Friday, September 17th, 2004 ... 4:40 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. ... KZSU, 90.1 FM

Shortened show due to Stanford women's volleyball. Todd Rundgren is in town next week (in Campbell, of all places), so I tossed in an experimental, Sun-Ra-minded instrumental of his.

Format:
ARTIST -- "TRACK TITLE" -- ALBUM TITLE (LABEL, YEAR)

* Steve Coleman and Five Elements -- "Plagal Transitions" -- Lucidarium (Label Bleu, 2004)

* Sam Rivers, Adam Rudolph, Harris Eisenstadt -- "Philio" -- Vista (Meta, 2004)

* Groundtruther (Charlie Hunter and Bobby Previte, with guest Greg Osby) -- "40th Parallel" -- Latitude (Thirsty Ear, 2004)

* Jacob Young -- "Presence of Descant" -- Evening Falls (ECM, 2004)

Mellow, floaty guitar pieces that get into some freely flowing improvising, in the usual ECM vein.

* Dragons 1976 -- "Felt" -- On Cortez (Locust, 2004)

* John Shiurba 5x5 -- "1.1.3" -- 1.1=M (Unlimited Sedition, 2004)

* Vinny Golia -- "Single Booth Enclosure Third Revision" -- A Gift for the Unusual (Nine Winds, 2004)

* Two Separate Gorillas -- "Tap Dancing in a Mine Field" -- Two Separate Gorillas (Trigon, 2004)

! Todd Rundgren -- "A Treatise on Cosmic Fire: I.The Internal Fire, or Fire by Friction" [sections 1 through 3 or so, out of 7] -- Initiation (Bearsville, 1975)

* Sun Ra -- "Spaceship Lullabye" -- Spaceship Lullabye (Atavistic, 2004; recorded c. 1960)

* Brian Woodbury -- "Threnody for Kennedy and Connally" -- Variety Orchestra (Some Philharmonic, 2004)

* = Item in KZSU rotation
! = Pop anomaly
? = Item not in KZSU library

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