Although Master trumpeter and improviser Wadada Leo Smith turns 80 in December of this year, there seems to be no limit to his creativity and activity. Wadada continues to be one of the most vital artists in any artistic genre or discipline. In recent times he’s been premiering his works in various settings, maintain residencies in prominent music programs and festivals, and continuing to release music of the highest order. Two new multi-disc releases for the Finnish Tum label are featured this week: one with Bill Laswell and Milford Graves, the other a solo trumpet recording in a medieval stone church in Finland. I’ll also dig into some of the latest batch of new releases from Clean Feed Records, touch on the new Vijay Iyer Trio album, popular Norwegian quartet Wako, Jazzhausmusik’s Village Zone, and introduce The Red Microphone’s latest. Buckle up for this edition of One Man’s Jazz.
00:00 Mikko Innanen, Cedric Piromalli and Stefan Pasborg * This Is It – Clean Feed * Mocking Bird * Finland/France/Denmark
07:00 Todd Clouser, Bram Weijters, Sebastian Boisseau & Teun Verbruggen * Dive Loft Koln – Ropeadope * The Optimist * Mexico/Belgium
15:00 Host speaks
17:59 Dominique Pifarély Quartet * Nocturnes – Clean Feed * La Rumeur Que Vient Part 1 * France
26:10 Dominique Pifarély Quartet * Nocturnes – Clean Feed * La Rumeur Que Vient Part 2 * France
30:55 Lina Allemano 4 * Vegetables – Lumo * Champignons * Canada
38:45 Host speaks
40:00 Vijay Iyer Trio * Uneasy – ECM * Drummer’s Song * USA
46:36 The Red Microphone * And I Become Of The Dark – ESP-Disk * The People Of Night * USA
50:42 Host speaks
52:27 Attitude * Pause And Effect – ESP-Disk * Who Flung Dung * USA
59:49 Wadada Leo Smith & N’Da Kulture * Golden Hearts Remembrance – Kabell * Sarah Brown Smith Wallace (1920-1992) * USA
1:07:08 Host speaks
1:10:29 Wadada Leo Smith, Bill Laswell & Milford Graves * Sacred Ceremonies – Tum * The Healer’s Direct Energy * USA
1:21:29 Wadada Leo Smith * Trumpet – Tum * Amina Claudina Meyers * USA
1:26:30 Rorschach * Rorschach – El Negocito * Track #1 * Belgium
1:31:51 Host speaks
1:32:48 André Fernandes * Kinetic – Clean Feed * Wiccano * Portugal
1:41:02 Circles 44 * Circles – Aut * Old Chair * Italy
1:47:43 Village Zone * Salutti A Peppino – Jazzhausmusik * Tippett * Germany
1:50:54 Host speaks
1:52:54 Thomas Heberer, Joe Fonda & Joe Hertenstein * Remedy – Fundacja Sluchaj * Pink Umbrella Panic Ballad * USA
2:00:33 Koma Saxo * Live – We Jazz * Fiskeskarsemelodin * Germany
2:05:04 Satoko Fujii Trio * Moon On The Lake – Libra * Keep Running * Japan
2:13:50 Shapeshifters * Shapeshifters – New Jazz * Hiding Away * England
2:18:22 Host speaks
2:19:24 Jonas Cambien Trio * Nature Hath Painted the Body – Clean Feed * Freeze * Norway
2:26:56 Piotr Damasiewicz & Power Of Horns Ensemble * Polska – Astigmatic * Polska II * Poland
2:35:10 Host speaks
2:36:07 Wako * Live In Oslo – Ora * Savage Detective * Norway
2:45:05 Tiziani Tononi * Going For The Magic – Splasc(H) * In The Dark * Italy
2:51:21 Host speaks
2:52:27 Wadada Leo Smith & Bill Laswell * Sacred Ceremonies – Tum * Prince The Blue Diamond Spirit * USA2:58:59