I had some issues with the mic mixer, which accounted for the super-long opening set. No one likes to hear that much talking, anyway...
Kyle Bruckmann's Wrack - "The System Cannot Withstand Close Scrutiny" (Intents and Purposes - 482 Music)
Mark Feldman - "Father Demo Square" (What Exit - ECM)
Farina/Gray/McBride - "Heart of Mica" (Out Trios Vol. 4: Almanac - Atavistic)
*Ken Aldcroft's Convergence Ensemble - "A Refreshing Night/A Union Theme" (The Great Divide - Trio Records)
Sun Ra - "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" (Springtime in Chicago - Leo)
Rudresh Mahanthappa - "The Decider" (Codebook - Pi)
*Quinsin Nachoff - "There and Back" (Magic Numbers - Songlines)
*Thom Gossage Other Voices - "February" (5 - Effendi)
Chick Corea - "Matrix" (Now He Sings, Now He Sobs - Blue Note)
Thomas Chapin Trio - "Ticket to Ride" (Ride - Playscape)
Whit Dickey - "Vortex" (Sacred Ground - Clean Feed)
Skidmore/Osborne/Surman - "Where's Junior?" (SOS - Ogun/Disk Union)
Vandermark 5 - "Aperture" (A Discontinuous Line - Atavistic)
*Lina Allemano Four - "Concentric" (Concentric - Lumo)
Art Ensemble of Chicago - "Odwalla" (Non-Cognitive Aspects of the City: Live at Iridium - Pi)
Jane Ira Bloom - "Monk's Rec Room" (The Red Quartets - Arabesque)
* = Canadian content
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Nice playlist David. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on some of the recent releases on your playlist, namely the Rudresh Manathappa, Vandermark 5, and the Art Ensemble discs - if you feel like it, write up a blog post, or respond here.
Hi Dan,
I didn't have a chance to listen to the albums full through, so I don't want to judge them on those terms right now. I was filling in for John B, the usual host, and many of the discs were on loan from his processing pile. Here's some quick thoughts, though:
- Rudresh's album grooves in a much different way than Vijay's last album, Reimagining, and I think it has to do with the way Dan Weiss synthesizes Indian music as opposed to Marcus Gilmore's M-BASE, odd-meter hip-hop approach. I had read the Wired review of Codebook, and the music isn't as dense as I'd thought it might be.
- The addition of Fred Lonberg-Holm emphasises the chamber element of Vandermark 5, which was a direction they were pursuing more as Jeb Bishop left the guitar behind.
- I'm happy to hear that Jaribu and Corey Wilkes have settled well into the AEC. It reminded me of the vibrance of the ECM period - Nice Guys and Urban Bushmen.
Cool, thanks for your thoughts - I look forward to checking them out.
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