Waves

Waves, the finest in bop and beyond every Saturday night from 8:30pm-10pm on
WREK, 91.1FM or www.wrek.org (archived for one week) contact: Milton Jones at: murphyjones@speedfactory.net

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Sat, 17 July 2004

Waves playlist for 17 July 2004

1. Henry Threadgill Sextet - Bermuda Blues, You Know the Number (Novus/RCA)
2. Gary Bartz NTU Troop - I Wanna Be Where You Are, Ju Ju Street Songs (Prestige)
3. Eric Dolphy - Half Note Triplets, Vintage Dolphy (GM Recordings)
4. Lucas Niggli Big Zoom - Space Waltz, Big Ball (Intakt)
5. Evan Parker/Joe McPhee - Duet 3, Tenor Duets (Okka Disk)
6. Tony Williams Lifetime - Lonesome Wells (Gwendy Trio), Ego (Verve)
7. Vandermark Five - Knock Yourself Out, Elements of Style (Atavistic)
8. Joseph Jarman - Song for Christopher, As If It Were the Seasons (Delmark)
9. Misha Mengelberg/Steve Lacy/George Lewis/Ernst Reyseger/Han Bennink - Kneebus, Dutch Masters (Soul Note)

Sat, 05 June 2004

Waves playlist for 5 June 2004

- Burton Greene Special -

1. Burton Greene - Calistrophy, Live at Graslands (Drimala)
2. Free Form Improvisation Ensemble - Free Form Composition 1, Free Form Improvisation Ensemble (Cadence)
3. Burton Greene w/ Mark Dresser - Gnat Dance, Peace Beyond Conflict (CIMP)
4. Burton Greene w/ Sacred Baboons - Time Horn Baboon Trance (part 4), Burton Greene Meets Sacred Baboons (self-released)
5. Burton Greene - 63rd & Cottage Grove, Variations on a Coffee Machine (Kharma)
6. Narada Burton Greene - Bubbameisa Drama, Shades of Greene (Cadence)
7. Burton Greene Quartet - Bloom in the Commune, Burton Greene Quartet (ESP)
8. Burton Greene - Lebanese Turn-A-Round, Presenting Burton Greene (Columbia)
9. Burton Greene's Klez-Thethics - Ay Nshomah, Calistrophy (BVHaast)
10. Burton Greene & Alan Silva - The Ongoing Strings (first set, part 1), The Ongoing Strings (Hat Hut)
11. Burton Greene Trio - What's Your Jones?, Throptics (CIMP)

Sat, 15 May 2004

Waves playlist for 15 May 2004

1. Tatsuya Nakatani & Peter Kowald - untitled track #1, 13 Definitions of Truth (Quakebasket)
2. Kevin Eubanks - Being, Spiritalk 2 (Blue Note)
3. Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath - Mra, Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath (Akarma)
4. Hideo Ichikawa Trio - 234: Out of the Boundless Verdant Land, Tomorrow (Three Blind Mice)
5. Peter Brötzmann - A Heavy Creeping Shade, Nothing to Say (FMP)
6. Mark Izu - Come On Let's Go, Circle of Fire, (Asian Improv Records)
7. Karl Berger & James Blood Ulmer - South, Conversations (In + Out Records)
8. Douglas Ewart Quintet - Crepuscule IV in Powderhorn Park, Vision Fest-Vision Live (Thirsty Ear)
9. John Carter & Bobby Bradford - Woman, Tandem 1 (Emanem)
10. Brother Ah - Nature's Children, Move Ever Onward (Ikef)
11. Steve Cohn - The Robot in Diamonds (1st movement), The Beggar and the Robot in Diamonds (ITM-Pacific)
12. Paal Nilssen-Love & Ken Vandermak - Jean, Dual Pleasure (Smalltown Supersound)

Sat, 17 April 2004

Waves playlist for 8 May 2004

1. Eddie Harris - Chicago Serenade, A Tale of Two Cities (Hyena)
2. Jeb Bishop & Sebi Tramontana - Einstein's Bagel, Chicago Defenders (Wobbly Rail)
3. Andrew Cyrille Quintet - Ode to the Living Tree, Ode to the Living Tree (Evidence)
4. Steve Lacy - Epistrophy (part 2), Plays Monk (Fuel 2000)
5. Baby Dodds - Spooky Drums No. 1, Talking & Drum Solos (Unheard Music Series/Atavistic)
6. Sun Ra & His Astro Infinity Arkestra - Worlds Approaching, Strange Strings (El Saturn)
7. Lucas Niggli Zoom - A Free Cadence, Rough Ride (Intakt)
8. Freddie Redd - Now, Redd's Blues (Blue Note)
9. Anthony Braxton - Composition 40 (0), Quartet (Dortmund) 1976 (Hatology)
10. Stuff Smith - Undecided, Cat on a Hot Fiddle (Verve)
11. Odean Pope Trio - Knot It Off, Ninety-Six (Enja)
12. Mario Schiano - Blue Memories (part 4), Blue Memories (Splasc(h))
13. Art Pepper - Avalon, Landscape: Live in Tokyo '79 (JVC)

Sat, 17 April 2004

Waves playlist for 17 April 2004

1. George Adams/Don Pullen Quartet - Diane, Live at the Village Vanguard (Soul Note)
2. John Surman - The Druid/Outside the Scorpion, Westering Home (FMR)
3. Amina Claudine Myers Trio - Mind Chambers, Jumping in the Sugar Bowl (Minor Music)
4. Active Ingredients - Song for Dyani, Titration (Delmark)
5. Bruce Eisenbeil's Crosscurrent Trio - Chris V.Paradise, Mural (CIMP)
6. Billy Higgins - Clockwise, Soweto (Red)
7. James Emery - New Water, Standing on a Whale (Enja)
8. Aldo Romano & Joe Lovano - Dragons Are, Ten Tales (Owl)
9. Gregg Bendian's Interzone - Countermeasures, Interzone (Atavistic)
10. Michael Marcus - New Earth (for Jimmy Guiffre), Speakin' Out (Drimala)
11. Anthony Davis - Thelonious, Interpretations of Monk (DIW) 
12. Jackie McLean Sextet - Tune Up, Fat Jazz (Fresh Sound)

Sat, 03 April 2004

Waves playlist for 3 April 2004

1. Sonny Rollins - East Broadway Run Down, East Broadway Run Down (Impulse!)
2. Wayne Shorter Quartet - JuJu, Footprints Live! (Verve)
3. Sean Bergin's Mob - Reib Letsma, Copy Cat (BVHaast)
4. Burton Greene - Sylosophy (Digitalville), Live at Grasland (Drimala)
5. Jimmy Lyons Trio - Jump Up, Jimmy Lyons: The Box Set (Ayler Records)
6. Roscoe Mitchell & Brus Trio - Mr. Freddie, After Fallen Leaves (Silkheart)
7. Archie Shepp - A Prayer, The Cry of My People (Impulse!)
8. Baikida Carroll - Legacies, Door of the Cage (Soul Note)
9. Michael Formanek - The Dry Season, Nature of the Beast (Enja)
10. Ahmed Abdul-Malik - Nights on Saturn, Jazz Sounds of Africa (Prestige)

Sat, 27 March 2004

Waves playlist for 27 March 2004

ACME Festival Special:

1. Peter Brötzmann - Insomnia, No Nothing (FMP)
2. School Days - Another Double, In Our Times (Okka Disk)
3. Joe McPhee - Sweet Dragon, Tenor & Fallen Angels (Hatology)
4. Triage - Sun Dawgs, Twenty Minute Cliff (Okka Disk)
5. Joe Maneri/Joe Morris/Mat Maneri - Bird's in the Belfry, Three Men Walking (ECM)
6. Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet Plus Two - Hold That Thought, Short Visit to Nowhere (Okka Disk)
7. Ingebrigt Haker Flaten - Kindred Spirit, Double Bass (Sofa)
8. Paal Nilssen-Love & Mats Gustafsson - I Love It, I Love It When You Snore (Smalltown Supersound)
9. Joe McPhee & Jeb Bishop - Brass City V, Brass City (Okka Disk)
10. Vandermark 5 - The Bridge, Airports for Light (Atavistic)
11. Paal Nilssen-Love - Butterfly Wings, Sticks & Stones (Sofa)
12. Joe Maneri/Joe Morris/Mat Maneri - Small Steps in the Right Direction, Out Right Now (Hatology)
13. Free Fall - Inside Out, Furnace (Wobbly Rail)
14. Mats Gustafsson - Just a Slice of Acoustic Car, Impropositions (Phono Suecia)
15. Peter Brötzmann/Joe McPhee/Kent Kessler/Michael Zerang - Alto Lightning in a Violin Sky, Tales Out of Time (Hatology)

Sat, 20 March 2004

Waves playlist for 20 March 2004

1. Ray Anderson/Mark Helias/Gerry Hemingway - Question Mark, You Be (Minor Music)
2. Chicago Underground Duo - January 15th, 12 Degrees of Freedom (Thrill Jockey)
3. Henry Grimes Trio - Fish Story, The Call (ESP Disk)
4. FJF - Biomass, Blow Horn (Okka Disk)
5. Wadada Leo Smith - Aura, Kabell Years 1971-79 (Tzadik)
6. Charles Mingus - So Long Eric, Town Hall Concert (OJC)
7. Bara Rokovic - J.B.W., Between or Beyond the Black Forest (MPS/Crippled Dick Hot Wax)
8. Elliot Levin/Marshall Allen/Tyrone Hill Quintet - March on Cumberland Street, Opportunities & Advantages (CIMP)
9. Kidd Jordan/Fred Anderson Quartet - Spirits Came In, Vision Fest: Vision Live (Thirsty Ear)
10. Albert Ayler - Music is the Healing Force of the Universe, Music is the Healing Force of the Universe (Impulse!)
11. Paul Bley - Around Again, Footloose! (Savoy)
12. Peter Brotzmann/Joe McPhee/Kent Kessler/Michael Zerang - Stone Poem #1, Tales Out of Time (Hatology)
13. Peter Brotzmann/Joe McPhee/Kent Kessler/Michael Zerang - Something There Is That Doesn't Love, Tales Out of Time (Hatology)

Sat, 13 March 2004

Waves playlist for 13 March 2004

1. Thelonious Monk - Epistrophy, In Paris: Live at the Olympia (Thelonious/Hyena)
2. Bobby Hutcherson - A Time to Go, Patterns (Blue Note)
3. Joe Morris/Ken Vandermark/Kent Kessler - Breath Easily, Deep Telling (Okka Disk)
4. Steve Lacy - The Bath, Momentum (RCA/Novus)
5. Butch Morris/Le Quan Ninh/J.A. Deane - Ozone: Burning Bed, Burning Cloud (FMP)
6. Matthew Shipp Quartet - Critical Mass, Critical Mass (213CD)
7. Milton Marsh - Sabotage: 3 Preparations (Alankara)
8. Frank Wright Quartet - Church Number Nine (part two), Church Number Nine (Black Keys)

Sat, 06 March 2004

Waves playlist for 6 March 2004

1. Joe McPhee & Survival Unit II - Nation Time, At WBAI's Free Music Store (Hat Art)
2. Burton Greene Trio - Light Blue, Throptics (CIMP)
3. Assif Tsahar & Tatsuya Nakatani - West 4th, Come Sunday (Hopscotch)
4. Don Cherry - Art Deco, Art Deco (A&M)
5. Eight Bold Souls - Third One Smiles, Last Option (Thrill Jockey)
6. Pierre Dorge & New Jungle Orchestra - Bambla Jolifanti, Even the Moon Is Dancing (Steeplechase)
7. John McLaughlin - Spectrum (Polydor)
8. Catalyst - East, The Funkiest Band You Never Heard (32 Jazz)
9. Joe Morris/Rob Brown Quartet - Pivotal, Illuminate (Leo Lab)
10. School Days - What About, In Our Times (Okka Disk)

Sat, 28 February 2004

Waves playlist for 28 February 2004

1. Brotherhood of Breath - Untitled Original, From Bremen to Bridgwater (Cuneiform)
2. Vandermark Five - Confluence, Airports for Light (Atavistic)
3. Archimedes Badkar - Pharoah/El Legend/Marrakech, Tre (MNN)
4. Marty Ehrlich - Blue Boye's Blues, Song (Enja)
5. Ethnic Heritage Ensemble - Ancestral Song, Ancestral Song (Silkheart)
6. Peter Brotzmann/William Parker/Hamid Drake - Halfhearted Beast, Never Too Late But Always Too Early (Eremite)
7. Maurice McIntyre - Suite: Ensemble Fate, Humility in the Light of Creator (Delmark)
8. Misha Mengelberg & ICP Orchestra - Caravan, Japan Japon (DIW)

Sat, 21 February 2004

Waves playlist for 21 February 2004

1. Charles Mingus - II B.S., Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus (Impulse!)
2. Dave Douglas - Catalyst, Strange Liberation (Bluebird)
3. Oliver Lake - Trailway Shake/Sad Lo-uis, Holding Together (Black Saint)
4. Cecil Taylor Quartet - Tune 2, At Newport (Verve)
5. Amalgam -Tales of Sadness, Prayer for Peace (FMR)
6. Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers - Dat Dere, The Big Beat (Blue Note)
7. Free Fall - Furnace, Furnace (Wobbly Rail)
8. Joe Maneri - Patriots Nine, American Splendor soundtrack (New Line)
9. Rahsaan Roland Kirk - My One and Only Love, Compliments of the Mysterious Phantom (Hyena)
10. Gary Hassay/William Parker/Toshi Makihara - A Fork in the Road, Another Shining Path (Drimala)
11. Charles Brackeen Quartet - News Stand (take 1), Worshippers Come Nigh (Silkheart)

Sat, 07 February 2004

Waves playlist for 7 February 2004

Malachi Favors tribute:

1. Art Ensemble of Chicago - Tutankhamen (solo), The Art Ensemble 1967-68 (Nessa)
2. Art Ensemble of Chicago - It's the Sign of the Times, The Meeting (Pi)
3. Art Ensemble of Chicago - Way Down Yonder, Naked (DIW)
4. Malachi Favors Magoustous - Natural and the Spiritual (Working on the Building), Natural and the Spiritual (AECO)
5. Malachi Favors Magoustous - Peace be unto You, Natural and the Spiritual (AECO)
6. Art Ensemble of Chicago - Illistrum, Fanfare for the Warriors (Koch Jazz)
7. Art Ensemble of Chicago - Tutankhamun, Tribute to Lester (ECM)
8. Art Ensemble of Chicago - Ride the Line, Live at the 6th Tokyo Music Joy '90 (DIW)
9. Art Ensemble of Chicago - Malachi*, Coming Home Jamaica (Birdology/Dreyfus)

all compositions by Malachi Favors except*
*by Roscoe Mitchell

Longtime Art Ensemble of Chicago bassist and percussionist Malachi Favors passed away last week, and was laid to rest this past Friday in Chicago. He was 76 years old...

Sat, 31 January 2004

Waves playlist for 31 January 2004

1. Randy Weston - African Cookbook, African Cookbook (Koch Jazz)
2. Sun Ra - Island in the Sun, Janus (1201 Music)
3. Julius Hemphill - Long Rhythm, Raw Materials and Residuals (Black Saint)
4. Abdullah Ibrahim - Whoza Mtwana, African Marketplace (Discovery)
5. Sonny Sharrock - Promises Kept, Ask the Ages (Axiom)
6. Grachan Moncur III - Evolution, Evolution (Blue Note)
7. Mark Helias' Open Loose - Pick and Roll, Open Loose (Enja)
8. Henry Threadgill & Make A Move - Don't Turn Around, Everybodys Mouth's a Book (Pi)
9. Henry Threadgill & Make A Move - Biggest Crumb , Everybodys Mouth's a Book (Pi)
10. Mal Waldron - Thy Freedom Come, Breaking New Ground (Eastwind)
11. Kidd Jordan/Joel Futterman/Alvin Fielder Trio - Encore, Live at the Tampere (Charles Lester Music)

Sat, 24 January 2004

Waves playlist for 24 January 2004

1. Archie Shepp - Blues for Brother George Jackson, Attica Blues (Impulse)
2. Marion Brown - Sweet Earth Flying, Back to Paris (Freelance)
3. Codona - Codona, s/t (ECM)
4. Eddie Gale's Ghetto Music - The Rain, s/t (Water)
5. Lee Morgan - The Rumproller, The Rumproller (Blue Note)
6. Matthew Herbert Big Band - Turning Pages, Goodbye Swingtime (Accidental)
7. Eric Dolphy - Red Planet, The Illinois Concert (Blue Note)
8. Sun Ra - Exotic Forest, Nothing Is (ESP)
9. World Saxophone Quartet - Plain Song, WSQ (Black Saint)
10. Miles Davis - Go Ahead John (part two B), The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions (Columbia/Legacy)
11. Art Ensemble of Chicago - Odwalla/Theme, Urban Bushmen (ECM)

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