WNUR Jazz Show, September 9 2004

Good show today. I was pleased to come across an earlier Ted Sirota album that I hadn’t heard before. My curiosity is piqued, as the credit for the track I i played, “Impengu Dek Bengikai” says “traditional, arranged Geof Bradfield.” The question, of course, is “whose tradition?” (Googling didn’t find an answer, but I did discover that you can download the track from Ted’s site.) I was happy to find out recently that Roswell Rudd’s Malicool project will be playing a few times in Chicago as part of the Chicago World Music Festival, which starts next weekend, so that was a good excuse to play a track from that album. It was a pleasant coincidence to find in the new CD drawer another collaboration between an ex-Steve Lacy sideman and Mande musicians– this time bassist (and kora player!) Jean-Jacques Avenel, an album called Waraba. Finally, my first order arrived from the Downtown Music Gallery, including the Sean Bergin album I’d read about in New Dutch Swing. Good stuff!

Faithful listeners take note: next week I’m swapping shows with Seth Snyder, so I’ll be on on Wednesday at 5 am, instead of Thursday.

artist: “track” – album (label)

Miles Davis: “Shhh/Peaceful” – In a Silent Way (Columbia)
Lars Gullin: “Stockholm Street” – Stockholm Street (1959/60 vol 4) (Dragon)
Ted Sirota‘s Rebel Souls: “Impengu Dek Bengikai” – vs. The Forces of Evil (Naim)
Jim Hobbs Trio: “Balderama-lama-ding-dong” – Babadita (Silkheart)
Misha Mengelberg/Ab Baars: “Rollo 2” – Two Days in Chicago (Hatology)
begin apprentice set
Omar Sosa: “Iyawo” – Mulatos (Ota)
Keith Jarrett Trio: “My Back Pages” – Somewhere Before (Atlantic)
Paul Rucker: “History of an Apology” – History of an Apology (Jackson Street)
SoNu: “Sound on Sound for Roscoe Mitchell” – Sounds from the Source (Nine Winds)
end apprentice set
Roswell Rudd’s Malicool: “For Toumani” – Roswell Rudd’s Malicool (Soundscape)
Jean-Jacques Avenel: “Denko” – Waraba (Songlines)
Dudu Pukwana: “Angel Nemali” – In the Townships (Earthworks)
Sean Bergin and M.O.B.: “Kids–Trainride” – Kids Mysteries (Nimbus)
Don Pullen‘s African-Brazilian Connection: “El Matador” – Ode to Life (Blue Note)
Ernest Dawkins’ New Horizons Ensemble: “Maghostut” – South Side Street Songs (Silkheart)
Splatter Trioand: “Debris” – Compositions 40E (+40D) + (40P+ 69Q) + 40(O) (Jump or Die)
Music and Arts
Gianluigi Trovesi Ottetto: “Clumsy Dancing of the Fat Bird” – Fugace (ECM)
Free Jazz Quartet: “Tocsin” – Premonitions (Matchless)
Paul Rutherford/Paul Rogers/Nigel Morris: “Prindalf” – Gheim (Emanem)

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WNUR Jazz Show, September 9 2004

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