Happy New Year to Jazz Fans (and everyone else) Update!

I am working on a new show, and I plan to produce a podcast to go with it.  The next show will feature some insufficiently sung side men: Marion Brown, Andrew Cyrille, and Reggie Workman.  That's as far as I have thought it through.  

Update!  I have a playlist completed now.  In  addition to the artists mentioned above, you will hear some Grachan Moncur III and Booker Ervin.  Again: Happy New Year! 

Playlist for the Low Horns Show

The "low horns" show features a lot of slithering sound, with some exceptions thrown in to clear the pallet.  It will have to do for a while, as I will be traveling.  But I will try to do something while on the road.  Merry Christmas!

1. Eric Dolphy and Booker Little/Aggression/Live at the Five Spot
2. Eric Dolphy/Burning Spear/Iron Man
3. David Murray/Amazing Grace/Spirituals
4. Esbjörn Svensson/At Saturday/Winter in Venice
5. John Coltrane/Chronic Blues/Coltrane
6. Andrew Hill/Dedication/Point of Departure
7. Gil Melle/Dominica/Primitive Modern
8. Grachan Moncur III/Evolution/Evolution
9. Esbjörn Svensson/Calling Home/Winter in Venice
10.  Alexander Von Schlippenbach/Locomotive/Monk's Casino
11. Grachan Moncur III/Love and Hate/Exploration
12. Alexander Von Schlippenbach/Misterioso-Sixteen-Skippy/Monk's Casino
13. Gerry Mulligan/My Funny Valentine/The Original Quartet with Chet Baker
14. George Russell/Nardis/Ezz-Thetics
15. Charles Mingus/Playing with Eric/Townhall Concert 1964
16.  David Murray/Portrait of a Blackwoman/Ballad For Bass Clarinet
17. John Coltrane/Spiritual (Live)/The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings
18. John Coltrane/The Damned Don't Cry/Complete Africa Brass Sessions
19. Esbjörn Svensson/Winter in Venice/Winter in Venice
20. Andrew Hill/Illusion/Change

New Show Up on Live365: the Low Horns

I have been having a very bad no good week with my computers.  While I try to get one of my laptops fixed, I am having terrible trouble with iTunes.  Anyway, I have posted a new playlist.  It's finals week here at NSU and I have had no time to record comments.  The music is in random order but it does have a theme: the low horns.  You'll hear a lot of base clarinets, baritone saxes, a trombone or two.  I like the low horns. 

I will try to get a list here of the music played.  Just right now Jazz Note is a mess.  I am hoping to do better.  Anyway, give the new show a listen if you can and let me know what you think.  I need encouragement!

And Merry Christmas.

My Laptop Died

And with it went this week's show.  I won't have time tomorrow to rebuild a show complete with my insightful and informative commentary, or even my shallow and uninformative comments.  I am going to try to put three hours of music on my Live365 station.  It will be as advertised in recent posts.  I hope.  

Jazz Note 5: Dave Brubeck plus some low horns

I will probably not get the next show online by tomorrow night.  I am working on a couple of things, though.  I want to produce a podcast version of the show, probably to be hosted on Podbean.  That way you can put it on your iPod.  

Jazz Note 5 will feature a few tunes in honor of Dave Brubeck, who celebrates his 90th birthday on Monday and, with no obvious connection, a celebration of low horns in jazz.  You'll hear some Trane, some Dolphy, some more David Murray, and some Gil Melle. 

Jazz Note 4 Extended

I have removed the previous two shows and extended the current show by another hour.  Here is a list of the additional music.  

1. Warm Velvet/Ivo Perelman/Sad Life
2. Seagulls of Kristiansund/Mal Waldron Quartet/Seagulls of Kristiansund
3. European Echoes/Ornette Coleman Trio/Live at the Golden Circle Vol. 1
4. Memphis/Ran Blake Trio/Sonic Temples
5. Abolish Bad Architecture/Reid Anderson/Abolish Bad Architecture
6. Laredo/ROVA/The Works Vol. 3. 

The Perleman record (1996)  is the sort of thing you will like, if you like that sort of thing.  A saxophone trio can be pretty dry, but this one is superbly recorded and you get all the flavor of the instruments.   The Mal Waldron number is just delicious.  A stretched out romance recorded live at the Village Vanguard in 1986.  Almost as good is The Git Go, which is from the same gig.  Coleman's Live at the Golden Circle is a very strong sample of Coleman's playing.  I think he works very well in the trio format.  This odd bounce is interesting for the way Coleman's adventurous horn is easy to follow.  

Ran Blake is a fine piano player with a touch that can be both abstract and sensuous at the same time.  I highly recommend his album Short Life of Barbara Monk.  On this show I presented a piece from a two CD set: Sonic Temples.  Reid Anderson is the bass player with The Bad Plus, and has three recordings under his name.  All three are splendid.  


Finally, ROVA is an all saxophone group, with Bruce Ackley, Steve Adams, Larry Ochs, and Jon Raskin.  Their two albums The Works Vol. 2 and 3 are quite good and are available very cheaply on Amazon or eMusic.  Available very cheaply (under two bucks at Amazon) is their recording of Coltrane's Ascension.  I never warmed to Trane's version, but at that price I might give it a try. 

Playlist Correction Jazz Note 4

For some reason I could not get Mikuro's Blues by David S. Ware to play right on my Live365 show.  The file looked right on the studio software, but stretched out to twice its length or more when it played.  So far the other tracks seem to be right.  That's really too bad.  Ware's piece was a smokin' bit of blues.