Friday, September 9th, 2005 ... 3:00 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. ... KZSU, 90.1 FM

Truncated show due to Stanford Volleyball.

One of my biggest radio regrets is that I was on the air at 9:09 p.m. on 9/9/99 .... and it didn't even occur to me to play "Revolution 9." Some small atonement here, then.

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

* Terence Blanchard -- "Harvesting Dance" -- The Flow (Blue Note, 2005)

Actually this was the track Geoff G. used to end his "beat.net" show at 3:00, but I think it's cool, so I let the final 5 minutes play out. Blue Note has been getting either innovative or desperate, depending on POV, with adding unusual production and pop gimmicks to their albums -- this one including various guitar styles such as a psych-rock mini-jam on this track. I've seen reviews saying this album is overproduced by Herbie Hancock, and there's some truth to that, but I still enjoyed it overall -- the moods and sounds are refreshing, particularly the occasional mix of acoustic guitar and trumpet.

Quirky piano-trio piece with a 5/4 theme. Burk presents some nice stuff on this CD, very ECM-like -- maybe more aggressive than that --with lots of room for improvisatory group interaction.

* Big Neighborhood -- "Layered Effect" -- Neighbors (Origin, 2005)

* Frank Wright -- "The Earth" -- The Complete ESP-Disk Recordings (ESP-Disk, 2005; recorded 1965)

* Brad Dutz and John Holmes -- "Indiana" -- My Bongo (pfMentum, 2005)

CD of percussion duets. Nice stuff -- several tracks feature compositions on marimbas, xylophones, etc. This one's more of a clattery improv.

And yes, we do have this on vinyl, on the honest-to-goodness Apple label.

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

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