Playlist: December 17, 2009

[Note: It was "explore the stacks" day. I went into the studio with absolutely nothing in my hands or my head. This is what I came up with....]

Esperanza Spalding * * * Cuerro Y Alma (Body and Soul) * * * Esperanza * * * Heads Up

Evelyn Rubio Y Calvin Owens Orchestra Azul * * * El Gato * * * La Mujer Que Canta Blues * * * n/a

Ambrose Field & John Potter * * * Being Dufay * * * Being Dufay * * * ECM New Series

Leroy Fine [Joel Spiegelman & the Moscow Radio Orchestra] * * * Blue Towers * * * Blue Towers: Symphonic Music of Leroy Fine * * * Delos

Anthony Braxton * * * Cut Three, Side Two * * * New York, Fall 1974 * * * Arista

Bragatissimo * * * Tango III * * * Tango Nuevo * * * North Pacific Music

Max Roach * * * Ezz-thetic * * * + 4 * * * Trip

Oliver Lake Quintet * * * Hat and Beard * * * Dedicated to Dolphy * * * Black Saint

Playlist: December 10, 2009

Jeremy Davenport * * * The Lady Is A Tramp * * * We'll Dance 'Til Dawn * * * Telarc

Louis Armstrong * * * Mack the Knife * * * Jazz Best: 20 Immortal Jazz Standards * * * Music Power

Dinah Washington * * * Me and My Gin * * * Fly Me To the Moon * * * Restoration Hardware

Ella Fitzgerald * * * I've Got You Under My Skin * * * I Get A Kick Out of You * * * Verve

Frank Sinatra * * * I Get A Kick Out of You * * * The Frank Sinatra Collection * * * Deja Vu

Dardanelle * * * It Could Happen To You * * * The 1992 Stash Sampler * * * Stash

Jimmy Scott * * * Darn That Dream * * * But Beautiful * * * Milestone

Allen Toussaint * * * Long, Long Journey * * * The Bright Mississippi * * * Nonesuch

Nat King Cole * * * I Don't Get Around Much Any More * * * Unforgetable * * * Longines Symphonette Recording Society

Louis Armstrong * * * Save It, Pretty Mama * * * Hot Fives & Sevens, Vol. 3 * * * JSP

Hoagy Charmichael * * * Stardust * * * Gennett Records Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 * * * Gennett

Playlist: December 2, 2009

Fats Waller * * * Chant of the Groove * * * Ain't Misbehavin' * * * Proper

Count Basie with Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross * * * Swingin' the Blues * * * Sing Along with Basie * * * Routlette

Hank Jones * * * Honeysuckle Rose * * * Ain't Misbehavin' * * * Galaxy

Tony Scott * * * The Lady is a Tramp * * * The Modern Art of Jazz * * * Seeco

Earl Hines * * * Trav'lin Light * * * Fatha * * * Columbia

Charles Mingus * * * Jelly Roll * * * Mingus Ah-Um * * * Columbia

Steve Allen * * * St. Louis Blues * * * Plays the Piano Greats * * * Hamilton

Johnny Maddox * * * It's A Long, Long Way to Tipperary / I Didn't Raise My Boy To Be a Soldier * * * Ragtime Piano 1917 -1918 * * * Dot

Count Basie with Jimmy Rushing * * * How Long Blues * * * Blues by Basie * * * Columbia

Fred Astaire * * * Nice Work If You Can Get It * * * Let's Face the Music and Dance * * * Living Era

Andre Kostelanetz * * * Medley from Girl Talk * * * Kostelanetz Plays Gershwin * * * Columbia

Charlie Howze * * * Drop Me Off in Harlem * * * On the Piano * * * Horchow

Playlist: October 22, 2009

Tony Hollis * * * Cross Cut Saw Blues * * * Roots N' Blues Retrospective * * * Legacy

Old Tanner and the Skillet Lickers * * * Soldier's Joy * * * Roots N' Blues Retrospective * * * Legacy

Borah Bergman and Stefano Pastor * * * Crescent * * * Live at Tortona * * * Mutable Music

Pony Poindexter Nonet * * * Lanyop * * * Almost Forgotten: Instrumentalists * * * Columbia

Louis Armstrong * * * Royal Garden Blues * * * Ambassador Satch * * * Columbia

Paul Barbarin's New Orleans Stompers * * * Gettsyburg March * * * The Names of Dixieland * * * Baronet

New England Ragtime Ensemble * * * Smokehouse Blues * * * The Road From Rags to Jazz * * * Golden Crest

Duke Ellington * * * Beale Street Blues * * * The Unbooted Character * * * Swing Treasury

JB Floyd, Thomas Buckner, George Marsh * * * He's the Echo Inside the Echo (Improvisation) * * * In Crossing the Busy Street * * * Mutable Music

John Graas * * * Mulliganesque * * * Jazz of the Fifties * * * DECCA

Art Hodes * * * Panama Rag * * * Delmark 55 Years of Jazz * * * Delmark

Playlist: October 8, 2009

Dock Boggs * * * Country Blues * * * Dock Boggs: His Folkways Years 1963-1968 * * * Smithsonian Folkways

Roscoe Holcomb * * * Omie Wise * * * The High Lonesome Sound * * * Smithsonian Folkways

Blind Blake * * * C.C. Pills * * * The Essential Recordings of Blind Blake * * * Indigo

Sidney Bechet * * * Kansas City Man Blues * * * Up A Lazy River * * * Good Time Jazz

Bing Crosby and Jack Teagarden * * * The Birth of the Blues * * * And Some Jazz Friends * * * Decca Jazz

Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra * * * Hey-Ba-Ba-Re-Bop * * * Big Band Jazz: The Jubilee Sessions * * * Hindsight

The Hokum Boys * * * Gin Mill Blues * * * Roots N' Blues Retrospective * * * Legacy

Louis Armstrong * * * There's A Cabin In The Pines * * * The Complete RCA Victor Recordings * * * RCA Victor

Bix Beiderbecke * * * 'Tain't So, Honey, 'Tain't So * * * The Bix Beiderbecke Story: Louisiana * * * Proper

Benny Goodman * * * King Porter Stomp * * * King of Swing * * * Bluebird

Kid Ory * * * Savoy Blues * * * (1927-1947) * * * Document

Hoagy Charmichael and His Pals * * * Friday Night * * * Gennet Records Greatest Hits, Vol. III * * * Gennett

George Lewis * * * Doctor Jazz * * * Delmark: 55 Years of Jazz * * * Delmark

Playlist: September 24, 2009

Daniels-Deason Sacred Harp Singers * * * Hallelujah * * * Roots N' Blues Retrospective * * * Legacy

Molly O'Day and the Cumberland Mountain Folks * * * Heaven's Radio * * * Roots N' Blues Retrospective * * * Legacy

Wilbur Sweatman * * * Down Home Rag * * * Ragtime to Jazz 1 1912-1919 * * * Timeless

Louis Armstrong * * * Don't Play Me Cheap * * * Complete RCA Victor Recordings * * * RCA Victor

Lawrence Welk's Novelty Orchestra * * * Spiked Beer * * * Gennett Records Greatest Hits Vol III * * * Gennett

Duke Ellington * * * Harlem Speaks * * * Creole Rhapsody * * * Living Era

* * * Paul Whiteman and his Concert Orchestra * * * Caprice Futuristic * * * Music for Moderns * * * Naxos
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Fletcher Henderson * * * Phantom Fantasie * * * Hocus Pocus * * * Bluebird

Original Dixieland Jass Band * * * Tiger Rag * * * Ragtime to Jazz 1 * * *
Timeless

Benny Goodman * * * Tiger Rag * * * Jazz Tribune No. 13 * * * RCA

Lewis Black * * * Spanish Blues * * * A Richer Tradition: Country Blues and String Band Music 1927-1932 * * * JSP

Peatie Wheatstraw * * * Police Station Blues * * * Roots N' Blues Retrospective * * * Legacy

Breaux Frerres * * * La Valse Des Yeux Blue (Blue Eyes Waltz) * * * Roots N' Blues Retrospective * * * Legacy

Black Cats and The Kitten * * * Step It Up and Go * * * Roots N' Blues Retrospective * * * Legacy

Slim Gaillard * * * Oxydol Highball * * * Black California, Vol. 2 * * * Savoy

Playlist: September 10, 2009

Waring's Pennsylvanians * * * Ice Cream * * * The Roaring Twenties * * * Flapper

Jimmy Durante's Jazz Band * * * Why Cry Blues * * * Gennett Records Greatest Hits * * * Gennett

Eubie Blake * * * Fare Thee Honey Blues * * * Greatest Ragtime of the Century * * * Biograph

Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell * * * Mean Old Train Blues * * * Naptown Blues * * * Orbis

Jelly Roll Morton Trio * * * Smilin' the Blues Away * * * Jelly Roll Morton Vol. 2 * * * JSP

Benny Goodman * * * Stompin' at the Savoy * * * Rare Recordings 1935-1936 * * * LaserLight

Paul Whiteman with George Gershwin * * * Rhapsody in Blue * * * Music for Moderns * * * Naxos

Bix Beiderbecke * * * Futuristic Rhythm * * * Bix Beiderbecke Story: Louisiana * * * Proper

Louis Armstrong * * * Rockin' Chair * * * Hot Fives & Sevens, Vol. 4 * * * JSP

Fletcher Henderson * * * Harlem Madness * * * Hocus Pocus * * * Bluebird

Duke Ellington * * * Blue Harlem * * * Creole Rhapsody * * * Living Era

Kid Ory's Sunshine Orchestra * * * Ory's Creole Trombone * * * Kid Ory (1922-1947) * * * Document

Gitfiddle Jim * * * Paddlin' Madeline Blues * * * A Richer Tradition: Country Blues and String Band Music 1927-1932 * * * JSP

Bing Crosby with the Rhythm Boys * * * Mississippi Mud/I Left My Sugar Standing in the Rain * * * Bing: His Legendary Years 1931-1957 * * * MCA

Playlist: August 27, 2009

Randy Newman * * * Louisiana 1927 * * * Good Old Boys * * * Reprise

Randy Newman * * * Sail Away * * * Sail Away * * * Reprise

Julius Hemphill * * * The Hard Blues * * * Coon Bidness * * * Arista Freedom

Lester Bowie * * * Sardegna Amore (New Is Full of Lonely People) * * * The 5th Power * * * Black Saint

Charles Mingus * * * Pedal Point Blues * * * Mingus Ah-Um * * * Columbia-Legacy

Jeff Gauthier Goatette * * * Biko's Blues * * * House of Return * * * Cryptogramophone

Todd Sickafoose * * * Paper Trombones * * * Tiny Resistors * * * Cryptogramophone

Dave Brubeck * * * Koto Song * * * Time Out * * * Columbia-Legacy

Playlist: August 20, 2009

BAG II Project featuring Clayton Chandler VonDras, Jack Callahan, Zimbabwe Nkenya * * * Calculated Risk * * * Vol. 2, 2008 * * * n/a

BAG II Project featuring Cooper-Moore and Zimbabwe Nkenya * * * PATHS * * * Vol. 2, 2008 * * * n/a

BAG II featuring Cooper-Moore and Zimbabwe Nkenya * * * Shumba (Traditional) * * * Vol. 2, 2008 * * * n/a

BAG II Project * * * Eneke The Bird Parts 1 and 2 * * * Vol. 2, 2008 * * * n/a

BAG II Project featuring Clayton Chandler VonDras, Jack Callahan, Zimbabwe Nkenya * * * Long Black Song * * * Vol. 2, 2008

Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio * * * Autumn Leaves * * * OOH Live! * * * Katalyst Entertainment

Playlist: August 13, 2009

Luther Thomas Human Arts Ensemble * * * Una New York * * * Funky Donkey Vols. I & II * * * Unheard Music Series

Lester Bowie * * * F-Troop Rides Again * * * Hello Dolly * * * Muse

Human Arts Ensemble * * * A Lover's Desire * * * Under the Sun * * * Arista Freedom

Oliver Lake * * * Rocket * * * Heavy Spirit * * * Arista Freedom

Playlist: August 6, 2009

Copernicus * * * Atomic New Orleans * * * Disappearance* * * MoonJune

Velvet Underground* * * Melody Laughing* * * Peel Slowly And See* * * Polydor

Velvet Underground* * * Booker T.* * * Peel Slowly And See* * * Polygram

Velvet Underground* * * Some Kinda Love* * * Peel Slowly And See* * * Polygram

Velvet Underground* * * Foggy Notion* * * Peel Slowly And See* * * Polydor

Velvet Underground* * * All Tomorrow's Parties* * * Peel Slowly And See* * * Polydor

Akron/Family* * * Sun Will Shine (Warmth of the Sunship Version)* * * Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free Dead* * * Oceans

Playlist: July 30, 2009

The Cajun Strangers * * * Cajun Country Ramble * * * Cajun Country Ramble * * * Swallow

Charles Mingus * * * Slop * * * Mingus Ah Um * * * Sony-Legacy

Dave Brubeck * * * St. Louis Blues * * * Time Out * * * Sony-Legacy

Shea Breaux Wells * * * Blue Skies * * * A Blind Date * * * Ultimate

Saltman Knowles * * * It's Been A Mad Spring * * * Return of the Composer * * * Pacific Coast Jazz

Hot Club of Detroit * * * Blues Up and Down * * * Night Town * * * Mack Avenue

Phil Ranelin * * * Blue Bossa * * * Living a New Day * * * Wide Hive

Garaj Mahal * * * Uptown Tippitinas * * * Woot * * * Owl Studios

Spencer Katzman Threeo * * * Bella Django * * * 5 is the New Three * * * 6V6

Claudia Acuna * * * Vuelvo Al Sur * * * En Este Momento * * * Marsalis Music

Playlist: July 23, 2009

Louis Armstrong * * * Ko Ko Mo (I Love You So) * * * Love Songs * * * Legacy

Louis Armstrong * * * Mack the Knife * * * Greatest Hits Recorded Live * * * Brunswick

Louis Armstrong & His Hot Seven * * * Weary Blues * * * Hot Fives and Sevens, Vol. 2 * * * JSP

Louis Armstrong * * * Steak Face * * * Satchmo at Symphony Hall * * * Decca Jazz

Louis Armstrong * * * Blue Yodel (Standing on the Corner) * * * Young Louis Armstrong * * * RCA

Carroll Dickerson's Savoygers * * * Savoyagers' Stomp * * * Hot Fives and Sevens, Vol. 3 * * * JSP

Louis Armstrong * * * Please Stop Playing Those Blues, Boy * * * Pops * * * Bluebird

ouis Armstrong * * * What Did I Do To Be So Black and Blue * * * Hot Fives and Sevens, Vol. 4 * * * JSP

Louis Armstrong * * * Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans * * * Pops * * * Bluebird

Louis Armstrong * * * Gut Bucket Blues * * * Hot Fives and Sevens, Vol. 1 * * * JSP

Louis Armstrong * * * Royal Garden Blues * * * Satchmo at Symphony Hall * * * Decca

Louis Armstrong * * * A Kiss To Build A Dream On * * * Greatest Hits Recorded Live * * * Brunswick

Louis Armstrong Hello Dolly * * * Greatest Hits Recorded Live * * * Brunswick

Jeremy Davenport * * * That Old Black Magic * * * We'll Dance 'Til Dawn * * * Basin Street

Playlist: July 16, 2009

Kurt Rosenwinkel * * * Blue Line * * * Heartcore * * * Verve

Matthew Shipp Quartet * * * Visions * * * Pastoral Composure * * * Thirsty Ear

David S. Ware * * * 3rd Movement * * * Freedom Suite * * * Aum Fidelity

Sonny Rollins * * * 4th Movement * * * Freedom Suite * * * Riverside

Matt Wilson * * * Old Gospel * * * Arts & Crafts * * * Leroy

Southside Johnny & LaBamba's Big Band * * * Tango Till They're Sore * * * Grapefruit Moon: The Songs of Tom Waits * * * Leroy

Allen Toussaint * * * Singin' the Blues * * * The Bright Mississippi * * * Nonesuch

Miles Davis * * * Concierto de Aranjuez (alternate take part 1) * * * Sketches of Spain * * * Sony-Legacy

Playlist: July 9, 2009

David Sylvian * * * Maria / Orpheus * * * Secrets of the Beehive * * * Virgin

Henry Cow * * * Bad Alchemy / Little Red Riding Hood Hits the Road * * * Concerts * * * East Side Digital

Branford Marsalis * * * The Wrath (Structured Burnout) * * * Renaissance * * * Columbia

Anthony Braxton * * * For Composer * * * John Cage * * * For Alto * * * Delmark

Miles Davis * * * Saeta * * * Sketches of Spain * * * Sony-Legacy

illiam Parker In Order to Survive * * * Holiday for Hypocrites * * * Compassion Seizes Bed-Stuy * * * Homestead

Frank Zappa * * * RDNZL * * * Studio Tan * * * Ryko

Playlist: July 2, 2009

Miles Davis * * * Teo * * * Sketches of Spain * * * Sony-Legacy

Lester Bowie * * * Sardegna Amore (New is Full of Lonely People * * * The 5th Power * * * Black Saint

Sonny Rollins * * * Kilauea * * * Sunny Days Starry Nights * * * Milestone

John Hicks * * * Naima's Love Song * * * Some Other Time * * * Theresa

David Murray * * * David - Mingus * * * Children * * * Black Saint

Sun Ra * * * Sunology * * * Super-Sonic Sounds * * * Impulse

Medeski Martin & Wood * * * Sweet Pie Dreams * * * Radiolarians I * * * Indirecto

Playlist: June 25, 2009

O'Briens Peerless Quintette * * * The Sheik * * * Gennett Records Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 * * * Gennett

Fats Waller * * * Harlem Fuss * * * Handful of Keys: Numb Fumblin' * * * Proper

Louis Armstrong * * * Keyhole Blues * * * Hot Fives & Sevens, Vol. Two * * * JSP

Lewis Black * * * Spanish Blues * * * A Richer Tradition: Country Blues and String Band Music 1927 - 1932 * * * JSP

Skip James * * * Be Ready When He Comes * * * Legends of Country Blues * * * JSP

Jelly Roll Morton * * * Blue Blood Blues * * * Jelly Roll Morton, Vol. 3 * * * JSP

Bix Beiderbecke * * * Jazz Me Blues * * * Bix Beiderbecke Story * * * Proper

Wynton Marsalis * * * Oh, But on the Third Day (Happy Feet Blues) * * * The Majesty of the Blues * * * Columbia

Miles Davis Quintet f/ Sam Rivers * * * Walkin' * * * Miles in Tokyo * * * Columbia

Miles Davis Quintet f/ George Coleman * * * Milestones * * * Miles Davis in Europe * * * Columbia

Miles Davis Quintet f/ Wayne Shorter * * * So What * * * Miles in Europe * * * Columbia

Lee Konitz * * * Hibeck * * * Sax of a Kind * * * Quadromania

Playlist: June 18, 2009

Muhal Richard Abrams * * * Tribute to Julius Hemphill and Don Pullen * * * One Line, Two Views * * * New World Records

Dudu Pukwana * * * Diamond Express * * * Diamond Express * * * Arista Freedom

Don Pullen * * * Poodle Pie * * * Tomorrow's Promises * * * Atlantic

Lester Young * * * Blue Lester * * * Pres/The Complete Savoy Recordings * * * Savoy

Ben Webster * * * Do Nothing 'Til You Hear From Me * * * Ballads * * * Verve

Benny Carter * * * Wave * * * Best of * * * Pablo

Sonny Rollins * * * Ee-Ah * * * Tour De Force * * * Prestige

Freddie Redd Quartet * * * Time to Smile * * * The Music from "The Connection" * * * Blue Note

Charlie Rouse * * * Epistrophy * * * Epistrophy: The Last Concert * * * Landmark

David Murray * * * Anti-Calypso * * * Black & Black * * * Red Baron

[Note: Today's show ran from 9:10 to 10:35 a.m.]

Playlist: June 11, 2009

Jimmy Guiffre, Bob Brookmeyer, Jim Hall * * * Topsy * * * West Coast * * * Atlantic Jazz

Albert Ayler Trio * * * The Wizard * * * Spiritual Unity * * * ESP Disk

Derek Bailey & Henry Kaiser * * * Chrysanthemums * * * Wireforks * * * Shanachie

John Fahey * * * Special Rider Blues * * * America * * * Takoma

Peter Brotzmann Lila Eule No. 4 The Inexplicable Flyswatter Atavistic

Strata Institute * * * Bed Sty * * * Cipher Syntax * * * JMT

Playlist: June 4, 2009

T. Renner, "Improvisation for Lee Konitz," 2009, acrylic on paper, 6" x 4".

Nat King Cole Trio * * * Gone With the Draft * * * Nat King Cole Vol. 5 * * * LaserLight

Dexter Gordon * * * Broadway * * * Our Man In Paris * * * Blue Note

John Coltrane * * * Alabama * * * Complete Classic Quartet * * * Impulse

Charlie Christian / Thelonious Monk * * * Swing to Bop * * * Debut/Period Original Jazz Classics Sampler * * * Original Jazz Classics

Lee Konitz & Billy Bauer * * * Duet for Saxophone and Guitar * * * Sax of A Kind * * * Quadromania

Lee Konitz * * * Subconscious Lee * * * Sax of a Kind * * * Quadromania

Lee Konitz * * * Confucius Blues * * * Sax of a Kind * * * Quadromania

Lee Konitz * * * Crosscurrent * * * Sax of a Kind * * * Quadromania

Anthony Braxton * * * Background Music * * * Seven Standards, 1987 * * * Magenta

Sun Ra, Akh Tal Ebah, Ronnie Boykins * * * I'll Get By * * * Some Blues But Not the Kind Thats Blue * * * Atavistic Unheard Music Series

Playlist: May 28, 2009

Herbie Nichols Trio * * * Beyond Recall * * * The Bethlehem Years * * * Bethlehem

Abbey Lincoln * * * Do Nothing 'Til You Hear From Me * * * Abbey Lincoln's Affair * * * Blue Note

Steve Lacy Seven * * * Wickets * * * Cliches * * * Hatology

Zoot Sims, Jim Raney, Jim Hall, Steve Swallow & Osie Johnson * * * A Primera Vez * * * Otra Vez

Horace Tapscott Quintet with Arthur Blythe * * * The Dark Tree * * * West Coast Hot * * * Novus

Osie Johnson Quintet with Benny Powell, Frank Wess, Dick Katz & Eddie Jones * * * Johnson's Whacks * * * Jazz Hall of Fame Vol. 1 * * * Showcase

Don Byron * * * Next Love * * * New York Downtown Sounds * * * Knitting Factory Works

Charles Mingus * * * Mood Indigo * * * Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus * * * Impulse

Nicholas Payton * * * The Charleston Hop (The Blue Steps) * * * Into the Blue * * * Nonesuch

Bonus Installment: May 27, 2009

Keshavan Maslak with Charles Moffett * * * Judy Jizzbow * * * Blaster Master * * * Black Saint

Allen Toussaint * * * Day Dream * * * The Bright Mississippi * * * Nonesuch

Bill Dixon * * * The 12th December * * * New Music: Second Wave * * * Savoy

Roy Hargrove Quintet * * * Mr. Clean * * * Earfood * * * Groovin' High

Matching Mole * * * Flora Fidgit / Smoke Signals * * * Little Red Record * * * Columbia

Branford Marsalis Trio with Joe Lovano * * * Sentinel * * * The Dark Keys * * * Columbia

Andrew Hill with Lee Konitz and Ted Curson * * * Spiral * * * Spiral * * * Arista Freedom

Terence Blanchard * * * I'm In the Mood for Love * * * Let's Get Lost * * * Sony

Henry Townsend * * * All My Money's Gone * * * Classic Piano Blues * * * Smithsonian Folkways

Henry Threadgill * * * Sweet Holy Rag * * * Rags, Bush and All * * * Novus

Vassilis Tasbropoulous / Anja Lechner / U.T. Gandhi * * * Tibetan Dance * * * Melos * * * ECM New Series

Oliver Lake * * * France Dance / Whap * * * Passing Thru * * * Passin' Thru

The Dixon-Rhyne Project * * * Carousel * * * Reinvention * * * Owl Studios

Clifford Brown / Max Roach with Sonny Rollins * * * Cherokee * * * Live at the Bee Hive * * * Columbia

Paul Bley / Evan Parker / Barre Phillips * * * You Will Oscar, You Will * * * Time Will Tell * * * ECM

Playlist: April 16, 2009

Charles Bell * * * Stage 13 * * * Contemporary Jazz Quartet * * * Columbia

Eugene B. Redmond * * * Angel of Mercy * * * Blood Links and Sacred Places * * * IKEF

Archie Shepp * * * Come Sunday * * * The Cry of My People * * * Impulse

Charles Mingus and John LaPorta * * * Abstractions * * * Jazzical Moods * * * Period

Shirley LeFlore * * * Dream Eaters * * * Keep On: The Influence of the Last Poets * * * Trackstar the DJ Presents

Herbie Nichols * * * Love, Gloom, Cash, Love * * * Bethlehem Years * * * Bethlehem Records

Langston Hughes * * * The Weary Blues * * * Poetry Speaks * * * Sourcebooks MediaFusion

George Crevoshay * * * 7PTPC * * * Music from the Once Festival * * * New World Records

Matthew Herbert Big Band * * * Yessness * * * There's Me and There's You * * * K7!

Philip Jeck, Otomo Yoshihide & Martin Tetreault * * * Untitled #1 * * * An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music * * * Sub Rosa

William S. Burroughs * * * Present Time exercises * * * An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music * * * Sub Rosa [Note: Played simultaneously with the last 2+ minutes of previous track]

Dizzy Gillespie

T. Renner, "Dizzy Gillespie," 2008, linoleum print on paper, 10" x 10".

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Celebrate Jazz with Live music, Art and New Orleans Food
AT THE URBAN ARTS COLLECTIVE, CELEBRATING ART IN THE CITY

St Louis, MO- The Urban Arts Collective presents a collection of work in honor of Jazz Appreciation Month by Tony Renner. Come enjoy great jazz, great art and a touch of New Orleans with us this Sunday, April 19.

The Brunch and Art event is open to the public from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM, Sunday, April 19, 2009 in the Urban Arts Collective space adjacent to the Urban Eats Café, at 3301 Meramec Street, St Louis, Missouri 63118

Renner’s work is delightfully exuberant and vibrant. Check out his tributes to some of the Jazz greats you know and love.

Lovely live jazz piano with Curt Landes, known as Gaptoof to some, will be featured on the /Urban Eats stage. Live music will run from 12:00 to 2:00 PM.

In conjunction with the Art show, Urban Eats Café will offer a specially priced menu items: we'll be tipping our hats to New Orleans with some Red Beans, Rice and Cornbread and Bread Pudding with Meringue & Chocolate Sauce, ala Emeril Lagasse.

Top it off with a Glamour Girl Cocktail (Apricot Brandy, Sauvignon Blanc, and Pomegranate-Cran Juice) and you' be floating in the Big Easy, right here in St Louis. It’s first come, first served, no reservations are required.

The Urban Arts Collective Project is an ongoing partnership with rotating artists who display their work in the Urban Arts Collective space, adjacent to the Urban Eats Café. The goal is to create awareness for both the artists, the development of the Urban Eats Café as a community reinvention project and the historic Dutchtown South City neighborhood.

More information and directions to the Urban Arts Collective can be found at http://www.urbaneatscafe.com.

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Playlist: April 9, 2009

Matthew Herbert Big Band -- Rich Man's Prayer -- There's Me & There's You -- K7!

Paul Serrano Quintet -- Dream of Igor -- Blues Holiday -- Riverside

Charles Ives (The Lydian String Quartet) -- Quartet No. 2 (2nd Movement: Arguments) -- The String Quartets -- Centaur

Israel Citkowitz (James Joyce, verse) -- Five Songs from "Chamber Music" -- But Yesterday Is Not Today" -- New World Records

Lionel Loueke -- Naima -- Karibu -- Blue Note

Ted Curson -- Searchin' for the Blues -- Flip Top -- Arista Freedom

Eugene B. Redmond -- Invasion of the Noise -- Blood Links & Sacred Places -- IKEF

Hampton Hawes -- Now's The Time -- A Little Copenhagen Night Music -- Arista Freedom

Shirley LeFlore -- Wasabi Dream Eaters -- The Influence of the Last Poets -- Trackstar the DJ Presents

Frank Lowe -- Mysterioso -- Fresh -- Arista Freedom

John Cage (LaSalle Quartet) -- String Quartet in Four Parts (Movement 2: Slowly Rocking -- Lutostawski - Penderecki - Cage - Mayuzumi String Quartets -- Deustch Grammophone

Arnold Schoenberg (New Viena String Quartet & Evelyn Lear, soprano) -- String Quartet No. 2, Op. 10 (Movement 3: Litanei (Langsam)) -- The Complete String Quartets -- Philips

[Note: today's episode aired from 8:30 to 10:00 a.m.]

Playlist: April 2, 2009

Dave Brubeck and Eugene Wright * * * Fatha * * * Time In Outer Space * * * Columbia-Legacy

Anthony Braxton Ensemble * * * Composition No. 142 * * * (Victoriaville) 1988 * * * Victo

Dave Brubeck Quartet * * * It's A Raggy Waltz (live) * * * Time Further Out * * * Columbia-Legacy

Cow Cow Davenport * * * Atlanta Blues * * * Mama Don't Allow No Easy Riders Here * * * Yazoo

Charles Mingus * * * Alice's Wonderland * * * Wonderland * * * Solid State

Gordon Mumma * * * Meanwhile, A Twopiece * * * Music from the Once Festival 1961-1966 * * * New World

Dave Holland Quintet * * * Gridlock (Opus 8) * * * Seeds of Time * * * ECM

Dave Brubeck Quartet * * * Unisphere * * * Time Changes * * * Columbia-Legacy

Celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month

T. Renner, "Portrait of Dave Brubeck," 2008, acrylic on paper, 10.5" x 13.5".

April is Jazz Appreciation Month, and to celebrate I will be displaying a bunch of my jazz orientated pieces at Urban Eats Cafe, 3301 Meramec Avenue, in the Dutchtown neighborhood of St Louis.

On Sunday, April 19, you can join me for brunch at Urban Eats from 10:00 a.m. 'til 2:00 p.m. Not sure exactly what the special menu items will be but think New Orleans....

I will also have work on display at Urban Eats in May and June, with accompanying Sunday brunches. Stay tuned for further details.

By the way, this portrait of Dave Brubeck was my first attempt at a portrait. I used the cover of the January 2008 issue of DownBeat magazine as my model. Click on the thumbnail to see a full-size version!

Playlist: March 26, 2009

Shugo Tokumaru * * * La La Radio * * * Exit * * * Almost Gold

Skip James * * * Hardtime Killing Floor Blues * * * Hardtime Killing Floor Blues * * * Biograph

John Coltrane * * * The Last Blues * * * The Classic Quartet -- Complete Impulse Studio Recordings * * * Impulse

Wise In Time * * * Nine * * * 20 Ways to Walk Through Walls * * * Crammed Discs

Animal Collective * * * Summertime Clothes * * * Merriweather Post Pavilion * * * Domino

Andrew Hill * * * Dedication * * * Point of Departure * * * Blue Note

Ted Gioia Trio * * * All The Things You Are * * * The End of the Open Road * * * Quartet Records

Erik Satie (Roman Schwaller, tenor sax, Woody Schabata, vibes) * * * Vexations 1801 * * * Vienna Art Orchestra: the Minimalism of Erik Satie * * * Hatology

Charley Patton * * * Prayer of Death (Part 1) * * * King of the Delta Blues * * * Yazoo

Anthony Braxton and Dave Holland * * * You Stepped Out of A Dream * * * Five Pieces 1975 * * * Arista

Ornette Coleman and Charlie Haden * * * Soap Suds * * * Soap Suds, Soap Suds * * * Verve Harmolodic

Gastr del Sol * * * Eight Corners * * * Mirror Repair * * * Drag City

Nathaniel Bartlett * * * Silhouettes * * * Precipice: Modern Marimba * * * Albany

(Note: Today's show ran from 9:50 to 10:20 a.m.)

Playlist: March 19, 2009

dot tape dot * * * Slow Birds for Mayo T. * * * Tomavistas * * * Electracities

Oliver Messiaen (Carl-Axel Dominique, piano) * * * Le Traquet rieur * * * The Complete Bird Music for Solo Piano * * * BIS

Cecil Taylor * * * Indent: second layer, part one * * * Indent * * * Arista Freedom

Wolfgang Rihm (Ensemble Recherche) * * * Kolchis (for harp, piano, violin, double-bass * * * Wergo 40 Years * * * Wergo

Charles Ives (William Parker, baritone; Dalton Baldwin, pinao; Ani Kavafian, violin) * * * Sunrise * * * Nine Songs by Charles Ives * * * New World

Anthony Braxton * * * Scene One * * * Composition No. 173 * * * Black Saint

Archie Shepp * * * Epitaph of a Small Winner * * * Black Gypsy * * * Prestige

[Note: today's show ran from 9:00 a.m. to 10:20 a.m.]

Playlist for March 12, 2009

Dave Brubeck Quartet * * * Closing Time Blues * * * Red Hot and Cool * * * Columbia

Dave Brubeck Quartet * * * When You're Smiling * * * At Storyville: 1954 * * * Columbia

Charles Ives (Gregory Fulkerson, violin, and Robert Shannon, piano) * * * Sonata No. 3, 2nd Movment (Allegro) * * * Sonatas for Violin and Piano * * * Bridge * * * Classical

Will Ezell * * * Mixed Up Rag * * * Mama Don't Allow No Easy Riders Here * * * Yazoo

Arnold Schoenberg (New Vienna String Quartet) * * * String Quartet No. 4, 1st Movement (Allegro molto. Energico) * * * String Quartets * * * Philips

Anthony Braxton, Kenny Wheeler, Leroy Jenkins, Dave Holland, Jerome Cooper * * * Side Two, Cut Three * * * New York, Fall 1974 * * * Arista

Charles Ives (The Lydian String Quartet) * * * Hallowe'en * * * The String Quartets * * * Centaur

Dave Brubeck Quartet * * * Slow and Easy (a.k.a. Lawless Mike) * * * Time Further Out * * * Columbia

Dave Brubeck * * * Fatha * * * Countdown: Time In Outer Space * * * Columbia

Big Joe Williams * * * Coffeehouse Blues * * * 55 Years of Blues * * * Delmark

Ernest Stoneman and Mike Seeger * * * I'm Alone, All Alone * * * Masters of Old-time Autoharp * * * Smithsonian Folkways

Sun Ra * * * Brainville * * * 55 Years of Jazz * * * Delmark

Ethnic Heritage Ensemble * * * Ornette * * * Mama's House Live * * * Katalyst

JPP * * * Tango de Caro * * * Artology * * * NorthSide

Anton Webern (Emerson String Quartet) * * * Rondo for String Quartet * * * Complete Webern * * * Deustsche Grammophon

Captain Beefheart * * * Ashtray Heart * * * Doc at the Radar Station * * * Virgin

Ornette Coleman and Joachim Kuhn * * * Faxing * * * Colors * * * Harmolodic

Ornette Coleman and Joachim Kuhn * * * * * * Colors * * * Harmolodic

Erik Satie (Alexandre Tharaud, Eric LeSage, pianos) * * * Cinema * * * Next-to-Last Thoughts * * * Harmonia Mundi

Alban Berg (Steffen Schleiermacher, Markus Zegehor, pianos) * * * Variations from "Lulu" for piano 4 hands by Hans Erich Apostel * * * The Vienese School: Teachers and Followers * * * Musikproduction

Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Tony Williams * * * Walkin' * * * Live at the Plugged Nickel * * * Columbia

Playlist for March 5, 2009

Lee Konitz * * * Peacemeal

J.B. Hutto * * * Evening Train * * * 55 Years of Blues * * * Delmark

Jelly Roll Morton * * * Dead Man Blues

Louis Armstrong * * * St. Louis Blues

Bix Beiderbecke * * * Futuristic Rhythm

South Street Trio * * * Whiskey and Gin Blues

Leroy Carr * * * I Keep the Blues

Curtis Fuller * * * 55 Years of Jazz * * * Delmark

Clifton Anderson * * * Deja Blu * * * Decade * * * Emarcy

Ethnic Heritage Ensemble * * * All Blues * * * Mama's House Live * * * Katalyst

Tribute to Leroy Jenkins, Jazz Violinist, Planned

If all goes well, "The Scientific Method" will be presenting an hour of Leroy Jenkins' music on Thursday, February 26, to mark the passing of Mr. Jenkins on February 24, 2007.


The above video is from an October 10, 2003, performance at the New York City art space Location One.

The New York Times obituary by Ben Ratliff:

Leroy Jenkins, 74, Violinist Who Pushed Limits of Jazz, Dies

The violinist and composer Leroy Jenkins, one of the pre-eminent musicians of 1970s free jazz, who worked on and around the lines between jazz and classical music, died on Fridday in Manhattan. He was 74 and lived in Brooklyn.

The cause was complications of lung cancer, said his wife, Linda Harris.

Mr. Jenkins grew up on the South Side of Chicago. He started playing violin around age 7 and performed in recitals at St. Luke Church, one of the city’s biggest Baptist churches, accompanied by a young pianist named Ruth Jones, later known as the singer Dinah Washington. Mr. Jenkins subsequently joined the orchestra and choir at Ebenezer Baptist Church, directed by Dr. O. W. Frederick, who tutored him in the music of black composers like William Grant Still and Will Marion Cook.

At DuSable High School, Mr. Jenkins played alto saxophone under the band director Walter Dyett, a legendary figure in jazz education. He then attended Florida A & M University on a bassoon scholarship, though ultimately he played saxophone and clarinet in the concert band and studied the violin again.

After college, Mr. Jenkins spent four years as a violin teacher in Mobile, Ala. On returning to Chicago in 1964, he joined the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (A.A.C.M.) a cooperative for jazz musicians determined to follow through on the structural advances of Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor and others who were widening the jazz tradition. In time, he became one of the most visible members of the organization, which persists today.

With Anthony Braxton, Steve McCall and Leo Smith, he formed the Creative Construction Company; the musicians in the group shifted to Paris, where they and other members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians built their international reputations in 1969 and 1970.

In 1970, Mr. Jenkins returned to the United States, at first living in Ornette Coleman’s loft in SoHo in New York. He formed the Revolutionary Ensemble, a trio with the bassist Sirone and the drummer Jerome Cooper; the group lasted for six years and fused Mr. Jenkins’s classical technique with a flowing, free-form aesthetic.

In the mid-1970s, after years of cooperative projects, he became a bandleader, and also wrote music for classical ensembles. He led the group Sting, which played a kind of splintered jazz-funk, and made a series of his own records for the Italian label Black Saint. He began to work in more explicitly classical situations, often with old Chicago colleagues like the pianist Muhal Richard Abrams. And he wrote music performed by the Brooklyn Philharmonic, the Kronos Quartet and other ensembles.

Mr. Jenkins’s trajectory eventually led him toward collaborations with choreographers, writers and video artists. They included “The Mother of Three Sons,” a collaboration with Bill T. Jones’s dance company, staged at New York City Opera in 1991; “The Negro Burial Ground,” a cantata; “Fresh Faust,” a jazz-hip-hop opera; and “Three Willies,” a multimedia opera. In recent years, Mr. Jenkins went back to smaller music-only projects, including the trio Equal Interest, with the pianist Myra Melford and the saxophonist Joseph Jarman; in 2004, he reunited with the Revolutionary Ensemble.

Carolina Chocolate Drops Live In Concert

From the Carolina Chocolate Drops' MySpace page:

The Carolina Chocolate Drops are a group of young African-American stringband musicians that have come to together to play the rich tradition of fiddle and banjo music in Carolinas piedmont.

Rhiannon Giddens and Justin Robinson both hail from the green hills of the North Carolina Piedmont while Dom Flemons is native to sunny Arizona. Although we have diverse musical backgrounds, we draw our musical heritage from the foothills of the North and South Carolina.

We have been under the tutelage of Joe Thompson, said to be the last black traditional string band player, of Mebane, NC and we strive to carry on the long standing traditional music of the black and white communities. Joe's musical heritage runs as deeply and fluidly as the many rivers and streams that traverse our landscape.

We are proud to carry on the tradition of black musicians like Odell and Nate Thompson, Dink Roberts, John Snipes, Libba Cotten, Emp White, and countless others who have passed beyond memory and recognition.

Rum Drum Ramblers at the City Museum, St. Louis

From the Rum Drum Ramblers' Myspace page:

What does dirty punk rock and down-home delta blues have in common? In short, the genres both reflect "struggle music." That being said, it is no surprise that the three stalwart gentlemen that form the Rum Drum Ramblers were once mohawk sporting, studded jacket donning, snot-nosed punk rockers in much of their high school youth.

Trading drums for a "jingle-foot" and power chords for finger picking, the Ramblers have spent the past year bridging the gap between punk and blues. In good holding with the DIY attitude of the punk philosophy, the trio would just as soon perform on a street corner as they would a concert venue. Regardless of where you may find them, the first clue that you've stumbled upon a Rum Drum Ramblers performance will be the manic frenzy of the crowd.

The Rum Drum Ramblers are a hard working, self-made band and though they are young, the songs they write could easily be mistaken for a blues standard that was spinning on shellac seventy years ago. In a world where the blues has been fried, dyed, and laid to the side, the feel-good music of the Rum Drum Ramblers reminds us of why it was cool in the first place.

Blossom Dearie, R.I.P.

From National Public Radio:

Chanteuse Blossom Dearie Dies At 82
By Elizabeth Blair

With her wispy, delicate voice, Blossom Dearie was a darling of the jazz world for decades. The cabaret singer and pianist died Saturday of natural causes in her home in New York City. She was 82.

She was a small woman with a small voice, but blogger Marc Myers says it was a distinctive style that made you want to listen.

"Blossom's voice always had this pixie-like sense of wonderment," Myers says. "Her voice was sort of helium high."

Myers says that when Dearie began singing in the '40s and '50s, some of the most acclaimed female jazz vocalists were hitting their stride.

"She sort of walked among giants. You had Peggy Lee, Sarah Vaughan, Carmen McRae, Ella Fitzgerald. But Blossom stood out by fusing cabaret and jazz together," Myers says. "She had this whimsy, but this very deep passion."

Dearie Makes A Hit With 'Hip'

When she was a little girl in upstate New York, Dearie studied classical piano, but quickly gravitated to jazz. She liked to have fun and was known for her wit. Over the years, she worked with two other funny jazz musicians: Bob Dorough and Dave Frishberg. She recorded one of the songs they wrote for themselves, called "I'm Hip."

"We both thought it would last a season after people got the joke," Dorough says. "Blossom made a little hit out of it."

Later on, when Dorough was hired to write the music for the kids' show Schoolhouse Rock, he asked Dearie to sing a couple of songs.

Describing Dearie's voice in The New Yorker, Whitney Balliett once wrote, "It speaks of porcelain and Limoges."

A No-Nonsense Performer

But this delicate artist was also very demanding. In the 1970s, she started her own record label, Daffodil, and she had a reputation for not tolerating people talking or smoking during her shows. Dearie would stop in the middle of a song and tell people to be quiet.

Dearie was a regular act at a club in Manhattan up until just a few years ago. She told Marian McPartland, host of NPR's Piano Jazz, that in later years, as she sang her collection of popular standards, her fans were always respectful.

"They're very aware of the music," Dearie said. "They know everything. I always say, 'I'm not afraid of forgetting the lyrics, because if I forget the lyrics, somebody in the audience knows the lyrics.' They cherish these songs. My audience is very with it."
Click here to listen to an archived edition of Piano Jazz.

Playlist for February 5, 2009

Tampa Red & Georgia Tom * * * You Can't Get That Stuff No More * * * Birth of the Blues * * * Charly

Lowell Fulson * * * The Blues Are Killing Me * * * Blues in History I * * * History

Dr. Ross * * * Jukebox Boogie * * * Sun Records: The Ultimate Blues Collection * * * Varese Sarabande

Muddy Waters * * * Rock Me * * * I'm Ready * * * Epic-Legacy

St. Louis Jimmy * * * So Nice and Kind * * * The Aristocrat of the Blues * * * Chess

J.B. Hutto * * * Slidewinder * * * Delmark 40th Anniversary * * * Delmark

Blind Willie Johnson * * * I'm Gonna Run to the City of Refuge * * * Preachin' the Gospel: Holy Blues * * * Columbia-Legacy

Madison's Lively Stones * * * It's Time to Make A Change * * * Classic African American Gospel * * * Smithsonian-Folkways

Elmore Nixon * * * A Hepcat's Advice * * * Best of Duke-Peacock Blues * * * Duke-Peacock

Joe Liggins and His Honeydrippers * * * Pink Champagne * * * More Jump Blues * * * Rhino

Muddy Waters * * * Muddy Jumps One * * * Aristocrat of the Blues * * * Chess

Robert Johnson * * * I'm A Steady Rollin' Man * * * The Road to Robert Johnson and Beyond * * * JSP

Blind Will Dukes * * * Steady Rollin' Man * * * The Road to Robert Johnson and Beyond * * * JSP

Blind Blake * * * Georgia Bound * * * The Road to Robert Johnson and Beyond * * * JSP

Robert Johnson * * * From Four Until Late * * * The Road to Robert Johnson and Beyond * * * JSP

Carl Rafferty * * * Mr. Carl's Blues * * * The Road to Robert Johnson and Beyond * * * JSP


T. Renner, "City of Refuge," 2008, digital photograph.

Playlist for January 29, 2009

Brownie McGhee with Sonny Terry * * * * Carolina Blues * * * * East Coast Blues * * * * Orbis

Sleepy John Estes * * * * President Kennedy (Take 13) * * * * On 80 Highway * * * * Delmark

Muddy Waters * * * * 32-20 Blues * * * * The Road to Robert Johnson and Beyond * * * * JSP

Muddy Waters * * * * I'm Ready * * * * I'm Ready * * * * Epic-Legacy

David Honeyboy Edwards * * * * The Army Blues * * * * In History I * * * * History

Jack Dupree * * * * Dupree Shake Dance * * * * In History I * * * * History

Tampa Red * * * * Things 'Bout Comin' My Way * * * * The Road to Robert Johnson and Beyond * * * * JSP

Two Gospel Keys * * * * You've Got to Move * * * * Classic African American Gospel * * * * Smithsonian Folkways

Leroy Carr * * * * Mean Mistreater Mama * * * * The Road to Robert Johnson and Beyond * * * * JSP

Robert Johnson * * * * Terraplane Blues * * * * The Road to Robert Johnson and Beyond * * * * JSP

Peetie Wheatstraw * * * * Police Station Blues * * * * The Road to Robert Johnson and Beyond * * * * JSP

Kokomo Arnold * * * * Milk Cow Blues * * * * The Road to Robert Johnson and Beyond * * * * JSP

Robert Johnson * * * * Kind Hearted Woman * * * * The Road to Robert Johnson and Beyond * * * * JSP

Portrait of Miles Davis, circa 1975

T. Renner, "Portrait of Miles Davis, circa 1975," 2008, acrylic on paper, 5" x 7".

"Leo Young"

T. Renner, "Leo Young," 2008, ink over newspaper tracing on paper, 4" x 6".

Four More Improvisations for Derek Bailey

T. Renner, "Improvisations for Derek Bailey #'s 5-8," 2008, acrylic on coated card stock, 7" x 5".

"Irk Bee Delay," a track from my musical homage to Derek Bailey [ANAGRAMS, 2008, Echolocation Recordings] has been included on a massive net-only compilation recently released on Clinical Archives. Excerpts from a review from Free Albums Galore follow:

One of the most exciting net labels to show up recently is Clinical Archives. There is a huge amount of music on this label which is described as the "independent netlabel for eclectic and illogical music". Their release Clinical Jazz may be of some help in defining the music of this label but it may not be too helpful because the anthology album itself is so huge! It has over 10 hours of music and is the equivalent of 9 CDs. Once you get past the size of this collection, you will find an exceptionally consistent quality of music that is either in the jazz genre or outside the genre of jazz but beholden to the the influence of this improvisatory music. Not everything here fits my definition of jazz but that is not the point. Clinical Archives is about expanding the definition of music and that is certainly the intent in these 94 tracks from all over the globe.

There ’s just too much to go through on each CD but the variety of music as well as the high quality of the artists is extremely impressive. [...] Much of CD 5 is also avant-garde improvisation but sounding more post classical than jazz. Check out guitarist Tony Renner’s "Irk Bee Delay" which is a nice Derek Bailey styled improv.

You can download the entire compilation or listen to selected tracks here.

Three Variations for Anthony Braxton

T. Renner, Variations for Anthony Braxton #'s 3-5," 2008, acrylic on paper, 5" x 7".

These three pieces will be on display as part of the exhibition "Works on Paper (Chance)" on display from January 16 through March 15 at Subterranean Books, 6275 Delmar in the heart of the Loop in University City, Missouri.

Playlist: January 8

1. Bascomb Lamar Lunsford * * * I Wish I Was a Mole In the Ground * * * Anthology of American Folk Music * * * Smithsonian-Folkways

2. Don Cherry & Ed Blackwell * * * Mysticism of My Soul * * * Mu * * * Actuel

3. Anthony Braxton, Leo Smith, Leroy Jenkins, Steve McCall * * * The Light on the Dalta * * * Anthony Braxton * * * Actuel

4. Archie Shepp * * * There Is A Balm In Gilead * * * Blase * * * Actuel

5. Gerry Mulligan * * * Night Lights * * * Night Lights * * * Mercury

6. Creative Music Studio (Chick Corea, Anthony Braxton, Jack DeJohnette, Lee Konitz, Pat Metheny, Miroslav Vitous) * * * Impressions * * * Woodstock Jazz Festival 2 * * * Knit Classics

7. Fred Tompkins * * * Compound * * * Compositions of Fred Tompkins * * * Festival

8. Dewey Redman * * * Seeds & Deeds * * * Ear of the Behearer * * * Impulse

9. Art Ensemble of Chicago * * * Yobu-Sun * * * Live at the 6th Tokyo Music Joy '90 * * * DIW

10. Ned Rothenberg * * * Epistrophical Notions * * * The Crux * * * Leo

11. Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio * * * Ka's Blues * * * Ooh Live! * * * Bright Moments/Katalyst

Note: show ran from 9:00 to 10:30 a.m.

In Memorium: Black Artists Group II

T. Renner, "In Memoriam: Black Artists Group II [detail], 2008, acrylic on plywood.