wpfw playlist 6.30.09 (05:06 AM)

June 30, 2009

Playlist for Overnight Jazz with Mike Janssen on 89.3 FM WPFW, 1–5 a.m., June 30, 2009

1. “Where Are You” – Ahmad Jamal, In Search Of Momentum
2. “Heart of Glass” – The Bad Plus, These Are the Vistas
3. “Puncha Puncha” – Avishai Cohen, Gently Disturbed
4. “Minor Swing” – John Zorn, George Lewis and Bill Frisell, More News for Lulu
5. “Ziphim” – John Zorn’s Masada, Gimel
6. “Compassion” – Ornette Coleman, Tomorrow Is the Question!
7. “Forest Flower – Sunrise” + “Forest Flower – Sunset” – Chico Hamilton, The Best Of
8. “Raw Groove” – James Blood Ulmer, Revealing
9. “Requiem for John Hurt” – John Fahey, The Essential
10. “Sliding Delta” – Mississippi John Hurt, Blues Legends
11. “Going Down South” – R.L. Burnside, Too Bad Jim
12. “Baby Please Don’t Leave Me” – Buddy Guy, Sweet Tea
13. “Echidna’s Arf (Of You)” / “Don’t You Ever Wash That Thing?” – Frank Zappa, Roxy and Elsewhere
14. “Peaches En Regalia” – Frank Zappa, Hot Rats
15. “Synchro System” – King Sunny Ade, The Best of the Classic Years
16. “Yegenet Muziqa” – Getachew Mekuria, Ethiopiques Vol. 14: Negus of Ethiopian Sax
17. “Sethed seketelat” – Getachew Mekuria and The Ex, Moa Anbessa
18. “Yeqer memekatesh” – Mahmoud Ahmed, Ethiopiques Vol. 1: Golden Years of Modern Ethiopian Music 1969-1975
19. “Akula Owu Onyeara” – The Funkees, Nigeria Special: Modern Highlife, Afro-sounds & Nigerian Blues
20. “Thank You Very Quickly” – Extra Golden, Thank You Very Quickly
21. “No Condition Is Permanent” – Chopteeth Afrofunk Big Band, s/t
22. “Funky 16 Corners” – The Highlighters Band, The Best of Jazzman Records
23. “Look-Ka Py Py” – The Meters, The Very Best Of
24. “Summer Babe” – James Carter, Gold Sounds
25. “Be-Bach” – Leo Cuypers, Heavy Days Are Here Again
26. “Knock Yourself Out (for Jean-Michel Basquiat)” – The Vandermark Five, …Exercises in Surprise
27. “The G.G.” – Trachy Lacy Collective, Lanky
28. “Prisoner of Love” – Lester Young, Verve Jazz Masters 30
29. “In Walked Bud” – Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Keystone 3
30. “Nice Work If You Can Get It” – Thelonious Monk, Genius of Modern Music Vol. 1

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wpfw playlist 6.23.09 (05:35 PM)

June 27, 2009

Playlist for Overnight Jazz with Mike Janssen on 89.3 FM WPFW, 3–5 a.m., June 23, 2009

1. “You Don’t Know What Love Is” — David Schnitter, Sketch
2. “Masqualero” — Miles Davis, Sorcerer
3. “Little Niles” — Dollar Brand, s/t
4. “Solace: A Mexican Serenade” — Alexander Peskanov, Scott Joplin (composer), Scott Joplin: Piano Rags
5. “Nightfall” — Enrico Pieranunzi, Charlie Haden and Paul Motian, Special Encounter
6. “Una Mujer” — Seu Jorge, Cru
7. “Lua, Lua, Lua, Lua” — Caetano Veloso, Personalidade
8. “Bat Macumba” — Gilberto Gil, Tropicalia Ou Panis Et Circensis
9. “Anna (El Negro Zumbon)” — Esquivel, s/t
10. “Sweet ‘Tater Pie” — Mongo Santamaria, Skin on Skin: The Mongo Santamaria Anthology
11. “Spanish Grease” — Willie Bobo, Talkin’ Verve
12. “Guajira Soul” — Tito Puente and His Latin Ensemble, The Colors of Latin Jazz: Cha Cha Soul
13. “Alevacolariea” — Fernando Gelbard, Various Ouelele
14. “Pass the Dutchie” — Musical Youth, Pass the Dutchie
15. “Israelites” — Desmond Dekker, Rockin’ Steady: The Best Of
16. “Simmer Down” — The Skatalites feat. Bob Marley and the Wailers, Foundation Ska
17. “Rise and Praise” — Rhythm and Sound w/Koki, See Mi Yah
18. “Shelela/Fano/Degmom Balele/Chebelew” — Girma Moges, Instrumental Music
19. “Sweet and Lovely” — Thelonious Monk, Monk’s Dream
20. “I Can’t Get Started” — Ben Webster, Stormy Weather
21. “Ahmad’s Blues” — Ahmad Jamal, Poinciana

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wpfw playlist 6.9.09 (03:48 PM)

Playlist for Overnight Jazz with Mike Janssen on 89.3 FM WPFW, 3–5 a.m., June 9, 2009

1. “Wise One” — John Coltrane, Crescent
2. “River Man” — Brad Mehldau, Songs: Art of the Trio, Volume 3
3. “Bear Cat Blues” — John Jackson, Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down
4. “They’re Red Hot” — Robert Johnson, The Complete Recordings
5. “Hot Tamale Baby” — Buckwheat Zydeco
6. “Feel Like Funkin’ It Up” — Rebirth Brass Band
7. “Salee Dames, Bon Jour” — Don Vappie & the Creole Jazz Serenaders (this and previous two tracks from the box set Doctors, Professors, Kings and Queens: The Big Ol’ Box of New Orleans)
8. “Don’t You Just Know It” — Huey “Piano” Smith and the Clowns
9. “Speedo” — The Cadillacs
10. “Funky Drummer” — James Brown, Soul Pride: The Instrumentals (1960–1969)
11. “The Number Song” — DJ Shadow, Endtroducing
12. “Body and Soul” — William Onyeabor, Booniay!!: A Compilation of West African Funk
13. “Waka Tu Pato” — Timbila Muzimba, Warethwa
14. “Analengo” — Kasai Allstars, In The 7th Moon, The Chief Turned Into A Swimming Fish And Ate The Head Of His Enemy By Magic
15. “Lektor” — Stoner Forss Borg, The Lektor Tapes
16. “Dingle-dangle” — Jeff “Tain” Watts, Watts
17. “Fallout” — Roland Kirk, Now Please Don’t You Cry, Beautiful Edith
18. “Polkadots and Moonbeams” — Hot Club of Cowtown, Tall Tales
19. “Gladys” — Stan Getz and Lionel Hampton, Hamp and Getz
20. “Solar” — Miles Davis, Walkin’

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wpfw playlist 6.2.09 (05:16 AM)

June 2, 2009

Playlist for Overnight Jazz with Mike Janssen on 89.3 FM WPFW, 3—5 a.m., June 2, 2009

1. “Shiloh” — Transmission Trio, Tiny Beast
2. “Solo Alto at Zebulon, August 22, 2005” — Colin Stetson
3. “On Alto On Tenor” — Evan Parker and Ned Rothenberg, Live at Roulette
4. “Your Eyes Are Like a Cup of Tea (Al Yunic Sharbouni Ate)” — Master Musicians of Jajouka, The Pipes of Pan at Jajouka
5. “Soya” — Ali Farka Toure, Savane
6. “Baba Drame” — Bill Frisell and McCoy Tyner, Guitars
7. “Megemeria (The Beginning)” — Wudasse, Selam
8. “Roots Train (Exended)” — Junior Murvin feat. Dillinger, Police and Thieves
9. “No Problem” — Horace Andy Meets Prince Jammy, The Rough Guide to Dub
10. “Onions Wrapped in Rubber” — Tortoise, s/t
11. “Full Force” — Art Ensemble of Chicago, Full Force
12. “Slippery, Hippery, Flippery” — Roland Kirk, Rip, Rig and Panic
13. “Soft Winds”
14. “Shivers” — Benny Goodman Sextet feat. Charlie Christian, Benny Goodman Sextet Featuring Charlie Christian (1939-1941)
15. “Confirmation” — Charlie Parker, The Essential Charlie Parker

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wooooo (12:16 AM)

May 29, 2009

One of my favorite signs ever seen, a handwritten one on the door of a place in Danbury, N.C., where I rented a tire tube and floated down the Dan River:

IF YOU ARE GOING TO GET DRUNK AND RAISE HELL GET OUT NOW

I wish I’d taken a picture. This was before the days of ubiquitous cameras in cell phones and artificial limbs. Later that day I did see great swine of men stand in the river and pee openly, after having consumed, no doubt, many cans of beer. In fact I saw coolers afloat near them holding beer. I don’t mean swine pejoratively — that’s what the guys looked like. I’m OK with swine.

I’m now in the land of North Carolina, where I saw this, but far from that locale. I’m at Wrightsville Beach in the southeasternmost corner of the state, and I am tired. This afternoon I walked from a bookstore in downtown Wilmington to a record store nearby, a walk of several blocks, and I passed a man who asked me for money, which I gave him. He said, “You must be a hippie.” I agreed, and privately, I was amused, because I feel that I’m increasingly called this in recent months. My friend Shane often calls me a hippie. A month or so ago my friend Chris also called me a hippie — not just that, a “true hippie.” And then this guy. Well, I figure I must be doing something right, because I am proud to be called one — though I’d never call myself one. (It doesn’t hurt that I have a bumper sticker on my car that says, “I Would Fight For Hippie Chicks” — a line from a Camper Van Beethoven song, and a Camper Van Beethoven-made bumper sticker.)

The man I gave money to started telling me about how he and his girlfriend were train hoppers and had gotten stranded in Wilmington, and he couldn’t find work, and his backpack was stolen at a shelter, and at least one of his children had died under circumstances I didn’t quite understand, and his former wife was no longer his wife for reasons I also didn’t quite follow, but he would never get married again (for which I don’t blame him, I’m not sure I ever want to be married again, either). It was one of those one-sided conversations that seemed to have the potential to go on for a very long time, and I felt bad for not having it in me to be more empathetic at the time, but I wasn’t sure how long I wanted to stand there and listen.

Eventually I broke off and went to the record store, where I noticed that Yo La Tengo has a new album out under the name of Condo Fucks, which I’m curious to hear. And I bought a few albums: Junior Murvin’s Police and Thieves; a Roland Kirk two-fer featuring Elvin Jones and Jaki Byard on one of the two-fers, so I figured it was probably a pretty safe bet although I don’t know any Roland Kirk; and the African Scream Contest compilation, about which I’ve heard enough good things that I figured it would be worth it although it was an import and a bit pricy. Nicely packaged. Oh, buying music, in concrete tangible form no less — seems so outmoded, maybe even unnecessary. But I really do have issues with downloading music and not paying for it. It seems like stealing, and I try not to steal because I try to follow the Buddhist precepts — at least the ones that are easier to follow. (That one about intoxicants I find a bit more challenging.) And really it is easy for me not to acquire music, because I already have so damn much I’m hardly acquainted with. Let us just start with the vast output of John Coltrane, or Miles Davis, which I already have, and how woefully underacquainted I am with it. Add to that Glenn Gould’s Goldberg Variations, Yo-Yo Ma’s Bach cello suites, the hundreds of tracks iTunes tells me I have yet to listen to, and so on and so forth — do I really need more music? And I already feel obligated to listen to so much of it just to put together a radio show of any kind of coherence and quality every week. So yes, I don’t need to download music gratis to have a good time.

After the record store I went to the Cape Fear Beer and Wine store and discovered some wonderful things, such as the Lagunitas Undercover beer on cask, and the Centennial Double Trouble on tap, and a jukebox devoted entirely to punk rock, and a girl behind the bar who was wearing a roller derby shirt and knew her beer backwards and forwards. And a foosball table that kept Louisa entertained, although I mostly beat her. (She got better when we determined that she was spinning the dudes the wrong way half the time.)

Those are my adventures in consumption, and being called a hippie, and I should go to sleep now. But I am feeling good. At peace in the world, and with my general lack of sense of what exactly it is I’m doing with my life. Is knowing what one is doing with one’s life an essential part of feeling with it? Because I totally don’t have that, and I’m not sure whether I ought to be trying harder to grope my way towards it, or if I should just let go and not care. These days I’m not real big on trying too hard for anything that doesn’t come naturally.

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wpfw playlist 5.19.09 (12:19 PM)

May 19, 2009

Playlist for Overnight Jazz with Mike Janssen on 89.3 FM WPFW, 3—5 a.m., May 19, 2009

1. “Adowa (Otanfo)” — Seprewa Kasa, s/t
2. “Saudade Do Meu Amor” — Taffetas, s/t
3. “I Follow You” — Amadou and Mariam, Welcome to Mali
4. “Kadia Blues” — Orchestre de la payotte, African Roots
5. “Masenqo” — Mulatu Astatke w/ The Heliocentrics, Inspiration Information 3
6. “Yegelle Tezeta” — Mulatu Astatke, Ethiopiques Vol. 4: Ethio Jazz & Musique Instrumentale
7. “Shelela/Fano/Degmom Balele/Chebelew” — Girma Moges, Instrumental Music
8. “Doit” — Mouse on Mars, Idiology
9. “Breaking Up Dubwise” — King Tubby
10. “I’d Rather Go Blind” — James Etta
11. “Sittin’ On Top Of the World” — The Mississippi Sheiks
12. “Meet Me In the City” — Junior Kimborough, You Better Run: The Essential
13. “Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning” — Mississippi Fred McDowell with Annie Mae McDowell, First Recordings
14. “Strata (For Max Beckmann)” — The Vandermark Five, Elements of Style
15. “Lithium” — The Bad Plus w/Wendy Lewis, For All I Care
16. “Written In My Dreams by W.C. Williams” — Allen Ginsberg, Holy Soul Jelly Roll
17. “Nightfall” — Enrico Pieranunzi, Charlie Haden and Paul Motian, Special Encounter
18. “Polka Dots and Moonbeams” — Pharaoh Saunders, Welcome to Love
19. “Delaunay’s Dilemma” — Modern Jazz Quartet, Django
20. “Tea for Two” — Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli, Swing 39
21. “Trinkle, Tinkle” — Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk With John Coltrane

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well (02:05 AM)

May 16, 2009

what if you/I/both of us curated some of your strings of tweets, and then you read them and recorded them into something or other and you sent me the recording somehow and I edited it and mixed it up with music to go with it.

which tonight I was thinking would be stuff like Bill Evans and Thelonious Monk. I should be clear that I was not suggesting

that I would be writing the music myself because I haven’t done that before but maybe I could.

Whatever the case then I could play it on my radio show enjoyed by all of 5 insomniacs and one guy who sounds really out there.

(though if you wanted to hear it you could get the podcast at www.mikejanssen.net/podcasts/wpfwshow.xml)

and maybe we’d distribute it more widely somehow.

I LOVED THE CRUISE and also speed levitch’s part in Waking Life. “On really romantic nights of self, I go salsa dancing with my confusion.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMsk-lzppNg&feature=related

watching that made me feel so good just now.

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wpfw playlist 5.12.09 (12:52 PM)

May 12, 2009

Playlist for Overnight Jazz with Mike Janssen on 89.3 FM WPFW, 3—5 a.m., May 12, 2009

1. “Next Love” — Don Byron, Tuskeegee Experiments
2. “Saturn” — Sun Ra, Visits Planet Earth
3. “Sentimental Journey” — Esquivel, Space Age Bachelor Pad Music
4. “Time Passes By” — Leo Stephenson with Rex Ofosu and His Ambassadors
5. “Simini-yaya” — Collins Oke Elaiho and His Odoligie Nobles Dance, Nigeria Special: Modern Highlife, Afro-sounds and Nigerian Blues
6. “Shemonmwanayewa and Fikre Hoy” — Girma Wold Michael, Loga — Contemporary Ethiopian Music
7. “Tezalegn Yetentu” — Getachew Mekuria and the Ex and Guests, Moa Anbessa
8. “Tchero adari negn” — Alemayehu Eshete, Ethiopiques 8: Swinging Addis
9. “I Got You (I Feel Good)” — James Brown
10. “Treat Her Like a Lady” — Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose, Soul Spectacular: The Greatest Soul Hits of All Time
11. “Too Late to Turn Back Now” — Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose
12. “Havin’ Fun In New Orleans” — Eddie Bo, Doctors, Professors, Kings and Queens: The Big Ol’ Box of New Orleans
13. “Island Fever” — Ahmad Jamal, In Search of Momentum
14. “Blue Monk” — Thelonious Monk, The Very Best of Prestige Records
15. “Moods in Free Time” — Booker Little, Out Front
16. “The Surrey with the Fringe on Top” — Joshua Redman, Back East
17. “Smoke Stack” — Johnny Griffin, A Blowin’ Session

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wpfw playlist 5.5.09 (01:03 PM)

May 5, 2009

Playlist for Overnight Jazz with Mike Janssen on 89.3 FM WPFW, 3–5 a.m., May 5, 2009

1. “The Devil’s Ring Tone” — Jeff “Tain” Watts, Watts
2. “Jair” — John Zorn and Masada, Live in Jerusalem
3. “Seido 4” — Matt Darriau’s Paradox Trio, live on WFMU from the 2009 Golden Festival in NYC
4. “World War IV” — Antibalas, Various Oulele
5. “Tamba Zimba Navashe” — Hallelujah Chicken Run Band, Take One
6. “Le Laboreur” — Masanka Sankayi feat. Kabongo Tshisensa, Congotronics 2
7. “Cler Achel” — Tinariwen, Aman Iman: Water Is Life
8. “Let Them Knock” — Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, 100 Days, 100 Nights
9. “Jabo” — James Brown, Soul Pride: The Instrumentals 1960-1969
10. “Get on the Good Foot” — James Brown, 20 All Time Greatest Hits!
11. “Warped Sister” — Booker T., Potato Hole
12. “Love Is the New Black” — Chris Schlarb Quintet, Comma
13. “Raw Groove” — James Blood Ulmer, Revealing
14. “A Music of Tranquility” — Chris Speed, Jugendstil
15. “Let’s Call This” — Steve Lacy, Reflections
16. “1980 World Champion” — The Bad Plus, Prog
17. “Dear Old Stockholm” — Miles Davis, Volume One
18. “The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise” — Coleman Hawkins, Verve Jazz Masters 34
19. “Polkadots and Moonbeams” — Lester Young, Verve Jazz Masters 30

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wpfw playlist 4.28.09 (05:05 AM)

April 28, 2009

Playlist for Overnight Jazz with Mike Janssen on 89.3 FM WPFW, 3–5 a.m., April 28, 2009

1. “Miles’ Mode” — John Coltrane, Live at the Village Vanguard
2. “Come Sunday” — Eric Dolphy, Iron Man
3. “Beef Blues Stew” — Randy Weston, Mosaic Select
4. “Hasabé” — Tèshomè Meteku, Ethiopiques Vol. 1: Golden Years of Ethiopian Music 1969-1975
5. “La Réalité” — Amadou & Mariam, Dimanche À Bamako
6. “Gnawou” — Orchestra Baobab, Bamba
7. “La Plus Belle Africaine” — Duke Ellington, The Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington Côte d’Azur Concerts on Verve
8. “Mood Indigo” — Thelonious Monk, Plays Ellington
9. “Secret Nights” — Enrico Pieranunzi, Charlie Haden and Paul Motian, Special Encounter
10. “Lay It Down” — Al Green, Lay It Down
11. “Le Ciel Dans Une Chambre” — Carla Bruni, Quelqu’un m’a dit
12. “gosto do modo” — Bruno Nestas
13. “Just Ain’t Gonna Work Out” — Mayer Hawthorne
14. “007 (Shanty Town)” — Desmond Deker, The Best Of
15. “Drifter Riddim” — Lee “Scratch” Perry and King Tubby
16. “Chapter of Money” — Aggravators Meet Prince Jammy, The Rough Guide to Dub
17. “What Is Happening” — Cornershop, When I Was Born for the 7th Time
18. “The Promise of Wood and Water” — Raglani, Of Sirens Born
19. “Pent-Up House” — Sonny Rollins, Sonny Rollins Plus 4

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