RoCM Playlist: 23 Mar 2024
I liked the first hour theme that we did last week of live performances from Antibes so I am borrowing on that theme and this week the first hour features live performances recorded at Sweet Basil in New York City. Sweet Basil was the site of a huge number of jazz performances during its 27 year run – 175 of which were released as albums (according to Discogs) – so we’re barely scratching the surface with the three that I have selected this week. .
Additionally – this week Impulse! has released Alice Coltrane: The Carnegie Hall Concert, but unfortunately I was unable to get my hands on a copy for this week so instead we will listen to a track from Ptah, the El Daoud (recorded at The John and Alice Coltrane Home on Long Island in Dix Hills – about 20 minutes from where I live). Also, last week we heard individual tracks by Moor Mother and Keir Neuringer so this week we hear a track from their collective album (with others) as Irreversible Entanglements with a track from Don Cherry sandwiched in between.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4:00:16 PM | Johnny Hartman | Fly Me to the Moon | The Johnny Hartman Collection 1947-1972 | Yoshio Ikeda – Bass |
| 4:07:03 PM | McCoy Tyner Trio | La Habana Sol | Solar – Live At Sweet Basil | McCoy Tyner – piano |
| 4:20:07 PM | Abdullah Ibrahim with Carlos Ward | Soweto | Live At The Sweet Basil – Vol 1 | Carlos Ward – Alto Saxophone, Flute |
| 4:27:04 PM | David Murray Big Band | Bechet’s Bounce | Live At Sweet Basil, Vol. 1 | David Murray – tenor saxophone, bass clarinet |
| 4:41:00 PM | Cecil McBee Sextet With Chico Freeman | Undercurrent | Compassion | Cecil McBee – Bass |
| 4:52:58 PM | Tom Waits | Rain Dogs | Live At Paris – Nov 16, 1985 (Paris at Midnight) | |
| 5:00:11 PM | Betty Davis | They Say I’m Different | They Say I’m Different | |
| 5:06:15 PM | Irreversible Entanglements | Lágrimas Del Mar | Open the Gates | Camae Ayewa – voice, synth |
| 5:16:10 PM | Don Cherry | Symphony for Improvisers: Symphony for Improvisers/Nu Creative Love/What’s Not Serious?/Infant Happiness | Symphony For Improvisers | Don Cherry – cornet |
| 5:37:52 PM | Alice Coltrane | Mantra | Ptah the El Daoud | Alice Coltrane – harp, piano |
| 5:55:58 PM | Tom Lehrer | Poisoning Pigeons In the Park | An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer |
