Playlist: June 26, 2009

KZSU playlist for Friday, June 26, 3:00 to 6:00 p.m.

….. Ton Trio is led by former Chicagoite Aram Shelton. Nice sax trio pieces, little slices of free jazz. Liking this one a lot.

….. The new Tony Malaby features more of the expanded “outside” direction he’s taken on his recent albums Warblepeck and especially Tamarindo, and on his work with Kris Davis.

….. Jason Rigby‘s The Sage is an interesting slice of modern jazz with soloing that’s willing to take chances. Trumpeter Russ Johnson has a lot to do with that. I’m really digging the track “The Archer,” which uses Rhodes piano (Mikw Holober) to nice effect, creating a grooving double-soloing space that’s not quite fusion-y.

….. Speaking of fusion. I was inspired to dig up Christian McBride‘s stellar 3-CD Live at Tonic set after reading his touching essay about being a Michael Jackson fan growing up. His new album, Kind of Brown, just recently got to us and wasn’t immediately available for me — besides, the track I picked opened up the fusion gates for the Billy Cobham track. Fusion doesn’t always agree with me, but I enjoy letting the stuff take flight once in a while.

….. Sexmob meets Medeski is pretty much what you’d think, especially since it’s live: Rollicking spy-jazz themes, splashy organ grooves, and quiet avant-garde breaks that lead into big loud group segments.

….. Clara Rockmore was a classical-music theremin player who died in 1998.  I took this track from a 1987 CD of hers.

….. “Bubble Wrap” by Brian B. James is a 22-minute drone — more like an electronic tone with a slow, slow pulse to it. Probably sounded terrible to anybody listening in their car.

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
Malaby, Tony	Obambo		Paloma Recio New World Records
Shepik, Brad(more here)	Blindspot (North America)		Human Activity Suite Songlines Recordings
Roach, Steve & Unis, Vir	Synaptic Gap		Body Eletric Projekt Records
Haque, Fareed & The Flat Earth Ensemble	Bengali Bud		Flat Planet Owl Studios
Noonan, Sean / Brewed By Noon(noted here)	Courage		Boxing Dreams Songlines Recordings
Rigby, Jason	Magenta		Sage, The Fresh Sound New Talent
Romus, Rent/Lords Of Outland	Gasburger Sheep Slaughter House		You Can Sleep When You’re Dead Edgetone Records
Bloom Project(more here)	Intimation Dusk		Sudden Aurora Edgetone Records
Lotz, Mark Alban / Lotz Of Music(more here)	Corny Water Music		Bite! Loplop Productions
Ton Trio	The Way		Way, The Singlespeed Music
	— (4:00 p.m.) —
Lehman, Steve Octet(written up here)	As Things Change (I Remain The Same)		Travail, Transformation, And Flow Pi Recordings
Rockmore, Clara	Tchaikovsky: Valse Sentiment		Art of the Theremin, the Delos International
Ross, Don & Andy Mckee	Tight Trite Night		Thing That Came From Somewhere, The Candyrat Records
Djll, Tom	Mag Wheels [w/Myles Boisen]		Mutootator Soul on Rice Productions
Léandre, Joëlle & Quentin Sirjacq	Hallucinations		Out Of Nowhere Actuelle Cd
Brian B. James	Bubble-Wrap [excerpt]		Bubble-Wrap-Covered Record Diy Release
Gordon, John William	G.V.O.L.		Technot Self Release
Sexmob Meets Medeski	Black And Tan Fantasy		Live In Willisau 2006 Thirsty Ear Recordings
Experimental Dental School	Earthquake		Forest Field (No Label Information)
Jensson, Hilmar	Morthanna		Tyft Songlines Recordings
Carrier, Francois & Michel Lambert	Apercu		Nada Creative Sources Recordings
	— (5:00 p.m.) —
Aaly Trio with Ken Vandermark	Ghosts		Live at the Glenn Miller Cafe Wobbly Rail
McBride, Christian	Technicolor Nightmare		Live At Tonic Ropeadope Music Entertain
Billy Cobham’s Glass Menagerie	Situation Comedy		Smokin’ Elektra Records (West Coast)
Spirit Moves Us, The	Chunk		Mudwagon, Vol. 1 Edgetone Records
Wilkes, Corey & Abstrakt Pulse(more here)	Cries From Tha Ghetto		Cries From Tha Ghetto Pi Recordings