Friday, August 25th, 2006
... 3:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. ...
KZSU, 90.1 FM
Format:
ARTIST -- "TRACK TITLE" -- ALBUM TITLE (LABEL, YEAR)
* Gutbucket -- "Money Management for a Better Life" -- Sludge Test (Cantaloupe, 2006)
Previously mentioned
here.
* John Brumit -- "Good Life" [excerpt] -- Vendetta Retreat (Edgetone, 2006)
Wonderful, long track; played just the first 12 minutes (saving the
last 10). Chiming guitars and repeated loops of fuzzed-out sound;
definitely in the "noise" camp but with a pleasant and even friendly
vibe, a tad puffy and melodic, you could say.
* Out of Context -- "Confidence" -- 1" = 25 Mi. (High Mayhem, 2006)
Previously mentioned
here.
* Joelle Leandre -- "Just Now Six" -- At the Le Mans Jazz Festival (Leo Records, 2006)
With a quartet including Paul Lovens (percussion), Sebi Tramontana
(trombone), Carlos Zingaro (violin), and Leandre (bass). A very nice
group improv, keeping a dark, gloomy, but active voice.
* Tunnels -- "The 11th Hour" -- Natural Selection (Buckyball, 2006)
* Troglodytes -- "Speck" -- Ria (Floating Opera, 2006)
Glenn Horiuchi -- "Terminal Island Sweep" -- Kenzo's Vision (Asian Improv, 1995)
From free-jazz pianist Horiuchi, a very Asian-grounded track featuring
instruments. Includes Francis Wong,
the saxophonist, on ehru, and Horiuchi playing the shamisen;
also William Roper on tuba and some percussion and Jeanette Wrate on
percussion. Great stuff that develops into an interesting groove.
I never saw Horiuchi play live; sadly, he passed away shortly after I started
getting into the avant-jazz stuff.
-- 4:00 p.m. --
* Syntopia Quartet -- "Goodbye Earth" -- Mars (Nemu, 2006)
* Achim Kaufman, Michael Moore, Dylan van der Schyf -- "Roadside" -- Kamosc (Red Toucan, 2006)
Nicely played European out-jazz, with piano, clarinet, and drums,
respectively (although Moore tackles the melodica on this particular
track). Has that chamber-jazzy sound that most European ensembles
do. Nice stuff, heavy amounts of improvisation, but some recognizably
composed bits as well.
* Collectif Inaudible -- "Aigue-Marine" -- Cardo (Emanem, 2006)
Previously noted
here.
This one's got lots of slow, ambient gongs and some faint analog synth
howls, very ghostly.
* Actis Band -- "Bolivar" -- Allende (Leo Records, 2006)
* The Industrial Jazz Group -- "The Truth and the Abstract Blues" -- Industrial Jazz a Go-Go (Evander, 2006)
* Lucien Dubuis Trio -- "Insomnie" -- Willisau Jazz Festival [live CD] (self-released, 2006)
-- 5:00 p.m. --
* Ben Monder -- "Oceana" -- Oceana (Sunnyside, 2006)
* Martial Solal and Dave Douglas -- "July Shower" -- Rue de Seine (Cam Jazz, 2006)
* Donal O'Connor and John McSherry -- "Rose in the Gap" -- Tripswitch (Compass, 2006)
Celtic music, very traditional stuff, led by fiddle (O'Connor) and
uilleann pipes (McSherry). This track is a medley of three dances.
I kept expecting the Fairport Convention guys to suddenly break
into song.
Lonnie Smith -- "Layin' in the Cut" -- Move Your Hand (Blue Note, 1969)
* Ed Palermo Big Band -- "Pound for a Brown on the Bus" -- Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance (Cuneiform, 2006)
Big-band arrangements of Frank Zappa tunes, not unlike the large band
Zappa toured with during the late '80s. Awesome, fun stuff, with lots of
prog/fusiony moments, earnest soloing, and plenty of danceable moments.
Instrumental, except for "Mom and Dad/Oh No," which brings some downer moments
in near the end of the album (it's actually kind of refreshing by that
point). This one would go on to collect six airplays in its first
week in rotation -- that's huge, enough for a top 10 overall ranking.
Lots of Zappa fans hanging around here.
* Ernest Dawkins New Horizons Ensemble -- "The Messenger" -- The Messenger (Delmark, 2006)
* = Item in KZSU rotation
! = Pop anomaly
? = Item not in KZSU library
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-- Bay Area free/improv music calendar: http://www.bayimproviser.com.