Jean-Luc Ponty – Overture – Enigmatic ocean
Miles Davis Quintet – Directions – Live in Europe: the bootleg series vol. 2
Ramones – I lost my mind – Halfway to sanity
Tunji Oleyana & The Benders – Iwo ku la dami – Nigeria special: volume 2: modern highlife, afro sounds & Nigerian blues 1970-6
The Kahil El’Zabar Quartet – The nature of – What it is!
Sons of Freedom – Dead dog on the highway – Sons of freedom*
Larry Carlton & Robben Ford – Amen AC – Unplugged
The Bad Plus – I want to feel good pt 2 – Made possible
The Screaming Blue Messiahs – I wanna be a Flintstone – Bikini red
Nicole Mitchell’s Ice Crystal – Aquarius – Aquarius
Weather Report – The moors – I sing the body electric
Bored Nothing – I wish you were dead – Bored Nothing
Akron/Family – Sand time – Sub Verses
Iron And Wine – Sundown (back in the briars) – Ghost On Ghost
Michalis Terzis – Tatavla-chasapiko – Magic of the Greek Bouzouki – Ionicos Cosmos
Joshua Redman – Let it be – Walking shadows
Billy Cobham – Stratus – Spectrum
Ele Motho – Better days – My Africa
Colin Stetson – In mirrors – New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light*
Chet Doxas – Dive – Dive*
The Southern Death Cult – Vivisection – The Southern Death Cult
Mikrokolektyw – Fossil stairway – Absent minded
Kerkko Koskinen Orchestra – Modern single man – Jazz from Finland 2013
T. Patrick Carrabre – Symphony no. 3: I – War Of Angels*
Teenage Head – Kissin’ the carpet – Thunder Sound, Toronto, ON, October 31, 1978*
Zohreh Jooya – Kakuleh – Journey To Persia ( ARC )
BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet – Bessie’s blues – From Bamako To Carencro ( Compass )
Roby Glod, Roberta Piket, Mark Tokar, Klaus Kugel – Dre – Op Der Schmelz Line ( Nemu )

*=Canadian

Just a real mixed bag today.  Several vinyl tracks played, which is a rarity for me (there’s actually several more slated for next week).

Andrew

The Bryan Ferry Orchestra – Do the strand – The jazz age
Alice Coltrane – The ankh of Amen-Ra – Universal consciousness
Teri Lynne Carrington – Switch blade – Money jungle: provacative in blue
Mules – True love – Calgary compelation**
Stephen Micus – You are the life-giving rain – Panagia
Dire Straits – Six blade knife – Dire Straits
Rokia Traore – Melancholie – Beautiful Africa
Richie Havens – Indian rope man – Richard P. Havens, 1983
Steve Earle & The Duke (& Duchesses) – Calico County – The Low Highway
Neal Pattman – Low down blues – Classic Harmonica Blues
The Breakers – Kamikaze – Surfer’s mood
Ian Dogole – Blue nile – Outside The Box – Jazz Journeys & Worlds Beyond
Grateful Dead – New speedway boogie – Dave’s picks volume 6
Stefano Battaglia Trio – Vondervotteimittis – Songways
Wolf People – Tiny circle – Steeple
Larry Willis – 153rd Street Theme – Inner crisis
Lisa Hilton – Lost & found – Getaway
Ceramic Dog – Special snowflake – Your Turn
Nick Fraser – Ballad for Lydia – Towns And Villages*
Carlos Santana and John McLaughlin – Lotus land – 45th Montreux Jazz Festival, Auditorium Stravinsky, Montreux, Switzerland, July 1, 2011
Mark de Clive-Lowe & The Rotterdam Jazz Orchestra – Relax… unwind – Take the space trane
The Mackrosoft – S.E.M.E – S.E.M.E
Eberhard Weber – Lazise - Resume
Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society – Builders – Brooklyn Babylon
Craig Wuepper – We can still do that – Leaps And Bounds
Roger Chong – Tin tin II – Live At The Trane*
Martin Lozano Lewis Wiens Duncan – Invocation – At Canterbury*

*=Canadian

**=local

First show back after a week’s absence.  Many thanks to Nathan Taylor for taking the reigns while I was away (in Taiwan!).

A bit of a slant to the “new” and “jazz” this week but still very much a mixed bag.  A fair number of new releases on the ECM label are crossing my path these days; I featured three of them (one an hour) in today’s show.  The “New speedway boogie” was the first time it was ever played live, not long after its composition.  Richie Havens RIP.

Andrew

Ben Allison – Vs. Godzilla – Think free
MC Yogi – Om (invocation) – Elephant power
MC Yogi featuring Bhagavan Das – Elephant power – Elephant power
The Lowest of the Low – So long Bernie – Shakespeare my butt*
Joe Henderson – Afro-centric – Power to the people
Donald Ray Jackson – Me and Jack (Daniels) – These blues: the best of Donald Ray Johnson**
Graham Nash & David Crosby – The wall song – Graham Nash David Crosby
Roger Chong – Laugh out loud – Live at the Trane*
Anthrax – Big eyes – Anthems
Charles Lloyd/Charles Moran – Pictogram – Hagar’s song
Gavin Bryars with the Vlaams Radio Orkest – Jesus’ blood never failed me yet – Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles, Belgium, September 17, 2005
Ian Dogole – Honey’s romp – Outside the box
Craig Wuepper – Earsight – Leaps and bounds
Vashti Bunyan – Love song – Just another diamond day
Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School Of Medicine – Werewolves of Wall Street – White People And The Damage Done
Albert Ayler – Desert blood – The last album
Iron Butterfly – In the time of our lives – Live
Bombino – Amindinine – Nomad
Cam Penner – Rivers forgotten – To Build A Fire**
Anthony Braxton Septet – Composition no. 348 part 6 – Accelerator ghost dance, Kursaal Chamber Hall, 43 Heinekin Jazzaldia, Donostia, San Sebastien, Spain, July 25, 2008
Dirty Fences – Heaven is tonight – Too High To Kros
The Clash – Junkie slip – Sandinista!
Boogie baby – Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee – Classic harmonica blues
Rokia Traore – Lalla – Beautiful Africa
Steve Earle & The Dukes (& Duchesses) – Burnin’ it down – The low highway
Os Mutantes – Ganja man – Fool Metal Jack
The Ray Charles Tribute Orchestra with Donald Ray Johnson & John Gray – Unchain my heart – The Ray Charles Tribute Orchestra with Donald Ray Johnson & John Gray**
Cory Weeds/Bill Coon Quartet – Cory’s story – “With benefits”*
The Chase – Detour – Groenland*
Beams – Picture this – Just Rivers*
Congregations – You are trembling – Weird Pop(?) From The Peace Country*
Chris Clark Quintet – Indecisive – Cedar Wisely
Ghostkeeper - Walking a hundred – Horse Chief! War Chief!**
Lafidki – Astral o – Orange Milk Meets USSR

*=Canadian

**=local

This was a really wide and varied show with 33 tracks played; not a record but not too far off.  Top of the heap for this week: “Lalla” by Rokia Traore.

I’ll be away (in Taiwan!) for next week’s show, April 29.  Nathan Taylor has kindly agreed to fill in for me, as he has done in the past.  I’ll be back on the air in two weeks, on May 6.

Andrew

Here’s the last of the unposted palylists from 2011-2012:

“Orchestra tuning-up” (Living sound effects, vol. VI)

Keven Dean/PJ Perry Quintet – “Hip bone” (Ubiquitous)*

Yes – “Cans and Brahms” (Fragile)

Blackie and the Rodeo Kings – “Summer side of life” (Beautiful: a tribute to Gordon Lightfoot)*

Throbbing Gristle – “Beachy head” (20 jazz funk greats)

The Pines – “Grace hill” (Dark so gold)

Sun Ra & His Solar Arkestra – “Dawn over Israel” (In the beginning 1963-1964)

Tedeschi Trucks Band – “Everybody’s talkin’” (Learn how to love)

Vlatkovich Tryyo – “Our costumes should tell us who we are and what we think” (Perishing woman)

Shonen Knife – “Welcome to the rock club” (Pop tune)

Lewis Nash Quintet – “Y todavia la queiro” (The highest mountain)

The Vestibules – “Performance artist Barbi” (Get spiffy!)*

Eric Copeland – “Lemons” (Limbo)

Clayton Doley – “Chester drawers” (Desperate times)

Barry Altschul – “King korn” (You can’t name your own tune)

An All-Star Band of Cajun Musicians – “Two step de prairie soileau” (Evangeline made: a tribute to cajun music)

Gary Sloan & Clone – “ARR 7. glacier suite” (Harmonitalk)

The Contortionist – “Solipsis” (Intrinsic)

Masta Conga & His New Afro Latin Village – “Harissa” (Last odyssey)

Hafez Modirzadeh – “Weft facets: interlude IV” (Post-chromodal-out!)

“Pipe organ ‘amen’ (the big finish)” (Living sound effects, vol. VI)

Shawn Lee’s Ping Pong Orchestra – “Biker chick” (Reel to reel)

Arnaldo Antunes, Edgard Scandurra, Touami Diabate – “A curva da cintura” (A curva da cintura)

Diamond Terrifier – “Becoming a new object” (Kill the self that want to kill yourself)

The Renderers – “Typhoid Mary” (A rocket into nothing)

Emily Portman – “Tongue-tied” (The glamoury)

Schizoid – “Real evil” (The next extreme)

The Odd Trio – “Information fatigue” (Birth of the minotaur)

Cecil Taylor Unit – “S” (Nicaragua: no parasan)

*=Canadian

Yay!  All caught up!!

Andrew

Charles Gayle Trio – Compassion I – Streets (Northern Spy)
Le Quatuor De Jazz Libre Du Quebec – Sans Titre – 1973
Jazz Snob: Eat Shit – Untitled – js:es (Bug Incision)

Fire! – You Liked Me Five Minutes Ago – You Liked Me Five Minutes Ago
Matana Roberts – Kersaia – Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens De Couleur Libres (Constellation)
Colin Stetson – Those Who Didn’t Run – Those Who Didn’t Run (Constellation)

Art Ensemble Of Chicago – Cruising With JJ – Sirius Calling (Pi Recordings)
Jerry Granelli & Badlands – Sting Thing – Enter, a Dragon (Songlines)
Brad Mehldau Trio – Twiggy – Ode (Nonesuch)

Weather Report – Birdland – Heavy Weather
Elfin Saddle* – Kiboho – Devastates (Constellation)
Eleanoora Rosenholm – Ambulanssikuskitar – Ala Kysy Kuolleilta, He Sanoivat
Eric Chenaux* – Sliabh Aughty – Guitar & Voice (Constellation)

Chicago Underground Duo – It’s Alright – Age Of Energy (Northern Spy)
Oren Ambarchi – Fractured Mirror – Audience Of One (Touch)
Julia Holter – In The Same Room – Ekstasis (RVNG)

Thurston Moore – Moinette Biologique – Solo Acoustic Volume 5
The Lijadu Sisters – Osupa II – Mother Africa (Knitting Factory)

Galactic – Julou – Carnivale Electricos (Anti)
Baloji – Kesho – Kinshasa Succursale (Crammed)
The Bran Flakes – Fifty Four Forty – I Have Hands

Siskiyou – Twigs & Stones – Keep Away The Dead (Constellation)
John Southworth Andrew Dowing* – Metamorphosong – Easterween (Sud de Valeur)
The Books – Smells LIke Content – Lost And Safe

Aaron Freeman – Loves Been Good To Me – Marvelous Clouds
Army Navy – Jumping Someone Else’s Train – Perfect As Cats: A Tribute To The Cure
Geist** – Fissures – Fissures (Self-Released)

Her Space Holiday – Tech Romance (Matmost Remix) – The Young Machines Remixed
Old Mare* – Gorilla Girl – You Deserve More (Self-Released)
The Now Feeling** – No Good Trying – the Now Feeling (Self-Released)

*=Canadian

**=local

This was a showfill by the CJSW music director, Kat Dornian.  Thanks, Kat!

Andrew