Friday, June 1st, 2007 ... 3:00 p.m. - 6:45 p.m. ... KZSU, 90.1 FM

Format:
ARTIST -- "TRACK TITLE" -- ALBUM TITLE (LABEL, YEAR)
Horizontal lines denote microphone breaks.

* William Parker/Hamid Drake -- "First Communion 2" -- First Communion/Piercing the Veil (AUM Fidelity, 2006)

Previously noted here.

* The John Lewis Sound -- "Get to This Y'all!" -- Get to This Y'all! (Miles Ahead, 2002)

Previously noted here.

* Scott Tinkler -- "Duet for Fingers and Bell End" [excerpt] -- Backwards (Extreme, 2006)

Previously noted here.

The Beatles -- "Within You, Without You" -- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Capitol, 1967)

Played on original glorious vinyl, I'll have you know. This being the 40th anniversary of the album, I wanted to do something but didn't want to descend into "classic rock" cheesiness. These are great songs (well, with some exceptions), just overplayed. What, then, would be a good college-radio way to fete this album? Why, playing this song, of course!

A buddy of mine once nearly started a fight by playing this on the jukebox at a bar. He was all into the song, swaying and soaking it in, but the drunkards near us were pissed off. The bartender compromised by disconnecting the song but giving my friend his dollar back. We stuck the dollar back into the jukebox, punched up "Within You, Without You" as many times as we could, and took off.

* Tom Nunn -- "Nailstrum" -- Identity (Edgetone, 2006)

Previously noted here.

* Rocco John -- "Gentilesse" -- Don't Wait Too Long (Coalition of Creative Artists, 2007)

Rocco John Iacovone, who apparently drops the last name in concert, is a veteran of Sam Rivers' loft-jazz bands of the '70s. He's still living in New York and is active in spreading the jazz word, through his COCA label and through membership in the International Association for Jazz Education. And he can still play a mean sax.

Here, a quartet led by sax and trumpet steps through some lively originals, accessible jazz pieces but with Rocco John sometimes going absolutely nuts on his solos. Great stuff.

He's got a more sedate side too, playing standards and originals with Alaskan musician Murray Nash in a duo/trio called Rare Form. In fact, a couple of track son Don't Wait Too Long are reprises from Rare Form, where they appear in more polite form; I prefer these knock-down, drag-out versions myself, but the Rare Form stuff seems worth checking out.

* The Mighty Vitamins -- "Talk That Big Talk" -- Take-Out (Public Eyesore, 2006)

Previously noted here.

* Kenny Werner -- "Lo's Garden" -- Lawn Chair Society (Blue Note, 2007)

Previously noted here.

-- 4:00 p.m. --

* Frank Carlberg -- "Sight Is Just Dust" -- State of the Union (Fresh Sound New Talent, 2007)

Previously noted here.

* Declared Enemy -- "Marche Funebre" [excerpt] -- Night of 100001 Stars: A Tribute to Jean Genet (Rogue Art, 2007)

Previously noted here.

Thomas Schulz, piano -- "The People United Will Never Be Defeated" [variations 35 and 36 of 36, and Thema] -- Piano: Rzewski; Bach (Wooden Fish, 2002)

Modern classical stuff from

Frederic Rzewski, who was going to be in town tonight for a performance of this piece. These are the closing movements, as I obviously didn't have time to play the whole thing.

Steve Lacy, Irene Aebi, Frederic Rzewski -- "Do Not Judge Me Lightly #2" -- Packet (New Albion, 1995)

More Rzewski stuff, this time with him guesting on a Steve Lacy/Irene Aebi project. If you're not familiar with these folks, Lacy (a jazzster by heart) would write these art-song pieces for Aebi to sing in her dusky alto voice. I've got very little experience with those pieces, and I'm still trying to acquire the taste for classical song in general (the non-repeating quality and complex melodic lines makes it harder than pop music, to my ears).

Locally (and not at all relevant to this track), three musicians have been reviving Steve Lacy's "Tips," a piece for voice and two saxophones. The three are Bruce Ackley, Phillip Greenlief, and Aurora Josephson, and they'll be performing "Tips" again on Oct. 20 at Noe Valley Ministry and Jan. 19, 2007, at the Jazzschool in Berkeley.

* Tom Baker Quartet -- "Metamorphosis Happens" -- Look What I Found (Present Sounds, 2006)

Previously noted here.

* Dan Loomis Group -- "Pied Noir" -- I Love Paris (Jazz Excursion, 2007

Previously noted here.

! Cougar -- "Lifetime" -- Law (Layered, 2006)

Indie-rock instrumentals, pleasant stuff.

* Michael Dessen -- "What Space Can Hide The Liberty Of A Line" -- Lineal (Circumvention, 2006)

Previously noted here.

-- 5:00 p.m. --

Go-Go Fightmaster -- "The Perfect Man" -- Go-Go Fightmaster (Pax, 2003)

Previously noted here.

Jon Raskin -- "The Bass and the Bird Pond" -- The Bass and the Bird Pond (New World, 1999)

Previously noted here.

! The Sparkiovoggel -- "Words Are So Cheesy" -- Bled, Blight, and Rue (self-released, 2006)

Art-rock in a Beefheart/Zappa vein. This is a release I never took the time to delve into enough.

* Taylor Ho Bynum -- "Brooklyn with an E" -- The Middle Picture (Firehouse 12, 2007)

Previously noted here.

Larry Ochs Sax and Drumming Core -- "Red Shift" -- The Neon Truth (Black Saint, 2003)
Larry Ochs Sax and Drumming Core -- "The Neon Truth" -- The Neon Truth (Black Saint, 2003)

Previously noted here.

Baikida Carroll -- "Spade Hearts in Clubs" -- Door of the Cage (Soul Note, 1995)

-- 6:00 p.m. --

* Carnival Skin -- "Bobosong" -- Carnival Skin (Nemu, 2006)

Previously noted here.

* Jeremiah Cymerman -- "The Divining Hand" -- Big Exploitation (Solponticello, 2006)

Previously noted here.

* Esperanza Spalding -- "The Peacocks" -- Junjo (Ayva, 2006)

Previously noted here.

Rod Poole -- "December 96" [excerpt] -- December 96 (Win, 1998)

Played to note the tragic passing of Rod Poole, a guitarist in the vein of John Fahey. Poole was murdered in Los Angeles recently, allegedly knifed by the passenger of a car that was driving recklessly; a reprint of the L.A. Times account can be found

here.

This piece served as a kind of transition into my second shift.

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

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