November 18: Don Cherry Has a Birthday

Yesterday was Don Cherry's birthday. The man with the tiny trumpet would have turned 79. To celebrate, I pulled out some of my personal highlights of his own catalog as well as some stuff from his work with Albert Ayler. I chose not to go the Ornette Coleman Quartet route, because I need to pace myself on that one. I can't think of a group that has hit me harder over the years than that one, as any long time listener of my show can attest. So no Coleman group. But there's still plenty of great stuff to pull from the man's fantastic career (side note, the Pharaoh Sanders solo on "Taste Maker" is a thing to behold!)

I also finally got to playing some Kamasi Washington. Situating him next to FlyLo and Kendrick makes Epic that much more enjoyable.

Listen to the show here. Again, the show starts a few minutes in.

Playlist is as follows:

Set 1:
1. Don Cherry: "Hope" from Organic Music Society
2. Flying Lotus: "Turkey Dog Coma" from Your Dead!
3. Kamasi Washington: "The Message" from Epic
4. Kendrick Lamar: "Alright" from To Pimp a Butterfly

Set 2:
1. Heather Leigh: "Fairfield Fantasy" from I Abused Animal
2. Rafael Anton Irisarri: "Persistence" from A Fragile Geography
3. Greenhouse: "Your Favourite Place" from Cold Wires

Set 3:
1. Albert Ayler Quartet: "Spirits" from The Hilversum Sessions
2. Don Cherry Quartet: "Taste Maker" from Where is Brooklyn?
3. Don Cherry: "Complete Communion" from Complete Communion

Episode #2

No podcast yet again today. Fortunately though, this time next week I should have copies for my first three shows up and ready to share. In the meantime another simple playlist will have to suffice. It was a busy show today with my son Felix constantly trying to turn my microphone on and off (and when I was talking on air he was quick to tell me I talk too much), and Tim Hoover popping in to gush over Duke Ellington's Money Jungle. I hope that enthusiasm was evident through the content of the show itself. For the most part today, I stuck with classics on the jazz front celebrating Elvin Jones' birthday with a variety of recordings, and then threw in some new stuff from Billy Martin and Nick Fraser  for good measure. I even found a way to include Julia Holter's Loud City Song and Forrest Sword's Engravings, two records I can't recommend highly enough. Anyways, here's the playlist.

1.) John Coltrane - "Acknowledgement" (From the album A Love Supreme)
2.) Elvin Jones/Jimmy Garrison Sextet - "Nuttin' Out Jones" (From the album Illumination!)
3.) Elvin Jones/Jimmy Garrison Sextet - "Gettin' On Way" (From the album Illumination!)
4.) Billy Martin's Wicked Knee - "Sugarfoot Stomp" (From the album Heels Over Head)
5.) Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Max Roach - "Caravan" (From the album Money Jungle)
6.) Mountains - "Millions of Time" (From the album Mountains, Mountains, Mountains)
7.) Forrest Swords - "Onward" (From the album Engravings)
8.) Boundary - "Long Story Short" (From the album Boundary)
9.) Julia Holter - "Maxim I" (From the album Loud City Song)
10.) Ornette Coleman - "Sleep Talking" (From the album Sound Grammar)
11.) Nick Fraser - "Tricycle" (From the album Towns and Villages)
12.) Albert Ayler - "In Heart Only" (From the album Live in St. Paul de Vance)