Playlist: May 1, 2009

KZSU playlist for Friday, May 1, 3:00 p.m. to 5:20 p.m.

The final set starts with Kyle Bruckmann‘s Wrack, which has a tough, aggressive middle but an overall slow aesthetic, and then gets into droney tones up through the Ellery Eskelin, which starts out with long accordion tones before getting into choppy, dynamic territory. That was a fun set to put together.

The Donald “Duck” Bailey recording is a modern one, in a quintet with Charles Tolliver (trombone) and Odean Pope (tenor sax). It’s got a progressive mainstream sound, if that makes sense — I’m not sure you’d call it free jazz, but it’s plenty creative with some compelling writing behind it, and of course some longtime ace musicians in the band.

Opened the show with some old, old Ken Vandermark stuff from 1993.

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Artist	Track		Album/Label
Vandermark Quartet, the	Dog Cliches		Big Head Eddie Platypus Records
Shakers N’ Bakers	Chinese!!!		Yearning For Zion Little I Music
Sparks	Good Morning		Exotic Creatures Of The Deep Lil’ Beethoven Records
Bailey, Donald	Blues It		Blueprints Of Jazz: Vol. 3 Talking House Records
Moffett, Charnett	Scrambled Eggs		Still Life Evidence Music
Axis Trio	Last Call		Hand, The Snp Records
Cleaver/Parker/Taborn	Not Unlike Number 10 [excerpt]		Farmers By Nature Aum Fidelity
Univers Zero	L’etrange Mixture Du Docteur Schwartz		Relaps Cuneiform Records
Loka	Beginningless		You Don’t Know – Ninja Cuts Ninja Tune
Gutbucket	Brain Born Outside Of Its Head		A Modest Proposal Cuneiform Records
Hemphill, Julius Sextet	Jiji Tune		At Dr. King’s Table New World Records
	— (4:00 p.m.) —
Lyons, Jimmy & Sunny Murray Trio	Riffs #5		Jump Up Hat Hut
Dunaway, Judy	Missionary Kid		Judy Dunaway Lost Records
Mahanthappa, Rudresh / Indo-Pak Coalition	You Talk Too Much		Apti Innova Recordings
Shiurba, John 5×5/Anthony Braxton	1.2.1		1.2 = A Rastascan Records
Del Sol String Quartet	Hyo-Shin Na “Song Of The Beggars”		Ring Of Fire Other Minds
Hassell, Jon	Wing Melodies		Powerspot Ecm Records
Berthiaume/Sharp	Home		Base Actuelle Cd
Bruckmann, Kyle/Wrack	Sins of Omission		Kyle Bruckmann’s Wrack Red Toucan
Antrilon	Colliding Waves		Mind Erase Dead Earnest
Baker, Jen	Pip Squeak		Blue Dreams Dilapidated Barns
	— (5:00 p.m.) —
Quatuor Bozzini	Saxony [excerpt]		Arbor Vitae Actuelle Cd
Eskelin, Ellery with Andrea Pa	Cause and Effect		Five Other Pieces (+2) Hat Hut
Cline, Alex	On The Bones Of The Homegoing Thunder [excerpt]		Continuation