Friday, October 15th, 2004 ... 3:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. ... KZSU, 90.1 FM

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

* Lafayette Gilchrist -- "Baltimore's Belly" -- The Music According to Lafayette Gilchrist (Hyena, 2004)

* Dave Douglas, Louis Sclavis, Peggy Lee, Dylan Van Der Schyff -- "Petals" -- Bow River Falls (Premonition, 2004)

* Babardah -- "Rathi" -- Babardah (Abzu, 2004)

* Less of Five -- "Le Calmar dans le Bassin" -- Acrobati Folli e Innamorati (Nine Winds, 2004)

* Matt Wilson's Arts and Crafts -- "Aluminum Baby" -- Wake up (to What's Happening) (Palmetto, 2004)

* Denny Zeitlin -- "Recovery" -- Slickrock (MaxJazz, 2004)

* Parker / Schlippenbach / Lytton [that's Evan Parker] -- "Rejoicing in Their Hearts over the Journey" [excerpt] -- America 2003 (Psi, 2004)

A nice document of a U.S. tour by fabled European musicians. This was suppsed to be a "Parker/Guy/Lytton" tour -- a trio that's played for more than 25 years together -- but bassist Barry Guy couldn't make the trip, and pianist Alex Von Schlippenbach stepped in. Nice stuff, all improvised and untethered but with a very "free jazz" aesthetic.

* Cartwright/Oppenheim [Katherine Cartwright, Richard Oppenheim] -- "Johnny Nolan" -- A Mumbai of the Mind (Harriton Carved Wax, 2001)

We played a CD from these folks earlier this year, one with John Cage songs performed in a jazzy style. Here we've got poems of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, from "A Coney Island of the Mind" (1958), played up in "World" music style, with tabla, mridangam, ghatham, etc. ... also Cartwright's voice and Oppenheim's sax.

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

* Paul Rutherford -- "Prindalf" -- Ghelm (Emanem, 2004; recorded 1983)

* Pierre Langevin and Pierre Tanguay -- "Le Chalumeau de la Paix" -- La Bouzaille (Ambiances Magnetiques, 2004)

! Joanna Newsom -- "Sprout and the Bean" -- Milk-Eyed Men (Drag City, 2004)

Singer and harpist doing plaintive little ballads. Her voice is somewhere around a Blossom Dearie or a gentler Bjork. Nice local stuff.

* Nels Cline and Vinny Golia -- "The Tiny Boxes Speak Her Name" -- The Entire Time (Nine Winds, 2004)

* Medeski, Martin and Wood -- "Mami Gato" -- End of the World Party (Blue Note, 2004)

* Tunnels -- "Frank's Beard" -- Live: The Art of Living Dangerously (Buckyball, 2004)

* Mario Pavone -- "Bad Birdie" -- Boom (Playscape, 2004)

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

* Dan Plonsey -- "M"/"N" -- Portcullis (Unlimited Sedition, 2004)

Todd Sickafoose Group -- "Too Much Tea" -- Dogs Outside (Evander, 1999)

* Michael Jefry Stevens and Michael Rabinowitz -- "The Journey" -- Play (Drimala, 2004)

* Patricia Barber -- "Whiteworld" -- Live: A Fortnight in France (Blue Note, 2004)

The Cosmosamatics -- "Fusionanatomy" -- The Cosmosamatics II (Boxholder, 2002)

The Cosmosamatics -- "Echoes of Eric Dolphy" -- The Cosmosamatics II (Boxholder, 2002)

* Rob Price -- "Mouse Game" -- At Sunset (Gutbrain, 2004)

* Tony Bianco, Dave Liebman, Tony Marino -- "Line Ish: Part Three" -- Line Ish (Emanem, 2004)

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

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