The Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet has two very good albums out -- "Short Visit to Nowhere" and "Broken English." The Tentet is an all-star kind of project (Joe McPhee, Ken Vandermark, Hamid Drake) that plays free jazz based on composed material -- often rollicking and even catchy. Great stuff, but very long tracks (six songs on the two CDs, the shortest being 13 minutes).
* Kahil El'Zabar Trio -- "Song for a New South Africa" -- Love Outside of Dreams (Delmark, 2002)
* Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet plus two -- "Broken English" [by Ken Vandermark] -- Broken English (Okka Disk, 2002)
* Sticks and Stones -- "Sons of Slaves" -- Sticks and Stones (482 Music, 2002)
33.3 -- "Quilted Giraffe" -- 33.3 (Aesthetics, 1999)
* The Cosmosamatics -- "Mingus Mangus" -- The Cosmosamatics (Boxholder, 2002)
* Wolfgang Fuchs -- "Vocal Transfer" -- Bits and Pieces (FMP, 2002)
* Tony Oxley and the B.I.M.P. Quartet -- "Beam Line" -- Floating Phantoms (All/FMP, 2002)
Rich Halley -- "Serpent's Tooth" -- Saxophone Animals (9 Winds, 1993)
* Adam Lane's Full Throttle Orchestra -- "Grape Ape Meets the Working Man" -- No(w) Music (Cadence Jazz, 2002)
* Bobby Few, Avram Fefer, Wilbur Morris -- "Nostalgia in Times Square" -- Few and Far Between (Boxholder, 2002)
* Left Coast Improv Group -- "Ron's Meditation" -- April-May 2002 (Edgetone/Jimzeen, 2002)
*! Tom Waits -- "Everything You Can Think" -- Alice (Anti-, 2002)
World Saxophone Quartet -- "Ra-Ta-Ta" -- Steppin' with the World Saxophone Quartet (Black Saint, 1979)
* Gold Sparkle Band -- "Second Fugue (Answer)" -- Fugues and Flowers (Squealer, 2002)
* Paul Flaherty, Greg Kelley, Chris Corsano -- "Blood Whisper" -- Sannyasi (Wet Paint, 2002)
Sam Rivers Trio -- "Iris" -- Firestorm (RivBea Sound, 2001)
John Zorn -- "Duras" (Premiere Livre) -- Duras:Duchamp (Tzadik, 1997)
* Seth Misterka and the Misterka Clones -- "Valentine's Day" [excerpt] -- President's Day (Newsonic, 2001)
* = Item in KZSU rotation
! = Pop/World music anomaly
? = Item not in KZSU library
-- Go back to Memory Select playlists.
-- Bay Area free/improv music calendar: http://www.bayimproviser.com.