November 4 - 50 Years of AACM

It's time to get this blog going again. UMFM now automatically uploads my show onto their server so that you fine folks can enjoy the program via podcast. So I'll be posting links to my show and playlists here on a weekly basis. If all of a sudden I feel like doing more (admittedly, this is unlikely to happen) you may find even more stuff here. But in the meantime enjoy my program from yesterday. I spent the entire time celebrating the wonderful Chicago-based collective AACM (the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians). If you want even more on AACM, check out Alexander Hawkins' excellent piece on them here.

In the meantime enjoy my program here.

Playlist:

Set #1:
Air: "B.K" from Air Mail (Black Saint)
Muhal Richard Abrams: "March of the Transients" from Things to Come from Those Now Gone (Delmark)

Set #2:
Lester Bowie: "God Has Smiled on Me" from The 5th Power (Black Saint)
Matana Roberts: "Dreamer of Dreams" from Coin Coin Chapter Three (Constellation)
Wadada Leo Smith: "Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 381 Days" from Ten Freedom Summers (Cuneiform)

Set #3:
Harris Eisenstadt: "It's Never Safe to Be" from Golden State (Songlines)
Nicole Mitchell: "Jo Jar" from Artifacts (Pi Recordings)
Nicole Mitchell: "B.K." from Artifacts (Pi Recordings)
Tameka Reid Quartet: "Woodlan" from Tameka Reid Quartet (Firehouse)
Art Ensemble of Chicago: "A Jackson in Your House" from A Jackson in Your House, Message to Our Folks (Charly Records)

Episode #1

I finally kicked things off yesterday. The show was a bit all over the place, but I hope you enjoyed it nonetheless. I'm still getting set up for posting podcasts with the episodes on here, so I don't have that ready for you yet. Once they're ready I'll make sure to post them on here. In the meantime here's the playlist from yesterday's show. Throughout the show I had tracks from Nick Fraser's latest record Towns and Villages playing underneath me while I talked. I didn't include those tracks on the following playlist.

Cecil Taylor - "Steps" (from the album Unit Structures)
The Joe Henderson Trio - "'Round Midnight" (from the album Joe Henderson in Japan)
Steve Reid featuring the Legendary Brotherhood - "Lions of Judah" (from the album Nova)
Oren Ambarchi - "Knots" (from the album Audience of One)
The Nick Fraser Quartet - "Sketch #12" (from the album Towns and Villages)
The September Trio - "Additives" (from the album Destructive Element)
The September Trio - "Ordinary Weirdness" (from the album Destructive Element)
Mostly Other People Do the Killing - "Can't Tell Shipp from Shohola (from the album Slippery Rock)

As you can see, I stuck with a lot of classics to kick things off, and then finished with some new cuts. I can't recommend Harris Eisenstadt's The September Trio's record Destructive Element enough. So if you enjoyed the two tracks I played yesterday, be forewarned, you'll be hearing a lot more in the weeks to come. Speaking of which, in spite of the holiday next week Monday, I will still be doing my show. So make sure to stay tuned for more!