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On March 14, we passed the rainy evening listening to these works on "Straight, No Chaser":

Mary Lou Williams Collective -- "Virgo" -- Zodiac Suite: Revisited -- Blue Horn

Roberta Piket -- "Idy's Song And Dance (Dance)" -- Sides, Colors -- Thirteenth Note (N)

Eric Dolphy -- "Thirteen" -- The Quest -- Prestige

Jeanne Lee & Mal Waldron -- "Fire Waltz" -- After Hours -- Owl

Adam Lane's Full Throttle Orchestra -- "Sienna's Slip Jig" -- Ashcan Rantings -- Clean Feed

David S. Ware -- "Wheel of Life" -- Onecept -- AUM Fidelity

Little Woman -- "(Untitled)" -- Throat -- AUM Fidelity

Chick Corea, David Holland and Barry Altschul -- "Games" -- A.R.C. -- ECM

Thomas Chapin & Borah Bergman -- "Kitchen Kut/Ups" -- Inversions -- Muworks

Matthew Shipp -- "Gamma Ray" -- Art of The Improviser -- Thirsty Ear (N)

Tyrone Brown String Sextet -- "Eh-Leigh" -- Song of The Sun -- Naxos Jazz

Joel Harrison String Choir -- "Drum Music" -- The Music of Paul Motian -- Sunnyside

Scott DuBois -- "Bend" -- Banshees -- Sunnyside

Benoit Delbecq Trio -- "Barragan" -- The Sixth Jump -- Songlines (N)

Marc Mommaas -- "African FBI" -- Global Motion -- Sunnyside

School Days -- "Octopus" -- In Our Times -- Okkadisk

Thomas Marriott -- "Diagram" -- Constraints & Liberations -- Origin

If you missed it, you can get it from the KBCS streaming audio archive, here:

http://kbcsweb.bellevuecollege.edu/playlist/archive/?ShowID=18165

[With the thousands of recordings in your collection, is there one you]

I try to listen to "My Favorite Things" on or about every New Year's Eve.

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On Monday, March 7, we listened to these tracks on "Straight, No Chaser":

Ginger Baker Trio -- "Straight No Chaser" -- Going Back Home -- Atlantic

Aldo Romano -- "Blues For Roy" -- Just Jazz -- Dreyfus Jazz

The Othertet -- "Look Below" -- The Othertet -- Engine

Art Pepper Quintet -- "Tears Inside" -- Smack Up -- Contemporary

Enrico Rava -- "Dr. Ra And Mr. Va" -- The Plot -- ECM

Dave Douglas' Tiny Bell Trio -- "The Gig" -- Constellations -- Hat Art

Aeroplane Trio -- "Lucky Loonie" -- Naranja Ha -- Drip Audio

Pheeroan Aklaff -- "Serious" -- Sonogram -- MU

Tom Varner -- "The Trilling Clouds" -- Heaven And Hell -- OmniTone

Paul Plimley -- "Evolution of Adjacent Moments" -- Everything In Stages -- Songlines

David Haney Quartet -- "Speedway" -- Caramel Topped Terrier -- Cadence Jazz

Steve Lacy -- "Hits" -- Moon -- BYG Actuel

Jeff Johnson -- "Paris" -- Tall Stranger -- Origin

Big Satan -- "Mr. Subliminal" -- souls.saved.hear -- Thirsy Ear

Tony Wilson 6tet -- "Squirk" -- Pearls Before Swine -- Drip Audio

Happy Apple -- "Dojo Fantastique" -- The Peace Between Our Companies -- Sunnyside

Old Dog -- "Living Large" -- By Any Other Name -- Porter

Expressway Sketches -- "Meteorotz" -- Expressway Sketches -- Jazzhaus Musik

Does it sound interesting? Check this program out any time in the next two weeks in the KBCS audio archive:

http://kbcsweb.bellevuecollege.edu/playlist/archive/?ShowID=18036

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Here is the music we heard on "Straight, No Chaser" on February 28:

Phil Kelly & The Northwest Prevailing Winds -- "Estos Frijoles Causa Me Falta Pasar A Los Vientos" -- Ballet of The Bouncing Beagles -- Origin

Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra & Jim McNeely -- "Nice Work If You Can Get It" -- Nice Work -- DaCapo

Christine Jensen Jazz Orchestra -- "Dark and Stormy Blues" -- Treelines -- Justin Time (N)

Jeremy Pelt -- "Paradise Lost" -- The Talented Mr. Pelt -- Highnote (N)

Cuong Vu 4-Tet -- "All The Things You Are" -- Leaps of Faith -- Origin (N)

Q.E.D. -- "Prize and Battlefield" -- Yet What If Any Ocean... -- Origin (N)

BANN -- "Isotope" -- As You Like -- Jazz Eyes (N)

Plunge -- "Big Bhang Theory" -- Tin Fish Tango -- Immersion (N)

Rich Pellegrin Quintet -- "Maze" -- Three-Part Odyssey -- OA2 (N)

Roscoe Mitchell And The Note Factory -- "Ex Flover Five" -- Far Side -- ECM

Peggy Lee Band -- "Offshoot 3" -- New Code -- Drip Audio

Frank Mobus -- "Ich Geh' Zur Polizei" -- Der Rote Bereich--Risky Business -- ACT

Calhoun -- "Nefertiti" -- Native Lands -- HalfNote

Nasheet Waits -- "King Hassan" -- Equality -- Fresh Sound New Talent

J. J. Johnson -- "Goodbye" -- The Trombone Master -- Columbia

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Here is the February 21 playlist for "Straight, No Chaser" on KBCS-FM:

Plas Johnson -- "Scrips 'n' Scraps" -- The Madison Avenue Strut -- Blue Moon

Milt Jackson & Wes Montgomery -- "Sam Sack" -- Bags Meets Wes -- Riverside

Matthias Lupri Quartet -- "Fast Corners" -- Shadow of The Vibe" -- Birdleg

Oscar Peterson, Stephane Grappelli, Joe Pass, Mickey Roker & Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen -- "Skol Blues" -- Skol -- Pablo

Branford Marsalis -- "Say Hey" -- Mo' Better Blues (Soundtrack) -- Columbia

Terence Blanchard -- "Ghost of Betsy" -- A Tale of God's Will (A Requiem For Katrina) -- Blue Note

Mark Taylor -- "Fleeting" -- Spectre -- Origin

Josh Berman -- "Let's Pretend" -- Old Idea -- Delmark

Yves Leveille -- "Trajectoire" -- Signal Commun -- Effendi

Jane Ira Bloom -- "Rookie" -- Wingwalker -- Outline (N)

Stephan Crump With Rosetta Trio -- "Overreach" -- Reclamation -- Sunnyside

Serge Pesce -- "Venon de Luenh" -- Jazzd'aia -- Bleu Regard

Marilyn Crispell & David Rothenberg -- "Grosbeak" -- One Dark Night I Left My Silent House -- ECM

Oliver Lake Quartet -- "Cloth" -- Live -- Passin' Thru

Other Dimensions In Music -- "#4" -- Other Dimensions In Music With Matthew Shipp -- AUM Fidelity

Quest -- "Pablo's Story" -- David Liebman & Richie Beirach--Mosaic Select -- Mosaic

Robert Piket -- "Ugly Beautiful" -- Sides, Colors -- Thirteenth Note (N)

* Reptet -- "Songitty Song" -- At The Cabin -- ARC (N)

* Reptet has a CD Release concert at The Tractor Tavern in Seattle, 9 p.m. on March 10.

Listen to this show in the KBCS audio archives:

http://kbcsweb.bellevuecollege.edu/playlist/archive/?ShowID=17797

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Thanks to all the listeners who have donated to KBCS in the first days of our winter fund drive. If you're not one of them, please consider stopping by www.kbcs.fm to lend your support to community radio.

Here is the music we heard on Valentine's Day on "Straight, No Chaser":

Gene Bertoncini -- "Once I Loved" -- Someone To Light Up My Life -- Chiaroscuro

Billie Holiday -- "I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm" -- The Best of Billie Holiday -- Verve

Lester Young Trio -- "Somebody Loves Me" -- Lester Young Trio -- Verve

Jessica Williams -- "When I Fall In Love" -- Some Ballads, Some Blues -- Jazz Focus

John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman -- "My One And Only Love" -- Johnny Hartman Collection 1947-1972

Grace Kelly & Phil Woods -- "The Way You Look Tonight" -- Man With The Hat -- Pazz (N)

Ahmad Jamal -- "Cheek To Cheek" -- Ahmad's Blues -- GRP

Jim Hall & Ron Carter -- "Prelude To A Kiss" -- Alone Together -- Milestone

Bill Evans -- "My Romance" -- The Best of Bill Evans -- Riverside

Richard Cole -- "Beautiful Love" -- Shade -- Origin

McCoy Tyner -- "Naima" -- Echoes of A Friend -- JVC

Archie Shepp -- "Prelude To A Kiss" -- Fire Music -- Impulse!

Hairy Music -- "Prozaic Relief" -- De Jongens Driest -- (self)

Lisa Miller Octet -- "Singing" -- Green Ideas -- (self)

This program will be available for two weeks in the KBCS audio archive:

http://kbcsweb.bellevuecollege.edu/playlist/archive/?ShowID=17684

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Next Monday night, February 14, Brett Watanabe will join me on "Straight, No Chaser" for the KBCS fund drive. Please join us between 9:00 and 11:00 p.m. Pacific time. Make a donation to community radio and let your voice be heard in support of jazz on KBCS. Call our pledge line at (425) 564-5000 or dial up www.kbcs.fm.

Here is the playlist for "Straight, No Chaser" on KBCS-FM for Monday, February 7:

Lee Morgan -- "Nakatini Suite" -- Leeway -- Blue Note

Thelonious Monk -- "Epistrophy" -- Monk 'Round The World -- Thelonious

Joe Lovano US Five -- "Donna Lee" -- Bird Songs -- Blue Note (N)

Noah Preminger -- "Toy Dance" -- Before The Rain -- Palmetto (N)

Steve Coleman And Five Elements -- "Seti I" -- Genesis And The Opening of The Way -- BMG

Dan O'Brien Group -- "Morning Part 2" -- Inside Out -- Pony Boy

Dana Reason Trio -- "Transition" -- Revealed -- Circumvention

Benoit Dolbecq & Francois Houle -- "Trois pour les Gil" -- Dice Thrown -- Songlines

Anthony Braxton & Gerry Hemingway -- "Old Dogs, Part 3" (excerpt) -- Old Dogs 2007 -- Avant

Myth Science -- "Kingdom of Not" -- Love In Outer Space -- Knitting Factory

Gerald Wilson And His Orchestra -- "Hollywood Freeway" -- Big Band Modern -- Jazz Factory

Les Miserables Brass Band -- "Manic Depression" -- Manic Traditions -- Northeastern

John Ellis & Double-Wide -- "Trash Bash" -- Dance Like There's No Tomorrow -- Hyena

Peter Scherr -- "Lucky 13" -- Son of August -- 1Hr Music

This program will be available in the KBCS streaming audio archive for the next two weeks:

http://kbcsweb.bellevuecollege.edu/playlist/archive/?ShowID=17560

The Seattle Improvised Music Festival is this week, February 9-12 at the Chapel Performance Space. For details see:

http://seattleimprovisedmusic.us/2011/01/20/2011-seattle-improvised-music-festival-set-list/

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Here is this week's playlist for "Straight, No Chaser":

Bill Anschell -- "Bent" -- More To The Ear Than Meets The Eye -- Origin

Thomas Marriott -- "Diagram" -- Constraints & Liberations -- Origin (N)

Tadd Dameron with John Coltrane -- "Super Jet" -- Mating Call -- Prestige

Alon Nechushtan -- "Spinning The Clouds" -- Words Beyond -- Buckyball (N)

Duke Ellington -- "It's Bad To Be Forgotten" -- Piano In The Foreground -- Columbia

Franz von Chossy -- "Northern Lights" -- Pendulum -- Etcetera

Han Bennink, Michiel Borstlap & Ernst Glerum -- "Masqualero" -- 3 -- VIA

Matt Haimovitz & Uccello -- "Haitian Fight Song" -- Meeting of The Spirits" -- Oxingale (N)

Jim Black -- "Nion" -- Alasnoaxis -- Winter & Winter

Weasel Walter, Mary Halvorson & Peter Evans -- "The Stench of Cyber-Durian" -- Electric Fruit -- Thirsty Ear

Nguyen Le -- "Straight, No Chaser" -- Three Trios -- ACT

* Wally Shoup & Dave Abramson -- "Double Tongued" -- Good Curse -- R&M

Julian Priester & Sam Rivers -- "Public Servant" -- Hints On Light And Shadow -- Postcards

Russel Baba -- "Sparkle Blue" -- Earth Prayer -- Ruba Music

** Vijay Iyer -- "Atlantean Tropes" -- Panoptic Modes -- Red Giant

Kurt Rosenwinkel -- "Cubism" -- The Enemies of Energy -- Verve

Les Nubians -- "Autour de Minuit" -- Jazz A Saint-Germain -- Higher Octave Jazz

HDV Trio -- "How Many Miles To Korea?" -- HDV Trio (self)

* The Wally Shoup Trio will be at Vito's in Seattle, Thursday, February 3 at 9 p.m.

** Vijay Iyer will be at The Jazz Alley in Seattle, Wednesday, February 9.

This program will be available to your ears in the KBCS Audio Archives for two weeks:

http://kbcsweb.bellevuecollege.edu/playlist/archive/?ShowID=

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This is what we heard on "Straight, No Chaser" on January 24:

Cancoes -- "Cancao do Sal" -- Cancoes -- (self)

Charlie Hunter Trio -- "Think of One" -- Copperopolis -- Ropeadope

Ricky Ford -- "Broadway" -- Ebony Rhapsody -- Candid

Bill Ware -- "It Don't Mean A Thing" -- Sir Duke -- Knitting Factory

Avishai Cohen -- "Amenu" -- Introducing Triveni -- Anzic

Edsel Gomez -- "The Minetta Triangle" -- Cubist Music -- Zoho

Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber -- "(untitled)" -- More Than Posthuman--Rise of The Mojosexual Cotillion -- (self)

Calhoun -- Afro Blue -- Native Lands -- Half Note

Rudresh Mahanthappa & Bunky Green -- "Eastern Echoes" -- Apex -- Pi

Robert Glasper -- "One For 'Grew" -- In My Element -- Blue Note

Chad McCullough & Michal Vanoucek -- "Tryskac, Part 1" -- The Sky Cries -- Origin

Mary LaRose And Ledhead -- "Hat And Beard" -- Walking Woman -- GM

Bruce Eisebeil, David Taylor, Michael Attias & Jay Rosen -- "Oklahoma Sprawl" -- Opium -- CIMP

* Nels Cline -- "Your A Dead Man" -- Dirty Baby -- Cryptogramophone

Adam Lane's Full Throttle Orchestra -- "Nine Man Morris" -- Ashcan Rantings -- Clean Feed

Ted Sirota's Rebel Souls -- "This Is A Takeover" -- Breeding Resistance -- Delmark

Natsuki Tamura & Satoko Fujii -- "How Many?" -- How Many? -- Leo

Vincent Courtois -- "Que reste-t-il de nos yorks?" -- Translucide -- Enja

* The Nels Cline Singers will perform in the "Is That Jazz?" Festival at the Good Shepherd Center in Seattle on Saturday, January 29.

This program will be available for the next two weeks in the KBCS Audio Archive:

http://kbcsweb.bellevuecollege.edu/playlist/archive/?ShowID=17302

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In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., the theme for this week's "Straight, No Chaser" was "Peace and Freedom." Here is the music we heard:

Illinois Jacquet -- "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free" -- The King! -- Prestige

Oscar Peterson Trio -- "Brotherhood of Man" -- Oscar Peterson Trio + 1 -- Mercury

Alan Broadbent -- "Peace" (H. Silver) -- Live At Maybeck Recital Hall, Volume 14 -- Concord

Jason Moran -- "Say Peace" -- Black Stars -- Blue Note

Fareed Haque + The Flat Earth Ensemble -- "Fur Peace" -- Flat Planet -- Owl

Larry Schneider -- "Peace" (O. Coleman) -- Ornettology -- SteepleChase

Charles Gayle -- "Thy Peace" -- Consecration -- Black Saint

Miles Davis -- "Peace" -- The Complete On The Corner Sessions -- Columbia

Christian McBride & Inside Straight -- "Pursuit of Peace" -- Kind of Brown -- Mack Avenue

Roy Campbell -- "Peace" (Z. Massey) -- New Kingdom -- Delmark

Oliver Jones -- "Hymn To Freedom" -- A Class Act -- Justin Time

Jeremy Pelt -- "466-64 (Freedom Fighters)" -- November -- MaxJazz

Rashied Ali, Peter Kowald & Assif Tsahar -- "Freedom Train" -- Deals, Ideas & Ideals -- Hopscotch

Charles Mingus / Mingus Big Band -- "It Was A Lonely Day In Selma, Alabama" & "Freedom" -- Blues & Politics -- Dreyfus Jazz

Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy -- "Journey Towards Freedom" -- The Fire This Time -- In + Out

The Philadelphia Experiment -- "Philadelphia Freedom" -- The Philadelphia Experiment -- Ropeadope

The Catholics -- "Good Morning, Freedom Fighter" -- Simple -- Terra Nova

Navigate to the KBCS audio archives to listen to this program, any time in the next two weeks:

http://kbcsweb.bellevuecollege.edu/playlist/archive/?ShowID=17174

The "Is That Jazz?" Festival will be at the Chapel Performance Space, January 21, 22, 28 and 29. Performers include The Nels Cline Singers, Dana Reason, the Sun Ra Tribute Band, Triptet, Operation ID, Amy Denio & Lucio Menegon, and the Empty Cage Quartet.

For details: http://www.isthatjazz.org/

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This is what we heard on "Straight, No Chaser" this week:

Al Cohn Quintet -- "Good Spirits" -- Al Cohn Quintet -- Coral

Marco Tindiglia Quartet -- "Non Stop To The Bus Stop" -- Happy Jazz -- Splasc(h)

George Cotsirilos Trio -- "Bittersweet" -- Past Present -- OA2

David Murray Power Quartet -- "Let's Cool One" -- Like A Kiss That Never Ends -- JustinTime

Gianluca Petrella -- "Invisible" -- Jazz Italiano Live 2007 -- Casa de Jazz

Uri Caine -- "Fire Song" -- The Othello Syndrome -- Winter & Winter

Tin Hat Trio -- "Holiday Joel" -- The Rodeo Eroded -- Ropeadope

School Days -- "Elephantasy" -- In Our Times -- Okkadisk

Scott Colley -- "5:30 am" -- Empire -- CamJazz

Andrew Hill -- "Illusion" -- Change -- Blue Note

David S. Ware Quartet -- "Tao Above Sky" -- Dao -- Homestead

John Scofield Trio -- "It Is Written" -- Live En Route -- Verve

Oz Noy -- "Blue Monk" -- Ha! -- Magnatude

New Haven Improvisers Collective -- "9-3-7-1-6" -- Interference -- NHIC

Nels Cline Singers -- "B86 (Inkblot Nebula)" -- Initiate -- Cryptogramophone

Clifford Jordan Big Band -- "Angelica" -- Play What You Feel -- Mapleshade

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Check out the streaming version of this program at:

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Here is the playlist for the January 3 edition of "Straight, No Chaser":

Guillermo Klein -- "De Solo Estar" -- Domador de Huellas -- Sunnyside

Geof Bradfield -- "Nairobi Transit" -- African Flowers -- Origin

Jeff "Siege" Siegel Quartet -- "Dance In The Question" -- Live In Europe -- Radio Bremen

Jason Moran -- "Study No. 6" -- TEN -- Blue Note

Michael Formanek -- "Inside The Box" -- The Rub And Spare Change -- ECM

Francois Houle 5 -- "Encounter" -- In The Vernacular--The Music of John Carter -- Songlines

Bertrand Denzler Cluster -- "Trash" -- Y? -- Leo

Steve Swallow -- "Item 5, D.I.T." -- Damaged In Transit -- WATT

New Acoustic Swing Duo (Willem Breuker & Han Bennink) -- "Felix Meretis and B.V." -- New Acoustic Swing Duo -- ICP

Odean Pope -- "Phrygian Love Theme" -- Odean's List -- In + Out

Joe Lovano -- "Villa Paradiso" -- Trio Fascination--Edition One -- Blue Note

Leo Smith -- "Spirituals: The Language of Love" -- Divine Love -- ECM

Change of Time -- "Transiting III" -- Change of Time -- OmniTone

Joe Morris -- "Over To Me" -- No Vertigo -- Leo

Cecil Taylor -- "3 Phasis, Part 5" -- 3 Phasis -- New World

Misha Mengelberg Quartet -- "Hypochristmutreefuzz" -- Four In One -- Songlines

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Here is the music we heard on "Straight, No Chaser" on Monday, December 27:

Wynton Marsalis Quintet & Richard Galliano -- "What A Little Moonlight Can Do" -- From Billie Holiday To Edith Piaf -- Wynton

Liam Sillery -- "Intentionality" -- Phenomenology -- OA2

Erica Lindsay & Sumi Tonooka -- "Serpent's Tale" -- Initiation -- ARC

Azar Lawrence -- "Adrees" -- Mystic Journey -- Furthermore

Bill McHenry -- "African Song" -- Roses -- Sunnyside

Ralph Towner & Paolo Fresu -- "Doubled Up" -- Chiaroscuro -- ECM

Matthew Shipp -- "Autumn Leaves" -- 4D -- Thirsty Ear

Paul Bley -- "Harlem" -- Open, To Love -- ECM

Uri Caine Trio -- "Nefertiti" -- Live At The Village Vanguard -- Winter & Winter

Old Dog -- "Zephyr Revisited" -- By Any Other Name -- Porter

Allison Miller -- "Be Melting Snow" -- Boom Tic Boom -- Foxhaven

Evan Parker -- "Three of A Kind" -- House Full of Floors -- Tzadik

Acting Trio -- Acting No. 13 -- Acting Trio -- BYG/Actuel

Steelwool Trio -- "Bowling Alley Roughs" -- International Front -- Okkadisk

Norbert Stein Pata, Horns & Drums -- "Scheuderhonig (Strained Honey)" -- Silent Sitting Bulls -- PATA Music

Oddbar Trio Plus Trombone -- "Psycho Cycle" -- Lost Art Cafe -- 9 Winds

Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Strings -- "Waterdance" -- Renegades -- Delmark

Late Monday night and early Tuesday morning (December 27 and 28), I sat in for John Pai on "Giant Steps." Here is the playlist for that show:

John Coltrane -- "My Favorite Things" -- My Favorite Things -- Atlantic

Franz Koglmann & Lee Konitz -- "Love Is In My Heart" -- We Thought About Duke -- Hat

Jason Adasiewicz's Rolldown -- "The Griots" -- Varmint -- Cuneiform

Jason Robinson -- "Cerberus Reigning" -- The Two Faces of Janus -- Cuneiform (N)

Bill Dixon -- "Innocenenza" -- Tapestries For Small Orchestra -- Fireshouse 12

Rudresh Mahanthappa's Indo-Pak Coalition -- "You Talk Too Much" -- Apti -- NOVA

Terrence McManus & Joe Battaglia -- "Desolation" -- Pastellic Reflections -- Flattened Planet

Mulatu Astatke -- "Dewel" -- Ethiopiques, Vol. 4: Ethio Jazz & Musique Instrumentale, 1969-1974 -- Buda Musique

Ted Sirota's Rebel Souls -- "Breeding Resistance (aka Paper Tiger Blues)" -- Breeding Resistance -- Delmark

Vijay Iyer -- "Human Nature" -- Solo -- ACT

Andrew Hill -- "I Rremember Clifford" -- Mosaic Select--Andrew Hill Solo -- Mosaic

Sun Ra -- "Discipline 9" -- Sun Ra Featuring Pharoah Sanders & Black Harold -- ESP-Disk

Luis Bonilla -- "Blind Faith" -- Twilight -- NJC (N)

Ahleuchatistas -- "K-Bit" -- Even In The Midst... -- Cuneiform

Pat Metheny Trio -- "Giant Steps" -- Live -- Warner Bros.

Log on to the audio archives at www.kbcs.fm to listen to these and other KBCS programs for two weeks after they are broadcast.

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Here is the music played on "Straight, No Chaser" on December 20:

Kenny Burrell -- "I Hadn't Anyone Till You" -- Kenny Burrell -- Concord Jazz

Charles Earland -- "Aquarius" -- Black Talk! -- Prestige

John Ellis & Double-Wide -- "Dance Like There's No Tomorrow" -- Dance Like There's No Tomorrow -- Hyena

Mike Stern -- "Giant Steps" -- Give And Take -- Atlantic

Larry Coryell -- "Ism-Ejercicio" -- Introducing The Eleventh House With Larry Coryell -- Vanguard

Brad Shepik -- "Vapor Oro" -- The Well -- Songlines

Spanish Fly -- "Fly By Night, Movement 5: End of The Night" -- Fly By Night -- Accurate

Archie Shepp -- "Slow Drag" -- Kwanza -- Impulse!

Odean Pope -- "Collections" -- Odean's List -- In + Out

Ideal Bread -- "Papa's Midnite Hop" -- Transmit -- Cuneiform

Ivo Perelman -- "Maleness" -- The Seven Energies of The Universe -- Leo

Stephen Gauci, Kris Davis & Michael Bisio -- "Just To Be Heard" -- Three -- Clean Feed

Undivided -- "Getsemani" -- The Passion -- Multikulti Project (N)

Joe Lee Wilson -- "Sphirlov (Hurricane)" -- Without A Song -- Inner City

The Soegaard Ensemble -- "Expini" -- Multiverse -- Leo

Denman Maroney Quartet -- "Frogs" -- GAGA -- Nuscope

Lina Allemano Four -- "Cannonball Adderley Tattoo" -- Jargon -- Lumo

Listen to this program in the KBCS streaming audio archives:

http://kbcsweb.bellevuecollege.edu/playlist/archive/?ShowID=16726

[Your Top Ten of 2010]

It would be interesting to know an estimate of how many new releaes posters have actually heard? Seems that selecting ten favorites from a pool of one hundred new releases has a bit more weight than selecting ten from twenty?

That's a good point. I would roughly guess that I've heard about 80 new releases in the last year, most of them through the radio station where I volunteer.

[Your Top Ten of 2010]

Seeing other folks’ picks just serves to remind me of how many new releases I haven’t heard, but here are my favorites anyway:

Rez Abassi Acoustic Quartet - Natural Selection

Lina Allemano Four - Jargon

Geri Allen - Flying Toward The Sound

Amir El Saffar & Hafez Modirzadeh - Radif Suite

Mark Feldman & Sylvie Courvoisier - Oblivia

Vijay Iyer - Solo

Darius Jones Trio - Man’ish Boy (A Raw & Beautiful Thing)

Linda Oh Trio - Entry

Matthew Shipp - 4D

The Vandermark 5 - Annular Gift

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This week on "Straight, No Chaser" I paid tribute to saxophonist James Moody, who died last week at age 85. Here is the music we heard:

James Moody -- "A Night Has A Thousand Eyes" -- Moving Forward -- RCA Novus

James Moody -- "Anthropology" -- Feelin' It Together -- 32 Jazz

James Moody -- "Don't Worry 'Bout Me" -- Return From Overbrook -- Chess

James Moody -- "Blue Walk" -- Moody's Mood For Blues -- Prestige

James Moody -- "The Moody One" -- Return From Overbrook -- Chess

James Moody -- "'Round Midnight" -- At The Jazz Workshop -- Chess

James Moody and Mark Turner -- "Satellite" -- Warner Jams, Vol. 2--The Two Tenors -- Warner Bros.

James Moody (with Eddie Jefferson) -- "Workshop" -- Moody's Mood For Blues -- Prestige

James Moody -- "All The Things You Are" -- Return From Overbrook -- Chess

James Moody -- "Home Fries" -- At The Jazz Workshop -- Chess

James Moody / Hank Jones Quartet (with Roberta Gamborini) -- "Moody's Groove" -- Our Delight -- Ipo

Dexter Gordon (with James Moody) -- "Montmartre" -- The Tower of Power -- Prestige

James Moody (with Eddie Jefferson) -- "Moody's Mood For Love" -- At The Jazz Workshop -- Chess

World Saxophone Quartet -- "Picasso" -- Breath of Life -- Nonesuch

The Microscopic Septet -- "Worry Later" -- Friday The 13th--The Micros Paly Monk -- Cuneiform (N)

Dave Douglas & Brass Fantasy -- "Orujo" -- Spirit Moves -- Greenleaf

Tarbaby -- "Brews" -- The End of Fear -- Posi-Tone (N)

Sun Ra -- "World Worlds" -- Heliocentric Worlds, Vol. 3--The Lost Tapes -- ESP

Marc Ribot -- "Solaris" -- Silent Movies -- Pi (N)

Mary Halvorson Trio -- "Scant Frame" -- Dragon's Head -- Firehouse 12

The Tiptons Saxophone Quartet -- "I Klaxon Della Notte" -- Strange Flower -- Zipa

You can access this program on-line for the next two weeks in the KBCS Audio Archive:

http://kbcsweb.bellevuecollege.edu/playlist/archive/?ShowID=16608

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This is the music we heard on "Straight, No Chaser" on December 6:

Microscopic Septet -- "Night Train Express" -- Lobster Leaps In -- Cuneiform

Lee Morgan -- "Speedball" -- Live At The Lighthouse -- Blue Note

Sam Yahel Trio -- "Bend The Leaves" -- Truth And Beauty -- Origin

Matt Renzi -- "Happy Hour" -- Lunch Special -- Three P's

Sarah Wilson -- "Possibility" -- Trapeze Project -- Brass Tonic (N)

Matt Haimovitz & Uccello -- "Meeting of The Spirits" -- Meeting of The Spirits -- Oxingale (N)

John Surman -- "Hilltop Dancer" -- Brewster's Rooster -- ECM

Scott Amendola Trio -- "Lima Bean" -- Lift -- Sazi (N)

* Wally Shoup / Dave Abramson Duo -- "Involucre" -- Good Curse -- R&M

Brodie West & Han Bennink -- "Ohmylady!" -- Brodie And Han -- Lorna

Sonny Simmons -- "The Other East" -- Ancient Ritual -- Qwest

Bright Moments -- "Dance'M" -- Return of The Lost Tribe -- Delmark

Joe Henderson -- "Short Story" -- In 'N Out -- Blue Note

David Berkman -- "Back In The 90's" -- Communication Theory -- Palmetto

Blake Tartare -- "Africa Used To Be Home" -- More Like Us -- Stunt

Louis Sclavis -- "Il disegno smangiato d'un uomo" -- Napoli's Walls -- ECM

* The Wally Shoup Quartet plays at Gallery 1412 on Friday, December 17.

Hear the program in the KBCS audio archives, here:

http://kbcsweb.bellevuecollege.edu/playlist/archive/?ShowID=16495

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Here is the music played on "Straight, No Chaser" on KBCS-FM on November 29:

Louis Hayes Jazz Communicators -- "Curtain Call" -- Lou's Idea -- American Showplace (N)

Jason Parker Quartet -- "Bashert" -- No More, No Less -- Brokentime

Lee Morgan -- "Mr. Kenyatta" -- Search For The New Land -- Blue Note

The Tiptons Saxophone Quartet -- "Locking Horns" -- Strange Flower -- Spoot (N)

Free Fair + 8 -- "Napalis" -- Metal Beauty -- Munich

Dave Holland Big Band -- "The Razor's Edge" -- What Goes Around -- ECM

Pandelis Karayorgis Trio -- "Coming Out of Nothing" -- Blood Ballad -- Leo

Drumheller -- "Sketch #11" -- Glint -- Rat-Drifting

Tarbaby -- "Unity" -- The End of Fear -- Posi-Tone (N)

Bruce Freedman Trio -- "The Demon Preaches Back" -- Enormous Moments -- (self)

Rudresh Mahanthappa's Indo-Pak Coalition -- "Adana" -- Apti -- Innova

Henry Threadgill Zooid -- "It Never Moved" -- This Brings Us To, Volume II -- Pi (N)

Ralph Towner -- "Mevlana Etude" -- Blue Sun -- ECM

Muhal Richard Abrams -- "The Bird Song" (excerpt_ -- Levels And Degrees of Light -- Delmark

Jean-Luc Ponty -- "Parisian Thoroughfare" -- The Acatama Experience -- Koch

Joanne Brackeen -- "From This Moment On" -- Popsicle Illusion -- Arkadia

To listen to this program via the Internet, go to the KBCS audio archive:

http://kbcsweb.bellevuecollege.edu/playlist/archive/?ShowID=16371

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This is what we heard on "Straight, No Chaser" on November 22:

Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra -- "Queer Notions" -- The Jazz Arranger, Volume I: 1928-1940 -- Columbia

Count Basie & His Orchestra -- "Broadway" -- The Essential Count Basie, Volume 3 -- Columbia

Lester Young Trio -- "I've Found A New Baby" -- Lester Young Trio -- Verve

Tadd Dameron, with Fats Navarro -- "The Tadd Walk" -- Fats Navarro: Goin' To Minton's -- Savoy Jazz

Joe Venuti & Earl Hines -- "Love For Sale" -- Hot Sonatas -- Chiaroscuro

Stan Getz -- "Lester Left Town" -- The Peacocks -- Koch Jazz

Liberty Ellman -- "Out of A Jazz Coma" -- Orthodoxy -- Red Giant

Tony Scott -- "A Night In Tunisia" -- A Jazz Life -- Kind of Blue

Rob Brown Quartet -- "Twinkle" -- Jumping Off The Page -- No More

Jason Ajemian -- "U're The Guy (Keith Wood)" -- The Art of Dying -- Delmark

Bill Dixon -- "Phrygian II" -- Tapestries For Small Orchestra -- Firehouse 12

Nguyen Le -- "Mali Iwa" -- Homescape -- ACT

Masada -- "Yoreh" -- Live In Sevilla 2000 -- Tzadik

NOJO with Sam Rivers -- "Neurotheologians" -- City of Neighbourhoods -- True North

Russell Gunn -- "Footprints" -- Russell Gunn Plays Miles -- Highnote

Adam Lane Quartet -- "In The Center of The Earth, Looking For Mike" -- Fo(u)r Being(s) -- CIMP

Randy Weston & His African Rhythm Sextt -- "Fly Hi" -- The Storyteller--Live At Dizzy's Club Coca Cola -- Motema (N)

Go to the KBCS audio archives to listen to this program via the Internet:

http://kbcsweb.bellevuecollege.edu/playlist/archive/?ShowID=16288

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Thanks to Dave Pure for sitting in as host of “Straight, No Chaser” on November 15. Here is the music that Dave played:

Amina Figarova – “Photo Album” – September Suite

Warne Marsh – “How Deep Is The Ocean” – A Ballad Album

Joe Beck – “I’m A Fool To Want You” – Strangers In The Night

Bobby Watson – “Ms. BC” – Tailor Made

Amina Figarova – “Four Steps To…” – Sketches

Pat Metheny & Roy Haynes – “Three Flights Up” – Question & Answer

Chet Baker – “Oh, You Crazy Moon” – The Definitive Chet Baker

Keith Jarrett – “Solar” – At The Deer Head Inn

John Hicks Quartet – “Soul Eyes” – Naima’s Love Song

Jimmy Smith – “The Sermon” – The Sermon

Charlie Rouse – “When Sunny Gets Blue” – Unsung Hero

Keith Jarrett – “Autumn Leaves” – Tokyo 96

John Coltrane – “Dear Lord” – The Gentle Side of John Coltrane

Cassandra Wilson – “Body & Soul” – Standards

Enrico Rava – “Easy Living” – Easy Living

You can hear this program by going to the KBCS Audio Archives:

http://kbcsweb.bellevuecollege.edu/playlist/archive/?ShowID=16165

[Spotted: RRK Mercury Box]

This set is a treasure.

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My List of Notable Jazz Releases in 2010

As the year-end approaches, DJs and critics everywhere are busy drafting their Top Ten lists for 2010. KBCS programmers' lists will soon be posted on the station's website and mine will be among them. But I don't really like making a Top Ten list. There is just too much music out there that I haven't heard. I can't identify the "best" jazz releases of the year when I have heard only a fraction of what is out there. Even so, I have been blessed to discover so much good music that it is arbitrary to designate ten CDs as my favorites. I prefer to make a longer list. These are just some of the really good jazz CD's that have come out in the last year or so. (A few were released in 2009.)

Rez Abassi Acoustic Quartet – Natural Selection – Sunnyside

Jason Adasiewicz’s Rolldown – Varmint - Cuneiform

Lina Allemano Four – Jargon – Lumo

Geri Allen – Flying Toward The Sound – Motema

Geri Allen & Timeline – Live – Motema

Cindy Blackman – Another Lifetime – 4Q

Ryan Blotnick – Everything Forgets – Songlines

Hadley Caliman – Straight Ahead – Origin

Regina Carter – Reverse Thread – RSK

The Claudia Quintet with Gary Versace – Royal Toast – Cuneiform

Nels Cline Singers – Initiate - Cryptogramophone

Avishai Cohen – Introducing Treveni – Anzic

Richard Cole – Inner Mission – Origin

Steve Coleman and Five Elements – Harvesting Semblances And Affinities – Pi

Scott DuBois – Black Hawk Dance – Sunnyside

Amir El Saffar & Hafez Modirzadeh – Radif Suite – Pi

Peter Epstein & Idée Fixe – Abstract Realism – Origin

Mark Feldman & Sylvie Courvoisier – Oblivia – Tzadik

Bill Frisell – Beautiful Dreamers – Savoy Jazz

Curtis Fuller – I Will Tell Her – Capri

Hal Galper – E Pluribus Unum—Live In Seattle – Origin

Gerry Gibbs And The Electric Thrasher Orchestra – Play The Music of Miles Davis 1967-1975 – Whaling City Sound

Clark Gibson – Iapetus – Pony Boy

Tamir Hendelman – Playground – Swing Bros.

Vijay Iyer – Solo – ACT Music

Darius Jones Trio – Man’ish Boy (A Raw & Beautiful Thing) – AUM Fidelity

Matt Jorgensen – Tattooed By Passion: Music Inspired By The Paintings of Dale Chisman – Origin

Mike Lee & Ted Chubb – New Tricks – (self)

Charles Lloyd Quartet – Mirror – ECM

Giuseppi Logan Quintet – The Giuseppi Logan Quintet – Tompkins Square

Lionel Loueke – Mwaliko – Blue Note

Rudresh Mahanthappa & Bunky Green – Apex – Pi

Allison Miller – Boom Tic Boom – Foxhaven

Paul Motian – Lost In A Dream – ECM

Jayna Nelson – Bloom of Creation – Sun Jump

Linda Oh Trio – Entry – Linda Oh Music

Gail Pettis – Here In A Moment – OA2

Matthew Shipp – 4D – Thirsty Ear

Akira Sakata & Chikamorachi – Friendly Pants – Family Vineyard

Dr. Lonnie Smith – Spiral – Palmetto

Norbert Stein Pata, Horns & Drums – Silent Sitting Bulls – Pata Music

Paul Tynan & Aaron Lington – Bicoastal Collective: Chapter Two – OA2

The Vandermark 5 – Annular Gift – Not Two

Sarah Wilson – Trapeze Project – Brass Tonic

Ziggurat Quartet – Calculated Gestures – Origin

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Here is the November 8 playlist for "Straight, No Chaser" on KBCS-FM.

You can listen to the show in the KBCS audio archives:

http://kbcsweb.bellevuecollege.edu/playlist/archive/?ShowID=16045

Jason Moran -- "Moran Tonk Circa 1936" -- Modernistic - Blue Note

Duke Ellington (with Billy Strayhorn) -- "Tonk" -- Live At The Blue Note -- Roulette

Art Farmer -- "Tonk" -- Out of The Past - Chess

Ray Bryant -- "Tonk" -- Trio Today -- EmArcy

Lucky Thompson -- "The World Awakes" -- New York City, 1964-65 -- Uptown

Michael Blake -- "The World Awakes" -- The World Awakes: A Tribute To Lucky Thompson -- Stunt

* Marion Brown -- "Dance No. 1" -- Marion Brown In Sommerhausen -- Calig

* Marion Brown -- "Sweet Earth Flying, Part Three" -- Sweet Earth Flying -- Impulse

* Marion Brown & Gunter Hampel -- "Gemini" -- Gemini + (Play Sun Ra Live In Concert) -- Birth

Joe Battaglia & Terrence McManus -- "White Blood Cells" -- Pastellic Reflections

Stephan Crump With Rosetta Trio -- "Overreach" -- Reclamation -- Sunnyside

Dave Holland & Pepe Habichuela -- "The Whirling Dervish" -- Hands -- Dare2 (N)

* Marion Brown (with Leo Smith) -- "Centering" -- Duets -- Arista

Lina Allemano Four -- "Sling Slang" -- Jargon -- Lumo (N)

NRG Ensemble -- "Burnt Toast" -- This Is My House -- Delmark

Ethel -- "#3 (from Four Thoughts On Marvin Gaye)" -- Light -- (self)

* In honor of Marion Brown, 1931-2010

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Many thanks to Megan Sullivan for hosting “Straight, No Chaser” on November 1st. Here is the music Megan played:

Red Garland – “Your Red Wagon” – Red’s Blues – Prestige

Freddie Hubbard – “Happy Times” – The Artistry of Freddie Hubbard – UMG

Jackie McLean – “What’s New?” – The Best of Jackie McLean – New Jazz / Fantasy

Bill Evans – “Woody ‘N You” – The Best of Bill Evans – UMG

Kenny Dorham – “Lotus Blossom” – Quiet Kenny – Concord / Prestige

Horace Silver – “Filthy McNasty” – The Blue Note Years – Blue Note

Jimmy Smith & Wes Montgomery – “James And Wes” – Jimmy & Wes: The Dynamic Duo – Verve

Art Pepper – “Too Close For Comfort” – The Best of Art Pepper – Contemporary

Clifford Brown – “Jordu” – The Definitive Clifford Brown – Verve

Sarah Vaughan – “It’s Crazy” – The Definitive Sarah Vaughan – Verve

Art Farmer – “Out of The Past” – Out of The Past

Lee Morgan – “Twice Around” – Tom Cat – Blue Note

Anita O’Day – “Speak Low” – The Complete Anita O’Day Verve / Clef Sessions – Mosaic

Eric Dolphy – “On Green Dolphin Street” – The Best of Eric Dolphy – New Jazz / Prestige

Joe Henderson – “Escapade” – Our Thing – Blue Note

McCoy Tyner – “Peresina” – The Definitive McCoy Tyner – Blue Note

Bobby Hutcherson – “Little B’s Poem” – Components – Blue Note

To hear this program, go to the KBCS audio archives:

http://kbcsweb.bellevuecollege.edu/playlist/archive/?ShowID=15926.

Also, be sure to check out Megan’s biweekly on-line program, “Shape of Modern Jazz,” in the KBCS audio archives.