 1969
griot galaxy "z-series" (live at the d.i.a.) - entropy jan 29 1983
albert ayler "ghosts" (lorrach paris 1966) - hatology nov 13 1966
cecil taylor "what's new" (nefertiti the beautiful one has come) - arista freedom nov 23 1962
sun ra "love in outer space" (piano recital - teatro la fenice, venezia) - golden years nov 24 1977
sun ra "outer spaceways incorporated" (piano recital - teatro la fenice, venezia)
muhal richard abrams & malachi favors "unity (dedicated to the aacm)" (sightsong) - black saint oct 1975
horace tapscott "sketches of drunken mary" (the dark tree 1) - hatology dec 1989
masada "ne'eman" (live in sevilla) - tzadik 2000
derek bailey r.i.p. "when your lover has gone" (ballads) - tzadik 2002
the qualities "happy new year to you!" (sun ra - the singles) - saturn 1956

- dave m.