WNUR Jazz Show, August 26 2004

Today’s show was a bit hectic; I accidentally left my stack of personal CDs at home, so I had less music ready to play than most weeks. I was kind of scrambling most of the time. I suppose I could have taken advantage of the nearly 40 minutes provided by a long Pharoah Sanders track followed by Scott’s set, but instead, I was just stacking up interesting things without picking songs from them!

One of the interesting things found was Mistakes, a 1979 duet album between Sean Bergin and Ernst Reijseger. I had just read the section in Kevin Whitehead’s New Dutch Swing focusing on Reijseger and had made a note to look for that album. At first audition, it sounds very promising. (On the way to work today I got on to the section on Bergin and it seems as though I’ll be looking for more of his stuff — Whitehead gushes about “Kids’ Mysteries”.)

I’m in a gushing mood about the group “Free Fall”, a project featuring Ken Vandermark exclusively on clarinets (B-flat and bass) and with a lineup “inspired by” the Jimmy Giuffre/Paul Bley/Steve Swallow group that recorded the album “Free Fall”. So far they have only one recording, on Wobbly Rail, but it’s really a super album.

artist: “track” – album (label)

Harold Land: “Dark Mood” – Xocia’s Dance (Muse)
Charles Mingus: “Fifty-First Street Blues” – East Coasting (Bethlehem Archives)
East New York Ensemble de Music: “Ti-Ti” – At The Helm (Folkways/Ikef)
Pharoah Sanders: “Summun, Bukmun, Umyun” – Summun, Bukmun, Umyun (Impulse)
begin apprentice set
Conjure: “Skydiving” – Music for the Texts of Ishmael Reed (American Clave)
Ishmael Reed: “Judas” – Music for the Texts of Ishmael Reed (American Clave)
Charles Mingus: “Better Get Hit in Your Soul” – Three or Four Shades of Blues (Atlantic)
Cannonball Adderly Quintet: “Country Preacher/Hummin’” – Live at Operation Breadbasket (Capitol)
end apprentice set
Sean Bergin and Ernst Reijseger: “Mixing It” – Mistakes (DATA)
Karl Berger and Edward Blackwell: “Wood and Skin Works” – Just Play (Emanem)
The Torque-tet: “In Princapolis” – Walk in Space (Cosmosis)
Triage: “Sound of Sound” – Twenty Minute Cliff (Okkadisk)
Jimmy Giuffre 3: “Spasmodic” – Free Fall (Columbia)
Free Fall: “Half Past Soon (for Bill Evans)” – Furnace (Wobbly Rail)
Andrew Hill: “Pumpkin” – Black Fire (Blue Note)
Joe Maneri Quartet: “In Full Cry” – In Full Cry (ECM)
Lionel Hampton: “Till Tom Special” – Tempo and Swing (Bluebird)
Coleman Hawkins: “Bean’s Place” – Wrapped Tight (Impulse)
David Murray Quartet: “Blues for Savannah” – Shakill’s Warrior (DIW/Columbia)
Active Ingredients: “Song for Dyani” – Titration (Delmark)
Johnny Dyani: “Song for Biko” – Song for Biko (Steeplechase)
The Exciting Trio: “You’ve Got a Mustache and Everything” – In Chicago There is Willy (482 Records)

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WNUR Jazz Show, August 26 2004

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