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Rafi Zabor’s Updoc, Fri 7/31 & Tues 8/4

Posted by Rafi Zabor on July 30, 2015 @ 3:35 pm | Comments Off on Rafi Zabor’s Updoc, Fri 7/31 & Tues 8/4

How to beat the heat and keep it musical? Well, there’s Miles and Gil’s cooling version of Summertime, but that’s just an introduction—of this week’s Updoc, Friday at 8PM and noon next Tuesday, New York oven time. Or you could go the other way entirely: Claude Debussy seemed to sustain the humid heat of his late-August birthday through his too-short lifetime’s wonderworks, up to and including the last sonatas he composed during the Great War and the onset of his cancer. The violin and cello sonatas sound like composed improvisation, in deeply expressive though still graceful performances by contemporary, mostly French virtuosi. In between them the show sets the burning, icy blade of the Miles Davis Quintet’s Newport set from the summer of ’67: beset by a hyper-aggressive Tony Williams, Miles seems halfway between linear improvisation and the blastier style he’d bring to his forthcoming electric bands, while Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, and Ron Carter perform their accustomed calisthentic miracles. If that doesn’t sound like two hours on its own, you’re right. Tune in for a handful of jazz surprises while you wonder if it’s time for another cooling draught and if perhaps there should be a sprig of mint in it.

Jazz Worldwide 094 27 July 2015

Posted by Michael Stone on July 27, 2015 @ 5:00 pm | Comments Off on Jazz Worldwide 094 27 July 2015

Tone Science – 07/26/2015

Posted by David Menestres on July 26, 2015 @ 12:39 pm | Comments Off on Tone Science – 07/26/2015

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Rafi Zabor’s Updoc, Fri 7/24 & Tues 7/28

Posted by Rafi Zabor on July 24, 2015 @ 1:28 am | Comments Off on Rafi Zabor’s Updoc, Fri 7/24 & Tues 7/28

When I hear that level of intimacy and daring I simply cannot turn aside: Charlie Haden and Gonzalo Rubalcaba, recorded live in Tokyo in 2005, something Charlie wanted released before he split but here it is now, live as you can get it. So I lead this week’s show off with one track—Friday at 8PM and noon next Tuesday, New York Miso time—and play two more, about half the album altogether, which is called Tokyo Adagio, and though it features other tempos too, all my picks are slow. Get ready to have your breath taken away and given back all different. Along with those selections there are exhalations from any number of brotherhoods of breath, mostly issuing from saxophones—Dudu Pukwana, Lee Konitz & Jimmy Giuffre together, Trane, Joe, Bartz, and who am I leaving out? Tune in for the answer, along with two classical ferocities—another Bartok string quartet and Stravinsky responding to World War Two with an orchestra and lots of bite and ice—and I hope a welcome change of mental weather.

Jazz Worldwide 093 20 July 2015

Posted by Michael Stone on July 20, 2015 @ 5:00 pm | Comments Off on Jazz Worldwide 093 20 July 2015

An hour devoted to Brazilian composer Moacir Santos (1926-2006), followed by a jazz disquisition on night.

Tone Science – 07/19/2015

Posted by David Menestres on July 19, 2015 @ 9:00 pm | Comments Off on Tone Science – 07/19/2015

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Downhome With Howling Dick Ep123 (My Cunning Plan

Posted by Howling Dick on July 19, 2015 @ 5:34 pm | Comments Off on Downhome With Howling Dick Ep123 (My Cunning Plan

In the last of the present series Howling crams in a few guitar heroes, reveals a singer named after his address and finds a way to get Cliff Richard onto the porch. He may be disappearing for the summer but he’s leaving you with an hour of some of the finest blues ‘n roots you’ll find on the net

The Memphis Jug Band – “Brilliant, by any name!”

Rafi Zabor’s Updoc Fri. 7/17 & Tues. 7/21

Posted by Rafi Zabor on July 17, 2015 @ 3:04 am | Comments Off on Rafi Zabor’s Updoc Fri. 7/17 & Tues. 7/21

While scanning for traces of thematic continuity in this week’s Updoc—Friday at 8PM and noon next Tuesday, Lincoln Center time—I came upon strands of social consciousness intersecting flows of pure aesthetic pleasure, and that was, like, really okay with me. So opening with Jeff Tain Watts’ new version of Driva Man when we aired the classic Max Roach/Abbey Lincoln version last week, and chasing that with selections from Stanley Cowell’s impressive solo piano suite Juneteenth, then pursuing that with the jailhouse hopes and stresses making up the text of Frederic Rjewski’s classic Coming Together, did not seem at all discordant, except where appropriate, as was music from James P. Johnson, Bessie Smith, Artur Schnabel playing that Beethoven cat, Julius Hemphill, Arthur Blythe, a Bartok string quartet, or a pointillistic deconstruction of all the things Masabumi Kikuchi was and might still be after his lamented death the other day. Meanwhile, the saxophone-stream had been heading, unobserved, for a conclusion more radical than anything in the preceding proceedings. Roscoe Mitchell’s records for the Nessa label tend to be long-considered projects meticulously brought off—the epochal Nonaah is a good example—but this time Mitchell and his quartet played a memorial concert for Chicago’s own Fred Anderson and it seemed to hit the spot as is. A piece of it takes up the last quarter-hour of the show, and while it may send casual listeners reaching for the button, those who stay on and really listen may enjoy a revelatory ride.

Jazz Worldwide 092 13 July 2015

Posted by Michael Stone on July 13, 2015 @ 5:00 pm | Comments Off on Jazz Worldwide 092 13 July 2015

Tone Science – 07/12/2015

Posted by David Menestres on July 12, 2015 @ 9:00 pm | Comments Off on Tone Science – 07/12/2015

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