Sound Lounge for Tuesday 18 January 2011
Tuesday 18 January 2011
Presented by Robbie Ellis
7:00 - Interviews with jazz musicians
I interview two jazz players who are performing in New Zealand this week:
Firstly, Mats Gustafsson is a Swedish saxophonist, part of free jazz trio The Thing.
CHASE/ZINNER/ORZOLEK: Art Star (excerpt)
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
(Shifty Records)
CHASE/ZINNER/ORZOLEK: Art Star (excerpt)
The Thing: Mats Gustafsson (saxes), Ingebrigt Håken Flaten (bass), Paal Nilssen-Love (drums)
Smalltown Superjazzz STS078CD
GUSTAFSSON/FLATEN/NILSSEN-LOVE: Garage (excerpt)
The Thing: Mats Gustafsson (saxes), Ingebrigt Håken Flaten (bass), Paal Nilssen-Love (drums)
Smalltown Superjazzz STS078CD
F.ANDERSON: 3 0n 2 (excerpt)
AALY Trio: Mats Gustafsson & Ken Vandermark (saxes), Peter Janson (bass), Kjell Nordeson (drums)
Crazy Wisdom CW 003
TRAD: Hidegen fújnak a szelek
The Thing: Mats Gustafsson (saxes), Ingebrigt Håken Flaten (bass), Paal Nilssen-Love (drums)
(Smalltown Superjazzz)
Secondly, Katya Sourikova is a Berlin-based pianist, about to release her third album on Weave Records.
SOURIKOVA: In the Dark (excerpt)
Katya Sourikova (pno), Oliver Fox (sax), Simon Bauer (bass), Brendan Dougherty (drums)
(Weave Records unreleased)
SOURIKOVA: Homage to Messiaen
Katya Sourikova (pno), Curtis Macdonald (sax), Rémi-Jean LeBlanc (bass), Ivan Bamford (drums), Michael Avery (elec)
Weave Records WVR 003
SOURIKOVA: Ivan's Dream
Katya Sourikova (pno), Oliver Fox (sax), Simon Bauer (bass), Brendan Dougherty (drums)
(Weave Records unreleased)
SOURIKOVA/MACDONALD: When Words Fail (excerpt)
Katya Sourikova (pno), Curtis Macdonald (sax)
Weave Records WVR 001
Bio notes, gig details and video footage of Mats and Katya are available on the website as part of Concert Highlights.
8:01 - 2010 ISCM World New Music Days (Prog 11)
Bert VAN HERCK: Spectra
Filip RATHE: Avec diamants extrèmes
Daniel D'ADAMO: Lames
Jean-Luc FAFCHAMPS: Lettre Soufie Sh(in)
Bruno MANTOVANI: D'un rêve parti
Spectra Ensemble, Filip Rathe (dir)
(Recorded by ABC Classic FM in the Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney.)
9:33 - A Night in Tunisia
Tunisia has been in the news: its president of 23 years has stood down due to public revolt and fled to Saudi Arabia. Some commentators are labelling events the "Jasmine Revolution". Here's a bracket of North Africa-themed music.
GILLESPIE: A Night in Tunisia (excerpt)
Dizzy Gillespie and his Orchestra
RCA 168779
G MASON (attrib): Dido was the Carthage queen
Roderick Williams (bar), Jacob Heringman (lute)
Philips 446 687
ANTHEIL: Decatur at Algiers
Frankfurt Radio SO/Hugh Wolff
CPO 999 706
O'REGAN: Raï
Britten Sinfonia: Jacqueline Shave (vln/dir), Martin Outram (vla), Caroline Dearnley (cello), Michael Cox (fl), Joy Farrall (cl), Sally Pryce (hp), Adrian Bending & Jeremy Cornes (perc)
Signum SIGCD 149
DYENS: Tango en Skaï
Elena Papandreou (gtr)
BIS CD 1366
ABBOTT: Egyptian Wish
Barry Cockcroft, Joseph Lallo & Jessica Voigt (s.saxes)
Move MCD 441
10:10 - More from Australia
ABBOTT: The Empty Quarter
Caerwen Martin (cello), Collision Theory: Amy Valent Curlis & Arwen Johnson (perc)
Move MCD 441
SCULTHORPE: The Fifth Continent
Peter Sculthorpe (speaker), Barbara Jane Gilby (vln), David Pereira (cello), Vanessa Souter (hp), Bruce Lamont (tpt), Joseph Ortuso (ob), Mark Atkins (didj), Tasmanian SO/David Porcelijn
ABC Classics 456 363
11:04 - New Music Dreams
LOCKWOOD: A Sound Map of the Danube, Part 2
(From Donauwirt, Austria; through Slovakia, Hungary and Croatia; to Dobro, Serbia)
Lovely Music LCD 2083
