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Jazz Worldwide 068 26 January 2015

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Jazz Worldwide 061 8 December 2014

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Nice Work

Posted by Howling Dick on October 12, 2014 @ 1:30 am | Post a comment

This week, Howling’s  talking about sibling loyalty and  the first rock n roll star whilst he declines help from a couple of friends and accepts it from another. Sounds busy on the porch but don’t worry, he still plays an hour of the finest blues ‘n roots  you’ll find on the net

The Spark

Posted by Tift Merritt on October 15, 2013 @ 9:04 pm | Post a comment

The Spark starts.

B.P.R.D. – Benjamin Lees, Margot Wright, Paul Hindemith, Ned Rorem

Posted by Todd Morman on March 10, 2013 @ 1:01 pm | Post a comment

This week, both sides of a 1973 Desto Records LP I found buried in a nearby record shop, plus a couple of short extras.

First, side one: Benjamin Lees’ Sonata #2 for Violin and Piano, which hits that perfect sweet spot between non-serialist avant and traditional classical. Lees died in 2010 but his official site has lots of interesting info.

Second up is the final movement of the Piano Quintet by British “light music” composer Margot Wright, from this collection of works spanning her long 20th century career. The liner notes aren’t exact but the quintet appears to be from the early 1930s; the finale is delicious. Performed by the all-female Camilli Quartet with Frank Mol on piano.

Next, the 3rd movement from Paul Hindemith’s 1939 Sonata for Horn, written when Hindemith was in Swiss exile just after he’d been condemned by Nazi officials for his “degenerate” music.

Finally, side two of the Desto LP: Ned Rorem’s 1972 composition for violin and piano, Night Music, performed by the married team of Earl Carlyss and Ann Scheinn in an auditorium at the Library of Congress in 1973. Written as a complement to Day Music from a few months earlier, it’s divided into 8 sections with titles like “Mosquitoes and Earthworms,” “Epeira Sclopetaria” and “Gnats.”

Interesting side note: I’d never heard of Desto Records, so nosed around online. Turns out it was an indie label in existence from the mid-60s to mid-70s, releasing over 150 records focused mainly on non-mainstream classical recordings. A 1970 Billboard article, “Desto to Releases Boxes of Music by Black Composers”, and another from a few years later, “Desto in High Via Low Overhead”, are neat snapshots into the label’s history (…proving that a small classical manufacturer can survive and prosper among the biggies if it is carefully managed and takes full advantage of opportunities), and into the fundraising and commissioning practices of the time.

Digging a bit deeper we find that Desto was started by Horace Grennell, who also happens to be the person behind Young People’s Records and the Children’s Record Guild in the late 1940s, “the first commercially significant record clubs in the world,” with over 100,000 members in the immediate post-WWII era. That’s according to the book Revolutionizing Children’s Records: The Young People’s Records and Children’s Record Guild Series, 1946-1977, which I’m happy to note just arrived via inter-library loan. The book’s official site explains, “these two labels intersected important developments in the histories of mass marketing, recording technology, educational philosophy, folk music, contemporary composition, and Cold War politics,” with blog posts noting connections to the Folkways label, Groucho Marx and more. Looks great, can’t wait to dive in.

Anyway, hope you enjoy this week’s music, and hope you find some of the links interesting.

Inaugural edition of Jazz Worldwide on taintradio.com

Posted by Michael Stone on February 9, 2013 @ 6:25 pm | Post a comment

The inaugural edition of Jazz Worldwide on taintradio will cover recent recordings by Jan Garbarek-Egberto Gismonti-Charlie Haden; the Bobo Stenson Trio; and Ethiopian pianist and composer Samuel Yirga. We shall then turn to Spain, where we’ll audition jazz-inflected flamenco (or is it the other way around?) by Michel Camilo with Tomatito, Juan de Lerida, Gerardo Núñez, Dave Holland and Pepe Habichuela, José Luis Montón, Chema Vilchez, Chano Domínguez, and Niño Josele. Join your host, Michael Stone, on Jazz Worldwide, airing Mondays, 5:00-7:00 pm Eastern, and repeating the following Saturday from noon to 2:00 pm Eastern.

Updoc 158: Royal Tea: 11/11/11

Posted by Rafi Zabor on November 15, 2011 @ 2:25 pm | Post a comment

Opening theme: Archie Shepp: You’re What This Day is All About; The Magic of Ju-Ju (Impulse)

1.    Roy Haynes: All the Bars Are Open: Roy-alty (Dreyfus)
2.    Sarah Vaughan: Shulie-a-Bop; The Ultimate Sarah Vaughan (Verve)
3.    Roy Haynes: Equipoise: Roy-alty (Dreyfus)
4.    Pat Metheny: All the Things You Are; Question and Answer (Nonesuch)
5.    Roy Haynes: Moon Ray; Out of the Afternoon (Impulse)
6.    Roy Haynes: Passion Dance: Roy-alty (Dreyfus)
7.    Roy Haynes: Raoul; Out of the Afternoon (Impulse)
8.    Clifford Brown: Laura; Clifford Brown With Strings (Emarcy/Verve)
9.    Clifford Brown/Max Roach: Delilah; The Emarcy Master Takes (Hip-o-Select)
10.     Clifford Brown: Stardust; Clifford Brown With Strings (Emarcy/Verve)
11.     Clifford Brown/Max Roach: Joy Spring; The Emarcy Master Takes (Hip-o-Select)
12.     Elliott Carter/Ole Böhn/London Sinfonietta/Oliver Knussen:Violin Concerto; American Classics (EMI)
13.     Kronos Quartet/Alim & Fargana Qasimov/Homayum Sakhi: Kohlen Atım; Rainbow – Music of Central Asia Vol, 8 (Smithsonian Folkways)
14.     Olivier Messiaen/Peter Serkin: Je dors, mais mon coeur veille; Vingt Regards sur L’Enfant Jésus (RCA)

Out theme; Art Ensemble of Chicago: Strawberry Mango; Coming Home Jamaica (WB)

Monkey Mind – 03/21/2011

Posted by Todd Morman on March 21, 2011 @ 5:36 pm | Post a comment

The Cymande, late 70s Van, Andrew Hill, Atomic Rooster and early UB40 are particularly rocking my worldview these days. A gorgeous 13 minutes of spare, groovy Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan ends the set, with a great unknown Floaters cut as the palate cleanser. Hope you enjoy.

Monkey Mind – 09/06/2010

Posted by Todd Morman on September 6, 2010 @ 3:00 pm | Post a comment

Another scattered selection. Hope you enjoy. For what it’s worth, that Simple Gifts CD of Shaker vocal pieces is wonderful stuff, and has me doing something I usually don’t like to do: read large sections of a book online. In this case it’s a sharp, informative history of the Shakers, The Shaker Experience in America: A History of the United Society of Believers, available at Google Books. The early chapters are so good I’m not even bothered by the occasional unavailable pages. I had no idea the Shakers were such punks. Lunatic fanatic punks, but still. (Oh, and reverse the song/artist names for the 2nd cut; the band is Frou Frou.)

FreeWorldNetworkRadio-X Interviews Michael Hill’s Blues Mob

Posted by Bruce Mack on July 15, 2009 @ 9:15 pm | Post a comment

Greetings, music lovers!  This is your host and producer of FWNR-X -Bruce Mack and I just wanted to let you know I did an interview last night with Michael Hill’s Blues Mob and it will be featured in hour 2 of episode 6 (7/16/09 and 7/19/09) and runs about 50 minutes, followed by a couple of the bands songs.  Guitarist/vocalist/composer-Michael Hill, drummer/vocalist-Bill McClellan and bassist/vocalist-Mike Griot are great musicians and performers and longtime friends of mine who I have the honor of getting some inside scoop on their current and future projects and upcoming performances in South Orange, New Jersey at Baird Park.   So please join us if you would like to get acquainted with this contemporary Blues band.

Some journalistic wisdom:

“Hill writes songs that make other young musicians seem ignorant of the real world in which we all live … Hill is truly the bluesman piloting the music into the next century.”
— Blues Revue

“Hill writes songs that make most of his peers seem either empty-headed or self-obsessed. As a singer, writer and most impressively as a guitarist, he celebrates the blues form without being shackled to it, creating a sound that’s referential and relevant at the same time. Alternately scorching and soaring solos.”
-Washington Post

“Forward-thinking Michael Hill nods to rock, reggae and New York soul. He takes chances, stretching boundaries with supple, super-charged solos … Kick-ass and world-class.”
— Guitar Player

So please join me for my first artist interview feature.

All the best, B.