Playlist November 28, 2007

Host: David Ryshpan

*YUL - "Hélène" (Departure)
Myra Melford/Marty Ehrlich - "A Generation Comes and Another Goes" (Spark!)
Eskelin/Parkins/Black - "Oska T" (12 (+1) Imaginary Views)
*Tim Brady - "Cat in the Rain" (Chalk Paper)
*Geordie Hailey's Sea of Song Trio - "Dutch" (Blue Boat)
*Don Scott - "The World is Your Ashtray" (Out of Line)
Slow Poke - "Rockin' in Rhythm" (At Home)
Hugh Hopper - "Lonely Woman" (Hopper Tunity Box)
Kenny Werner - "Inaugural Balls" (Lawn Chair Society)
Talkover: *Tim Brady - "Frisumo" (Chalk Paper)
Taylor Ho Bynum - "Brooklyn with an E" (The Middle Picture) [13th Assembly @ Casa del Popolo Dec. 6/07]
Aram Shelton - "All Dressed Up" (Arrive) [The Engines, f/ Tim Daisy @ Casa Dec. 7/07]
George Schuller - "Vat 19" (Round 'Bout Now)
Brad Shepik Trio - "As Was" (Places You Go)
The Blueprint Project - "Jac-Mac Talkin'" (People I Like)
Amir ElSaffar - "Hemayoun" (Two Rivers) [Read Dan Melnick's review]

Unfortunately, due to time constraints, we did not play music from Marco Benevento as promised. Next time!

Playlist October 24, 2007

Host: David Ryshpan

Grazyna Auguscik Group - "Don't Explain" (Live Sounds Live)
Air - "Chicago Breakdown" (80° Below '82)
Lee Konitz-Ohad Talmor Big Band - "Sound Lee" (Portology)
Carla Bley Band - "Real Life Hits" (Live!)
Sam Rivers Rivbea Orchestra - "Arcs" (Aurora)
*Yannick Rieu - "In the Myth" (Saint-Gervais) [@ Dièse Onze (4115-A St. Denis) every Wednesday til December 12]
*Trio Derome/Guilbeault/Tanguay - "Sonny's Crib" (The Feeling of Jazz) [@ Upstairs (1254 Mackay) every Wed/Thurs in October]
*John Stetch Trio - "Chord-Free Gord" (Bruxin') [@ Upstairs 10/26-27]
Charles Tolliver - "The Ringer" (The Ringer)
David Murray's Black Saint Quartet - "Family Reunion" (Sacred Ground)
Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers - "The Witch Doctor" (The Witch Doctor)
Michael Musillami - "Mezz Money" (The Treatment)
Eric Dolphy - "Les" (Outward Bound)
Kevin Frenette 4 - "Connections" (Connections)
*Ron Davis - "Mio Latino" (Subarashii Live)
Ron Carter - "Arboretum" (Etudes)

Playlist September 19, 2007

Host: David Ryshpan

*Alain Bédard Auguste Quintette - "O Comme H2O" (Sphere Reflexion)
Tomasz Stanko - "III" (Soul of Things)
David Berkman - "Creepy" (Leaving Home)
Larry Goldings - "Jackie-ing" (Quartet)
Charles Mingus - "Hora Decubitus" (Great Moments With...)
Charles Tolliver Big Band - "Right Now" (With Love)
Jim McNeely Tentet - "A Perfect Six" (Group Therapy)
Chico Hamilton Quintet - "Buddy's Boo" (Spectacular!)
Josh Abrams - "Background Beneath" (Cipher)
Erik Friedlander - "Consternation" (Quake)
Jenny Scheinman - "Suza" (12 Songs)
John Carter - "Conversations" (Castles of Ghana)
Sam Rivers - "Torch" (Waves)
Enrico Rava - "Todamor" (The Words and the Days)
Kamikaze Ground Crew - "Habanera 3" (Postcards from the Highwire)
Fred Anderson/Harrison Bankhead - "The Strut" (The Great Vision Concert)
John Abercrombie - "Round Trip" (The Third Quartet)

Playlist September 12, 2007

Host: David Ryshpan

Cannonball Adderley - "One Man's Dream" (Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley)
Cannonball Adderley - "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" (The Best Of)
Cannonball Adderley Quintet - "Country Preacher" (Country Preacher)
Weather Report - "Black Market" (Black Market)
Talkover: Weather Report - "Orange Lady" (Forecast: Tomorrow)
Fred Hersch Trio - "Rhythm Spirit" (Night & The Music)
The Claudia Quintet - "I'm So Fickin' Cool (for Fritz Pauer)" (For)
*Andre Larue Sextet - "Coup de Phil" (Larue de Jazz)
Simona Premazzi - "Autumn Leaves" (Looking For an Exit)
Mike Reed's Loose Assembly - "The Entire State of Florida" (Last Year's Ghost)
Interview with Kurt Rosenwinkel
Kurt Rosenwinkel - "Gesture (Lester)" (Deep Song)
Kurt Rosenwinkel - "Zhivago" (The Next Step)
Henry Grimes Trio - "Blues for Savannah" (Live at the Kerava Jazz Festival)
Jason Moran - "Foot Under Foot" (Black Stars)
Billy Fox - "Guzzle" (The Uncle Wiggly Suite)
Talkover: Weather Report - "125th St. Congress" (Forecast: Tomorrow)
*Jean-Marc Hébert - "L'autre" (L'autre)
Paul Motian - "Wednesday" (Time and Time Again)
Weather Report - "Birdland" (Heavy Weather)

Composer/blogger Darcy James Argue has an exhaustive list of tributes and obits for the late Josef Zawinul.

Playlist August 29, 2007

Host: David Ryshpan

Special Commemorative Edition: 2nd anniversary of Hurricane Katrina - New Orleans tribute; RIP Doug "Dr. Music" Riley.

Jelly Roll Morton - "Black Bottom Stomp" (Jazz King of New Orleans)
Professor Longhair - "Tipitina" (Big Chief)
Kermit Ruffins - "On the Sunny Side of the Street" (Big Easy)
Dirty Dozen Brass Band - "Down By the Riverside" (Funeral for a Friend)
Charles Lloyd - "Amazing Grace" (Lift Every Voice)
ReBirth Brass Band - "You Move Ya Lose" (Rollin')
*Guido Basso/Doug Riley - "Never Let Me Go" (A Lazy Afternoon)
Interview with Vanessa Rodrigues
*Doug Riley's B3 Quartet - "Con Alma" (Con Alma)
Interview with Vanessa Rodrigues
*Jake Langley - "Blue Bash" (Doug's Garage)
Christian Scott - "Katrina's Eyes" (Anthem)
Jeff Albert - "Beware the Penguin" (Web album) [Jeff's blog]
Donald Harrison/Terence Blanchard - "Let's Go Off" (Nascence)
Talkover: Branford Marsalis - "Swingin' at the Haven" (Royal Garden Blues)
Lou Donaldson - "Everything I Do Gonh Be Funky" (Everything I Play is Funky)
Los Hombres Calientes - "New Second Line (Mardi Gras 2001)" (Vol. 3: New Congo Square)
Louis Armstrong - "When the Saints Go Marchin' In" (C'est Si Bon)
Professor Longhair - "Big Chief" (Big Chief)

Playlist August 15, 2007

Host: David Ryshpan

Sonny Rollins - "Old Devil Moon" (A Night at the Village Vanguard)
Woody Shaw/Anthony Braxton - "Symmetry" (The Iron Men)
Taylor Ho Bynum - "Bluebird of Delhi" (The Middle Picture)
Charlie Haden - "The Good Life" (Quartet West)
Matt Wilson's Arts & Crafts - "Rejoicing" (The Scenic Route)
Steve Lacy Three - "We Don't" (N.Y. Capers and Quirks)
BassDrumBone - "Rallier" (The Lineup) [Clean Feed blog]
Roswell Rudd/Mark Dresser - "Calypso Lite" (Airwalkers)
*Gabriel Lambert Trio - "Ghost of a Chance" [@ Pop! (250 des Pins E.) 08/17]
Bobby Watson - "Nubian Breakdown" (Quiet as it's Kept)
Sam Rivers Rivbea All-Star Orchestra - "Whirlwind" (Inspiration)
The Claudia Quintet - "Just Like Him" (I, Claudia)
David Binney - "Contributors" (Out of Airplanes)
*Bryn Roberts - "Ludlow" (Ludlow)
*Michael Occhipinti's Creation Dream - "The Cubists" (Chasing After Light)
Fred Lonberg-Holm - "And You Smile" (Terminal Valentine)
Michael Moore's Jewels and Binoculars - "Masters of War" (Floater)

Playlist August 1, 2007

Host: David Ryshpan

Art Ensemble of Chicago - "Funky AECO" (The Third Decade)
*L'Orkestre des Pas Perdus - "La Belle Affaire" (Projet 9)
Matt Wilson's Arts & Crafts - "The Scenic Route" (The Scenic Route)
Eric Dolphy - "G.W." (Outward Bound)
Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet - "Brooklyn with an E" (The Middle Picture) [THB blog]
Bob Brookmeyer - "Elle-Que" (Paris Suite)
Charles Lloyd Quartet - "Speak Low" (The Flowering)
Billy Hart - "Neon" (Quartet)
Interview with The Bad Plus [blog here]
The Bad Plus - "1972 Bronze Medalist" (These Are the Vistas)
Enrico Rava - "Bob the Cat" (The Words and the Days)
The Claudia Quintet - "Three Odes: admiration (for Peter Garland), nostalgia (for Jan Garbarek), pity (for Mary Cheney)" (For)
*David Virelles - "Double Rainbow" (Motion)
Fred Hersch Trio - "So In Love" (Night and the Music)

Jazz Euphoirium July 25, 2007: Interview with Cecil's Ground

Host: Lawrence Joseph

Two members of Montreal's own Cecil's Ground, Jaisu (piano) and Phil (trumpet) discuss and play their Tomasz Stanko/ECM influenced music, along with music from their collection (Cecil Taylor, Tomasz Stanko, Frith/Zorn, Spring Heel Jack, etc.)

Playlist July 4, 2007

Host: Lawrence Joseph

Anthony Braxton's Ghost Trance Music

1. Anthony Braxton
Composition No 222, for violin and piano.
(14:10)

Rachel Thompson violin
Eric Ronich piano

Album: Four Compositions (Washington DC) 1998; Braxton House

2. Anthony Braxton Quintet
Composition No 287
(31:26)

Anthony Braxton: Reeds
Scott Rosenberg: Reeds
John Shiurba: Guitar
Mathew Sperry Bass
Gino Robair: Percission, Piano, Electronics

Album: Six Compositions (GTM) 2001; Rastacan

3. Anthony Braxton 12(+1)-tet
Composition No. 356
(59:51)

Mary Halvorson - electric guitar;
Nicole Mitchell - flute, alto and bass flutes, piccolo, voice;
Sara Schoenbeck - bassoon, suona;
Reut Regev - trombone, flugelbone;
Carl Testa - acoustic bass, bass clarinet;
Anthony Braxton - alto, soprano, and sopranino saxophones, clarinet, Eb contralto clarinet;
James Fei - alto and soprano saxophones, clarinet, bass clarinet;
Andrew Raffo Dewar - soprano and c-melody saxophones, clarinet;
Jay Rozen - tuba, euphonium;
Stephen H. Lehman - alto and sopranino saxophones;
Jessica Pavone - viola, violin;Aaron Siegel - percussion, vibraphone;
Taylor Ho Bynum - cornet, flugelhorn, trumpbone, piccolo and bass trumpets, shell.

Album: Nine Compositions (Iridium) 2006; Firehouse

Playlist May 30, 2007

Host: David Ryshpan

Enrico Rava - "Echoes of Duke" (The Words and the Days)
Simona Premazzi - "Smokersion" (Looking for an Exit)
BassDrumBone - "Rainbow" (The Line Up)
Keefe Jackson's Fast Citizens - "Saying Yes" (Ready Everyday)
Paul Motian - "Light Blue" (Time and Time Again)

Suoni Per Il Popolo previews (see below for more deets)
William Parker/Hamid Drake - "Black Cherry" (Piercing the Veil)
Rob Brown Quartet - "Flat Out" (Jumping Off the Page)
Hamid Drake & Bindu - "Bindu #1 for Ed Blackwell" (Bindu)
Marc Ribot - "St. James' Infirmary" (Saints)
*François Houle 5 - "Prayer" (Cryptology)
ICP Orchestra - "A Bit Nervous - Jealous? Me?" (Jubilee Varia)
Dave Burrell/David Murray - "Qasbah Rendezvous" (Daybreak)

Darcy James Argue's Secret Society - "Ritual" (Live at Bowery Poetry Club May 19/07)
*Peter Van Huffel Quintet - "Rundle's Peak" (Silvester Battlefield)
Brad Shepik Trio - "The South" (Places You Go)

Suoni jazz/actuelle programming (Ryshpan's picks in boldface):
Marc Ribot solo June 4 - La Sala Rossa
Rob Brown Quartet (Taborn/Parker/Cleaver) June 5 - Sala
William Parker/Hamid Drake June 6 (workshop at noon) - Sala
Hamid Drake & Bindu June 7 - Sala
Akron/Family & Hamid Drake June 8 - Sala
Leandre/Maneri/Houle June 11 - Sala
Matana Roberts' "Coin Coin" June 13 - Casa del Popolo
John Butcher/Martin Tétrault June 14 - Casa
Ensemble Supermusique June 17 - Casa
Halim El Dabh & Barking Dog Sextet June 18 - Sala
Scorch Trio (Björkenheim/Flaten/Nilssen-Love) June 19 - Sala
Sten Sandell Trio June 21 - Casa
ICP Orchestra June 25 - Sala
Moholo/Jordan/Burrell June 27 - Sala