Playlist 11/28/05

Artist "Song Title" - Album Title [Record Label]

Lots of Art Ensemble of Chicago-related material tonight.

Other Dimensions In Music f. Matthew Shipp "3" - Time Is Of the Essence Is Beyond Time [AUM Fidelity]
Archie Shepp "Suite: There's A Trumpet In My Soul (Part Two)" - There's A Trumpet In My Soul [Arista Freedom]
Leo Smith "Images" - Spirit Catcher [Nessa]
Roscoe Mitchell and the Sound Ensemble "Jojar" - 3x4 Eye [Black Saint]
Joseph Jarman/Famoudou Don Moye "Nanke Ala (and the Earth)" - Egwu-Anwu [India Navigation]
Andy Bruntel, Jeff Mayfield, Chris Schlarb, Tom Steck, Kris Tiner "Years Waiting" - NOTICE (April 2005) [Sounds Are Active]

Playlist 11/21/05

Tonight's theme... Get On the New Shipp: The Pianists of Free-Jazz

Artist "Song Title" - Album Title [Record Label]

Matthew Shipp "Galaxy 105" - Harmony & Abyss [Thirsty Ear]
Anthony Davis & Jay Hoggard "Ujamaa"- Under the Double Moon [MPS]
Paul Bley/Gary Peacock/Barry Altschul "Japan Suite I" - Japan Suite [Improvising Artists]
Muhal Richard Abrams "1 And 4 Plus 2 And 7" - Things to Come From Those Now Gone [Delmark]
Cecil Taylor "Jitney No. 2" - Silent Tongues [Arista Freedom]
Marilyn Crispell "Lazy Bird" - For Coltrane [Leo]
Steve Kuhn/Sheila Jordan Band "Deep Tango" - Playground [ECM]
Chick Corea "Drone" - Circulus [Blue Note]
Triptych Myth "Spatter Matter" - Triptych Myth [Hopscotch]
Sun Ra "Other Worlds" - Heliocentric Worlds Volumes 1 & 2 [ESP-Disk]
Fieldwork "Trips" - Simulated Progress [Pi]
Matthew Shipp "Vamp to Vibe" Equilibrium [Thirsty Ear]

Leo Records OGG downloads

This past summer Leo Records announced a pretty swank deal where you could download a single album for $4, double for $8, etc, all in OGG format, a bitrate far superior to MP3 and DRM-free. In October, the price went back to $7, three weeks later it was $6, and now it looks like it's down to $5. Like I mentioned before, for import-phobics, this is a great price. (Once again, my only complaint is the absence of liner notes, which they could easily include as a PDF file.) Don't know how long this will last, but I have a feeling the price lowered quickly because jazz nerds must have liner notes (ask any one). I make my own, but that just brings me to a different level of nerdery altogether.


With news of the sale, I've purchased the Abraham Adzinyan/Anthony Braxton 1994 live duo (linked in the image above). I haven't had the chance to listen to it, yet, but I keep finding myself more attracted to Braxton's free-improv recordings. His composed works fascinate the hell out of me as do his musical/philosophical theories, though I seem to take more away from listening to Braxton create from scratch.

Some other downloads I've enjoyed from Leo:
+ Simon Nabatov/Han Bennink- Chat Room: Mostly bop-infuenced pianist Nabatov meets Dutch free-jazz master in what should be a clash of the titans - to borrow a lame phrase - and result in a powerful intuition.
+ Evan Parker- Synergetics: Phonomanie III: Two-discs of master free-improv featuring komungo player Jin Hi Kim, vocalist Sainkho Namtchylak, and electronic wiz Walter Prati.

Playlist 11/14/05

Artist "Song Title" - Album Title [Record Label]

Revolutionary Ensemble "Hu-Man" - The Pysche [Mutable Music]
Ken Vandermark's Joe Harriot Project "Abstract" - Straight Lines [Atavistic]
Julius Hemphill "The Painter" - Dogon A.D. [Arista Freedom]
Phil Hey/Pat Moriarty "Not Complicated (to Noal Moriarity)" - Let Them All Come [Min]
Ornette Coleman "Dough Nuts" - The Great London Concert [Arista Freedom]
Jerome Cooper "Bert the Cat" - The Unpredictability of Predictability [About Time]
John Hollenbeck "Chant for the 2nd Sun" (unreleased track)
Joe McPhee "Shakey Jake" Nation Time [Atavistic]
Steve Reid Ensemble "For Coltrane" - Spirit Walk [Universal Sound/Soul Jazz]
Mahavishnu Orchestra "Birds of Fire" - Birds of Fire [Columbia]

Association P.C.

Progressive Rock Collectors is offering a free download of Association P.C.'s out of print 1973 live album Erna Morena. It's the droning, improvisational prog-rock/free-jazz I should've played on my Sharrock Is the New Hendrix-themed show this past week. The first track is the most fusion-based of the three well-transferred cuts (that vinyl must've been in peak condition), but it's those latter tracks that kill me. Kinda early Soft Machine but with free-jams channeling late Coltrane.

Download the album here.
More info on Association P.C. here.

A post with links to the latest jazz articles coming soon.

Playlist 11/7/05

Sorry I haven't posted in a while. Graduation's coming up and last week I didn't have a show because the transmitter was beaming WUOG's signal into microwaves again. However, New Orbit returns in grand fashion with a themed show: Sharrock is the New Hendrix, A Guide to Free-Jazz in Rocknroll. Fusion, noise-jazz, prog-rock, the Japanese.

Miles Davis "Right Off" - A Tribute to Jack Johnson [Columbia]
Sonny Sharrock "Broken Toys" - Guitar [Enemy]
Last Exit "Headfirst Into the Flames" - Headfirst Into the Flames: Live In Europe [Muworks]
Henry Cow "Ruins" - Unrest [Red]
Koenjiyakkei "Wammilica Iffirom" - Angherr Shisspa [SkinGraft]
The Nels Cline Singers "Cause for Concern" - Instrumentals [Cryptogramophone]
The Mahavishnu Orchestra w/John McLasughlin "The Noonward Race" - The Inner Mountain Flame [Columbia]
Pat Methany/Ornette Coleman "Song X" - Song X [Geffen]
I Heart Lung "Wheelchair Graduation" - Blood & Light [Sounds Are Active]
Loren Mazzacane Connors/Jean-Marc Montera/Thurston Moore/Lee Ranaldo "Mazzacane Connors / Montera" - Mmmr [Xeric]
Borbetomagus "Aftershock" - Songs Our Mother Taught Us [Agaric]
The Flying Luttenbachers "Swarming Cats" - Alptraum [Pandemonium]
Roadside Monument "Cops Are My Best Customers" - I Am the Day of Current Taste [Tooth&Nail]