Posted by Rafi Zabor
on April 30, 2015 @ 4:18 pm | Comments Off on Rafi Zabor’s Updoc Fri MayDay & Tues May 5
I’ve broken bread and spilled beer with him, plus he has his own show on taintradio, so it would only be logrolling and puffery if it weren’t for the fact that there isn’t an atomy of aesthetic or moral compromise in my assertion that Kip Hanrahan is making some of the most intelligent and impassioned music of anyone anywhere, and that I’d like to serve up a tranch of his work so that you might hear it and consider chipping or kipping in to the fundraiser he’s got going—via his Facebook page or indiegogo.com—in order to record some new music for the first time in years and get it out there for us all. So this week’s Updoc—8 PM Friday and noon next Tuesday, Off-Broadway time—after starting off with new and newish music from burnout reedmen Kamasi Washington and Gilad Atzmon respectively, serves up about forty minutes of Kip Hanrahan’s life and thought. An early breakthrough album’s title, Desire Develops an Edge, says a lot about the highly charged nexus of love and sex and intellect and world and quest, frequently inflected by umbral looming geopolitical realities, that Hanrahan has achieved. I first encountered him in the late 1970s in the backstage shadows of the New York Public Theatre’s jazz series where, in one of the smartest moves anyone made at the time, he began to see a place where the avant-gardish jazz of the time might meet the Latin percussion he’d heard growing up in the Bronx, and that he might even write a nightborne singable poetry that could stitch those elements together in a way that those elements had yet themselves suspected—a strong beginning for a musical idiom that has enriched itself in passage through mixed countryside along its evolutions toward the sea. It has passed your town along the way, and you’ll probably catch sight of yourself in it. The show eases off, or doesn’t, with the sound of brilliant women singing: Rhiannon Giddens, Joanna Wallfisch, Aoife O’Donovan, Lena Chamamyan, the Wailin’ Jennys, and Dom La Nena: all in all, not 2 bad a 2 hoursworth, with days and nights of blue luck inverted included gratis.
Posted by Michael Stone
on April 27, 2015 @ 5:00 pm | Comments Off on Jazz Worldwide 081 27 April 2015
Song Title |
Artist |
Album Title |
Composer |
Record Label |
Catalog Number |
Mutaciones |
Ken Hatfield |
String Theory |
Ken Hatfield |
Arthur Circle |
ACM-7502 |
Clair De Lune |
Ameranouche |
Sun Shine Soul |
Joseph Kosma |
Red Squirrel |
88295-24303 |
Maih Maull |
Ameranouche |
Sun Shine Soul |
Richard Sheppard |
Red Squirrel |
88295-24303 |
Funkissimo |
Ken Hatfield Trio |
The Surrealist Table |
Ken Hatfield |
Arthur Circle |
ACM-0162 |
Riff for Brother Jack |
Ken Hatfield |
Phoenix Rising |
Ken Hatfield |
Arthur Circle |
ACM-9512 |
Vas Dis |
Brother Jack McDuff |
Brotherly Love |
Brother Jack McDuff |
Concord Jazz |
CCD-4893 |
Impressions |
Dave Stryker |
Messin’ with Mr. T |
John Coltrane |
Strikezone |
Strikezone 8812 |
A Love Supreme-Exodus |
Rebel Tumbao |
Rebel Tumbao |
John Coltrane-Bob Marley |
Sacred Rhythm |
00261-39289 |
Wise One |
Afro-Semitic Experience |
Jazz Souls on Fire |
John Coltrane |
Reckless DC Music |
RMCD-1056 |
Hoodoo Voodoo |
Kevin Stout and Brian Booth |
Color Country |
Kevin Stout |
Jazzed5 |
No # |
Fire And Brimstone |
Trombone Shorty |
Say That to Say This |
Troy Andrews-Michael Ballard-Pete Murano-Alonzo “Novel” Stevenson-Taura Stinson |
Verve |
B0018381-02 |
Foreclosure |
Jimmy Bosch |
¡A Millon! |
Jimmy Bosch |
JRGR Records |
JRGR CD004 |
Goodbye Pork Pie Hat |
Natalie Cressman and Secret Garden |
Unfolding |
Charles Mingus-Joni Mitchell |
nataliecressman.com |
No # |
Vesper |
Marshall Gilkes and the WDR Big Band |
Köln |
Marshall Gilkes |
Alternate Side |
ASR 008 |
Thruway |
Marshall Gilkes |
Sound Stories |
Marshall Gilkes |
Alternate Side |
ASR005 |
Colombian Dixie |
Edmar Castaneda |
Entre Cuerdas |
Edmar Castaneda |
ArtistShare |
AS0095 |
Bamako |
Roswell Rudd and Toumani Diabaté |
Malicool |
Roswell Rudd |
Sunnyside |
SSC3008 |
It’s Time to Make a Change |
Madison’s Lively Stones |
Saints’ Paradise: Trombone Shout Bands from the United House of Prayer |
Traditional |
Smithsonian Folkways |
SFW CD40117 |
Posted by David Menestres
on April 26, 2015 @ 9:00 pm | Comments Off on Tone Science – 04/26/2015
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Time |
Song |
Artist |
Album |
Midnight |
Aufflattern die Fledermäuse |
Grahma Lambkin/Michael Pisaro |
Schwarze Riesenfalter |
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Cor |
John Butcher, Thomas Lehn, John Tilbury |
Exta |
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crawling voices in relief |
rosalind hall/alice hui-sheng chang |
embossed tales of throats |
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Spontaneous Appealinair Comtemporate Appollinaire |
Bob Cobbing |
Reveue OU 34-35 36-37 |
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Tape Deconstruction II |
Nate Wooley |
Battle Pieces |
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Shozyg 1&2 |
Hugh Danies |
Revue U 34-35 36-37 |
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Duet 9 |
Evan Parker & Joe McPhee |
Chciago Tenor Duets |
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Calling All Cyborgs (After Sun Ra) |
George Lewis |
Sequel (for Lester Bowie) |
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The Beaded Braids |
Tony Malaby's Tubacello |
Scorpion Eater |
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Until |
James Falzone's Renga Ensemble |
The Room Is |
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Drone |
Tod Dockstader |
Apocalypse |
Posted by Howling Dick
on April 26, 2015 @ 1:30 am | Comments Off on Fiddle Happy
This week Howling’s blues hounds are riding bicycles, talking to the dead and fighting over names. Sounds like a strange crowd? Sure they are, but they do make some of the greatest blues ‘n roots you’ll find on the net so it’s got to be worth a listen.

Otis Taylor – “Who says men can’t multitask?”
Posted by Rafi Zabor
on April 23, 2015 @ 4:23 pm | Comments Off on Rafi Zabor’s Updoc, Fri 4/24 & Tues 4/28
Rhiannon Giddens seems to have arrived with the Spring, and now she’s everywhere amid the blasts and blossoms, stunning audience and host alike with her solo rendition of Odetta’s Waterboy on the Letterman show, headlining a country-gospel concert at the White House, profiles on PBS and NPR—seldom have the changing seasons witnessed such a rollout for a first solo album, her Tomorrow is My Turn, produced by T-Bone Burnett for Nonesuch; but in radical contradistinction to a music industry more notable for its industry than its music rolling out ubiquitous armies of promotion for ephemeral crapola, Giddens’ is a voice scaled not only to stun a waiting nation but embrace it, from hillbilly music to classic country to gospel declamation through uncountable gradations from darkest brown to pinkest white: a major talent has arrived, and her Macarthur genius grant will follow next year—you heard it here first, where all Updoc can do, Friday at 8PM and noon next Tuesday, Capital of the World Daylight Savings Time, is build a couple of vocal sets around her music buttresed by new releases from Nellie McKay, Lainie Cooke, Cassandra Wilson and a belated celebration of Billie Holiday’s centenary. And that’s not all, folks: we’ve got two long selections from Charles Lloyd’s celebratory Wild Man’s Dance. More than any other of John Coltrane’s epigones, Lloyd has long been drawn to Coltrane’s higher lyrical flights of the spirit, and while in the past it may have been convenient to think of Lloyd as Coltrane-light, nowadays there are so few players with any audible notion of their notes referring to anything greater than their notes that Lloyd brings not only a sense of meditation and celebration but a feeling of relief.
Posted by Michael Stone
on April 20, 2015 @ 5:00 pm | Comments Off on Jazz Worldwide 080 20 April 2015
Song Title |
Artist |
Album Title |
Composer |
Record Label |
If I Should Lose You |
Grant Green with Sonny Clark |
Complete Blue Note Recordings of Grant Green with Sonny Clark |
Ralph Ranger-Leo Robin |
Mosaic |
If I Should Lose You |
Rachel Caswell |
All I Know |
Ralph Ranger-Leo Robin |
Turtle Ridge |
If I Should Lose You |
Chick Corea and Stefano Bollani |
Orvieto |
Ralph Ranger-Leo Robin |
ECM |
A Love Lost |
Omar Sosa |
Ilé |
Omar Sosa |
Otá |
I Almost Lost My Mind |
Albert King |
Born Under a Bad Sign |
Ivory Joe Hunter |
Concord-Stax Remasters |
The Lost Wife |
Romain Collin |
The Rise and Fall of Pipokuhn |
Romain Collin |
Fresh Sound |
Lost in a Dream |
Paul Motian, Chris Potter and Jason Moran |
Lost in a Dream |
Paul Motian |
ECM |
Lost in the Stars |
Duke Pearson |
Mosaic Select Duke Pearson |
Kurt Weill-M. Anderson |
Mosaic Select |
Lost and Found |
Oded Lev-Ari |
Threading |
Oded Lev-Ari |
Anzic |
Lost Chords I |
Carla Bley, Steve Swallow, Andy Sheppard and Billy Drummond |
The Lost Chords |
Carla Bley |
ECM-WATT |
A Love Lost Reprise |
Omar Sosa |
Ilé |
Omar Sosa |
Otá |
Dáme la luz |
Omar Sosa |
Ilé |
Omar Sosa |
Otá |
Blackbird |
Brad Mehldau |
The Art of the Trio Vol. 1 |
John Lennon-Paul McCartney |
Warner Bros. |
Bye Bye Blackbird |
Ernán López-Nussa |
Habana Report |
Ray Henderson-Mort Dixon |
Unicornio |
Blackbird |
Orquestra Popular de Câmara |
Danças Jogos e Canções |
John Lennon-Paul McCartney |
Núcleo Contemporaneo |
Blackbird Bye Bye |
Keith Jarrett Trio |
Bye Bye Blackbird |
Gary Peacock-Jack DeJohnette-Keith Jarrett |
ECM |
Eye of the Blackbird |
Omar Sosa and Adam Rudolph |
Pictures of Soul |
Omar Sosa-Adam Rudolph |
Otá |
Black and Tan Fantasy |
Raphael Imbert |
Heavens Amadeus and the Duke |
Duke Ellington |
Jazz Village |
Blackwood |
Eddie Daniels |
GRP 30 The Digital Master Company 30th Anniversary |
Eddie Daniels-Rob Mounsey |
GRP |
I Am the Black Gold of the Sun |
Samuel Yirga |
Guzo |
Charles Stepney-Richard Rudolph |
Real World |
Black Chicken 37 |
Buena Vista Social Club with Cachaito López |
Lost and Found |
Cachaito López |
World Circuit |
Black Orchid |
Mr. Ho’s Orchestrotica Quartet |
Where Here Meets There |
Cal Tjader |
Tiki |
Black Orchid |
Cal Tjader and Eddie Palmieri |
El Sonido Nuevo |
Cal Tjader |
Verve |
Retrato em branco e preto |
Jean Luc Fillon |
Aquarela Outros Choros do Brazil |
Antonio Carlos Jobim |
Buda Musique |
Posted by David Menestres
on April 19, 2015 @ 9:00 pm | Comments Off on Tone Science – 04/19/2015
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Time |
Song |
Artist |
Album |
Midnight |
Litany for the Whale |
John Cage/Theater of the Voices |
Litany for the Whale |
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Around Again |
Barre Phillips |
Camouflage |
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Suitcase in Savannah |
Mario Pavone, Matt MItchell, Tyshawn Sorey |
Blue Dialect |
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Holy Mountain |
Charles Gayle Quartet |
Vol 1: Translations |
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Battle Pieces IV |
Nate Wooley |
Battle Pieces |
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civil |
Phil Minton & Roger Turner |
Drainage |
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Two Living Rooms |
Deux Maisons |
For Sale |
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Les trois dames |
Joelle Leandre |
Les Douze Sons |
Posted by Howling Dick
on April 19, 2015 @ 1:20 am | Comments Off on Have No Fear
Howling’s back from his travels and this time he’s serious! This week he plays a man too old to rock and roll, salutes a man who rediscovered the greats and gives one of them the opportunity to do a coffee commercial. So, normal service is resumed on the porch and as usual there’s an hour of some of the finest blues ‘n roots on the net.
Sam Charters – Blues Hound RIP
Posted by Rafi Zabor
on April 17, 2015 @ 3:47 pm | Comments Off on Rafi Zabor’s Updoc Fri 4/17 & Tues 4/21
Second
attempt to air this show in which: Updoc’s ace programmer decided to take the week off, sort of. Well, when you program a complete Mahler symphony, especially his longest, you’ve pretty much got your two-hour slot aced for the week—not that that was his motivation! No, his ear got hooked by last week’s alternation of Mahler’s 3rd excerpts and bebop alto: those selections were from Jascha Horenstein’s great version; this time he’s moved on to Claudio Abbado’s radiant conduction of his last, greatest orchestra, the Lucerne Festival guys and gals with whom he Blu-rayed probably the finest Mahler cycle anyone has achieved. Check this vast, nutty, pantheistic extravaganza out Friday at 8PM and noon next Tuesday, six-hours-behind-Lake-Lucerne time: it’s pure entertainment, and the programmer has left a lot of explaining for the annotator to do, so if you enjoy classic radio-baritone announcing there’ll be plenty of it. He has to link the Mahler with the finisher, Sibelius’ last symphony, the 7th, in a sweeping live performance of Simon Rattle with the Royal Copenhagen (Konigslige Kapel) bunch, and he goes the “the two symphonies prominently lift adjacent phrases from the last movement of the Brahms 1st” route, which doesn’t really tell us much, so he fills in with the better-known meeting of the two composers in 1907, when Mahler, having just finished his Symphony of a Thousand, spoke of trying to include the whole world, and Sibelius, having recently completed a 3rd Symphony in which he pared away received romantic rhetoric and set sail for the eventual destination of the one-movement 7th, finished his drink and grumbled about the condensed concentration of thematic material. It works both ways, especially in performances as fine as these. Next week we’ll make with the bebop, once these polarised symphonic apotheoses get digested. (Repeat “polarised symphonic apotheoses get digested” three times fast and call me in the morning.)
Posted by Michael Stone
on April 13, 2015 @ 5:00 pm | Comments Off on Jazz Worldwide 079 13 April 2015
Song Title |
Artist |
Album Title |
Composer Name |
Record Label |
Shape Your Mind to Die |
Leon Thomas |
Blues and the Soulful Truth |
Neal Creque-Leon Thomas |
Flying Dutchman |
You Blew It |
Roswell Rudd Quartet |
Keep Your Heart Right |
Roswell Rudd |
Sunnyside |
Ever Since the World Ended |
Mose Allison |
The Mose Chronicles Live in London Vol. 1 |
Mose Allison |
Blue Note |
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy |
Cannonball Adderley Quintet |
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy! Live At The Club |
Joe Zawinul |
Capitol Jazz |
Everybody’s Crying Mercy |
Mose Allison |
Allison Wonderland |
Mose Allison |
Rhino-Atlantic Jazz |
No Mercy |
Jens Wendelboe Big Band |
Fresh Heat |
Jens Wendelboe |
Rosa |
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy |
Monty Alexander |
Monty Meets Sly and Robbie |
Joe Zawinul |
Telarc Jazz |
Ease My Troubled Mind |
Clouds of Heaven |
Saints Paradise |
Traditional |
Smithsonian Folkways |
It Never Entered My Mind |
Frank Kimbrough Quartet |
Frank Kimbrough Quartet |
Richard Rodgers |
Palmetto |
E and A |
Oded Lev-Ari |
Threading |
Oded Lev-Ari |
Anzic |
Up Eye |
Gino Sitson |
VoiStrings |
Gino Sitson |
Buda Musique |
Peace Piece |
Niño Josele |
Paz: The Music of Bill Evans |
Bill Evans |
Norte |
Maiden Voyage |
Gino Sitson |
VoiStrings |
Herbie Hancock |
Buda Musique |
Cantaloupe Island |
Kevin Coelho |
Funkengruven |
Herbie Hancock |
Chicken Coop |
The Maze |
New York Standards Quartet |
The New Straight Ahead |
Herbie Hancock |
Whirlwind |
Capricho |
Jean Luc Fillon |
Aquarela Outros Choros do Brazil |
Antonio Carlos Jobim |
Buda Musique |
Canto de Yansan |
Joyce Moreno |
Raiz |
Baden Powell-Ildasio Tavares |
Far Out |
Nanã |
Jovino Santos Neto with Joyce Moreno |
Roda Carioca |
Moacir Santos-Mario Telles |
Adventure Music |
Mi conga |
Omar Sosa |
Ilé |
Omar Sosa |
Otá |
La bien pagá |
Bebo & Cigala |
Lágrimas Negras |
Juan Mostazo |
Calle54 |
Descarga Valdés |
Bebo Valdés and Chucho Valdés |
Juntos Para Siempre |
Bebo Valdés |
Sony Music Latin |
New Day |
Harold López-Nussa |
New Day |
Harold López-Nussa-Mayquel González |
Jazz Village |