Playlist 12/12/05

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

Vandermark 5 "Suitcase (For Ray Charles, Elvin Jones, and Steve Lacy)" - The Color of Memory [Atavistic]
John Coltrane "Mr. PC" - Sheets of Sound [Recall]
Pharoah Sanders "Love Is Everywhere" - Love Is In Us All [Impulse!]
Anthony Braxton "R76" - The Complete Anthony Braxton 1971 [Arista Freedom]
Paul Bley "Ballade" - Alone, Again [Improvising Artists]
Eric Dolphy "Iron Man" - Iron Man [Celluloid]
Jin Hi Kim "Core" - Komungo [OO Discs]
Ricci Rucker "4004" - Fuga [Alpha Pup]
Sonny Sharrock "Soon" - Monkey Pockie Boo [BYG]
John Coltrane "Peace On Earth" - Infinity [Impulse!]
Matthew Shipp "The Root" - Equilibrium [Thirsty Ear]

Like I wrote last week, this is my last show. I know I didn't keep up on the writing (mostly due to school, graduation stuff), but I'm now writing for a couple magazines if it should so interest anyone.
+ Tiny Mix Tapes put out a call specifically for free-jazz, avant-garde, and noise writers a month ago. Phillip (Space Is the Place) and I both were accepted. You can already find a couple reviews here and here.
+ Bandoppler will make its triumphant (3rd) return in February 2006. I'm already working on a Peter Brotzmann/Nasheet Waits piece for it. The magazine's approach is a bit more holistic conducting interviews, researching and responding to other critical work, and generally writing more "academic" articles. I'm looking forward to how it will challenge me as a writer.

Oh, and that Pharoah Sanders song I played tonight is just classic. Essential listening if you're into his Karma period.

Playlist 12/5/05 + Goodbyes

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

David S. Ware "Logistic" - Go See the World [Columbia]
Steve Lacy Sextet "The Condor" - The Condor [Soul Note]
Maulawi "Street Rap" - New Thing! [Soul Jazz]
Peter Brotzmann/Nasheet Waits "Nr. 1" - Live at the 'Bottle' Fest 2005 [Bro]
Don Cherry "Taste Maker" - Where Is Brooklyn [Blue Note]
Jan Garbarek w/ Terje Rypdal "Rabalder" - Esoteric Circle [Arista Freedom]
Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre "Sun Spots" - Forces and Feelings [Delmark]
John Lurie National Orchestra "Ketchak" - Fishing With John (Soundtrack) [Strange & Beautiful]
Sainkho Namtchylak/Sergey Letov "Sainkho With Sergey Letov" - Golden Years of the Soviet New Jazz Volume III [Leo]
Roland P. Young "Crystal Motions" - Isophonic Boogie Woogie [Flow Chart]
William Parker Quartet "Wood Flute Song" - Sound Unity [AUM Fidelity]

So if I have any readers left, I graduate in two weeks and the university doesn't let non-students DJ at WUOG. Thus, New Orbit will die. This will make some listeners and DJs undoubtedly happy, but to the dedicated few that'd call up digging on the free-jazz, I might point you in the direction of Phillip's show Space Is the Place, which plays music generally on the weirder (or spacier) end of the spectrum, or Jazz Cafe, which usually mixes up the bop and the free-jazz. Check WUOG's programming schedule come January for times.

Otherwise, I've had a helluva time DJing New Orbit and learned more ravaging the jazz vinyl archive than I could have in a record store. WUOG DJs shouldn't be surprised if I show up with my iBook and an iMic digitally transferring some of the more obscure records.

Next Monday's the last show. Hope you listen in.