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We heard two hours of Trane tonight on "Straight, No Chaser" on KBCS-FM. The show is available on demand for the next two weeks in the streaming audio archive at www.kbcs.fm.

Tonight on "Straight, No Chaser," we celebrated John Coltrane's birthday in the most obvious manner, by listening to a few of his recordings: John Coltrane -- "Bakai" -- Coltrane -- Prestige John Coltrane -- "Cousin Mary" -- Afro-Blue Impressions -- Pablo John Coltrane -- "Dear Old Stockholm" -- Impressions -- Impulse! John Coltrane -- "Mr. Knight" -- The Heavyweight Champion -- Atlantic John Coltrane -- "Jupiter" -- Interstellar Space -- Impulse! John Coltrane -- "Out of This World" -- Live in Seattle -- Impulse! John Coltrane -- "Route 4" -- Dakar -- Prestige John Coltrane -- "Aisha" -- Olé Coltrane -- Atlantic John Coltrane -- "The Damned Don't Cry" -- The Complete Africa/Brass Sessions -- Impulse! John Coltrane -- "Amen" -- Sun Ship -- Impulse! This was also Fund Drive week on KBCS. Thanks to the listeners who donated to the station during the the program, and also to John Pai and Brett Watanabe, who joined me in the studio to talk about community radio. If you're interested, check out this and other KBCS shows at your convenience in the streaming audio archive at www.kbcs.fm. And if you have any comments about "Straight, No Chaser," please post them here or on the Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/StraightNoChaserOnKBCS.

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Jon Jang's version of the great Charles Mingus composition, "Meditations On Integration," was the centerpiece this week on "Straight, No Chaser." Here is the September 16 playlist: Roy Eldridge 4 -- "Gofor" -- Montreux '77 -- Pablo Live Miles Davis Quintet -- "Salt Peanuts" -- The Legendary Prestige Quintet Sessions -- Prestige Charlie Christian -- "I Got Rhythm" (take 2) -- Electric -- Uptown Hampton Hawes -- "Blues For Jacque" -- This Is Hampton Hawes, Vol. 2--The Trio -- Contemporary Bill Evans -- "Ornithology" -- The Solo Sessions, Volume 2 -- Milestone (shortened by equipment malfunction) Geri Allen Trio -- "Printmakers" -- The Printmakers -- Minor Music Andrew Cyrille -- "Baby Man" -- Special People -- Soul Note Tom Goehring -- "Clarion Call" -- A Reflected Journey -- (self) (N) Steve Lacy Quartet -- "The Adventures Of" -- One Fell Swoop -- Silkheart Jon Jang Sextet -- "Meditations On Integration" -- Two Flowers On A Stem -- Soul Note Bill Carrothers -- "Cuddle Up A Little Closer" -- Armistice 1918 -- Sketch Jaki Byard -- "Journey / Night of Departure" -- Empirical -- Muse Trio M -- "Kind of Nine" -- The Guest House -- Enja Darius Jones Quartet -- "Winkie" -- Book of Mae'bul (Another Kind of Sunrise) -- AUM Fidelity Darren Johnston's Gone To Chicago -- "Love Call" -- The Big Lift -- Porto Franco Patrick Zimmerli -- "Anaptyxis" -- Twelve Sacred Dances -- Arabesque Will Martina -- "Snake, Money, Cow" -- The Dam Levels -- (self) Next Monday's show occurs during the KBCS Fund Drive. Please think about becoming a Sustaining Member through monthly deductions or making an annual or one-time donation. The phone lines will be open at 425-564-5000. Or donate without having to speak to a human, at www.kbcs.fm.

This week on "Straight, No Chaser" we listened to several artists who will appear in the Earshot Jazz Festival, October 1 to November 17 in Seattle (see dates and venues below), and also revisited a classic Archie Shepp track from 1967. Here is the playlist: Louis Hayes -- "St. Peter's Walk" -- The Real Thing -- 32 Jazz Noah Bernstein -- "DDR Twenty-Six Sixty-Six" -- Six -- Hanley SF Jazz Collective -- "Moment's Notice" -- SF Jazz Collective 2 -- Nonesuch * SF Jazz Collective, 10/22, Nordstrom Recital Hall, Benaroya Hall Dafnis Prieto (with Yosvany Terry) -- "The Stutterer" -- Absolute Quintet -- Zoho * Dafnis Prieto Si O Si, 10/17, PONCHO Concert Hall * Yosvany Terry Quintet, 10/9, Langston Hughes Center NEXT Collective -- "No Church in the Wild" -- Coverart -- Concord Jazz * NEXT Collective, 11/14, Experience Music Project The Bad Plus -- "Re-Elect That" -- Made Possible -- E-One * The Bad Plus, 10/20, Triple Door * Dave King, Chris Speed, Chris Tordini, 10/13, PONCHO Concert Hall Charles Lloyd Quartet -- "Lift Every Voice and Sing" -- Mirror -- ECM * Charles Lloyd & Friends With Bill Frisell, 11/17, Town Hall Nicole Mitchell -- "Center of the Earth" -- Awakening -- Delmark * Nicole Mitchell Ice Crystal Quartet, 10/25, PONCHO Concert Hall Kneebody -- "Break Me" -- Kneebody -- Koch * Kneebody, 11/7, PONCHO Concert Hall The Claudia Quintet -- "Adowa" -- I, Claudia -- Cuneiform * John Hollenbeck Claudia Quintet, 10/6, PONCHO Concert Hall Mat Maneri Trio -- "Tone Dialing" (alt. take) -- Fifty-One Sorrows -- Leo * Lucian Ban & Mat Maneri, 10/27, PONCHO Concert Hall Scott Amendola Band -- "Streetbeat" -- Cry -- Cryptogramophone * Brian Haas & Scott Amendola, 11/1, Royal Room Archie Shepp -- "The Magic of Ju-Ju" -- The Magic of Ju-Ju -- Impulse! Allison Miller's Boom Tic Boom -- "The Kitchen" -- No Morphine No Lilies -- Foxhaven Han Bennink, Michael Borstlap, Ernst Glerum -- "Think of One" -- Monk -- Gramercy Park Music Clark Somers' Ba(SH) -- "Fathom-A-Ning" -- Clark Somers' Ba(SH) -- Origin (N) --- --- Details about the Earshot Jazz Festival are here: http://www.earshot.org/Festival/festival.html. You can listen to this and other KBCS programs, at your convenience, for 14 days after broadcast, at www.kbcs.fm.

Tonight on "Straight, No Chaser," we heard a couple more tunes by Cedar Walton (1934-2013), new releases by Chick Corea and Dave Holland with their respective new bands, and the usual assortment of jazz gems and oddities: Chico Hamilton -- "Thoughts of Prez" -- Thoughts of... -- Koch Irvin Mayfield -- "James Booker" -- A Love Letter to New Orleans -- Basin Street Modern Jazz Quartet -- "Moving Nicely" -- Modern Jazz Quartet -- Jazz Heritage Cedar Walton -- "Spectrum" -- Spectrum -- Prestige Cedar Walton -- "Bridge Work" -- Blues For Myself -- Red Joan Stiles -- "Bebopicity" -- Three Musicians -- Oo-Bla-Dee Outer Bridge Ensemble -- "Homage to Freedom" -- Determined -- (self) (N) Chick Corea -- "Royalty" -- The Vigil -- Concord Music (N) Dave Holland & Prism -- "The True Meaning of Determination" -- Prism -- Dare2 (N) (Dave Holland & Prism are coming to the Jazz Alley in Seattle, October 8 and 9) Bad Luck -- "Cash and Tongue" -- Bad Luck -- Belle Steam -- "Explosive Motor" -- Real Time -- Atavistic Steve Lehman Trio -- "Foster Brothers" -- Dialect Fluorescent -- Pi The Swallow Quintet -- "Back in Action" -- Into the Woodwork -- ECM (N) Rich Halley 4 -- "Duopoly" -- Crossing the Passes -- Pine Eagle (N) Brötzmann / Van Hove / Bennink -- "Garten" -- Balls -- FMP Sonny Fortune -- "It Ain't What It Was" -- A Better Understanding -- Blue Note Diego Barber -- "Ailanto" -- The Choice -- Sunnyside George Schuller's Circle Wide -- "Edwin" -- Listen Both Ways -- Playscape If you listen, please feel free to post your comments, here or at https://www.facebook.com/StraightNoChaserOnKBCS

I’ve been sidetracked the last couple of weeks and need to catch up on the “Straight, No Chaser” playlists. On August 19, Gordon Todd was the guest host and he played the following music, beginning with a tribute to Cedar Walton (1934-2013): Cedar Walton – “Milestones” – Underground Memoirs Cedar Walton – “Blue Monk” – Naima (Live) Cedar Walton – “Naima” – Voices Deep Within Chris Potter – “Wine Dark Sea” – The Sirens SJ Jazz Collective – “Una Muy Bonita” – Inaugural Season Live 2004 Ornette Coleman – “Ramblin’” – Change of the Century Dexter Gordon Quartet – “Body And Soul” – Manhattan Symphonie Kurt Elling – “A New Body & Soul” – Nightmoves Herbie Hancock – “Wiggle-Waggle” – The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings Miles Davis – “It Gets Better” – Star People Wayne Shorter – “Calm” – Odyssey of Iska Michael Brecker – “African Skies” – Tales From The Hudson Kenny Werner – “Tribute To Sonny” – Unprotected Music Bunky Green – “It Could Happen To You” – Another Place Thelonious Monk – “Straight, No Chaser” (live) – Live At The It Club The following week, on August 26, Brett Watanabe sat in for me. His playlist included a tribute to Marian McPartland (1918-2013), as well as some pieces in honor of the 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington: Marian McPartland’s Hickory House Trio – “Prelude To A Kiss” – Reprise Marian McPartland – “The Duke” – Live At Maybeck Recital Hall, Vol. 9 Marian McPartland’s Hickory House Trio – “I Hear Music” – Reprise Dave Holland & Prism – “Spirals” – Prism (N) B’shnorkestra – “La Noche Negra” – Go To Orange (N) Charlie Haden – “Not In Our Name” – Not In Our Name Max Roach – “Tears For Johannesburg” – We Insist!—Freedom Now Suite Herbie Hancock – “I Have A Dream” – The Prisoner Wadada Leo Smith – “Freedom Summer: Voter Registration, Acts of Compassion and Empowerment, 1964” – Ten Freedom Summers Malachi Thompson, Hamiet Bluiett & Oliver Lake – “Way Back When We Didn’t Understand” – Talking Horns Gary Burton – “Caminos” – Guided Tour (N) Carla Bley – “The Girl Who Cried Champagne (Parts 1, 2 & 3)” – Fleur Carnivore Thanks to Gordon and Brett for putting these shows together. You can hear streaming versions of the programs on demand, for two weeks after the broadcast date, in the audio archive at www.kbcs.fm.

Well, yes, indeed. Thanks.

As summer droned on, we heard the following music on "Straight, No Chaser": Alex Snydman -- "One For Elegua" -- Fortunate Action -- (self) (N) The Aperturistic Trio -- "Dance of the Macrocosmic People" -- Truth and Actuality -- Inner Circle Music (N) Martin Bejerano -- "B. Radley" -- Potential Energy -- Figgland (N) Grant Green -- "Cool Blues" -- Born To Be Blue -- Blue Note Sarah Vaughan -- "You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To" -- Divine: The Jazz Albums, 1954-1958 -- Mercury Gerry Mulligan -- "The Flying Scotsman" -- Lonesome Boulevard -- A&M Matt Jorgensen + 451 -- "Tomorrow Never Knows" -- Quiet Silence -- Origin The New Gary Burton Quartet -- "Jackalope" -- Guided Tour -- Mack Avenue (N)\ Bill Frisell -- "A Beautiful View" -- Big Sur -- Okeh (N) Darcy James Argue's Secret Society -- "Construction + Destrucion / Interlude #4: Bewail / Builders" -- Brooklyn Babylon -- New Amsterdam (N) John Clark -- "Bad Attitude" -- I Will -- Postcards Matthew Shipp -- "Circular Temple #2" -- Circular Temple -- Quinton Joe Morris / Rob Brown Quartet -- "Pivotal" -- Illuminate -- Leo Smiley Winters (with Barbara Donald and Bert Wilson) -- "Two Trains" -- Smiley Etc. -- Arhoolie What We Live -- "Will Be" -- Never Was -- Black Saint Check it out in the archives at www.kbcs.fm. Next Monday, August 19, Gordon Todd will be your guest host on "Straight, No Chaser."

This is what we heard this week on "Straight, No Chaser": (artist -- title -- album -- label) Ernie Watts Quartet -- "Bass Geige" -- Oasis -- Flying Dolphin Blue Cranes -- "Ritchie Bros." -- Observatories -- (self) Mike Fahie -- "Seven Sisters" -- Anima -- BJU Scott Neumann Neu3 Trio -- "Clamba" -- Blessed -- Origin (N) Yuri Honing -- "Hell's Kitchen" -- Seven -- Jazz in Motion Go Home -- "TGO" -- Go Home -- BAG Productions yeah NO -- "He Has A Pair of Dice" -- Swell Henry -- Squeaker Music Wilson / Lee / Bentley -- "Escondido Dreams" -- Escondido Dreams -- Drip Audio John Law Quartet -- "Burlesque" -- Abacus -- Hat Hut Bill Smith & Enrico Pieranunzi -- "Matt" -- The Rome Sessions -- Beat Steve Swallow / Ohad Talmor Sextet -- "Some Echoes" -- L'histoire du Clochard (The Bum's Tale) -- Palmetto Randy Weston -- "Little Niles" -- Earth Birth -- Verve Evan Parker & The Transatlantic Art Ensemble -- "Furrow 4" -- Boustrophedon (In Six Furrows) -- ECM Frode Gjerstad with William Parker and Hamid Drake -- "The People" -- On Reade Street -- FMR Buddy Collette Quintet featuring James Newton -- "It's You" -- Flute Talk -- Soul Note Christian McBride Trio -- "Cherokee" -- Out Here -- Mack Avenue (N) Check out the Facebook page for "Straight, No Chaser on KBCS" and leave your comments. And give a listen to the last two weeks' programs in the audio archive at www.kbcs.fm.

Here's the playlist for July 29 on "Straight, No Chaser" on KBCS: Jessica Williams Trio -- "Nobody's Blues" -- Now!!! -- Red and Blue Chick Corea, Eddie Gomez & Paul Motian -- "Off The Cuff" -- Further Explorations -- Concord Jazz Joanne Brackeen -- "Can This McBee?" -- Where Legends Dwell -- Ken Etienne Charles -- "Green Chimneys" -- Creole Soul -- Culture Shock (N) Quentin Angus -- "Restoration" -- Perception -- Aurora Sounds (N) David Murray Infinity Quartet -- "French Kiss For Valerie" -- Be My Monster Love -- Motema (N) Jason Lindner Big Band -- "Suheir" -- Live at the Jazz Gallery -- Anzic New York Composers Orchestra -- "Pliant Plaint" -- Music by Marty Ehrlich, Robin Holcomb, Wayne Horvitz & Doug Weiselman -- New World Thomas Chapin Trio (with John Zorn) -- "Bad Birdie" -- Menagerie Dreams -- Knitting Factory Jonathan Finlayson & Sicilian Defense -- "Circus" -- Moment and the Message -- Pi (N) Allison Miller's Boom Tic Boom -- "The Kitchen" -- No Morphine No Lilies -- Foxhaven (N) J D Allen -- "Luke Sky Walker" -- Grace -- Savant (N) David Liebman & Ellery Eskelin -- "Tie Those Laces" -- Different But The Same -- Hat Hut Zapp4 -- "De Hamer" -- Radiohunter -- Lop Lop Elastic Jargon -- "Gahu" -- Slang -- Data Splatter Trio -- "Ace Dag Bee & Counting" -- Hi-Fi Junk Note -- Ratascan David Ake -- "Open/Balance" -- Bridges -- Positone (N) To hear streaming versions of this and other KBCS shows, click through to the audio archive at www.kbcs.fm.

Here is the music we heard on "Straight, No Chaser" on July 22: Hank Mobley -- "Two And One" -- Hi Voltage -- Blue Note Philly Joe Jones -- "Interpretation" -- Showcase -- Riverside Freddie Hubbard -- "True Colors" -- Born To Be Blue -- Pablo Shan Kenner -- "Miracle Worker" -- The Behavior of Vibration -- (self) (N) The October Trio -- "New Dream" -- New Dream -- Songlines John McNeil -- "Internal Hurdles" -- East Coast Cool -- Omnitone Empty Cage Quartet -- "Gravity: Section 8" -- Gravity -- Clean Feed Oliver Lake Big Band -- "Studder" -- Wheels -- Passin' Thru (N) Tony Grasso -- "Playing With Fire" -- Tony Grasso Saxophone? Quartet! -- (self) Mike Vlatkovich -- "The Length of the Tail Doesn't Really Matter, But It Does Have to Be Bushy" -- Succulence of Abstraction -- Thankyou (N) Natsuka Tamura -- "A Hole in the Ceiling" -- A Song For Jyaki -- Leo Tetzepi -- "Cows At Sea" -- Seed -- Trytone Scott Fields Ensemble -- "The Shots He Missed..." -- Dénouement -- Geode Marilyn Crispell & Gary Peacock -- "Blue" -- Azure -- ECM (N) John Butcher -- "Curling / Charred" -- [John Butcher & Matthew Shipp] At Oto -- Fataka Charles Mingus -- "Peggy's Blue Skylight" -- The Jazz Workshop Concerts 1964-65 -- Mosaic Marty Ehlrich & Myra Melford -- "Blue Delhi" -- Spark! -- Palmetto As usual, you can hear it on demand for the next two weeks at www.kbcs.fm.

For some years I've gone to a very nice older gentleman -- probably in his 80s now -- whose price is probably the lowest in town. I don't have much hair to cut, so I don't worry too much about it. But now I'm afraid my man is losing his touch. Last time he nicked me twice. So I may be looking for another barber.

Yes, we're all indebted to Mr. Koester. Although he personally favors "trad jazz," he has published some great "outside" recordings, and Delmark's blues catalogue is one of the best.

Paul McCartney tonight at Safeco Field, Seattle. (The last time I saw him was with the Beatles!)

On this warm summer evening, we heard these tracks on "Straight, No Chaser": Thelonious Monk & Sonny Rollins -- "The Way You Look Tonight" -- Thelonious Monk / Sonny Rollins -- Prestige Mulgrew Miller -- "Thinkin' Out Loud" -- Hand in Hand -- RCA Victor Claire Daly Quintet -- "Kluane" -- Mary Joyce Project: Nothing To Lose -- Daly Bread Chad Eby -- "The Sorcerer" -- New Business -- (self) (N) Andy Parsons, Ben Monder, John Patitucci & Gene Lewin -- "Lot of Our Souls" -- Flip! -- Sons of Sound J D Allen -- "Load Star" -- Grace -- Savant (N) Branford Marsalis -- "Xavier's Lair" -- Bloomington -- Columbia John Devine -- "Eelpout Shout" -- A Little O'That -- Devine Sax Tim Berne -- "Hard Cell (For Tom)" -- The Shell Game -- Thirsty Ear Ensemble Uncontrolled -- "Searching For The Talking Plant" -- Tales From The Forest -- Leo Gallio / Voerkel / Frey -- "Improvisation #8" -- Tiegel -- Unheard Music Series Tommy Babin's Benzene -- "Citizen Kang" -- Your Body Is Your Prison -- Drip Audio Cold Bleak Heat -- "The Blue Dabs of Varicose Veins" -- It's Magnificent, But It Isn't War -- Family Vineyard Darcy James Argue's Secret Society -- "Grand Opening" -- Brooklyn Babylon -- SOCAN (N) Mary Halvorson & Jessica Pavone -- "New October" -- Departure of Reason -- Thirsty Ear Jeff Parker Trio -- "Swept Out to Sea" -- Bright Light in Water -- Delmark Hammer Klavier Trio -- "Rocket in the Pocket" -- Rocket in the Pocket -- Jan Matthies (N) Look for the "'Straight, No Chaser' on KBCS" page on Facebook. Listen to the shows for two weeks after broadcast in the audio archive at www.kbcs.fm.

The July 8 edition of "Straight, No Chaser" was dedicated to my cousin Daniel Utevsky (1950-2013). Here are the musical selections we heard: Jacob Varmus -- "Stillness" -- Terminal Stillness -- (self) (N) Wallace Roney -- "Search For Peace" -- Understanding -- HighNote (N) Amina Figarova -- "Sharp Corners" -- Above The Clouds -- Munich B'shnorkestra -- "Move" -- Go To Orange -- Present Sounds (N) Butch Morris -- "Long Goodbye" -- Dust To Dust -- New World Ellery Eskelin -- "It Doesn't Wait" -- Figure of Speech -- Soul Note Charles Gayle Trio -- "Warm Bones Cold" -- Homeless -- Silkheart S.O.S. (John Surman, Mike Osborne & Alan Skidmore) -- "Rashied" -- Looking For The Next One -- Cuneiform (N) The Fell Clutch -- "Life In Your Years" -- The Fell Clutch -- Animul Wayne Horvitz Gravitas Quartet -- "One Morten" -- Way Out East -- Songlines Marilyn Crispell Trio -- "The Storyteller" -- The Storyteller -- ECM Tobias Delius 4tet -- "Kafka 1" & "Kintopp" -- The Heron -- BVHaast Terence Blanchard -- "Central Focus" & "Another Step" -- Magnetic -- Blue Note (N) John Escreet -- "Don't Fight The Inevitable" (incomplete) -- Don't Fight The Inevitable -- Mythology Michel Petrucciani -- "It's What I'm Doing When I Miss You" -- Oracle's Destiny -- Owl This program will be available for two weeks in the audio archive at www.kbcs.fm.

Our excellent guest host John Midgley played these tunes on "Straight, No Chaser" this week: Sonny Rollins -- "Decision" -- The Best of Sonny Rollins: The Blue Note Years Dexter Gordon -- "Modal Mood" -- Dexter Calling Gato Barbieri & Abdullah Ibrahim -- "Hamba Khale" -- Hamba Khale -- (for Nelson Mandela) Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra -- "Nikosi SikeLeL'i Afrika" -- Dream Keeper Ron Carter -- "Softly As In A Morning Sunrise" -- Where? Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers -- "Oscalypso" -- Drum Suite Amer ElSaffar -- "Inana's Dance (IV)" -- Inana Jason Kao Hwang -- "Burning Bridge III: Fiery, Far Away" -- Burning Bridge Denny Zeitlin & Charlie Haden -- "Bird Food" -- Time Remembers One Time Once Horace Tapscott -- "As A Child" -- Thoughts of Dar es Salaam Miles Davis Quintet -- "Freedom Jazz Dance" -- Miles Smiles Wayne Shorter Quartet -- "Orbits" -- Without A Net Max Roach -- "Equipoise" -- Members, Don't Git Weary Duke Pearson -- "Empathy" -- Sweet Honey Bee George Russell -- "Night Sound" -- The Jazz Workshop Hear this show on demand in the audio archive at www.kbcs.fm. Also, check out John Midgley's program "Jazz Kaleidoscope" on http://voiceofvashon.org/ at 1:00 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, Friday & Sunday; click in the upper right hand corner to listen.

Here are the tunes we heard this week on "Straight, No Chaser": Hammer Klavier Trio -- "Take Fifteen" -- Rocket in the Pocket -- Jan Matthies (N) Florian Weber -- "Piecemeal" -- Biosphere -- Enja Giovanni Guidi Trio -- "No Other Possiblity" -- City of Broken Dreams -- ECM (N) Bill Frisell -- "On The Lookout" -- Big Sur -- Okeh (N) Marc Ribot -- "Fiesta en el Solar" -- Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Postizos -- Atlantic Pat Metheny -- "Tharsis" -- Tap: John Zorn's Book of Angels, Vol. 20 -- Nonesuch (N) Anthony Braxton & Derek Bailey -- "The Second Set--Area 8" -- First Duo Concert -- Emanem Paul Bley, Evan Parker & Barre Phillips -- "Variation 8" -- Sankt Gerold -- ECM Trio 120 -- "Konstant" -- Flug -- Fuhrwerk Music Tineke Postma -- "Motivation" -- The Traveller -- Etcetera Now Kenny Wheeler -- "Siena" -- Balloons -- HighNote Jonathan Finlayson & Sicilian Defense -- "Circus" -- Moment & The Message -- Pi (N) Michael Bisio, Raymond Boni, Dominic Duval & Joe McPhee -- "The Snake, The Fish (And Things)" -- Port of Saints -- CJR Wayne Shorter Quartet -- "Myrrh" -- Without A Net -- Blue Note Michael Blake -- "The Searchers" -- In The Grand Scheme of Things -- Songlines (N) Michael Blanco -- "RSVP" -- No Time Like The Present -- (self) (N) I'll be out of town next week. On Monday, July 1st, John Midgley will be your guest host on "Straight, No Chaser." Check out the last two weeks' programs in the audio archive at www.kbcs.fm. Register your comments on the Facebook page "Straight, No Chaser" on KBCS -- https://www.facebook.com/StraightNoChaserOnKBCS?fref=ts

Interesting how perspectives can be different. I was not at Vision Festival the night this band performed, but I read a facebook post of someone who felt just the opposite - that the other members of the band did not engage Tusques and instead basically shut him out. In Seattle the group performed as a quartet, without Sclavis, and they were magnificent. Jordan was clearly the centerpiece, with Tusques providing support and a couple of solos. I definitely like Sclavis from his recordings, but this group was probably more exciting without him. Tonight it's Colin Stetson.

Tonight I'm excited to see the French-American Peace Quartet, with Francois Tusques on piano, Kidd Jordan on saxophone, and William Parker and Hamid Drake. I've never seen Tusques or Jordan before, and any gig with Parker and Drake is a winner.

This week on "Straight, No Chaser," we continued to sample the works of Bert Wilson (1939-2013) and Mulgrew Miller (1955-2013). We checked out the new release by Samantha Boshnack's B'shnorchestra, as well as a great Miles Davis Quintet concert from 1969. Here's the list: Coleman Hawkins & Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis -- "There Is No Greater Love" -- Night Hawk -- Essential Jazz Classics Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers With Thelonious Monk -- "In Walked Bud" -- Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers With Thelonious Monk -- Essential Jazz Classics Mulgrew Miller -- "Wingspan" -- Wingspan -- 32 Jazz Diego Urcola -- "The Natural (To Freddie Hubbard)" -- Appreciation -- CamJazz B'shnorchestra -- "La Noche Negra" -- Present Sounds (N) Bobby Hutcherson -- "Rojo" -- Happenings -- Blue Note Pigpen -- "The Gift" -- Daylight -- Tim/Kerr Miles Davis Quintet (Shorter, Corea, Holland, De Johnette) -- "Masqualero" -- Live in Europe 1969 -- Columbia (N) Bert Wilson & Rebirth -- "Happy Pretty" -- Further Adventures in Jazz -- FMO * Colin Stetson -- "Judges" -- New History Warfare, Vol. 2--Judges -- Constellation (appearing at Barboza in Seattle, Friday, June 21, 7:30 p.m.) Craig Taborn Trio -- "Cracking Hearts" -- Chants -- ECM (N) Mario Pavone -- "Bootleg" -- Dancers Tales -- Knitting Factory Ken Thomson and Slow/Fast -- "It Would Be Easier If" -- It Would Be Easier If -- Clusterhocket Matt Vashlishan -- "Blues For Brecker" -- No Such Thing -- Origin The Spokes (Curtis Hasselbring, Andy Biskin, Phillip Johnston) -- "Wiesinski" -- Not So Fast -- Strudelmedia Bert Wilson & Jeffrey Morgan -- "Lightning, Thunder, and Rain" -- Take No Prisoners -- Konnex Marc Ribot -- "Hitman" -- Shoe String Symphonettes -- Tzadik It's in the audio archive at www.kbcs.fm.

This week on "Straight, No Chaser," we participated in the KBCS early summer fund drive and paid tribute to two fine musicians who recently passed away, Bert Wilson and Mulgrew Miller. Brett Watanabe was the host, and he picked out the following music: Melton Mustafa -- "Windstorm" -- The Traveling Man John Handy -- "Theme X" -- The Second John Handy Album James Blood Ulmer -- "See-Through" -- Are You Glad To Be In America Reptet -- "Eve of Thrieve" -- Chicken or Beef Bert Wilson -- "The One Behind It All" -- Endless Fingers Ralph Peterson -- "Urban Omen" -- Presents The Fotet Mulgrew Miller -- "Song For Darnell" -- Live at Kennedy Center, Volume 2 Sonny Simmons (w/ Bert Wilson) -- "Dolphy's Dance" -- Music From The Spheres Miya Masaoka -- "Aubade" -- Monk's Japanese Folk Song Project W -- "In A Pickle" -- Project W Craig Taborn -- "True Life Near" -- Avenging Angel Andy Laster -- "Mito" -- Window Silver Bright Chemical Clock -- "Neurotic Bricklayer" -- Chemical Clock It's available in the audio archive at www.kbcs.fm. Check out the Facebook page, if you're into that kind of thing. https://www.facebook.com/StraightNoChaserOnKBCS?fref=ts.

I'm very sorry to hear about this. The Pacifica stations were trail-blazers for community-oriented, volunteer-powered radio. But any "public" radio station is bound to experience controversy among its volunteers and supporters, just like other grass-roots organizations. Rivalries, jealousies and disputes over money and programming can rip a station apart. It's a terrible shame, because we need WBAI and a lot more stations of its ilk.

Roscoe Mitchell -- "Nonaah."