some things

I'm out of the country until February, so until then someone else will be spinning tunes for the hour. For the 24th and 31st of December, Sudeep will be doing that. Thank you, Sudeep.

Here are some interesting things I found today:
- This document shows how Raymond Carver's story "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" was edited by his editor Gordon Lish. His editing feels like filleting with a sashimi knife: very "in" and very tight. It makes the story feel more like a play than a narrative. Towards the end, he's cutting out pages and pages, and though I'm sorry to lose the lovely ending where Nick's staring out the window at the fields, I think it feels right to end where it does now. Plus, the back story about the Gates was way senti.

- Destination-out has a selection of "this year"'s "bests". Here you can even download a Bill Dixon tune called "Solo" from the same album (Considerations...) I played last week. Plus they included My Bloody Valentine's "You Made Me Realise," a song from which has one of my favorite lines: "You give me flowers when it's thorns I give to you."

See you February 4th.

twelve

Bill Dixon, Untitled IV & V, 1994


Max Roach & Anthony Braxton/ Birth/ Birth And Rebirth
Anthony Braxton & Richard Teitelbaum/ Behemoth Dreams/ Silence & Time Zones
Bill Dixon/ Places And Things/ Considerations 1972-1976
Alice Coltrane/ Mantra/ Ptah, the El Daoud
Vijay Iyer Quartet/ That Much Music/ Blood Sutra

Click here to listen to the archived show (link will be up until Dec. 31st)

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Mother nature seems to love us all;
When she smiles there is a subtle glow,
And with tears of joy, the happiness flows.

Art Ensemble Of Chicago/ Theme de Yoyo/ Les Stances A Sophie
Pharoah Sanders/ Colors/ Karma
John Tchicai & Cadentia Nova Danica/ Lakshmi/ Afrodisiaca
Ric Colbeck Quartet/ Aphrodite/ The Sun is Coming Up
Andrew Hill/ Compulsion/ Compulsion
Marion Brown/ Dance No. 1/ In Sommerhausen

Click here to listen to the archived show (link will be up for two weeks)

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October 5th, 2007, Building 6

Lennie Tristano Sextet/ Intuition & Digression/ Crosscurrents
Don Cherry/ Free Improvisation: Music Now/ Live at Cafe Monmartre 1966
Dayna Stephens feat. John Scofield/ Beginning of an Endless Happy Monday/ The Timeless Now
Anat Ford/ Not The Perfect Storm/ A Long Story
Marty Ehlrich & Myra Melford/ Hymn/ Spark!
Free Range Rat/ Non-Believer (Suite)/ Nut Club
Reid Anderson/ Reclusive/ Vastness of Space
Henry Threadgill's Zooid/ Calm Down/ Up Popped the Two Lips


(Bed music is italicized)

The Bad Plus/ Everywhere You Turn/ These Are The Vistas
Ornette Coleman & Charlie Haden/ Some Day/ Soapsuds
Marilyn Crispell Trio/ Alone/ Storyteller
and Areas-Solstice/ Live in Zurich
Ornette Coleman/ Lonely Woman/ Live in Carnegie Hall 2006

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Michael-Jean Dupierris, Mangeoire à girafe, future « Plaine Africaine », Jardin Zoologique du Parc de la Tête d’Or, Lyon (6e).


Don Cherry/ The Creator Has A Master Plan & Utopia And Visions/ Organic Music
Archie Shepp & Max Roach/ Ujaama/ The Long March
Duke Ellington & Charles Mingus & Max Roach/ Fleurette Africaine/ Money Jungle
Pharaoh Sanders/ The Creator Has A Master Plan/ Karma

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All Albums are under Guillermo Klein:

Argentina/ Una Nave
Con Brasil Adentro- Fuga X / Live in Barcelona 2005
Coco/ Los Guachos III
Viva/ Los Guachos II
Stella/ Los Guachos III
Luci/ Una Nave
Juana/ Live in Barcelona 2005
Fascinating Rhythm-Moliendo Cafe/ Una Nave
Diario De Alina Reyes/ Los Guachos II
La Ulltima/ Live
Hermanos Latinos / Live

And also, here is an interview of him by The Bad Plus bassist Reid Anderson.

Enjoy!

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The Bad Plus/ 1972 Bronze Medalist/ These Are The Vistas
The Bad Plus/ Giant/ Prog
Brooke Sofferman/ Cold Train/ Fine Whines
Max Roach & Anthony Braxton/ Birth/ Birth and Rebirth
Marion Brown/ Angel Eyes/ Solo Saxophone
Free Range Rat/ So Much Trouble In The World/ Nut Club
John Dirac & Andy McWain/ Thursday II/ Prism: Resemblance

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Toulumne Meadows
August 2007


Morrie Louden/ 624 Main St./ TIme Piece
Jon De Lucia Group/ Emptiness/ Face No Face
Tim Shanko/ If And Only Then/ The Charlatan And The Genius
Brooke Sofferman/ Forhermeto/ Finewhines
Magnetic Flux/ Boo Boo Bah Bah/ Zing!
Evan Parker/ Aftercadabra/ The Beak Doctor 2 (Finger Palace)
Sonny Clark Memorial Quartet/ Cool Strutting/Voodoo
Cecil Taylor feat. Archie Shepp/ Air/ Untitled

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Edward Hopper, New York Movie, 1939

Vardan Ovsepian/ Akunc/ Akunc
"Grdina/peacock/Motian"/ 100 Years/ Think Like The waves
Claudia Quintet/ Rainy Days/Peanut Vendor mash-up (for all music teachers)/ For
Frank Carlberg/ FAT FATE (Be At That)/ In the land of art
Dave Holland Quintet/ Prime Directive/ Prime Directive
Vardan Ovsepian/ Stiltje/ Akunc
Omer Klein & Haggai Cohen Milo/ Intro/ Duet

3rd show on 2007 oct 15th

Wassily Kandinsky, Several Circles, 1926.

Fred Anderson & Hamid Drake/ Planet E/ From the River to the Ocean
Vijay Iyer & Mike Ladd/ The Density of the 19th Century/ In What Language?
E.S.T. (Esbjorn Svensson Trio)/Eighthundred Streets by Feet/ Tuesday Wonderland
"Lake/Tchicai/Osgood/Westergaard" / Azurite/ Self-titled
Arthur Kell Quartert/ Ijinna/ Traveller
John Scofield/ House of the Rising Sun/ This Meets That

10/08/07

Subway Couple/Jeanne Lee/Conspiracy
Dawn/Sam Rivers/Sizzle
Something To Play On/Black Artists Group/In Paris, aries 1973
Flute Music/Dudu Pukwana/Flute Music
Luti/Vapaa/Iluei Antil
Nem Um Talvez/Miles Davis/Live-Evil
Arrival in New York/Joe Zawinul/Zawinul
Postlude:Prayer/Vijay Iyer/Architextures

10/01/07

Mamma's Babies/Geri Allen/Home Grown
St. Louis Blues/Sun Ra/St. Louis Blues 1973
Pemmican/Cecil Taylor/Garden
Verona Rag/Andrew Hill/Verona Rag
Lono/Cecil Taylor/Cecil Taylor Solo
Soittajapaimen/The Correa-Carlburg Duo/Ugly Beauty
Rain Dance/Herbie Hancock/Sextant

WMBR fall/winter 2007

The fall/winter season at WMBR begins October 1st. Flying Ruckus will air on Monday nights from 10 to 11pm. Hope you'll be tuning in tomorrow night.

Sing Sang Sung

Lots of guests today--Nick, Matea, and Arthur Rainbowbeam from music for human beings. Poems read: Belle Isle, 1949 by Philip Levine, When I heard the Learn'd Astronomer and selections from Crossing Brooklyn Ferry by Walt Whitman, and Now, When The Waters Are Pressing Mightily by Yehuda Amichai. Also:

Archie Shepp/Naima/Four For Trane
Marion Brown/Delicidao/Three for Shepp
Charlie Haden/Turnaround/The Golden Number
Ornette Coleman/Waiting For You/Sound Grammer
Azimuth/Adios Iony/Azimuth '85
Jeanne Lee/Sundance & Your Ballad & Miracle Is/ Conspiracy,

but not in this order.

I've managed to mix up the titles of the songs in my head, and played The Miracle Is, when I meant to play Yeh Come T'be. Well, it will have to be for another time, another place.

Thank you for listening, and see you in September!

ps. here's philip levine's:

We stripped in the first warm spring night
and ran down into the Detroit River
to baptize ourselves in the brine
of car parts, dead fish, stolen bicycles,
melted snow. I remember going under
hand and hand with a Polish highschool girl
I'd never seen before, and the cries
our breath made caught at the same time
on the cold, and rising through layers
of darkness into the final moonless atmosphere
that was this world, the girl breaking
the surface after me and swimming out
on the starless waters towards the lights
of Jefferson Ave. and the stacks
of the old stove factory unwinking.
Turning at last to see no island at all
but a perfect calm dark as far
as there was sight, and then a light
and another riding low out ahead
to bring us home, ore boats maybe, or smokers
walking alone. Back panting
to the gray coarse beach we didn't dare
fall on, the damp piles of clothes,
and dressing side by side in silence
to go back where we came from.

Belle Isle, 1949

Well, well

There will be no flying ruckus this friday, because the DJ will be playing at the MIT FJE concert. If you're in the area, come by Kresge Auditorium at 8pm for some live music.

WMBR DJ Sheeva Azma will be covering the hour.

Until next time we meet!

room of a relcluse

4th show! long soaring tunes and some short and sweet ones.

Afrirampo/ Hadaka / Kore Ga Mayaku Da
Boston Typewriter Orchestra/ Customer Confidentiality/ The Revolution will be Typewritten
Jason Moran/ Artists Out to Be Writing/ Artist in Residence
Andrew Hill/ Flight 19 / Point of Departure
Paul Bley/ Harlem/ Open, to Love
Azimuth/February Daze/Azimuth '85
Paul Bley, Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, Billy Higgins/ The Blessing/ Live at the Hilcrest Club 1958
John Coltrane/Naima/Live at the Village Vanguard

The poem Matt read at the end was Amiri Baraka's Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note.

I'll be back May 4th, 8 PM.

3rd show, April 6th. 2007

I just realized now that the thought of updating this blog did not occur to me at all when I had the second show on March 23rd. Well, if I can find the playlist, I'll put it up sometime.

In the meantime, here's what I played last night:


Ali Akbar Khan with Asha Bhosle and Swapan Chaudhuri/ Tarana/ Legacy
Airto / Free/ Free
Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid/ Soul Oscillations / The Exchange Session Vol.1
Joe Henderson/Beatrice/ An Evening with Joe Henderson, Charlie Haden, Al Foster
Alice Coltrane/ One for the Father/ Transfiguration
Johnny Dynai Quartet/Song for Biko/ Song for Biko
Eric Dolphy / The Meeting/ The Berlin Concerts
Ali Akbar Khan / Dhrupad/ Legacy



I was hoping to find this delightful song by the boston typewriter orchestra; alas, the CD was nowhere to be found. But I will, I will somehow play it for next time. Stay tuned. I'll be back on air the 20th.

first show

Happy Birthday, Mr. Coleman.

Here's the playlist:

Ornette Coleman/Street Woman/Science Fiction
The Bad Plus/Street Woman/Give
Charlie Haden/Golden Number/Golden Number
John Coltrane/Peace On Earth/Jupiter Variation (Mastery of John Coltrane Vol.III)
Charlie Haden with Paul Bley and Paul Motian/Crossroads/The Montreal Tapes
Matt Wilson Quartet/Thank you Billy Higgins!/Humidity
Ornette Coleman/What Reason Could I Give, All My Life/Science Fiction
Ornette Coleman/Focus On Sanity/The Shape of Jazz to Come


Thanks for listening. If you missed it the first round, you can listen to the show here. I'll be back on air on march 23rd, friday 8-9pm at 88.1FM WMBR.

first post

I'll be posting playlists here from my bi-weekly radio show (Fri 8-9 pm) at WMBR, Flying Ruckus.

For now, that is all.