Track listings - Monday 19th Feburary 2007

Ola,

Kevin was out of action yesterday so I stepped into the breach and presented the show. I revisited some of the real stonking tunes that we've played on the show throughout 2006 and for this weeks theme I picked flowers - I had lined up a few different tunes on this theme but I decided to play as much of one particualar piece which was choice bit of vinyl I picked up some years back and I don't really get often enough, it was the Andrew Hill Trio (Hill is pictured above) and their composition Misty Flower from the album Strange Serenade. It's a slow build of a piece but after the total 15 minutes have elapsed it gets you right at your core, a wonderful piece of music.

Here is the rest of the tracks:

* Young Blood Brass Band – Camouflage – from the album Centre:Level:Roar – on Ozone records – released in 2003
"6 horns, 2 drummers, a sousaphonist, and an MC," the group was founded in 1995 when these young men were high school students in Wisconsin. The sousaphone is that beautifull rotund tuba like instrument common in marching bands.

* Acoustic Ladyland – Marching Dice – from their album 2004 album Camouflage – on the ever great Babel Label
Acoustic Ladyland are a London based jazz band consisting of Tom Herbert on double bass, Pete Wareham on tenor and baritone saxophone, Seb Rochford on drums and Tom Cawley on Piano. Of course Acoustic Ladyland is another great band that came out of east London’s finest contemporary jazz scene, The F-IRE Collective.

* Christian McBride – Mwandishi Outcome Jam – from his album ‘Live at Tonic’ released last year on Rope A Dope.
A homage to the seminal funk Jazz fusion album Mwandishi by Herbie Hancock recorded in 1970.

* Sex Mob – Pygmey Suite – from their album Sexotica released on the Thirsty Ear
Steven Bernstein's Sex Mob are less obsessive than their name implies. They're the house band for the Leonard Cohen tribute project, which features Rufus Wainwright and Nick Cave.

* The Bad Plus – Flim – reworking of a beautiful Aphex Twin tune – taken from their break-through album – These Are The Vistas – released on Columbia Records in 2003 - jazz trio consisting of pianist Ethan Iverson, bassist Reid Anderson, and drummer Dave King.

* Avishai Cohen – Smash – from his album Continuo released on Sunny Side records in 2005 - Avishai Cohen (upright bass, bass guitar); Amos Hoffman (oud); Sam Barsh (piano); Mark Guiliana (drums, percussion).

I was wondering what the title meant and I think it refers to this - "Basso continuo parts, almost universal in the Baroque era (1600-1750), were, as the name implies, played continuously throughout a piece, providing the harmonic structure of the music."

* Der Rote Bereich – Da Da Dapp – from their Act label release ‘Risky Business’ put out in 2002. Rudi Mahall - bass clarinet / Frank Möbus - guitar / Oliver Steidle – drums

* Julien Lourou – A Stitch In Time – from Fire on the Label Bleu label. Bojan Z plays the keyboards, Eric Lohrer on the guitar, Daniel Garcia Bruno the drums, Vincent Artaud the bass. Voice on that was by John Greaves, former Henry Cow member – basist and composer.

Theme Flowers

* Andrew Hill Trio - Misty Flower - from the album Strange Serenade on Soul Note records.

FIN