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
- “Where Are You” – Ahmad Jamal, In Search Of Momentum
- “Heart of Glass” – The Bad Plus, These Are the Vistas
- “Puncha Puncha” – Avishai Cohen, Gently Disturbed
- “Minor Swing” – John Zorn, George Lewis and Bill Frisell, More News for Lulu
- “Ziphim” – John Zorn’s Masada, Gimel
- “Compassion” – Ornette Coleman, Tomorrow Is the Question!
- “Forest Flower – Sunrise” + “Forest Flower – Sunset” – Chico Hamilton, The Best Of
- “Raw Groove” – James Blood Ulmer, Revealing
- “Requiem for John Hurt” – John Fahey, The Essential
- “Sliding Delta” – Mississippi John Hurt, Blues Legends
- “Going Down South” – R.L. Burnside, Too Bad Jim
- “Baby Please Don’t Leave Me” – Buddy Guy, Sweet Tea
- “Echidna’s Arf (Of You)” / “Don’t You Ever Wash That Thing?” – Frank Zappa, Roxy and Elsewhere
- “Peaches En Regalia” – Frank Zappa, Hot Rats
- “Synchro System” – King Sunny Ade, The Best of the Classic Years
- “Yegenet Muziqa” – Getachew Mekuria, Ethiopiques Vol. 14: Negus of Ethiopian Sax
- “Sethed seketelat” – Getachew Mekuria and The Ex, Moa Anbessa
- “Yeqer memekatesh” – Mahmoud Ahmed, Ethiopiques Vol. 1: Golden Years of Modern Ethiopian Music 1969-1975
- “Akula Owu Onyeara” – The Funkees, Nigeria Special: Modern Highlife, Afro-sounds & Nigerian Blues
- “Thank You Very Quickly” – Extra Golden, Thank You Very Quickly
- “No Condition Is Permanent” – Chopteeth Afrofunk Big Band, s/t
- “Funky 16 Corners” – The Highlighters Band, The Best of Jazzman Records
- “Look-Ka Py Py” – The Meters, The Very Best Of
- “Summer Babe” – James Carter, Gold Sounds
- “Be-Bach” – Leo Cuypers, Heavy Days Are Here Again
- “Knock Yourself Out (for Jean-Michel Basquiat)” – The Vandermark Five, …Exercises in Surprise
- “The G.G.” – Trachy Lacy Collective, Lanky
- “Prisoner of Love” – Lester Young, Verve Jazz Masters 30
- “In Walked Bud” – Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Keystone 3
- “Nice Work If You Can Get It” – Thelonious Monk, Genius of Modern Music Vol. 1
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
- “You Don’t Know What Love Is” — David Schnitter, Sketch
- “Masqualero” — Miles Davis, Sorcerer
- “Little Niles” — Dollar Brand, s/t
- “Solace: A Mexican Serenade” — Alexander Peskanov, Scott Joplin (composer), Scott Joplin: Piano Rags
- “Nightfall” — Enrico Pieranunzi, Charlie Haden and Paul Motian, Special Encounter
- “Una Mujer” — Seu Jorge, Cru
- “Lua, Lua, Lua, Lua” — Caetano Veloso, Personalidade
- “Bat Macumba” — Gilberto Gil, Tropicalia Ou Panis Et Circensis
- “Anna (El Negro Zumbon)” — Esquivel, s/t
- “Sweet ‘Tater Pie” — Mongo Santamaria, Skin on Skin: The Mongo Santamaria Anthology
- “Spanish Grease” — Willie Bobo, Talkin’ Verve
- “Guajira Soul” — Tito Puente and His Latin Ensemble, The Colors of Latin Jazz: Cha Cha Soul
- “Alevacolariea” — Fernando Gelbard, Various Ouelele
- “Pass the Dutchie” — Musical Youth, Pass the Dutchie
- “Israelites” — Desmond Dekker, Rockin’ Steady: The Best Of
- “Simmer Down” — The Skatalites feat. Bob Marley and the Wailers, Foundation Ska
- “Rise and Praise” — Rhythm and Sound w/Koki, See Mi Yah
- “Shelela/Fano/Degmom Balele/Chebelew” — Girma Moges, Instrumental Music
- “Sweet and Lovely” — Thelonious Monk, Monk’s Dream
- “I Can’t Get Started” — Ben Webster, Stormy Weather
- “Ahmad’s Blues” — Ahmad Jamal, Poinciana
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
- “Wise One” — John Coltrane, Crescent
- “River Man” — Brad Mehldau, Songs: Art of the Trio, Volume 3
- “Bear Cat Blues” — John Jackson, Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down
- “They’re Red Hot” — Robert Johnson, The Complete Recordings
- “Hot Tamale Baby” — Buckwheat Zydeco
- “Feel Like Funkin’ It Up” — Rebirth Brass Band
- “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)
- “Don’t You Just Know It” — Huey “Piano” Smith and the Clowns
- “Speedo” — The Cadillacs
- “Funky Drummer” — James Brown, Soul Pride: The Instrumentals (1960–1969)
- “The Number Song” — DJ Shadow, Endtroducing
- “Body and Soul” — William Onyeabor, Booniay!!: A Compilation of West African Funk
- “Waka Tu Pato” — Timbila Muzimba, Warethwa
- “Analengo” — Kasai Allstars, In The 7th Moon, The Chief Turned Into A Swimming Fish And Ate The Head Of His Enemy By Magic
- “Lektor” — Stoner Forss Borg, The Lektor Tapes
- “Dingle-dangle” — Jeff “Tain” Watts, Watts
- “Fallout” — Roland Kirk, Now Please Don’t You Cry, Beautiful Edith
- “Polkadots and Moonbeams” — Hot Club of Cowtown, Tall Tales
- “Gladys” — Stan Getz and Lionel Hampton, Hamp and Getz
- “Solar” — Miles Davis, Walkin’
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
- “Shiloh” — Transmission Trio, Tiny Beast
- “Solo Alto at Zebulon, August 22, 2005” — Colin Stetson
- “On Alto On Tenor” — Evan Parker and Ned Rothenberg, Live at Roulette
- “Your Eyes Are Like a Cup of Tea (Al Yunic Sharbouni Ate)” — Master Musicians of Jajouka, The Pipes of Pan at Jajouka
- “Soya” — Ali Farka Toure, Savane
- “Baba Drame” — Bill Frisell and McCoy Tyner, Guitars
- “Megemeria (The Beginning)” — Wudasse, Selam
- “Roots Train (Exended)” — Junior Murvin feat. Dillinger, Police and Thieves
- “No Problem” — Horace Andy Meets Prince Jammy, The Rough Guide to Dub
- “Onions Wrapped in Rubber” — Tortoise, s/t
- “Full Force” — Art Ensemble of Chicago, Full Force
- “Slippery, Hippery, Flippery” — Roland Kirk, Rip, Rig and Panic
- “Soft Winds”
- “Shivers” — Benny Goodman Sextet feat. Charlie Christian, Benny Goodman Sextet Featuring Charlie Christian (1939-1941)
- “Confirmation” — Charlie Parker, The Essential Charlie Parker
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.
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
- “Adowa (Otanfo)” — Seprewa Kasa, s/t
- “Saudade Do Meu Amor” — Taffetas, s/t
- “I Follow You” — Amadou and Mariam, Welcome to Mali
- “Kadia Blues” — Orchestre de la payotte, African Roots
- “Masenqo” — Mulatu Astatke w/ The Heliocentrics, Inspiration Information 3
- “Yegelle Tezeta” — Mulatu Astatke, Ethiopiques Vol. 4: Ethio Jazz & Musique Instrumentale
- “Shelela/Fano/Degmom Balele/Chebelew” — Girma Moges, Instrumental Music
- “Doit” — Mouse on Mars, Idiology
- “Breaking Up Dubwise” — King Tubby
- “I’d Rather Go Blind” — James Etta
- “Sittin’ On Top Of the World” — The Mississippi Sheiks
- “Meet Me In the City” — Junior Kimborough, You Better Run: The Essential
- “Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning” — Mississippi Fred McDowell with Annie Mae McDowell, First Recordings
- “Strata (For Max Beckmann)” — The Vandermark Five, Elements of Style
- “Lithium” — The Bad Plus w/Wendy Lewis, For All I Care
- “Written In My Dreams by W.C. Williams” — Allen Ginsberg, Holy Soul Jelly Roll
- “Nightfall” — Enrico Pieranunzi, Charlie Haden and Paul Motian, Special Encounter
- “Polka Dots and Moonbeams” — Pharaoh Saunders, Welcome to Love
- “Delaunay’s Dilemma” — Modern Jazz Quartet, Django
- “Tea for Two” — Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli, Swing 39
- “Trinkle, Tinkle” — Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk With John Coltrane
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.
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
- “Next Love” — Don Byron, Tuskeegee Experiments
- “Saturn” — Sun Ra, Visits Planet Earth
- “Sentimental Journey” — Esquivel, Space Age Bachelor Pad Music
- “Time Passes By” — Leo Stephenson with Rex Ofosu and His Ambassadors
- “Simini-yaya” — Collins Oke Elaiho and His Odoligie Nobles Dance, Nigeria Special: Modern Highlife, Afro-sounds and Nigerian Blues
- “Shemonmwanayewa and Fikre Hoy” — Girma Wold Michael, Loga — Contemporary Ethiopian Music
- “Tezalegn Yetentu” — Getachew Mekuria and the Ex and Guests, Moa Anbessa
- “Tchero adari negn” — Alemayehu Eshete, Ethiopiques 8: Swinging Addis
- “I Got You (I Feel Good)” — James Brown
- “Treat Her Like a Lady” — Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose, Soul Spectacular: The Greatest Soul Hits of All Time
- “Too Late to Turn Back Now” — Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose
- “Havin’ Fun In New Orleans” — Eddie Bo, Doctors, Professors, Kings and Queens: The Big Ol’ Box of New Orleans
- “Island Fever” — Ahmad Jamal, In Search of Momentum
- “Blue Monk” — Thelonious Monk, The Very Best of Prestige Records
- “Moods in Free Time” — Booker Little, Out Front
- “The Surrey with the Fringe on Top” — Joshua Redman, Back East
- “Smoke Stack” — Johnny Griffin, A Blowin’ Session
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
- “The Devil’s Ring Tone” — Jeff “Tain” Watts, Watts
- “Jair” — John Zorn and Masada, Live in Jerusalem
- “Seido 4” — Matt Darriau’s Paradox Trio, live on WFMU from the 2009 Golden Festival in NYC
- “World War IV” — Antibalas, Various Oulele
- “Tamba Zimba Navashe” — Hallelujah Chicken Run Band, Take One
- “Le Laboreur” — Masanka Sankayi feat. Kabongo Tshisensa, Congotronics 2
- “Cler Achel” — Tinariwen, Aman Iman: Water Is Life
- “Let Them Knock” — Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, 100 Days, 100 Nights
- “Jabo” — James Brown, Soul Pride: The Instrumentals 1960-1969
- “Get on the Good Foot” — James Brown, 20 All Time Greatest Hits!
- “Warped Sister” — Booker T., Potato Hole
- “Love Is the New Black” — Chris Schlarb Quintet, Comma
- “Raw Groove” — James Blood Ulmer, Revealing
- “A Music of Tranquility” — Chris Speed, Jugendstil
- “Let’s Call This” — Steve Lacy, Reflections
- “1980 World Champion” — The Bad Plus, Prog
- “Dear Old Stockholm” — Miles Davis, Volume One
- “The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise” — Coleman Hawkins, Verve Jazz Masters 34
- “Polkadots and Moonbeams” — Lester Young, Verve Jazz Masters 30
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
- “Miles’ Mode” — John Coltrane, Live at the Village Vanguard
- “Come Sunday” — Eric Dolphy, Iron Man
- “Beef Blues Stew” — Randy Weston, Mosaic Select
- “Hasabé” — Tèshomè Meteku, Ethiopiques Vol. 1: Golden Years of Ethiopian Music 1969-1975
- “La Réalité” — Amadou & Mariam, Dimanche À Bamako
- “Gnawou” — Orchestra Baobab, Bamba
- “La Plus Belle Africaine” — Duke Ellington, The Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington Côte d’Azur Concerts on Verve
- “Mood Indigo” — Thelonious Monk, Plays Ellington
- “Secret Nights” — Enrico Pieranunzi, Charlie Haden and Paul Motian, Special Encounter
- “Lay It Down” — Al Green, Lay It Down
- “Le Ciel Dans Une Chambre” — Carla Bruni, Quelqu’un m’a dit
- “gosto do modo” — Bruno Nestas
- “Just Ain’t Gonna Work Out” — Mayer Hawthorne
- “007 (Shanty Town)” — Desmond Deker, The Best Of
- “Drifter Riddim” — Lee “Scratch” Perry and King Tubby
- “Chapter of Money” — Aggravators Meet Prince Jammy, The Rough Guide to Dub
- “What Is Happening” — Cornershop, When I Was Born for the 7th Time
- “The Promise of Wood and Water” — Raglani, Of Sirens Born
- “Pent-Up House” — Sonny Rollins, Sonny Rollins Plus 4