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  1. On February 19, we heard the following music on "Straight, No Chaser" on KBCS:
     
    Mary Lou Williams -- "Cancer" -- Zodiac Suite -- America's Jazz Heritage -- c. 1945
    Modern Jazz Quartet -- "A Cold Wind Is Blowing" -- Odds Against Tomorrow -- Blue Note -- 1959
    Steve Hobbs -- "Blowing in the Wind" -- Tribute to Bobby -- Challenge -- 2016  (N)
     
    McCoy Tyner -- "Trane-like" -- McCoy Tyner with Stanley Clarke and Al Foster -- Telarc -- 1999
    Aki Rissanen -- "Hubble Bubble" -- Another North -- Edition -- 2017  (N)
     
    Matthew Hansall -- "Mary Emma Louise" -- Fletcher Moss Park -- Gondwana -- 2010
    Wayne Shorter -- "Joy" -- Odyssey of Iska -- Blue Note -- 1970
     
    Atomic -- "Krilons Resa" [incomplete] -- Feet Music -- Jazzland -- rel. 2002
    [Atomic will be at the PONCHO Concert Hall, Cornish College, Seattle, Thur., Feb. 22 at 8 p.m.]
    Trio Hut -- "Zoo on the Road" -- Jink -- Nemu -- rel. 2008
     
    Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, John Tchicai, Roswell Rudd, Gary Peacock & Sonny Murray -- "ITT" -- New York Eye and Ear Control -- ESP-Disk -- 1964
     
    Adam Pieronczyk & Miroslav Vitous -- "Mandala of Melodies" -- Wings -- Fortune -- 2015
    Federico Ughi -- "Slight" -- The Space Within:  Duets -- Slam -- 1998
     

    Dave Douglas, Louis Sclavis, Peggy Lee & Dylan van der Schyff - "Maputo" -- Bow River Falls -- Premonition -- 2003

    Atomic -- "Den Flyktiga Magneten" -- Feet Music -- Jazzland -- rel. 2002

     

    You can hear it any time in the next two weeks in the audio archive at www.kbcs.fm.

     

     

     

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  2. To hear a streaming version of this week's "Straight, No Chaser" on KBCS, head for the audio archive at www.kbcs.fm and look for "Straight, No Chaser" under February 12.  It will be there for two weeks.  Here is the full playlist for the program:
     
    Barney Kessel -- "You Go To My Head" -- Soaring -- Concord Jazz -- rel. 1976
    Pat Metheny -- "The Red One" -- Day Trip -- Nonesuch -- 2005
    Charlie Hunter -- "Two For Bleu" -- Charlie Hunter -- Blue Note -- 2000
     
    Dom Minasi's DDT + 2 -- "DMP" -- Time Will Tell -- CDM -- 2002
    Nguyen Le -- "Jorai" -- Walking on the Tiger's Tail -- ACT -- 2004
    Ben Allison -- "Swiss Cheese D" -- The Stars Look Very Different Today -- Sonic Camera -- 2013
    Jack Wilkins Trio -- "Call Him Reckless" -- Call Him Reckless -- Classics in Jazz -- 1989
     
    Miguel Zenon -- "Carteza" -- Tipico -- UpCal -- 2016
    Richard Cole -- "Free Time" -- The Forgotten -- Origin -- 2000
    Phillip Johnston's Transparent Quartet -- "Pipeline" -- The Needless Kiss -- Koch Jazz -- 1998
     
    Myra Melford's Crush [Melford pictured] -- "Orange" -- Dance Beyond The Color -- Arabesque -- rel. 2000
    Matt Mitchell -- "Raay" -- Forage (Tim Berne) -- Screwgun -- rel. 2017
    Aaron Parks, Ben Street & Billy Hart -- "The Storyteller" -- Find The Way -- ECM -- 2015
     
    Smiley Winters (with Barbara Donald and Bert Wilson) -- "Two Trains" -- Smiley Etc. -- Arhoolie -- 1969
    Corey Wilkes & Abstract Pulse -- "Levitation" - Cries From Tha Ghetto -- Pi -- 2008
     
    Tom Rainey Trio (with Ingrid Laubrock & Mary Halvorson) -- "Briefly Lompoc" -- Hotel Grief -- Intakt -- 2013
    Kaze (with Satoko Fujii, Christian Pruvost & Natsuki Tamura) -- "Meta-Blizzard" -- Atody Man -- Libra -- 2017  (N)
     
    George Russell & His Orchestra -- "Chromatic Universe, Part 3" -- Jazz in the Space Age -- Decca -- 1960

    Tom Guarna -- "Native Tongue" -- The Wishing Stones -- Destiny -- 2016  (N)
     

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  3. Here is the playlist for this week's "Straight, No Chaser" on KBCS, which you can hear at your convenience in the audio archive at www.kbcs.fm:
     

    Phil Parisot -- "Rocket Surgery" -- Creekside -- OA2 -- 2017  (N)
    Mostly Other People Do the Killing -- "Plum Run" -- Paint -- Hot Cup -- 2017
    [Mostly Other People Do the Killing will be at the Royal Room in Seattle, Thur., Feb. 22, 7:30 p.m.]
    Tarbaby -- "Jena 6" -- The End of Fear -- Positone -- rel. 2010

    Julian Lage Group -- "Iowa Taken" -- Gladwell -- EmArcy -- 2010
    [The Julian Lage Trio will be at the Northshore Performing Arts Center in Bothell, Fri. Feb 16, 7:30 p.m.]
    Mary Halvorson Quartet -- "Dahariel" -- Paimon--Book of Angels, Volume 32 -- Tzadik -- 2017  (N)
    Tomeka Reid Quartet -- "Super Nova" -- Tomeka Reid Quartet -- Thirsty Ear -- 2014
    [Tomeka Reid is appearing twice in this year's Seattle Improvised Music Festival:  (1) at the PONCHO Concert Hall, with Cornish College students, Thur., Feb. 15, 8:00 p.m.; and (2) at the Chapel Performance Space, Fri., Feb. 16, 8:00 p.m.]

    Edgar Steinitz -- "Grant Peace (Sim Shalom)" -- Roots Unknown -- OA2 -- 2017  (N)
    Gordon Grdina Quartet -- "Not Sure" -- Inroads -- Songlines -- 2017  (N)

    Antonio Adolfo -- "Speak No Evil" -- Hybrido--From Rio to Wayne Shorter -- AAM -- 2016  (N)
    Quoan -- "Capitol Absurdity" -- Fine Dining -- Orenda -- 2016  (N)
    Norbert Stein Pata Messengers -- "Diatonic Upanishad" -- We Are -- Pata Music -- 2017  (N)

    Bill Dixon [pictured] -- "Durations of Permanence" -- Tapestries for Small Orchestra -- Firehouse 12 -- 2008
    Thomas Heberer's Clarino -- "Torn" -- Klippe -- Clean Feed -- 2010

    Mark Zaleski Band -- "Cerina" -- Days, Months, Years -- (self) -- 2016  (N)
    The Westerlies -- "New Berliln, New York" - The Westerlies -- Songlines -- 2016

    David Friesen -- "Basic Strategy" -- Structures -- Origin -- 2017  (N)

     

     

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  4.  Listen to the January 29 "Straight, No Chaser" in the audio archive at www.kbcs.fm.  You'll hear a live recording by the South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela, who died last week at age 79., plus a bunch of new music.  Here is the playlist:
     
    Hugh Masekela [pictured] -- "Grazing in the Grass" -- Live at the Market Theatre -- Times Square -- rel. 2006
     
    Milt Jackson -- "Put Off" -- Statements -- Impulse! -- 1961
    Jason Marsalis and The 21st Century Trad Band -- "Soot Sprites" -- Melody Reimagined:  Book 1 -- Basin Street -- 2016  (N)
    Steve Hobbs -- "The Craving Phenomenon" -- Tribute to Bobby -- Challenge -- 2016  (N)
     
    Josh Deutsch's Pannonia - "Traveling Tune" -- The Road to Pannonia -- (self) -- 2016  (N)
    Ryan Keberle & Frank Woeste -- "Mother Nature (Rigaudon)" -- Reverso:  Suite Ravel -- Phonoart -- rel. 2018  (N)
    Naftule's Dream -- "Turkisher" -- Blood -- (self) -- 2013
     
    Kevin Sun Trio -- "Three Ravens" -- Endectomorph Music -- Endectomorph -- 2017  (N)
    Tim Berne -- "Heavy Mental (For Wayne Krantz)" -- The Shell Game -- Thirsty Ear -- 2001
    Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids -- "Rhapsody in Berlin" -- We Be All Africans -- Strut -- 2015
     
    Jen Shyu -- "Door 8:  World of Baridegi" -- Song of Silver Geese -- Pi -- 2016  (N)
    Kris Davis & Craig Taborn -- "Interruptions Three" -- Octopus -- Pyroclastic -- 2016  (N)
    Vadim Neselovskyi Trio - "On a Bicycle" -- Get Up and Go -- Jazz Family -- 2016  (N)
     
    Satoko Fujii -- "Spring Storm" -- Solo -- Libra -- 2017  (N)
    John Stowell / Ulf Bandgren Quartet -- "Night Visitor" -- Night Visitor -- Origin -- 2016  (N)
     

    Brad Gibson -- "Phoenix Rising" -- Epilogue / Procession -- Jack Straw -- 2014  (N)

     

    Last week's program (January 22) was a tribute to Roswell Rudd, featuring some of the many recordings he made in his 50-plus-year career.  It will be in the audio archive for another seven days.  Here is the playlist for that show:

    Roswell Rudd -- "Bamako" -- Malicool -- Sunnyside -- 2001

    Roswell Rudd & Yomo Toro -- "Tres, Quatro" -- El Espiritu Jibaro -- Sunnyside -- 2006
    Roswell Rudd & The Mongolian Buryat Band -- "Four Mountains" -- Blue  Mongol -- Sunnyside -- rel. 2006
    Roswell Rudd-- "To the Day" -- Trombone Tribe -- Sunnyside -- 2008

    Roswell Rudd -- "Ngoni Vortex" -- The Incredible Honk -- Sunnyside -- 2010
    Roswell Rudd -- "Almost Blue" -- Broad Strokes -- Knitting Factory -- 1999
    Steve Lacy--Roswell Rudd Quartet -- "Tune 2" -- Early and Late -- Cuneiform -- 1962

    Roswell Rudd-- "Respects" -- Everywhere -- Impulse! -- 1966
    Roswell Rudd, Steve Lacy, Misha Mengelberg, Kent Carter & Han Bennink -- "Epistrophy" -- Regeneration -- Soul Note -- 1982

    New York Art Quartet (with Roswell Rudd) -- "Rosmosis" -- New York Art Quartet & Imamu Amiri Baraka -- ESP-Disk -- rel. 1965
    New York Art Quartet (with Roswell Rudd) -- "No. 6" -- Mohawk -- Fontana -- rel. 1965

    Roswell Rudd -- "Inside Job" -- Inside Job -- Arista -- 1976

    Roswell Rudd -- "Berlin, Alexanderplatz" -- The Incredible Honk -- Sunnyside -- 2010
    New York Art Quartet (with Roswell Rudd) -- "Karin's Blues" -- Old Stuff -- Cuneiform -- 1965
    Archie Shepp (with Roswell Rudd) -- "Mama Too Tight" -- Mama Too Tight -- Impulse! -- c. 1965
     

     

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  5. Here is the music we heard this Monday, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday holiday, on "Straight, No Chaser" on KBCS:
     
    Paul Winter Sextet -- "We Shall Overcome" -- Count Me In 1962/1963 -- Living Music -- 1963
    Brian McCarthy Nonet -- "Oh Freedom" -- The Better Angels of Our Nature -- Truth Revolution Recording Collective -- 2016  (N)
    John Coltrane -- "Alabama" -- Coltrane Live at Birdland -- Impulse! -- 1963
    Geri Allen -- "I Have a Dream" -- Timeless Portraits and Dreams -- Telarc -- rel. 2006
    Gene Harris Quartet -- "This Little Light of Mine" -- Brotherhood -- Concord Jazz -- 1997
     
    McCoy Tyner -- "Search for Peace" -- The Real McCoy -- Blue Note -- 1967
    Matt Wilson's Arts & Crafts -- "Our Prayer / Give Peace a Chance" -- Scenic Route -- Palmetto -- 2006
    Harold Land Quintet -- "The Peace-Maker" -- The Peace-Maker -- Cadet -- 1968
     
    Mal Waldron -- "Strange Fruit" -- Blues for Lady Day -- Arista -- 1972
    Joanne Brackeen -- "Dreamers" -- AFT -- Timeless -- 1997
    Charlie Haden & Hank Jones -- "Go Down, Moses" -- Steal Away -- Verve -- 1994
    Ralph Alessi -- "Peace" -- Vice & Virtue -- RKM -- 1999
     
    Charles Mingus -- "Meditations on Integration (Parts I & II)" -- Thirteen Pictures -- Atlantic -- 1964 (Monterey Jazz Festival)
     
    Chico Freeman  -- "Freedom Swing Song" -- Peaceful Heart, Gentle Spirit -- Contemporary -- 1980
    Noah Baerman -- "Montgomery, 1956" -- Soul Force -- Lemel -- 2004
     
    James Weidman --  "Let My People Go" -- Spiritual Impressions -- Inner Circle Music -- 2017  (N)
    Illinois Jacquet -- "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free" -- The King! -- Prestige -- 1968

    Noah Baerman -- "(Ain't Gonna Let Nobody) Turn Me Around" -- Soul Force -- Lemel -- 2004

     

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  6. This week on "Straight, No Chaser" on KBCS, we heard some additional recordings by the drummer Sunny Murray (1936-2017), and much more.  Here is the playlist for the January 8 show, which you can hear any time in the next two weeks in the KBCS on-line audio archive:
     
    Shelly Manne & His Men -- "Bea's Flat" -- Swinging Sounds -- Contemporary -- 1956
    Shelly Manne -- "Pas de Trois" -- "The Three" and "The Two" -- Contemporary -- 1954  (cut short due to a technical problem)
    Shelly Manne (with Bill Smith) -- "Concerto for Clarinet and Combo:  Third Movement" -- Concerto for Clarinet and Combo -- Contemporary -- 1955
     
    Albert Ayler Trio (with Sunny Murray) -- "The Wizard" -- Spiritual Unity -- ESP-Disk -- 1964
    Albert Ayler (with Sunny Murray) -- "Spirits" -- Witches & Devils -- Arista -- 1964

    Albert Ayler Quartet (with Sunny Murray) -- "C.A.C." -- The Hilversum Sessions -- ESP-Disk -- 1964

     

    Daniel Levin Quartet -- "Bronx #3" -- Bacalhau -- Clean Feed -- 2009
    Albrecht Maurer, Mat Maneri & Lucian Ban -- "Twin Rivers" -- Fantasm -- Nemu -- 2012
    Leo Cuypers -- "Be-Bach" -- Heavy Days Are Here Again -- BVHaast -- 1981
     
    Sunny Murray Duo Featuring Charles Gayle -- "Suite for Jean Phillips, Part Two" -- Illuminators  -- Audible Hiss -- rel. 1996
     
    Ben Allison -- "Jackie-ing" -- Action-Refraction -- Palmetto -- 2010
    Vijay Iyer Sextet -- "Good on the Ground" -- Far From Over -- ECM -- 2017  (N)
    Alexander von Schlippenbach -- "Les" -- Jazz Now! -- Intuition -- 2015
     
    Avram Fefer, Eric Revis & Chad Taylor -- "Eliyahu, Take 2" -- Eliyahu -- Not Two -- 2010

    Jonathan Finlayson & Sicilian Defense -- "Folk Song" -- Moving Still -- Pi -- rel. 2016

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  7. Well, I've been posting my radio playlists for seven-plus years, and this is a New Year, so I might as well start a new thread.

    "Straight, No Chaser" originates every Monday evening from 9:00 to 11:00 at 91.3 KBCS-FM in Bellevue, Washington.  But each program is also stored in the station's audio archive, at www.kbcs.fm, where you can hear a streaming version of the last two weeks' programs whenever you like. 

    This Monday, to celebrate the New Year, we listened to John Coltrane's "My Favorite Things" on "Straight, No Chaser" on KBCS.  We also heard several selections featuring the great avant garde drummer Sunny Murray, who died last month.

    Here is the complete playlist for the January 1 program:
     
    John Coltrane -- "My Favorite Things" -- My Favorite Things -- Atlantic -- 1960
     
    Paul Giallorenzo Trio -- "Fractures" -- Flow -- Delmark -- 2017  (N)
    Tom Guarna -- "Run Signal" -- The Wishing Stones -- Detiny -- 2016  (N)
    Joshua Gerowitz -- "Morning Landscape Illusion" -- Solano Canyon -- pfMentum -- 2016  (N)
     
    Sunny Murray Trio -- "EMOI" --  13# Steps on Glass -- Enja -- 1994
    Sunny Murray -- "Suns of Africa, Part 1" -- Hommage to Africa -- BYG Actuel -- 1969
     
    Cecil Taylor (with Sunny Murray) -- Lena" -- Nefertiti, The Beautiful One Has Come -- Arista -- 1962
    Archie Shepp (with Sunny Murray) -- "Consequences" -- New Music, Second Wave -- Savoy Jazz -- 1964
    Albert Ayler (with Sunny Murray) -- "Vibrations" -- The Copenhagen Tapes -- Ayler -- 1964
     
    Satoko Fujii Orchestra New York -- "4" -- Fukushima -- Libra -- 2016  (N)
     
    Thomas Chapin Trio -- "Bad Birdie" -- Menagerie Dreams -- Knitting Factory -- 1994
    Nate Wooley Quintet -- "Elsa" -- (Put Your) Hands Together -- Clean Feed -- 2010
     
    Odean Pope (with Sunny Murray) -- "Scorpio Twins" -- Plant Life -- Porter -- 2008
     
    Happy New Year to everyone!
     
     
     
     

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  8. On "Straight, No Chaser" on KBCS, as the Christmas holiday slipped away, we listened to classic recordings.  Here is the playlist for Monday, December 25:
     
    Art Tatum -- "Moonglow" -- Decca Presents Art Tatum -- Decca -- 1940
    Art Tatum -- "Cocktails for Two" -- I Got Rhythm, Vol. 3 (1935-44) -- Decca -- 1944
    Art Tatum -- "Emaline" -- Classic Early Solos (1934-1937) -- Decca -- 1934
     
    Duke Ellington -- "Progressive Gavotte" -- The Duke -- Columbia -- 1947
    Duke Ellington -- "Lady Mac" -- Such Sweet Thunder -- Columbia -- 1957
    Duke Ellington -- "Pussy Willow" -- Fargo, North Dakota -- Vintage Jazz Classics -- 1940
     
    Lester Young -- "Jammin' with Lester" -- Complete Aladdin Recordings of Lester Young -- Blue Note
    Lester Young -- "Lester's Dream" -- The Lester Young Story -- Proper
    Lester Young -- "It's Only a Paper Moon" -- The Lester Young Story -- Proper
     
    Coleman Hawkins -- "Ain't Misbehavin'" -- Jazz Tones -- Xanadu -- 1954
    Coleman Hawkins -- "I Can't Get Started" -- Coleman Hawkins in the '50s--Body and Soul Revisited -- Decca -- 1952
    Coleman Hawkins -- "Spotlite" -- A Retrospective:  1929-1963 -- Bluebird
     
    Bud Powell -- "Ornithology" -- The Amazing Bud Powell, Volume One -- Blue Note -- 1949
    Bud Powell -- "Rue de Clichy" -- Paris Sessions -- Pablo -- 1963
    Bud Powell -- "Sure Thing" -- The Amazing Bud Powell, Volume Two -- Blue Note -- 1953
     
    Charles Mingus -- "Tonight at Noon" -- Passions of a Man -- Atlantic/Rhino -- 1957
    Charles Mingus -- "Track A--Solo Dancer" -- The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady -- Impulse! -- 1963
    Charles Mingus -- "Tijuana Gift Shop" -- Tijuana Moods -- RCA Victor -- 1962
     
    Eric Dolphy -- "17 West" -- Out There -- Prestige New Jazz -- 1960
    Eric Dolphy -- "Tenderly" -- Complete Prestige Recordings -- Prestige
    Eric Dolphy -- "Miss Ann" -- Last Date -- Fontana -- 1964
     
    Archie Shepp -- "Prelude to a Kiss" -- Fire Music -- Impulse! -- rel. 1965
    Archie Shepp -- "Naima" -- Four for Trane -- Impulse! -- 1964
    Archie Shepp -- "Call Me by My Rightful Name" -- Dedication Series, Vol. XVII--Further Fire Music -- Impulse! -- 1965
     
    Miles Davis -- "Fall" -- Nefertiti -- Columbia -- 1967
    Miles Davis -- "It Never Entered My Mind" -- Plays for Lovers -- Columbia -- 1956
     
    Hear it in the audio archive at www.kbcs.fm, any time in the next two weeks.
     
     

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  9. Here is the music we heard on "Straight, No Chaser" on KBCS on Monday, December 18:
     
    Jim Yanda Trio -- "Earth Way" -- Home Road -- Corner Store Jazz -- rel. 2016
    Sonny Sharrock Band -- "Venus / Upper Egypt" -- Highlife -- Enemy -- 1990
     
    Randy Weston -- "In Memory Of" -- Volcano Blues -- Gitanes -- 1993
    Ziggurat Quartet -- "10 to 5" -- Calculated Gestures -- Origin -- 2009
    Fred Hersch -- "A Riddle Song" -- Fred Hersch Trio + 2 -- Palmetto -- 2003
     
    Weather Report -- "Surucucu" -- I Sing The Body Electric -- Columbia -- 1972
    John McLaughlin & The 4th Dimension -- "Here Come The Jiis" -- Live @ Ronnie Scott's -- Abstract Logic -- 2017  (N)
     
    Black Arthur Blythe -- "Mamie Lee" -- Bush Baby -- Adelphi -- 1977
    Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids -- "Clarion Call" -- We Be All Africans -- Strut -- 2015  (N)
    David Virelles -- "Epilogo" -- Gnosis -- ECM-- 2016  (N)
     
    Kris Davis -- "Wayne Oskar" -- Rye Eclipse -- Fresh Sound New Talent -- 2007
    Reggie Workman -- "Fast Forward" -- Cerebral Caverns -- Postcards -- 1995
    Ernesto Cervini's Turboprop -- "Ranthem" -- Anzic -- 2013  (N)
     
    Anthony Davis -- "Wayang No. IV (Under the Double Moon), Section 3" -- Episteme -- Gramavision -- 1981
     
    Roscoe Mitchell -- "Frenzy House" -- Discussions -- Wide Hive -- 2016  (N)

    Dave Douglas Sextet -- "Pine Marten" -- Pathways -- Greenleaf -- 2012

     

    Listen to the show at your convenience, using your favorite Internet device.   Just head for the audio archive at www.kbcs.fm any time in the next two weeks.

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  10. This week on "Straight, No Chaser" on KBCS, we heard selections from some really good jazz CDs (IMO) released in 2017, including some brand new music.  Here is the playlist for the December 11 show, which you can hear in the KBCS audio archive any time in the next two weeks:
     
    Dave Douglas with the Westerlies and Anwar Marshall -- "Colonial Cubism" -- Little Giant Still LIfe -- Greenleaf -- 2016  (N)
    Ambrose Akinmusire -- "H.A.M.S. (In the Spirit of Honesty)" -- A Rift in Decorum--Live at the Village Vanguard -- Blue Note -- rel. 2017
    Matt Wilson -- "Daybreak" -- Honey and Salt--Music Inspired by the Poetry of Carl Sandburg -- Palmetto -- 2016
     
    Brian McCarthy Nonet -- "I Wish I Was in Dixie's Land" -- The Better Angels of Our Nature -- Truth Revolution Recording Collective -- 2016
     
    John Zorn / Mary Halvorson -- "Uzza" -- Laimon--Book of Angels, Volume 32--Mary Halvorson Quartet Plays Masada Book Two -- Tzadik -- 2017  (N)
    Rez Abbasi -- "Dance Number" -- Unfiltered Universe -- Whirlwind -- 2016  (N)
    Burning Ghosts -- "Zero Hour" -- Reclamation -- Tzadik -- rel. 2017
    Matt Mitchell -- "Heft" -- A Pouting Grimace -- Pi -- 2017  (N)
     
    Sam Boshnack Quintet -- "Expositions" -- Nellie Bly Project -- Artists Recording Collective -- 2016
    Eclectik Percussions Orchestra Invite Oliver Lake -- "Le Vieux Lion" -- Traces de Vies / of Life -- Passin' Thru -- 2016  (N)
     
    Trouble Kaze -- "Part II" -- June -- 2016  (N)
    Gordon Grdina Quartet [Grdina pictured] -- "Apocalympics" -- Inroads -- Songlines -- 2017  (N)
     
    Chicago / London Underground -- "Mysteries of Emanating Light" -- A Night Walking Through Mirrors -- Cuneiform -- 2016
    Jovino Santos Neto & Andre Mehmari -- "Andorhinas" -- Guris--Celebrating the Music of Hermeto Pascoal -- Adventure Music -- 2016
     

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  11. Here is the music we heard on "Straight, No Chaser" on KBCS on Monday, December 4:
     
    David White Quintet -- "Double Double" -- CIMP -- 1998
    Adam Cruz -- "Magic Ladder" -- Milestone -- Sunnyside -- 2010
     
    Kenny Werner Trio -- "The Look" -- (A Delicate Balance) -- RCA Victor -- 1997
    Kris Davis -- "Black Tunnel" -- Rye Eclipse -- Fresh Sound New Talent -- 2007
    Gonzalo Rubalcaba -- "Padeo en Media Luz" -- Solo -- Blue NOte -- 2005
     
    James Newton -- "Lake" -- Paseo del Mar -- India Navigation -- 1978
    Jane Ira Bloom -- "Mighty Lights" -- Mighty Lights -- Enja -- 1982
     
    Creative Construction Company (with Muhal Richard Abrams, Leroy Jenkins, Anthony Braxton, Leo Smith) -- "Muhal (Part 1)" -- Creative Construction Company -- Muse -- 1970
     
    Devin Gray -- "Talking With Hands" -- Dirigo Rataplan -- Skirl -- 2012
    Avram Fefer Trio -- "Blinky Palermo" -- Ritual -- Clean Feed -- 2009
    Transit -- "Red Hook" -- Transit -- Clean Feed -- 2001
     
    Bill Frisell -- "Fr, Fr, Frisell" -- (Bill Frisell & Vernon Reid) Smash & Scatteration -- Ryko -- 1984
    David Tronzo & Reeves Grabels -- "Amnesia" -- Night in Amnesia -- Upstart -- 1995
     
    San Francisco String Trio -- "Within You Without You" -- May I Introduce to You -- Ridgeway -- 2016  (N)
     

    As always, you can hear the show any time in the next two weeks in the audio archive at www.kbcs.fm.

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  12. To honor the jazz singer Jon Hendricks [pictured], who passed away last week at age 96, we listened to several selections by Lambert, Hendricks & Ross on this week's "Straight, No Chaser" on KBCS.  Here is the complete playlist for the November 27 show, which you can find in the audio archive at www.kbcs.fm:
     
    Lambert, Hendricks & Ross -- "Cottontail" -- Twisted -- Rhino -- 1960
    Lambert, Hendricks & Ross -- "Popity Pop" -- High Flying -- Columbia
    Lambert, Hendricks & Ross -- "Moanin'" -- Twisted -- Rhino -- 1959
    Lambert, Hendricks & Ross -- "Cookin' at the Continental" -- High Flying -- Columbia
    Lambert, Hendricks & Ross -- "Hi-Fly" -- Twisted -- Rhino -- 1961

    Larry Coryell -- "If Miles Were Here" -- Barefoot Man:  Sanpaku -- Purple Pyramid -- rel. 2016
    Sao Paulo Underground -- "Carambola" -- Tres Cabecas Loucouras -- Cuneiform -- 2010
    Ibrahim Maalouf - "Overture II" -- Kalthoum -- Impulse! -- rel. 2015

    Ornette Coleman -- "Broken Shadows" -- Crisis -- Impulse! -- 1969
    Leszek Kulakowski Ensemble -- "Regi" -- Looking Ahead -- Fortune -- 2014
    New Haven Improvisers Collective -- "Seven Legged Spider" -- Atlas -- NHIC -- 2010

    Guillermo Klein -- "Patria Espiral" -- Los Guachos V -- Sunnyside -- 2015
    Dennis Gonzalez's Spirit Meridian -- "Bush Medicine" -- Idle Wild -- Clean Feed -- 2004

    Bill Stewart -- "Tincture" -- Space Squid -- Pirouet -- 2014
    Giovanni Guidi, Gianluca Petrella, Louis Sclavis & Gerald Cleaver -- "Jeronimo" -- Ida Lupino -- ECM -- 2015
    Ben Goldberg Quintet -- "Song and Dance" -- The Door, The Hat, The Chair, The Fact -- Cryptogramophone -- 2004
    Heliosonic Tone-tette -- "Heliotone 4B" -- Heliosonic Toneways, Vol. 1 -- ScienSonic -- 2015  (N)

    Convergence Quartet -- "Remember Raoul / Piano Part Two" -- Slow and Steady -- NoBusiness -- 2011
    Craig Taborn & Ikue Mori -- "Things Had Gone Badly" -- Highsmith -- Tzedik -- 2017  (N)
    Vijay Iyer Sextet -- "Nope" -- Far From Over -- ECM -- 2017  (N)

    Lambert, Hendricks & Ross -- "Farmer's Market" -- Twisted -- Rhino
    Lambert, Hendricks & Ross -- "Caravan" -- Twisted -- Rhino
     

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  13. Now in the audio archive at www.kbcs.fm, the November 20 "Straight, No Chaser" includes the following music:
     
    Linda Ronstadt -- "'Round Midnight" -- 'Round Midnight -- Asylum -- c. 1983
    Negative Press Project -- "So Real" -- Eternal Life:  Jeff Buckley Songs and Sounds -- Ridgeway -- rel. 2017  (N)
    Mason Razavi -- "Grvunkabop" -- Quartet Plus, Volume 2 -- OA2 -- 2016  (N)
     
    Blue Note All-Stars (feat. Ambrose Akinmusire) -- "Henya" -- Our Point of View -- Blue Note -- rel. 2017  (N)
    Gary Peacock Trio - "Talkin' Blues" -- Tengents -- ECM  (N)
    Albert Mangelsdorff -- "Lapwing" -- A Jazz Tune I Hope -- MPS -- 1978
     
    Chick Corea - "Windows" -- Inner Space -- Atlantic -- 1968
    Harris Eisenstadt -- "Big Basin" -- Old Growth Forest -- Clean Feed -- 2015
    Fred Frith & John Butcher -- "Turning Away in Time" -- The Natural Order -- NSPY -- 2009
     
    Ron Francis Blake -- "Saura de Nazareth" -- Assimilation -- Hi Speed Horns -- rel. 2017  (N)
     
    Tyshawn Sorey -- "Contemplating Tranquility" -- Verisimilitude -- Pi -- 2016  (N)
    Matt Mitchell -- "Paene" -- Forage (Tim Berne) -- Screwgun -- rel. 2017  (N)
     
    Tim Berne's Snakeoil -- "Stingray Shuffle" -- Incidentals -- ECM -- 2014  (N)
    Matthew Shipp -- "Magnetism XX" -- Magnetism(s) -- Rogue Art -- 1999  (N)
     
    John Zorn -- "City Chase" -- The Bribe -- Tzadik -- 1986
     
    Satoko Fujii -- "Intent" -- Aspiration -- Libra -- 2016  (N)
    Wadada Leo Smith -- "Crepuscule with Nellie" -- Solo:  Reflections and Meditations on Monk -- TUM -- 2014/15  (N)
     

    Free Radicals -- "Chicha Revolucion" -- Outside the Comfort Zone -- (self) -- rel. 2017  (N)

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  14. There was a plethora of new recordings on this week's "Straight, No Chaser" on KBCS.  Look for it in the audio archive at www.kbcs.fm and listen at your convenience.  Here is the playlist for November 13:
     
    John Vanore -- "A Taste of Honey" -- Stolen Moments:  Celebrating Oliver Nelson -- Acoustical Concepts -- 2016  (N)
    Sherman Irby -- "Willie's Beat aka The Sweet Science" -- Cerulean Canvas -- Black Warrior -- 2017  (N)
    Paul Tynan & Aaron Lington -- "More Than Just A Single Road" -- Bicoastal Collective:  Chapter Five -- OA2 -- 2016  (N)
     
    Tom Harrell -- "Moving Picture" -- Moving Picture -- HighNote -- 2016  (N)
    Ernesto Cervini's Turboprop-- "The Libertine" - Rev -- Anzic -- 2016  (N)
     
    Mark Zaleski Band -- "Epistrophy" -- Days, Months, Years -- (self) -- 2016  (N)
    Rez Abbasi -- "Propensity" -- Unfiltered Universe -- Whirlwind Recordings -- 2016  (N)
    Matt Mitchell -- "Mini Alternative" -- A Pouting Grimace -- Pi -- 2017  (N)
     
    Roscoe Mitchell -- "Dancing in the Canyon" -- Bells for the South Side -- ECM -- 2015  (N)
    Vijay Iyer Sextet -- "Down to the Wire" -- Far From Over -- ECM -- 2017  (N)
    Wadada Leo Smith -- "Ronald Shannon Jackson:  The Master of Symphonic Drumming and Multi-Sonic Rhythms, Inscriptions of a Rare Beauty" -- Najwa -- TUM -- 2014  (N)
    Heliosonic Tone-tette, feat.Scott Robinson & Marshall Allen -- "Heliotone 7" -- Heliosonic Toneways, Vol. 1 -- ScienSonic -- 2015  (N)
     
    Rudresh Mahanthappa's Indo-Pak Coalition -- "Rasikapriya" -- Agrima -- (self) -- rel. 2017  (N)
    TRYYO (feat. Michael Vlatkovich) -- "Exposed to Higher Concentrations of Stubidity" -- Flying Box -- pfMentum -- 2015  (N)
    Jane Ira Bloom -- "A Star Not Far Enough" -- Wild Lines:  Improvising Emily Dickinson -- Outline -- rel. 2017  (N)
     

    JD Allen -- "Heureux" -- Radio Flyer -- Savant -- 2017  (N)

     

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  15. This week on "Straight, No Chaser" on KBCS, we featured recordings by or with  the  great pianist and composer Muhal Richard Abrams, who died last week at age 87.  As always, you can hear a streaming version of the program whenever you like, in the audio archive at www.kbcs.fm.  Here are the selections we heard:
     
    Eddie Harris (with Muhal Richard Abrams)-- "Giant Steps" -- Eddie Harris Sings the Blues -- Atlantic -- rel. 1972
    Woody Shaw (with Muhal Richard Abrams) -- "Symmetry" -- The Iron Men -- Muse -- 1977
     
    Muhal Richard Abrams -- "March of the Transients" -- Things to Come from Those Now Gone -- Delmark -- rel. 1975
    Muhal Richard Abrams -- "Personal Conversations" -- View from Within -- Black Saint -- 1984
    Muhal Richard Abrams -- "Unity (Dedicated to the A.A.C.M.)" -- Sightsong -- Black Saint -- 1975
     
    Muhal Richard Abrams -- "D Song" -- Spiral -- Arista -- 1978
    Art Ensemble of Chicago (with Muhal Richard Abrams) -- "Nonaah" -- Fanfare for the Warriors -- Atlantic -- 1973
     
    Muhal Richard Abrams -- "Marching with Honor" -- Song for All -- Black Saint -- 1995
    Muhal Richard Abrams Orchestra -- "Septone" -- Blu Blu Blu -- Black Saint -- 1990
    Muhal Richard Abrams Orchestra -- "Spiral to Clarity" -- Rejoicing with the Light -- Black Saint -- 1983
     
    Muhal Richard Abrams (with Fred Anderson)-- "Focus, Thru Time...Time, Part Three" -- Sound Dance -- Pi -- 2009
    Muhal Richard Abrams -- "Ritob" -- 1-OQA+19 -- Black Saint -- 1977
    Muhal Richard Abrams -- "Cluster for Many Worlds" -- Blues Forever -- Black Saint -- 1981
     
    Muhal Richard Abrams -- "Crossbeams" -- Think All, Focus One -- Black Saint -- 1994
    Marion Brown (with Muhal Richard Abrams) -- "Sweet Earth Flying Part Three" -- Sweet Earth Flying -- Impulse! -- 1974

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  16. This week's "Straight, No Chaser" is now in the audio archive at www.kbcs.fm, where you can hear it any time in the next two weeks. Here is the playlist for the October 30 program:
     
    Lem Winchester & Benny Golson -- "Will You Still Be Mine?" -- Winchester Special -- Prestige New Jazz -- 1959
    Oliver Nelson, King Curtis & Jimmy Forrest -- "Anacruse" -- Soul Battle -- Prestige -- 1960
    J. J. Johnson Quintet -- "Tea Pot" -- Dial J. J. 5 -- Columbia -- 1957
     
    Debbie Poryes Trio -- "The Wish" -- Loving Hank -- OA2 -- 2017  (N)
    Christian McBride Big Band -- "Sahara" -- Bringin' It -- Mack Avenue -- rel. 2017  (N)
    John McNeil & Mike Fahie -- "Conversation Starter" -- Plainsong -- Destiny -- 2015  (N)
     
    Ben Allison -- "Layers of the City" -- Layers of the City -- Sonic Camera -- rel. 2017  (N)
    Jan Garbarek Quartet -- "Afric Pepperbird" -- Afric Pepperbird -- ECM -- 1970
    Giovanni Guidi, Gianluca Petrella, Louis Sclavis & Gerald Cleaver -- "Jeronimo" -- Ida Lupino -- ECM -- 2015  (N)
     
    Terje Rypdal -- "Investigation" -- Crime Scene -- ECM -- 2009
    Greg Sinibaldi -- "Cut" -- Ariel -- (self) -- 2016  (N)
    Elliott Sharp & Mary Halvorson -- "Sea Buzz" -- Err Guitar [with Marc Ribot] -- Intakt -- 2016  (N)
     
    Jon Irabagon, John Hegre & Nils Are Dronen -- "Fukuoka" -- Axis -- Rune Grammofon -- 2015  (N)
     
    Josh Berman & His Gang -- "Sugar" -- There Now -- Delmark -- rel. 2012
    Craig Taborn & Ikue Mori -- "Two Disagreeable Pigeons" -- Highsmith -- Tzadik -- 2017  (N)
    Ben Wendel -- "Soli" -- What We Bring -- Motema -- 2014
     

    Dave Stryker -- "Donna Lee" -- Strykin' Ahead -- Strikezone -- 2016  (N)
     

     

     

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  17. Once again this week, much of the music we heard on "Straight, No Chaser" on KBCS was by artists who are coming to the Earshot Jazz Festival in Seattle.  (If you're in the area, see the dates and venues below, and head to www.earshot.org for more information and tickets.)  We also heard a few intriguing new releases.  As always, you can listen to a streaming version of the show in the audio archive at www.kbcs.fm.  Here is the October 23 playlist:
     
    Seattle Women's Jazz Orchestra -- "63rd Street Theme" -- Dreamcatcher -- OA2 -- 2003
    [The Seattle Women's Jazz Orchestra will be at the Shorewood High School Performing Arts Center, Wed., Oct. 26.]
    Jovino Santos Neto Quinteto -- "Maracatres" -- Ao Vivo em Olympia -- Liquid City -- rel. 2000
    [The Jovino Santos Neto Quinteto plays Neto's score for the silent film "The Unknown," Mon., Nov. 6 at the Paramount Theatre.  Also, Jovino Santos Neto plays with Martin Kuuskmann, Thur., Nov. 2, at the Chapel Performance Space.]

    Anton Schwartz -- "The Contender" -- Flash Mob -- Antonjazz -- 2013

    The Anton Schwartz Quartet presents a tribute to Stanley Turrentine, Sun., Nov. 5 at the Columbia City Theatre.]

     
    Wycliffe Gordon -- "Green Chimneys" -- Slidin' Home -- Nagel-Heyer -- 1998
    Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra -- "Haitian Fight Song" -- The Endless Search -- Origin -- 2010
    [Wycliffe Gordon appears with the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra for "The Art of the Trombone," Sat., Nov. 4 at the Nordstrom Recital Hall, Benaroya Hall; and Sun., Nov. 5 at the Kirkland Performance Center.]
    Matt Wilson's Big Happy Family -- "Andrew's Ditty" -- Beginning of a Memory -- Palmetto -- 2015
    [Matt Wilson's Big Happy Family & Friends, with Dawn Clement and Ron Miles, will be at the Royal Room, Fri., Oct. 27.]
     
    Ron Miles Quartet -- "New Breed Leader" -- Laughing Barrel -- Sterling Circle -- 2002
    [Ron Miles will be with Matt Wilson's Big Happy Family, Fri., Oct. 27 at the Royal Room.]
    The Bad Plus -- "Scurry" -- The Bad Plus -- Fresh Sound New Talent -- 2000
    [The Bad Plus plays Tues., Nov, 7 at the Triple Door.]
    Robin Holcomb and Talking Pictures -- "Interlude" -- The Point of It All -- Songlines -- rel. 2010
    [The Robin Holcomb Trio appears Thur., Oct. 26 at the Chapel Performance Space.]
     
    Edward Simon Trio -- "Intention" -- Poesia -- CamJazz -- 2008
    Scott Colley -- "5:30 a.m." -- Empire -- CamJazz -- 2009
    [Steel House, with Edward Simon, Scott Colley and Brian Blade, will be at the PONCHO Concert Hall, Fri., Nov. 3.]
    Blue Note All-Stars -- "Second Light" -- Our Point of View -- Blue Note -- rel. 2017  (N)
     
    Wadada Leo Smith -- "Monk and His Five Point Ring at the Five Spot" -- Solo:  Reflections and Meditations on Monk -- TUM -- 2015 (N)
    Roscoe Mitchell -- "Discussions I" -- Discussions Orchestra -- Wide Hive -- 2016  (N)
     
    Lori Goldston -- "Was There a Light?" -- Film Scores -- SubRosa
    [Lori Goldston appears with Judith Hamman, Thur., Nov. 9 at the Chapel Performance Space.]
    Matthew Shipp -- "Resonance Magnetism" -- Magnetism(s) -- Rogue Art -- 2016  (N)
     
    Mothers of Invention -- "Invocation and Ritual Dance of the Young Pumpkin" (excerpt) -- Absolutely Free -- Ryko -- 1967
    [As part of the "But Is It Jazz?" concert at the Columbia City Theatre, Tue., Oct. 31, guitarist Simon Henneman and friends will play music from the album "Absolutely Free."]
     

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  18. On "Straight, No Chaser" this Monday, October 16, we continued to enjoy recordings by artists who are appearing in the 2017 Earshot Jazz Festival, which continues until Nov. 12.  Dates and venues for their performances are listed below.  For full information about the festival or to buy tickets, visit www.earshot.org or call (206) 547-6763.  Here is this week's playlist:
     
    Max Roach -- "Tears for Johannesburg" -- We Insist! Freedom Now Suite -- Candid -- 1960
    [Burnt Sugar Arkestra presents "We Insist! Freedom Now" on Fri., Nov. 3, 8 p.m. at the Seattle Art Museum.]
    HUDSON (John Scofield, John Medeski, Larry Grenadier & Jack De Johnette) -- "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" -- HUDSON -- Motema -- 2017  (N)
    [HUDSON performs this Thur., Oct. 19, 7:30 p.m. at the Moore Theatre.]
     
    Brad Mehldau -- "Perugia" -- Places -- Warner Bros. -- 2000
    [Brad Mehldau will perform solo on Wed., Oct. 25, 8 p.m. at the Nordstrom Recital Hall in Benaroya Hall.]
    Johnaye Kendrick -- "A Thousand Nights" -- Here -- Johnygirl -- rel. 2014
    [The Johnaye Kendrick Quartet will be at Bake's Place in Bellevue, Sun., Oct. 22, 7 p.m.  Also, Johnaye Kendrick and Dawn Clement will perform Sat., Nov. 11, 8 p.m. at the PONCHO Concert Hall, Cornish College.]
    Aaron Parks -- "Travelers" -- Invisible Cinema -- Blue Note -- 2008
    [Aaron Parks will play in the Kassa Overall Quartet, Sat., Oct. 21, 8 p.m. at the PONCHO Concert Hall.]
     
    Marquis Hill -- "Beep Durple" -- The Way We Play -- Concord Jazz -- rel. 2016
    [The Marquis Hill Blacktet will be at the Royal Room, Fri., Oct. 20 at 7:30 and 9:30.]
    Will Bernard Trio -- "Katskan" -- Outdoor Living -- Dreck to Disk -- rel. 2011
    [Will Bernard will play with Skerik and Joe Doria at the Nectar Lounge, Wed., Oct. 18, 8 p.m.]
    Briggan Krauss -- "MSSM" -- Good Kitty -- Knitting Factory -- 1996
    [Briggan Krauss will lead a group with Wayne Horvitz, Beth Fleenor & Greg Campbell, Fri., Oct. 27, 8 p.m. at the PONCHO Concert Hall.]
     
    Amina Figarova -- "NYCST" -- Twelve -- In + Out -- 2012
    [The Amina Figorova Sextet will be at the PONCHO Concert Hall, Sat., Nov. 4, 8 p.m.]
    Marc Seales -- "The Breaks" -- American Songs Volume 1 -- (self) -- 2007
    [The Marc Seales Band is coming to the Jazz Alley, Mon., Oct. 23 at 7:30 p.m.]
    Joe McPhee's Bluette -- "Astral Spirits" -- In the Spirit -- CIMP -- 1999
    [Joe McPhee joins Steve Swell & Dick Griffin for "Trombone Insurgency," Sat., Oct. 28, 8 p.m. at the PONCHO Concert Hall.]
     
    Steve Swell -- "Juxtsuppose" -- Planet Dream -- Clean Feed -- 2008
    [As noted above, Steve Swell will be with Joe McPhee & Dick Griffin at the PONCHO Concert Hall, Sat., Oct. 28, 8 p.m.]
    Elliott Sharp & Carbon -- "Morphing" -- Tocsin -- Enemy -- rel. 1991
    [Elliott Sharp performs Monk's music solo, Wed., Oct.  18, 7:30 p.m. at the Royal Room.]
    Burnt Sugar--The Arkestra Chamber -- "Screamin' Arthur Jafa" -- That Depends on What You Know, Vol. 1:  The Sirens Return -- (self) -- rel. 2002
    [As noted above, the Burnt Sugar Arkestra presents "We Insist! Freedom Now" at the Seattle Art Museum, Fri., Nov. 3, 8 p.m.]
     
    Fred Hersch -- "Whisper Not" -- Open Book -- Palmetto -- 2017  (N)
    Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (with Myra Melford) -- "The Strawberry" -- Handful of Keys -- Blue Engine -- 2017  (N)
    John Beasley & Monk'estra -- "Played Twice" -- John Beasley Presents Monk'estra, Vol. 2 -- Mack Avenue -- rel. 2017  (N)
     
    Listen to the show, as many times as you like, in the audio archive at www.kbcs.fm. 
     
     

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  19. This week on "Straight, No Chaser" on KBCS, we listened to artists who are appearing in this year's Earshot Jazz Festival, including Resident Artist Dawn Clement [pictured].  Dates and venues of their appearances are shown below.  For full information about the festival, see www.earshot.org.  Here is the complete playlist for the October 9 program, which you can hear in the audio archive at www.kbcs.fm any time in the next two weeks:
     
    Thelonious Monk -- "Pannonica" -- The Complete Riverside Recordings -- Riverside -- 1959
    Danilo Perez -- "Reflections" -- Panamonk -- Impulse! -- 1996
    [Danilo Perez and his trio celebrate Monk's birthday at the Seattle Art Museum, 7:30 p.m., Tues., Oct 10]
    Dawn Clement -- "The Star Crossed Lovers" -- Hush -- Conduit -- 2003
    [Dawn Clement will appear seven times in the festival, including a mostly solo performance in another Monk birthday salute at the Royal Room at 7:30 p.m., Tues., Oct. 10]
     
    Jason Moran -- "Crepuscrule with Nellie" -- Ten -- Blue Note -- rel. 2010
    [Jason Moran presents "In My Mind," a multimedia tribute to Thelonious Monk, at the Neptune Theatre at 7:30 p.m ., Sun., Oct. 15]
    Taylor Eigsti -- "Love For Sale" -- Lucky to Be Me -- Concord Jazz -- 2005
    [Taylor Eigsti will play with the Joe Sanders Quartet at the PONCHO Concert Hall at 8 p.m., Sat., Oct. 14]
    Daniel Barry -- "Nini's Dream" -- Walk All Ways -- OA2 -- rel. 2007
    [Daniel Barry's Celestial Rhythms Orchestra will be at the Rainier Arts Center at 7:30 p.m., Sat. Oct. 14]
     
    Ambrose Akinmusire -- "Aroca" -- Prelude -- Fresh Sound New Talent -- rel. 2008
    [Ambrose Akinmusire will play with the Joe Sanders Quartet at the PONCHO Concert Hall at 8 p.m., Sat., Oct. 14]
    Matt Wilson's Honey and Salt -- "Anywhere and Everywhere People" -- Honey and Salt -- Palmetto -- 2016  (N)
    [Matt Wilson's Honey and Salt, including Dawn Clement, will present music based on the poetry of Carl Sandburg at 8 p.m., Sat., Oct. 28 at the Seattle Art Museum]
    T.S. Monk -- "Squeaky Clean" -- Crosstalk -- N-Coded Music -- rel. 1999
    [T.S. Monk presents "Monk on Monk" at the Triple Door, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m., Wed., Oct. 18]
     
    Mostly Other People Do the Killing -- "Black Horse" -- Paint -- Hot Cup -- 2017  (N)
    [Mostly Other People Do the Killing performs at Barboza, Fri., Oct. 13 at 8 p.m.]
    Gordon Grdina's Haram -- "Laktob Arourak al Chagar (I Will Write to You on the Leaves of Trees)" -- Her Eyes Illuminate -- Songlines -- 2011
    Gordon Grdina's Box Cutter -- "Weeble Wobble" -- New Rules For Noise -- Spool -- rel. 2007
    [Gordon Grdina will open for Jemeel Moondoc, 8 p.m., Thur., Oct. 12 at the Royal Room]
     
    Goat (with Greg Sinibaldi) -- "The Star" -- Special Agent -- Present Sounds -- 2008
    [The Greg Sinibaldi Trio will open for Elliott Sharp at the Royal Room, Wed. Oct. 18, at 7:30 p.m.]
    Neil Welch -- "Dedicated to Drummer Chris Icasiano" -- Twelve Tiny Explosions -- Table & Chars -- 2011
    [Neil Welch will appear with sitarist Pandid Debi Prasad Chatterjee, Sat., Oct. 21 at 8 p.m. at the Chapel Performance Space.  He will also appear in the duo Bad Luck in "But Is It Jazz?" at the Columbia City Theatre on Mon., Oct. 30 at 7:30 p.m.]
    Matt Mitchell -- "Dadaist Flu" -- Fiction -- Pi -- 2012
    [Matt Mitchell plays the music of Tim Berne in a solo performance, Tues., Oct. 24 at 7:30 at the Chapel Performance Space]
     
    Julian Priester (with Dawn Clement) -- "A Delicate Balance" -- In Deep End Dance -- Conduit -- 2002
    Jane Ira Bloom (with Dawn Clement) -- "One Note From One Bird" -- Wild Lines:  Improvising Emily Dickinson -- Outline -- 2017  (N)
    Dawn Clement -- "2-Day" -- Break -- Origin -- 2007
    [Dawn Clement's appearances in the Earshot Festival also include a duo performance with Julian Priester, Tues., Oct 17 at 7:30 p.m. at the PONCHO Concert Hall; another duo with Marina Albero, Tues, Oct. 24, 7:30 p.m. at the Chapel Performance Space; and a free performance by the Dawn Clement Group at 5:30 p.m., Thur., Nov. 9 at the Seattle Art Museum.  See the Earshot website for others.]
     
    Omar Sosa -- "Across Africa (Arrival)" -- Across the Divide -- Halfnote -- 2008
    [The Omar Sosa Quarteto Afro Cubana will be at the Seattle Art Museum on Tues., Oct. 17 at 8 p.m.]
     
     

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  20. It's time to catch up with the playlists. First I'll cover this week's show, which you can hear in the audio archive at www.kbcs.fm. Here is the music we heard on “Straight, No Chaser” on October 2:

     

    Overton Berry Trio – “Hymn to Freedom” – Live at Admiral – Paradox – 2005

    [Earshot Jazz Festival presents a Tribute to Overton Berry, Oct. 9, at Jazz Alley.]

    Jentsch Group Quartet – “Meeting at Surratt's” – Fractured Pop – (self) – 2009Blue Note All-Stars – “Masqualero” (feat. Wayne Shorter & Herbie Hancock) – Our Point of View – Blue Note – rel. 2017 (N)

    Baikida Carroll – “Velma” – Marionettes on a High Wire – OmniTone – 2000Tim Berne's Snakeoil – “Prelude One / Sequel Too” – Incidentals – ECM – 2014 (N)

    Jemeel Mondoc – “Salt Peanuts” – New York Live – Cadence Jazz – 1980[Jemeel Moondoc, with Nathan Breedlove & Jamael Nance, will be at the Royal Room in Seattle on Oct. 12, as part of the Earshot festival.]

    JD Allen – “Ghost Dance” – Radio Flyer – Savant – 2017 (N)

    Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber – “Round About / At Midnight” – Fubractive Since Antiquity Suite – Trugroid – 2000
    [Burnt Sugar Arkestra will perform “We Insist! Freedom NOW” at the Seattle Art Museum on Nov. 3, presented by Earshot Jazz.]

    Ellery Eskelin, Andrea Parkins & Jim Black – “For No Good Reason” – Arcanum Moderne – Hat Hut – 2002

    Gato Libre – “Battle” – Kuro – Libra – 2007
    [Earshot presents Gato Libre, Nov. 8 at the Chapel Performance Space.]

    Elliott Sharp – “Well You Needn't” – Sharp? Monk? Sharp! Monk!--Elliott Sharp Plays the Music of Thelonious Monk – Clean Feed – 2004

    Gary Peacock Trio – “In and Out” – Tangents – ECM – 2016 (N)

     

    For more information about the 2017 Earshot Jazz Festival, see the website at www.earshot.org.

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    Turning to the pre-recorded shows that were broadcast over the last couple of weeks, here is the playlist for the September 25 program:

     

    Paul Jones – “The Minutiae of Existence” – Clean – Outside In – 2017 (N)

     

    Luis Perdomo – “Old City” – Twenty-Two – Hot Tone Music – 2014

    Vadim Neselovskyi Trio – “Who Is It?” – Get Up and Go – Jazz Family – 2015 (N)
    Hampton Hawes Quartet – “Blues #4” – All-Night Session! – Phoenix – 1956

    Abdullah Ibrahim – “Kofifi Blue” – Cape Town Flowers – Enja – 1996Dominique Eade & Ran Blake – “Moonglow / Theme from Picnic” – Town and Country – Sunnyside – 2016 (N)

    Paul Bley – “Chet” – Basics – Justin Time – 2000

    Audrey Ochoa Trio – “Doppelgängers” – Afterthought – Chronograph – rel. 2017 (N)

    Kirk Knuffke – “Elevator” – Arms & Hands – Royal Potato Family – rel. 2015

    Ted Sirota's Rebel Souls – “Saro-Wiwa” – Breeding Resistance – Delmark – 2003
    Simona Premazzi – “Euterpe's Dance” – Outspoken – (self) – 2016 (N)

    Nicole Mitchell – “Forest Wall Timewalk” – Mandorla Awakening II—Emerging Worlds – FPE – 2015 (N)

    Rez Abassi & Junction – “Holy Butter” – Behind the Vibration – Cuneiform – 2015

    Marc Ribot – “Romance” – Shrek – Avant – rel. 1994

    Collective 4tet – “Going Ahead” – Synopsis – Leo – 2002

    Old and New Dreams – “Playing” – Playing – ECM – 1980

    Brian McCarthy Nonet – “The Better Angels of Our Nature” – The Better Angels of Our Nature – Truth Revolution Recording Collective – 2016 (N)

    Ray Anderson – “Stomping on Enigmas” – Right Down Your Alley – Soul Note – 1984

    Riverside – “The New National Anthem” – The New National Anthem – Greenleaf – 2015 (N)

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    The September 18 program continued and expanded the tribute to the guitarist John Abercrombie (1944-2017), which began on August 28. Here is the music we heard on “Straight, No Chaser” on September 18:

    John Abercrombie Quartet – “Riddles” – Abercrombie Quartet – ECM – 1979

    John Abercrombie – “Wishing Bell” – The Third Quartet – ECM – 2006


    John Abercrombie Quartet – “Flashback” – M – ECM – 1980
    Jeff Palmer, John Abercrombie, David Liebman & Adam Nussbaum – “Mr. Adam” – Abracadabra – Soul Note – 1987
    John Abercrombie Trio – “In Your Own Sweet Way” – Straight Flight – Jazz America Marketing – 1979

    John Abercrombie, Peter Erskine, Bob Mintzer & John Patitucci – “Little Swing” – The Hudson Project – Stretch – 1998

    Gateway (John Abercrombie, Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette) – “Short Cut” – Homecoming – ECM – 1994

    John Abercrombie – “Backward Glance” – Characters – ECM – 1977

    John Abercrombie – “Look Around” – Night – ECM – 1984

    John Abercrombie – “Soundtrack” – Cat 'n' Mouse – ECM – 2000

     

    John Abercrombie – “Anniversary Waltz” – Wait Till You See Her – ECM – 2008

    John Abercrombie – “Ralph's Piano Waltz” – Current Events – ECM – 1985

    Joe Beck & John Abercrombie – “Israel” – Coincidence – Whaling City Sound – 2007

    John Abercrombie Trio – “Chorale” – Speak of the Devil – ECM – 1983
    John Abercrombie – “Gimme Five” – Open Land – ECM – 1998

    John Abercrombie & George Marsh – “Upon a Time” – New Albion – 1982

     

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  21. The September 11 edition of "Straight,No Chaser" on KBCS is now loaded in the audio archive at www.kbcs.fm.  Here is the music you can hear there:
     
    Chet Baker & Art Pepper -- "Minor-Yours" -- Playboys -- Capitol -- 1956
    Max Roach -- "Speculate" -- Max -- Chess -- 1958
    Sean Jones -- "Piscean Dichotomy" -- Live from Jazz at the Bistro -- Mack Avenue -- 2015  (N) 
     
    Thelonious Monk -- "Pannonica" -- Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960 -- Saga/Sam (N)
    Lennie Tristano -- "Spontaneous Combustion" -- Intuition -- 1947
    Dan Cray -- "Small Sir" -- Outside In -- Origin -- 2015
    Quinsin Nachoff's Ethereal Trio -- "Clairvoyant Jest" -- Quinsin Nachoff's Ethereal Trio -- Whirlwind
     
    Jane Ira Bloom -- "Dangerous Times" -- Wild Lines--Improvising Emily Dickinson -- Outline -- 2017  (N)
    Grant Stewart Trio  -- "Fat's Flats" -- Roll On -- Cellar Live -- rel. 2017  (N)
    John Tchicai Trio -- "One Way Ticket" -- Real Tchicai -- SteepleChase -- 1977
     
    Steve Coleman's Natal Eclipse -- "SPAN" -- Morphogenesis -- Pi -- 2016  (N)
     
    Lester Bowie -- "Spacehead" -- All the Magic! -- ECM -- 1982
    Lester Bowie -- ""The 5th Power" -- The 5th Power -- Black Saint -- 1978
    Lester Bowie -- "Lonely Woman" -- Hello Dolly -- Muse -- 1974
     
    Cuong Vu 4-tet -- "Blue Comedy" -- Ballet--The Music of Michael Gibbs -- Rare Noise -- 2016  (N)
    New John Handy Quintet -- "Naima (In Memory of John Coltrane)" -- New  View! -- Columbia -- 1967
     
    Zem Audu -- "Nebula" -- Spirits -- Origin -- 2015  (N)
    Steve Davis -- "Think Ahead" -- Think Ahead -- Smoke Sessions -- 2017  (N)
    Sam Boshnack Quartet -- "Legacy" -- Nellie Bly Project -- Artists Recording Collective -- 2016  (N)
     
    Errol Rackipov Group -- "The Old Water Mill" -- Distant Dreams -- OA2 -- 2015  (N)
  22. The centerpiece of this week's "Straight, No Chaser" on KBCS was "Occupy the World for Life, Liberty and Justice," the beautiful orchestral piece by Wadada Leo Smith, with the Finnish orchestra TUMO.  Here is the complete playlist for the September 4 program, which you can hear any time in the next two weeks in the KBCS audio archive:
     
    Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers -- "United" -- Roots and Herbs -- Blue Note -- 1961
    Booker Ervin -- "Bachafillen" -- Heavy!!! -- Prestige -- 1966
     
    Brian Landrus Orchestra -- "Jeru Concerto, Mvt. 4" -- Generations -- BlueLand -- 2017  (N)
    Positive Catastrophe -- "Debruhoe Three" -- Dibrujo, Dibrujo, Dibrujo... -- Ceuneiform -- 2011
    Austin Peralta -- "The Underwater Mountain Odyssey" -- Endless Planets -- Brainfeeder -- rel. 2011
     
    Tineka Postma -- "Isotope" -- First Avenue -- Munich -- 2003
    Grant Stewart Trio -- "Roll On" -- Roll On -- Cellar Live -- rel. 2017  (N)
    Greg Ward -- "V.S. 4" -- Greg Ward's Phonic Juggernaut -- Thirsty Ear -- 2011
     
    RVNY4 (Robin Verheyen NY Quartet) -- "Africa" -- Trinity -- 52 Recordings -- 2011
    Michael Vlatkovich -- "Hiding Out as a Verb" -- Mortality -- pfMentum -- 2014
    United Brassworkers Front -- "Destination X" -- In Between Stories -- (self) -- 2005
     
    Wadada Leo Smith and TUMO -- "Occupy the World for Life, Liberty and Justice" -- Occupy the World -- TUM
     
    Trio M -- "Thee Promised Land" -- The Guest House -- Enja -- 2011
    Anna Webber's Simple Trio -- "Meme" -- Binary -- Skirl -- 2016
     
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  23. This week on "Straight, No Chaser" on KBCS, we listened to recordings by John Abercrombie, the jazz and fusion guitarist who passed away last week at age 72.  If you listen to the August 28 program in the KBCS audio archive, these are the tunes you'll hear:
     
    John Abercrombie --"Ralph's Piano Waltz" -- Timeless -- ECM -- 1974
    John Abercrombie Quartet -- "Arcade" -- Arcade -- ECM -- 1978
    John Abercrombie -- "3 East" -- Night -- ECM -- 1984

    John Abercrombie, Dave Holland & Jack DeJohnette -- "May Dance" -- Gateway - ECM -- 1975
    John Abercrombie -- "Telegram" -- Characters -- ECM -- 1977
    John Abercrombie & George Marsh -- "Demi-Saison" -- Upon a Time -- New Albion -- 1982

    John Abercrombie & John Scofield -- "Four on Six" -- Solar--The Bebop Album -- Quicksilver -- 1983
    John Abercrombie -- "Hippityville" -- Current Events -- ECM -- 1985
    John Abercrombie -- "Last Light" -- Animato -- ECM -- 1989

    John Abercrombie Trio -- "Mahat" -- Speak of the Devil -- ECM -- 1993
    John Abercrombie -- "Little Booker" -- Open Land -- ECM -- 1998
    John Abercrombie -- "Labour Day" -- Getting There -- ECM -- 1987

    John Abercrombie -- "Show of Hands" -- Cat 'n' Mouse -- ECM -- 2000
    John Abercrombie -- "Line Up" -- Wait Till You See Her -- ECM -- 2008

    John Abercrombie Quartet -- "Nick of Time" -- Within a Song -- ECM -- 2011

    John Abercrombie Quartet-- "LST" -- 39 Steps -- 2013

    John Abercrombie -- "Tres" -- The Third Quartet -- ECM -- 2006

     
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