Playlist April 18, 2007

Host: David Ryshpan

Wergeld - "Ida Lupino" (Achtung)
BassDrumBone - "A Cuppa" (The Lineup)
Scott Colley - "Masoosong" (Architect of the Silent Moment)
*Grdina/Peacock/Motian - "Yellow Spot Into the Sun" (Think Like the Waves)
Brad Shepik Trio - "Crossing" (Places You Go)
*George Lewis/NOW Orchestra - "Shadowgraph 3" (The Shadowgraph Series: Compositions for Creative Orchestra) [George Lewis with Lori Freedman, Tanna Schulich Hall 4/19]
Wilbert de Joode - "Peg" (Olo) [at La Brique 4/20]
*Christine Jensen - "Capers Papers" (Look Left)
*Sage Reynolds - "Force Ten" (On the Wall) [Jensen & Reynolds at Green Room 4/22]
Fred Lonberg-Holm Trio - "There Never Was a Reason" (Terminal Valentine)
Erik Friedlander - "Najime" (Prowl)
Wayne Horvitz Gravitas Quartet - "LB" (Way Out East)
John Carter/Bobby Bradford Quartet - "Song for the Unsung" (Seeking)
*François Carrier Quartet - "Noh Four" (Noh)

Playlist March 14, 2007

Host: David Ryshpan

Joe Lovano/Greg Osby - "Broadway Blues" (Friendly Fire)
Charlie Haden/Don Cherry/Ed Blackwell - "Law Years" (The Montreal Tapes)
Ornette Coleman - "Call to Duty" (Sound Grammar)
Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers - "Afrique" (Witch Doctor)
Eric Dolphy - "April Fool" (Here and There)
Sonny Rollins - "Three Little Words" (On Impulse!)
*Miles Perkin's Common Thread - "Insane Asylum" (Common Thread) [at O Patro Vys 3/16]
*Melissa Stylianou - "Tea in the Sahara" (Bachelorette) [at Black Sheep Inn 3/15; Upstairs 3/16-17]
George Russell - "Ezz-thetic" (Ezz-thetic)
Roswell Rudd - "Mysterioso" [sic] (Inside Job)
Paul Bley - "Line Down" (Fragments)
Herbie Nichols Project - "Karna Kangi" (Strange City)
Rudresh Mahanthappa - "Further and In Between" (Codebook)
*Effendi JazzLab - "FND (Fonds Non Disponibles)" (Chance Meeting)

Playlist March 7, 2007

Host: David Ryshpan

Leroy Jenkins/Rashied Ali - "The Past" (Swift are the Winds of Life)
The Revolutionary Ensemble - "Light" (...And Now...)
Cooper-Moore/Assif Tsahar/Chad Taylor - "Turn It Up" (Digital Primitives)
Fire of Space - "Children's Voices" (Handbasket)
Brian Groder - "Diverging Orbits" (Torque)
*Jeff Johnston - "Charlevoix" (Nuage) [at Upstairs Wednesdays & Thursdays in March]
*Chris Tarry - "Georgia Changes a Life" (Project 33) [at Upstairs March 9 & 10]
Michael Musillami's Dialects - "Fragile Forms" (Fragile Forms)
Herculaneum - "Let There be Neon" (Orange Blossom)
Myra Melford's Be Bread - "Be Bread" (The Image of Your Body)
*Sage Reynolds - "Saturday Afternoon" (On the Wall)
*Yves Leveillée - "New York 10012" (Soho)
*Alain Bédard Auguste Quintette - "Mait Bozebu" (Sphere Reflexion)
Lee Konitz - "For Hans" (Parallels)
Steve Wilson - "Easy Goin' Evening (My Mama's Call)" (Soulful Song)

Playlist February 7, 2007

Host: David Ryshpan

Steve Swallow/Chris Potter/Adam Nussbaum - "Item 2, D.I.T" (Damaged in Transit)
Larry Goldings Trio - "Sweet Science" (Sweet Science)
Duke Ellington - "Boo-Dah" (...and His Mother Called Him Bill)
Interview with Andrew Homzy
Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band - "Volcano" (Historically Speaking)
Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band - "Wild Man" (Historically Speaking)
Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band - "Sonor" (Historically Speaking)
Interview with Andrew Homzy
Duke Ellington - "Old Man Blues" (Okeh Ellington)
Vandermark 5 - "Knock Yourself Out [for Jean-Michel Basquiat]" (Exercises in Surprise)
Vandermark 5 - "Strode Rode" (Free Jazz Classics Vol. 3: Six for Rollins)
Herculaneum - "Bears of Illium" (Orange Blossom)
Ornette Coleman - "Turnaround" (Sound Grammar)
Steve Lacy Quintet - "The Uh Uh Uh" (Esteem)
Andrew Cyrille Trio - "Nicodemus" (Good to Go, with A Tribute to Bu)

- The Andrew Homzy Jazz Orchestra - But Is It Art? at Oscar Peterson Concert Hall (7141 Sherbrooke W.) February 16, 2007. $20/$15
- Vandermark 5 at La Sala Rossa (4848 St. Laurent) February 11, 2007. $15/$13

Playlist January 31, 2007

Host: David Ryshpan

Ornette Coleman - "Matador" (Sound Grammar)
*Michael Bates' Outside Sources - "Coppertone" (A Fine Balance)
Sticks and Stones - "430" (Shed Grace)
Myra Melford & Be Bread - "Fear Slips Behind" (The Image of Your Body)
Vijay Iyer/Rudresh Mahanthappa - "Hope" (Raw Materials)
Rez Abbasi - "Life Goes" (Bazaar)
*Trio Derome/Guilbeault/Tanguay - "Rollo II" (The Feeling of Jazz) [Derome playing with Supermusique's Treize Lunes until Feb. 3 @ Monument National; Tanguay Feb. 2 & 3 @ Théâtre La Chappelle]
*Yves Leveillée - "Incandescent" (Quantique) [@ Upstairs Feb. 4]
Darcy James Argue's Secret Society - "Transit" (Live @ Bowery Poetry Club 01/14/2007)
Michael Musillami's Dialect - "Seven Blend" (Fragile Forms)
Ben Allison - "Emergency" (Cowboy Justice)
Rob Reddy's Gift Horse - "The Unnamable" (A Hundred Jumping Devils)
New and Used - "Bomar" (Consensus)
Keefe Jackson's Fast Citizens - "Ready Everyday" (Ready Everyday)
Andrew Rathbun - "9 Nations" (Scatter Some Stones)

Also mentioned in the listings: Festival Voix D'Amériques February 2-9 includes performances by Guido del Fabbro, Bernard Falaise, Fred Fortin, Robbie Kuster, François Lafontaine, Alexis Martin, Alexandre St-Onge, Martin Tétrault, Dan Thouin, and more.

Playlist January 10, 2007

Host: David Ryshpan

Barry Altschul Trio - "Be Out S'cool" (Brahma)
Flute Force 4 - "T.B.A." (Flutistry)
The Lounge Lizards - "No Pain for Cakes" (No Pain for Cakes)
Lester Bowie Brass Fantasy - "Thriller" (Twilight Dreams)
EZ Pour Spout - "Back in Black" (Don't Shave the Feeling)
*Chet Doxas Quartet - "Rite Shoe" (Sidewalk Etiquette)
Human Feel - "Speak To It" (Speak To It)
Rez Abbasi - "Tantra" (Snake Charmer)
Ornette Coleman - "Enfant" (Ornette On Tenor)
Charlie Haden/Hampton Hawes - "Turnaround" (As Long As There's Music)
Johnny Griffin/Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - "Well You Needn't" (Lookin' at Monk!)
Bley/Gilmore/Peacock/Motian - "Calls" (Turning Point)
Django Bates - "The Loneliness of Being Right" (Winter Truce (And Homes Blaze))
Esbjörn Svensson Trio - "When God Created the Coffee Break" (Strange Place for Snow)
Charles Lloyd - "Manhattan Carousel" (In Europe)
Marcus Belgrave - "Gemini II" (Gemini)

Playlist January 3, 2007

Host: David Ryshpan

Dave Douglas - "Invocation" (Meaning & Mystery)
Nels Cline - "Dedication" (New Monastery)
Bennie Maupin Ensemble - "Neophilia 2006" (Penumbra)
*Nisenson/Mailloux/Tanguay - "Supper's Ready" (Muzika)
*Christine Jensen - "A Tree Thing" (Look Left)
*Dave Turner - "First Nation" (Thank You For Your Hospitality)
Braam/DeJoode/Vatcher - "Hotch As Ginseng" (Change This Song)
Air - "G.v.E" (Air Time)
George Lewis - "Phenomenology" (The Solo Trombone Record)
Roscoe Mitchell Quintet - "For Cynthia" (Turn)
Motian/Frisell/Lovano - "India" (It Should Have Happened A Long Time Ago)
*Lina Allemano Four - "Rundle" (Concentric)
*Patrice Barbanchon - "Gaijin" (Trio Nouveau Live)
Myra Melford's Crush - "Like Rain Whispers Mist" (Dance Beyond the Color)
Chris Potter - "The Visitor [For Lester Young]" (Gratitude)

Playlist December 27, 2006

Host: David Ryshpan

TJ Kirk - "Damn Right I'm Somebody" (If Four Was One)
Frequency - "Take Refuge" (Frequency)
Bill Frisell/Kermit Driscoll/Joey Baron - "Rag" (Live)
*Drumheller - "Driver Down" (Wives)
Bridge 61 - "Nothing's Open" (Journal)
Perico Sambeat - "Bioy" (Friendship)
Pete LaRoca - "Tears Come From Heaven" (Basra)
*Miles Perkin - "The Centre" (Common Thread)
Ben Goldberg Quintet - "Song and Dance" (The Door, The Hat, The Chair, The Fact)
Liberty Ellman - "Ophiuchus Butterfly" (Ophiuchus Butterfly)
Mark Dresser/Denman Maroney - "Pulse Field" (Time Changes)
Ellery Eskelin - "Split the Difference" (Quiet Music)
The Other Quartet - "TOQ-TOQ" (Sound Stains)
Industrial Jazz Group - "Full-on Freak" (City of Angles) [my comments referring to their NYC connection was due to: their upcoming gig at Bowery Poetry Club Jan. 14 - sorry guys!]
Shot x Shot - "Volzalisle" (Shot x Shot)
TJ Kirk - "The Payback/I Mean You" (If Four Was One)

Playlist December 6, 2006

Host: David Ryshpan

Kenny Garrett - "Night and Day" (Triology)
Michiel Braam's Wurli Trio - "Congesting Hash" (Triology)
Gary Burton - "The Whopper" (Passengers)
Mark Feldman - "Ink Pin" (What Exit)
Darek Oles - "Gift" (Like a Dream)
*Christine Jensen - "Upper Fargo" (Look Left)
David Binney - "Arlmyn Trangent" (Balance)
Craig Taborn - "American Landscape" (Light Made Lighter)
Pete Robbins - "Waits and Measures" (Waits & Measures)
*François Bourassa Trio + André Leroux - "Herbie Nichols [Part Two]" (Live)
Art Ensemble of Chicago - "Malachi" (Non-Cognitive Aspects of the City: Live at Iridium)
Sun Ra Arkestra - "King Porter Stomp" (Springtime in Chicago)
Dave Holland Quintet - "The Eyes Have It" (Critical Mass)
*Ensemble en pièces - "Attendre ce qui n'arrive pas" (Jardin d'exil)
Rudresh Mahanthappa - "Enhanced Performance" (Codebook)
Fred Hersch Trio - "Bemsha Swing" (Live at the Village Vanguard)

Playlist November 15, 2006

Host: David Ryshpan

Frank Kimbrough - "Lucent" (Play)
Marty Ehrlich - "Pigskin" (Malinke's Dance)
*Michael Herring's Vertigo - "First Mentor" (Coniferous Revenge)
Nels Cline - "Not Sa No Sa" (New Monastery)
Chris MacGregor's Brotherhood of Breath - "Kongi's Theme" (Travelling Somewhere)
Steve Lacy - "The Door" (The Door)
*Nehring/Koller + Braid - "D Minor Waltz" (Set In Stone)
Bunky Green - "With All My Love" (Another Day)
*Christine Jensen - "Capers Papers" (Look Left)
*Derome/Guilbeault/Tanguay - "Vérone" (10 Compositions de Jean Derome)
Myra Melford's The Tent - "Brainfire and Buglight" (Where the Two Worlds Touch)
Thomas Chapin Trio - "Pet Scorpion" (Ride)
Triptych Myth - "Poppa's Gin in the Chicken Feed" (The Beautiful)
*Quinsin Nachoff's Magic Numbers - "Branches" (Magic Numbers)
Mariano/Huebner/Huebner/Beirach - "Nardis" (Beauty)

* = Canadian content