Nou Dadoun
Jan 19, 2006, 02:12 AM
I'm not as well organized as Cory, I usually only have a rough idea of what I'm going to play when I head for the station but I thought I'd try to start the year off right with posting some annotated playlists.
No. Song title Artist : Recording Label Instr. [MAPL]
1 Take the A-Train Jon Hendricks & Friends : Freddie Freeloader Denon No [----]
2 One Down, One Up John Coltrane Quartet : One Down, One Up Impulse/Universal Yes [----]
3 Heard It Through the Grapevine Bill Frisell Trio : East/West: West Nonesuch Yes [----]
4 Days of Wine & Roses Bill Frisell Trio : East/West: East Nonesuch Yes [----]
5 Without a Song Sonny Rollins : Without a Song: The 9/11 Concert Milestone Yes [----]
6 Shinto Round Midnight Miya Masaoka Trio : Monk's Japanese Folk Song Dizim Yes [----]
7 Round Midnight Miya Masaoka Trio : Monk's Japanese Folk Song Dizim Yes [----]
8 Untitled II Terry Riley/Don Cherry : Scandinavian Recordings 1965-71 private Yes [----]
9 Each Side Terry Riley/Michael McClure : I Like Your Eyes Liberty Sri Moonshine Music No [----]
10 Propulsion Bernard Primeau : Propulsion CBC Jazzimage Yes [MAP-]
11 South End Stomp Bernard Primeau : Virage Swing In Time Yes [MAP-]
12 Daily Trivia James Danderfer : run with it Cellar Live Yes [MAP-]
13 Brooklyn Oliver Gannon : That's What Cellar Live Yes [MAP-]
14 Rainbow in Curved Air Terry Riley : Rainbow in Curved Air Columbia/Sony Yes [----]
This show was a combination of some of the things from last year that I really enjoyed and some music from folks who are coming to the Vancouver area.
This was a great year for Trane-spotting and (2) is the title cut from the other great Coltrane issue of the year. Long available in a bootlegged format, Ravi found a reference tape of this in one of Alice's closets a few years ago and it's finally found an official release with great sound. Taken from a pair of 1965 broadcasts from the Half Note in NYC, this is one of the last recordings of the quartet and it shows. Coltrane is really pushing the envelope here and although Tyner puts in a fine solo, half of this 30 minute cut is a burnin' duet workout with Elvin Jones that is fast and furious. Hard to believe that commercial radio once took these kinds of chances; highly recommended.
Another double disc from Bill Frisell recorded on both coasts gave us (3) and (4); Frisell's oblique way with a melody and his wash of sound is well-supported on bass by Viktor Krause and Tony Scherr in Oakland and NYC respectively and on drums by Kenny Wolleson throughout.
On September 12th 2001, Sonny Rollins was rescued from his Tribeca flat clutching his horn and 3 days later drove to Boston for the concert on (5). Although not a perfect recording sonicly (it wasn't originally intended for release), its emotion and drive (particularly on the title cut) put it head and shoulders over any of the other records that Rollins has put out in the last decade or two.
Miya Masaoka was in Vancouver for the Chironomy project at the Western Front on Sunday the 15th (and a couple of shows at RIME last week); sparse koto/bass/drums treatments of Round Midnight (6 & 7 with Reggie Workman and Andrew Cyrille) shows that Monk's melodies are infinitely malleable in the right hands. This out of print date is well-worth searching out.
Gave away a pair of tickets to the Terry Riley/Michael McClure show at the Chan Friday January 20th (skill testing question: In which key is Terry Riley's most famous composition?) and dug up an old 1970 collaboration with Don Cherry that prefigures some of the later Codona work (8). Also one of the Riley/McClure collaborations that features Riley on some fine piano work over McClure's reading. Should be a great show.
Bernard Primeau is returning to town for a gig in White Rock on January 28th and I went back to the earliest recording of his that I know for (10) - a late 80s CBC date featuring an all-star 'Q' lineup: Alan Penfold, Yannick Rieu, Remi Bolduc etc. and a more recent recording (11) featuring solos from Bill Mahar and special guest Ray Anderson. Although Primeau's more recent work has featured larger ensembles and collaborations with strings (and other guests like Hugh Fraser), his drum work and the arrangements (mostly from Bill Mahar) really remind me of the Kenny Dorham era of the Jazz Messengers.
A nod to a couple of Cellar dates to round out the show with Danderfer on last weekend and Gannon coming up this weekend. And took it out with Riley's overdubbed masterpiece (that the prog rock group Curved Air lifted its name from).
On the air again this week (I've invited Brian to come down and hang out but I know that he doesn't like to leave the house), drop me a line with any requests ... N
No. Song title Artist : Recording Label Instr. [MAPL]
1 Take the A-Train Jon Hendricks & Friends : Freddie Freeloader Denon No [----]
2 One Down, One Up John Coltrane Quartet : One Down, One Up Impulse/Universal Yes [----]
3 Heard It Through the Grapevine Bill Frisell Trio : East/West: West Nonesuch Yes [----]
4 Days of Wine & Roses Bill Frisell Trio : East/West: East Nonesuch Yes [----]
5 Without a Song Sonny Rollins : Without a Song: The 9/11 Concert Milestone Yes [----]
6 Shinto Round Midnight Miya Masaoka Trio : Monk's Japanese Folk Song Dizim Yes [----]
7 Round Midnight Miya Masaoka Trio : Monk's Japanese Folk Song Dizim Yes [----]
8 Untitled II Terry Riley/Don Cherry : Scandinavian Recordings 1965-71 private Yes [----]
9 Each Side Terry Riley/Michael McClure : I Like Your Eyes Liberty Sri Moonshine Music No [----]
10 Propulsion Bernard Primeau : Propulsion CBC Jazzimage Yes [MAP-]
11 South End Stomp Bernard Primeau : Virage Swing In Time Yes [MAP-]
12 Daily Trivia James Danderfer : run with it Cellar Live Yes [MAP-]
13 Brooklyn Oliver Gannon : That's What Cellar Live Yes [MAP-]
14 Rainbow in Curved Air Terry Riley : Rainbow in Curved Air Columbia/Sony Yes [----]
This show was a combination of some of the things from last year that I really enjoyed and some music from folks who are coming to the Vancouver area.
This was a great year for Trane-spotting and (2) is the title cut from the other great Coltrane issue of the year. Long available in a bootlegged format, Ravi found a reference tape of this in one of Alice's closets a few years ago and it's finally found an official release with great sound. Taken from a pair of 1965 broadcasts from the Half Note in NYC, this is one of the last recordings of the quartet and it shows. Coltrane is really pushing the envelope here and although Tyner puts in a fine solo, half of this 30 minute cut is a burnin' duet workout with Elvin Jones that is fast and furious. Hard to believe that commercial radio once took these kinds of chances; highly recommended.
Another double disc from Bill Frisell recorded on both coasts gave us (3) and (4); Frisell's oblique way with a melody and his wash of sound is well-supported on bass by Viktor Krause and Tony Scherr in Oakland and NYC respectively and on drums by Kenny Wolleson throughout.
On September 12th 2001, Sonny Rollins was rescued from his Tribeca flat clutching his horn and 3 days later drove to Boston for the concert on (5). Although not a perfect recording sonicly (it wasn't originally intended for release), its emotion and drive (particularly on the title cut) put it head and shoulders over any of the other records that Rollins has put out in the last decade or two.
Miya Masaoka was in Vancouver for the Chironomy project at the Western Front on Sunday the 15th (and a couple of shows at RIME last week); sparse koto/bass/drums treatments of Round Midnight (6 & 7 with Reggie Workman and Andrew Cyrille) shows that Monk's melodies are infinitely malleable in the right hands. This out of print date is well-worth searching out.
Gave away a pair of tickets to the Terry Riley/Michael McClure show at the Chan Friday January 20th (skill testing question: In which key is Terry Riley's most famous composition?) and dug up an old 1970 collaboration with Don Cherry that prefigures some of the later Codona work (8). Also one of the Riley/McClure collaborations that features Riley on some fine piano work over McClure's reading. Should be a great show.
Bernard Primeau is returning to town for a gig in White Rock on January 28th and I went back to the earliest recording of his that I know for (10) - a late 80s CBC date featuring an all-star 'Q' lineup: Alan Penfold, Yannick Rieu, Remi Bolduc etc. and a more recent recording (11) featuring solos from Bill Mahar and special guest Ray Anderson. Although Primeau's more recent work has featured larger ensembles and collaborations with strings (and other guests like Hugh Fraser), his drum work and the arrangements (mostly from Bill Mahar) really remind me of the Kenny Dorham era of the Jazz Messengers.
A nod to a couple of Cellar dates to round out the show with Danderfer on last weekend and Gannon coming up this weekend. And took it out with Riley's overdubbed masterpiece (that the prog rock group Curved Air lifted its name from).
On the air again this week (I've invited Brian to come down and hang out but I know that he doesn't like to leave the house), drop me a line with any requests ... N