RoCM Playlist: 1 Apr 2023

Pretty uneventful news week this week, eh? I love it when news breaks late on a Thursday after I have the show mostly in the can so that it seems totally strange that I am not mentioning events that are clearly on everyone’s mind. Anyhoo…

So we get a great album released by Angel Bat Dawid on March 24th, a 12 movement jazz suite called Requiem for Jazz of which I play the first two movements during this week’s show. The album took a great deal of inspiration from the 1959 Edward Bland documentary “The Cry of Jazz” – and low and behold there is a copy of it available on YouTube for your viewing pleasure:

As I also reference during the show, here’s the video of James Mtume debating Stanley Crouch about the later period of Mile Davis’ career of which James Mtume was a substantial contributor (part two of this debate can be found here). While I tend to side with Mtume in this debate, I think the use of the word “destroys” in this video title is a tad bit unfortunate. Stanley Crouch would survive this debate and that kind of hyperbole is unnecessary. But aside from that, both parts of this are very much worth your time:

Interestingly enough – when clips of this debate initially made the rounds back in 2010, it elicited a brief response from none other than Ta-Nehisi Coates.

And lastly but hopefully not least, please enjoy the playlist for this week’s show. Don’t forget that you can listen online at KCSB-FM’s website and there’s an online archive available for two weeks after the show airs.

Time	Artist	Song	Release	Song note
6:00:16 PM	The Little Willies	It’s Not You, It’s Me	The Little Willies	Lee Alexander – Bass Dan Rieser – Drums Jim Campilongo – Electric Guitar Richard Julian – Guitar, Vocals Norah Jones – Piano, Vocals
6:05:55 PM	Angel Bat Dawid	Jazz is merely the Negroes cry of Joy & Suffering	Requiem for Jazz
6:07:01 PM	Angel Bat Dawid	INTROIT- Joy n’ Suff’rin	Requiem for Jazz
6:10:34 PM	Angel Bat Dawid	Jazz is the musical expression of the triumph of the Negroes Spirit	Requiem for Jazz
6:11:48 PM	Angel Bat Dawid	KYRIE ELEISON- Lawd Hav’ Merci	Requiem for Jazz
6:16:48 PM	Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru	The Last Tears of the Deceased	Spielt Eigen Kompositionen – EP	Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru – piano
6:27:31 PM	The Art Ensemble of Chicago	Whatever Happens	The Alternative Express	Malachi Favors – Bass, Percussion Famoudou Don Moye – Drums, Percussion Roscoe Mitchell – Soprano Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Bass Saxophone, Clarinet, Flute, Percussion Joseph Jarman – Soprano Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Clarinet, Flute, Percussion Lester Bowie – Trumpet, Percussion
6:37:24 PM	Grachan Moncur III	When	New Africa / One Morning I Woke Up Very Early	Roscoe Mitchell – Alto Saxophone, Piccolo Flute Alan Silva – Bass Andrew Cyrille – Drums Dave Burrell – Piano Archie Shepp – Tenor Saxophone Grachan Moncur III – Trombone
6:51:12 PM	Tom Waits	2:19	Orphans: Live in Cleveland – August 2006
7:00:15 PM	Gil Scott-Heron	Enough (Radio Edit)	Small Talk at 125th and Lenox
7:06:44 PM	Frank Foster	The Loud Minority	The Loud Minority	Gene Perla, Stan Clarke – Acoustic Bass, Electric Bass [Fender Bass] Kenny Rodgers – Baritone Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Bass Clarinet Omar Clay, Richard Pratt – Drums Elvin Jones – Drums, Percussion Harold Mabern, Jan Hammer – Electric Piano, Piano Earl Dunbar – Guitar Airto Moreira – Percussion Frank Foster – Tenor Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Alto Clarinet Dick Griffin – Trombone Marvin Peterson – Trumpet Cecil Bridgewater, Charles McGee – Trumpet, Flugelhorn Dee Dee Bridgewater – Vocals
7:21:14 PM	Albert “Toudie” Heath	Maulana	Kawaida	Buster Williams-Mchezaji – Bass Ed Blackwell – Bells, Percussion James Mtume – Congas [Conga Drums] Toudie Heath-Kuumba – Drums Herbie Hancock-Mwandisi – Piano Jimmie Heath-Tayari – Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone Don Cherry-Msafari – Trumpet
7:36:57 PM	The Carla Bley Band	Song Sung Long	Live in Berlin 1979	Carla Bley – Piano, Vocals, Organ Gary Windo – Tenor Sax Carlos Ward – Alto Sax D. Sharpe – Drums, Vocals Arturo O’ Farrell – Piano Gary Valente – Trombone Michael Mantler – Trumpet Earl McIntyre – Tuba Steve Swallow – El Bass
7:47:42 PM	Peter Brötzmann – Hamid Drake	It’s an Angel on the Door	The Dried Rat-Dog	Peter Brötzmann – Tárogató, e-flat Clarinet, Alto/Tenor Saxophone Hamid Drake – Frame Drum, Tablas, Drums