The Jazz Disturbance Playlist...But First...
Good morning...kinda....
WGXC 90.7 FM
Until we meet again....
Not the
best few weeks in jazz, huh? From The NewYorker’s recent “satire” piece (and let's be clear - it was after the debacle that the paper identified it as a "humor blog") initially and erroneously credited to
saxophonist Sonny Rollins to this week’s Washington Post Op-Ed diatribe from some very disgruntled-sounding former jazz
student, America’s “Classical” music took a few jabs to the ribs. I could waste
a lot of my time and yours deconstructing this latest rant against the music –
like his Wayback Machine reference to jazz-rap
group Us3 and alt-hip-hop trio Digable Plantets – but instead, I’ll waste just
a bit. In my opinion it’s rehashed rubbish on the topics that have dogged jazz
for decades (Rollins talks about this in his Google Hangouts appearance.) If I
were Anthony Braxton, one of his teachers at Wesleyan University, I’d take a Fake
Book and clock him with it. For those of
you who listen to The Jazz Disturbance
on Thursday evenings on WGXC 90.7 FM, you know that most of my show is made up of current releases. Why? For one reason, unlike the author of the Op-Ed piece,
I hear the music evolving every week, especially when juxtaposed next to the
works of iconic Jazz figures like Ellington or Ella or Ornette. When is the
last time this author listened to a Jazz (or whatever you’d like to call it)
program or attended a Jazz concert or festival? Pianist Marcus Roberts said in
his recent interview with me that there are more young people playing Jazz now
than when he was a kid. Maybe this author should
have stood up at Mr. Roberts’ masterclass last week and told those young
players to keep their day job trashing Jazz in print!
On a
lighter now, I’ve received very good comments on my recent interviews, content-wise
as well as on the editing (getting’ better at Audacity, for sure!), which makes
me smile. The one that just aired on
Saturday with my ‘GXC radio colleague Tim Livingston was super! Not every interview that I've done is with a jazz artists, by the way. I really like the creative process of engaging with different folks on different things. I'm crafty that way!
O.K, I
could use a mental break right now….I think I’ll go wash my car…
THE JAZZ DISTURBANCE
w/Cheryl K.
PLAYLIST
8/7/14
WGXC 90.7 FM
Hudson, NY
Thursdays, 7p-9:30p
PLAYLIST
ARTIST/SONG/TITLE/LABEL
M. Allison/That’s Alright/Autumn
Song/Prestige [2:26]
D. Basse/Sins of the Father/The
Hero and The Lover…/Café Pacific [3:27]
S. Helbing/The Silent
Watcher/Handprints/Armored [3:47]
A. Rathbun/Sleep Please/Numbers
& Letters/Steeplechase [5:42]
S. Khan/Infant Eyes/Subtext/Tone
Center [8:31]
T. Lincoln/If I Knew Then/Toni
Lincoln/Nu Wrinkle [2:42]
C. Apicella/The Selma March/Big
Boss/Zoho [6:49]
N. Cline/Companion
Piece/Macroscope/Mack Avenue [5:37]
J. P. Curtis/Longest Day/Faux
Bourgeois Café/J.P. Curtis [5:31]
S. Rollins/Way Out West/Way Out
West/Contemporary [6:28]
S. Rollins/Street Runner with
Child/OST: Alfie/Impulse! [3:59]
S. Rollins/You Don’t Know What
Love Is/Saxophone Colossus/Prestige [6:28]
S. Rollins/Toot Toot, Tootsie/The
Sound of Sonny/Riverside [4:20]
L. Bloch/Baby Suite/Feathery13th
Note [11:33]
F. Peikli/Dark Voyage/Royal
Flush/Rex [6:12]
M. Feinberg/But the Sound…/Live
at 800 East/Behip [11:57]
Gato Libra/Rainy Day/Dudu/Libra
[8:22]
J. Ajemian/Ask Mr. Blount
Now/Folklords/Delmark [12:18]
S. Fujii/Bi Ga Do Da/Shiki/Libra
[10:06]
Until we meet again....
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