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Playlist for October 20, 2009 from 12:00AM - 3:00AM

Current New Orleans Time: Thu, 9:27pm
Show Host(s): Miz Mockingbird

Playlist Date & Time: 10/20/2009 12:00AM - 3:00AM

Program: Contemporary Jazz with Mockingbird

Playlist Tracks
The Bad Plus
"Fem (Etude No. 8)"
For All I Care
2008
Langston Hughes
"Dreams"
The Voice of Langston Hughes
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
1995
Babatunde Olatunji
"Kiyakiya"
Drums of Passion
1990
Originally released in 1959. I can't *imagine* what the squares thought...
Feel Good Productions
"Sambhangra"
Acid Jazz, Vol. 119
2006
Yeah, see that? Volume one hundred nineTEEN. That's a whole lotta...somethin.
Charlie Hunter Trio
"Swamba Redux"
Copperopolis
2006
Sun Ra
"Of the Heavenly Things"
The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra
1965
With the Solar Arkestra
The Bad Plus
"And Here We Test Our Powers of Observation"
Give
2004
Avishai Cohen Trio
"Pinzin Kinzin"
Gently Disturbed
2008
Saul Williams
"Talk to Strangers"
Saul Williams
2004
Marco Benevento
"Executive Session"
Live at Tonic
2007
Sun Ra
"The World Shadow"
Sun Ra featuring Pharaoh Sanders & Black Harold
1976
This is the album I was looking for last week, on Pharaoh Sanders' birfday. It's cacophonic colloquy! Ha. It was also recorded in 1964 but wasn't released until '76. I mean, how many artists can wait 12 years between production and release dates and still be all avant-*awesome*? ...Crazy amazing.
Mbuti Pygmies
"Musical Bow"
Mbuti Pygmies of the Ituri Rainforest
1992
From space to the rainforest of the Middle Congo. Just. Like. THAT. (like magic)
Bela Fleck, Zakir Hussain, Edgar Meyer
"The Melody of Rhythm, Movement 1"
The Melody of Rhythm: Triple Concerto and Music for Trio
2009
Courtney Pine's Jazz Warriors
"We Are A Warrior"
Afropeans
2008
"In Reference to Our Forefathers' Fathers' Dreams" is heavily referenced by the this modern incarnation of the original Jazz Warriors.
Stanton Moore Trio
"Over (Compensation)"
Emphasis! on Parenthesis
2008
Medeski, Scofield, Martin & Wood
"In Case the World Changes Its Mind"
Out Louder
2006
Medeski Martin & Wood
"Ijiji"
Radiolarians II
2009
People Like Us
"Daphne Waltz"
Reworking Daphne Oram
2008
http://www.peoplelikeus.org/2008/daphne_oram.html
Read about the evolution of the PLU + Daphne Oram project. Then look into Miz Oram herself. Quite the pioneer.
The Books
"All Bad Ends All"
Thought for Food
2002
Dizzy Gillespie
"Cubana Bop"
RCA Victor Recordings - 1
1995
Yma Sumac
"Malambo No. 1"
Mambo!
1954
1996 cd release
Bebo Valdez y Chucho Valdez
"Descarga Valdez"
Juntos Para Siempre
2008
Father/son Cubano piano jam. Delicious.
Stonephace
"Five Miles High"
Stonephace
2009
Brooklyn Funk Essentials
"The Creator Has A Master Plan"
100% Acid Jazz
Look, "acid jazz" or no, this track's got four solid-distinguishable music forms side by side, as well as that sweetly direct lyric homage to Pharaoh Sanders. Huh.
Revolution Void
"The Modern Divide"
Increase the Dosage
2009
Dr. Lonnie Smith
"Freedom Jazz Dance"
Jungle Soul
2006
Ornette Coleman
"Focus on Sanity"
The Shape of Jazz to Come
1959
1990 cd release
Albert Ayler
"New Grass/Message From Albert"
The Impulso Story
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Ayler
Stonephace
"Contextual Meaning"
Stonephace
Love their 30-second segues.
Rob Wagner, Hamid Drake, Nobu Ozaki
"Shock, Awe, Sham, Shame"
Trio
Valid Records (new orleans)
2007
http://validrecords.com/
Groundtruther
"Mariana Trench"
Altitudes, disc two