Posted by Rafi Zabor
on October 30, 2014 @ 4:31 pm | Comments Off on Rafi Zabor’s Updoc Fri 10/31 & Tues 11/4
When Jack Bruce died at the age of 71 the other day, the grief and praise were equilateral—I didn’t hear sectarian sniffing about rock thisaway and jazz thataway from anyone anywhere: seems he was loved in all departments for his rock heldentenor, his bravura bassplaying in any number of idioms; and that indicates general recognition of the power of music pouring out of the man. Next week Kip Hanrahan, who worked with Jack on a number of projects over a thirty-year span, will clock in with a show more deeply felt and informed than anything I can provide, but I thought I’d get a memorial set in anyway—Friday at 8PM and noon next Tuesday, off-Broadway time. There’s some Cream and Lifetime but more than half of it scattershots Jack’s work with Hanrahan. There was not much precedent for the singing Kip asked Jack to do—unrhymed poetry of extreme intelligence, powerfully sexual, political and confessional while also lifting the lid on minds and souls all over the modern world, plus Latin percussion as not heard before, plus advanced jazz musicians finding their freedom in the mix—but Jack absolutely nailed it, then lifted it skyward. Sorry Kip but I have to say it: overall it’s one of the major accomplishments of modern American music. (And for my Mistake of the Week I kept saying Belfast instead of Glasgow.) Then it’s okay to present the brilliant young pianist Igor Levit taking leave of late Beethoven for Bach’s Partitas; he was Schnabelescent with LvB and I hear Lipatti this time out; but the cat can play and it’s a pleasure to hear a Bach pianist who doesn’t try to sound like Gould. Then two more from Branford at Grace Cathedral, chased though not chastened by Trane, and last another Mozart piano concerto, in which apparent thematic simplicity yields a dialogue of beauty and grace that is balm from Gilead and if you tilt your head just right will tell you everything you need to know.
Posted by Michael Stone
on October 27, 2014 @ 5:00 pm | Comments Off on Jazz Worldwide 058 27 October 2014
Title |
Artist |
Album |
Composer |
Label |
Night Train |
King Curtis |
The Best of King Curtis |
Jimmy Forrest-Lewis Simpkins-Oscar Washington |
Capitol Jazz |
Night Train to Beirut |
Va Fan Fahre |
Al Wa’debt |
Michael de Schryver |
Zephyrus |
Overnight Train |
Musaner |
Once Upon a Time |
Ara Sarkissian |
Lucent |
Take the A Train |
Michel Petrucciani |
Promenade with Duke |
Billy Strayhorn |
Blue Note |
Take the A Train |
Mr. Ho’s Orchestrotica |
The Unforgettable Sounds of Esquivel |
Billy Strayhorn |
Tiki Jazz |
Take the A Train |
Paul Carlon |
La Rumba Is a Lovesome Thing A Tribute to Billy Strayhorn |
Billy Strayhorn |
Zoho |
Subway Harry |
Poncho Sánchez |
Afro-Cuban Fantasy |
David Torres |
Concord Picante |
2:19 |
John Hammond |
Wicked Grin |
Tom Waits-Kathleen Brennan |
Virgin |
The Train and the River |
Sam Decker, Will Graefe and Nate Therrien |
Artifacts: Great Performances from 40 Years of Jazz at NEC |
Jimmy Guiffre |
NE Conservatory |
Night Train to You |
Marcin Wasilewski Trio |
Faithful |
Marcin Wasilewski |
ECM |
Stop This Train |
Romain Collin |
The Calling |
John Mayer |
Palmetto |
Gone, Just Like a Train |
Bill Frisell |
Gone, Just Like a Train |
Bill Frisell |
Nonesuch |
Le Silence de l’Exode 9 |
Yom |
Le Silence de l’Exode |
Yom |
Buda Musique |
Night Swim |
Uri Sharlin and the DogCat Ensemble |
Back to the Woods |
Uri Sharlin |
Folk Dune |
Gnawa Stop |
Roberto Fonseca |
Yo |
R. Hierrezuelo |
Jazz Village |
Yar Ali |
Arifa |
Beyond Babylon |
Sjahin During |
Mundus |
A Woman’s Song |
Ayelet Rose Gottlieb |
Roadsides |
Ayelet Rose Gottlieb |
Arogole Music |
Yerushalaim |
Ben-Canar |
Nedudai |
Ben-Canar |
Orange World |
Dreaming |
Hijaz |
Dunes |
Moufadhel Adhoum |
Zephyrus |
Cuando El Rey Nimrod |
Jim Guttmann |
Bessarabian Breakdown |
Traditional Sephardic |
Kleztone |
Mr Lee 2-Be Water My Friend |
Karim Baggili Quartet |
Cuatro con Cuatro |
Karim Baggili |
Home Records |
Yafa |
Reem Kelani |
Sprinting Gazelle |
Reem Kelani |
Fuse |
Bedouin Roots |
Omer Avital |
New Song |
Omer Avital |
Motema |
Posted by David Menestres
on October 26, 2014 @ 8:00 pm | Comments Off on Tone Science – 10/26/2014
tone science 184
Time |
Song |
Artist |
Album |
Midnight |
Desert Mirage / A D N / After Coda |
Alan Silva & Celestrial Communication Orchestra |
Desert Mirage |
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Side A: Mosquito Dance, NIght Dance, Flute Song, Eternal Chant, The Bird, The Waiting |
Jimmy Giuffre 3 |
Music For People, Birds, Butterflies & Mosquitoes |
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Songlines |
Peter Brotzmann, Rashied Ali, Fred Hopkins |
Songlines |
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Places des Abbesse |
Luc Ferrari |
Cellule 75 |
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Plectra and Percussion Daces Satyr-Play Muisc for Dance Theatre (1952) I. Castor & Pollux - A..... |
Harry Partch |
The Harry Partch Collection vol. 1 |
Posted by Howling Dick
on October 26, 2014 @ 1:30 am | Comments Off on I Can’t Help You
This week on Taint Howling’s having happy accidents, promoting the mandolin and admiring an ageing troubadour. Whats this got to do with anything? Well, he doesn’t know either! But don’t worry, Dick’s porch is always the right place to be for an hour of the finest blues ‘n roots on the net.

Ike Turner – “No poster boy for womens lib”
Posted by Rafi Zabor
on October 23, 2014 @ 4:58 pm | 1 Comment
I have the feeling I’m behind the curve on this one, and that a lot of my listeners have heard Flying Lotus, aka Steven Ellison, before I did; but at least once I heard his new album, some kind of funky tour of the Bardos called You’re Dead, I put a bunch of it on the first available Updoc—8PM Friday and noon next Tuesday. It’s his sixth record, he’s 31 years old and is related to the Coltrane family, and he composes, plays, assembles, mixes, and yes, raps, gets Herbie Hancock to collaborate, and doesn’t sound much like anyone else out there. I know, doesn’t sound like Updoc’s usual fare, and that’s good, even if after it we get onto Christopher Rouse’s pull-no-punches Concerto Per Corde, a 1990 an orchestral recomposition of his 2nd String Quartet, and then there’s a mostly ballad jazz set featuring Branford Marsalis live and unaccompanied at SF’s Grace Cathedral, more Haden-Hall and Barron-Holland duets, and before Carl Nielsen’s imposing 5th Symphony rattles the rafters with echoes of war—it premiered in 1920, when the echoes hadn’t faded—and sounds the prayerful longing for peace that drew many composers at the time, darkly though not entirely without hope. After that Sonny Rollins and Philly Joe Jones trade witticisms that provide a smile at the exit.
Posted by Michael Stone
on October 20, 2014 @ 5:00 pm | Comments Off on Jazz Worldwide 057 20 October 2014
Song |
Artist |
Album |
Composer |
Label |
Wise One |
Afro-Semitic Experience |
Jazz Souls on Fire |
John Coltrane |
Reckless DC Music |
Shirim Ad Kan |
Oran Etkin |
Gathering Light |
Traditional |
Motema |
Easy Healing |
Stefano Bollani |
Joy in Spite of Everything |
Stefano Bollani |
ECM |
Farewell Mulgrew |
The Cookers |
Time and Time Again |
George Cables |
Motema |
Chinar Es |
Anja Lechner-François Couturier |
Moderato Cantabile |
Komitas Vardapet |
ECM New Series |
Le Parfum de l’Éxil |
Louis Sclavis Quartet |
Silk and Salt Melodies |
Louis Sclavis |
ECM |
Tenebroso |
Antonio Adolfo |
Rio Choro Jazz |
Ernesto Nazareth |
AAM Music |
Avishkes |
Omer Avital |
New Song |
Omer Avital |
Motema |
Strung Out Again |
Toby Koenigsberg Trio |
Drift |
Elliott Smith |
Ninjazz Records |
Wise One |
John Abercrombie Quartet |
Within a Song |
John Coltrane |
ECM |
New Start |
Adam Smale |
Out of the Blue |
Adam Smale |
Ropeadope |
Blue in Green |
Mostly Other People Do the Killing |
Blue |
Miles Davis-Bill Evans |
Hot Cup Records |
Where Can I Go Without You |
Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden |
Jasmine |
Peggy Lee-Victor Young |
ECM |
Senhorina |
Charlie Dennard |
From Brazil to New Orleans |
Guinga-Paulo Cesar Pinheiro |
www.charliedennard.com |
Join Us Jackson |
The North, feat. Romain Collin |
Slow Down (This Isn’t the Mainland) |
Christina Courtin |
Dowsett Records |
Bounce |
Jacob Young |
Forever Young |
Jacob Young |
ECM |
Largo |
Marcin Wasilewski Trio with Joakim Milder |
Spark of Life |
Grazyna Bacewicz |
ECM |
Ghost Dance |
Matt Slocum |
Black Elk’s Dream |
Matt Slocum |
Chandra |
Posted by Howling Dick
on October 19, 2014 @ 1:30 am | Comments Off on Whilst We Swim In Muddy Waters
This week Howling’s drowning on the porch, relenting on previous decisions and revealing whats wrong with the world. In between all this monesense he plays some of the best blues ‘n roots you’ll hear on the net.

Lonesome Shack – Blues “down to the bone”
Posted by Rafi Zabor
on October 16, 2014 @ 4:48 pm | Comments Off on Rafi Zabor’s Updoc, Fri 10/17 & Tues 10/21
When the temperature outside cools down, the body may seek escape southward but the soul, it seems to me, orients itself to the north and begins to contemplate the areas of human experience corresponding to the cold and hard; at least that’s what happens to my listening habits, and this week I got as far as Finland, that nation of a mere 5.3 million souls contributing a disproportionate wealth of sound to first-rate modern ‘classical’ music. First Finn up on this week’s show—8PM on Friday and noon next Tuesday, NY Rangers icetime—is Kajia Saariaho’s Oltra Mar (Across the Sea) with its ice-crystal textures wrought in orchestra and chorus. Later on there’s Magnus Lindberg’s Violin Concerto, which proceeds from icy altitudes toward melodic shelter, and in between the two youngsters the Papadaddy of Finnish music: Jean Sibelius represented by a towering performance of his tone poem The Oceanides. But that’s not all, folks: there’s jazz and more: newly released tracks of duet performances by Charlie Haden and Jim Hall in concert and by Kenny Barron and Dave Holland in the studio begin and end the show, with interstitial stuffing from Jason Moran’s newish tribute album to Fats Waller, the haunting though unhaunted voice of Aoife O’Donovan has me in its spell, twice, and then there’s some new Prince with his shadowband 3rdEyeGirl. You can’t ask for more than that, and if you can, I’d need more than two hours to answer you, so please set yourself down and take what you can get, with the blessing.
Posted by Michael Stone
on October 13, 2014 @ 5:00 pm | Comments Off on Jazz Worldwide 056 13 October 2014
Song Title |
Artist |
Album |
Composer |
Label |
Tsfadina |
Omer Avital |
New Song |
Omer Avital |
Motema |
Yemen Suite |
Omer Avital |
New Song |
Omer Avital |
Motema |
Le Silence de l’Exode 2 |
Yom |
Le Silence de l’Exode |
Yom |
Buda Musique |
Tidhar |
The Touré-Raichel Collective |
The Paris Session |
Idan Raichel-Vieux Farka Touré |
Cumbancha |
Conception |
Arun Ramamurthy Trio |
Jazz Carnatica |
Arun Ramamurthy |
arunramamurthy.com |
Zingaro |
New York Standard Quartet |
The New Straight Ahead |
Antonio Carlos Jobim-Chico Buarque |
Whirlwind |
Ollu |
Omar Sosa |
Real Live |
Omar Sosa |
Otá |
Looking Both Ways |
Omar Sosa |
Senses |
Omar Sosa |
Otá |
Sleep Safe and Warm |
Marcin Wasilewski Trio with Joakim Milder |
Spark of Life |
Kristof Komeda |
ECM |
Interludio I |
Omar Sosa |
Eggun |
Omar Sosa |
Otá |
Hodu |
The Touré-Raichel Collective |
The Paris Session |
Idan Raichel-Vieux Farka Touré |
Cumbancha |
Alabama |
Ezra Weiss Sextet |
Before You Know It |
John Coltrane |
Roark Records |
Alphabet Town |
Toby Koenigsberg Trio |
Drift |
Elliott Smith |
Ninjazz Records |
Ds Blues |
Mike Bardash |
Polygon |
Deji Coker |
Rhombus |
Lamento |
Eliana Cuevas |
Espejo |
Eliana Cuevas |
Alma |
Salavina |
Dino Saluzzi Group |
El Valle de la Infancia |
Mario Arnedo Gallo |
ECM |
Blossom |
Rotem Sivan Trio |
For Emotional Use Only |
Rotem Sivan |
Fresh Sound |
Beauty |
Jacob Young |
Forever Young |
Jacob Young |
ECM |
Paola |
Andrew Hadro |
For Us, The Living |
Ryan Anselmi |
Tone Rogue |
Staying There |
Tord Gustavsen Quartet |
Extended Circle |
Tord Gustavsen |
ECM |
Posted by David Menestres
on October 12, 2014 @ 8:00 pm | Comments Off on Tone Science – 10/12/2014
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Time |
Song |
Artist |
Album |
Midnight |
Two Fingers Please |
Peter Kowald with Barre Phillips |
Bass Duets |
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Composition 367D |
Anthony Braxton |
Quartet (Mannheim) 2010 |
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Tower of Meaning |
Arthutr Russell |
Tower of Meaning |