Recent Live365 Program

My Live365 program has about ten hours of jazz on it now.  I haven't had the time/energy to post a complete play list here, but I will try to list new stuff as I add it.  Here is what went up this week:

1. William Parker/Sunday Morning March/Scrapbook
2. Thelonious Monk/Misterioso/Misterioso
3. Steve Lacy and Eric Watson/Goodbye Pork Pie Hat/Spirit of Mingus
4. Rob Garcia Quartet/Perennial/Perennial
5. Joe Henderson/Y Todavia La Quiero/Relaxin' at Camarillo
6. David Murray/India/Octet Plays Trane
7. Chico Freeman/Infant Eyes/The Unspoken Word

That's a pretty good slice of music.  Most of it is relatively unknown.  The William Parker album is a "violin trio" with Parker on bass, Hamid Drake on drums, and Billy Bang on violin.  It gives the album a classical touch but the arrangements are a range of African American roots music.   The Steve Lacy/Eric Watson album is what you get when you get a Steve Lacy duet.  

I am still rather possessed by the DKV Trio albums I posted about earlier.  This is certainly the most captivating free jazz I have ever heard. 

NY AG by the Rob Garcia 4

In case there are any anxious and irritated music industry executives reading this blog, here's how it works.  I am in my kitchen, cleaning up the mess I made cooking burritos.  I boiled the beef chuck in a crock pot for about six hours, then shredded and fried it, then reconstituted it with the bullion from the crock...  Well, never mind that.  Lots of pots and pans to load into the Kitchen Aid.  I dock my iPod and listen to Ken Laster's most recent In the Groove podcast. 

Then the piano starts, followed by a drum solo.  I am half listening, half scraping.  My beagle is very interested in what I am doing.  Then the horns and piano come back in.  It does that avant garde thing to me.  I start dancing in the kitchen like the Frankenstein monster trying to take his first steps.  Picture the monster with an aluminum bowl in one hand and a scouring pad in the the other, with a dog at his feet.  The horn has me in its possession. 

I keep listening and cleaning until Ken comes on and identifies the album.  It is Perennial, by the Rob Garcia 4.  As soon as I have that bit of information, I walk briskly and un-Frankenstein-like to my study.  I sit down and purchase the album.  That, dear record company executive, is how this works. 

Perennial is very fine jazz.  Garcia plays drums.  Noah Preminger's tenor is pied piper mesmerizing.  Dan Tepfer's piano is exquisite.  Chris Lightcap plays a fine bass.  Jazz is alive in New York.  Keep it alive by buying this record.  Here is a cut:

Perennial