["Straight, No Chaser" on KBCS -- Programs available for listening in the audio archive at www.kbcs.fm]

On "Straight, No Chaser" on KBCS on October 1st, we paid tribute to two musicians who recently passed away, saxophonist Big Jay McNeely (1927-2018) and trumpeter and percussionist Jerry Gonzalez (1949-2018).  We heard selections from Tom Harrell, Pat Metheny, Jane Bunnett & Maqueque and Jazzmeia Horn, who are appearing in the 2018 Earshot Jazz Festival; and from Bobby Previte, who will be at The Royal Room in Seattle tomorrow, October 2nd.  If you check it out in the audio archive at www.kbcs.fm, this is what you'll hear:

 

Big Jay McNeely -- "Insect Ball" -- Ham Hocks & Cornbread -- JSP

Big Jay McNeely -- "Cool Blood" -- Honkers & Screamers -- Savoy Jazz -- 1948

Big Jay McNeely -- "Sunday Dinner" -- Honkers & Screamers -- Savoy Jazz -- 1948

Big Jay McNeely -- "Nervous, Man, Nervous" -- The King R&B Box Set -- King

 

Jerry Gonzalez & Fort Apache Band -- "Earthdance" -- Earthdance -- Sunnyside -- 1990

Jerry Gonzalez & Fort Apache Band -- "Elegua" -- Crossroads -- Milestone -- 1994

Jerry Gonzalez -- "Evidence" -- Ya Yo Cure -- Sunnyside -- 1979

 

Tom Harrell -- "Marching" -- Prana Dance -- Highnote -- 2008

Tom Harrell -- "Star Eyes" -- Number Five -- Highnote -- 2011

Tom Harrell -- "There"-- Trip -- Highnote -- 2014

[The Tom Harrell Quartet will be at the Seattle Art Museum, Wed., Oct. 24, as part of the Earshot Jazz Festival.]

 

Pat Metheny -- "80/81" -- 80/81 -- ECM -- 1980

Pat Metheny -- "Let's Move" -- Day Trip -- Nonesuch -- 2005/Gambler/Ru

Pat Metheny -- "H&H" -- Question and Answer -- Geffen -- 1989

[Earshot Jazz presents An Evening With Pat Metheny at the Admiral Theatre in Bremerton, Sun., Oct. 21.]

 

Bobby Previte & The New Bump -- "I'd Advise You Not To Miss Your Train" -- Set The Alarm For Monday -- Palmetto -- 2007

Bobby Previte & Bump -- "Counterclockwise" -- Counterclockwise -- Palmetto -- 2002

[Bobby Previte will be with the Previte/Gamble/Rucker Trio and Blueprints at The Royal Room, this Tuesday, Oct. 2,]

Jane Bunnett & Maqueque -- "El Chivo" -- Oddara -- Linus -- rel. 2016

[Jane Bunnett & Maqueque will be at The Triple Door, Sun., Nov. 4 as part of the Earshot Jazz Festival.]

 

Thumbscrew -- "Smoketree" -- Ours -- Cuneiform -- 2017  (N)

Pete McCann -- "Nikhil" -- Pay For It On The Other Side -- McCannic Music -- 2017  (N)

John Moulder -- "Memoirs By The Sea Part 1" -- Decade:  Memoirs -- Origin -- 2017  (N)

 

Jazzmeia Horn -- "Up Above My Head" -- A Social Call -- Prestige -- rel. 2017

[Jazzmeia Horn will be at the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute, Tues., Oct. 23 as part of the Earshot Jazz Festival.]

 

For tickets or information about the Earshot Jazz Festival, visit www.earshot.org or call (206) 547-6763.

 

 

["Straight, No Chaser" on KBCS -- Programs available for listening in the audio archive at www.kbcs.fm]

On September 24 on "Straight, No Chaser" on KBCS, as we did last week, we spent some time checking out the artists who will appear in the Earshot Jazz Festival in the Seattle area in October and November.  The dates and venues of their performances are listed below.  For tickets and information about the festival, go to www.earshot.org or call (206) 547-6763.  As always, you can hear the program in the KBCS audio archive any time in the next two weeks.  Here is the complete playlist:

 

Tigran Hamasyan -- "Nairian Fantasy" -- An Ancient Observer -- Nonesuch -- rel. 2017

[Tigran Hamasyan, Seattle Art Museum, Fri. Oct. 12]

 

Ann Reynolds and Clave Gringa -- "Con Pasion" -- Para Cuba Con Amor -- (self)

[Clave Gringa, Royal Room, Sun., Oct. 21]

George Colligan Trio -- "Debonaire" -- Blood Pressure -- Ultimatum

George Colligan -- "Outrage" -- The Endless Mysteries -- Origin -- 2012

[George Colligan with Buster Williams and Lenny White, Royal Room, Sat., Oct. 26]

 

Noah Preminger -- "I Shall Not Be Moved" -- Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground -- (self) -- 2015

Noah Preminger -- "We Have A Dream" -- Meditations on Freedom -- Dry Bridge -- 2016

[Noah Preminger Quartet, Tractor Tavern, Wed., Oct. 10]

Keyon Harrold -- "Bubba Rides Again" -- The Mugician -- Legacy -- rel. 2017

[Keyon Harrold, Triple Door, Sun., Oct. 18]

 

Sam Boshnack Quintet -- "Dormant" -- Exploding Syndrome -- (self) -- rel. 2014

[Samantha Boshnack presents "Seismic Belt," Royal Room, Fri., Oct. 12]

Allison Miller's Boom Tic Boom -- "The Itch" -- No Morphine No Lilies -- Royal Potato Family -- rel. 2013

[Allison Miller Boom Tic Boom, PONCHO Concert Hall, Fri., Oct. 19]

Gretchen Yanover -- "Cedar" -- Bow and Cello -- (self) -- rel. 2008

[Gretchen Yanover & Brandee Younger, Langston Hughes Center, Fri., Oct. 26]

 

Brandon Ross -- "One Solar Year" -- Costume -- Intoxicate -- 2004

[Harriet Tubman:  The Band, with Brandon Ross, Langston Hughes Institute, Thurs., Nov. 1]

Wadada Leo Smith's Organic -- "Joy : Spiritual Fire : Joy" -- Spiritual Dimension -- Cuneiform -- 2009

 

Jakob Bro -- "And They All Came Marching Out of the Woods" -- Gefion -- ECM -- 2013

[Jakob Bro, with Thomas Morgan & Joey Baron, Seattle Art Museum, Sat., Oct. 27]

Nels Cline -- "Reconciliation / New Monastery" -- New Monastery:  A View Into the Music of Andrew Hill -- Cryptogramophone -- 2006

Akua Dixon -- "Freedom" -- Akua Dixon -- Akua's Music -- rel. 2014

 

Erik Jekabson Sextet -- "Change Up" -- Erik Jekabson Sextet -- Wide Hive -- 2017

["Straight, No Chaser" on KBCS -- Programs available for listening in the audio archive at www.kbcs.fm]

Much of the music we heard on "Straight, No Chaser" on KBCS this Monday, September 17, was by artists who will appear in Seattle as part of the Earshot Jazz Festival, which runs from October 7 to November 4.  (Dates and venues are noted below.)  Here is the playlist for this week's program, which you can hear in the KBCS audio archive any time in the next two weeks:

 

Marshall Gilkes & The WDR Big Band -- "Puddle Jumping" -- Always Forward -- Alternate Side -- 2017  (N)

 

Jovino Santos Nieto & Andre Mehmari -- "Andorinhas (Swallows)" -- Guris:  Celebration of the Music of Hermeto Pascoal -- Adventure Musc -- 2016

[Jovino Santos Nieto & Jasnam Daya Singh, PONCHO Concert Hall, Tue., Oct. 9, 8 pm.]

Regina Carter -- "Day Dreaming on the Niger" -- Reverse Thread -- E1 Entertainment -- 2010

[Regina Carter, The Triple Door, Sun., Oct. 7, 6 & 8:30 p.m.]

Wayne Horvitz -- "The Beautiful Wives (Missouri Softball Tournament)" -- Some Places Are Forever Afternoon -- Songlines -- 2015

[The Wayne Horvitz Snowghost Trio, with Subtle Degrees, Chapel Performance Space, Thurs., Oct. 11, 8 p.m.]

 

Helen Sung -- "Convergence" -- Sung With Words -- Stricker Street -- rel. 2018  (N)

[Helen Sung, Chapel Performance Space, Mon., Oct. 8, 7:30 p.m.]

Marquis Hill -- "Moon Rays" -- The Way We Play -- Concord Jazz -- rel. 2016

[Marquis Hill Blacktet, (1) KEXP, Sun., Oct. 7, 5 p.m.; (2) The Royal Room, Mon., Oct. 8, 7:30 p.m.]

Logan Richardson -- "Locked Out of Heaven" -- Shift -- Blue Note -- 2013

[Logan Richardson Blues People, (1) KEXP, Sun., Oct. 7, 5 p.m.; (2) Lo-Fi Performance Gallery, Sun., Oct. 7, 9 p.m.]

 

Michael Formanek Ensemble Kolossus -- "Eoskeleton Prelude" -- The Distance -- ECM -- 2014

Michael Mantler -- "Update Eleven" -- The Jazz Composers Orchestra Update -- ECM

 

Jen Shyu [pictured] -- "Door 8:  World of Baridegi" -- Song of Silver Geese -- Pi

[Jen Shyu solo, PONCHO Concert Hall, Sat., Oct. 20, 8 p.m.]

Gerald Cleaver & Uncle June -- "Ruby Ritchie / Well" -- Be It As I See It -- Fresh Sound -- 2009

[Subtle Degrees, with Gerald Cleaver & Travis LaPlante, Chapel Performance Space, Thurs., Oct. 11, 8 p.m.]

James Brandon Lewis -- "No Wooden Nickels" -- Divine Travels -- Okeh -- 2011

[James Brandon Lewis, Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute, Wed., Oct. 24, 8 p.m.]

 

Albert Mangelsdorff Quartet -- "Mahusale" -- Live in Tokyo -- Enja -- 1971

 

Bad Luck -- "Index" -- Bad Luck Four -- Origin -- 2016  (N)

 

For Earshot Jazz Festival information and tickets, go to www.earshot.org or call (206) 547-6763.

 

["Straight, No Chaser" on KBCS -- Programs available for listening in the audio archive at www.kbcs.fm]

Here is the music heard on "Straight, No Chaser" on KBCS on Monday, September 10:

 

Nathan Davis Quartet -- "Beyond All Limits" -- Larry Young in Paris--The ORTF Recordings -- Resonance -- 1965

Hadley Caliman -- "Totem Pole" -- Straight Ahead -- Origin -- 2008

 

Enrique Haneine -- "Hidden Mirrors" -- The Mind's Mural -- Elegant Walk -- 2018  (N)

 

Sarah Reich -- "It's Tappening" -- New Change -- Tap Music Project -- rel. 2018  (N)

R + R = Now -- "Resting Warrior" -- Collagically Speaking -- Blue Note -- rel. 2018  (N)

Matthew Halsall -- "Mudita" -- Colour Yes -- Gondwana -- 2009

 

Thumbscrew -- "House Party Starting" -- Theirs -- Cuneiform -- 2017  (N)

Ibrahim Maalouf -- "All The Beautiful Things" -- Diagnostic -- Harmonia Mundi -- rel. 2011

 

Fred Hersch & Julian Lage -- "Stealthiness (for Jim Hall)" -- Free Flying -- Palmetto -- 2013

Stanley Cowell -- "Anticipation of the Coming of Freedom" -- Juneteenth -- Vision Fugitive -- 2014

Gary Peacock & Marilyn Crispell -- "Leapfrog" -- Uncharted Territories -- Dare 2 -- 2017  (N)

 

David Liebman, Richie Berirach, Ron McClure & Billy Hart -- "Round MIdnight" -- Redemption--Quest Live in Europe -- Hat Hut -- 2005

Gard Nilssen's Acoustic Unity -- "Summer Ale" -- Live in Europe -- Clean Feed -- 2016

 

Lester Bowie -- "Jazz Death?" -- The Roscoe Mitchell Art Ensemble--Congliptious -- Nessa -- 1968

Nicole Mitchell -- "A Sound" -- Maroon Cloud -- FPE -- 2017  (N)

[Fay Victor, the vocalist on this track, will appear with her SoundNoise Trio at the PONCHO Concert Hall in Seattle, Thursday, October 18, as part of the Earshot Jazz Festival.]

Peggy Lee -- "Snappy" -- Echo Painting -- Songlines -- 2017  (N)

 

Hear it in the audio archive at www.kbcs.fm.

 

 

[Delvon Lamarr]

As Chewy said, this band plays frequently here in Seattle.  I've been meaning to catch them.

[Record prices back in the day.]

In the mid-1960's my high school friends and I bought hundreds of used LPs at "Puss 'n Books" on University Way in Seattle.  Most of the albums were rubber stamped "$2.00," but the real price was $1.60.

[What was the first Jazz Lp you bought?]

Long, long ago.

 

[What vinyl are you spinning right now??]

9 hours ago, paul secor said:

Randy Weston: Berkshire Blues

An excellent choice.  I used this on my radio show last night.

[So, What Are You Listening To NOW?]

Randy Weston, R.I.P.

[Mary Halvorson]

"Code Girl" is excellent.  Mary is continuing to develop her sound.  Ambrose Akinmusire shines all the way through.  I'm not usually into vocals on "progressive jazz" recordings, but the art-song vocals here are pretty good -- much better than those on Mary's CD with Jessica Pavone.

As far as I can tell, "Code Girl" is the name of the double CD, not of the band.

 

[what are you drinking right now?]

Nolet's Dry Gin.  (A gift.  Had to be.)

 

[Now reading...]

This seems like a good time to read up on Watergate.  This is one of the better books about it.  Parts of it are just like what we've been hearing on the news . 

 

[Randy Weston - Thoughts and tributes]

A great loss, but what a huge career he had.  This week on my show on KBCS-FM in the Seattle area, I played almost two hours of Randy Weston's music.  In case you're interested, you can listen to a streaming version of the program any time in the next two weeks.  It's in the station's audio archive: 

https://www.kbcs.fm/programs/straight-no-chaser/

The playlist is posted on my Organissimo thread, here:

 

["Straight, No Chaser" on KBCS -- Programs available for listening in the audio archive at www.kbcs.fm]

This week on "Straight, No Chaser" on KBCS, we paid tribute to Randy Weston.  We heard a variety of recordings from different phases of his career.  At the end there was also a tune by Negative Press Project, who will be at the Sea Monster Lounge in Seattle, Sept. 5 at 10 p.m.

 

You can hear the September 3 show any time in the next two weeks in the KBCS audio archive:  https://www.kbcs.fm/programs/straight-no-chaser/.

Here is the full playlist:

 

Randy Weston -- "Babe's Blues" -- Earth Birth -- Verve -- 1995

 

Randy Weston -- "What Is This Thing Called Love" -- Solo, Duo and Trio -- Milestone -- 1954

Randy Weston Trio Plus Cecil Payne -- "These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)" -- With These Hands... -- Riverside -- 1956

Randy Weston -- "How High The Moon" -- How High The Moon -- Biograph -- 1956

Randy Weston -- "Little Niles" -- Randy Weston's Music:  Little Niles -- United Artists -- 1958

 

Randy Weston Trio -- "It's All Right With Me" -- Jazz a la Bohemia -- Riverside -- 1956

Randy Weston -- "Niger Mambo" -- African Cookbook -- Koch Jazz -- 1964

Randy Weston -- "In Memory Of" -- Tanjah -- Verve -- 1973

Randy Weston -- "The Call" -- Blues to Africa -- Arista -- 1974

 

Randy Weston--Vishnu Wood Duo -- "Hi Fly" -- Perspective -- Denon -- 1976

Randy Weston -- "Ifran" -- Berkshire Blues -- Arista -- 1965

Randy Weston -- "The Three Pyramids and the Sphinx" -- Saga -- Verve -- 1995

 

Randy Weston -- "The Call" -- The Spirits of Our Ancestors -- Antilles -- 1991

Randy Weston & Melba Liston -- "The Nafs" -- Volcano Blues -- Gitanes -- 1993

Randy Weston -- "Anu Anu" -- Khepera -- Verve -- 1998

 

Randy Weston and His African Rhythms Trio -- "Portrait of Frank Edward Weston" -- Zep Tepi -- Random Choice -- 2006

Randy Weston and His African Rhythms Sextet - "Loose Wig" -- The Story Teller -- Motema -- 2009

 

Randy Weston & Billy Harper -- "Berkshire Blues" -- The Roots of the Blues -- Sunnyside -- 2013

Randy Weston -- "C Jam Blues" -- Portraits of Duke Ellington -- Verve -- 1989

 

 

["Straight, No Chaser" on KBCS -- Programs available for listening in the audio archive at www.kbcs.fm]

Here are the musical selections we heard on "Straight, No Chaser" on KBCS on Monday, August 27:

 

Woody Shaw -- "Apex" -- Tokyo 1981 -- Elemental Music -- 1981  (N)

Jim Snidero & Jeremy Pelt -- "Party Time" -- Jubilation!--Celebrating Cannonball Adderley -- Savant -- 2017  (N)

Duane Eubanks Quintet -- "Beer and Water" -- Things of That Particular Nature -- Sunnyside -- 2014

 

Wes Montgomery -- "Impressions" -- In Paris -- Resonance -- 1965

Andrea Brachfeld -- "Moving Forward" -- If Not Now, When? -- Jazzheads --- 2017  (N)

Matt Wilson -- "We Must Be Polite" -- Matt Wilson's Honey and Salt -- Palmetto

 

Geof Bradfield -- "Forro Hermeto" -- Yes, And... Music For Nine Improvisers -- Delmark -- 2017  (N)

Steve Coleman and Five Elements -- "Figit Time" -- Live at the Village Vanguard, Vol. 1 (The Embedded Sets) -- Pi -- 2017  (N)

 

Nels Cline & Julian Lage -- "Blues, Too" -- Room -- Mack Avenue -- 2014

Roscoe Mitchell and the Sound Ensemble -- "Variations on a Folk Song Written in the Sixties" -- Black Saint -- 1981

Karl Berger, Dave Holland & Ed Blackwell -- "Ornette" -- Transit -- Black Saint -- 1986

 

Caroline Davis -- "Ocean Motion" -- Heart Tonic -- Sunnyside -- rel. 2018  (N)

[Caroline Davis will be at The Royal Room in Seattle on October 15, as part of the Earshot Jazz Festival.]

Shake Stew -- "Get Up Eight" -- Rise and Rise Again -- Traumton -- 2017  (N)

Joshua Redman, Ron Miles, Scott Colley & Brian Blade -- "Comme il Faut" -- Still Dreaming -- Nonesuch -- 2017  (N)

 

Miles Davis -- "It's About That Time" -- Miles at the Fillmore -- Columbia -- 1970

Blue Note All-Stars -- "Henya: -- Our Point of View -- rel. 2017

 

John Zorn -- "Nostromo" -- Insurrection -- Tzedik -- 2018  (N)

 

Look for it in the audio archive at www.kbcs.fm, where you can hear it any time in the next two weeks.

 

 

[Joshua Redman - Still Dreaming]

I really enjoyed this album, without needing to stop and ask whether it sounds too much like something else.  I'm a fan of Ron Miles, so it's particularly cool to hear him on this CD.

["Straight, No Chaser" on KBCS -- Programs available for listening in the audio archive at www.kbcs.fm]

This is the music we heard on "Straight, No Chaser" on KBCS 91.3 FM on Monday, August 20:

 

JD Allen -- "Prisoner of Love" -- Lovestone -- Savant -- 2018  (N)

Houston Person & Ron Carter -- "Gentle Rain" -- Remember Love -- Highnote -- 2018  (N)

Amanda Gardier -- "Revolving Door" -- Empathy -- Green Mind -- 2018  (N)

 

Sonny Sharrock Band -- "Fourteen" -- Seize The Rainbow -- Enemy -- 1987

Raoul Bjorkenheim & Ecstasy -- "Elemental" -- Doors of Perception -- Cuneiform -- 2017  (N)

Mary Halvorson -- "Armory Beams" -- Code Girl -- Firehouse 12 -- 2016  (N)

 

Curtis Fuller's Quintet -- "Five Spot After Dark" (alt. take 2) -- Blues-ette -- Savoy Jazz -- 1959

Chico Hamilton Sextet -- "Cheek to Chico" -- Sweet Smell of Success (Soundtrack) -- Verve -- 1957

Gerry Mulligan & The Concert Jazz Band -- "As Catch Can" -- Santa Monica 1960 -- Fresh Sound

Bill Evans Quintet -- "Fudgesickle Built For Four" -- The "Interplay" Sessions -- Milestone -- 1062

 

Nicole Mitchell -- "No One Can Stop Us" -- Maroon Cloud -- FPE -- 2017  (N)

Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids -- "Soliloquy For Michael Brown" -- An Angel Fell -- Strut -- 2017  (N)

Rob Dixon -- "Nag Champa" -- Coast to Crossroads -- (self) -- rel. 2018  (N)

 

Sam Rivers -- "Paragon" -- Paragon -- Fluid -- 1977

Steve Coleman & Five Elements -- "Embedded #1" -- Live at the Village Vanguard, Vol. 1 (The Embedded Sets) -- Pi -- 2017  (N)

 

Chicago Edge Ensemble -- "Bluster Buster" -- Decaying Orbit -- Music+ -- 2016

George McMullen Trio -- "Geonomic Preview" -- Boomerang -- pfMentum -- 2015

 

Jimmy Chamberlin Complex -- "The Parable" -- The Parable -- Make -- rel. 2017  (N)

 

Look for it in the audio archive at www.kbcs.fm, any time in the next two weeks.

 

["Straight, No Chaser" on KBCS -- Programs available for listening in the audio archive at www.kbcs.fm]

 

The August 13 ediition of "Straight No Chaser" is now in the audio archive at www.kbcs.fm , where you can hear it at your convenience.  Here is the music we heard on that program:

 

Wayne Escoffery -- "Baku" -- Vortex -- Sunnyside -- 2017

Jeremy Pelt -- "Evolution" -- Noir en Rouge--Live in Paris -- HighNote -- 2017  (N)

 

Michael Morreale -- "Spanish Key" -- Miles Song--The Music of Miles Davis, Volume 2 -- Pepjack -- 2016

Charles Pillow Large Ensemble -- "Directions" -- Electric Miles -- Mama -- rel. 2018  (N)

 

Yngvil Vatn Guttu -- "Blue North For 4" -- On the Crosswalk -- (self) -- rel. 2014

Mary Halvorson -- "Off the Record" -- Code Girl -- Firehouse 12 -- 2016  (N)

Bad Luck -- "Capital" -- Bad Luck Four -- Origin -- 2016  (N)

Dave Holland -- "Tenor-Bass-Percussion T2" -- Uncharted Territories -- Dare 2 -- 2017  (N)

 

Shakers n' Bakers -- "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen" -- Heart Love -- Little i Music -- 2017

3.5.7 Ensemble -- "Hope" -- Amongst the Smokestacks and Steeples -- Milk Factory Productions -- 2013

Hear In Now -- "Cantiere Orlando" -- Not Living in Fear -- International Anthem -- 2014

 

John Lewis / Gunther Schuller -- "Variants on a Theme by Thelonious Monk (Criss-Cross)" -- Jazz Abstractions -- Atlantic -- c. 1961

 

Gunter Hampel Group -- "Heroicdolphysiognomystery" -- Music From Europe -- ESP-Disk' -- 1966

Henry Threadgill 14 or 15 Kestra: AGG -- "Dirt, Part III: -- Dirt...and More Dirt -- Pi -- 2017  (N)

 

Wadada Leo Smith, Vinny Golia & Bertram Turetzky -- "Alexandra's Fancy" -- Prataksis -- 9 Winds -- 1997

Elliott Sharp & Scott Fields -- "Freefall" -- Scharfefelder -- Clean Feed -- 2007

 

[Now reading...]

Eerie sci-fi from Russian authors. 

 

["Straight, No Chaser" on KBCS -- Programs available for listening in the audio archive at www.kbcs.fm]

Here is the music played on "Straight, No Chaser" on KBCS this Monday, August 6:

 

Oscar Peterson -- "Looking at You" -- Jazz in Paris:  Stephane Grappelli Quartet, vol. 1 -- Verve -- 1973

Ahmed Abdul-Malik -- "La Ibkey" -- Jazz Sounds of Africa -- Prestige New Jazz -- 1961

Freddie Hubbard -- "The Melting Pot" -- Blue Spirits -- Blue Note -- 1966

 

Maria Schneider Orchestra -- "Arbiters of Evolution" -- The Thompson Fields -- Artists Share -- 2014

Jacques Kuba Seguin -- "11.16" -- Litania Projekt -- Odd Sounds -- 2011

 

Tomasz Stanko -- "Flair" -- Purple Sun -- 1973 -- Calig

East-West Collective -- "Humeur de Terre" -- Humeurs -- Rogue Art -- 2013

 

John Zorn -- "The Journal of Albion Moonlight" -- Insurrection -- Tzadik -- 2017  (N)

Nels Cline 4 -- "Temporarily" -- Currents, Constellations -- Blue Note -- 2017  (N)

Actual Trio -- "Bring Yourself Back" -- Act II -- (self) -- 2016

 

This Is It! -- "Prime Number" -- 1538 -- Libra -- 2018  (N)

Kyoko Kitamura, Joe Morris, Tomeka Reid & Taylor Ho Bynum -- "It Is Deeper Than Is Wide" -- Geometry of Caves -- Relative Pitch -- 2016

 

Rich Halley 3 -- "Pussy Cat Dues" -- The Literature -- Pine Eagle -- 2017  (N)

Gutbucket -- "Bounce Clap Shasta!" -- Dance -- Gut -- 2014  (N)

Baeshi Bang -- "Hwangpo Dotdae" -- Vintage K-Pop Revisited -- Buda Musique -- rel. 2016

 

Kevin Sun -- "Loading Screen" -- Trio -- Endectomorph -- 2017 (N)

 

You can hear this program any time in the next two weeks in the KBCS audio archive:  https://www.kbcs.fm/programs/straight-no-chaser/

["Straight, No Chaser" on KBCS -- Programs available for listening in the audio archive at www.kbcs.fm]

 Head for the KBCS audio archive -- https://www.kbcs.fm/programs/straight-no-chaser/ -- to hear this week's "Straight, No Chaser" on KBCS.  It includes several selections by the Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko, who recently died at age 76.  Here is the complete playlist for the July 30 program:

 

Ferit Odman -- "Our Delight" -- Dameronia with Strings -- Equinox -- 2015

Jeffrey Wright -- "Fifty Dollars (Segment)" -- The Passion of Charlie Parker -- Impulse! -- 2016

 

Tomasz Stanko -- "Num" -- Balladyna -- ECM -- 1975

Tomasz Stanko -- "Quintet's Time" -- From the Green Hill -- ECM -- 1998

Tomasz Stanko Quintet -- "Soul of Things, Variation III" -- Soul of Things -- ECM -- 2001

 

Patrick Zimmerli Quartet -- "Windup" -- Clockworks -- Songlines -- 2017  (N)

Andrew Rathbun Large Ensemble (with Luciana Souza) -- "Two Islands III" -- Atwood Suites -- Origin -- 2016  (N)

 

Tomasz Stanko Quartet -- "Cain's Brand" -- Matka Joanna -- BMG / ECM -- 1994

Tomasz Stanko Quartet -- "Suspended Variations VI" -- Suspended Night -- ECM -- 2003

 

Mark Dresser Seven -- "Newtown Char" -- Sedimental You -- Clean Feed -- 2015-2016

 

Joshua Redman, Ron Miles, Scott Colley & Brian Blade -- "Playing" -- Still Dreaming -- Nonesuch -- 2017  (N)

Dave Holland -- "Piano-Bass-Percussion T2" -- Uncharted Territories -- Dare 2 -- 2017  (N)

Chris Ziemba -- "Little T" -- Manhattan Lullaby -- Outside In Music -- rel. 2016

 

Tomasz Stanko New York Quartet -- "Tutaj--Here" -- Wislawa -- ECM -- 2012

Dmitry Matheny -- "Film Noir" -- Jazz Noir -- Blueport Jazz -- 2015

 

["Straight, No Chaser" on KBCS -- Programs available for listening in the audio archive at www.kbcs.fm]

Here is the playlist for the July 23 edition of "Straight, No Chaser" on KBCS:

 

Sonny Stitt -- "Swifty" -- The Last Sessions, Volumes 1 & 2 -- Savoy Jazz -- 1982

Ella Fitzgerald -- "Air Mail Special" -- Jazz at the Philharmonic Seattle 1956 -- Acrobat Music -- 1956

Larry Young -- "Beyond the Limits" -- Unity -- Blue Note -- 1965

 

Matt Wilson Quartet + John Medeski -- "Some Assembly Required" -- Gathering Call -- Palmetto -- 2013

Wojtczak Nyconnection -- "Teczycki" -- Folk Five -- Fortune

Allison Miller's Boom Tic Boom -- "Shimmer" -- Otis Was a Polar Bear -- Royal Potato Family -- rel. 2016

 

Anat Cohen Tentet -- "Loro" -- Happy Song -- Anzic -- 2016

Naftule's Dream -- "Turkisher" -- Blood -- (self) -- 2013

John Coltrane -- "Impressions" -- Both Directions at Once:  The Lost Album -- Impulse! -- 1963  (N)

 

 

Joe Lovano & Dave Douglas Sound Prints -- "Fee Fi Fo Fum" -- Scandal -- Greenleaf -- 2017  (N)

Tom Varner -- "The Trilling Clouds" -- Heaven and Hell -- Omni Tone -- 2008

Heliosonic Tone-tette -- "Heliotone 2B" -- Heliosonic Toneways, Vol. 1 -- ScienSonic -- 2015

 

Michael Vlatkovich Quartet -- "The Static Equilibrium of the Values of Savagery" -- You're Too Dimensional -- pfMentum -- 2013

[The Michael Vlatkovich Quartet, plus guitarist Tom McNally, will play at Gallery 1412 in Seattle, this Friday, July 27.]

Henry Threadgill -- "Clear and Distinct" -- Double Up, Plays Double Up Plus -- Pi -- 2017  (N)

Sun Ra & His Arkestra -- "Saturn" -- Jazz in Silhouette -- Phoenix -- 1958

 

Fred Hersch Trio -- "Skipping" -- Live in Europe -- Palmetto -- 2017  (N)

Swingle Singers -- "Prelude No. 9" -- Jazz Sebastian Bach -- Philips -- c. 1963

Camille Bertaut -- "Apres Vous (Au Privave)" -- The Passion of Charlie Parker -- Impulse! -- rel. 2017

Bill Evans -- "Witchcraft" -- Portrait in Jazz -- Riverside -- 1959

 

Noah Preminger & Rob Garcia Dead Composers Club -- "Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2 in Eb Major" -- Chopin Project -- Connection Works -- 2017  (N)

 

[Now reading...]

Post-Proust Parisian parlor drama, written by a teenager.   ("Count d'Orgel," by Raymond Radiguet.)

["Straight, No Chaser" on KBCS -- Programs available for listening in the audio archive at www.kbcs.fm]

Here is the music we heard on "Straight, No Chaser" on KBCS on Monday, July 16:

 

Flying Horse Big Band -- "Murcielago en la Cueva (featuring Batman Theme)" -- The Bat Swings! -- Flying Horse -- 2017  (N)

Orrin Evans' Captain Black Big Band -- "Tickle" -- Mother's Touch -- Positone -- 2011

New England Jazz Ensemble -- "Wolves" -- Peter and the Wolf -- (self) -- c. 2014  (N)

 

Kenny Dorham Quintet -- "Osmosis" -- Kenny Durham Quintet -- Debut -- 1953

Max Roach Quartet Featuring Hank Mobley -- "Kismet" -- The Max Roach Quartet Featuring Hank Mobley -- Debut -- 1953

Thelonious Monk -- "Bright Mississippi" -- Live at the 1964 Monterey Jazz Festival -- Concord

 

Brad Muirhead Quartet Plus -- "Go Forth" -- Old / In / Out / New -- (self) -- 2017  (N)

Kamasi Washington -- "Street Fighter Mas" -- Heaven and Earth -- Young Turks -- rel. 2018  (N)

 

Joey Baron, Tim Berne & Hank Roberts -- "Sanctuary" -- Miniature -- JMT -- 1988

Eric Revis -- "Good Company" -- Sing Me Some Cry -- Clean Feed -- 2016 

 

Dave Holland -- "Q&A" -- Uncharted Territories -- Dare2 -- 2017  (N)

Gard Nilssen's Acoustic Unity -- "Mormor" -- Live in Europe -- Clean Feed -- 2016

Dave King Trucking Company -- "You Should Be Watching (Art) Films" -- Surrounded by the Night -- Sunnyside -- rel. 2016

 

Jakob Bro -- "View" -- Returnings -- ECM -- rel. 2018  (N)

Paul Rutherford, Ken Vandermark, Torsten Muller & Dylan van der Schyff -- "Are We in Diego Yet?" -- Are We in Diego? -- Whirrboom! --2004

 

Gregory Porter -- "Yardbird Suite" -- The Passion of Charlie Parker -- Impulse! -- 2016

 

Listen at your convenience at https://www.kbcs.fm/programs/straight-no-chaser/

 

[Kamasi Washington - Heaven and Earth]

Somewhere under all those layers of production and bravado there is a decent sax player, I think.