KUSF In Exile 08.29.11 10-11 PM Jazz On The Cusp DJ Doctor Jekkyll

For over a century, jazz music has continued to be a living, breathing entity. To date, the music itself has defended itself admirably against those self-appointed guardians of last year's blues who would compartmentalize jazz as swing, bebop, cool, avant-garde, etc. Rather than hearing jazz as a sequence of separate styles, it is important to hear its continuity across time. Jazz is always on the cusp, always searching, always ready to incorporate a new discovery into the body of work that preceded it. There is no radical break between swing and bebop, between bebop and cool, between the early New Orleans styles and the avant-garde group improvisations of the 1960s. The music exists on a continuum.

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PLAYLIST
22nd edition
29 August 2011

1. It's Howdy Doody Time
(Edward Kean)
Lester Bowie
The Great Pretender
ECM
1981
Lester Bowie - trumpet
Hamiet Bluiett - baritone saxophone
Donald Smith - piano
Fred Williams - bass
Philip Wilson - drums

2. Mudfoot
(Blythe, Cherry, Freeman, Lightsey, McBee, Moye)
The Leaders
Mudfoot
Blackhawk
1986
Lester Bowie - trumpet
Chico Freeman - tenor saxophone
Arthur Blythe - alto saxophone
Cecil McBee - bass
Kirk Lightsey - piano
Don Moye - drums

3. Fly Me To The Moon
(Bart Howard)
Roy Haynes
Out Of The Afternoon
Impulse!
1962
Roland Kirk - tenor sax, stritch
Tommy Flanagan - piano
Henry Grimes - bass
Roy Haynes - drums

4. Dexterity
(Charlie Parker)
Art Ensemble of Chicago
Message To Our Folks
BYG Actuel
1969
Lester Bowie - trumpet, percussion instruments
Roscoe Mitchell - alto sax, little instruments
Joseph Jarman - tenor sax, little instruments
Malachi Favors - bass, little instruments

5. Awake Nu
(Cherry)
Don Cherry
Where Is Brooklyn?
Blue Note
1967
Don Cherry - cornet
Pharoah Sanders - tenor sax
Henry Grimes - bass
Ed Blackwell - drums

6. Dream Stalker
(Abercrombie, Bowie, DeJohnette, Gomez)
Jack DeJohnette
New Directions
ECM
1978
Jack DeJohnette – drums
John Abercrombie – guitar
Lester Bowie – trumpet
Eddie Gomez – bass

7. Urban Magic
a) March
b) Warm Night Blues Stroll
c) Down the Walkway
d) RM Express
(Art Ensemble of Chicago)
Art Ensemble of Chicago
Urban Bushmen
ECM
1980
Lester Bowie - trumpet, bass drum, long horn
Malachi Favors Maghostut - bass, percussion, melodica
Joseph Jarman - saxophones, clarinets, bassoon, flutes, percussion
Roscoe Mitchell - saxophones, flute, percussion, clarinet
Don Moye - sun percussion

8. Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
(trad., arr. Shepp)
Archie Shepp & Horace Parlan
Goin' Home
SteepleChase
1985
Archie Shepp - soprano sax
Horace Parlan - piano