“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 completely lacks a theme or plan, as best I can tell.  I returned to a couple of new-to-me albums for other tracks, and dug into the local stacks for a few old gems.  Thanks to the listener who made a request for Chicago Underground Duo: I particularly liked the last track, which I hadn’t heard before.

complete program (126 MB, 2 hrs 17 min)

Artist: “Track” – Album (Label)
Larry Young: “If” – Unity (Blue Note)
Medeski, Martin and Wood: “Tutrusa’i” – Zaebos: Book of Angels, Vol. 11 (Tzadik)
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey: “Drethoven” – One Day in Brooklyn (Kinnara)
Amina Claudine Myers: “Going Home” – Poems for Piano: the Piano Music of Marion Brown (Sweet Earth Records)
Eri Yamamoto Trio: “Secret Link” – In Each Day, Something Good (AUM Fidelity)
Scott La Faro: “I Hear a Rhapsody” – Pieces of Jade (Resonance)
Mary Lou Williams: “Scorpio (Alternate Take)” – Zodiac Suite (Smithsonian Folkways)
Karl Berger: “Steps” – Quartet (ESP)
Fred Anderson Trio: “Gin and Burbon Street” – A Night at the Velvet Lounge (Made in Chicago)
Phil Ranelin and Tribe Renaissance: “A Tear in Elmina” – Reminiscence (Wide Hive)
Jason Adasiewicz’s Rolldown: “Varmint” – Varmint (Cuneiform)
Vijay Iyer: “Phalanx” – Reimagining (Savoy)
Nicole Mitchell’s Black Earth Ensemble: “Black Unstoppable” – Black Unstoppable (Delmark)
Ted Sirota’s Rebel Souls: “Grendel” – vs. the Forces of Evil (NAIM)
Jeb Bishop Trio: “Big Stubby” – Bishop/Kessler/Mulvenna (Okkadisk)
Horace Silver Quintet: “Nica’s Dream” – Horace-scope (Blue Note)
Theo Jörgensmann Quartet: “Hybrid Identity” – To Ornette — Hybrid Identity (Hatology)
Chicago Underground Duo: “Red Gradations” – Synesthesia (Thrill Jockey)
Chicago Underground Duo: “The Glass House” – In Praise of Shadows (Thrill Jockey)