Free Jazz Hour
These are set lists for my weekly radio show, the Free Jazz Hour. The show airs Monday nights, 9-10 pm (central time) on KRTU San Antonio, 91.7 FM. Live streaming and archived shows are available at krtu.org, but only the most recent show is available in the archives.
The songs are listed in the format: Artist – Album – Song (Year)
Free Jazz Hour: Nov 9, 2009
Wild, wild free jazz. Not much else to say.
- Mike Cooper – Tu Fuego – Tu Fuego (Side A)
- Sun Ra – Atlantis – Atlantis
- Noah Howard – The Black Ark – Ole Negro
- Pat Metheny – Rejoicing – The Calling
Free Jazz Hour: Nov 2, 2009
A quiet, minimalist set.
- Roberto Donnini – Tunedless – t’ 2 a
- Terry Riley – Shri Camel – Desert of Ice
- Arnold Dreyblatt and the Orchestra of Excited Strings – Propellers in Love – Odd & Even
- David Behrman – Leapday Night – A Traveller’s Dream Journal – Setting B
Free Jazz Hour: Oct 26, 2009
I’m not sure if this show could be said to have a theme, we just traveled far and wide in the world of free music.
- Max Neuhaus – Percussion & Electronics – Four Systems – For Amplified Cymbals
- Cinorama – Garden, The Garden – Da Ga Ku Round About Poe
- Brigitte Fontaine – s/t – Le Dragon
- Robert Wyatt – Rock Bottom – Alife
- Dedalus – Pezzi Inediti ‘75 + ‘76 – Saxolanota
- Don Cherry / Dewey Redman / Charlie Haden / Ed Blackwell – Old and New Dreams – Togo
- Arthur Doyle / Sonny Murray – Dawn of a New Vibration – Nomingo
- Joseph Holbrooke Trio – The Moat Recordings – Condensation
- Luc Ferrari – Archives Genetiquement Modifiees – Societe II
Free Jazz Hour: Oct 19, 2009
For this show, Jason Jay Stevens sat in with me and shared his music collection, or a fraction of it anyway. Turned me onto some cool stuff.
- Amiri Baraka – Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like the Rivers – Bang Bang Outishly
- Misha Fiegin & Steve Good – State of the Union 2.001 – A Chinese Clicking Duck Music in Five Parts
- This Heat – This Heat – Diet of Worms
- Derek Bailey & Keiji Haino – Songs – Yume Ga Ichiban Muchi
- DJ Spooky & Arto Lindsay – Under the Influence – Get Your Snack On
- No Neck Blues Band – Inonomancy – The Shepard Takes A Shine to a Abyss
- Steve Baczkowski and Ravi Padmanbha – unreleased – Supplication No. 4
- Fred Anderson & Hamid Drake – From the River to the Ocean – Sakti / Shiva
- Aidan Baker & Tim Hecker – Fantasma Parastasie – Gallery of the Invisible Woman
- Beans & William Parker & Hamid Drake – Only – “”"5″”"
- Leo Wadada Amith & Ikue Mori – Luminous Axis – The Traveller
Free Jazz Hour: Oct 12, 2009
The free jazz take on metal, dub, and noise. Mind-melting.
- Derek Bailey – Mirakle – This Time
- Material – Memory Serves – Metal Test
- Painkiller – Execution Ground – Parish of Tama (Ossuary Dub)
- Last Exit – Last Exit – Red Light
- Rudolph Grey – Mask of Light – Implosion – 73 (second version)
- Last Exit – Last Exit – Voice of a Skin Hanger
Free Jazz Hour: Oct 5, 2009
The mingling of Indian ragas with free jazz. Beautiful stuff.
- Codona – Codona, Vol 1 – New Light
- Aktuala – Tappeto Volante – Waruna
- MV + EE – Livestock Moon Forms Rural Ragas Vol 1 – Cocola Moves Through the Guilford Fair
- Samsimar – Folk and Pop Sounds of Sumatra, Vol. 1 – Bapikek Balam
- Jean Cohen-Solal – Flutes Libres – Raga Du Matin
- Angus Maclise – The Invasion of Thunderbold Pagoda – Heavenly Blue Part 4 and 5
- Bismillah Khan – Shehnai Recital – Raga
Free Jazz Hour: Sep 28, 2009
A wild, free-funk-prog-rock freakout.
- Sonny & Linda Sharrock – Paradise – Apollo
- Jean Cohen-Solal – Flutes Libres – Concerto Cyclique
- Pierre Henry & Urban Sax – Paradise Lost – Gate of Paradise
- Frank Zappa – Uncle Meat – King Kong VI
- Art Ensemble of Chicago – Les Stances a Sophie – Theme de Yoyo
- Don Cherry – Brown Rice – Brown Rice
- Franco Battiato – Fetus – Meccanica
Free Jazz Hour: Sep 21, 2009
A strange, mellow set, starting off with Terry Riley’s early collaboration with Chet Baker, and moving on to Bob James’ early collaboration with Robert Ashley.
- Terry Riley – Music for the Gift – Music for the Gift (parts 1-5)
- Bob James Trio – Explosions – And On
- Eivind Lonning, Espen Reinertsen, Martin Taxt, Tetuzi Akiyama – Varianter Av Dode Traer – Ti Morke Innfallslodd, 1
- Dedalus – Pezzi Inediti + Materiali 74 – 76 – Saxolanota
- Luciano Cilio – dell’Universo Assente – Della conoscenza – originale versione inedita
- Anthony Braxton – The Complete Braxton 1971 – Comp. 6M
Free Jazz Hour: Sep 7, 2009
This one was all about the LA Free Music Society, and came of the definitive document of it, the box set called “The Lowest Form of Music.” Because of the format of the box set, it’s difficult for me to give album names and years in many cases. But it’s pretty much all from the mid-eighties, and for the most part you’re only going to find it on the box set.
- Tom Recchion – Back Beat
- Dinosaurs With Horns – Totally Gone
- The Precambrian Three – Drama by Shaksepeare
- Monique et Aviv – I Am I
- Smegma – Half a Billion – Glamour Girl 1941
- Le Forte Four – Amazing Three (instrumental) – Flak Opera Rehearsal
- Doo-Dooettes – Schlagerzeit (Tolstoy’s Anemic) – Look to This
- Friends of Leslie – Freak Show (for Mayo Thompson)
- Harold Shroeder – Silent Rituals
- Tom Recchion – The Blue Blue Moon
- Monitor – Beak
- Monique et Aviv – J’Attends
Free Jazz Hour: Aug 31, 2009
Monday’s show focused on the heavy grooves, with a few FJH classics, and some new faces:
- Jah Wobble & Evan Parker – Passage to Hades – Full On (2001)
- Material – Temporary Music (1979-1981) – Heritage (1981)
- Don Cherry – Brown Rice – Degi Degi (1975)
- Débile Menthol – Emile au jardin patrologique – La Jupe (1981)
- Cabaret Voltaire – 2 X 45 – Wait & Shuffle (1982)
- Jon Hassell – City: Works of Fiction – Warriors (2006)
- Derek Bailey – Mirakle – ‘S Now (2000)
- Tom Recchion – The Lowest Form of Music (Box set) – Jazz 2,000 A.D. Part 3 (1985)
Free Jazz Hour: Aug 24, 2009
Free wildness for the end of summer:
- Derek Bailey, Jamaaladeen Tacuma & Calvin Weston – Mirakle – What it is (2000)
- Masayuki Takayanagi & New Direction – Eclipse – First Session 2 (Gradually Projection) (1975)
- Frode Gjerstad – Borealis – Borealis (1998)
- Sam Rivers – Paragon – Ecstasy (1979)
- Milford Graves – Babi Music – [Track 3] (1976)
- Peter Brozmann & Han Bennink – Ein halber Hund kann nicht pinkeln – Music in the evening 4 (1977)
Free Jazz Hour: Aug 17, 2009
Last night’s playlist was all over the place:
- Arthur Doyle & Sunny Murray – Dawn of a New Vibration - Nomingo (2000)
- Sonny Sharrock – Black Woman – Black Woman (1969)
- Supersilent – 6 – 6.5 (2003)
- Tom Recchion – The Lowest Form of Music (box set) – Herself A Cocoon (1986)
- Débile Menthol – Emile au jardin patrologique – La Jupe (1981)
- David Toop – Black Chamber – Poison Incense (2003)
- Pierre Henry & Urban Sax – Paradise Lost – Gate of Paradise (1982)
- Picky Picnic – Ha! Ha! Tarachine – Got Out Lullaby (1985)
- Albert Ayler Quintet – Holy Ghost (box set) – Japan / Universal Indians (2004)
- Pseudo Buddha – Motive – Moth Canal (1999)
- Lino Capra Vaccina – Antico Adagio – Voce in XY (1978)
Free Jazz Hour: Aug 3, 2009
Got into some free folk kinda stuff tonight:
- The Tower Recordings – The Galaxies’ Incredibly Sensual Transmission Field of… – Harvester (2003)
- John Fahey – The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death – On the Sunny Side of the Ocean (1965)
- Comus – First Utterance – The Bite (1971)
- Sir Richard Bishop – Improvika – Cryptonymus (2004)
- Rod Poole Trio – Iasis – Iasis (1997)
- Christina Carter – Bastard Wing – School Song / Desire to Play and Play (2003)
- Painting Petals on Planet Ghost – s/t – Sakura no hana no oto ga kikoeru (2005)
- Painting Petals on Planet Ghost – s/t – Haru no hi ni (2005)
Free Jazz Hour: Jul 27, 2009
Tonight was a rerun of the Apr 13 playlist, cause I love it so much:
- Doo-Dooettes – “Live on Close Radio” (LAFMS box set) – Close (198?)
- Last Exit – Last Exit – Red Light (1986)
- Painkiller – Execution Ground – Parish of Tama (Ossuary Dub) (1994)
- Derek Bailey – Mirakle – This Time (2000)
- Last Exit – Last Exit – Voice of a Skin Hanger (1986)
Free Jazz Hour: Jul 20, 2009
Last night’s show explored some songs by “rock” bands that I consider to be squarely within the “free jazz” framework:
- Sonic Youth / Jim O’Rourke – SYR 4 – Invito al Cielo (1999)
- Can – Tago Mago – Augmn (1971)
- Faust – 71 Minutes of Faust – Knochentanz (1971-73)
- The Stooges – Fun House – L.A. Blues (1970)
Free Jazz Hour: Jul 13, 2009
Tonights set list got into some pretty deep grooves after a little warm up:
- Dedalus – Pezzi Inediti + Meteriali 74-76 – Saxolanota (1976)
- Don Cherry – Brown Rice – Degi Degi (1975)
- Jon Hassell – City: Works of Fiction – Mombasa (1989)
- Miles Davis – The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions – Little High People (Take 8)
- Material – Memory Serves – Square Dance (1981)
- Moebius + Plank (+ Material) – Rastakraut Pasta – Missi Cacadou (1983)
- Don Cherry – Brown Rice – Brown Rice (1975)
- Last Exit – Last Exit – Catch as Catch Can (1986)
Free Jazz Hour: Jul 6, 2009
Tonight’s playlist was pretty proggy (and, I must admit, based on the set list from Dec 1, 2008):
- Arturo Stalteri – André Sulla Luna – Alba ancestrale (1979)
- Arturo Stalteri – André Sulla Luna – Il prisma magico (1979)
- Arturo Stalteri – André Sulla Luna – Viaggiando tra i riflessi (1979)
- Arturo Stalteri – André Sulla Luna – Verso la luna (1979)
- Saint Just – La Casa del Lago – Nella Vita, Un Pianto (1974)
- Debile Menthol – Emile au Jardin Patrologique – Tres Amusant, Major (1981)
- Jean Cohen-Solal – Flutes Libres – Concerto Cyclique (1973)
- Franco Battiato – Fetus – Meccanica (1972)
- Brainticket – Cottonwoodhill – Places of Light (1972)
P.S. Brainticket is from Germany. I don’t know why I thought they were American.
P.P.S. A couple of these albums are long out of print, but you can download them on Mutant Sounds: Andre Sulla Luna, Emile au Jardin Patrologique.
Free Jazz Hour: Jun 29, 2009
Tonight’s set list:
- Pharoah Sanders – Karma – The Creator Has a Master Plan (1969)
- Sun Ra – Astro Black – Hidden Spheres (1973)
- Ornette Coleman – Body Meta – Voice Poetry (1975)
- Art Ensemble of Chicago – Urban Bushmen – Promenade: Cote Bamako I (1980)
- Art Ensemble of Chicago – Urban Bushmen – Bush Magic (1980)
Free Jazz Hour: Jun 22, 2009
Tonight’s set list was all over the place:
- Loren Mazzacane Connors + Christina Carter – Meditations on the Ascension of Blind Joe Death, Vol 1 – Mirrors, Part 1 (2005)
- Miles Davis – On the Corner – Black Satin (1972)
- John Cale + Terry Riley – Church of Anthrax – Ides of March (1970)
- Roland Kirk – The Inflated Tear – The Inflated Tear (1968)
- Matt Valentine – Glorious Group Therapy – Feel… the music (2003)
- Jonathan + Tim – Don’t Call Us Piggy Call Us Cum – My Feelings (2004)
- Sonny + Linda Sharrock – Paradise – Apollo (1975)
- Squarepusher – Music is Rotted One Note – My Music (1998)
- Skeleton Crew – Learn to Talk – Not in My Shoes (1984)
Listen to the archived show here (available until June 29, 2009).
Free Jazz Hour: Jun 15, 2009
Last week’s show was just 2 songs:
- Peter Brötzmann – Fuck de Boere – Fuck de Boere (1969)
- Pharoah Sanders – Deaf Dumb Blind (Summun Bukmun Umyun) – Summun Bukmun Umyun (1970)
You can still listen here until the next show airs tonight.
Free Jazz Hour: Jun 7, 2009
Last week’s show was a solid hour of Arthur Doyle, so I’m just listing album name and song name:
- No More Crazy Women – Funk Breaks (1989)
- The Songwriter – Ancestor (1995)
- Your Spirit is Calling (with Hamid Drake) – Your Spirit is Calling (2003)
- Dawn of a New Vibration (with Sunny Murray) – Elephant Dreams 3 (2000)
- Alabama Feeling – November 8th or 9th, I can’t remember when (1978)
- Dawn of a New Vibration (with Sunny Murray) – Nature Boy (2000)
- Bushman Yoga (promo release) – Track 3 (2006)
Free Jazz Hour: May 18, 2009
This week’s set list:
- Taj Mahal Travellers – August 1974 – II (1974)
- Loren Connors – Sails – Portrait of a Fool I (2006)
- Loren Connors – Sails – Portrait of a Fool II (2006)
- Charalambides – Joy Shapes – Joy Shapes (2004)
- Giuseppe Ielasi – Gesine – Untitled #4 (2005)
- Tetuzi Akiyama – Route 13 to the Gates of Hell – Tuning 5 (2005)
- Tetuzi Akiyama – Route 13 to the Gates of Hell – Don’t Forget to Boogie (2005)
Listen to the archived show here (available until May 25, 2009).
Free Jazz Hour: May 11, 2009
Some free jazz classics:
- Albert Ayler – Love Cry – Universal Indians (1967)
- Ornette Colemna – Love Call – Love Call (1968)
- Alice Coltrane – Universal Consciousness – Battle at Armageddon (1971)
- Charles Mingus – Mingus at Antibes – Folk Forms I (1960)
- Cecil Taylor – Nefertiti, The Beautiful One Has Come – Trance (1962)
- Charles Tyler – Definite, vol 1 – Just For Two (1981)
Listen to the archived show here (available until May 18, 2009).
Free Jazz Hour: May 4, 2009
A minimalist show:
- Roberto Donnini – Tunedless – T 2 A (1980)
- Terry Riley – Shri Camel – Desert of Ice (1988)
- Arnold Dreyblatt + the Orchestra of Excited Strings – Propellers in Love – Odd + Eve (1988)
- David Behrman – Leapday Night – A Traveller’s Dream Journal (1990)
Free Jazz Hour: Apr 20, 2009
Got a little proggy last night:
- Franco Battiato – Fetus – Meccanica (1972)
- Holger Czukay – Movies – Hollywood Symphony (1979)
- Débile Menthol – Emile au jardin patrologique – Tres Amusant, Major (1981)
- “Blue” Gene Tyranny – Out of the Blue – David Kopay (Portrait) (1977)
- Frank Zappa – Uncle Meat – King Kong VI (1969)
- Toto Blanke’s Electric Circus – Friends – I’m a Stranger Here Myself (1979)
- Arturo Stalteri – André Sulla Luna – Verso La Realta (1979)
Listen to the archived show here (available until April 27, 2009). I’ll be out of town for next week’s show, so someone will be filling in.
Free Jazz Hour: Apr 13, 2009
Tonight we revisited the heavy stuff:
- Doo-Dooettes – “Live on Close Radio” (LAFMS box set) – Close (198?)
- Last Exit – Last Exit – Red Light (1986)
- Painkiller – Execution Ground – Parish of Tama (Ossuary Dub) (1994)
- Derek Bailey – Mirakle – This Time (2000)
- Last Exit – Last Exit – Voice of a Skin Hanger (1986)
Listen to the archived show here (available until April 20, 2009).
Free Jazz Hour: Apr 6, 2009
- Sonny Sharrock – Black Woman – Portrait of Linda in Three Colors, All Black (1969)
- Brigitte Fontaine – Comme a la Radio – Comme a la Radio (1970)
- Pharoah Sanders – Tauhid – Japan (1967)
- Barry Altschul – Brahma – Con Alma de Noche (1980)
- Charles Tyler – Definite, vol 1 – Lucifer Got Uptight (1981)
- Don Cherry – Organic Music Society – Bra Joe Terry’s Tune (1971)
- Sun Ra – Astro Black – Astro Black (1973)
Free Jazz Hour: Mar 30, 2009
Last night’s set list:
- Don Cherry – Brown Rice – Malkauns (1975)
- Aktuala – Tappeto Volante – Waruna (1976)
- Gopal Krishan – L’art de la Vichitra Vina – Raga Bairagi (1985)
- Jean Cohen-Solal – Flutes Libres – Raga du Matin (1973)
- MV + EE – Livestock Moon Forms Rural Ragas vol 1 – Cocola Moves Through the Guilford Fair (2005)
- Angus Maclise – The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda – Heavenly Blue Pt. 4 and 5 (1968-72)
Listen to the archived show here (available until April 6, 2009).
Free Jazz Hour: Mar 23, 2009
I missed a few weeks there, but here’s the playlist for this past Monday’s show:
- Dedalus – Pezzi Inediti + Materiali ‘74 – ‘76 – Saxolanota (1975)
- Franco Battiato – Da oriente ad occidente – Sulle corde di Aries (1973)
- Jon Hassell – City: Works of Fiction – In the City of Red Dust (1989)
- Arturo Stalteri – André Sulla Luna – Danza Dei Giaguari (1979)
- Jean-Michel Jarre – Zoolook – Ethnicolor (1985)
- Isotope 217 – Commander Mindfuck / Designer EP – User Password: Lebar (1999)
- Jean Cohen-Solal – Flutes Libres – Matiere (1973)
Listen to the archived show here (available until March 30, 2009).
Free Jazz Hour: Feb 23, 2009
Tonight’s set list:
- Fred Anderson – Dark Day – The Prayer (1979)
- Arnold Dreyblatt & the Orchestra of Excited Strings – Propellers in Love – Harmonics (1988)
- Pierre Henry & Urban Sax – Paradise Lost – Gate of Paradise (1982)
- Henry Flynt – Hillbilly Tape Music – Jumping Wired (1978)
- Lino Capra Vaccina – Antico Adagio – Voce in XY (1978)
- Loren Connors – Sails – In the Night (2006)
- Giuseppe Ielasi – Gesine – Untitled #4 (2005)
- Salah Abd Alghafour – Choubi Choubi! Folk and Pop Sounds from Iraq (compilation) – Walla (By God)
- Kay Hoffman – Floret Silva – Langueo (Vacillantis) (1977)
Listen to the archived show here (available until Mar 2, 2009).
Free Jazz Hour: Feb 16, 2009
Sorry for the slow posting, but here’s the set list for last week’s show. We had Zürich improviser Jason Kahn in the studio with us for a performance and brief interview:
- AMM – AMMUSIC – Ailantus Glandulosa (1966)
- John Cale – New York in the 1906s – Untitled (for piano) (1965)
- Jason Kahn (live on air performance + interview)
- Franco Battiato – Clic – Cancelli della Memoria (1974)
- Tom Recchion – Chaotica – The Perpetual Motion Clock (1996)
- Archie Shepp – Fire Music – Los Olvidados (1965)
Free Jazz Hour: Feb 9, 2009
Tonight’s set was pretty heavy and noisy, and I did get one call questioning whether Alan Licht’s All Blues could qualify as jazz… but let’s just say there was an emphasis on the free, especially toward the end of the hour.
- Painkiller – Execution Ground – Morning of Balachaturdasi (1994)
- Last Exit – Last Exit – Crackin (1986)
- Alan Licht – Rabbi Sky – All Blues (For Phill Niblock and James McNew) (1999)
- Material – Memory Serves – Metal Test (1981)
- Rudolph Grey – Mask of Light – Implosion — 73 (1991)
- Borbetomagus – Borbetomagus – Concordat 5 (1980)
Listen to the archived show here (available until Feb 16, 2009).
Free Jazz Hour: Feb 2, 2009
Sorry for the slowness in posting, but here’s the setlist for Monday’s show:
- Taj Mahal Travellers – Oz Days Live – Untitled (1973)
- The Tower Recordings – The Galaxies’ Incredibly Sensual Transmission Field Of The Tower Recordings- Giggy Garbage God (2004)
- Don Cherry – Mu, First Part – Brilliant Action; Amejalo; Total Vibration pt 1 (1969)
- John Coltrane – Interstellar Space – Venus (1974)
- MV+EE – Ragas & Blues – The Last Great Vivarna (2004)
Free Jazz Hour: Jan 26, 2009
Tonight’s set list:
- Supersilent – 6 – 6.2 (2003)
- David Behrman – Leapday Night – A Traveller’s Dream Journal, Setting A (1990)
- Roberto Donnini – Tunedless II – Untitled (track 6; 1977)
- Richard Youngs – Advent – Part II (1988)
- Hans Joachim Roedelius – Durch die Wuste – Durch die Wuste (1978)
- Rod Poole & Sasha Bogdanowitsch – Mind’s Island – Mystery of When (2005)
Listen to the archived show here (available until Feb 2, 2009).
Free Jazz Hour: Jan 19, 2008
Monday’s set list (the MLK day show):
- Albert Ayler – Holy Ghost Box Set – Defining “improvisation” in an interview with Kiyoshi Koyama (1970)
- Frank Zappa – Uncle Meat – King Kong Itself (1969)
- Alan Licht – The Evan Dando of Noise? – Untitled (1997)
- Albergo Intergalattico Spaziale – S/T – Improvisazione (1978)
- Angus Maclise – The Invasion of Thunderolt Pagoda – Shorwave-India (1968)
- David Toop – Black Chamber – The Slapping Gun (2003)
- John Cage (perf. by Herbert Henck) – Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano – No. 6, Sonata no. 5 (1948)
- Jon Hassell – City: Works of Fiction – Pagan (1990)
- Steaming Coils – In an 8 x 8 Bedroom – The Classics (1987)
- Codona – S/T – Mumakata (1987)
- Rev Dr Martin Luther King, Jr – We Shall Overcome (exerpt, 1966)
- Albert Ayler Trio – Holy Ghost Box Set – Spirits (theme)
- Albert Ayler – Holy Ghost Box Set – The Healing Force from an interview with Kiyoshi Koyama
- Teenage Jesus and the Jerks – No New York (compilation) – Red Alert (1978)
- Aktuala – Tappeto Volante – Mr Trilok (1976)
- Milford Graves (w. Arthur Doyle & Hugh Glover) – Babi Music – Untitled (1976)
- Fennesz – Venice – Onsay (2004)
- Sonny Sharrock – Black Woman – Blind Willy (1969)
- Brigitte Fontaine – Comme a la Radio – Les Petits Chevaux (1970)
- Don Cherry – Brown Rice – Brown Rice (1975)
Listen to the archived show here (available until Jan 26, 2009).
Free Jazz Hour: Jan 12, 2009
Last night’s set list:
- Jean Cohen-Solal – Captain Tarthopom – Ludions (1973)
- Don Cherry – Brown Rice – Brown Rice (1975)
- Material – Memory Serves – Square Dance (1981)
- Ornette Coleman – Body Meta – Voice Poetry (1975)
- Derek Bailey, Jamaladeen Tacuma & Calvin Weston – Mirakle – Moment (2000)
- Last Exit – Last Exit – Backwater (1986)
- Art Ensemble of Chicago – Les Stances a Sophie – Theme de Yoyo (1970)
Listen to the archived show here (available until Jan 19, 2009).
Free Jazz Hour: Jan 5, 2009
For last night’s show, we went back into good old-fashioned free jazz classics. A couple of tunes to remind us of (the recently deceased) Freddie Hubbard’s important contributions to the avant-garde:
- Ornette Coleman Double Quartet – Free Jazz – Free Jazz (First Take) (1961)
- John Coltrane – Interstellar Space – Mars (1974)
- John Coltrane – Interstellar Space – Venus (1974)
- Circle – Paris Concert – Duet / Lookout Farm (1971)
- Eric Dolphy – Outward Bound – G.W. (1960)
Listen to the archived show here (available until Jan 12, 2009).
Free Jazz Hour: Dec 29, 2008
Tonight’s set list:
- Phillip Krumm – Texas Music (compilation) – Sound Machine (1966)
- Tim Berresheim – No Time Left – Heinsberg 1975 bis 2006 (2006)
- Pita – Get Out – Untitled (1999)
- COH – Seasons – The Colour of Beauty, Summer is Red (2002)
- Painting Petals on Planet Ghost – Paintings Petals on Planet Ghost – Sakura no hana no oto ga kikoeru (2004)
- Christian Clozier – Quasars – 1er mouvement (1980)
Listen to the archived show here (available until Jan 5, 2009).
Free Jazz Hour: Dec 22, 2008
For Monday’s show, I put together a set list of bluesy, guitar-based avant-weirdness. The first set (up through the John Cale song) explores the intersection of minimalism, blues, and jazz.
- Henry Flynt – Hillbilly Tape Music – Guitar Rebop (197?)
- MV+EE Medicine Show – The Uranian Ray – Future Blues Pt. 2 (2004)
- Tetuzi Akiyama – Route 13 to the Gates of Hell – Don’t Forget to Boogie (2005)
- John Cale – Sun Blindness Music (New York in the 1960s) – Summer Heat (1965)
- Sonny Sharrock – Guitar – Devils Baby Doll (1986)
- Derek Bailey – Mirakle – s’ Now (2000)
- Last Exit – Last Exit – Catch as Catch Can (1986)
- Dredd Foole – C.O.M. 17H4 – Stones in My Passway (199?)
- The Tower Recordings – The Futuristic Folk of the Tower Recordings – Ray of Reynardine (2003)
- Loren Mazzacane Connors – In Pittsburgh – Blue Ghost Blues (1989)
Free Jazz Hour: Dec 15, 2008
Tonight’s set list:
- “Blue” Gene Tyranny – Out of the Blue – David Kopay (Portrait) (1977)
- Frank Zappa – Hot Rats – The Gumbo Variations (1969)
- Jean Cohen-Solal – Captain Tarthopom – Ab Hoc Et Ab Hac (1973)
- Material – Memory Serves – Disappearing (1981)
- Art Ensemble of Chicago – Les Stances a Sophie – Theme de Yoyo (1970)
- Brigitte Fontaine – Comme a la Radio – J’ai 26 ans (1970)
- Don Cherry – Brown Rice – Brown Rice (1975)
Listen to the archived show here (available until Dec 22, 2008).
Free Jazz Hour: Dec 8, 2008
Tonight’s show focussed on some more recent, electronic music that draws from free jazz / improv traditions. The set list:
- Ekkehard Ehlers – Plays – Plays Albert Ayler (Part 1) (2002)
- Supersilent – 6 – 6.3 (2003)
- David Toop – Black Chamber – Ill-Faced Doll (2003)
- Amon Tobin / Quadraceptor – Supermodified – Precursor (2000)
- Giuseppe Ielasi – s/t – Untitled #4 (2006)
- Jan Jelinek – Kosmischer Pitch – Universal Band Silhouette (2005)
- Keiji Haino – To Start With, Let’s Romove the Colour! – Another… (2002)
Listen to the archived show here (available until Dec 15, 2008).
Free Jazz Hour: Dec 1, 2008
Last night we ventured into so some serious prog rock territory. But I think you’ll hear the jazz influence in… most of this stuff. I started off with a suite of songs by Arturo Stalteri called Il Sogno di André.
- Arturo Stalteri – André Sulla Luna – Alba ancestrale (1979)
- Arturo Stalteri – André Sulla Luna – Il prisma magico (1979)
- Arturo Stalteri – André Sulla Luna – Viaggiando tra i riflessi (1979)
- Arturo Stalteri – André Sulla Luna – Verso la luna (1979)
- Saint Just – La Casa del Lago – Nella Vita, Un Pianto (1974)
- Magma – Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh – Hortz Fur Dehn Stekehn West (1973)
- Jean Cohen-Solal – Flutes Libres – Concerto Cyclique (1973)
- Franco Battiato – Fetus – Carioninesi (1972)
- Brainticket – Psychonaut – Like a Place in the Sun (1972)
Listen to the archived show here (available until Dec 8, 2008).
Free Jazz Hour: Nov 24, 2008
I got so excited about my last post, I forgot to post the set list from the last Free Jazz Hour. This was an eastern-themed show, with lots of tablas and sitars.
- Codona – Codona – New Light (1979)
- Aktuala – Tappeto Volante – Waruna (1976)
- MV+EE – Live in San Antonio (bootleg) – third set (2004)
- Samsimar – Folk and Pop Sounds of Sumatra (compilation) – Bapikek Balam (2003)
- Jean Cohen-Solal – Flutes Libres – Raga Du Matin (1973)
- Angus Maclise – Invasion of the the Thunderbolt Pagoda – Heavenly Blue Part 4 and 5 (1999)
- Bismillah Khan – Shehnai Recital – Raga (19??)
Listen to the archived show here (available until Dec 1, 2008).
Free Jazz Hour: Nov 17, 2008
The touch of love mean that you are my girl free music will last to the end of the world
- Arthur Doyle
Tonight’s set list (Artist – Album – Song (Year)):
- Pharoah Sanders – Karma – The Creator Has a Master Plan, Part I (1969)
- Marion Brown – Porto Novo – Porto Novo (1967)
- Albert Ayler – Spiritual Unity – The Wizard (1964)
- Sunny Murray – An Even Break (Never Give a Sucker) – Invisible Blues (1969)
- Arthur Doyle & Sunny Murray – Dawn of a New Vibration – Nature Boy (2000)
Listen to the archived show here (available until Nov 24, 2008).
Free Jazz Hour: Nov 10, 2008
Last night’s set list (Artist – Album – Song (Year)):
- Don Cherry – Brown Rice – Chenrezig (1975)
- Art Ensemble of Chicago – Les Stances a Sophie – Theme de Yoyo (1970)
- Sun Ra – Space is the Place – Space is the Place (1972)
- Sonny & Linda Sharrock – Paradise – 1953 Blue Boogie Children (1975)
- Jean Cohen-Solal – Captain Tarthopom – Captain Tarthopom (1973)
Listen to the archived show here (available until Nov 17, 2008).
Free Jazz Hour: Nov 3, 2008
I’m going to start posting the set lists from my radio show on KRTU, the Free Jazz Hour. The show airs on Monday nights from 9 to 10 pm, and is available as an archived audio stream here for the following week. During the show, you can listen on krtu.org or tune into 91.7 FM in San Antonio.
Last night I played some LPs I recently ordered from the Italian record label Lynx Records, run by Roberto Donnini. The format is Artist – Album – Song (Year).
- Giuseppe Morrocchi – Aaffluss Raaffluss – Aaffluss (1984)
- Roberto Donnini – Fluxmar – Ml. Imagina (1990)
- Lino Capra Vaccina – L’Attesa – Memorie (1992)
- Roberto Donnini – Tunedless 2 – Fula (1984)
- Giuseppe Morrocchi – P & C (Piano & Computer) – 2.org (1988)
If you like what you hear, you should download Roberto Donnini’s Tunedless from Mutant Sounds.
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