Jazz Euphorium Playlist, Wednesday February 13, 2013

Host: Lawrence Joseph

First Hour: Interview with Stefan Christoff

1. Piano/Saxophone - Stefan Christoff/Brahja Waldman (Temps Libre, Howl)
2. Piano/Contrebass - Stefan Christoff/Peter Burton (Temps Libre, Howl)
3. Piano/Oud - Stefan Christoff/Sam Shalabi (Duets for Abdelrazik, Howl)
4. Piano/Saxophone - Stefan Christoff/Mahtana Roberts (Duets for Abdelrazik, Howl)

Second Hour: New Releases

5. The Unfolding - William Hooker Quintet (Channels of Consciousness, NoBusiness)
6. Amanpondo - The Group (Live, NoBusiness)
7. Linton - Land of Marigold (Land of Marigold, Bug Incision)

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Playlist: Wednesday January 30th, 2013

Hosted by Katerina

Michael Formanek - Rising Tensions & Awesome Light (Small Places, ECM, 2012)

Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble - Sequence Shadows (Xenogenesis Suite: A tribute to Octavia Butler, Firehouse 12 Records, 2008 )

Gordon Grdina's Haram - Raqs Al Jamal/Dance of Beauty (Her Eyes Illuminate, Songlines, 2012)

Joshua Abrams - Sound Talisman (Represencing, Eremite, 2012)

Peggy Lee Band - Why Are You Yelling? (Invitation, Drip Audio, 2012)

Peter Evans Quartet - The 3/4 Tune (The Peter Evans Quartet!, Firehouse 12 Records, 2008)

Weasel Walter/ Mary Halvorson/ Peter Evans - Interface (Mechanical Malfunction, Thirsty Ear, 2012)

Dorothy Ashby - Life Has Its Trials (Afro-Harping, Cadet, 1968)

Alan Silva & Oluyemi Thomas - Soft Flowing Waters (Transmissions, Eremite, 1999)

Jemeel Moondoc Sextet - Konstanze's Delight Part 2 (Konstanze's Delight, Soul Note, 1983)

Fred Frith/ Ensemble Modern  - Freeway/ Shadow of a Tree on Sand (Traffic Continues, Winter & Winter, 2000)

Scott Fields Ensemble - American Buffalo (Mamet, Delmark, 2001)

John Irabagon's Outright - Charles Barkley (Unhinged, Irrabagast, 2012)

Don Cherry - Art Deco (Art Deco, A&M, 1989)

Keiji Haino/ Shoji Hano/ Peter Brotzmann - Shadows Part 2 (Shadows, DIW, 2000)

Playlist Jan 23, 2013

Host: David Ryshpan

Thomas Chapin - "Spanky House" (Never Let Me Go)
Rob Mazurek Pulsar Quartet - "Spiral Mercury" (Stellar Pulsations)
Rez Abbasi Trio - "Major Major" (Continuous Beat)
Michael Formanek - "Small Places" (Small Places)
KLANG - "Ground" (Brooklyn Lines...Chicago Spaces)
David Virelles - "Threefold" (Continuum)
Brad Mehldau - "Airegin" (Where Do You Start?)
Michael Webster - "Momentus" (Momentus)
The Whammies - "Dutch Masters" (Play the Music of Steve Lacy) [@ Sala Rossa 01/24]
Walter/Halvorson/Evans - "Freezing" (Mechanical Malfunction) [Walter/Evans/Blancarte/Chan @ Casa del Popolo 01/23]
*Gary Schwartz's Lettingo - "School Work" (Live: The Music and Influence of Ornette Coleman) [launch @ Sala Rossa 01/28]
*Michael Blake's Variety Hour - "Major Major" (Continuous Beat) [@ Casa del Popolo 01/30]
Hafez Modirzadeh - "Facet 14" (Post-Chromodal Out!)
Ben Holmes Quartet - "Kingston" (Anvil of the Lord)
*Lina Allemano - "Flummox" (Live at the Tranzac)
Dave Douglas - "This is My Father's World" (Be Still)

Playlist - January 9, 2013

Playlist - January 9, 2013
Host: Parker Mah

Artist - Song - Album (Label)

*Tyson Naylor - PKP - Kosmonauten (Songlines)

*David Virelles - Mañongo Pabio - Continuum (Pi Recordings)
Tomas Fujiwara & The Hookup - Double Lake, Defined - The Air is
Different (482 Music)
Juma Sultan's Aboriginal Music Society - Shake Your Money Maker -
Whispers from the Archive (Porter)

Hafez Modirzadeh - Facet Twenty feat. Faraz Minooei on santur - Post
Chromodal Out! (Pi Recordings)
*Gordon Grdina's Haram - En Shakawt al Hawa (If you complain about
love) - Her Eyes Illuminate (Songlines)
Niño Josele - Waltz for Debby - Paz (Calle 54)

*Ken Aldcroft & Joel Leblanc - The Short (I) - The Long and the Short
of it (Trio recordings)
Josh Berman & His Gang - Sugar - There Now (Delmark)
Elisabeth Kontomanou feat. Geri Allen - I Wish I Knew How It Would
Feel To Be Free - Secret of the Wind (Effendi)
Dave Douglas Quintet feat. Aoife O'Donovan - High on a Mountain - Be
Still (Greenleaf)

European Jazz Spotlight
Nils Wogram & Nostalgia - Jack of all trades - Affinity (Intuition)
Conny Bauer - Zu Hause - Der Gelbe Klang (Jazzwerkstatt)
Karl Berger - Sun Rays - Stillpoint (Double Moon)

Adam Pieroñczyk Trio - Garota de Craciova - Busem po São Paolo (Meta)
Bace Quartet - Dis Quelque Chose - Guerre Propre (Chicken Madness)
Laurent de Wilde - Snippets - Stories (Warner)
Bartmes - Berlin - Modular Soul (Blisstone)
Kelvin Sholar - Dagarth Vader - Between Worlds (Kasmavtsu)
Enders Room - Companion Star - Zen Tauri (Material)
Martin Dahanukar & Blood System - Juhu Beach - Nanda Devi (Zodiac Sounds)
Javier Colina / Marc Miralta / Perico Sambeat - Encuentros - Jazz from
Catalonia (Catalan Arts)

* indicates Canadian Content.

Jazz Euphorium Playlist for December 19, 2012

Host: Lawrence Joseph

Some of my favourite albums from 2012:

1. Simon Nabatov/Ernst Reijseger/Matthias Schubert - Long Haul (16:44; Square Down, Leo)
2. Miles Perkin Quartet - Street Escape (6:17; Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear, self released)
3. Gordon Grdina's Haram - Raqs al Jamal (7:21; Her Eyes Illuminate, Songlines)
4. Mary Halvorson Quintet - Hemorrhaging Smiles (7:48; Bending Bridges, Firehouse 12)
5. Ratchet Orchestra - Dusty (12:47; Hemlock, Drip Audio)
6. Le Quatuor de Jazz Libre du Québec - Sans Titre (15:03; 1973, Tenzier)
7. Fo[u]r Alto - Molto Fluttante (11:41; 4 Compositions by Frank Gratkowski, Leo)
8. Hafez Modirzadeh - Facet Seventeen (6:04; Post-Chromodal Out!, Pi)
9. Nate Wooley/Christian Weber/Paul Lytton - Pushing Up Daisies (7:54; Six Feet Under, NoBusiness)
10. Anthony Braxton - Echo Echo Mirror House (15 minute excerpt; Echo Echo Mirror House (NYC) 2011, Braxton House)

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See the Cult Montreal Top 10 Album lists of 2012

Playlist Dec 12, 2012

Host: David Ryshpan

Rudresh Mahanthappa's Indo-Pak Coalition - "Vandanaa Trayee" (Apti) [RIP Ravi Shankar]
Claudia Quintet +1 - "The Snow is Deep on the Ground" (What is the Beautiful?)
Dave Douglas - "Be Still My Soul" (Be Still)
Fred Hersch - "Segment" (Alive at the Vanguard
George Schuller's Circle Wide - "Edwin" (Listen Both Ways)
Harris Eisenstadt - "Shuttle Off This Mortal Coil" (Canada Day III)
Vijay Iyer - "Little Pocket Size Demons" (Accelerando)
David Virelles - "The Executioner" (Continuum)
*Rémi Bolduc + Jerry Bergonzi - "Mr. Coleman" (4+1)
*Myriad3 - "Tell" (Tell)
*Hobson's Choice - "Tessellations" (Of the Waves)
Peter Madsen's Seven Sins Ensemble  - "Swiss Chocolate" (Gravity of Love)
Greg Ward's Phonic Juggernaut - "Sectionate City" (s/t)
John Abercrombie - "Interplay" (Within a Song)
Sam Rivers/Dave Holland/Barry Altschul - "Set 2, Part 3" (Reunion: Live in New York)
*Ratchet Orchestra - "Winnow" (Hemlock)

Playlist Dec 5, 2012

Host: David Ryshpan

RIP Dave Brubeck

Dave Brubeck - "Strange Meadowlark" (Just You, Just Me)
Dave Brubeck - "It's a Raggy Waltz" (Time Further Out)
Dave Brubeck - "Lost Waltz" (Time In)
Dave Brubeck - "Unisphere" (Time Changes)
40Twenty - "Jan 20" (40Twenty)
Dave Douglas - "Whither Must I Wander" (Be Still)
*Ben Henriques - "Cloud City" (Captain Awesome)
Guillermo Klein - "Mariana" (Carrera)
Rudresh Mahanthappa - "Killer" (Samdhi)
Mark de Clive-Lowe & Rotterdam Jazz Orchestra - "Heaven" (Take the Space Trane)
*Parc-X Trio - "Ivan Sings" (s/t) [Parc X-mas party tonight at Sala Rossa]
Peter Madsen's Seven Sins Ensemble - "Jealousy" (Gravity of Love)
*Peggy Lee Band - "Path of a Smile" (Invitation)
Harris Eisenstadt - "Ballad for 10.6.7" (Just You, Just Me)
Mike Reed's People, Places & Things - "Sharon" (Clean on the Corner)
Josh Berman & His Gang - "Cloudy" (There Now)
John Abercrombie - "Blues Connotation" (Within a Song)

Playlist for Jazz Euphorium - November 28 2012

Host: Lawrence Joseph

1.  Jimmy Lyons - Give it Up (10:10; Give it Up, Black Saint)
2.  Cecil Taylor - Toll (7:38; Looking Ahead, Contemporary)
3.  Golia / Eneieidi / Mezzacappa / Anderson - Everything Imaginable Can Be Dreamed (7:56; Hell Bent in the Pacific, NoBusiness)
4.  Lotz of Music - In the Air (4:00; Pumkin Diaries, LopLop)
5.  Paul Giallorenzo's Gitgo - Slowed Roll (5:50; Emergent, Leo)
6.  Ivo Perelman - Playing with Mercury (11:28; Living Jelly, Leo)
7.  Frank Gratkowski Quartet - Go! (12:04; Le Vent et la Gorge, Leo)
8.  John Stevens - 2,4,4 (11:01; One Four and Two Twos, Emanem)
9.  Liudas Mockunas and Barry Guy - Nebula I (6:17; Lava, NoBusiness)
10. Peggy Lee Band - Why Are You Yelling? (7:48; Invitation, Drip Audio)
11. Ben Holmes Quartet - Magic Mondays (7:23; Anvil of the Lord, Skirl)
12. Alex Von Schlippenbach - Coming on the Hudson (4:17; Plays Monk, Intakt)   

Jazz Euphorium Playlist - Wednesday November 7 2012

Host:  Lawrence Joseph

1.  Stefan Cristoff/Sam Shalabi - Duet for Abdelrazik (Duets for Abdelrazik, 12:06; Howl Arts)
2.  Wooley/Weber/Lytton - Pushing Up Daysies (Six Feet Under, 7:54; NoBusiness)
3.  Mockuno NuClear - The Dark Side / The Bright Side (Drop It, 11:22; Drop It)
4.  Liudas Mockunas and Barry Guy - Nebula III (Lava; 1:16; NoBusiness)
5.  Golia / Eneieidi / Mezzacappa / Anderson - Meteorites (Hell-Bent in the Pacific, 9:20; NoBusiness)
6.  Alex Von Schlippenbach - Brilliant Corners (Plays Monk, 7:18; Intakt)
7.  Anthony Braxton Quintet - Dixie's Dilemma (Tristano 1997; 8:46, Braxton House)
8.  Frank Gratkowski - Molto Fluttuante (Fo[u]r Alto, 11:38; Leo)
9.  Hafez Modirzadeh - Facet 17 (Post-Chromodal Out!, 6:04; Pi Recordings)
10. Perelman / Shipp / Bisio - A Flower Bewitched and Too Bright By Far(The Gift, 13:06; Leo)
11. Alex Von Schlippenbach - Played Twice (Plays Monk, 2:56; Intakt)

Playlist October 24, 2012

Host: David Ryshpan

Guillermo Klein & Los Guachos - "Mariana" (Carrera)
Harris Eisenstadt - "The Ombudsman 4" (Canada Day Octet)
Tim Berne - "Scanners" (Snakeoil)
John McNeil - "Down Sunday" (Faun) [at Upstairs October 27]
40Twenty - "Soon Enough" (s/t)
John McNeil - "The Water is Wide" (Sleep Won't Come)
John McNeil - "Bernie's Tune" (East Coast Cool)
John Abercrombie - "Blues Connotation" (Within a Song)
Marty Ehrlich - "Song for Tomorrow" (Things Have Got to Change)
*Gordon Grdina's Haram - "Laktob Aourak al Chagar" (Her Eyes Illuminate)
Henry Threadgill's Zooid - "A Day Off" (Tomorrow Sunny/The Revelry, Spp)
Greg Ward's Phonic Juggernaut - "Phonic Juggernaut" (s/t)

Jeff Davis - "Faded" (Leaf House)
Keith Jarrett - "New Dance" (Sleeper)
Maria Neckam - "New Orleans" (Unison)