“Conference of the Birds” is my weekly radio program on WNUR-FM. It airs on Tuesdays from 5-7:30 am Chicago time (UTC-6). And, of course, when technology cooperates, you can just come here for the archives.
This week’s show was extremely satisfying. For one thing, we had a nice infusion of new additions to the music library, especially featuring a number of local groups, like: Josh Berman’s debut album as a leader; a new album from Nicole Mitchell’s Black Earth Strings; the second album from the Chicago/New Orleans septet Lucky 7s; a quartet album from Lucky 7s co-leader Jeff Albert… and that’s just the stuff I fit into my show. We also gave a nod to the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon mission with a track from Dollar Brand’s “African Space Program” (and I forgot to draw attention on air to the great Cecil McBee bass solo at the end of that track…) And I was very pleased to share an excerpt of a great improvisation from Mal Waldron and Johnny Dyani from an unreleased duo concert found on the Inconstant Sol blog.
I hope you enjoy this week’s show: as always comments are welcomed.
complete program (144 MB, 2 hrs 37 min)
Artist: “Track” – Album (Label)
Andrew Hill: “New Monastery” – Point of Departure (Blue Note)
Mal Waldron/Johnny Dyani: “Track #3 excerpt” – Rec. live at “Centro Jazz St. Louis”, Rome, Italy, on October 27th, 1979 (Inconstant Sol (blog))
Milt Hinton: “Pick ‘n Pat” – East Coast Jazz/5 (Bethlehem)
Professor Longhair: “Tipitina” – LIVE – Like You Like Him (Collectables)
Gwigwi Mrwebi: “Lily Express” – Mbaqanga Songs (Honest Jon’s)
Dollar Brand Orchestra: “Tintiyana, First Part” – African Space Program (Enja)
Philip Cohran: “The Minstrel” – On The Beach (Aestuarium)
Roscoe Mitchell & the Note Factory: “Song For My Sister” – Song For My Sister (Pi)
Jutta Hipp: “Just Blues” – Jutta Hipp with Zoot Sims (Blue Note)
Motohiko Hino: “Gingerbread Boy” – First Album (Takt Jazz)
Mulatu Astatke and the Heliocentrics: “Masenqo” – Inspiration Information, v. 3 (Strut)
Lucky 7s: “#6″ – Pluto Junkyard (Clean Feed)
Josh Berman: “Let’s Pretend” – Old Idea (Delmark)
Nicole Mitchell’s Black Earth Strings: “Windance” – Renegades (Delmark)
Celina Gonzaléz: “Santa Barbara (¡Que Viva Chango!)” – Cuba: I Am Time, v. 3: Cuban Invocations (Blue Jackel)
Los Silvertones: “Tamborito Swing” – Panama! 2 – Latin Sounds, Cumbia Tropical & Calypso Funk On The Isthmus 1967-77 (Soundway)
Carolina Ladies Quartette: “My Loved Ones Are Waiting” – How Can I Keep From Singing? V. 1 (Yazoo)
Jeff Albert Quartet: “Bag Full of Poboys (for Rob Mazurek)” – Similar in the Opposite Way (Fora Sound)
Damon Short: “Old School” – Go Figure (Nine Winds)
Trio 3 + Irene Schweizer: “Aubade” – Berne Concert (Intakt)