Playlist: 20100112 (Conversations with Ken Field and Fred Ho)

Dragon Fly
Keefe Jackson's Project Project
Just Like This
Delmark

The Struggle for a New World Suite
Fred Ho and The Green Monster Big Band
Celestial Green Monster
Mutable Music

A Call for All Demons
Revolutionary Snake Ensemble
Year of the Snake
Innova

Parade
Revolutionary Snake Ensemble
Year of the Snake
Innova

[Conversation with Ken Field. The RSE is traveling to New Orleans via Amtrak on Thursday 2/11. Mardi Gras bound, they will march with The Krewe of Orpheus on Lundi Gras].

Down by the Riverside
Revolutionary Snake Ensemble
Forked Tongue
Cuneiform

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Spiderman Theme
Fred Ho and the Green Monster Big Band
Celestial Green Monster
Mutable Music

[Conversation with Fred Ho. Fred will debut his Green Monster Big Band at BAMCafe on Saturday 1/23.]

Blues to the Freedom Fighters
Fred Ho and the Green Monster Big Band
Celestial Green Monster
Mutable Music

Playlist: 20100105

I Wonder
Ellynne Plotnick
Life Is Beautiful
Princess Monkey Music

Recurrence
Ellynne Plotnick
Life is Beautiful
Princess Monkey Music

Nothing but the Truth
Saskia Laroo & Teddy Edwards
Sunset Eyes 2000
Laroo Records

The Pasadena Two Step
Dom Minasi String Quartet
Dissonance Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
Konnex

The Dark Side
Dom Minasi String Quartet
Dissonance Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
Konnex

Year of the Snake
Revolutionary Snake Ensemble
Year of the Snake
Innova Recordings

A Call for All Demons
Revolutionary Snake Ensemble
Year of the Snake
Innova Recordings

Parade
Revolutionary Snake Ensemble
Year of the Snake
Innova Recordings

Central Square
Revolutionary Snake Ensemble
Year of the Snake
Innova Recordings

Spider Man
Fred Ho and the Green Monster Big Band
Celestial Green Monster
Mutable Music

Blues to the Freedom Fighters
Fred Ho and the Green Monster Big Band
Celestial Green Monster
Mutable Music

Minor Vee
Revolutionary Snake Ensemble
Forked Tongue
Cuneiform

Riverside
Revolutinoary Snake Ensemble
Forked Tongue
Cuneiform

Joy: Spiritual Fire: Joy
Wadada Leo Smith's Organic
Spiritual Dimensions
Cuneiform

Gagaku: Rain
John Coxon/Wadada Leo Smith
Brooklyn Duos
Treader

Dejohnette
Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet
Tabligh
Cuneiform

The Living Desire
Matt Lavelle and Morcilla
The Manfestation Drama
KMB Jazz

Mirror Images
Fonda, Morena, Schuller
A Drop of Water
Konnex

Moeglichkeiten
Fonda, Morena, Schuller
A Drop of Water
Konnex

Looking for the Lake
Fonda, Morena, Schuller
A Drop of Water
Konnex

Spacey
Fonda, Morena, Schuller
A Drop of Water
Konnex

Playlist: 20091124 (The Complete "Solo" by Henry Grimes)

Chasing the Ghost
Darius Jones Trio
Man'ish Boy
AUM Fidelity

Al-Shadhili's Litany of the Sea: sunrise
Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quintet
Spiritual Dimensions
Cuneiform

Amazing Grace
Mixashawn
Who is Polyester?
Mixashawn

Solo Parts 1 and 2
Henry Grimes
Solo
ILK Productions

Playlist: 20091110 (Mixashawn and John Funkhouser)

Big Train Rollin'

Darius Jones Trio

Man'ish Boy

AUM Fidelity

Who is Polyester?

Mixashawn

Who is Polyester?

Mixashawn

[Conversation with Mixashawn: Live From Downtown Atlantis]

Chubby the Cetacean

Mixashawn

Who is Polyester

Mixashawn

Green Dolphin Street

John Funkhouser Trio

Time

John Funkhouser

Dyin'/National Emancipation

John Funkhouser Trio

Time

John Funkhouser

Playlist: 20091103

21st Century Chase Pt. 1

Fred Anderson

21st Century Chase

Delmark

South Central L.A. Kulture

Wadada Leo Smith

Spiritual Dimensions

Cuneiform

Kashmir

Bluenoise

Bluenoise

RB Music

Dudley Owens

Rootz

Just The Beginning

Self-Produced

Journey for 3 Blue Stones

Nicole Mitchell Black Earth Ensemble

Hope, Future and Destiny

Dreamline Records

Crossroads

Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Strings

Renegades

Delmark

Toucouleur

Ernest Dawkins' New Horizons Ensemble

Cape Town Shuffle

Delmark

Weather Shamanism

Matt Lavelle and Morcilla

The Manifestation Drama

KMB Jazz

Playlist 20091013 [Conversations with Len Paplauskas of Seizure and with Gretchen Parlato]

Spirits Amuok

Mixashawn

Who is Polyester

Contemporary Indigenous Data

God Love Sex

Matt Lavelle and Morcilla

The Manifestation Drama

KMB Jazz

Equinox

Seizure

Grand Mal

Self-Released

I'm Beginning to See the Light

Seizure

Grand Mal

Self-Released

[Conversation with Len Paplauskas of Seizure. ]

Seizure is performing at Murphy and Scarletti's in Farmington, CT, on Wednesday 10/14 at 5:30PM. Admission is $10 and gets you in, gets you a CD, and gets you fed. This is a benefit for the UCONN Breast Cancer Program as well as a CD release party.]

Sugar

Seizure

Grand Mal

Self-Released

[Conversation with Gretchen Parlato, who will be performing at Firehouse 12, Friday 10/16]

I Can't Help It

Gretchen Parlato

In A Dream

Obliqsound

Playlist: 20090922 (Conversation with William Hooker)

This Bitter Earth

Lillie Bryant-Howard

Stepping Through the Center

LL/CDS

La Dee Dah

Lillie Bryant-Howard

Stepping Through the Center

LL/CDS

Life is Beautiful

Ellynne Plotnick

Life Is Beautiful

Princess Monkey Music

Changing Voices / Changing Beauty

Ellynne Plotnick

Life Is Beautiful

Princess Monkey Music

Coltrane in Spring

Tchicai/Muller/Munch-Hansen/Osgood

Coltrane In Spring

ILK Music

Dashiki man

Tchicai/Muller/Munch-Hansen/Osgood

Coltrane In Spring

ILK Music

Solo (Excerpt)

Henry Grimes

Solo

ILK Music

{Conversation With William Hooker}

Solo (Excerpt)
Henry Grimes
Solo
ILK Music

Playlist: 20090915 (Conversation With Matt Wilson)

Lying in Bed, Moving Through Space

Rozanne Levine & Chakra Tuning

Only Moment

Acoustics

Celibate Oriole

Matt Wilson Quartet

That's Gonna Leave a Mark

Palmetto

Come and Find The Quiet Center

Matt Wilson Quartet

That's Gonna Leave a Mark

Palmetto

Why Can't We Be Friends

Matt Wilson Quartet

That's Gonna Leave a Mark

Palmetto

(Conversation with Matt Wilson)

The Scenic Route

Matt Wilson's Arts & Crafts

The Scenic Route

Palmetto

Toucoleurs
Ernest Dawkins' New Horizons Ensemble
Live at the Original Hothouse
Delmark

Autumn Leaves
Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio
Ooh! Live!
Bright Moments Records

WHUS at Newport: Foreword

Does one attend "Newport" or, rather, the idea of Newport?

It's hard to know, sometimes; it's that big. Like comparing Oak Creek Canyon with the Grand Canyon.

Our stated intention was to cover the avant-gardeness of it all and we succeeded in this (evidence forthcoming), but one thing we learned (and we learned alot!) was that, at the center... the heart of it all, there are these people. The artists and organizers (doing yeoman's work) and the crowd; those who came to hear and feel Charles Gayle or The Bad Plus. And those who are simply there for the grandiosity; the spectacle.

We spoke with: Vijay Iyer, Ken

Vandermark, George Wein, Rudresh Mahanthappa; Ethan Iverson; and "By Any Means" (William Parker, Charles Gayle, and Muhammed Ali (Rashied was unable to make it).

Truth be told, we spoke with a great many people; Rick Massimo of the Providence Journal; Dave Barrett of CBS Radio; Alan Stone of NPR; Arnold Jay Smith of jazz.com.

The infrastructural atmosphere was collegial.

The cultural atmosphere was festive and engaged.

The atmospheric atmosphere was the least rainy of the summer, so far.

It's easy to strike a pose and hate on the big festival but just this once admit it; it was fun and inspiring.

Playlist: 20090811 (Return from Newport)

East Broadway Run Down

Sonny Rollins

The Impulse! Story

Impulse!

We Kiss in a Shadow

Sonny Rollins

The Impulse! Story

Impulse!

Three Little Words

Sonny Rollins

The Impulse! Story

Impulse!

Oglala Eclipse

The Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra

Mayor of Punkville

AUM Fidelity

Big Bhangra

Fareed Haque and the Flat Earth Ensemble

Flat Planet

OWL Studios

Convergence (Kinsmen)

Rudresh Mahanthappa (Featuring Kadri Goplanath & The Dakshina Ensemble)

Kinsmen

PI Recordings

Walking Upside-Down

Daniel Carter, Randall Colbourne, Paul Flaherty

A Flash in the Sky

The Glass Museum