Genre-stretching albums dot this episode’s playlist that should evoke some deep thinking. Vocalist Amirtha Kidambi and her Elder Ones band espouse protest and change in their music, heightened by the George Floyd murder in 2020. The Ewart/Asplin/Ricks Trio, featuring AACM master reedist and sometimes poet, Douglas Ewart, combine free improvisation, electronics, classical elements and spoken word in their live performance at Brigham Young University. Drummer and composer ChesSmith continues to release challenging projects, and the new “Laugh Ash” reaches a new level of creativity. On the more expected level, two of Poland’s top improvisers hook up – trumpeter Piotr Damasiewicz and pianist Dominik Wania, Roberto Ottaviano’s Eternal Love from Italy displays sheer musicianship as always, Japan’s Satoko Fujiiand Ryoko Ono team up for a first-time piano-saxophone improvising session, and there’s a preview of what might be coming as a result of a new partnership between Ropeadope Records and an African music advocacy organization – trumpeter Ndabo Zulu’s epic recording “Queen Nandi: The African Symphony” is sampled.
00:00 Zanussi 5 * Live In Coimbra – Clean Feed * Hidden People * Norway 11:37 Host speaks 14:03 Piotr Damasiewicz & Dominik Wania * The Way The Truth The Life – Self-released * Who Is * Poland 19:05 Andrew Gould * Pull Up A Chair – Self-released * Submarine Station * USA 25:01 Karl Evangelista * What Else Is There? – FSR Records * Beauregard * USA 31:34 Host speaks 33:17 Ewart/Asplin/Ricks Trio * Emphatic Now – Neuma * Water Song * USA 46:07 P:ietro Rosato & Livio * BartoloAnother Point Of View – Improvisatore Involuntario * Il Canto Del Gallo * Italy 52:34 Host speaks 53:48 Ches Smith * Laugh Ash – Pyroclastic * Sweatered Webs (Hey Mom) * USA 1:01:10 Pharoah Sanders * Heart Is A Melody – Evidence * Heart Is A Melody Of Time (Hiroko’s Song) * USA 1:08:37 Host speaks 1:10:12 Amirtha Kidambi * New Monuments – We Jazz * The Great Lie * USA 1:18:16 Benoit Delbecq * Triple Fever – dStream * Kebled * France 1:23:04 Rich Halley Quartet * Fire Within – Pine Eagle * Inferred * USA 1:37:10 Host speaks 1:37:58 Satoko Fujii & Ryoko Ono * Hakuro – Libra * HakurovJapan 1:46:39 Piotr Damasiewicz & Dominik Wania * The Way The Truth The Life – Self-released * Living Is Worth It * Poland 1:53:05 Host speaks 1:54:30 Roberto Ottaviano Eternal Love * People – Dodicilune * Mong’s Speakin’ * Italy 2:01:29 Ches Smith * Laugh Ash – Pyroclastic * Disco Inferred * USA 2:07:52 Host speaks 2:09:10 Glen Hall & Bernie Koenig * Overheard Conversations – Slam * I Understand Why You Are So Melancholy * Canada 2:16:14 Orientation Of We * Emergence – Off Records * Emergence * USA 2:27:02 Yamabiko Quintet * Yamabiko Quintet – NEMU * Cloudscape * Germany 2:33:58 Host speaks 2:35:37 Michel Pilz * Ressuage – Jazzhausmusik * Portique Indéformables * Luxembourg 2:43:28 Unscientific Italians * Plays The Music Of Bill Frisell Vol 2 – Hora Records * Pip Squeak * Italy 2:50:16 Host speaks 2:52:11 Ndabo Zulu * Queen Nandi: The African Symphony – Self-released * Isgekle * South Africa
