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Here is the music heard on "Straight, No Chaser" on June 13: Oscar Peterson & Dizzy Gillespie -- "Caravan" -- Oscar Peterson & Dizzy Gillespie / Perfect Peterson -- Pablo -- 1974 Bill Evans & Jeremy Steig -- "Straight No Chaser" -- What's New -- Verve -- 1969 Sun Ra and His Solar Arkestra -- "Space Aura" -- Sun Ra Visits Planet Earth / Interstellar Low Ways -- Evidence -- 1960 Kenny Barron Trio -- "Prayer" -- Book of Intuition -- Verve -- 2015 (N) Franco D'Andrea -- "Area N. 4" -- Solo 2--Abstractions -- Philology -- 2001 The Bad Plus -- "Seven Minute Mind" -- Made Possible -- E-One -- 2011 Matthew Shipp Trio -- "Raw Materials" -- Elastic Aspects -- Thirsty Ear -- 2011 Avram Fefer & Michael Bisio -- "City Life / Tipping Point" -- Painting Breath, Stoking Fire -- CIMP -- 2005 (N) Avram Fefer, Eric Revis & Chad Taylor -- "Eliyahu (take. 2)" -- Eliyahu -- Not Two -- 2010 (N) Avram Fefer Quartet -- "Cycle of Fits" -- Lucille's Gemini Dream -- CIMP -- 2001 (N) Joe Farrell -- "Moon Germs" -- Moon Germs -- CTI -- 1972 Jane Ira Bloom -- "Dangerous Times" -- Early Americans -- Outline -- 2015 (N) Allison Miller's Boom Tic Boom -- "Pig In a Sidecar" -- Otis Was A Polar Bear -- Royal Potato Family -- rel. 2016 (N) Stan Getz (with Joanne Brackeen) -- "O Grande Amor" -- Moments in Time -- Resonance -- 1976 (N) David Murray, Geri Allen & Teri Lynne Carrington -- "Cycles and Seasons" -- Perfection -- Motema -- rel. 2016 (N) Le Rex -- "Don't Lean on the Case!" -- Wild Man -- Cuneiform -- 2014 Reginald Cyntje -- "Beatitudes" -- Spiritual Awakening -- (self) -- 2015 (N) D-Town Brass -- "A Close Call" -- Golden Belt -- (self) -- 2012 (N) Michael Blake -- "Perimeters" -- Fulfillment -- Songlines -- 2015 (N) Matt Wilson's Big Happy Family -- "Feel the Sway" -- Beginning of a Memory -- Palmetto -- 2015 (N) This and other KBCS programs are available on demand, in streaming format, in the audio archive at www.kbcs.fm for two weeks after the broadcast date. Tune in at your convenience from your computer or mobile device.

The powerful flutist Jeremy Steig (1942-2016), who died last week, was featured on this week's "Straight, No Chaser" on KBCS. Here is the playlist for the June 6 program: Donny McCaslin -- "Love What Is Mortal" -- Fast Future -- Greenleaf -- 2014 Brooklyn Blowhards -- "Island Harvest" -- Brooklyn Blowhards -- (self) -- 2015 (N) Ed Palermo Big Band -- "The Goat Patrol" -- One Child Left Behind -- Cuneiform -- 2014 (N) Jeremy Steig -- "Hop Scotch" -- Firefly -- CTI -- 1977 Jeremy Steig -- "Energy" -- Energy -- Capitol Jeremy & The Satyrs -- "Foreign Release" -- Jeremy & The Satyrs -- Reprise -- c.1968 Michael Formanek Ensemble Kolossus -- "Exoskeleton -- Part VI & Part VII" -- The Distance -- ECM -- 2014 (N) Pascal Niggenkemper Vision7 -- "I Don't Know Why, But This Morning..." -- Lucky Prime -- Clean Feed -- c. 2013 Ryan Keberle & Catharsis -- "Zone" -- Zone -- Greenleaf -- 2014 Cuong Vu Trio & Pat Metheny -- "Telescope" -- Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny -- Nonesuch -- 2015 (N) Brad Shepik & Ron Samworth -- "Way In" -- Quartet 1991 -- Songlines -- 1991 (N) Jeremy Steig -- "Night Mare" -- [Jeremy Steig & Eddie Gomez] Outlaws -- Enja -- 1976 Jeremy Steig -- "Bluesdom" -- Monium -- Columbia -- rel. 1974 Jeremy Steig -- "Cakes" -- Energy -- Capitol Robert Kusiolek & Elena Czekanowa -- "Act IV" -- Qui Pro Quo -- Multikulti Project -- 2014 Zbigniew Chojnacki -- "Suita, Part 3" -- Elektrotropism -- Fortune -- 2015 (N) J D Allen -- "Americana" -- Americana -- Savant -- 2016 (N) If you like the program, "like" it on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StraightNoChaserOnKBCS/?fref=ts

Many thanks to Brett Watanabe, who filled in for me last week on "Straight, No Chaser," when I was unable to come to the station. Here is the music that Brett played on March 23: John Coltrane -- "Brasilia" -- Chim Chim Cheree India Cooke -- "Logan's Reel" -- Red Handed Chris Dingman -- "Jet Lag" -- Waking Dreams Sam Jones -- "Seven Minds" -- Something in Common Jack Gold Quartet -- "Spiritual" -- Daylight Kris Davis Infrasound -- "Union Forever" -- Save Your Breath Deardorf / Peterson Group -- "Rhythm Tune" -- Portal Carmell Jones -- "That's Good" -- Business Meetin' Ken Vandermark -- "Improvisation--Tokyo, Part 8" -- Extended Duos Mahavishnu Orchestra -- "The Noonward Race" -- Mar y Sol Festival You can still hear the March 23 program in the audio archive at www.kbcs.fm, any time in the coming week. Here is the music we heard when I returned to "Straight, No Chaser" on May 30: African Jazz Pioneers -- "Yeka Yeka" -- The Rough Guide to South African Jazz -- World Music Network -- rel. 2016 (N) Gil Melle -- "It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing" -- Quadrama -- Prestige -- 1957 Thad Jones -- "Tariff" -- Detroit--New York Junction -- Blue Note -- 1956 Max Roach -- "Juliano" -- Quiet As It's Kept -- Verve -- 1960 Max Roach -- "Petit Dejeuner" -- Parisian Sketches -- Gitanes -- 1960 Max Roach & Buddy Rich -- "Big Foot" -- Rich vs. Roach -- Mercury -- 1959 Delirium -- "Iki" -- Eclexistence -- TUM -- 2004 Spring Heel Jack -- "Red Worm" -- Masses -- Thirsty Ear -- c. 2001 Burning Ghosts -- "Requiem" -- Burning Ghosts -- Orenda -- 2015 (N) Stephan Crump with Rosetta Trio -- "Shoes, Jump" -- Reclamation -- Sunnyside -- 2009 Gato Barbieri -- "Milonga Triste" -- Chapter Four: Alive in New York -- Impulse -- 1975 Howard Johnson & Gravity -- "Appointment in Ghana" -- Gravity!!! -- Verve -- rel. 1996 Wayne Shorter -- "Genesis" -- The All Seeing Eye -- Blue Note -- 1965 Max Roach & Connie Crothers -- "Let 'Em Roll" -- Swish -- New Artists -- 1982 Dave Burrell (with Sirone & Sunny Murray) -- "East Side Colors -- High Won--High Two -- Arista -- 1968 Paul Plimley & Lisle Ellis -- "Ascending Ladders" -- Both Sides of the Same Mirror -- 9 Winds -- 1989 Jane Ira Bloom -- "Big Bill" -- Early Americans -- Outline -- 2015 (N) The May 30 program will be available in the KBCS audio archive for the next two weeks. Many thanks to Brett Watanabe, who filled in for me last week on "Straight, No Chaser," when I was unable to come to the station. Here is the music that Brett played on March 23: John Coltrane -- "Brasilia" -- Chim Chim Cheree India Cooke -- "Logan's Reel" -- Red Handed Chris Dingman -- "Jet Lag" -- Waking Dreams Sam Jones -- "Seven Minds" -- Something in Common Jack Gold Quartet -- "Spiritual" -- Daylight Kris Davis Infrasound -- "Union Forever" -- Save Your Breath Deardorf / Peterson Group -- "Rhythm Tune" -- Portal Carmell Jones -- "That's Good" -- Business Meetin' Ken Vandermark -- "Improvisation--Tokyo, Part 8" -- Extended Duos Mahavishnu Orchestra -- "The Noonward Race" -- Mar y Sol Festival You can still hear the March 23 program in the audio archive at www.kbcs.fm, any time in the coming week. Here is the music we heard when I returned to "Straight, No Chaser" on May 30: African Jazz Pioneers -- "Yeka Yeka" -- The Rough Guide to South African Jazz -- World Music Network -- rel. 2016 (N) Gil Melle -- "It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing" -- Quadrama -- Prestige -- 1957 Thad Jones -- "Tariff" -- Detroit--New York Junction -- Blue Note -- 1956 Max Roach -- "Juliano" -- Quiet As It's Kept -- Verve -- 1960 Max Roach -- "Petit Dejeuner" -- Parisian Sketches -- Gitanes -- 1960 Max Roach & Buddy Rich -- "Big Foot" -- Rich vs. Roach -- Mercury -- 1959 Delirium -- "Iki" -- Eclexistence -- TUM -- 2004 Spring Heel Jack -- "Red Worm" -- Masses -- Thirsty Ear -- c. 2001 Burning Ghosts -- "Requiem" -- Burning Ghosts -- Orenda -- 2015 (N) Stephan Crump with Rosetta Trio -- "Shoes, Jump" -- Reclamation -- Sunnyside -- 2009 Gato Barbieri -- "Milonga Triste" -- Chapter Four: Alive in New York -- Impulse -- 1975 Howard Johnson & Gravity -- "Appointment in Ghana" -- Gravity!!! -- Verve -- rel. 1996 Wayne Shorter -- "Genesis" -- The All Seeing Eye -- Blue Note -- 1965 Max Roach & Connie Crothers -- "Let 'Em Roll" -- Swish -- New Artists -- 1982 Dave Burrell (with Sirone & Sunny Murray) -- "East Side Colors -- High Won--High Two -- Arista -- 1968 Paul Plimley & Lisle Ellis -- "Ascending Ladders" -- Both Sides of the Same Mirror -- 9 Winds -- 1989 Jane Ira Bloom -- "Big Bill" -- Early Americans -- Outline -- 2015 (N) The May 30 program will be available in the KBCS audio archive for the next two weeks.

Here are the tunes we heard on "Straight, No Chaser" on Monday, May 9: Restroy -- "Uma" -- Saturn Return -- Milk Factory Productions -- rel. 2016 (N) Noah Preminger -- "Future Blues" -- Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground -- (self) -- 2015 (N) Ray Vega & Thomas Marriott -- "United" -- Return of the East West Trumpet Summit -- Origin -- 2014 (N) Four Corners -- "Spin With The EARth" -- Four Corners -- Clean Feed -- rel. 2016 Burning Ghosts -- "Defiance" -- Burning Ghosts -- Orenda -- 2015 (N) Curtis Stewart -- "J.S. Bach: Solo Violin Sonata in G Minor; Presto" -- Of Color(s) -- Outside In Music -- rel. 2016 Hafez Modirzadeh -- "Number That Moves" -- In Convergence Liberation -- Pi -- 2011 William Parker & The Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra -- "Voice Dancer Kidd" -- Sunrise in the Tone World -- AUM Fidelity -- 1995 Miriodor -- "Free Fall" -- 3rd Warning -- Cuneiform -- c. 1991 Pat Battstone & Kit Demos -- "Tryptic" -- From Dream To Dream -- (self) -- 2015 The White Spot -- "Schoepfiae" -- Way Out Northwest -- Relative Pitch -- 2008 Adam Pieronczyk & Miroslav Vitous -- "Pheidippides" -- Wings -- Fortune -- 2015 (N) Paradoxical Frog -- "An Intermittent Procession" -- Union -- Clean Feed -- 2011 Scott Amendola -- "Remixes" -- Fade To Orange -- Sazi -- 2014 Tomas Fujiwara Trio -- "Nudge Storms" -- Variable Bets -- Relative Pitch -- 21013 Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith -- "Marian Anderson" -- A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke -- ECM -- 2015 (N) Tom Trio -- "Mornings" -- Radical Moves -- Fortune -- 2013 You can listen to a streaming version of this program in the audio archive at www.kbcs.fm, any time in the next two weeks.

You can hear this week's "Straight, No Chaser" any time in the next two weeks in the audio archive at www.kbcs.fm. Here is the music we heard on May 2nd: Stan Getz -- "Morning Star" -- Moments in Time -- Resonance -- 1976 (N) Murray Allen & Carrington -- "The David, Geri & Terri Show" -- Perfection -- Motema -- rel. 2016 (N) Booker Little -- "Moods in Free Time" -- Out Front -- Candid -- 1981 Charles Mingus -- "Hobo Ho" -- Let My Children Hear Music -- Columbia -- c. 1972 John Hollenbeck -- "Bluegreenyellow" -- No Images -- Blueshift -- 1995 Vehemence Quartet -- "Kazdy Chcialby Mieszkac w Regulicach" -- Anomalia -- Fortune -- 2015 (N) Ralph Alessi -- "Smooth Descent" -- Quiver -- ECM -- 2014 (N) Matthew Shipp Trio -- "Primary Form" -- The Conduct of Jazz -- Thirsty Ear -- 2015 (N) Ralph Peterson & Triangular -- "The Art of War" -- Triangular III -- Onyx Productions -- 2015 (N) Chico Freeman 4-Tet -- "Black Inside" -- Spoken Into Existence -- Jive Music -- rel. 2015 (N) Logan Richardson -- "Creeper" -- Shift -- Blue Note -- 2013 (N) Ryan Keberle & Catharsis -- "Cheryl" -- Into the Zone -- Greenleaf -- 2014 Henry Threadgill Ensemble Double Up -- "Part Three" -- Old Locks and Irregular Verbs -- Pi -- 2015 (N) Matt Criscuolo -- "Prelude to a Kiss" -- The Dialogue -- Jazzeria -- rel. 2016 (N)

This week on "Straight, No Chaser" on KBCS, we said good-bye to the saxophonist Gato Barbieri, who died in early April at the age of 83. In addition to selections of Barbieri's music, we checked out some new releases. Here is the complete playlist for April 25: Gato Barbieri -- "El Sertao" -- Under Fire -- Flying Dutchman -- rel. 1973 Gato Barbieri -- "Lluvia Azul" -- Chapter Four: Alive in New York -- Impulse -- 1975 Ergo -- "A Conviction" -- As Subtle As Tomorrow -- Cuneiform -- 2013 (N) Paul Fonfara & The Ipsifendus Orchestra -- "Handholder" -- Seven Secrets of Snow -- (self) (N) Dominik Strycharski Core 6 -- "Ametyst" -- Czoczko -- Fortune - 2014 (N) Gato Barbieri & Don Cherry -- "Togetherness, Fifth Movement" -- Gato Barbieri & Don Cherry -- Inner City -- 1965 Don Cherry (with Gato Barbieri) -- "Orfeu Negro" -- Live at Cafe Montmartre 1966, Vol. Two -- ESP Gato Barbieri Quartet -- "In Search of the Mystery" / "Michelle" -- In Search of the Mystery -- ESP -- 1967 Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith -- "All Becomes Alive" -- A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke -- ECM -- 2015 (N) Gato Barbieri & Dollar Brand -- "Eighty-First Street" -- Confluence -- Arista -- 1968 Gato Barbieri -- "Encuentros" -- Chapter One: Latin America -- Impulse -- 1973 Brooklyn Blowhards -- "Bells" -- Brooklyn Blowhards -- (self) -- 2015 (N) Myra Melford & Ben Goldberg -- "9 + 5" -- Dialogue -- BAG Productions -- 2014 (N) Hear it any time in the next two weeks in the audio archive at www.kbcs.fm.

Wednesday night at the Substation in Seattle: Rik Wright's Fundamental Forces -- Wright, guitar; James Dejoie, tenor, baritone sax; Geoff Harper, bass; Greg Campbell, drums. Samantha Boshnack Quintet -- Boshnack, trumpet; Beth Fleenor, clarinets; Alex Chadsey, keyboards; Isaac Castillo, bass; Max Wood, drums.

Thanks for your posts. I've always liked both Mary Lou Williams and Geri Allen. I need to dig that one out again...

Some nuggets from the vinyl bins (so to speak) were sprinkled among the musical selections on "Straight, No Chaser" this week. We also heard new releases by Sonny Rollins, Allison Miller's Boom Tic Boom, Empirical and a Polish group, Obara International. Here is the April 18 playlist: Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers -- "Close Your Eyes" -- At the Jazz Corner of the World, Vol. 1 -- Blue Note -- 1959 -- [reissued on The Complete Blue Note Collection, Part Two -- Enlightenment] Ethnic Heritage Ensemble -- "Chatham Dirge" -- The Continuum -- Delmark -- 1997 Dizzy Reece -- "We Smile" -- Possession, Exorcism, Peace -- Honey Dew -- rel. 1977 Wojtczak NYConnection -- "Lecycki (Oberek)" -- Folk Five -- Fortune 3.5.7 Ensemble -- "Stand Fast" -- Amongst the Smokestacks and Steeples -- Milk Factory Productions -- 2013 Woody Shaw -- "Rosewood" -- Rosewood -- Columbia -- 1977 Sonny Rollins -- "In A Sentimental Mood" -- Holding The Stage: Road Shows, Vol. 4 -- Okeh -- 2007 (N) Jeremy Steig & Eddie Gomez -- "Outlaws" -- Outlaws -- Enja -- 1976 Josh Abrams -- "Background Beneath" -- Cipher -- Delmark -- 2002 Reggie Workman Ensemble -- "Fabula" -- Synthesis -- Leo -- 1986 Fay Victor Ensemble -- "Gunk" -- Absinthe & Vermouth -- Green Ave. Music -- 2013 Mark Helias Open Loose -- "Many Nows" -- Atomic Clock -- Radio Legs Music -- 2004 [photo of Mark Helias below] Jim Staley -- "#3" -- Mumbo Jumbo -- Rift -- 1986 Allison Miller's Boom Tic Boom -- "Shimmer" -- Otis Was A Polar Bear -- Royal Potato Family -- rel. 2016 (N) Obara International -- "Pinnacle of Accura, See?" -- Live in Minsk Mazowiecki -- Fortune -- 2014 (N) Empirical -- "The Two-Edged Sword" -- Connection -- Cuneiform -- 2015 (N) Next week (April 25) I will feature some recordings by Leandro "Gato" Barbieri, who passed away earlier this month. David Utevsky Celebrating 25 Years with KBCS

The Royal We: Wayne Horvitz, keyboards; Skerik, sax; Evan Flory-Barnes, bass; Dave Abramson, drums.

Here is the playlist for the April 11 edition of "Straight, No Chaser" on KBCS: Dafnis Prieto -- "Just Say It" -- Taking The Soul For A Walk -- Dafnison -- 2007 Jackie McLean -- "Jacknife" -- Jacknife -- Blue Note -- 1965 [The Jackie McLean tribute band "Jacknife" will be at The Royal Room in Seattle, Sunday, April 17] Leszek Kulakowski Ensemble -- "Regi" -- Looking Ahead -- Fortune -- 2014 Matthew Shipp Trio -- "Instinctive Touch" -- The Conduct of Jazz -- Thirsty Ear -- 2015 (N) Waxwing -- "A Bowl of Sixty Taxidermists" -- A Bowl of Sixty Taxidermists -- Songlines -- rel. 2015 John Zorn & Bar Kokhba -- "Abdiel" -- Lucifer (Book of Angels, Volume 10) -- Tzadik -- 2007 Lionel Loueke -- "Sleepless Night" -- Gaia -- Blue NOte -- rel. 2015 Amir ElSaffar -- "El-Sha'ab (The People)" -- Crisis -- Pi -- 2015 Chicago Underground Duo -- "Exponent Red" -- Axis and Alignment -- Thrill Jockey -- 2001 Michael Moore -- "Race in Space for Face" -- Monitor -- Between the Lines -- 1999 Harris Eisenstadt -- "Sometimes It's Hard To Get Dressed In The Morning" -- Canada Day IV -- Songlines -- 2015 Noah Preminger -- "I Am The Heavenly Way" -- Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground -- (self) -- 2015 (N) Restroy -- "S.M.I.B.D." -- Saturn Return -- Milk Factory Productions -- rel. 2016 (N) Liberty Ellman -- "Supercell" -- Radiate -- Pi -- 2014 John William Gordon -- "Hither Blither" -- Just A Wild Guess -- (self) -- rel. 2015 Russell Malone -- "Suite Sioux" -- Love Looks Good On You - Highnote -- 2014 Jason Parker Quartet -- "'Cello Song" -- Five Leaves Left: A Tribute to Nick Drake -- Broken Time -- 2010 (N) Matt Mitchell -- "Utensil Strength" -- Vista Accumulation -- Pi -- 2015 You can listen to a streaming version of this program in the audio archive at www.kbcs.fm, any time in the next two weeks.

Friday night, Allison Miller and Boom Tic Boom at The Royal Room in Seattle, playing music from her new album, "Otis Was A Polar Bear." She had a great line-up: Myra Melford, piano; Jenny Scheinman, violin; Kirk Knuffke, cornet; Ben Goldberg, clarinets; and Haggai Cohen Milo, bass; with Miller of course on drums.

You can hear a streaming version of the April 4 edition of "Straight, No Chaser" in the audio archive at www.kbcs.fm. Here is the music you'll find there: Marco Varela -- "Mitsuru" -- San Ygnacio -- Origin -- 2012 (N) Jay Hoggard -- "Pleasant Memories" -- Riverside Dance -- India Navigation -- rel. 1985 Ratatet -- "Red State, Blue State" -- Arctic -- Ridgeway -- 2015 (N) Jacknife -- "Climax" -- The Music of Jackie McLean -- Primary (N) Empirical -- "Card Clash" -- Connection -- Cuneiform -- 2015 (N) Brooklyn Blowhards -- "Haul on the Bowline" -- Brooklyn Blowhards -- (self) -- 2015 (N) Dave Pike -- "Free Improvisation" -- The Doors of Perception -- Vortex -- rel. 1970 Markus Stockhausen -- "Across Bridges" -- Casi Lontano...Quasi Dentro -- ECM -- 1988 Myra Melford & Ben Goldberg -- "The Kitchen" -- Dialogue -- BAG Production -- 2014 (N) Ibrahim Maalouf -- "Overture I -- Alf Leila Wa Leila (Tribute to Oum Kalthoum)" -- Kalthoum -- Impulse! -- rel. 2015 (N) Dewey Redman -- "Walls-Bridges" -- The Ear of the Behearer -- Impulse! -- 1973 Heiner Stadler -- "Pointed" -- Brains on Fire, Vol. 2 -- Labor -- 1971 Paal Nilssen-Love -- "House" -- Townorchestrahouse -- Clean Feed -- 2002 Peter Brotzmann Quartet -- "Tell A Green Man" -- Nipples -- Calig -- 1969 Bassdrumbone -- "Lips and Grits" -- The Other Parade -- Clean Feed -- 2009 Billy Bang -- "Seeing Together" -- Outline No. 12 -- Celluloid -- 1982 Tomasz Stanko -- "Purple Sun" -- Purple Sun -- Calig -- 1973 Rudresh Mahanthappa -- "Man, Thanks For Coming" -- Bird Calls -- ACT -- 2014

Last night, the multi-faceted production of "Now I'm Fine" by comedian/trumpeter/composer Ahamefele J. Oluo, It is an autobiographical suite, alternating Oluo's darkly humorous monologues with musical selections performed by a 16-piece orchestra, a string quartet, and the vocalist SoulChilde. Oluo, who plays with the garage-jazz group Industrial Revelation, is a powerful player and writer who likes to push musical boundaries. (I only wish there was more of his trumpet playing in this show.)

Here is the music we heard on "Straight, No Chaser" on KBCS on March 28: Tony Lustig Quintet -- "Prometheus" -- Taking Flight -- Bimperl -- rel. 2016 (N) Clark Terry -- "Boomerang" -- Serenade to a Bus Seat -- Riverside -- 1957 Marta Sanchez Quartet -- "El paso de los anos" -- Partenika -- Fresh Sound New Talent -- 2014 (N) Herlin Riley -- "Connection to Congo Square" -- New Direction -- Mack Avenue -- rel. 2016 (N) Enrique Haneine -- "Bordeaux" -- Instants of Time -- Elegant Walk -- 2014 (N) Bill Stewart -- "Space Squid" -- Space Squid -- Pirouet -- 2014 (N) Charles Lloyd & The Marvels -- "Barche Lamsel" -- I Long to See You -- Blue Note -- 2015 (N) Bill Frisell -- "Psycho, Pt. 2" -- When You Wish Upon a Star -- Okeh -- rel. 2016 (N) Mary Halvorson -- "Blood" -- Meltframe -- Firehouse 12 -- 2014 Dan Weiss -- "Tony" -- Sixteen: Drummers Suite -- Pi -- 2014 (N) Brad Shepik & Ron Samworth -- "PLAW" -- Quartet 1991 -- Songlines -- 1991 (N) Jen Shyu & Jade Tongue -- "She Held Fire" -- Sounds and Cries of the World -- Pi -- 2014 (N) Debashish Bhattacharya feat. John McLaughlin -- "A Mystical Morning" -- Beyond the Ragasphere -- Riverboat -- rel. 2013 [reissued on The Rough Guide to Psychedelic India -- World Music Network] Michael Blake -- "Exaltation" -- Fulfillment -- Songlines -- 2015 (N) Mat Maneri Quartet -- "East Broadway Rundown" -- Acceptance -- Hat Hut -- 1996 Matt Parker Trio -- "Sixteen" -- Present Time -- Bynk -- 2015 (N) Logan Richardson -- "Time" -- Shift -- Blue Note -- rel. 2016 (N) Catch this line-up in the audio archive at www.kbcs.fm, any time in the next two weeks. Here is the music we heard on "Straight, No Chaser" on KBCS on March 28: Tony Lustig Quintet -- "Prometheus" -- Taking Flight -- Bimperl -- rel. 2016 (N) Clark Terry -- "Boomerang" -- Serenade to a Bus Seat -- Riverside -- 1957 Marta Sanchez Quartet -- "El paso de los anos" -- Partenika -- Fresh Sound New Talent -- 2014 (N) Herlin Riley -- "Connection to Congo Square" -- New Direction -- Mack Avenue -- rel. 2016 (N) Enrique Haneine -- "Bordeaux" -- Instants of Time -- Elegant Walk -- 2014 (N) Bill Stewart -- "Space Squid" -- Space Squid -- Pirouet -- 2014 (N) Charles Lloyd & The Marvels -- "Barche Lamsel" -- I Long to See You -- Blue Note -- 2015 (N) Bill Frisell -- "Psycho, Pt. 2" -- When You Wish Upon a Star -- Okeh -- rel. 2016 (N) Mary Halvorson -- "Blood" -- Meltframe -- Firehouse 12 -- 2014 Dan Weiss -- "Tony" -- Sixteen: Drummers Suite -- Pi -- 2014 (N) Brad Shepik & Ron Samworth -- "PLAW" -- Quartet 1991 -- Songlines -- 1991 (N) Jen Shyu & Jade Tongue -- "She Held Fire" -- Sounds and Cries of the World -- Pi -- 2014 (N) Debashish Bhattacharya feat. John McLaughlin -- "A Mystical Morning" -- Beyond the Ragasphere -- Riverboat -- rel. 2013 [reissued on The Rough Guide to Psychedelic India -- World Music Network] Michael Blake -- "Exaltation" -- Fulfillment -- Songlines -- 2015 (N) Mat Maneri Quartet -- "East Broadway Rundown" -- Acceptance -- Hat Hut -- 1996 Matt Parker Trio -- "Sixteen" -- Present Time -- Bynk -- 2015 (N) Logan Richardson -- "Time" -- Shift -- Blue Note -- rel. 2016 (N) Catch this line-up in the audio archive at www.kbcs.fm, any time in the next two weeks.

The Orrin Evans Trio with Thomas Marriott at Tula's in Seattle. An excellent performance all around, featuring Evans, piano; Marriott, trumpet; Luques Curtis, bass; and Mark Whitfield, drums. Evans also gave up the piano bench to Sumi Tonooka for one piece.

This week's "Straight, No Chaser" on KBCS featured a tribute to a Seattle favorite, Ernestine Anderson (1928-2016), and a diverse batch of new and recent releases. Here are the selections we heard: Ernestine Anderson -- "I Love Being Here With You" -- Ow! / Great Moments With Ernestine Anderson -- Concord Jazz -- 1987 Ernestine Anderson -- "It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing" -- Hello Like Before -- Concord Jazz -- rel. 1977 Ernestine Anderson with The Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra -- "One Mint Julep" -- Boogie Down -- Concord Jazz -- 1989 Ernestine Anderson -- "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" -- Live From Concord to London / Great Moments With Ernestine Anderson -- Concord Jazz -- `976 Ernestine Anderson -- "Big City" -- Big City -- Concord Jazz -- 1983 Jeremy Pelt -- "Desire" -- #Jiveculture -- Highnote -- 2015 (N) Justin Kauflin -- "On Danish Shore" -- [Various Artists] Oscar: With Love -- Two Lions -- rel. 2015 (N) Darren English -- "Cherokee" -- Imagine Nation -- Hot Shoe -- 2014 (N) Melissa Aldana -- "Back Home" -- Back Home -- Wommusic -- 2015 (N) Florian Hoefner Group -- "Newfound Jig" -- Luminosity -- Origin -- 2015 (N) Erena Terakubo -- "Golden Oolong Tea" -- A Time For Love -- Cellar Live -- 2015 (N) Avishai Cohen -- "Behind the Broken Glass" -- Into the Silence -- ECM -- 2015 (N) Kenny Wheeler & John Taylor -- "Quiso" -- On the Way to Two -- CamJazz -- 2005 (N) Pat Battstone & Kit Demos -- "Broken Promises" -- From Dream to Dream -- (self) -- 2015 (N) Weather Report -- "Gibraltar" -- The Legendary Live Tapes: 1978-1981 -- Columbia -- 1978 (N) John McLaughlin -- "Panditji" -- Black Light -- Abstract Logix -- 2015 (N) Lionel Loueke -- "Aziza Dance" -- Gaia -- Blue NOte -- rel. 2015 (N) Ernestine Anderson with The Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra -- "Love Walked In" -- Concord Jazz -- 1989 Catch this show at your convenience in the audio archive at www.kbcs.fm.

Here are the tunes we heard on "Straight, No Chaser" on March 14: Kei Akagi Trio -- "Shikakugai Katsudou (Unqualified Activities)" -- Circlepoint (N) Fred Hersch -- "Enfant" -- Sarabande (N) Chris Ziemba -- "Little T" -- Manhattan Lullaby (N) Paul Green -- "So, Nu?" -- Music Coming Together (N) Curtis Nowasad -- "Dialectics" -- Dialectics (N) Lee Morgan -- "Stand By" -- The Complete Recordings 1956-1962 (N) Dan Weiss -- "Elvin" -- Sixteen: Drummers Suite (N) Quantum Trio -- "And If Salfate Was Right?" -- Gravity (N) Jen Shyu & Jade Tongue -- "Bloom's Mouth Rushed In" -- Sounds and Cries of the World (N) Art Ensemble of Chicago -- "Till Autumn" -- Sirius Calling Happy Apple -- "Marvin Says" -- Body Popping, Moon Walking, Top Rocking Bill Dixon -- "Vecctor" -- Son of Sisyphus Dylan Howe -- "All Saints" -- Subterranean: New Designs on Bowie's Berlin (N) Peter Evans Quartet -- "Interlude 2" -- Live in Lisbon Wayne Horvitz -- "Last Place There" -- Some Places Are Forever Afternoon (N) Dennis Gonzalez -- "Catechism (Part Two)" -- Catechism Ernestine Anderson -- "On Green Dolphin Street" -- Ernestine Anderson Swings the Penthouse [Ernestine Anderson passed away last week at the age of 87.] You can find the program, as always, in the audio archive at www.kbcs.fm.

To hear a streaming version of this week's "Straight, No Chaser," navigate to the audio archive at www.kbcs.fm and look under March 7. Here is the music we heard: Wes Montgomery -- "So Do It!" -- Movin' Along -- Riverside -- 1960 Wes Montgomery & Milt Jackson -- "Jingles" -- The Alternative Wes Montgomery -- Riverside -- 1961 Wes Montgomery -- "Nica's Dream" -- Echoes of Indiana Avenue -- Resonance -- 1957/1958 Ark Ovrutski Quintet -- "Twister" -- Intersection -- Origin -- 2015 (N) Logan Richardson -- "In Your Next Life" -- Shift -- Blue Note -- 2013 (N) Paul Bley -- "Around Again" -- The Floater Syndrome -- Savoy Jazz -- 1963 Brad Shepik & Ron Samworth -- "Circa" -- Quartet 1991 -- Songlines (N) Michael Blake -- "The Soldier and the Saint" -- Fulfillment -- Songlines -- 2015 (N) Julian Lage -- "Stop Go Start" -- Arclight -- Mack Avenue - rel. 2016 (N) Jean-Luc Ponty -- "Music for Electric Violin and Low Budget Orchestra" -- King Kong -- Blue Note -- c. 1993 Wadada Leo Smith -- "Lake Huron" -- The Great Lakes Suites -- TUM -- 2012 Bobby Bradford, Mark Dresser & Glenn Ferris -- "Pandas Run" -- Live in LA -- Clean Feed -- 2009 Open Loose -- "Irrational" -- Strange Unison -- Radio Legs Music -- 2007 Christine Jensen Jazz Orchestra -- "Blue Yonder" -- Habitat -- Justin Time -- rel. 2014 Paul Bley Trio -- "Cartoon" -- Closer -- ESP-Disk -- 1965

A totally uncalled-for insult to free jazz! And who would expect better from Time magazine?

Check out a streaming version of this week's "Straight, No Chaser" in the audio archive at www.kbcs.fm, any time in the next two weeks. Here is the music you'll find there in the February 29 program: Christina Pato -- "Fandango: Prueba de Fuego" -- Latina -- Sunnyside -- 2015 (N) Ilhan Ersahin -- "Londres" -- Istanbul Underground -- Nublu -- rel. 2015 (N) Michael Bisio -- "AM" -- Accortet -- Relative Pitch -- 2014 (N) Avishai Cohen -- "Into the Silence" -- Into the Silence -- ECM -- 2015 (N) Bill Stewart -- "Tincture" -- Space Squid -- Pirouet -- 2014 (N) Curtis Stewart -- "Giant Steps" -- Of Colors -- Outside In Music -- rel. 2015 (N) David White Trio -- "Dromedary" -- Words and Music -- MMC -- 2002 Tiszil Munoz, Lam-Sobo & John Medeski -- "Damned If You Do Or Don't" -- Songs of Soundlessness -- Anami Music -- rel. 2014 Trevor Watts & Veryan Weston -- "Going Out" -- Ad At Libitum -- Fortune -- 2013 (N) Rik Wright's Fundamental Forces -- "Overcast" -- Green -- Hipsync -- rel. 2015 (N) Evan Parker, Joe Morris & Nate Wooley -- "High Center" -- Ninth Square -- Clean Feed -- 2014 John Ellis -- "Bonus Round" -- One Foot in the Swamp -- Hyena -- rel. 2005 Oliver Lake Big Band -- "Philly Blues" -- Wheels -- Passin' Thru -- 2012 Michael Mantler -- "Update 5" -- The Jazz Composers Orchestra Update -- ECM -- 2013 Mette Henriette Ensemble -- "I" -- Mette Henriette -- ECM -- 2013/2014 (N) Branford Marsalis Quartet -- "A Love Supreme Part I - Acknowledgment" -- A Love Supreme Live in Amsterdam -- Marsalis Music -- rel. 2015 Like, you can, like, like the show on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StraightNoChaserOnKBCS/?fref=ts If you're a musician and have some music on CD that KBCS listeners might enjoy, I encourage you to send it to me (address below).

Thanks to Brett Watanabe for hosting "Straight, No Chaser" last week when I was out of town. You can hear the February 15 program in the KBCS audio archive until February 29. Here is the music that Brett played: Cindy Blackman -- "The Oracle" -- The Oracle Don Byron -- "Bernhard Goetz, James Ramseur, and Me" -- Romance With The Unseen Matthias Lupri Group -- "Song of Change" -- Same Time Twice Dr. Lonnie Smith -- "Straight, No Chaser" -- Evolution Harrison Bankhead Sextet -- "Chicago Senorita" -- Morning Sun, Harvest Moon Gebhard Ullmann & The NDR Big Band -- "D. Nee No" -- The Big Band Project Kris Davis Infrasound -- "Union Forever" -- Save Your Breath Julius Hemphill -- "Rites" -- Dogon A.D. Don Pullen -- "Yebrino Spring" -- Kele Mou Bana Plunge -- "Big Bang Theory" -- Tin Fish Tango Prince Lasha & Sonny Simmons -- "Psalms of Solomon" -- Firebirds The February 22 program will be in the audio archive at www.kbcs.fm until March 7. Here is the music we heard on this week's program: Curtis Nowosad -- "A Casual Test" -- Dialectics -- Cellar Live -- 2014 Oran Etkin -- "Be Good Lady" -- What's New: Reimagining Benny Goodman -- Motema -- 2015 (N) Duane Eubanks Quintet -- "Slew Footed" -- Things of That Particular Nature -- Sunnyside -- 2014 Adison Evans -- "The Epicurean" -- Hero -- AdiTone -- 2015 (N) Miles Davis -- "Bye Bye Blackbird" -- Miles Davis at Newport 1955-1975 -- Columbia Brian Groder Trio -- "Quanta" -- R Train on the D Line -- Latham -- 2014 (N) Don Ellis -- "How Time Passes" -- How Time Passes -- Barnaby Ibrahim Maalouf -- "Movement II -- Alf Leila Wa Leila (Tribute to Oum Kalthoum)" -- Kalthoum -- Impulse! -- 2015 (N) Wadada Leo Smith -- "Lake Superior" -- The Great Lakes Suites -- TUM -- 2012 John Abercrombie & Ralph Towner -- "Elbow Room" -- Sargasso Sea -- ECM -- 1976 Tomeka Reid Quartet -- "Samo Swing" -- Tomeka Reid Quartet -- Thirsty Ear -- 2014 Frieze of Life -- "Epona" -- Nuclear Frog Pond -- FOL -- rel. 2004 John Coltrane Sextet -- "Acknowledgment (Take 6)" -- A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters -- Impulse! -- 1964 Tom Harrell -- "Beau Soir" (Debussy) -- First Impressios -- HIghnote -- 2013 Matt Parker Trio -- "Song To Keki" -- Present Time -- Bynk -- 2015 (N) Dean Johnson -- "Beautiful Love" -- Triology -- (self) -- rel. 2016 (N) Enjoy the jazz!

Thanks to the listeners who contributed to the KBCS fund drive during this week's "Straight, No Chaser." Here is the music we heard on February 8: Ellis Marsalis Trio -- "Like Someone In Love" -- On The First Occasion -- ELM -- 1998 Chick Corea -- "Matrix" -- Now He Sings, Now He Sobs -- Blue Note -- 1968 Gary Peacock Trio -- "Gloria's Step" -- Now This -- ECM -- 2014 Marc Copland & Gary Peacock - "In A Dance" -- What It Says -- Sketch -- 2002 Gary Peacock -- "Pot Luck" -- Paul Bley & Gary Peacock: Partners -- Owl -- 1989 Marc Copland -- "Old Friends 1" -- Marc Copland And... -- Hat Hut -- 2002 [The Gary Peacock Trio, with Marc Copland and Joey Baron, will be at the Seattle Art Museum, Feb. 20 at 8 p.m.] Robin Holcomb & Peggy Lee -- "Sorrow" -- Live at the Vancouver Jazz Festival -- (self) Robin Holcomb and Talking Pictures with Wayne Horvitz -- "10.15.07" -- The Point of It All -- Songlines -- 2009 The Westerlies -- "The Band With Muddy" -- Wish The Children Would Come On Home: The Music of Wayne Horvitz -- Songlines -- 2013 [Robin Holcomb & Peggy Lee and The Westerlies will play at the Chapel Performance Space in Seattle, Feb. 13 at 8 p.m.] Craig Taborn -- "Crocodile" -- Light Made Lighter -- Thirsty Ear -- rel. 2001 Mat Maneri Quartet -- "Blue Decco" -- Blue Decco -- Thirsty Ear -- 2000 Mat Maneri -- "Almost Pretty" -- Trinity -- ECM -- 1999 [Ches Smith, Mat Maneri & Craig Taborn will be at the PONCHO Concert Hall in Seattle, Feb. 16 at 8 p.m.] Sam Boshnack Quintet -- "Dormant" -- Exploding Syndrome -- (self) -- rel. 2014 [The Sam Boshnack Quintet and Duende will be at The Royal Room in Seattle, Feb. 18 at 7:30 p.m.] Wally Shoup, Gust Burns, Reuben Radding & Greg Campbell -- "Caressing The Cube" -- The Levitation Shuffle -- Clean Feed -- 2003 [Wally Shoup, Greg Campbell & Greg Kelly will be at the Chapel Performance Space, Feb. 18 at 8 p.m.] Kristjan Jarvi Sound Project (with MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra) - "A Tone Parallel To Harlem (Harlem Suite)" -- Parallel Tones -- MDR -- 2013/2104 Michael Mantler -- "Update Twelve, Part 1" -- The Jazz Composers Orchestra Update -- ECM -- 2013 On February 15, Brett Watanabe will be your guest host on "Straight, No Chaser." I'll be back on February 22.

You can hear this week's "Straight, No Chaser" any time in the next two weeks in the audio archive at www.kbcs.fm. Here is the playlist for the February 1st show: Bud Powell Trio -- "Elogie" -- Blues in the Closet -- Verve -- rel. 1956 Roy Eldridge & Dizzy Gillespie -- "Algo Bueno" -- Roy & Diz -- Avid -- 1954 Kenny Barron -- "Body and Soul" -- At The Piano -- Xanadu -- 1981 Duke Ellington and His Orchestra -- "A Tone Parallel To Harlem" -- Ellington Uptown -- Columbia -- 1951 Oscar Pettiford -- "Jack, The Fieldstalker" -- My Little Cello -- Fantasy -- rel. 1964 Yngvil Vatn Guttu -- "On The Crosswalk" -- On The Crosswalk -- (self) -- rel. 2014 Enrique Haneine -- "Slippery When Dry" -- Instants of Time -- Elegant Walk -- 2014 (N) Dave Douglas -- "Parallel Worlds" -- Parallel Worlds -- Soul Note -- 1993 Arturo O'Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra -- "The Afro Latin Jazz Suite" -- Cuba: The Conversation Continues -- Motema -- 2014 (N) Christina Pato -- "Let's Festa" -- Latina -- Sunnyside -- 2015 (N) Aki Takase & Alexander von Schlippenbach -- "Hat and Beard" -- So Long, Eric! Homage To Eric Dolphy -- Intakt -- 2014 Theodosii Spassov Trio -- "Tatovata Rabolnitsa (Father's Workshop)" -- The Fish Are Praying For Rain -- Traditional Crossroads -- 1998 Curtis Stewart -- "Descent" -- Of Colors -- Outside In Music -- rel. 2016 (N) Big Crinkly Trio -- "Skittles" -- This Is Not About The Pecking Order -- (self) -- 2014 Stuart Dempster -- "Didjerilayover" -- Underground Overlays From The Cistern Chapel -- New Albion -- 1995 [The "StuART Fest," a tribute to Stuart Dempster, where he and several of his colleagues will perform, is set for 8 p.m. on Saturday, February 6, in the PONCHO Concert Hall at Cornish College in Seattle.] On next Monday's "Straight, No Chaser," we will be soliciting donations in the KBCS quarterly fund drive. The following week, February 15, Brett Watanabe will be your guest host.

Here are the jazz selections we heard on "Straight, No Chaser" on January 25: Sonny Rollins with Coleman Hawkins -- "All The Things You Are" -- Sonny Meets Hawk -- RCA -- 1963 Ralph Moore -- "Song For Soweto" -- Rejuvenate! -- Criss Cross Jazz -- 1988 Charles Lloyd & The Marvels -- "Of Course, Of Course" -- I Long To See You -- Blue Note -- 2015 (N) John Zorn / Gnostic Trio -- "Through the Looking Glass" -- In Lambeth: Visions From the Walled Garden of William Blake -- Tzadik -- 2013 Stanley Clarke, Bireli Lagrene & Jean-Luc Ponty -- "To and Fro" -- D-Stringz -- Impulse! -- 2014 (N) Curtis Stewart -- "Of Color(s) and (UN)-folding" -- Of Colors -- Outside In Music -- rel. 2016 (N) New York Composers Orchestra -- "Always Lying On" -- Live at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London -- (self) (unreleased) Steve Coleman and the Council of Balance -- "Synovial Joints (suite): Part I -- Hand and Wrist" -- Synovial Joints -- Pi -- rel. 2015 Barry Altschul -- "Martin's Stew" -- The 3dom Factor -- TUM -- 2012 Dave Douglas Quintet -- "Inure Phase" -- Brazen Heart -- Greenleaf Music -- 2015 (N) Paul Motian -- "Abacus" -- Le Voyage -- ECM -- 1979 Tisziji Munoz, Lam-Sobo & John Medeski -- "Venus" -- Songs of Soundlessness -- Anami Music -- rel. 2015 Joshua Redman -- "Trinkle, Tinkle" -- Trios Live -- Nonesuch -- 2009 Ray Vega & Thomas Marriott -- "Totem Pole" -- Return of the East West Trumpet Summit -- Origin -- 2014 (N) Joe Farrell -- "Sweet Rita Suite (Part I): Her Spirit" -- Sonic Text -- Contemporary -- 1979 Check it out in the audio archive at www.kbcs.fm.