Posted by Michael Stone
on September 29, 2014 @ 5:00 pm | Comments Off on Jazz Worldwide 54 29 September 2014
Song Title |
Artist |
Album |
Composer |
Label |
Message In A Bottle |
Marcin Wasilewski Trio with Joakim Milder |
Spark of Life |
Sting |
ECM |
Beauty |
Jacob Young |
Forever Young |
Jacob Young |
ECM |
Cimarron |
Harold López-Nussa |
New Day |
Harold López-Nussa |
Jazz Village |
From One Sky to Another Dreamers Pass |
Ayelet Rose Gottlieb |
Roadsides |
Ayelet Rose Gottlieb-Mahmoud Darwish |
Arogole Music |
Llegó |
Eliana Cuevas |
Espejo |
Eliana Cuevas |
Alma |
Iyade |
Omar Sosa |
Real Live |
Omar Sosa |
Otá |
S’Inguldu |
Paolo Fresu-Omar Sosa-Jaques Morelenbaum |
Alma |
Paolo Fresu |
Otá |
The Rain before It Falls |
Toby Koenigsberg Trio |
Drift |
Tim Willcox |
Ninjazz Records |
Staying There |
Tord Gustavsen Quartet |
Extended Circle |
Tord Gustavsen |
ECM |
Harlem Bliss |
Lucian Ban and Mat Maneri |
Transylvanian Concert |
Lucian Ban |
ECM |
Travel Guide |
Ralph Towner-Wolfgang Muthspiel-Slava Grigoryan |
Travel Guide |
Ralph Towner |
ECM |
What Your Teacher |
Pascal Le Boeuf |
Pascal’s Triangle |
Pascal Le Boeuf |
Nineteen Eight Records |
A Tale From History (The Shooting) |
June Tabor, Iain Ballamy and Huw Warren |
Quercus |
David Ballantine |
ECM |
The Sirens |
Chris Potter |
The Sirens |
Chris Potter |
ECM |
Walk to the Sea |
David Buchbinder |
Walk to the Sea |
David Buchbinder |
Tzadik |
Caribeña |
Niño Josele with Paco de Lucia |
El Mar de Mi Ventana |
Niño Josele |
Warner Music Spain |
Your Story |
Bobo Stenson Trio |
Indicum |
Bill Evans |
ECM |
Cobankat |
Elina Duni Quartet |
Matanë Malit |
Traditional Albanian |
ECM |
Alobar e Kudra |
Stefano Bollani |
Joy in Spite of Everything |
Stefano Bollani |
ECM |
Posted by David Menestres
on September 28, 2014 @ 8:00 pm | Comments Off on Tone Science – 09/28/2014
tone science 180
Time |
Song |
Artist |
Album |
Midnight |
In Service/The Assurance |
David Thomas Broughton & Juice Vocal Ensemble |
Sliding the Same Way |
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Home (a capella) |
Holly Herndon |
Home |
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Cantata for Two Farts and Juan Carlos I |
Henri Chopin |
Cantata for Two Farts & Co. |
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Red Stream |
Marc Edwards/Weasel Walter Group |
Blood of the Earth |
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Aboretum Et |
Philipp Wachsmann, Peter Ole Jorgensen, Jaokob Riis |
Expanded Botanics |
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Self Portraits |
My Silence |
It Only Happens At Night |
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Flow |
Elodie Lauten |
Transform |
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Postcards From The Interior of a Star |
Death Shanties |
Crabs |
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Colour Of An Eye Half Seen |
Fred Frith & John Butcher |
The Natural Order |
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Peradam/Cat's Flux 2 |
Evan Parker & Paul Lytton |
Collective Calls (Urban) (Two Microphones) |
Posted by Howling Dick
on September 28, 2014 @ 1:30 am | Comments Off on The Whole Shebang
This week Howling’s getting smug with his poker hand, waking up on a desert island and moaning about the Grammys (AGAIN!). All sound familiar? Yup, its another hour nonsense but as always on Taint mixed up with the finest blues and roots you’ll find on the net.

Billy “The Kid” Emerson – presenting the weather report
Posted by Rafi Zabor
on September 25, 2014 @ 2:30 pm | Comments Off on Rafi Zabor’s Updoc, Friday Sept 26 & Tuesday Sept 30
This week’s show opens with some of the freshest mainstream jazz-blues tenor playing I’ve heard lately, and yes it’s sometimes Rollins-inflected, from a player name of Nir Naaman, out of Israel, backed up by a band of American aces like George Cables, Marcus Printup and Greg Hutchinson; and their Ohali Blues seemed an excellent way to start off Updoc’s 299th show—8PM Friday and noon next Tuesday, Manhattan Felafel Time—but the show’s main business moves on to the music of two recently deceased luminaries, Kenny Wheeler and especially Milton Cardona. Kip Hanrahan did an all-Cardona show earlier this week, from the heart and inside the scene, since Milton was one of Kip’s key collaborators on his musical enterprises. Kip said it all, or most of it, certainly more than I can, but I still wanted to play a couple of sets from Cardona’s leader projects on America Clavé, and I did; also slotted in what I think is an interesting compare-contrast with vintage Cecil Taylor, and followed Cardona’s Santeria music with contemporary American composer Christopher Rouse’s orchestral portrait of a Russian woman he did not choose to name, though the alternately lyrical and hard-edged drama of the piece, Odna Zhizn (A Life), tells quite a story on its own. I’ve been wrapping a lot of recent shows up with Mozart piano concertos and this one’s no exception: No. 26 in D-major, Murray Perahia—Murray from the Bronx—playing and conducting and bringing Mozart’s emotional subtext further forward than most do, while retaining the necessary sublime delicatesse. This show’s mixology is unusually stimulating, I think. What the heck am I gonna do for Updoc 300?
Posted by David Menestres
on September 22, 2014 @ 8:00 pm | Comments Off on Tone Science – 09/22/2014
tone science 179
Time |
Song |
Artist |
Album |
Midnight |
Other Strange Worlds/Celestial Beings/Thence, This and Ethereal |
Sun Ra & HIs Astro-Infinity Arkestra |
Other Strange Worlds |
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....Awaits Silent Tristero's Empire - Mvts. 1 & 2 |
Kyle Bruckmann's Wrack |
....Awaits Silent Tristero's Empire |
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Sunrise |
David Shea |
Rituals |
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Ghsots |
Zeitkratzer & Keiji Haino |
Zeitkratzer Keiji Haino |
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The Agreed Upon Myth |
Throw Down Your Hammer and Sing |
Throw Down Your Hammer And Sing / Sheldon Siegel split LP |
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Vele Hammen Maken Nog Geen Zwijn — I. maar als we nu allemaal gewoon even |
Sheldon Siegel |
Throw Down Your Hammer And Sing / Sheldon Siegel split LP |
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Mulberry Raider |
Mike & Cara Gangloff |
Black Ribbon of Death, SIlver Thread of Life |
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Whatever Brains |
David Lazer Fundraizer |
Posted by Michael Stone
on September 22, 2014 @ 5:00 pm | Comments Off on Jazz Worldwide 53 22 September 2014
SONG_TITLE |
ARTIST_NAME |
CD_NAME |
COMPOSER |
LABEL |
Simple Joys |
Arun Ramamurthy Trio |
Jazz Carnatica |
Muthiah Bhagavathar |
arunramamurthy.com |
Lotus Feet |
John McLaughlin |
Remember Shakti I |
John McLaughlin |
Verve |
Marugelara O Raghava |
Kadri Gopalnath |
Scintillating Sax |
Kadri Gopalnath |
Dunya |
Daldalan Barı |
Kayhan Kalhor-Erdal Erzincan |
Kula Kulluk Yakışır Mı |
Traditional Persian |
ECM |
Spirit Jazz |
Lloyd Miller and The Heliocentrics |
OST |
Lloyd Miller |
Strut |
Chalabati Blues |
Randy Weston-Melba Liston |
Volcano Blues |
Randy Weston-Melba Liston |
Antilles |
Gnawa Stop |
Roberto Fonseca |
Yo |
R. Hierrezuelo |
Jazz Village |
Yeh Bati Koyita |
Samuel Yirga |
Guzo |
Samuel Yirga |
Real World |
African Sketches after Afro Blue |
Clotilde Rullaud |
In Extremis |
Mongo Santamaria-Clotilde Rullaud |
Tzig’Art |
Afro Blue |
Mongo Santamaria |
Watermelon Man |
Mongo Santamaria |
Milestone |
Blues for the Saints |
Danilo Pérez |
Central Avenue |
Danilo Pérez |
Impulse |
Tokyo Blues |
Cal Tjader |
Talkin’ Verve: Roots of Acid Jazz |
Horace Silver |
Verve |
Blue Bossa |
McCoy Tyner |
McCoy Tyner & the Latin All-Stars |
Kenny Dorham |
Telarc Jazz |
Blues de Marieta |
Ernán López-Nussa |
Habana Report |
Ernán López-Nussa |
Unicornio |
21st-Century Blues |
Bill O’Connell and the Latin Jazz All-Stars |
Zócalo |
Bill O’Connell |
Savant |
Lou’s Afro-Cuban Blues |
Louie Romero y Su Grupo Mazacote |
Salsa de la Bahia Volume 1 |
Jules Rowell |
Patois Records |
Not That Kind of Blues |
Lucian Ban and Mat Maneri |
Transylvanian Concert |
Lucian Ban |
ECM |
Posted by Howling Dick
on September 21, 2014 @ 1:30 am | Comments Off on Thank You Houston
This week Howling is getting lost in translation, tracing lines of royalty and telling tales of lost limbs. As usual, its a load of nonsense mixed up with an hour of great blues ‘n roots
You can download the podcast every Saturday either here or subscribe at iTunes or by RSS feed (www.howlingdick.com/podcast/feed) and not only are there links to the artists on this page down below but also to some great videos – check ‘em out.
And don’t forget to let Dick know how ya liked it at howlingdick@gmail.com – he’ll thank you!

The Reverend Shawn Amos – “Big in the boardroom”
Posted by Rafi Zabor
on September 18, 2014 @ 3:29 pm | Comments Off on Rafi Zabor’s Updoc, Friday 9/19 & Tuesday 9/23
Okay, I flunked Collage but aced Music Appreciation. And Glenn Gould sang funny, as catching the start of this week’s Updoc—Friday at 8PM and noon next Tuesday, Carnegie Hall time—will confirm as he croons, with piano accompaniment, while working out his interpretation of Bach’s Partita No. 2; but then he finds his way, the voice desists, and awe might be an apt response to what happens then. This tracklet is followed by Gould’s classic studio recording of the piece, and this is succeeded by an exceptionally lo-fi recording of the John Coltrane Quartet—pre-Elvin Jones, with Pete LaRoca on drums—working out its interpretation in a Philly nightclub of My Favorite Things a few months before the famous recording. Five years later the classic Quartet was playing Afro-Blue in Paris, and by the miracle of modern bootlegging we can listen in; and I didn’t mean to make things difficult for the Charles Lloyd Quartet by playing a concert clip of theirs right after: Lloyd is in more bustling, brawling form than usual, and Keith Jarrett, after a dauntingly virtuoso start of his solo . . . well, I say it in the intro on the show. Meanwhile the great pianist Leon Fleisher, having recovered the use of this right hand after decades of a debilitating nerve disorder, doesn’t have to play left-hand-only anymore, but his recent such recording of a piano transcription Bach’s solo violin Chaconne inspires a different but no less powerful awe than the dazzling Mr. Gould; after which Updoc’s perusal of the Mozart piano concertos takes up Annie Fischer’s performance of No. 20 in D-minor. You want to know what dark and stormy sounded like before Beethoven and the Romantics? The great melodist Mozart finds no better way to begin this concerto than with a series of deep orchestral grunts. After the resolution, we are lost in the stars with Kurt Weill and Heather Masse and Dick Hyman and nuff said.
Posted by Michael Stone
on September 15, 2014 @ 5:00 pm | Comments Off on Jazz Worldwide 52 15 September 2014
Song Title |
Artist |
Album |
Composer |
Label |
Slowly, Distance |
Ayelet Rose Gottlieb |
Roadsides |
Ayelet Rose Gottlieb |
Arogole Music |
A Woman’s Song |
Ayelet Rose Gottlieb |
Roadsides |
Ayelet Rose Gottlieb |
Arogole Music |
Yafa |
Reem Kelani |
Sprinting Gazelle |
Reem Kelani |
Fuse |
Road Song |
Ritmos Unidos |
Ritmos Unidos |
Wes Montgomery |
Patois Records |
Otro Viage |
Harold López-Nussa |
New Day |
Harold López-Nussa |
Jazz Village |
New Day |
Harold López-Nussa |
New Day |
Harold López-Nussa |
Jazz Village |
El Tucusito |
Eliana Cuevas |
Espejo |
Eliana Cuevas |
Alma |
Caravan |
Gonzalo Rubalcaba |
Inner Voyage |
Duke Ellington-Juan Tizol-Irving Mills |
Blue Note |
Un Son |
Michel Camilo |
Solo |
Michel Camilo |
Telarc Jazz |
Reposo |
Omar Sosa |
Calma |
Omar Sosa |
Otá |
Fragments |
Ritmos Unidos |
Ritmos Unidos |
Jamaal Baptiste-Michael Spiro-Joe Galvin-Mike Mixtacki |
Patois Records |
Spirals |
Rotem Sivan Trio |
For Emotional Use Only |
Rotem Sivan |
Fresh Sound |
Easy Healing |
Stefano Bollani |
Joy in Spite of Everything |
Stefano Bollani |
ECM |
Kjani Trima |
Elina Duni Quartet |
Matanë Malit |
Traditional Albanian |
ECM |
Certainty |
Ibrahim Maalouf |
Wind |
Ibrahim Maalouf |
Mi’ster |
Tel Aviv |
Gilad Atzmon and The Orient House Ensemble |
Songs of the Metropolis |
Gilad Atzmon |
World Village |
Galilée Mon Amour |
Anouar Brahem |
The Astounding Eyes of Rita |
Anouar Brahem |
ECM |
Cuando El Rey Nimrod |
Jim Guttmann |
Bessarabian Breakdown |
Traditional |
Kleztone |
Le parfum de l’éxil |
Louis Sclavis Quartet |
Silk and Salt Melodies |
Louis Sclavis |
ECM |
Despacio |
Omar Sosa |
Senses |
Omar Sosa |
Otá |
Posted by David Menestres
on September 14, 2014 @ 8:00 pm | Comments Off on Tone Science – 09/14/2014
tone science 178
Time |
Song |
Artist |
Album |
Midnight |
The Culture of Gun Violence in the US |
Wadada Leo Smith, George Lewis, John Zorn |
Sonic Rivers |
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Journey Amongst The Stars |
Sun Ra & His Astro-Infinity Arkestra |
Other Strange Worlds |
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Lost & Found (for Henry Grimes) |
Max Johnson |
Quartet |
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Do |
Death Blues |
Non-fiction |
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Thomas Paine |
Haunted House |
Blue Ghost Blues |
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Ergodos II with instrumental responses |
James Tenney |
Music for Violin & Piano |
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Supper for the Swarms/Hive Mind |
Audrey Chen, Wouter Jaspers |
Brombron 22: Root and Branch |
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Silenzio (1991-2010) |
Sofia Gubaidulina |
Chamber Music with Double Bass |
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Burned Across the Sky |
Jeremiah Cymerman |
Fire Sign |