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Just back from a nice break. Time to catch up! On December 12, 2011, Megan Sullivan was the guest host on "Straight, No Chaser." Here is the music Megan played: Red Garland – “St. James Infirmary” – Red’s Blues Dexter Gordon – “Scrapple From The Apple” – Our Man In Paris – Blue Note Clifford Brown – “Brownie Speaks” – Clifford Brown Memorial Album – Blue Note Anita O’Day – “Don’t Explain” – The Complete Anita O’Day Verve/Clef Sessions – Mosaic Lee Morgan – “Rigor Mortis” – Tom Cat – Blue Note John Coltrane – “Naima” – Giant Steps – Atlantic Joe Henderson – “Our Thing” – Our Thing – Blue Note Oliver Nelson – “Stolen Moments” – The Blues And The Abstract Truth – Impulse! Wynton Marsalis Septet – “Sometimes It Goes Like That” – Blue Interlude – Columbia Billie Holiday – “Good Morning Heartache” – 20th Century Masters – Hip-O McCoy Tyner – “May Street” – The Definitive McCoy Tyner – Blue Note Wayne Shorter – “Speak No Evil” – Speak No Evil – Blue Note Charles Mingus – “Goodbye Pork-Pie Hat” – Mingus Ah Um – Columbia Mary Lou Williams – “Koolbonga” – Black Christ of The Andes – Smithsonian Folkways Alice Coltrane – “Turiya And Ramakrishna” – Ptah, The El Daoud – Imipulse! Andrew Hill – “The Brown Queen” – Passing Ships – Blue Note Ornette Coleman – “Lonely Woman” – The Shape Of Jazz To Come – Atlantic Steve Turre – “Sanctified Shells” – Sanctified Shells – Antilles Christian McBride – “Little Sunflower” – Number Two Express – Polygram Brett Watanabe subsituted as host on December 19 and December 26, 2011. Here is Brett's playlist for December 19: Darren Johnston – “The Big Lift” – The Big Lift – Porto Franco (N) Hal Galper – “Alice In Wonderland” – Trip The Light Fantastic – Origin (N) James Carter Organ Trio – “Lettuce Toss Yo’ Salad” – At The Crossroads – Universal Sir Roland Hanna – “A Story, Often Told But Seldom Heard” – Colors From A Giant’s Kit – IPO (N) Dead Cat Bounce – “Far From The Matty Crowd” – Chance Episodes – Cuneiform (N) Enrico Rava Quintet – “Incognito” – Tribe – ECM (N) Jeff Gauthier Goatette – “Things Past” – Open Source – Cryptogramophone (N) Fattigfolktet – “Marienberg Park” – Park – Ozella (N) Rez Abassi’s Invocation – “Thanks For Giving” – Suno Suno – Enja (N) Julian Waterfall Pollack – “Forewarning” – Infinite Playground – (self) (N) Jane Bunnett Quintet – “Double Arc Jake” – Live At Sweet Basil, NYC – Denon On December 26, Brett played these tunes: Dizzy Gillespie Big Seven – “I’ll Remember April” – At The Montreux Jazz Festival 1975 – Pablo Brad Mehldau – “London Blues” – Art of The Trio – Nonesuch (N) Ray Anderson Big Band – “Anabel At One” – Big Band Record – Gramavision John Bishop – “Lady In Black” – Nothing If Not Something – Origin Elmo Hope – “It’s A Lovely Day Today” – Trio And Quintet – Blue Note Michael Bisio Quintet – “Covert Choreography” – Covert Choreography – Cadence Jazz David Murray Latin Big Band – “Blue Muse” – Now Is Another Time – Justin Time To hear the December 26 program in the KBCS streaming audio archive, click here: http://kbcsweb.bellevuecollege.edu/playlist/archive/?ShowID=22760 Finally, here's my playlist for the January 2, 2012, program: John Coltrane -- "My Favorite Things" -- My Favorite Things -- Atlantic Don Friedman -- "Waltz For Marilyn" -- Waltz For Marilyn -- Jazz Excursion Christian McBride & Hank Jones -- "Alone Together" -- (Christian McBride) Conversations With Christian -- Mack Avenue Dan Tepfer Trio -- "Diverge" -- Five Pedals Deep -- Sunnyside McCormack & Yarde Duo -- "Dark Too Bright" -- Places And Other Spaces -- Joy And Ears (N) Daniel Rosenboom Septet -- "Espionage" -- Fallen Angeles -- Nine Winds (N) David Weiss & Point of Departure -- "Snuck In" -- Snuck In -- Sunnyside Joe Maneri & Masashi Harada -- "Point Contact" -- Pinerskol -- Leo Joe McPhee & Survival Unit II with Clifford Thornton -- "Message From Denmark" -- N.Y.N.Y. 1971 -- Hat Hut Jeff Gauthier Goatette -- "Seashells And Balloons" -- Open Source -- Crypogramophone (N) Stanley Turrentine -- "Gibraltar" -- Salt Song -- CTI (N) Michael Bates' Outside Sources -- "Charcoal" -- A Fine Balance -- Between The Lines Dave Douglas' Tiny Bell Trio -- "Vanitatas Vanitatum (mit Humor)" -- Constellations -- Hat Hut Julian Priester & Sam Rivers -- "Public Servant" -- Hints On Light And Shadow -- Postcards Graham Haynes -- "Half Circle" -- Full Circle -- RKM Not Missing Drums Project -- "Offiene Versprechen" -- Offline Adventures -- Leo Lab Here's the link for the archived January 2 show: http://kbcsweb.bellevuecollege.edu/playlist/archive/?ShowID=22874

Blu-Ray discs will give you a much better picture if your TV has the specs to take advantage of them. You don't need to buy them because now you can rent them from many video stores. You can also get them by mail from Netflix, though you have to pay a higher monthly fee.

Here is the December 5 playlist for "Straight, No Chaser": Erik Friedlander -- "Caribou Narrows" -- Bonebridge -- Skipstone Jonas Westergaard -- "One Over The Hill" -- Helgoland -- Stunt John Coltrane -- "Like Someone In Love" -- Early Trane -- Proper Bill Evans -- "Time Reconsidered" -- The Sesjun Radio Shows -- T2 (N) Jason Parker Quartet -- "Beatrice" -- Live @ Jazz TV -- (self) Tyshawn Sorey -- "Eight" -- Oblique-I -- Pi (N) Daniel Rosenboom Septet -- "Transformation" -- Fallen Angeles -- Nine Winds (N) Rez Abassi's Invocation -- "Onus On Us" -- Suno Suno -- Enja (N) Miles Davis -- "My Man's Gone Now" -- We Want Miles -- Columbia Thomas Chapin Trio Plus Strings -- "Diva" -- Haywire -- Knitting Factory Conference Call -- "Song For My Mother" -- Variations On A Master Plan -- Leo Marc Ribot -- "Invocation" -- Spiritual Unity -- Pi Tom Varner -- "The Quick And The Dead" -- Martian Heartache -- Soul Note Lina Allemano Four -- "Also" -- Gridjam -- Lumo Jason Robinson -- "Huaca del Sol" -- The Two Faces of Janus -- Cuneiform James Carter Organ Trio -- "J. C. Off The Set" -- At The Crossroads -- EmArcy (N) I'm taking a short break from the show. On December 12, Megan Sullivan will be your guest host. Brett Watanabe will fill in on December 19 and 26. I'll return on January 2nd, 2012. It's time to take a look back at the new music that came our way in 2011. Here is my obligatory list of ten favorite CDs as submitted to KBCS: Ambrose Akinmusire – When The Heart Emerges Glistening – Blue Note Anthony Braxton & John McDonough – 6 Duos (Wesleyan) 2006 – Nessa Gerald Cleaver – Be It As I See It – Fresh Sound New Talent Miles Davis Quintet – Live in Europe 1967—The Bootleg Series Vol. 1 – Columbia Bill Frisell – All We Are Saying... – Savoy Jazz Joe Lovano / Us Five – Bird Songs – Blue Note Rudresh Mahanthappa – Samdhi - ACT Matana Roberts – Live In London – Central Control Tyshawn Shorey – Oblique–I – Pi Cuong Vu 4-tet – Leaps of Faith – Origin And here are some other good jazz CDs I like that have come out in the last year or so -- if not in 2011, then at least too late in 2010 for me to take note of them in last year's list: Rez Abassi’s Invocation – Suno Suno – Enja Muhal Richard Abrams – Sound Dance – Pi Jason Adasiewicz – Sun Rooms – Delmark Scott Amendola Trio – Lift – Sazi Bill Anschell – Figments – Origin As Guests With Strings – Universal Mind – Origin Bad Luck – Bats / Josephine – (self) Harrison Bankhead Sextet – Morning Sun, Harvest Moon – Engine BANN – As You Like – Jazz Eyes Anthony Branker & Word Play – Dialogic – Origin Gary Burton – New Gary Burton Quartet – Common Ground – Mack Avenue Igor Butman Big Band – Moscow @ 3 A.M. – Butman Music James Carter – Caribbean Rhapsody – EmArcy Gerald Clayton – Bond—The Paris Sessions – EmArcy Cooper-Moore – Planetary Unknown – AUM Fidelity Marc Copland – Crosstalk – Pirouet Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke & Lenny White – Forever – Concord Larry Coryell – Larry Coryell With The Wide Hive Players – Wide Hive Stephan Crump With Rosetta Trio – Reclamation – Sunnyside Carlos De Rosa’s Cross-Fade – Brain Dance – Cuneiform Dead Cat Bounce – Chance Episodes – Cuneiform Chuck Deardorf – Transparence – Origin Deep Blue Organ Trio – Wonderful! – Origin Benoit Delbecq Trio – The Sixth Jump – Songlines Orrin Evans – Captain Black Big Band – Posi-Tone Orrin Evans – Freedom – Posi-Tone Exploding Star Orchestra – Stars Have Shapes – Delmark Farmers By Nature – Out of This World’s Distortions – AUM Fidelity Bill Frisell – Sign of Life—Music For 858 Quartet – Savoy Jazz Jeff Gauthier Goatette – Open Source -- Cryptogramophone Tim Hagans – The Moon Is Waiting – Palmetto Noah Haidu – Slipstream – Posi-Tone Matt Haimovitz & Uccello – Meeting of The Spirits – Oxingale Sir Roland Hanna – Colors From A Giant’s Kit - IPO Stefon Harris, David Sanchez & Christian Scott – Ninety Miles – Concord Donald Harrison, Ron Carter & Billy Cobham – This Is Jazz – Blue Note Fred Hersch – Alone At The Vanguard – Palmetto Lisa Hilton – Underground – (self) Art Hirahara – Noble Path – Posi-Tone Freddie Hubbard – Pinnacle—Live & Unreleased From Keystone Korner – Resonance Robert Hurst – Unrehurst, Volume 2 – Bebob Hybrid 10tet – On The Move – Stemra Vijay Iyer, Prasanna & Nitin Mitta – Tirtha – ACT Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey – Race Riot Suite – Royal Potato Family James Farm – James Farm – Warner Brothers Christine Jensen Jazz Orchestra – Treelines – Justin Time Darren Johnston’s Gone To Chicago – The Big Lift – Porto Franco Sean Jones – No Need For Words – Mack Avenue Laura Kahle – Circular – Dark Key Dave King Trucking Company – Good Old Light – Sunnyside Julian Lage – Gladwell – EmArcy Curtis Macdonald – Community Immunity – Greenleaf Thomas Marriott – Constraints & Liberations – Origin Thomas Marriott – Human Spirit – Origin Branford Marsalis & Joey Calderazzo – Songs of Mirth and Melancholy – Marsalis Music The Microscopic Septet – Friday The 13th—The Micros Play Monk – Cuneiform Nicole Mitchell – Awakening – Delmark Alphonse Mouzon – Angel Face – Tenacious New Tricks – Alternate Side – New Tricks Rich Pellegrin Quintet – Three-Part Odyssey – OA2 Jeremy Pelt – The Talented Mr. Pelt – Highnote Austin Peralta – Endless Planets – Brainfeeder Tineke Postma – The Dawn of Light – Challenge Q.E.D. – Yet What If Any Ocean... – Origin Enrico Rava Quintet – Tribe – ECM R/E/D/S – Sign of Four – Origin Phil Ranelin – Perseverance – Wide Hive Reptet – At The Cabin – Artists Recording Collective Jason Robinson – The Two Faces of Janus – Cuneiform Daniel Rosenboom Septet – Fallen Angeles – Nine Winds Scanner With The Post-Modern Jazz Quartet – Blink of An Eye – Thirsty Ear Scenes – Silent Photographer – Origin John Scofield – A Moment’s Peace – EmArcy Brian Settles & Central Union – Secret Handshake – Engine Brad Shepik Quartet – Across The Way – Songlines Matthew Shipp – Art of the Improviser – Thirsty Ear Jen Shyu & Mark Dresser – Synasty – Pi Liam Sillery – Priorite – OA2 Slumgum – Quardboard Flavored Fiber – Accretion Wadada Leo Smith – Heart’s Reflections – Cuneiform Starlicker – Double Demon – Delmark John Stowell & Michael Zilber Quartet – Shot Through With Beauty – Origin Craig Taborn – Avenging Angel – ECM Tarbaby – The End of Fear – Posi-Tone Henry Threadgill Zooid – That Brings Us To, Volume 2 – Pi Triptet – Imaginary Perspective - Engine Undivided – The Passion – Multikulti Project David S. Ware – Onecept – AUM Fidelity Jeff “Tain” Watts – Family – Dark Key Music Billy White – First Things First – Porto Franco Jessica Williams Trio – Freedom Trane – Origin Mary Lou Williams – Mary Lou Williams At Rick’s Cafe Americain – Storyville Sam Yahel – From Sun To Sun – Origin The Young Lizards– Our Modern Lifestyle – Pony Boy

This week on "Straight, No Chaser" we paid tribute to the excellent drummer, composer and bandleader Paul Motian, who died last week. His drums were heard on all of these recordings: Warne Marsh -- "Just Squeeze Me" -- The Complete Atlantic Recordings of Lennie Tristano, Lee Konitz and Warne Marsh -- Mosaic Joe Lovano -- "Countdown" -- I'm All For You -- Blue Note Keith Jarrett -- "Byablue" -- Byablue -- Impulse Bill Evans Trio -- "Solar" -- Sunday At The Village Vanguard -- Riverside Bill Evans -- "I'll See You Again" -- Trio (Motian, Peacock), Duo (Hall) -- Verve Enrico Pieranunzi & Paul Motian -- "Double Excursion 1" -- Doorways -- Cam Jazz Paul Bley -- "Once Around The Park" -- Fragments -- ECM Paul Motian -- "One In Three" -- I Have The Room Above Her -- ECM Gordon Grdina, Gary Peacock & Paul Motian -- "Platform" -- Think Like The Waves -- Songlines Charlie Haden, with Geri Allen & Paul Motian -- "Fiasco" -- The Montreal Tapes -- Verve Paul Motian & The Electric Bebop Band -- "Wail" -- Paul Motian & The Electric Bebop Band Play Monk and Powell -- Winter & Winter Paul Motian Trio -- "Good Idea" -- One Time Out -- Soul Note Paul Motian Band -- "Boomerang" -- Psalm -- ECM Paul Motian -- "Five" -- Bill Evans--Tribute to the Great Post-Bop Pianist -- JMT Paul Motian -- "Off Minor" -- Monk in Motian -- JMT Paul Motian -- "Inspiration From A Vietnamese Lullaby" -- Conception Vessel -- ECM Paul Motian -- "War Orphans" -- Tribute -- ECM Circle The Line -- "Would-Be Blues" -- Circle The Line -- GM To access the streaming version of this week's program, point your computer to: http://kbcsweb.bellevuecollege.edu/playlist/archive/?ShowID=22304

On November 21, we listened to these selections on "Straight, No Chaser": Tineke Postma -- "Beyond Category" -- The Dawn of Light -- Challenge (N) Ryan Burns -- "P.I.P." -- Birds -- (self) Wellstone Conspiracy -- "Will It Never End?" -- Humble Origins -- Origin (N) David Liebman & Ellery Eskelin -- "Tie Those Laces" -- Different But The Same -- Hat Hut Rhythm & Brass -- "Money Jungle" -- More Money Jungle...Ellington Explorations -- Koch Jazz Christian Fabian--Fabian Zone Trio -- "Kasiana" -- West Coast Session -- Consolidated Artists (N) Dead Cat Bounce -- "Far From The Matty Crowd" -- Chance Episodes -- Cuneiform (N) Darren Johnston's Gone To Chicago -- "Glass Ceiling, Paper Floor" -- The Big Lift -- Porto Franco (N) Eric Harland -- "Cyclic Episode" -- Voyager--Live By Night -- SpaceTime Hybrid 10tet (Michiel Braam) -- "El Frecuentamente" -- On The Move -- Stemra (N) Dave King Trucking Company -- "Night Tram" -- Good Old Light -- Sunnyside (N) Enrico Rava Quintet -- "Choctaw" -- Tribe -- ECM (N) Jeff Gauthier Goatette -- "Joy of A Toy" -- Open Source -- Cryptogramophone (N) Amir ElSaffar & Two Rivers Ensemble -- "Infinite Variety" -- Inana -- Pi (N) Jimmy Giuffre 3 -- "Sonic" -- Thesis -- Verve / ECM Sir Roland Hanna -- "Moment's Notice" -- Colors From A Giant's Kit -- IPO (N) Ted Rosenthal Trio -- "Cry Me A River" -- Out of This World -- Playscape (N) Jamie Saft -- "Darkest Arts" -- Borscht Belt Studies -- Tzadik (N) To hear the show: http://kbcsweb.bellevuecollege.edu/playlist/archive/?ShowID=22215

IMHO the only thing more irritating than Keith Jarrett's groanings is his whining.

This Monday night, November 14, on "Straight, No Chaser," we heard: Anthony Branker & Word Play -- "Iggery-Poncheek" -- Dialogic -- Origin (N) Nicole Mitchell -- "There" -- Awakening -- Delmark (N) Gerald Cleaver -- "Charles Street Question" -- Be It As I See It -- Fresh Sound Matt Jorgensen -- "The Armory" -- Tattooed By Passion -- Origin Cuong Vu 4-tet -- "I Shall Never Come Back" -- Leaps of Faith -- Origin We Three -- "Cycling" -- Three For All -- Challenge The Microscopic Septet -- "Off Minor" -- Friday The Thirteenth--The Micros Play Monk -- Cuneiform Jason Robinson -- "Return To Pacasmayo" -- The Two Faces of Janus -- Cuneiform Nils Wogram & Simon Nabatov -- "Speak Up!" -- Moods and Modes -- (self) Starlicker -- "Andromeda" -- Double Demon -- Delmark (N) Brian Settles & Central Union -- "Secret Handshake" -- Secret Handshake -- Engine (N) David Weiss & Point of Departure -- "Black Comedy" -- Snuck In -- Sunnyside Tim Hagans -- "Wailing Trees" -- The Moon Is Waiting -- Palmetto (N) Old Dog -- "Endless Return" -- By Any Other Name -- Porter Daniel Levin Quartet -- "It's For You" -- Some Trees -- Hat Hut As always, this show will be available on demand for two weeks in the KBCS audio archive. To listen: http://kbcsweb.bellevuecollege.edu/playlist/archive/?ShowID=22090 This is getting to be the season for year-end lists. KBCS is gathering "Best CDs of 2011" lists from all the music programmers and will publish them in early December. I'm also putting together a longer list of CDs that have come out in the last year or so, which I will post here in case anyone is interested.

This is the music we heard on "Straight, No Chaser" on the seventh of November: Steve Turre -- "Thandiwa" -- Keep Searchin' -- High Note James Carter Organ Trio -- "The Hard Blues" -- At The Crossroads -- EmArcy (N) Joan Stiles -- "West End Boogie" -- Three Musicians -- Do-Bla-Dee (N) Sir Roland Hanna -- "A Story, Often Told But Seldom Heard" -- Colors From A Giant's Kit -- IPO Brad Shepik Quartet -- "Marburg" -- Across The Way -- Songlines John Stowell / Michael Zilber Quartet -- "Quantum Theory" -- Shot Through With Beauty -- Origin Miles Davis Quintet -- "Agitation" -- Live In Europe 1967--The Bootleg Series Vol. 1 -- Columbia (N) Austin Peralta -- "The Underwater Mountain Odyssey" -- Endless Planets -- Brainfeeder Ben Goldberg -- "Root And Branch" -- Go Home -- BAG Production Hans Teuber -- "Sir John" -- Looky -- Jackson Street The Fonda / Stevens Group -- "From The Source" -- Evolution -- Leo Pilc Moutin Hoenig -- "Afro Blue" -- Threedom -- Motema (N) Harrison Bankhead Sextet -- "22nd Street Hustle (In Memory of Fred Anderson)" -- Morning Sun / Harvest Moon -- Engine (N) Phillip Johnston -- "The Dancer" -- Page of Madness -- Asynchronous MKMB (Christophe Monniot, Joachim Kuhn, Sebastien Boisseau, Christophe Marguet) -- "Ballet" -- Emotions Homogenes -- BMC Jacques Chanier Trio -- "March Mellow" -- Quilt -- Accurate Aaron Goldberg & Guillermo Klein -- "Moose The Mooche" -- Bienestan -- Sunnyside (N) To listen to this show in a streaming format (until November 21), point your computer to: http://kbcsweb.bellevuecollege.edu/playlist/archive/?ShowID=21963

For Halloween on my radio show, I played around with some seemingly appropriate song titles and creepy sounding tunes. The playlist is posted in the "Straight, No Chaser Playlists" thread: And you can listen to it here: http://kbcsweb.belle...e/?ShowID=21860

Here is the music we heard on "Straight, No Chaser" on October 31: Rahsaan Roland Kirk -- "The Haunted Melody" -- Complete Mercury Recordings -- Mercury Bill Evans Trio -- "Haunted Heart" -- Explorations -- Riverside Nina Simone -- "I Put A Spell On You" -- Four Women--The Nina Simone Philips Recordings -- Verve Artie Shaw & His Orchestra -- "Nightmare" -- Hollywood Swing & Jazz -- Rhino Don Redman & His Orchestra -- "Got The Jitters" -- Halloween Stomp -- Jass Raymond Scott -- "New Year's Eve In A Haunted House" -- The Music of Raymond Scott--Reckless Nights And Turkish Twilights -- Columbia Ozzie Nelson & His Orchestra -- "The Black Cat" -- Halloween Stomp -- Jass Duke Ellington -- "Jumpin' Punkins" -- The Blanton-Webster Band -- Bluebird Cab Calloway & His Orchestra -- "The Ghost of Smokey Joe" -- Halloween Stomp -- Jass Uri Caine Ensemble -- "Luther's Nightmare Variation" -- The Goldberg Variations -- Winter & Winter Le Sun Ra & His Arkistra -- "Medicine For A Nightmare" -- The Singles -- Evidence Count Basie & His Orchestra -- "Sweets" -- The Count Basie Story -- Proper Joanne Brackeen -- "Ghost Butter" -- Pink Elephant Magic -- Arkadia Jazz Ingrid Jensen -- "Skookum Spook" -- Vernal Fields -- Enja Charles Mingus -- "West Coast Ghost" -- Jazz Workshop 1957-1958 -- Fresh Sound New American Wing -- "Fleeing Ghost" -- New American Wing -- (self) Lester Bowie -- "Oh, How The Ghost Sings" -- The Great Pretender -- ECM Michele Rosewoman Trio -- "Weird Nightmare" -- Occasion To Rise -- Evidence Bill Carrothers -- "Creep Show" -- Shine Ball -- Fresh Sound Jack Walrath -- "Fright Night" -- Neohippus -- Blue Note Fieldwork -- "Ghost Time" -- Door -- Pi Dom Minasi -- "The Vampire's Revenge" -- The Vampire's Revenge -- CDM Albert Ayler -- "Ghosts" -- Holy Ghost -- Revenant Here's the link to listen to this show in the KBCS streaming audio archive: http://kbcsweb.bellevuecollege.edu/playlist/archive/?ShowID=21860

We heard the following music on "Straight, No Chaser" on October 24: Johnny Griffin -- "Funky Fluke" -- From Johnny Griffin With Love -- Storyville Mary Lou Williams -- "Oh! Lady Be Good" -- Mary Lou Williams At Rick's Cafe Americaine -- Storyville Organik Vibe Trio -- "Knots" -- Moscow -- (self) (N) McTuff -- "Peanut" -- McTuff Volume 1 -- (self) Roy Haynes -- "Equipoise" -- Roy-Alty -- Dreyfus Jazz (N) Jenny Scheinman Quartet -- "25 at 2525" -- Live at Yoshi's -- Tzadik Rudresh Mahanthappa -- "Still-Gas" -- Samdhi -- ACT (N) Nicole Mitchell -- "Center of the Earth" -- Awakening -- Delmark (N) Tyshawn Sorey -- "Seventeen" -- Oblique-1 -- Pi (N) Stephane Furic -- "New Alliance" -- Kishinev -- Soul Note Charles Lloyd -- "Dream Weaver" -- [Charles Lloyd & Maria Farantouri] Athens Concert -- ECM (N) Matthew Shipp -- "3 in 1" -- Harmony and Abyss -- Thirsty Ear Cecil Taylor Unit -- "Calling It The 8th" -- The Eighth -- Hat Hut Honey Ear Trio -- "Beautiful Nightmare" -- Steampunk Serenade -- Foxhaven To listen to this program in the KBCS audio archive, click here: http://kbcsweb.bellevuecollege.edu/playlist/archive/?ShowID=21752

I'm glad to hear there is another Frank Hewitt recording. The first two were very good!

This week on "Straight, No Chaser," we listened to more of the artists appearing in the 2011 Earshot Jazz Festival. Dates and times of their performances are shown after each selection. Bill Charlap Trio -- "Jump" -- Somewhere--The Songs of Leonard Bernstein -- Blue Note -- Bill Charlap & Renee Rosnes, Oct. 29, 7:30 p.m., Edmonds Center For the Arts Bill Anschell -- "If It Isn't One Thing" -- When Cooler Heads Prevail -- Summit -- Bill Anschell Trio, Nov. 6, 7:30 p.m., Tula's Julian Waterfall Pollack -- "Blue's Knot" -- Infinite Playground -- (self) -- Julian Waterfall Pollack Trio, Oct. 26, 8:00 p.m., PONCHO Concert Hall, Cornish College Jay Thomas Quartet -- "Without A Song" -- Live At Tula's, Volume 2 -- Merrimack -- Jay Thomas / Shunzo Ohno Group, Oct. 22 & 23, 8:00 p.m., Tula's Cory Weeds Quartet -- "It's Only A Paper Moon" -- Big Weeds -- Cellar Live -- Cory Weeds Group, Oct. 25 & 26, 7:30 p.m., Tula's Chad McCullough -- "Anatomy of Conscience" -- Dark Wood, Dark Water -- Origin -- Chad McCullough / Bram Weijters Group, Nov. 4 & 5, 8:00 p.m., Tula's Brad Mehldau Trio -- "Backyard" -- House On Hill -- Nonesuch -- Brad Mehldau solo, Oct. 21, 8:00 p.m., Benaroya Hall Nelda Swiggett -- "Mere Madness" -- This Time -- OA2 -- Nelda Swiggett's Stringtet, Oct. 24, 7:30 p.m., Chapel Performance Space The Bad Plus -- "Street Woman" -- Give -- Columbia -- The Bad Plus, Oct. 29, 8:00 p.m., Town Hall Seattle Robin Holcomb -- "Done For" -- (Wayne Horvitz & Robin Holcomb) Solos -- Songlines -- Robin Holcomb & Talking Pictures, Nov. 4, 7:30 p.m., Seattle Asian Art Museum Myra Melford -- "Bound Unbound" -- The Same River, Twice -- Gramavision -- Allison Miller's Boom Tic Boom, with Myra Melford, Oct. 27, 8:00 p.m., PONCHO Concert Hall, Cornish College Michael Vlatkovich -- "All Flat Deebee Geegee Too" -- Queen Dynamo -- Origin -- Rich Halley Trio + 1 (Michael Vlatkovich), Oct. 18, 8:00 p.m., Chapel Performance Space Jacam Manrichs -- "Sketch" -- Trigonometry -- Positone Anouar Brahem -- "Houdouth" -- Thimar -- ECM Wolfer Brederode Quartet -- "Meander" -- Post Scriptum -- ECM Aaron Goldberg & Guillermo Klein -- "Human Feel" -- Bienestan -- Sunnyside (N) Tineke Postma -- "The Man Who Stared At Coats" -- The Dawn of Light -- Challenge (N) Curtis Macdonald -- "The Living Well" -- Community Immunity -- Greenleaf (N) Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey -- "Eye of The Dove" -- Race Riot Suite -- Royal Potato Family (N) FJF -- "Blow Horn For Service" -- Blow Horn -- Okkadisk For information and tickets to the Earshot Jazz Festival, visit www.earshot.org or call (206) 547-6763. To listen to this program at your convenience, go to the KBCS streaming audio archive: http://kbcsweb.bellevuecollege.edu/playlist/archive/?ShowID=21653

Thanks so much to the listeners who called or logged in to the website to donate to KBCS during "Straight, No Chaser" on October 10. (The fund drive continues, so you can still join them by calling (425) 564-5000 or visiting www.kbcs.fm.) This week we opened by celebrating Monk's birthday and then listened to artists who are appearing in the 2011 Earshot Jazz Festival. Dates and venues appear after each selection. Thelonious Monk -- "Straight, No Chaser" -- The Complete Riverside Recordings -- Riverside Matt Slocum Trio -- "Pete's Place" -- After The Storm -- (self) -- Oct. 18 & 19, 7:30 p.m., Tula's Hardcoretet -- "Goodbye Wesley" -- Experiments in Vibe -- (self) -- Oct. 27, 7:30 p.m., Tula's Allison Miller -- "Intermission" -- Boom Tic Boom -- Foxhaven -- Allison Miller's Boom Tic Boom, Oct. 27, 8:00 p.m., PONCHO Concert Hall, Cornish College Rich Halley Quartet -- "Rat Trap Blues" -- The Blue Rims -- Louie -- Rich Halley Trio + 1 (Michael Vlatkovich), Oct. 18, 8:00 p.m., Chapel Performance Space Jim Knapp Orchestra -- "Donna Lee" -- On Going Home -- Sea Breeze -- Tribute to Jim Knapp, Nov. 2, 7:30 p.m., Triple Door Thomas Marriott -- "Side Walk" -- Human Spirit -- Origin -- (Thomas Marriott &) Human Spirit, Oct. 14 & 15, 8:00 p.m., Tula's Criag Taborn -- "Neverland" -- Avenging Angel -- ECM -- Craig Taborn & Gust Burns, Oct. 15, 8:00 p.m., Brechemin Auditorium, U.W. Jerry Granelli -- "From Far Away" -- Broken Circle -- Songlines -- Jerry Granelli Trio, Oct. 29, 8:00 p.m., PONCHO Concert Hall, Cornish College Robin Holcomb & Talking Pictures -- "Couch Alternate" -- The Point of It All -- Songlines -- Nov. 4, 7:30 p.m., Seattle Asian Art Museum Travis Shook -- "Broadway" -- Travis Shook -- Columbia -- Travis Shook Trio, Oct. 28 & 29, 8:00 p.m., Tula's Javon Jackson -- "Dr. Smith" -- Have You Heard -- Palmetto -- We 4 (with Javon Jackson) Celebrating Coltrane, Oct. 22, 8:00 p.m., Town Hall Seattle Grace Kelly -- "Filosophical Flying Fish" -- Every Road I Walked -- Pazz -- Grace Kelly Quintet, Nov. 2 & 3, 7:30 p.m., Tula's Eric Vloeimans -- "Magician" -- Bitches And Fairy Tales -- Radio Netherlands -- Eric Vloeimans' Gatecrash, Oct. 16, 8:00 p.m., Seattle Art Museum Human Feel (with Chris Speed & Jim Black) -- "In St. Louis" -- Human Feel -- Human Use -- Endangered Blood (with Chris Speed & Jim Black), Oct. 14, 9:00 p.m., Town Hall Seattle (downstairs) For information or tickets to the Earshot Jazz Festival, visit www.earshot.org or call (206) 547-6763.

In Seattle, Everyday Music has a good selection of used CD's. Bop Street Records is also good, especially for vinyl. (Full disclosure: the owner of Bop Street is a friend of mine.) When in New York, I like to stop by More Music in the East Village. In Chicago, the Jazz Record Mart. It may not be what it once was, but it's still unique and fascinating.

It's delightful to see those call letters here. WHPK is where I first became involved in radio, as a student at the University of Chicago many years ago.

Here is the October 3 playlist for "Straight, No Chaser" on KBCS and www.kbcs.fm: Lee Konitz -- "I Love You" -- Insight -- Jazzwerkstatt Chick Corea & Stefano Bollani -- "Retrato Em Branco E Preto" -- Orvieto -- ECM (N) Jessica Williams -- "Song For A Baby" -- Songs For A New Century -- Origin Booker Ervin -- "Just Friends" -- The Song Book -- Prestige Sonny Rollins -- "Rain Check" -- Road Shows, Vol. 2 -- Doxy / EmArcy (N) Gene Ess -- "Sun Matsuri" -- Sandbox And Sanctum -- SIMP Brian Settles & Central Union -- "Soulnimsky" -- Secret Handshake -- Engine (N) Lisle Ellis -- "Reach" -- Elevations -- Victo Marty Ehrlich & Ben Goldberg -- "Hopeless" -- Light At The Crossroads -- Songlines Moscow Composers Orchestra -- "Friendly Devil" -- Kings And Cabbages -- Leo Atomic -- "Den Flyktiga Magneten" -- Happy Feet -- Universal World Saxophone Quartet -- "The River Niger" -- Yes We Can -- Jazzwerkstatt Ellery Eskelin -- "More Than That" -- Ten -- Hat Hut Scenes -- "Resolution" -- Silent Photographer -- Origin The Young Lizards -- "Mr. Day" -- Our Modern Lifestyle -- Pony Boy Medeski Martin & Wood -- "Abay" -- Zaebos--Book of Angels, Vol. 11 (Music by John Zorn) -- Tzadik John Carter--Bobby Bradford Quartet -- "Song For The Unsung" -- Seeking -- Hat Hut To hear this program at your convenience, head for the KBCS streaming audio archive: http://kbcsweb.bellevuecollege.edu/playlist/archive/?ShowID=21428 It's time for our fall fund drive at KBCS. Please tune in next Monday evening and make a donation to your community radio station, either by phone at (425) 564-5000, or online at www.kbcs.fm.

This is the music we heard on "Straight, No Chaser" on September 26: Dave Peck -- "They Say It's Wonderful" -- Modern Romance -- Let's Play Stella Donald Harrison, Ron Carter & Billy Cobham -- "Cut And Paste" -- This Is Jazz -- Half Note (N) Dave Samuels--Caribbean Jazz Project -- "The Gathering" -- Here And Now--Live In Concert -- Concord Picante Francisco Mela & Cuban Safari -- "Toma del Poder" -- Tree of Life -- Half Note (N) Todd Bishop's Pop Art 4 -- "Le Talkie-Walkie" -- 69 Annee Erotique--Todd Bishop's Pop Art 4 Playls The Music of Serge Gainsbourg -- Origin We Three (Dave Liebman, Steve Swallow & Adam Nussbaum) -- "BTU" -- Three For All -- Challenge Nicole Mitchell -- "There" -- Awakening -- Delmark (N) Harrison Bankhead Sextet -- "Over Under Inside Out" -- Morning Sun / Harvest Moon -- Engine (N) Franz Koglmann -- "Baite" -- L'Heure Bleue -- Hat Hut Previte Sharp Horvitz Zorn -- "500 West 52nd" -- Downtown Lullaby -- Depth of Field Rudresh Mahantahappa's Indo-Pak Coalition -- "Apti" -- Apti -- Innova Dave Douglas' Tiny Bell Trio -- "The Gig" -- Constellation -- Hat Hut Milford Graves -- "Transcription" -- Grand Unification -- Tzadik Triptet -- "Parallel In Name Only" -- Imaginary Perspective -- Engine (N) Jeff Johnson -- "Quickening" -- Near Earth -- Origin Jen Shyu & Mark Dresser -- "Mauger Time" -- Synasty -- Pi (N) Matt Wilson -- "Hey There" -- Going Once, Going Twice -- Palmetto John Scofield -- "Already September" -- A Moment's Peace -- EmArcy (N) For the next two weeks, you can listen to this program in the KBCS streming audio archive, here: http://kbcsweb.bellevuecollege.edu/playlist/archive/?ShowID=21327

Here is the playlist for this week's "Straight, No Chaser" on KBCS: Nat King Cole -- "Lush Life" -- The Forgotten 1949 Carnegie Hall Concert -- Hep Elmo Hope Trio -- "I Don't Stand (A Ghost of A Chance With You)" -- Meditations -- Prestige Matthew Gee All Stars -- "Joram" -- Jazz By Gee! -- Riverside Dave Pike -- "Tendin' To Business" -- It's Time For Dave Pike -- Riverside Russell Malone -- "Do I Love You" -- Triple Play -- MaxJazz Gato Barbieri -- "Encuentros" -- Chapter One: Latin America -- Impulse! Donal Fox & David Murray -- "Hope Scope (live)" -- Ugly Beauty -- Evidence Ken Vandermark & Kent Kessler -- "Spiral" -- Collected Fiction -- Okkadisk Anthony Braxton & John McDonough -- "Schizoid" -- 6 Duos (Wesleyan) 2006 -- Nessa Thomas Chapin & Borah Bergman -- "Politics" -- Inversions -- Muworks Richard Grossman Trio -- "This End of America" -- Where The Sky Ended -- Hat Hut Cold Bleak Heat -- "Never Give 'Em What They Want" -- It's Magnificent, But It Isn't War -- Family Vineyard Rob Mazurek -- "Cloth And Bells Cut" -- Silver Spines -- Delmark John Abercrombie -- "Dear Rain" -- While We're Young -- ECM (only a portion due to equipment problem) Slow Poke -- "Afro Blake" -- At Home -- Baby Tank The Bird Architects -- "Burt Glares At Morty" -- Gone -- Slam Lisa Miller Octet -- "Truck" -- Green Ideas -- (self) India Cooke -- "Logan's Reel" -- Red Handed -- Music & Arts Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke & Lenny White -- "Space Circus" -- Forever -- Concord (Corea, Clarke & White are appearing as Return to Forever at The Paramount in Seattle, September 24.) To listen to this program on your computer, go to the KBCS streaming audio archive: http://kbcsweb.bellevuecollege.edu/playlist/archive/?ShowID=21214

In Chicago in 1968-1969, before the group went to Europe, I believe some gigs were simply advertised as "Joseph Jarman and Roscoe Mitchell."

This is the music we heard on "Straight, No Chaser" on September 12: Deep Blue Organ Trio -- "Jesus Children of America" -- Wonderful! -- Origin (N) Sean Smith Quartet -- "Betting Blind" -- Trust -- Smithereen Chuck Deardorf -- "Creatinine" -- Transparence -- Origin Greg Osby -- "Summertime" -- Public -- Blue Note Ingrid Jensen -- "Shiva's Dance" -- Here On Earth -- Enja Dave Fox Group -- "Berserker" -- Gatewalk -- Assembled Sound Graham Haynes -- "Standing Before Time" -- Full Circle -- RKM Marty Fogel -- "Unlikely Beast Slayer" -- Many Bobbing Heads, At Last... -- CMP Tobias Delius 4tet -- "Niggl" -- Pelikanismus -- BVHaast Sticks And Stones -- "So Very Cold" -- Shed Grace -- Thrill Jockey Dominic Duval, John Heward & Joe McPhee -- "Undersound 9" -- Undersound -- Leo Marcus Wood & Julian Priester -- "Dialectic" -- Formations -- MSW Music Denis Colin Trio -- "Amen" -- Something In Common -- Sunnyside Bloodcount -- "Loose Ends" -- Unwound -- Screwgun Phil Ranelin -- "One For Johnson" -- Perseverance -- Wide Hive Mary Halvorson Quintet -- "Saturn Sings (No. 18)" -- Saturn Sings -- Firehouse 12 John Hollinbeck Large Ensemble -- "Foreign One" -- Eternal Interlude -- Sunnyside Bill Frisell -- "Please, Please Me" -- All We Are Saying... -- Savoy Jazz (N) (Due to a software problem, this program may not be available in the KBCS streaming audio archive.)

David, you posted the Facebook message in post #177. Bill requested a friend post on his Facebook account that he had fallen back into a child pornography addiction and subsequently been arrested for trafficking it. Don't you read that as Bill admitting guilt? Surely if it were not, he would have asked his friend not to post that, but an indignant refutation. No? No, Bill hasn't admitted guilt in a legal sense. He has admitted that he has a serious problem with child pornography and that is why he is in trouble. Yes, that's disgusting. But he hasn't admitted that he committed any crimes -- let alone the child rapes that some board members are convinced he must have committed. I won't be surprised if he does plead guilty, but it hasn't happened yet. I'm more focused on the legal case, perhaps because I'm a lawyer. (However, I've never practiced criminal law and don't have any expertise in this area.) But I realize that's not all that matters. It's fair for you to decide, based on what he actually has admitted, that you don't ever want to have anything to do with him again.

Indeed, congratulations, Chuck! Grandparenthood must be wonderful. And Thedwork, if the thread bothers you, I suggest that you not read it. There's no reason why others should censor themselves because of your sensitivity to the topic.

I did not issue an "apology" for Bill. I just pointed out that addicts are sick people and that we don't know what Bill actually did. That doesn't mean I'm defending him. These allegations trouble me as much as they do anyone. But they are still just allegations. Earlier in the thread, we talked about how a defendant is innocent until proven guilty. Obviously a lot of people don't believe in that principle, but it's a cornerstone of our legal system.

I believe Bill is scheduled to enter a plea in his case sometime next week. It is just one step in the process. If he pleads not guilty, that does not mean he will not enter a guilty plea later. Bill admits he is addicted to child pornography. For some posters, that's the end of the story: he's a beast. As has been pointed out, it is easier for many people to find sympathy for someone addicted to heroin. But addictions are illnesses, and an addiction to porn can consume a person just like a drug habit. I will try not to "judge" Bill because we don't know the case against him yet. We haven't heard his story. We don't know what he actually did or even what he is alleged to have done, except we know the prosecutors accuse him of uploading certain files. Based on the general publicity about the website, some people seem to assume that Bill was also involved in producing pornography - but I'm not aware of any such allegations. Possessing, viewing and trading child pornography are unsavory obsessions, but they are in an entirely different realm than producing it.