Playlist: July 10, 2009

KZSU playlist for Friday, July 10, 3:00-6:30 p.m.

….. Led Bib is a two-sax band out of the UK doing free jazz with a many-piercings rock attitude. Like The Bad Plus, it’s brash and fun and can captivate audiences who otherwise don’t care about free jazz. So, yeah, a gateway drug.

….. Loose Wig is a Berkeley jazz band led by bassist Sam Bevan. Straighter stuff than I normally play, but it’s nice to give local folks a spin.

….. The Absolute Tradition of No Tradition snuck by me in the annals of Moe! Staiano. I think it’s his third solo album, released in 2007, and it’s got a great combination of Moe!’s pinpoint manic percussion (as on “Three Legs”) alternating with some noise tracks. Other tracks: “Ode to Ubu-o” combines both sides, pitting percussion against blurry guitar(?) blasts. “Short Continuum of the Falling Atmosphere in the Shape of Small Objects” is pretty much what the title says — stuff being dropped.

….. The trio of Lapslap combines piano, french horn, and saxophone, but the two horn players also use computers to bend, ripple, and distort the sound (or just inject new noises). It’s well done stuff. I find I favor the tracks where the computers get used more subtly — then, combined with the nonstandard horn noises and tricks like playing inside the piano, a whole palette of sounds spreads out.

….. Cecil Taylor got played on a whim; the kind of show I do calls for a nod to the old guys once in a while, right? That track triggered the idea to give Denis Charles some love. I’d discovered him shortly before his death, upon purchasing a trio disc of Thomas Borgmann, Wilber Morris, and Charles called Organic, on the Lotus Sound label out of Albuquerque. It’s a captivating ecstatic-jazz set that I’d discovered at the now defunct Noise Noise Noise, an outstanding record store in Orange County. I was still a relative newbie to free jazz (still am, actually) and just loved losing myself in the interaction in the music (they also recorded for CIMP, as I recall). As for the Denis Charles IVtet, it’s got Jemeel Moondoc on sax, Nathan Breedlove on trumpet, and Wilbert De Joode on bass. Some nice free jazz in the context of lightly grooving compositions like “Mota” here.

Interesting how I ended up picking all gray CDs to picture here.  Totally unintentional.

Album titles link into KZSU’s Zookeeper database; the icon means there’s a review or description there as well. Little links that say things like “more here” go to previous entries in this blog.

Artist	Track		Album/Label
Led Bib	Call Centre Labyrinth		Sensible Shoes Cuneiform Records
Loose Wig	Ann Uncompromised		Velvet Coup Self Release
Burrell, Dave Full Blown Trio	Expansion		Expansion High Two Recordings
University Of St. Thomas Symphonic Wind Ensemble	Armenian Rhapsody: Bar (Dance)		Out Of Nowhere Innova Recordings
Wilkes, Corey & Abstrakt Pulse(more here)	Villa Tiamo		Cries From Tha Ghetto Pi Recordings
Dorf, The(more here)	Track 2		Dorf, The Leo Records
Staiano, Moe!	Three Legs (21.2)		The Absolute Tradition of No Tradition PsychForm
Carrier, Francois & Michel Lambert	Sparkles		Nada Creative Sources Recordings
	– (4:00 p.m.) –
Ton Trio(tiny mention here)	Old Thoughts		Way, The Singlespeed Music
Taylor, Cecil	Rick Kick Shaw		Jazz Advance Blue Note
Argue, Darcy James / Secret Society(more here)	Zeno		Infernal Machines New Amsterdam Records
Bloom Project(noted here)	The Sphere Pyre		Sudden Aurora Edgetone Records
Charles, Denis Ivtet	Mota		Captain of the Deep Eremite
Ryan, Jim/Forward Energy Trio	Paper Flower		Fe3 Oakland / Fe3 Portland Edgetone Records
Ryan, Jim/Forward Energy Trio	Bob Bin In		Fe3 Oakland / Fe3 Portland Edgetone Records
	– (5:00 p.m.) –
Flotilla	Beneath The Snow		Disaster Poetry Mapl
Lehman, Steve Octet(more here)	No Neighborhood Rough Enough		Travail, Transformation, And Flow Pi Recordings
West, Rich	Short I Am		Mayo Grout’s Known Universe PfMENTUM
Lapslap	Motor Mouth		Itch: 10 Improvisations For Instruments And Live Electronics Leo Records
Yogyanese Trio With Daniel Wolf	Laler Menggeng		Gamelan Of Central Java Xi: Music Of Remembrance Felmay
Radio I-Ching(more here)	Molly Simpson		No Wave Au Go Go Resonantmusic
Boostamonte	The Acrobat		Demo 2004 Self Release
Helias, Mark	The Current Set		Current Set, The Enja Records
	– (6:00 p.m.) –
Orsi, Fabio And Gianluca Becuzzi	Act I		So Far Porter Records
Wyner, Yehudi	Piano Concerto, “Chiavi In Mano”		Orchestral Works Bridge Records