July 6, 2023 #1315

Singer Fay Victor’s new “Blackity Black Black Is Beautiful” is a somewhat unique recording; the well-respected avant garde vocalist goes straight solo on her latest album, writing singing, and playing . It’s one of the feature recordings in this episode. The up-coming  Jaimie Branch recording is sampled, as is a new Tyshawn Sorey trio album.There’s a new solo recording from pianist Matthew Shipp, a killin’ trio of bassist Michael Formanek, guitarist Anthony Pirog and drummer Mike Pride (Location, Location, Location), Vancouver’s Longhand and singer Viviane Houle, plus music from two of the Polish artists who performed at this year’s Jazztopad Festival in NYC. – bassist Ksawery Wojcinski and the Joanna Duda Trio.

00:00 Claudia Quintet * September – Cuneiform * September 29th 1936 Me Warn You * USA
10:22 Host speaks
12:18 Tyshawn Sorey Trio * Continuing – Pi Recordings * Reincarnation Blues * USA
22:30 James Ilgenfritz * Entrainment – Infrequent Seams * Face Palm * USA
27:38 Benoit Delbecq * Ghosts – Jazz D’Or * Anamorphoses * France
33:45 Federico Isasti * El Hombre El Espejo El Niño – Ears&Eyes * Nonna (a Marta) * Argentina
41:12 Host speaks
42:52 Fay Victor * Blackity Black Black Is Beautiful – Northern Spy * How Can You Do It? * USA
48:02 Fay Victor * Blackity Black Black Is Beautiful – Northern Spy * Scared To Be Happy * USA
53:20 Aaron Burnett * Anomaly – Fresh Sound New Talent * No More Bebop * USA
1:00:19 Host speaks
1:02:22 Jaimie Branch Fly Or Die Quartet * Fly Or Die Fly Or Die Fly Or Die – International Anthem * Take Over The World * USA
1:07:14 Reggie Workman * Summit Conference – Postcards * Gone * USA
1:16:30 Host speaks
1:17:49 Trio 3 * Visiting Textures – Intakt * Visiting Textures * USA
1:28:27 Michel Lambert * Ars Transmutatoria Iku-Turso – Self-released * Pythonomorpha * Canada
1:32:40 Francois Bourassa Quartet * Swirl – Effendi * Room 58 * Canada
1:40:50 Viviane Houle * Unsung Songs Graphic Scores – Infidel * Plisse * Canada
1:44:58 Host speaks
1:47:07 Longhand * Longhand Plays Long – Drip Audio * Chicken Grease * Canada
1:52:37 Mixing Memory And Desire * Strange Destination – WLJWC * The Gap * Netherlands
1:58:29 Host speaks
1:59:48 Location Location Location * Damaged Goods – Cuneiform * Branch Breezy * USA
2:08:21 Asher Gamedze * Turbulence Pulse – International Anthem * Turbulence’s Pulse * So. Africa
2:12:28 Asher Gamedze * Turbulence Pulse – International Anthem * If It Rains To Pursue Truth * So. Africa
2:20:36 Host speaks
2:22:06 Joanna Duda Trio * Furnistuke – Alpaka * Bath * Poland
2:27:52 Transatlantic Five * Transitions – NEMU * Transition 1 * US/Germany
2:34:26 Jason Kao Hwang * Book Of Stories – True Sound * A Silent Ghost Follows * USA
2:41:56 Host speaks
2:43:40 Matthew Shipp * The Intrinsic Nature Of Shipp – Mahakala Music * The Essence * USA
2:50:11 Diego Hedez * Just Don’t Call It Freedom – Orbit 577 * Freeson * Cuba
2:56:08 Daniel Carter Leo Genovese William Parker & Francisco Mela * Shine Hear – 577 Records * Shine Hear * USA
3:01:26 Host speaks
3:03:30 Ksawery Wojcinski * Tower Of Pressure – Antenna Non Grata * Track Ten * Poland