Track Listing 6th March 2006

I've hit on a bizarre personal truth regarding my subconcious and the weekly feast of improvised music and Jazz that is Nows The Time. When my head hits the pillow on Monday night it is followed by a furtive, chaotic, vivid and oft bizarre night of dreams.

Well last Monday night's tangle with Morphius was particularly surreal (I'll spare you the details) and I've put it down to one particular artist we played - Charles Gayle - specificaly two tracks 'Glory Dance' and 'Unto Jesus Christ' from his superb album Shout on Clean Feed Records recorded last year. Gayle fronts a powerful trio on this recording with legendary bassist and a long time collaborator Sirone alongside the drummer Gerald Cleaver. Gayles compositions have stayed firmly with themes of the spiritual since his re-emergence in the 1980's. For some reason these works tapped into my latent catholicism and effected a very powerful reaction. I'm sure we'll revist this record in the coming weeks and I think it's a must have in everyones record collections.

So alongside Charles Gayle we played the following:

artist - title - album - label

* Langston Hughes - Prayer Meeting - The Voice Of Langston Hughes - Smithsonian Folkways
* Juliette Kelly - Secrets - Delicious Chemistry - Chantiko
* Calhoun - Native Lands - Enja
* Kahn Jamal – ethnic passion – Return From Exile – Discograph
* Jhelisa - See Line Woman - Sunday in Algiers - Rentavibe Records
* Charles Gayle - Glory Dance - Shout - Clean Feed Records
* Quadracromia - Quadracromia #4 - Quardracromia - EYS Records
* The Mighty Sparrow - Dear Sparrow (excerpt) - The Mighty Sparrow First Flight - Smithsonian Folkway Recordings
* Anthony Braxton & The Six Compostitions Quartet - PZQ - Island Records
* Satoko Fujii Quartet - A Journey Into The West - Angelona - Libra Records
* Quinsin Nachoff - There & Back - Magic Numbers - Songlines
* Zoe Rahman - Last Note - Melting Pot - Manushi Records
* Joe Henderson - Beatrice - Joe Henderson: The State of The Tenor Vol. 1&2 - Bluenote
* Charles Gayle - Unto Jesus Christ - Shout - Clean Feed Records
* Ari Ambrose - How Can You Believe - United - Steeplechase Records
* Richard Galliano & Michel Portal - Mozambique - Blow Up - Dreyfus Jazz

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