The power of improvisation rules this episode of One Man’s Jazz. Some of the finest of today’s improvisers (and one from the past) are aboard – trumpeter Michael Sarian, Argentina saxophonist Matias Formica, a pair of duos (Matt Mitchell & Tim Berne plus Kaja Draksler & Susana Santos Silva), a super-group of Zoh Amba, William Parker, Chad Fowler, Matthew Shipp & Steve Hirsh, Boston pianist Pandelis Karayorgis & friends, plus – yes there’s more, there’s always more – Bill Cole’s Untempered Ensemble.
00:00 The Thing with Joe McPhee * She Knows – Crazy Wisdom * The Thing * Sweden/USA
08:50 Freefall * Live At Alchemia Club – Smalltown Superjazz * Accidents With Ladders * USA/Norway
13:37 Host speaks
16:33 Michael Sarian * Living At The End Of The World – Ears&Eyes * The Pilgrim * USA
23:16 Forest Chorus * Forest Chorus – Orenda * Fountains * Finland/USA
29:39 Michael Marcus * Abstractions In Lime Caverns – ESP-Disk * Zight Pulse * USA
35:09 Host speaks
36:57 Tim Berne & Matt Mitchell * One More Please – Intakt * Rose Colored Missive * USA
44:42 Billy Bang * Vietnam The Aftermath – Justin Time * Bien Hoa Blues * USA
53:28 Host speaks
55:07 Jeff Denson * Finding Light – Ridgeway * Moment In Time * USA
1:02:48 Whit Dickey Quartet * Roots Perspectives – Tau Forms * Doomsday Equation * USA
1:12:12 Host speaks
1:13:05 Kaja Draksler & Susana Santos Silva * Grow – Intakt * Moonrise * Slovenia/Portugal
1:20:32 First Gig Never Happened * Mingus Without Bass Monk Without Hat – Self -released * Misterioso * Austria
1:26:59 River People * Sol Expression – FMR * Cry Of Old Bamboo * Philippines
1:31:11 Host speaks
1:32:29 Pandelis Karayorgis * Water Lilies – Driff * Entanglement * USA
1:40:32 Marcelo Lanouguere * Especialistas En Revoluciones – Ears&Eyes * Paradille Cromatico * Argentina
1:45:26 Host speaks
1:47:21 Bill Cole’s Untempered Ensemble * Margaret And Katie – Self-released * The Drum Sounding A Message In War…. * USA
2:00:13 Papanosh * Oh Yeah Ho! – Yellowbird * Canon-Snow Day * France
2:08:35 Host speaks
2:09:42 Matias Formica Trio * Preambulo – Self-released * No Importa * Argentina
2:17:23 Tonino Miani * Human Pieces – Leo * 20 Fingers In A Pond * Italy
2:23:42 Artur Malecki & The Creature * Widocki – FSR * Wiosna 21 * Poland
2:29:07 Host speaks
2:30:56 Zoh Amba, Chad Fowler, William Parker * Alien Skin – Mahakala Music * Broken Language * USA
2:39:00 Papapnosh * Oh Yeah Ho! – Yellowbird * Gibril The Clown * France
2:45:19 Thumbscrew * Multi-Colored Midnight – Cuneiform * I’m A Senator * USA
2:49:55 Rooms Trio * Sit Down – Self-released * Epoch * USA
2:55:14 Host speaks
2:57:03 Michael Sarian * Living At The End Of The World – Ears&Eyes * Regarding Kobe * USA