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On March 14, we passed the rainy evening listening to these works on "Straight, No Chaser": Mary Lou Williams Collective -- "Virgo" -- Zodiac Suite: Revisited -- Blue Horn Roberta Piket -- "Idy's Song And Dance (Dance)" -- Sides, Colors -- Thirteenth Note (N) Eric Dolphy -- "Thirteen" -- The Quest -- Prestige Jeanne Lee & Mal Waldron -- "Fire Waltz" -- After Hours -- Owl Adam Lane's Full Throttle Orchestra -- "Sienna's Slip Jig" -- Ashcan Rantings -- Clean Feed David S. Ware -- "Wheel of Life" -- Onecept -- AUM Fidelity Little Woman -- "(Untitled)" -- Throat -- AUM Fidelity Chick Corea, David Holland and Barry Altschul -- "Games" -- A.R.C. -- ECM Thomas Chapin & Borah Bergman -- "Kitchen Kut/Ups" -- Inversions -- Muworks Matthew Shipp -- "Gamma Ray" -- Art of The Improviser -- Thirsty Ear (N) Tyrone Brown String Sextet -- "Eh-Leigh" -- Song of The Sun -- Naxos Jazz Joel Harrison String Choir -- "Drum Music" -- The Music of Paul Motian -- Sunnyside Scott DuBois -- "Bend" -- Banshees -- Sunnyside Benoit Delbecq Trio -- "Barragan" -- The Sixth Jump -- Songlines (N) Marc Mommaas -- "African FBI" -- Global Motion -- Sunnyside School Days -- "Octopus" -- In Our Times -- Okkadisk Thomas Marriott -- "Diagram" -- Constraints & Liberations -- Origin If you missed it, you can get it from the KBCS streaming audio archive, here: http://kbcsweb.bellevuecollege.edu/playlist/archive/?ShowID=18165

I try to listen to "My Favorite Things" on or about every New Year's Eve.

On Monday, March 7, we listened to these tracks on "Straight, No Chaser": Ginger Baker Trio -- "Straight No Chaser" -- Going Back Home -- Atlantic Aldo Romano -- "Blues For Roy" -- Just Jazz -- Dreyfus Jazz The Othertet -- "Look Below" -- The Othertet -- Engine Art Pepper Quintet -- "Tears Inside" -- Smack Up -- Contemporary Enrico Rava -- "Dr. Ra And Mr. Va" -- The Plot -- ECM Dave Douglas' Tiny Bell Trio -- "The Gig" -- Constellations -- Hat Art Aeroplane Trio -- "Lucky Loonie" -- Naranja Ha -- Drip Audio Pheeroan Aklaff -- "Serious" -- Sonogram -- MU Tom Varner -- "The Trilling Clouds" -- Heaven And Hell -- OmniTone Paul Plimley -- "Evolution of Adjacent Moments" -- Everything In Stages -- Songlines David Haney Quartet -- "Speedway" -- Caramel Topped Terrier -- Cadence Jazz Steve Lacy -- "Hits" -- Moon -- BYG Actuel Jeff Johnson -- "Paris" -- Tall Stranger -- Origin Big Satan -- "Mr. Subliminal" -- souls.saved.hear -- Thirsy Ear Tony Wilson 6tet -- "Squirk" -- Pearls Before Swine -- Drip Audio Happy Apple -- "Dojo Fantastique" -- The Peace Between Our Companies -- Sunnyside Old Dog -- "Living Large" -- By Any Other Name -- Porter Expressway Sketches -- "Meteorotz" -- Expressway Sketches -- Jazzhaus Musik Does it sound interesting? Check this program out any time in the next two weeks in the KBCS audio archive: http://kbcsweb.bellevuecollege.edu/playlist/archive/?ShowID=18036

Here is the music we heard on "Straight, No Chaser" on February 28: Phil Kelly & The Northwest Prevailing Winds -- "Estos Frijoles Causa Me Falta Pasar A Los Vientos" -- Ballet of The Bouncing Beagles -- Origin Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra & Jim McNeely -- "Nice Work If You Can Get It" -- Nice Work -- DaCapo Christine Jensen Jazz Orchestra -- "Dark and Stormy Blues" -- Treelines -- Justin Time (N) Jeremy Pelt -- "Paradise Lost" -- The Talented Mr. Pelt -- Highnote (N) Cuong Vu 4-Tet -- "All The Things You Are" -- Leaps of Faith -- Origin (N) Q.E.D. -- "Prize and Battlefield" -- Yet What If Any Ocean... -- Origin (N) BANN -- "Isotope" -- As You Like -- Jazz Eyes (N) Plunge -- "Big Bhang Theory" -- Tin Fish Tango -- Immersion (N) Rich Pellegrin Quintet -- "Maze" -- Three-Part Odyssey -- OA2 (N) Roscoe Mitchell And The Note Factory -- "Ex Flover Five" -- Far Side -- ECM Peggy Lee Band -- "Offshoot 3" -- New Code -- Drip Audio Frank Mobus -- "Ich Geh' Zur Polizei" -- Der Rote Bereich--Risky Business -- ACT Calhoun -- "Nefertiti" -- Native Lands -- HalfNote Nasheet Waits -- "King Hassan" -- Equality -- Fresh Sound New Talent J. J. Johnson -- "Goodbye" -- The Trombone Master -- Columbia

Here is the February 21 playlist for "Straight, No Chaser" on KBCS-FM: Plas Johnson -- "Scrips 'n' Scraps" -- The Madison Avenue Strut -- Blue Moon Milt Jackson & Wes Montgomery -- "Sam Sack" -- Bags Meets Wes -- Riverside Matthias Lupri Quartet -- "Fast Corners" -- Shadow of The Vibe" -- Birdleg Oscar Peterson, Stephane Grappelli, Joe Pass, Mickey Roker & Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen -- "Skol Blues" -- Skol -- Pablo Branford Marsalis -- "Say Hey" -- Mo' Better Blues (Soundtrack) -- Columbia Terence Blanchard -- "Ghost of Betsy" -- A Tale of God's Will (A Requiem For Katrina) -- Blue Note Mark Taylor -- "Fleeting" -- Spectre -- Origin Josh Berman -- "Let's Pretend" -- Old Idea -- Delmark Yves Leveille -- "Trajectoire" -- Signal Commun -- Effendi Jane Ira Bloom -- "Rookie" -- Wingwalker -- Outline (N) Stephan Crump With Rosetta Trio -- "Overreach" -- Reclamation -- Sunnyside Serge Pesce -- "Venon de Luenh" -- Jazzd'aia -- Bleu Regard Marilyn Crispell & David Rothenberg -- "Grosbeak" -- One Dark Night I Left My Silent House -- ECM Oliver Lake Quartet -- "Cloth" -- Live -- Passin' Thru Other Dimensions In Music -- "#4" -- Other Dimensions In Music With Matthew Shipp -- AUM Fidelity Quest -- "Pablo's Story" -- David Liebman & Richie Beirach--Mosaic Select -- Mosaic Robert Piket -- "Ugly Beautiful" -- Sides, Colors -- Thirteenth Note (N) * Reptet -- "Songitty Song" -- At The Cabin -- ARC (N) * Reptet has a CD Release concert at The Tractor Tavern in Seattle, 9 p.m. on March 10. Listen to this show in the KBCS audio archives: http://kbcsweb.bellevuecollege.edu/playlist/archive/?ShowID=17797

Thanks to all the listeners who have donated to KBCS in the first days of our winter fund drive. If you're not one of them, please consider stopping by www.kbcs.fm to lend your support to community radio. Here is the music we heard on Valentine's Day on "Straight, No Chaser": Gene Bertoncini -- "Once I Loved" -- Someone To Light Up My Life -- Chiaroscuro Billie Holiday -- "I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm" -- The Best of Billie Holiday -- Verve Lester Young Trio -- "Somebody Loves Me" -- Lester Young Trio -- Verve Jessica Williams -- "When I Fall In Love" -- Some Ballads, Some Blues -- Jazz Focus John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman -- "My One And Only Love" -- Johnny Hartman Collection 1947-1972 Grace Kelly & Phil Woods -- "The Way You Look Tonight" -- Man With The Hat -- Pazz (N) Ahmad Jamal -- "Cheek To Cheek" -- Ahmad's Blues -- GRP Jim Hall & Ron Carter -- "Prelude To A Kiss" -- Alone Together -- Milestone Bill Evans -- "My Romance" -- The Best of Bill Evans -- Riverside Richard Cole -- "Beautiful Love" -- Shade -- Origin McCoy Tyner -- "Naima" -- Echoes of A Friend -- JVC Archie Shepp -- "Prelude To A Kiss" -- Fire Music -- Impulse! Hairy Music -- "Prozaic Relief" -- De Jongens Driest -- (self) Lisa Miller Octet -- "Singing" -- Green Ideas -- (self) This program will be available for two weeks in the KBCS audio archive: http://kbcsweb.bellevuecollege.edu/playlist/archive/?ShowID=17684

Next Monday night, February 14, Brett Watanabe will join me on "Straight, No Chaser" for the KBCS fund drive. Please join us between 9:00 and 11:00 p.m. Pacific time. Make a donation to community radio and let your voice be heard in support of jazz on KBCS. Call our pledge line at (425) 564-5000 or dial up www.kbcs.fm. Here is the playlist for "Straight, No Chaser" on KBCS-FM for Monday, February 7: Lee Morgan -- "Nakatini Suite" -- Leeway -- Blue Note Thelonious Monk -- "Epistrophy" -- Monk 'Round The World -- Thelonious Joe Lovano US Five -- "Donna Lee" -- Bird Songs -- Blue Note (N) Noah Preminger -- "Toy Dance" -- Before The Rain -- Palmetto (N) Steve Coleman And Five Elements -- "Seti I" -- Genesis And The Opening of The Way -- BMG Dan O'Brien Group -- "Morning Part 2" -- Inside Out -- Pony Boy Dana Reason Trio -- "Transition" -- Revealed -- Circumvention Benoit Dolbecq & Francois Houle -- "Trois pour les Gil" -- Dice Thrown -- Songlines Anthony Braxton & Gerry Hemingway -- "Old Dogs, Part 3" (excerpt) -- Old Dogs 2007 -- Avant Myth Science -- "Kingdom of Not" -- Love In Outer Space -- Knitting Factory Gerald Wilson And His Orchestra -- "Hollywood Freeway" -- Big Band Modern -- Jazz Factory Les Miserables Brass Band -- "Manic Depression" -- Manic Traditions -- Northeastern John Ellis & Double-Wide -- "Trash Bash" -- Dance Like There's No Tomorrow -- Hyena Peter Scherr -- "Lucky 13" -- Son of August -- 1Hr Music This program will be available in the KBCS streaming audio archive for the next two weeks: http://kbcsweb.bellevuecollege.edu/playlist/archive/?ShowID=17560 The Seattle Improvised Music Festival is this week, February 9-12 at the Chapel Performance Space. For details see: http://seattleimprovisedmusic.us/2011/01/20/2011-seattle-improvised-music-festival-set-list/

Here is this week's playlist for "Straight, No Chaser": Bill Anschell -- "Bent" -- More To The Ear Than Meets The Eye -- Origin Thomas Marriott -- "Diagram" -- Constraints & Liberations -- Origin (N) Tadd Dameron with John Coltrane -- "Super Jet" -- Mating Call -- Prestige Alon Nechushtan -- "Spinning The Clouds" -- Words Beyond -- Buckyball (N) Duke Ellington -- "It's Bad To Be Forgotten" -- Piano In The Foreground -- Columbia Franz von Chossy -- "Northern Lights" -- Pendulum -- Etcetera Han Bennink, Michiel Borstlap & Ernst Glerum -- "Masqualero" -- 3 -- VIA Matt Haimovitz & Uccello -- "Haitian Fight Song" -- Meeting of The Spirits" -- Oxingale (N) Jim Black -- "Nion" -- Alasnoaxis -- Winter & Winter Weasel Walter, Mary Halvorson & Peter Evans -- "The Stench of Cyber-Durian" -- Electric Fruit -- Thirsty Ear Nguyen Le -- "Straight, No Chaser" -- Three Trios -- ACT * Wally Shoup & Dave Abramson -- "Double Tongued" -- Good Curse -- R&M Julian Priester & Sam Rivers -- "Public Servant" -- Hints On Light And Shadow -- Postcards Russel Baba -- "Sparkle Blue" -- Earth Prayer -- Ruba Music ** Vijay Iyer -- "Atlantean Tropes" -- Panoptic Modes -- Red Giant Kurt Rosenwinkel -- "Cubism" -- The Enemies of Energy -- Verve Les Nubians -- "Autour de Minuit" -- Jazz A Saint-Germain -- Higher Octave Jazz HDV Trio -- "How Many Miles To Korea?" -- HDV Trio (self) * The Wally Shoup Trio will be at Vito's in Seattle, Thursday, February 3 at 9 p.m. ** Vijay Iyer will be at The Jazz Alley in Seattle, Wednesday, February 9. This program will be available to your ears in the KBCS Audio Archives for two weeks: http://kbcsweb.bellevuecollege.edu/playlist/archive/?ShowID=

This is what we heard on "Straight, No Chaser" on January 24: Cancoes -- "Cancao do Sal" -- Cancoes -- (self) Charlie Hunter Trio -- "Think of One" -- Copperopolis -- Ropeadope Ricky Ford -- "Broadway" -- Ebony Rhapsody -- Candid Bill Ware -- "It Don't Mean A Thing" -- Sir Duke -- Knitting Factory Avishai Cohen -- "Amenu" -- Introducing Triveni -- Anzic Edsel Gomez -- "The Minetta Triangle" -- Cubist Music -- Zoho Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber -- "(untitled)" -- More Than Posthuman--Rise of The Mojosexual Cotillion -- (self) Calhoun -- Afro Blue -- Native Lands -- Half Note Rudresh Mahanthappa & Bunky Green -- "Eastern Echoes" -- Apex -- Pi Robert Glasper -- "One For 'Grew" -- In My Element -- Blue Note Chad McCullough & Michal Vanoucek -- "Tryskac, Part 1" -- The Sky Cries -- Origin Mary LaRose And Ledhead -- "Hat And Beard" -- Walking Woman -- GM Bruce Eisebeil, David Taylor, Michael Attias & Jay Rosen -- "Oklahoma Sprawl" -- Opium -- CIMP * Nels Cline -- "Your A Dead Man" -- Dirty Baby -- Cryptogramophone Adam Lane's Full Throttle Orchestra -- "Nine Man Morris" -- Ashcan Rantings -- Clean Feed Ted Sirota's Rebel Souls -- "This Is A Takeover" -- Breeding Resistance -- Delmark Natsuki Tamura & Satoko Fujii -- "How Many?" -- How Many? -- Leo Vincent Courtois -- "Que reste-t-il de nos yorks?" -- Translucide -- Enja * The Nels Cline Singers will perform in the "Is That Jazz?" Festival at the Good Shepherd Center in Seattle on Saturday, January 29. This program will be available for the next two weeks in the KBCS Audio Archive: http://kbcsweb.bellevuecollege.edu/playlist/archive/?ShowID=17302

In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., the theme for this week's "Straight, No Chaser" was "Peace and Freedom." Here is the music we heard: Illinois Jacquet -- "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free" -- The King! -- Prestige Oscar Peterson Trio -- "Brotherhood of Man" -- Oscar Peterson Trio + 1 -- Mercury Alan Broadbent -- "Peace" (H. Silver) -- Live At Maybeck Recital Hall, Volume 14 -- Concord Jason Moran -- "Say Peace" -- Black Stars -- Blue Note Fareed Haque + The Flat Earth Ensemble -- "Fur Peace" -- Flat Planet -- Owl Larry Schneider -- "Peace" (O. Coleman) -- Ornettology -- SteepleChase Charles Gayle -- "Thy Peace" -- Consecration -- Black Saint Miles Davis -- "Peace" -- The Complete On The Corner Sessions -- Columbia Christian McBride & Inside Straight -- "Pursuit of Peace" -- Kind of Brown -- Mack Avenue Roy Campbell -- "Peace" (Z. Massey) -- New Kingdom -- Delmark Oliver Jones -- "Hymn To Freedom" -- A Class Act -- Justin Time Jeremy Pelt -- "466-64 (Freedom Fighters)" -- November -- MaxJazz Rashied Ali, Peter Kowald & Assif Tsahar -- "Freedom Train" -- Deals, Ideas & Ideals -- Hopscotch Charles Mingus / Mingus Big Band -- "It Was A Lonely Day In Selma, Alabama" & "Freedom" -- Blues & Politics -- Dreyfus Jazz Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy -- "Journey Towards Freedom" -- The Fire This Time -- In + Out The Philadelphia Experiment -- "Philadelphia Freedom" -- The Philadelphia Experiment -- Ropeadope The Catholics -- "Good Morning, Freedom Fighter" -- Simple -- Terra Nova Navigate to the KBCS audio archives to listen to this program, any time in the next two weeks: http://kbcsweb.bellevuecollege.edu/playlist/archive/?ShowID=17174 The "Is That Jazz?" Festival will be at the Chapel Performance Space, January 21, 22, 28 and 29. Performers include The Nels Cline Singers, Dana Reason, the Sun Ra Tribute Band, Triptet, Operation ID, Amy Denio & Lucio Menegon, and the Empty Cage Quartet. For details: http://www.isthatjazz.org/

This is what we heard on "Straight, No Chaser" this week: Al Cohn Quintet -- "Good Spirits" -- Al Cohn Quintet -- Coral Marco Tindiglia Quartet -- "Non Stop To The Bus Stop" -- Happy Jazz -- Splasc(h) George Cotsirilos Trio -- "Bittersweet" -- Past Present -- OA2 David Murray Power Quartet -- "Let's Cool One" -- Like A Kiss That Never Ends -- JustinTime Gianluca Petrella -- "Invisible" -- Jazz Italiano Live 2007 -- Casa de Jazz Uri Caine -- "Fire Song" -- The Othello Syndrome -- Winter & Winter Tin Hat Trio -- "Holiday Joel" -- The Rodeo Eroded -- Ropeadope School Days -- "Elephantasy" -- In Our Times -- Okkadisk Scott Colley -- "5:30 am" -- Empire -- CamJazz Andrew Hill -- "Illusion" -- Change -- Blue Note David S. Ware Quartet -- "Tao Above Sky" -- Dao -- Homestead John Scofield Trio -- "It Is Written" -- Live En Route -- Verve Oz Noy -- "Blue Monk" -- Ha! -- Magnatude New Haven Improvisers Collective -- "9-3-7-1-6" -- Interference -- NHIC Nels Cline Singers -- "B86 (Inkblot Nebula)" -- Initiate -- Cryptogramophone Clifford Jordan Big Band -- "Angelica" -- Play What You Feel -- Mapleshade ----------------------------------------- Check out the streaming version of this program at: http://kbcsweb.bellevuecollege.edu/playlist/archive/?ShowID=17058

Here is the playlist for the January 3 edition of "Straight, No Chaser": Guillermo Klein -- "De Solo Estar" -- Domador de Huellas -- Sunnyside Geof Bradfield -- "Nairobi Transit" -- African Flowers -- Origin Jeff "Siege" Siegel Quartet -- "Dance In The Question" -- Live In Europe -- Radio Bremen Jason Moran -- "Study No. 6" -- TEN -- Blue Note Michael Formanek -- "Inside The Box" -- The Rub And Spare Change -- ECM Francois Houle 5 -- "Encounter" -- In The Vernacular--The Music of John Carter -- Songlines Bertrand Denzler Cluster -- "Trash" -- Y? -- Leo Steve Swallow -- "Item 5, D.I.T." -- Damaged In Transit -- WATT New Acoustic Swing Duo (Willem Breuker & Han Bennink) -- "Felix Meretis and B.V." -- New Acoustic Swing Duo -- ICP Odean Pope -- "Phrygian Love Theme" -- Odean's List -- In + Out Joe Lovano -- "Villa Paradiso" -- Trio Fascination--Edition One -- Blue Note Leo Smith -- "Spirituals: The Language of Love" -- Divine Love -- ECM Change of Time -- "Transiting III" -- Change of Time -- OmniTone Joe Morris -- "Over To Me" -- No Vertigo -- Leo Cecil Taylor -- "3 Phasis, Part 5" -- 3 Phasis -- New World Misha Mengelberg Quartet -- "Hypochristmutreefuzz" -- Four In One -- Songlines

Here is the music we heard on "Straight, No Chaser" on Monday, December 27: Wynton Marsalis Quintet & Richard Galliano -- "What A Little Moonlight Can Do" -- From Billie Holiday To Edith Piaf -- Wynton Liam Sillery -- "Intentionality" -- Phenomenology -- OA2 Erica Lindsay & Sumi Tonooka -- "Serpent's Tale" -- Initiation -- ARC Azar Lawrence -- "Adrees" -- Mystic Journey -- Furthermore Bill McHenry -- "African Song" -- Roses -- Sunnyside Ralph Towner & Paolo Fresu -- "Doubled Up" -- Chiaroscuro -- ECM Matthew Shipp -- "Autumn Leaves" -- 4D -- Thirsty Ear Paul Bley -- "Harlem" -- Open, To Love -- ECM Uri Caine Trio -- "Nefertiti" -- Live At The Village Vanguard -- Winter & Winter Old Dog -- "Zephyr Revisited" -- By Any Other Name -- Porter Allison Miller -- "Be Melting Snow" -- Boom Tic Boom -- Foxhaven Evan Parker -- "Three of A Kind" -- House Full of Floors -- Tzadik Acting Trio -- Acting No. 13 -- Acting Trio -- BYG/Actuel Steelwool Trio -- "Bowling Alley Roughs" -- International Front -- Okkadisk Norbert Stein Pata, Horns & Drums -- "Scheuderhonig (Strained Honey)" -- Silent Sitting Bulls -- PATA Music Oddbar Trio Plus Trombone -- "Psycho Cycle" -- Lost Art Cafe -- 9 Winds Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Strings -- "Waterdance" -- Renegades -- Delmark Late Monday night and early Tuesday morning (December 27 and 28), I sat in for John Pai on "Giant Steps." Here is the playlist for that show: John Coltrane -- "My Favorite Things" -- My Favorite Things -- Atlantic Franz Koglmann & Lee Konitz -- "Love Is In My Heart" -- We Thought About Duke -- Hat Jason Adasiewicz's Rolldown -- "The Griots" -- Varmint -- Cuneiform Jason Robinson -- "Cerberus Reigning" -- The Two Faces of Janus -- Cuneiform (N) Bill Dixon -- "Innocenenza" -- Tapestries For Small Orchestra -- Fireshouse 12 Rudresh Mahanthappa's Indo-Pak Coalition -- "You Talk Too Much" -- Apti -- NOVA Terrence McManus & Joe Battaglia -- "Desolation" -- Pastellic Reflections -- Flattened Planet Mulatu Astatke -- "Dewel" -- Ethiopiques, Vol. 4: Ethio Jazz & Musique Instrumentale, 1969-1974 -- Buda Musique Ted Sirota's Rebel Souls -- "Breeding Resistance (aka Paper Tiger Blues)" -- Breeding Resistance -- Delmark Vijay Iyer -- "Human Nature" -- Solo -- ACT Andrew Hill -- "I Rremember Clifford" -- Mosaic Select--Andrew Hill Solo -- Mosaic Sun Ra -- "Discipline 9" -- Sun Ra Featuring Pharoah Sanders & Black Harold -- ESP-Disk Luis Bonilla -- "Blind Faith" -- Twilight -- NJC (N) Ahleuchatistas -- "K-Bit" -- Even In The Midst... -- Cuneiform Pat Metheny Trio -- "Giant Steps" -- Live -- Warner Bros. Log on to the audio archives at www.kbcs.fm to listen to these and other KBCS programs for two weeks after they are broadcast.

Here is the music played on "Straight, No Chaser" on December 20: Kenny Burrell -- "I Hadn't Anyone Till You" -- Kenny Burrell -- Concord Jazz Charles Earland -- "Aquarius" -- Black Talk! -- Prestige John Ellis & Double-Wide -- "Dance Like There's No Tomorrow" -- Dance Like There's No Tomorrow -- Hyena Mike Stern -- "Giant Steps" -- Give And Take -- Atlantic Larry Coryell -- "Ism-Ejercicio" -- Introducing The Eleventh House With Larry Coryell -- Vanguard Brad Shepik -- "Vapor Oro" -- The Well -- Songlines Spanish Fly -- "Fly By Night, Movement 5: End of The Night" -- Fly By Night -- Accurate Archie Shepp -- "Slow Drag" -- Kwanza -- Impulse! Odean Pope -- "Collections" -- Odean's List -- In + Out Ideal Bread -- "Papa's Midnite Hop" -- Transmit -- Cuneiform Ivo Perelman -- "Maleness" -- The Seven Energies of The Universe -- Leo Stephen Gauci, Kris Davis & Michael Bisio -- "Just To Be Heard" -- Three -- Clean Feed Undivided -- "Getsemani" -- The Passion -- Multikulti Project (N) Joe Lee Wilson -- "Sphirlov (Hurricane)" -- Without A Song -- Inner City The Soegaard Ensemble -- "Expini" -- Multiverse -- Leo Denman Maroney Quartet -- "Frogs" -- GAGA -- Nuscope Lina Allemano Four -- "Cannonball Adderley Tattoo" -- Jargon -- Lumo Listen to this program in the KBCS streaming audio archives: http://kbcsweb.bellevuecollege.edu/playlist/archive/?ShowID=16726

That's a good point. I would roughly guess that I've heard about 80 new releases in the last year, most of them through the radio station where I volunteer.

Seeing other folks’ picks just serves to remind me of how many new releases I haven’t heard, but here are my favorites anyway: Rez Abassi Acoustic Quartet - Natural Selection Lina Allemano Four - Jargon Geri Allen - Flying Toward The Sound Amir El Saffar & Hafez Modirzadeh - Radif Suite Mark Feldman & Sylvie Courvoisier - Oblivia Vijay Iyer - Solo Darius Jones Trio - Man’ish Boy (A Raw & Beautiful Thing) Linda Oh Trio - Entry Matthew Shipp - 4D The Vandermark 5 - Annular Gift

This week on "Straight, No Chaser" I paid tribute to saxophonist James Moody, who died last week at age 85. Here is the music we heard: James Moody -- "A Night Has A Thousand Eyes" -- Moving Forward -- RCA Novus James Moody -- "Anthropology" -- Feelin' It Together -- 32 Jazz James Moody -- "Don't Worry 'Bout Me" -- Return From Overbrook -- Chess James Moody -- "Blue Walk" -- Moody's Mood For Blues -- Prestige James Moody -- "The Moody One" -- Return From Overbrook -- Chess James Moody -- "'Round Midnight" -- At The Jazz Workshop -- Chess James Moody and Mark Turner -- "Satellite" -- Warner Jams, Vol. 2--The Two Tenors -- Warner Bros. James Moody (with Eddie Jefferson) -- "Workshop" -- Moody's Mood For Blues -- Prestige James Moody -- "All The Things You Are" -- Return From Overbrook -- Chess James Moody -- "Home Fries" -- At The Jazz Workshop -- Chess James Moody / Hank Jones Quartet (with Roberta Gamborini) -- "Moody's Groove" -- Our Delight -- Ipo Dexter Gordon (with James Moody) -- "Montmartre" -- The Tower of Power -- Prestige James Moody (with Eddie Jefferson) -- "Moody's Mood For Love" -- At The Jazz Workshop -- Chess World Saxophone Quartet -- "Picasso" -- Breath of Life -- Nonesuch The Microscopic Septet -- "Worry Later" -- Friday The 13th--The Micros Paly Monk -- Cuneiform (N) Dave Douglas & Brass Fantasy -- "Orujo" -- Spirit Moves -- Greenleaf Tarbaby -- "Brews" -- The End of Fear -- Posi-Tone (N) Sun Ra -- "World Worlds" -- Heliocentric Worlds, Vol. 3--The Lost Tapes -- ESP Marc Ribot -- "Solaris" -- Silent Movies -- Pi (N) Mary Halvorson Trio -- "Scant Frame" -- Dragon's Head -- Firehouse 12 The Tiptons Saxophone Quartet -- "I Klaxon Della Notte" -- Strange Flower -- Zipa You can access this program on-line for the next two weeks in the KBCS Audio Archive: http://kbcsweb.bellevuecollege.edu/playlist/archive/?ShowID=16608

This is the music we heard on "Straight, No Chaser" on December 6: Microscopic Septet -- "Night Train Express" -- Lobster Leaps In -- Cuneiform Lee Morgan -- "Speedball" -- Live At The Lighthouse -- Blue Note Sam Yahel Trio -- "Bend The Leaves" -- Truth And Beauty -- Origin Matt Renzi -- "Happy Hour" -- Lunch Special -- Three P's Sarah Wilson -- "Possibility" -- Trapeze Project -- Brass Tonic (N) Matt Haimovitz & Uccello -- "Meeting of The Spirits" -- Meeting of The Spirits -- Oxingale (N) John Surman -- "Hilltop Dancer" -- Brewster's Rooster -- ECM Scott Amendola Trio -- "Lima Bean" -- Lift -- Sazi (N) * Wally Shoup / Dave Abramson Duo -- "Involucre" -- Good Curse -- R&M Brodie West & Han Bennink -- "Ohmylady!" -- Brodie And Han -- Lorna Sonny Simmons -- "The Other East" -- Ancient Ritual -- Qwest Bright Moments -- "Dance'M" -- Return of The Lost Tribe -- Delmark Joe Henderson -- "Short Story" -- In 'N Out -- Blue Note David Berkman -- "Back In The 90's" -- Communication Theory -- Palmetto Blake Tartare -- "Africa Used To Be Home" -- More Like Us -- Stunt Louis Sclavis -- "Il disegno smangiato d'un uomo" -- Napoli's Walls -- ECM * The Wally Shoup Quartet plays at Gallery 1412 on Friday, December 17. Hear the program in the KBCS audio archives, here: http://kbcsweb.bellevuecollege.edu/playlist/archive/?ShowID=16495

Here is the music played on "Straight, No Chaser" on KBCS-FM on November 29: Louis Hayes Jazz Communicators -- "Curtain Call" -- Lou's Idea -- American Showplace (N) Jason Parker Quartet -- "Bashert" -- No More, No Less -- Brokentime Lee Morgan -- "Mr. Kenyatta" -- Search For The New Land -- Blue Note The Tiptons Saxophone Quartet -- "Locking Horns" -- Strange Flower -- Spoot (N) Free Fair + 8 -- "Napalis" -- Metal Beauty -- Munich Dave Holland Big Band -- "The Razor's Edge" -- What Goes Around -- ECM Pandelis Karayorgis Trio -- "Coming Out of Nothing" -- Blood Ballad -- Leo Drumheller -- "Sketch #11" -- Glint -- Rat-Drifting Tarbaby -- "Unity" -- The End of Fear -- Posi-Tone (N) Bruce Freedman Trio -- "The Demon Preaches Back" -- Enormous Moments -- (self) Rudresh Mahanthappa's Indo-Pak Coalition -- "Adana" -- Apti -- Innova Henry Threadgill Zooid -- "It Never Moved" -- This Brings Us To, Volume II -- Pi (N) Ralph Towner -- "Mevlana Etude" -- Blue Sun -- ECM Muhal Richard Abrams -- "The Bird Song" (excerpt_ -- Levels And Degrees of Light -- Delmark Jean-Luc Ponty -- "Parisian Thoroughfare" -- The Acatama Experience -- Koch Joanne Brackeen -- "From This Moment On" -- Popsicle Illusion -- Arkadia To listen to this program via the Internet, go to the KBCS audio archive: http://kbcsweb.bellevuecollege.edu/playlist/archive/?ShowID=16371

This is what we heard on "Straight, No Chaser" on November 22: Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra -- "Queer Notions" -- The Jazz Arranger, Volume I: 1928-1940 -- Columbia Count Basie & His Orchestra -- "Broadway" -- The Essential Count Basie, Volume 3 -- Columbia Lester Young Trio -- "I've Found A New Baby" -- Lester Young Trio -- Verve Tadd Dameron, with Fats Navarro -- "The Tadd Walk" -- Fats Navarro: Goin' To Minton's -- Savoy Jazz Joe Venuti & Earl Hines -- "Love For Sale" -- Hot Sonatas -- Chiaroscuro Stan Getz -- "Lester Left Town" -- The Peacocks -- Koch Jazz Liberty Ellman -- "Out of A Jazz Coma" -- Orthodoxy -- Red Giant Tony Scott -- "A Night In Tunisia" -- A Jazz Life -- Kind of Blue Rob Brown Quartet -- "Twinkle" -- Jumping Off The Page -- No More Jason Ajemian -- "U're The Guy (Keith Wood)" -- The Art of Dying -- Delmark Bill Dixon -- "Phrygian II" -- Tapestries For Small Orchestra -- Firehouse 12 Nguyen Le -- "Mali Iwa" -- Homescape -- ACT Masada -- "Yoreh" -- Live In Sevilla 2000 -- Tzadik NOJO with Sam Rivers -- "Neurotheologians" -- City of Neighbourhoods -- True North Russell Gunn -- "Footprints" -- Russell Gunn Plays Miles -- Highnote Adam Lane Quartet -- "In The Center of The Earth, Looking For Mike" -- Fo(u)r Being(s) -- CIMP Randy Weston & His African Rhythm Sextt -- "Fly Hi" -- The Storyteller--Live At Dizzy's Club Coca Cola -- Motema (N) Go to the KBCS audio archives to listen to this program via the Internet: http://kbcsweb.bellevuecollege.edu/playlist/archive/?ShowID=16288

Thanks to Dave Pure for sitting in as host of “Straight, No Chaser” on November 15. Here is the music that Dave played: Amina Figarova – “Photo Album” – September Suite Warne Marsh – “How Deep Is The Ocean” – A Ballad Album Joe Beck – “I’m A Fool To Want You” – Strangers In The Night Bobby Watson – “Ms. BC” – Tailor Made Amina Figarova – “Four Steps To…” – Sketches Pat Metheny & Roy Haynes – “Three Flights Up” – Question & Answer Chet Baker – “Oh, You Crazy Moon” – The Definitive Chet Baker Keith Jarrett – “Solar” – At The Deer Head Inn John Hicks Quartet – “Soul Eyes” – Naima’s Love Song Jimmy Smith – “The Sermon” – The Sermon Charlie Rouse – “When Sunny Gets Blue” – Unsung Hero Keith Jarrett – “Autumn Leaves” – Tokyo 96 John Coltrane – “Dear Lord” – The Gentle Side of John Coltrane Cassandra Wilson – “Body & Soul” – Standards Enrico Rava – “Easy Living” – Easy Living You can hear this program by going to the KBCS Audio Archives: http://kbcsweb.bellevuecollege.edu/playlist/archive/?ShowID=16165

This set is a treasure.

My List of Notable Jazz Releases in 2010 As the year-end approaches, DJs and critics everywhere are busy drafting their Top Ten lists for 2010. KBCS programmers' lists will soon be posted on the station's website and mine will be among them. But I don't really like making a Top Ten list. There is just too much music out there that I haven't heard. I can't identify the "best" jazz releases of the year when I have heard only a fraction of what is out there. Even so, I have been blessed to discover so much good music that it is arbitrary to designate ten CDs as my favorites. I prefer to make a longer list. These are just some of the really good jazz CD's that have come out in the last year or so. (A few were released in 2009.) Rez Abassi Acoustic Quartet – Natural Selection – Sunnyside Jason Adasiewicz’s Rolldown – Varmint - Cuneiform Lina Allemano Four – Jargon – Lumo Geri Allen – Flying Toward The Sound – Motema Geri Allen & Timeline – Live – Motema Cindy Blackman – Another Lifetime – 4Q Ryan Blotnick – Everything Forgets – Songlines Hadley Caliman – Straight Ahead – Origin Regina Carter – Reverse Thread – RSK The Claudia Quintet with Gary Versace – Royal Toast – Cuneiform Nels Cline Singers – Initiate - Cryptogramophone Avishai Cohen – Introducing Treveni – Anzic Richard Cole – Inner Mission – Origin Steve Coleman and Five Elements – Harvesting Semblances And Affinities – Pi Scott DuBois – Black Hawk Dance – Sunnyside Amir El Saffar & Hafez Modirzadeh – Radif Suite – Pi Peter Epstein & Idée Fixe – Abstract Realism – Origin Mark Feldman & Sylvie Courvoisier – Oblivia – Tzadik Bill Frisell – Beautiful Dreamers – Savoy Jazz Curtis Fuller – I Will Tell Her – Capri Hal Galper – E Pluribus Unum—Live In Seattle – Origin Gerry Gibbs And The Electric Thrasher Orchestra – Play The Music of Miles Davis 1967-1975 – Whaling City Sound Clark Gibson – Iapetus – Pony Boy Tamir Hendelman – Playground – Swing Bros. Vijay Iyer – Solo – ACT Music Darius Jones Trio – Man’ish Boy (A Raw & Beautiful Thing) – AUM Fidelity Matt Jorgensen – Tattooed By Passion: Music Inspired By The Paintings of Dale Chisman – Origin Mike Lee & Ted Chubb – New Tricks – (self) Charles Lloyd Quartet – Mirror – ECM Giuseppi Logan Quintet – The Giuseppi Logan Quintet – Tompkins Square Lionel Loueke – Mwaliko – Blue Note Rudresh Mahanthappa & Bunky Green – Apex – Pi Allison Miller – Boom Tic Boom – Foxhaven Paul Motian – Lost In A Dream – ECM Jayna Nelson – Bloom of Creation – Sun Jump Linda Oh Trio – Entry – Linda Oh Music Gail Pettis – Here In A Moment – OA2 Matthew Shipp – 4D – Thirsty Ear Akira Sakata & Chikamorachi – Friendly Pants – Family Vineyard Dr. Lonnie Smith – Spiral – Palmetto Norbert Stein Pata, Horns & Drums – Silent Sitting Bulls – Pata Music Paul Tynan & Aaron Lington – Bicoastal Collective: Chapter Two – OA2 The Vandermark 5 – Annular Gift – Not Two Sarah Wilson – Trapeze Project – Brass Tonic Ziggurat Quartet – Calculated Gestures – Origin

Here is the November 8 playlist for "Straight, No Chaser" on KBCS-FM. You can listen to the show in the KBCS audio archives: http://kbcsweb.bellevuecollege.edu/playlist/archive/?ShowID=16045 Jason Moran -- "Moran Tonk Circa 1936" -- Modernistic - Blue Note Duke Ellington (with Billy Strayhorn) -- "Tonk" -- Live At The Blue Note -- Roulette Art Farmer -- "Tonk" -- Out of The Past - Chess Ray Bryant -- "Tonk" -- Trio Today -- EmArcy Lucky Thompson -- "The World Awakes" -- New York City, 1964-65 -- Uptown Michael Blake -- "The World Awakes" -- The World Awakes: A Tribute To Lucky Thompson -- Stunt * Marion Brown -- "Dance No. 1" -- Marion Brown In Sommerhausen -- Calig * Marion Brown -- "Sweet Earth Flying, Part Three" -- Sweet Earth Flying -- Impulse * Marion Brown & Gunter Hampel -- "Gemini" -- Gemini + (Play Sun Ra Live In Concert) -- Birth Joe Battaglia & Terrence McManus -- "White Blood Cells" -- Pastellic Reflections Stephan Crump With Rosetta Trio -- "Overreach" -- Reclamation -- Sunnyside Dave Holland & Pepe Habichuela -- "The Whirling Dervish" -- Hands -- Dare2 (N) * Marion Brown (with Leo Smith) -- "Centering" -- Duets -- Arista Lina Allemano Four -- "Sling Slang" -- Jargon -- Lumo (N) NRG Ensemble -- "Burnt Toast" -- This Is My House -- Delmark Ethel -- "#3 (from Four Thoughts On Marvin Gaye)" -- Light -- (self) * In honor of Marion Brown, 1931-2010

Many thanks to Megan Sullivan for hosting “Straight, No Chaser” on November 1st. Here is the music Megan played: Red Garland – “Your Red Wagon” – Red’s Blues – Prestige Freddie Hubbard – “Happy Times” – The Artistry of Freddie Hubbard – UMG Jackie McLean – “What’s New?” – The Best of Jackie McLean – New Jazz / Fantasy Bill Evans – “Woody ‘N You” – The Best of Bill Evans – UMG Kenny Dorham – “Lotus Blossom” – Quiet Kenny – Concord / Prestige Horace Silver – “Filthy McNasty” – The Blue Note Years – Blue Note Jimmy Smith & Wes Montgomery – “James And Wes” – Jimmy & Wes: The Dynamic Duo – Verve Art Pepper – “Too Close For Comfort” – The Best of Art Pepper – Contemporary Clifford Brown – “Jordu” – The Definitive Clifford Brown – Verve Sarah Vaughan – “It’s Crazy” – The Definitive Sarah Vaughan – Verve Art Farmer – “Out of The Past” – Out of The Past Lee Morgan – “Twice Around” – Tom Cat – Blue Note Anita O’Day – “Speak Low” – The Complete Anita O’Day Verve / Clef Sessions – Mosaic Eric Dolphy – “On Green Dolphin Street” – The Best of Eric Dolphy – New Jazz / Prestige Joe Henderson – “Escapade” – Our Thing – Blue Note McCoy Tyner – “Peresina” – The Definitive McCoy Tyner – Blue Note Bobby Hutcherson – “Little B’s Poem” – Components – Blue Note To hear this program, go to the KBCS audio archives: http://kbcsweb.bellevuecollege.edu/playlist/archive/?ShowID=15926. Also, be sure to check out Megan’s biweekly on-line program, “Shape of Modern Jazz,” in the KBCS audio archives.