Wednesday March 18, 2015

Hosted by Monsieur_b

Kenny Dorham - Lotus Blossom; Quiet Kenny
Miles Davis - Bye Bye Balckbird; Round about Midnight
Charles Mingus - Group Dance; The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
John Coltrane - Alabama; Live at the Birdland
John Coltrane - Part 3 Pursuance/Part 4 Psalm, Love Supreme
Tomasz Stanko -  The Ambusher; Music for K
Tomasz Stanko - Morning Heavy Song; Leosia
Trygve Seim - Sorrow; Different Rivers
Arve Henriksen - Black Mountain; Strjon
Maneri/Phillips/Maneri - Rohnlief; Tales of Rohnlief
Yoshimi & Gustafsson - #1; Yoshimi & Gustafsson
Bill Dixon - Moment; Vade Mecum
Wadada Leo Smith - Another Wave More Waves; Tao Njia
Johansson/Dorner/Neumann - #8; Barcelona Series
FIRE! - If I took your hand; You Liked Me 5 Minutes Ago
Miles Davis - Générique; L'ascenseur pour L'échafaud
Bill Dixon - Pensieroso; Odyssey

Playlist: Wednesday February 18th, 2015

Hosted by Katerina

Rob Mazurek and Black Cube SP - Return the Tides (Return the Tides: Ascension Suite and Holy Ghost, Cuneiform, 2014)

Steve  Lacy - Pops (Cycles 1976-80, Emanem, 2014)

Myra Melford/ The Tent - No News At All (Where the Two Worlds Touch, Arabesque, 2004)

Fred Frith & John Butcher - Turning Away In Time (The Natural Order, Northern Spy, 2014)

Kali Z. Fasteau - What Once Was (People of the Ninth: New Orleans and the Hurricane 2005, Flying Note, 2007)

Jemeel Moondoc - One for Monk & Trane (The Zookeeper's House, Relative Pitch, 2014)

Brahja Waldman's Quartet - The Quickness of the Spirit (Brahja Waldman's Quartet!, self-released, 2011)

Miles Davis -  original film soundtrack music from Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (Ascenseur pour l'échafaud, Fontana, 1959)

James Blood - Revelation March (Tales of Captain Blood, Artists House, 1979)

Lina Allemano Four - Atomic Number 22 (Live at the Tranzac, Lumo, 2012)

Matana Roberts - Nema Nema Nema, A Single Man O' War (Coin Coin Chapter Three: River Run Thee, Constellation, 2015)

Playlist: Wednesday December 10th, 2014

Hosted by Katerina


Lina Allemano's Titanium Riot - Kiss (Kiss the Brain, Lumo Records, 2014)

Charles Gayle Quartet - Blue Shadows (Blue Shadows, Silkheart, 2008)

Eric Hove Chamber Ensemble  - Inner Chamber (Saturated Colours, self-released, 2014)

Daniel Carter/ Reuben Radding - Refracted Light and Grace (Luminescence, AUM Fidelity, 2003)

Derek Bailey - When Your Lover Has Gone, & Stella by Starlight (Ballads, Tzadik, 2002)

Ken Aldcroft's Convergence Ensemble - Solo (Sneaky Pete-Slugs', Trio Records, 2012)

Norman Connors - Dance of Magic (Dance of Magic, Buddah Records, 1972)

Joe McPhee - Nation Time from the CjR LP, & Nation Time recorded live at the Paddock 1969 (Nation Time: The Complete Recordings, Corbett vs. Dempsey, 2013)

Linda Sharrock/ Wolfgang Puschnig/ Michel Godard - The Creator Has a Master Plan (Dream Weavers, 1997)

Playlist Oct 29, 2014 - Funding Drive edition!

Please pledge your support!

Hosts: Lawrence, Katerina, David & Parker

John Coltrane - "Offering" (Offering)
*Lina Allemano - "Kiss the Brain" (Kiss the Brain)
*Erik Hove - "Brain Freeze" (Saturated Colours)
Matthew Shipp - "Brain Shatter" (I've Been to Many Places)
Satoko Fujii - "Take Right" (Gen Himmel)
Marcin Wasilewski - "Actual Proof" (Spark of Life)
Billy Hart Quartet - "Big Trees" (One is the Other)
David Virelles - "Biankoméko" (Mbókò)
*Stefan Christoff - "Shifting Skies" (Wire Tones)
*Geraldine Eguiluz - "Aluxes" (Rubedo'ro)
*Craig Pedersen Quartet - "Points From Centre" (Days Like Today)
Matana Roberts - "South by West" (The Chicago Project)
Doxas/Douglas/Swallow/Doxas - "Old Church, New Paint" (Riverside)
Sokal/Känzig/Valihora - "Talking 58" (Depart Refire)
Vijay Iyer - "When We're Gone" (Mutations)
Al-Akbar/Ali/Cross/Ackamoor - "Ascent of the Nether Creatures (continued)" (Ascent of the Nether Creatures)
Butler-Bernstein Hot 9 - "Buddy Bolden's Blues" (Viper's Drag)

Funding Drive Episode tonight!!

Tune in tonight, 8-10pm as usual, for the Funding Drive edition of Jazz Euphorium! 

We'll be giving away a CD live on air. Listen in to find out how to win a copy of Satoko Fujii's Gen Himmel.

​Donate $25 or more to Jazz Euphorium (or to Jazz Amuck) and you'll be entered into a draw for a pair of passes for the 2015 Suoni Per Il Popolo festival. (You have until November 30th to get your pledge paid to be eligible.) And you also get a CD. With a donation of $60 or more, you will additionally be entered in to the Grand Prize draw - see all the amazing things you could win here. Aaaand you get a custom-screened CKUT tshirt or tote bag.

Funding Drive 2014 - Win a Suoni Per Il Popolo Pass!

CKUT's annual Funding Drive is fast approaching! We're going to be giving away a SUONI PASS to one lucky donor. The drive runs from October 23rd through November 2nd. Listen to our Funding Drive show on October 29th, we'll have lots of surprises in store. Please think about throwing a couple of bucks our way!

Lisle Ellis Radio Retrospective 

Host : Nicolas Caloia

PART 2 - WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 22 2014

1995 August - Roost 2 - Sweet Freedom - Now What?  - Hat Art - Lisle Ellis -  Double Bass, Joe McPhee - Alto Clarinet, Soprano Sax, Tenor Sax , Trumpet - Paul Plimley - Piano - 4:27

1995 August - The Persistence of Rosewood (McPhee) - Sweet Freedom - Now What?  - Hat Art - Lisle Ellis -  Double Bass, Joe McPhee - Alto Clarinet, Soprano Sax, Tenor Sax , Trumpet - Paul Plimley - Piano - 9:39

1992 - Beauty Is A Rare Thing (Coleman) - Kaleidoscopes Plimley Ellis - Hatology - 7:00

1992 - Moon Inhabitants (Coleman) - Kaleidoscopes Plimley Ellis - Hatology - 3:38

1992 - Folk Tales (Coleman) - Kaleidoscopes Plimley Ellis - Hatology - 6:27

1994 - Graduation - Glenn Spearman - Free Worlds - Black Saint  - Lisle Ellis - Double Bass, Donald Robinson - Drums ,  J.R. Routhier - Electric Guitar, Marco Eneidi - Alto Saxophone, Glenn Spearman - Tenor Saxophone , Raphe Malik - Trumpet - 10:03

1997 - Go Left Out of Shantiville - Glenn Spearman's G-Force - Let it Go - Red Toucan - Acoustic Bass/Lisle Ellis, Drums/Donald Robinson, Electric Guitar/James Routhier, Tenor Saxophone/Glenn Spearman - 6:14

1995 November - Lacuna - Elevations - Les Disques Victo - Alto Saxophone – Christopher Cauley, Contrabass – Lisle Ellis, Drums – Donald Robinson, Sopranino Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone – Larry Ochs, Sopranino Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Trombone – Joe McPhee, Tenor Saxophone – Glenn Spearman - 6:02

1998 - Before or After - Children in Peril - Music and Arts Programs of America - L.S. Ellis - Bass, Marco Eneidi - Alto Sax, Dana Reason - Piano, Joe McPhee - Trumpet, Peter Apfelbaum - Drums - 4:10

1999 - Safe Crackers - Safe Crackers - Victo - Double Bass – Lisle Ellis, Drums – Scott Amendola, Piano – Paul Plimley - 7:50

2004 - Amherst 1 - Sound on Survival: Live - Henceforth Records - Lisle Ellis Bass, Marco Eneidi - Alto Sax, Peter Valsamis - Drums - 6:03

2008 - Summonings - Sucker Punch Requiem - Henceforth Records - Lisle Ellis - Bass, Composer, Electronics, Susie Ibarra - Drums, Oliver Lake - Saxophone, Holly Hofmann - Flute, Mike Wofford - Piano, Pamela Z - Electronics, Voices - 3:40

2008 - 57 Great Jones St. August Twelfth Nineteen Eighty-Eight - Sucker Punch Requiem - Henceforth Records - Lisle Ellis - Bass, Composer, Electronics, Susie Ibarra - Drums, Oliver Lake - Saxophone, Holly Hofmann - Flute, Mike Wofford - Piano, Pamela Z - Electronics, Voices - 5:14

2009 - At Ypres more than 300,000 died, killed more efficiently thanks to improvements to technology - Instant Coffee - Jason Willett - Sidrassi Organs, Springs, Electronic Percussion, Lisle Ellis - Bass, Electronics, Martin Schmidt - V-synth, Sh101, Mpx 500 Processor, Hihat, Cymbal, Gong, Darbuka, Flute - 7:38

1981 - Castillian Dreams - Blue Tales in Time - Paul Cram - tenor, alto sax, Ken Newby - soprano sax, oboe, Paul Plimley - piano, vibraphone, Karen Oliver - violin, Lisle Ellis - bass, Gregg Simpson - drums - 5:56

1989 Circular Squares 1 - Ellis - Archipelago cassette - 1:37


1989 The Fact In Which - Ellis - Archipelago cassette - 4:12

Lisle Ellis Radio Retrospective 
Host : Nicolas Caloia

PART 1 - WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 15 2014

1989 Archipelago - Lisle Ellis - private recording - 7:48

1989 - The Velocity of Many Ideas  - Both Sides of the Same Mirror- Paul Plimley - Piano, Lisle Ellis - Double bass - Ninewinds - 6:05

1990 - Separate Cycles When Silence - When Silence Pulls - Plimley, Ellis, Andrew Cyrille - Drums - Music and Arts -15:04

1990 - Inheritance - When Silence Pulls - Plimley, Ellis, Cyrille - Music and Arts - 8:41

1992 - Fade to Grey 'Then Blue (Ellis) -  Noir -  Plimley, Ellis, Gregg Bendian - Drums - Victo - 1:45

1992 - Fade to Grey (Ellis) - Noir -  Plimley, Ellis, Bendian - Victo - 11:12

1991 Rainer Wiens - Guitar, Lisle Ellis - Double bass, Richard Bannard - Drums - private recording - 4:06

1996 - Extrapolation of the inevitable - Glenn Spearman Double Trio – The Fields - Black Saint - Lisle Ellis -Double bass, Donald Robinson - Drums [Right Channel] – William Winant - Drums, Timpani [Left Channel], Chris Brown - Piano, Larry Ochs - Tenor Saxophone [Left Channel], Sopranino Saxophone [Left Channel] Glenn Spearman –  Tenor Saxophone [Right Channel] – - 8:59

1994 - Parima Among The Mountains - Four - What We Live / Lisle Ellis - Black Saint - Lisle Ellis - Double Bass, Donald Robinson - Drums, Larry Ochs - Tenor Saxophone, Sopranino Saxophone, India Cooke - Violin 12:02

1996 - The Deep Blue Goodbye - What We Live - DIW - Lisle Ellis - Bass , Donald Robinson - Drums,  Lawrence Ochs - Sopranino Saxophone  - 11:02

1996 -  Density of Lovestruck Demons  - Plimley, Ellis, Robinson - Density of Lovestuck Demons - Music and Arts -  Paul Plimley - Piano,  Lisle Ellis - Duoble bass, Donald Robinson - Drums - 8:45

1989 - The Enchantments One, Two and Three - Both Sides of the Same Mirror- Plimley, Ellis Duo - Ninewinds - 7:46

Playlist Sept 17, 2014

Host: David Ryshpan

Steve Coleman & Five Elements - "Black Phonemics" (Black Science)
Anna Webber - "Simplify Simplify" (Simple)
Fred Hersch - "You & the Night & the Music" (Floating)
JC Sanford Orchestra - "Sunset Park, Sunset Park" (Views from the Inside)
Kenny Wheeler - "Kind Folk" (Angel Song)
Joel Harrison - "Refuge" (Mother Stump)
Donny McCaslin - "Praia Grande" (Casting for Gravity)
*Peripheral Vision - "Wiretap" (Sheer Tyranny of Will)
*Jerrold Dubyk - "Afrocentric" (Invitations)
Butler/Bernstein Hot 9 - "Dixie Walker" (Viper's Drag)
The Westerlies - "Sweeter than the Day" (Wish the Children Would Come On Home)
Paul Bley - "Pent-Up House" (Play Blue)
Ribot/Grimes/Taylor - "Ol' Man River" (Live at the Village Vanguard)
Steve Lehman Octet - "13 Colors" (Mise en abîme)
*The Cookers Quintet - "The Ramble" (Volume One)
The Lalama Brothers - "Firm Roots" (Erie Avenue)
Louis Hayes - "Vagabond Ron" (Return of the Jazz Communicators)
Javon Jackson - "88 Strong" (Expression)

Playlist: Wednesday September 10th, 2014

Hosted by Katerina


Don Cherry - Eagle Eye (Orient, BYG, 1973)

Chad Taylor - Specifica (Circle Down, 482 Music, 2009)

Tilting - Flox (Holy Seven, Barnyard Records, 2014)

Paal Nilssen-Love & Mats Gustafsson - Limited Destiny (Sin Gas, Bocian, 2013)

Mary Halvorson/ Michael Formanek/ Tomas Fujiwara - Goddess Sparkle (Thumbscrew, Cuneiform, 2014)

Evan Shay - Shallow Waters (Homeward, S/R, 2014)

Philippe Lauzier/ Miles Perkin/ Robbie Kuster - Illégalité (Today is a Special Day, Ambiances Magnétiques, 2006)

Archie Shepp - Rain Forrest/Oleo (Poem for Malcolm, BYG, 1969, 2007 RE)

Joe McPhee/ John Edwards/ Steve Noble - recorded live at Counterflows Festival, April 2014

Kali Z. Fasteau - Faun Listening (Piano Rapture, Flying Note, 2014)