Playlist for February 02, 2010 from 12:00AM - 3:00AM

Current New Orleans Time: Fri, 7:59am

Playlist Date & Time: 2/2/2010 12:00AM - 3:00AM

Program: Contemporary Jazz with Mockingbird

This week finds ears skoochin over, on the smokegreasy edges of jazz, into a little funk, digital, rock, planetary percussion...and the Finnish avant-garde.

Extreme temperatures do bizarre things to creative people.

Playlist Tracks

Sonny Rollins Jungoso The Essential Sonny Rollins: The RCA Years
Will Calhoun Native Lands Native Lands, disc one
Markus Schwartz Solo Tanbou Ti-Roro Tanbou Nan Lakou Brooklyn/Haitian Drums in the Brooklyn Yard
Fred Anderson 21st Century Chase, Part 1 21st Century Chase - 80th Birthday Bash, Live at the Velvet Lounge
Markus Schwartz Koze Tanbou'm Tanbou Nan Lakou Brooklyn/Haitian Drums in the Brooklyn Yard
Nina Simone Funkier Than A Mosquito's Tweeter How It Feels to Be Free
Conjunto Casino Yo Soy El Son Cubano Cuban Originals
Cuarteto D'Aida Las Mulatas del Cha Cha Cha El Original Cuarteto D'aida
Bob Moses Time Stood Still (Africa and Back in A Day) Time Stood Still
Will Calhoun Pyramids Native Lands, disc one
Oliver Nelson Skull Session Skull Session Crazygorgeous album art. The Skull Sessions cover is about three-quarters of the way down the page, but it's a delicious journey down.
Revolution Void Weekend Amnesia Increase the Dosage
Jarmo Saari Solu Tease Jazz from Finland 2008
M'Boom 3 tracks Re:Percussions Somebody ripped this off the stoopid-rare original vinyl, put out on the Strata-East label, and ripped each side of the record as a single track. Doesn't even matter. M'Boom's so enchantingly hypnotic, I'll betcha didn't even know it was three separate songs, didja? They were: Morning, Noon, Midday Attention: Call and Response Jihad es Mort
John Carter On A Country Road Fields
Stanley Clarke El Bajo Negro The Toys of Men
Klima Kalima Chasing Yellow Jazz from Finland 2008
Duo Nueva Finlandia End of the Beginning Jazz from FINland
Ilmiliekki Quartet Karhu Jazz from Finland 2008
Ornette Coleman & Pat Metheny The Good Life Song X - Twentieth Anniversary
Sestetto Basso-Valdambrini Monotonia Sestetto Basso-Valdambrini
Hugo Montenegro Come Spy With Me Come Spy With Me Mouthwateringly cliched, this album's art is perfect perfect perfect for its contents: the original music from more Cold War era spy shows and movies than you can shake a death-ray at.
Erol Josue & Markus Schwartz Sa'm Fe Moun You? Tanbou Nan Lakou Brooklyn/Haitian Drums in the Brooklyn Yard
Mary Lou Williams Kool Bongo First Lady of the Piano
Lucky Thompson Trio The World Awakes The Vibe - The Ultimate Rare Groove Series Volume 10: Jazz and Bop de Paris