This show kicks off with some blues for a change, and it comes from a legend: B.B. King, recorded in concert in France at the 1977 Nancy Pulsations Festival. B.B. is in full glory with a jazz-inflected back up band. There’s no one like B.B. King. Trumpeter Natsuki Tamura and pianist Satoko Fujii are not only musical partners but also life partners, and that bond has seen them join together on all manner of recordings. “Yama Kawa Umi” is another free-for-all added to by drummer Ramon Lopez. Palmetto Records has retweaked, reprocessed, remastered and revisited the 2002 Andrew Hill classic “A Beautiful Day”, while pianist Marilyn Crispell and drummer Harvey Sorgen didn’t revisit their Dreamstruck trio, but kept their musical connection intact on the new and brillianst “Forest”. Canadian guitarist Dan Pitt fattened up his trio with some horns and the resulting “Horizontal Depths” is impressive, as are two new albums from Scandinavia: Danish saxophonist Marius Zeeberg’s new “Garage Sale” and one by The Young Mothers – albeit a Texas band – under the leadership of Norwegian bassist Ingebrigt Haker Flaten (he summoned them to Oslo to make “Better If You Let It”. Let the music in One Man’s Jazz set the tone for your day.
00:00 B.B. King * In France Live At The 1977 Nancy Pulsations Festival – Elemental* Blue Monk/Caldonia * USA
04:49 B.B. King * In France Live At The 1977 Nancy Pulsations Festival – Elemental* Sweet Little Angel * USA
11:59 Host speaks
15:18 Natsuki Tamura, Satoko Fujii & Ramon Lopez * Yama Kawa Umi – Not Two * Sparkling Water * Japan/Spain
21:43 Anna Webber Simple Trio * SimpleTrio2000 – Intakt * Five Eateries In New England * Canada
29:43 Marie Kruttli Trio * Scoria – Intakt * The Rational Plan * Switzerland
32:58 Host speaks
35:20 The Young Mothers * Better If You Let It – Sonic Transmissions * Better If You Let It * Norway/USA
45:55 Jason Stein Trio * Anchors – Tao Forms * Cold Water * USA
52:25 Marius Zeeberg * Garage Sale – Self-released * Appropriately * Denmark
57:59 Host speaks
1:01:27 Andrew Hill * A Beautiful Day Revisited – Palmetto * BellezzavUSA
1:10:02 Mike Chillingworth Quartet * Friday The Thirteenth – Ubuntu * Friday The Thirteenth * England
1:16:43 Dan Pitt Quintet * Horizontal Depths – Self-released * 27 Hours * Canada
1:22:23 Host speaks
1:24:32 Marilyn Crispell & Harvey Sorgen * Forest – Fundacja Sluchaj * Borders * USA
1:30:07 Nano Brothers * Ascend Flowers – Klaeng * Mind Positivity * Germany
1:33:57 Immanuel Wilkins * The 7th Hand – Blue Note * Lighthouse * USA
1:41:26 Vehicle/Passenger * Live In Amsterdam – Vrijeti * Third Class Citizen * Netherlands/Germany
1:48:24 Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra * Live At The Adler Planetarium – International Anthem * Black River * USA
1:55:35 Host speaks
1:56:55 Steve Coleman & Five Elements * Poly Tropos/Of Many Turns – Pi Recordings * Of Many Turns * USA