The dial must have been set to “eclectic” because when I looked at the completed playlist my only thought was that this show is all over the stylistic map. For instance, there’s the Simon Nabatov Quintet’s new “Last Minute Theory” that extends group improvisation to new limits, Petter Eldh’s Koma Saxo back with a new definition of improv and electronics, rapper and poet Mike Ladd working just with a guitarist using open tuning, an historical track from Canadian drummer Claude Ranger whose 2000 disappearance has never been solved, guitarists from Finland (Olli Hirvonen) and Sweden (Henrik Olsson), live free-jazz from The Bushwick Series at the Bushwick Public House in Brooklyn, and further exploration of the cultural influences of Puerto Rico from alto saxophonist Miguel Zenon. And that’s just part of a very entertaining three hours of music. Hey, I might even listen to this myself!
00:00 Jeff Williams * Lifelike – Whirlwind * Under The Radar * Grt Britain 08:31 Jeff Williams * Lifelike – Whirlwind * Dream Visitor * Grt Britain 16:55 Host speaks 18:57 Petter Eldh * Koma Saxo – We Jazz * Cyclops Dance * Sweden 23:27 Petter Eldh * Koma Saxo – We Jazz * Soh Rinner Tiden Bort * Sweden 26:51 Mark Lotz Trio * The Wroclaw Sessions – Audio Cave * Euterpe * Netherlands 33:33 Júlio Resende * Da Alma – Clean Feed * Move It * Portugal 43:26 Host speaks 45:35 Claude Ranger Quintet * unknown – unknown * Black Lotus * Canada 53:58 Ethnic Heritage Ensemble * Be Known Ancient_Future_Music – Spiritmuse * N2 Deep (for Randy Weston Jerry Gonzales & Cecil Taylor) * USA 59:33 Host speaks 59:59 Whit Dickey * Peace Planet/Box Of Light – AUM Fidelity * Box Of Light * USA 1:12:43 Host speaks 1:14:10 Simon Nabatov Quintet * Last Minute Theory – Clean Feed * Rickety * Germany 1:19:43 Simon Nabatov Quintet * Last Minute Theory – Clean Feed * Good Behavior * Germany 1:27:37 Johnnie Valentino * Searching Souls – 9 Winds * Searching Souls * USA 1:32:17 Host speaks 1:33:42 Olli Hirvonen * Displace – Ropeadope * Nondescript * Finland 1:39:50 Telepathic Band * Telepathy Volume 1 – 577 Records * Horticultural Techniques * USA 1:45:14 Henrik Olsson * Hand OF Benediction – Barefoot * Black Tourmaline * Sweden 1:49:08 Host speaks 1:51:37 Miguel Zenon Quartet * Sonero: The Music of Ismael Rivera – Miel * La Gata Montesa * USA 1:58:44 Host speaks 2:00:12 Sean Conly, Michael Attias & Tom Rainey * Live At The Bushwick Series – Gaucimusic * Improvisation #2 * USA 2:16:14 Håvard Wiik Trio * The Arcades Project – Jazzland * Arcades * Norway 2:22:42 Host speaks 2:24:46 Reverse Winchester * Newburn – Mr. Morezon * Scattering Of A Man * France 2:28:44 Franklin * Amen – Self-released * cloud-space-earth * Australia 2:38:24 Pat O’Reilly * Three Sheets To The Wind – Self-released * Dehydrated Doom Jazz * USA 2:40:56 Golpe & Jacob Sacks * Puzzle – Robalo * O Meu (Segundo) Dia Na Corte * Portugal 2:47:08 Host speaks 2:49:21 Johan Lindström * Music For Empty Halls – Moserobie * Serengeti * Sweden
August 22 #1114
The Village Voice called William Parker “the most consistently brilliant free jazz bassist of all time.” It’s easy to concur with such a statement. Parker has been at the forefront of creative music, leading his own bands, working with the likes of Cecil Taylor and Don Cherry, publishing six books and teaching and mentoring, as well as recording at least 150 albums. A recent release, “Live/Shapeshifter”, is the feature of this episode of OMJ. Parker leads his quartet, In Order To Survive, through an amazing set of tunes. In Order To Survive came to prominence about twenty years ago, then kind of disappeared until a reunion at the 2012 Vision Festival and then a recording in 2016. To celebrate post-session, Parker booked Shapeshifter Lab and the performance was recorded live.
Also new this week, more great music from Portugal from trumpeter Gonçalo Marques with Jacob Sacks and Cat In A Bag, Guillermo Klein & Los Gauchos, saxophonist Tim Ries’ long-delayed “Life Changes”, and Polish bassist Kamila Drabek and her trio, Tercet Kamili Drabek.
00:00 Matt Pavolka Band * Something People Can Use – TOAP * The Garden Of Forking Paths * USA 09:47 Host speaks 11:15 Cat In A Bag * Cat In A Bag – Clean Feed * Obscure Objects * Portugal 20:33 Warwick Alder * Duo Trio Quartet – Self-released * Intervention * Australia 29:15 Jon Crompton * Intuit – New Lab * Apathy * USA 34:52 Host speaks 37:00 Guillermo Klein & Los Gauchos * Cristal – Sunnyside * Volver * Argentina 45:54 Tim Berne & Michael Formanek * Ornery People – Little Brother * Byram’s World * USA 52:54 Host speaks 54:14 Triptych Myth * Triptych Myth – Hopscotch * Stem Cell * USA 59:56 Host speaks 1:01:54 William Parker & In Order To Survive * Live/Shapeshifter – AUM Fidelity * Entrance To The Tone World * USA 1:21:51 William Parker & In Order To Survive * Live/Shapeshifter – AUM Fidelity * Color Against Autumn Sky * USA 1:29:22 William Parker & In Order To Survive * Live/Shapeshifter – AUM Fidelity * If There Is A Chance * USA 1:36:35 William Parker & In Order To Survive * Live/Shapeshifter – AUM Fidelity * A Situation * USA 1:48:17 William Parker & In Order To Survive * Live/Shapeshifter – AUM Fidelity * Birth Of The Sunset * USA 1:53:52 Host speaks 1:55:02 Tercet Kamili Drabek * Muzyka Naiwna – Soliton * Rokerka * Poland 1:59:24 Denis Fournier * Watershed – Vent Du Sud * Le Partage Des Eaux * France 2:11:11 Tetterapadequ * B(R)ack Again – Cylinder * Airam * Portugal 2:19:54 Host speaks 2:20:49 Silberman Quartet * Asanisimasa – Audio Cave * Track 6 * Poland 2:26:32 Paul Plimley Trio * Artful Dodgers – Self-released * Strange Science * Canada 2:31:54 Paul Plimley Trio * Artful Dodgers – Self-released * Dance of The Dodecahead To Hedron * Canada 2:35:04 The Pen Club * Data Retrieval – Eupaccia * Elastic Band * Australia 2:41:07 Tim Ries * Life Changes – Ropeadope * Life Changes (Reprise) * USA 2:48:48 Host speaks 2:50:47 Gonçalo Marques Trio & Jacob Sacks * Canção Do Homem Simples – Robalo * Linhas Cruzados * Portugal 2:53:33 Gonçalo Marques Trio & Jacob Sacks * Canção Do Homem Simples – Robalo * Sala 6 * Portugal
August 15 #1112
If your tastes run to the “creative”, “avant garde”, “experimental”, or “free form”, there’s plenty of non-traditional music in this episode. Canadian Paul Plimley has long been at the forefront of free jazz, both in Canada and internationally. Sensaround is an Australian-Scottish trio that delves into improvised sound creation and ambient. Portuguese drummer Joao Lencastre’s “Parallel Realities” focuses on free expression of smaller groups within the larger, while the quartet, From Wolves To Whales – saxophonist Dave Rempis, trumpeter Nate Wooley, bassist Pascal Niggenkemper and drummer Chris Corsano show how powerful group improvisation can be.
There’s no disputing the place that Evan Parker occupies in the free jazz realm. On his latest release for Intakt, he’s joined by turntablists and electronicists as they react and interpret various samplings of Parker’s music collection, while the amazing Englishman plays with abandon. In contrast, another saxophonist, David Leon, manipulates his horn to experiment with pitch, texture, and microtonalism.
Balancing on the edge of “free”, the combination of some AACM members and two brilliant French rhythm players (Denis Fournier drums and Bernard Santacruz, bass) is another highlight of this episode of One Man’s Jazz, which happens to be the 1st year anniversary of making the show available on mixcloud.com and allaboutjazz.com., a year that’s flown by .
00:00 Joshua Gerowitz * Solano Canyon – pfMentum * Swoot * USA 04:53 Hot Heros * Fill Up With Old Time Salvation – Karkia Mistika * Mission Of Satan * Finland 13:30 Host speaks 15:55 Denis Fournier * Watershed – Vent Du Sud * Pathways * France 25:30 Gonçalo Marques * Linhas – Porta-Jazz * Conversa De Arvores * Portugal 32:10 Paul Plimley Trio * Artful Dodgers – Self-released * Dreamscape Incrementally Disappearing * Canada 39:48 Host speaks 41:12 Paul Plimley Trio * Artful Dodgers – Self-released * It Ain’t Esoterically So * Canada 47:59 Roger Rota * Octo – Aut * Cordes * Italy 51:16 Host speaks 52:21 Sensaround * Heart/Noise – hellosQuare * Winter Sleepers * Australia/Scotland 59:07 Joao Lencastre * Parallel Realities – FMR * Crossing Worlds * Portugal 1:13:12 Host speaks 1:15:16 Evan Parker & Matthew Wright * Crepuscule In Nickelsdorf – Intakt * Track 1 * Grt Britain 1:22:23 Satoko Fujii * Confluence – Libra * Tick Down * Japan 1:26:34 Hot Heros * Days After The Rodeo – Eclipse Music * El Retorno Del Tango * Finland 1:33:19 Host speaks 1:35:04 From Wolves to Whales * Strandwal – Aerophonic * IJ * USA 1:44:50 Hanam Quintet * Live At Nicodemus Church – Aut * No Rulers * Germany 1:49:18 Rich Halley * Terra Incognita – Pine Eagle * The Elms * USA 1:53:51 Host speaks 1:54:38 Aki Rissanen * Art In Motion – Edition * Love Song * Finland 1:58:32 Angelika Niescier * New York Trio – Intakt * 5/8 * Germany 2:06:38 Host speaks 2:07:45 Glen Whitehead Trio * The Living Daylights – pfMentum * Living Daylights Suite 3 – Apophenia * USA 2:16:09 Fabian Rucker * Hypocritical Mass – BMC * Phrenology * Austria 2:21:41 Federica Michasanti Horn Trio * Silent Ride – Filibusta * Morning Sewing (Reprise) * 2:29:30 Host speaks 2:30:34 David Leon * Current Obsession Vol. 1 – Self-released * Fixation 2 * USA 2:34:39 Casino Di Terra * Cosa Potrebbe Accadere – Aut * Belka * Italy 2:40:17 Aki Takase * Hokusai – Piano Solo – Intakt * Hokusai Meer * Germany 2:44:57 Host speaks 2:46:12 Denis Fournier * Watershed – Vent Du Sud * La Voce De La Luna * France
August 8 #1113
This is one of those episodes with plenty of “bounce” – as in bouncing around the planet. But there’s plenty of rhythmic punch too, as several of the recordings this week are drummer-led sessions: Joao Lencastre (with his Communion Trio), Harris Eisenstadt, Gard Nilssen & his Acoustic Unity, Kahil El’Zabar from the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, Max Andrzejewski & Hütte (paying tribute to Robert Wyatt) and Whit Dickey. Lisbon saxophonist Desiderio Lázaro drops by, as do a phenomenal trio, the Legendary Trio, of Ken Vandermark, Joe McPhee and Susan Alcorn, bassist Charlie Kirchen and the Kingston Trio. No, not that one, the Damien Kingston Trio from Hobart in Tasmania. Top that off with a Spinal Tap piece layered on to an Ornette Coleman tune – from the Michael Leonhart Orchestra – and I think you get the idea.
00:00 Ethnic Heritage Ensemble * Be Known Ancient/Future/Music – Spiritmuse * Blew It * USA 07:56 Host speaks 09:58 Michael Leonhart Orchestra * Suite Extracts Volume 1 – Sunnyside * Big Bottom/Lonely Woman * USA 21:05 Matt Mitchell * Phalanx Ambassadors – Pi * SSGG * USA 26:01 Telepathic Band * Electric Telepathy Vol. 1 – 577 Records * Lust Call * USA 31:59 Host speaks 33:30 Joao Lencastre Communion 3 * Song(s) Of Hope – Clean Feed * Long Long Way * Portugal 43:04 Dwight Trible * Mothership – Gearbox * Brother Where Are You? * USA 48:17 Christof Mahnig & Die Abmahnung * Red Carpet – Leo * Erst Die Arbeit Dann Das Vergnugen * Switzerland 53:43 Host speaks 54:49 Native Aliens Ensemble * Native Aliens Ensemble – Try-Tone * O Treze * Nethlands 59:16 Harris Eisenstadt * Old Growth Forest II – Astral Spirits * Biomass * Canada 1:06:47 Host speaks 1:08:33 Gard Nillsen’s Acoustic Unity * To Whom Who Buys A Record – Odin * Masacrayke * Norway 1:12:57 Gard Nillsen’s Acoustic Unity * To Whom Who Buys A Record – Odin * Acoustic Unity * Norway 1:16:39 Desidério Lázaro * Cérebro Estado Zero – 690693 Records * Meditação II * Portugal 1:22:13 Desidério Lázaro * Cérebro Estado Zero – 690693 Records * Cérebro Estado Zero * Portugal 1:26:29 Host speaks 1:28:16 Legendary Trio * Invitation To Dream – Astral Spirits * The Eyes Of Memory * USA 1:37:37 Alexander Hawkins * Iron Into Wind – Intakt * Pleasant Constellation * Grt Britain 1:42:10 Host speaks 1:43:26 Charlie Kirchen Quartet * I’ve Fallen And I Can’t Get Up – Self-released * Blue Island * USA 1:57:46 Host Speaks 1:59:39 Max Andrzejewski & Hütte * Max Andrzejewski & Hütte Play The Music of Robert Wyatt – WhyPlayJazz * Little Red Robin Hood Hits The Road * Germany 2:05:59 Max Andrzejewski & Hütte * Max Andrzejewski & Hütte Play The Music of Robert Wyatt – WhyPlayJazz * Little Red Riding Hood Hits The Road * Germany 2:09:24 Black Motor * Branches – We Jazz * Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain * Finland 2:14:32 Host speaks 2:15:58 Whit Dickey Tao Quartets * Peace Planet & Box Of Light – AUM Fidelity * Blossom Time * USA 2:24:53 Brotherhood * Oak – Aut Records * Ebony * Italy 2:30:15 Host speaks 2:31:04 Damien Kingston Trio * Tributary – Self-released * Three By Four * Australia 2:33:35 Damien Kingston Trio * Tributary – Self-released * Lowercase * Australia 2:37:19 Tadeusz Sudnik * His Friends In Art – Audio Cave * 7’37” * Poland 2:44:55 Host speaks 2:45:42 Wojciech Lichtanski * Iga – Audio Cave * Iga? * Poland
