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Jazz In The A.M. - 05/22/2013

Posted by Ben Boddie on May 22, 2013 @ 4:11 pm | Post a comment

Jazz Worldwide 015 Playlist (20+25 May 2013)

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Four Cool Cats

Posted by Howling Dick on May 19, 2013 @ 8:36 am | Post a comment

Howling pays tribute to some of the great artists who have left the building in the last week as well as playing some who have just entered. As usual, it’s a big ‘ol mix of blues, roots and gospel to elegantly waste an hour to!

Rafi Zabor’s Updoc, 5/17 & 5/21

Posted by Rafi Zabor on May 16, 2013 @ 2:35 pm | 1 Comment

It’s finally warm enough here on my Brooklyn ranch to feel that spring has sprung, so why not, on this week’s Updoc, Friday at 8PM and noon next Tuesday, local time, renew the earth and sacrifice a virgin with that old cut-up Igor Stravinsky? Ezra Pound called artists ‘the antennae of the race’ before he started picking up some bad signals himself, so we really shouldn’t blame Igor for World War One and a century of mass sacrifice when he was only picking up signals already blowin’ in the wind. I usually intend to program the Bernstein version of the Sacre and end up playing the nearly identical but more recently recorded Gergiev, but this time I went back to the source and put the composer’s own brisk, swift, no-nonsense version on the show. But it got me thinking about this music that gets us all charged up and exhilarated and ends in human sacrifice, and I started to wonder if there was some other music that spotted sweeter possibilities tumblin’ in the last century’s breeze. Louis Armstrong seemed a good place to start, and that got the show to Ellington after a few stopovers en route. On Stravinsky’s return, the closing ‘Laudate’ of his Symphony of Psalms seemed so gloomy in its praise that Updoc blew those blues away with the finale of Charles Ives’ 4th Symphony, in which the hymn ‘Nearer My God to Thee’ has never seemed more present-tense. And no, they didn’t bust Stravinsky in Boston in 1940; he was new in-country and had to register a lot, also get written permission to use the octatonic scale in public. Tune in and bring a daisy.

Jazz In The A.M. - 05/16/2013

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Jazz In The A.M. - 05/15/2013

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Jazz Worldwide 014 Playlist (13+18 May 2013)

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Jazz In The A.M. - 05/09/2013

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Rafi Zabor’s Updoc, May 10 & May 13

Posted by Rafi Zabor on May 9, 2013 @ 12:47 pm | 1 Comment

Whatever I had in mind for this week’s show—Friday at 8PM and noon next Tuesday—much of it got pre-empted as soon as I got hold of The Complete Sun Ship Session, by the John Coltrane Quartet: August 25 1965 at RCA Studios rather than at Van Gelder’s, and some of the time Trane stretching the band to its limits, which soon would not be enough for him. The show starts off with three complete alternate takes and ends with a fourth: the greatest band I’ve ever heard on one of its last days. It would have been cruel to follow up those three takes with someone else’s jazz, so I was happy to find Anders Hillborg’s orchestral composition Eleven Gates before moving on to a set alternating Lucky Thompson and Benny Golson. Before returning to Coltrane, there’s the youngish American composer Kevin Puts, whose name I have trouble getting around on-air for some reason, and his fine piece for string quartet, Dark Vigil, which doesn’t sound too dark to me but is vigilantly played by the Ying Quartet. Some Bird and Lucky Thompson for farewell, and do come by, especially if you haven’t heard the Sun Ship alternates yet, and soar aloft with them.

Jazz In The A.M. - 05/08/2013

Posted by Ben Boddie on May 8, 2013 @ 8:38 pm | Post a comment

TODAY’S MUSIC - RIGHT NOW!

Artist - Song Title - CD Title - Label - Year

Noon (Eastern)   
Antonio Adolfo - Con Alma - Finas Misturas - Antonio Adolfo Music - 2013
Eric Alexander - Touching - Touching - Highnote Records - 2013
Melton Mustafa - Windstorm - The Traveling Man - Zaki Publishing, Inc. - 2012
Karen Souza - I’ve Got It Bad - Hotel Souza - Music Brokers - 2012
Gerald Clayton - Shadamanthem - Life Forum - Concord Music Group - 2013
Doug MacDonald’s Reorganized Quartet - Isn’t It A Pity - Doug MacDonald’s Reorganized Quartet - Blue Jazz Productions - 2013
Mansur Scott Harlem Quartet - Days Of Wine And Roses - Sometimes Forgotten, Sometimes Remembered - PAO Records - 2010
Stan Bock & The New Tradition - Mercy, Mercy, Mercy - Feelin’ It - OA2 Records - 2013
Dave Douglas - Little Feet  - Time Travel - Greenleaf Music - 2013

1:00    
Craig Wuepper - My One And Only Love - Leaps And Bounds - Cellar Live Records - 2013
Aaron Diehl - Blue Nude - The Bespoke Man’s Narrative - Mack Avenue Records - 2012
MSU Professors Of Jazz - Echoes Of Anansi - Better Than Alright - MSU - 2012
Molly Ringwald - Exactly Like You - Except Sometimes - Concord Music Group - 2013
Dick Reynolds - Fancy Miss Nancy  - Music & Friends - Origin Records - 2013
Robert Hurst - Big Queen - BoB A Palindrome - Bebop Records - 2013
Barbara Morrison - I Love You For Sentimental Reasons - A Sunday Kind of Love - Savant Records - 2013
Anthony Branker & Word Play - Across the Divide - Uppity - Origin Records - 2013
Hristo Vitchev Quartet - Ballad for the Fallen - Familiar Fields - First Orbit Sounds Music - 2013

2:00    
Blake Meister - Market East - Septagon - Inner Circle Music - 2012
Kyle Eastwood - The Way Home - The View From Here - Jazz Village - 2013
Kendrick Scott Oracle - I Have A Dream - Conviction - Concord Music Group - 2013
Lauren White - The Meaning Of The Blues - Meant To Be - Cherry Pie Productions - 2013 
John Stein - Menina - Bing Bang Boom! - Whaling City Sound - 2012
Eric Person - Never Far From His Grace - Thoughts On God - Distinction Records - 2012
Molly Holm - Go There Now - Permission - Rinny Zin Records - 2013
Michael Gallant Trio - Candlelight - Completely - Gallant Music - 2013
Jim Ridl - Blue Tortilla Waltz - Blue Corn Enchilada Dreams - Jim Ridl Records - 2011

3:00    
Tommy Flanagan & Jaki Byard - Satin Doll - The Magic Of 2 - Resonance Records - 2013
The Bill Harris Quintet - Bluesy Lucy - This Time The Dream’s On Me - Pensativa Music - 2013
Rich Thompson - Less Is More - Less Is More - Origin Records - 2013
Giacomo Gates - So What - Miles Tones - Savant Records - 2013
Brad Goode - All Fall Down - Chicago Red - Origin Records - 2013
Ron Oswanski - Sleeping Beauty - December’s Moon - Palmetto Records - 2013
Tine Bruhn & Johnny O’Neal - All Of You - Nearness - Burner Records - 2013
Cory Weeds / Bill Coon Quartet - East of the Sun - With Benefits - Cellar Live Records - 2013
Ryan Keberle And Catharsis - Big Kick Blues - Music Is Emotion - Alternate Side Records - 2012