Thursday, January 19, 2006

1/19/06 8:52 pm PT - Greg Abate - Monsters In The Night - Dr. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde Dedicating our last tune of the evening to the equiptment here...pretty unprofessional on my part I'll admit...frustration reigns... Lots of fun tonight, even though....thanks to Ed for the interview!! NIGHT NIGHT....VO 9:32:42 PM

1/19/06 8:42 pm PT - E.S.T - Viaticum - Eighty-eight Days In My Veins This is a disc that is getting lots of plus and minus reviews...and lots of pre-press on the whole European Jazz Thing...we've got to get Esbjorn on this show!! I will be posting what I know about this subject this week... 9:30:29 PM

1/19/06 8:35 pm PT - Hiromi - Spiral - Deja Vu Nice sounding tune and performance...fit nicely in Hour 3...inventive...creative...yep... 9:23:09 PM

1/19/06 8:31 pm PT - Edsel Gomez - Cubist Music - The Minetta Triangle Yep...an Hour 3 gem...and this disc has lots more where that came from... 9:21:47 PM

1/19/06 8:22 pm PT - Grant Geissman - Say That! - Point of View "...an iron fist upside the mushy head of smooth jazz..."? It may be something New for Grant, but "iron fist"? That may be a bit much. But it would be interesting to hear Grant's story on this...maybe his only 'real' Jazz station interview? 9:19:52 PM

1/19/06 8:15 pm PT - Shahida Nurullah - The Ruby and the Pearl - Lullaby of the Leaves Nice sound to her voice...and a great arrangement too... 9:17:22 PM

1/19/06 8:00 pm PT - James Carter - Out of Nowhere - Along Came Betty Great freakin' wild thing to open up Hour 3 with...and boy do I need wild because I'm feeling wild and PO'd....I just discovered that in my haste to make the interview with Ed happen in another booth because of the unreliable equiptment (not so recently, I must admit, but...), I did not get my CD recording started...CD in the recorder, Record just not pushed...damn... ...back to this wild tune...most excellent James!!! 9:14:12 PM

1/19/06 7:55 pm PT - Bob Brookmeyer - And Friends - The Wrinkle Coming out of the interview with NEA Jazz Master Bob Brookmeyer...he would be a great interview...especially now with his new honors and new re-issue... 9:10:09 PM

1/19/06 7:35 pm PT - Ed Trefzger Interview Ed and I (finally!!!) chat about Jazz record labels, small vs. big, impact for listeners of multiple channels of Jazz, independent labels and artists vs. the bigs, his thoughts on highlights from the IAJE 2006 conference, and what's up next in JazzWeek. Thanks Ed....sorry for no recording on my end...at least the interview happened!! 9:07:52 PM

1/19/06 7:20 pm PT - Charo - Charo and Guitar - Picante Fire-y, like Charo...cuchi cuchi.... 9:05:05 PM

1/19/06 7:12 pm PT - Eijiro Nakagawa and Jim Pugh - Legend and Lion - Jank Swinging into our interview session (Note: I know now that this did not come off at this time and the scramble with busted equiptment begins...) 9:02:08 PM

1/19/06 7:07 pm PT - L. Zaide - Planet Chill - April In Paris Love this tune...nice cover L....nice cover art L.... 8:57:40 PM

1/19/06 7:01 pm PT - Nika Rejto - Teazing Socrates - That's All Hour 2 begins introspectively...great flute sound from this New artist!! Pronounced Rie-Toe...Thanks Joe!! 8:48:37 PM

1/19/06 6:55 pm PT - Frank Wess - Quartet - Gone With The Wind From a classic reissue...this one is a mid-tempo tune from a Moodsville release from 1960...great sound to this band... 8:38:10 PM

1/19/06 6:45 pm PT - Mike Barone Big Band - Live 2005! - Road Kill Nice sounding Big Band...and LIVE no less!! 8:35:30 PM

1/19/06 6:39 pm PT - Don Stiernberg / John Carlini - By George - Embraceable You A second Gershwin tune in Hour 1...already... ...and this one sounds so unique... 8:34:08 PM

1/19/06 6:31 pm PT - Pascal Le Bouef - Migration - King of Deuces Nice horn arrangement...blowing some kind of mainstream shit...I warned you...I'm pissed still...and it's not Pascal's fault... 8:31:20 PM

1/19/06 6:22 pm PT - Lazy Bird - Feelin' It - Summertime Cool groove... Mark in the USD area of SD, 20 yr Jazz 88 listener, digging Lazy Bird... 8:25:58 PM

1/19/06 6:16 pm PT - Alexander McCabe - The Round - Jugo Swinging New to end Set 1...go Alex! 8:24:02 PM

1/19/06 6:11 pm PT - Carmen Lundy - Jazz and the New Songbook - In Love Again Great New LIVE disc...Carmen is oh so soulful on this...with stud players all around!! 8:17:15 PM

1/19/06 6:05 pm PT - Nat Yarbrough - Triple Play - Un Poco Loco A great, up-tempo way to kick off the show and Hour 1... Note: I'm posting this during Hour 3 and despite the wild and carefree blowing of James Carter to kick off Hour 3, I'm sooooooooo pissed at the turn of events for my interview with Ed Trefzger...no fault of his...but engineering failed and in the process of us running around the studio trying (and eventually succeeding) to make the interview come off...I was not able to get a New CD in the recorder and pushed...so not interview recorded and no audio...damn... onward... 8:14:52 PM

1/19/06 6:01 pm PT - NPR News and KSDS Business Report Baghdad bombing, Iraq kidnapping, election results announcing... ...new announcer Business Reporting... 8:08:33 PM