Playlist for
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
August 8, 2008
Hosted by Greg Lyon on FRIDAYS at 2-4 pm
on WPVM Asheville (103.5 FM and www.wpvm.org)
This show is available for listening as an archive for one week after its airing at WPVM’s Archive Page (click on the STREAM button for this show–under the letter ‘G’)
– First solo show in ages. I played a lot of yummy new jazz releases, including the first-ever CD reissue of Byard Lancater’s 1979 solo album, "Personal Testimony," from the exciting Porter Records label. You wouldn’t really know it’s a solo record, though, because he accompanies himself (overdubbing) on several instruments, including the bass clarinet (my favorite), flute, percussion, piano, piccolo, alto and soprano sax. Also out now is the 2007 Vision Festival live recording by Bill Dixon’s orchestra, 17 Musicians in Search of a Sound: Darfur, on Aum Fidelity. The 82-year-old Dixon, a woefully under-recorded giant of the jazz avant-garde, is suddenly prolific, as this is his second release this year, the other being the equally compelling Bill Dixon with Exploding Star Orchestra on Thrill Jockey.
– Another tasty new jazz reissue is Giuseppe Logan’s Quartet album from 1964 on ESP-Disk. Theme music was from Horace Tapscott’s 1969 masterpiece, The Giants Is Awakened, which featured a young "Black Arthur Blythe" on sax. Sadly, this gem has not yet been reissued.
Background Music: Horace Tapscott Quintet - The Giant Is Awakened (Flying Dutchman)
| Artist | Song | Album | Label | Comments | New |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Devo | Are You Experienced? | Are You Experienced? 12" | Warner Bros | ||
| Fucked Up | Mustaa Lunta | Year of the Pig EP | Matador | US 7" B side | * |
| Digital Leather | Styrofoam | Sorcerer | Goner | * | |
| Abe Vigoda | Animal Ghosts | Skeleton | PPM | * | |
| CSS | Believe Achieve | Donkey | Sub Pop | * | |
| Yellow Fever | Cats and Rats | Cats and Rats | s/r | * | |
| Bellafea | Walking Distance | Cavalcade | * | ||
| Simple | In the Night | Songs From A Broken Hip | s/r | * | |
| Jad & David Fair | Sasquatch | 26 Monster Songs for Children A-Z | Kill Rock Stars | ||
| Experimental Dental School | Microscope Lab Voices | John Doe Loves Me | Cochon | * | |
| Byard Lancaster | Brotherman | Personal Testimony | Porter | 1979 | * |
| Paavoharju | Pimeankarkelo | Laulu Laakson Kukista | Fonal | * | |
| Tony Snell | Fungus | Medieval and Latter Day Lays | ESP-Disk | 1973 | |
| Johnny Flynn | Hong Kong Cemetry | A Larum | Lost Highway | * | |
| John Matthias | Viper’s Nest | Stories from the Watercooler | Counter | * | |
| John Fahey | Requiem for Russell Blaine Cooper | Requia | Vanguard | 1967 | |
| Horace Tapscott Quintet | Niger’s Theme | The Giant Is Awakened | Flying Dutchman | 1969 | |
| Kuusow "Kurunwaarey" et al. | Jamiila | Jamiila: Songs from a Somali City | Original Music | ||
| John-John | la lune dans le noir (moon in the dark) | Bokan! Musics in the Margin | Sub Rosa | * | |
| Transvalue | Not Knowing | Transvalue Book III | thankyou | * | |
| The Guiseppe Logan Quartet | Dance of Satan | Quartet | ESP-Disk | 1964 | * |
| Bill Dixon | Intrados | 17 Musicians in Search of a Sound: Darfur | Aum Fidelity | 2008 | * |
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