WFMU: Observations of Deviance with David Mittleman: Playlist from April 11, 2023

Listener comments!
	7:01pm Yvang: Hi David and deviants!
	7:01pm zzz: @Observations! Really excited for this show with the master Wadada Leo Smith
	7:03pm Observations: We are live!
	7:10pm Listener Gregory: I came for the Wadada, but I'm staying for the Leo Smith!
	7:11pm Observations: www.discogs.com...
	7:12pm zzz: so good
	7:14pm Observations: Going to play tracks from (almost) every KABELL release: www.discogs.com...
	7:16pm zzz: ↳ Observations @7:14 was there any word on whether Fire Illuminations would get a physical release or just digital?
	7:17pm Listener Gregory: Also, I am going to drink a "maple creemee milkshake IPA" (sic). May God have mercy on me.
	7:17pm Observations: ↳ zzz @7:16 Yes, he will discuss that
	7:20pm zzz: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:17 adventurous music calls for adventurous beer drinking (but yeah that combo sounds kinda nasty!)
	7:25pm Dave in Vermont on the phone: With creemee in the name it must be from Vermont
	7:26pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Evening. Appreciating.
	7:26pm Dave in Vermont on the phone: I’m gonna guess Burlington Beer Co
	7:28pm zzz: ↳ Song: "Muhammad Ali's Spiritual Horizon" by "Wadada Leo ... i was on a flight earlier today and listened to this album twice, immediate repeat listen. rare practice for me. but it is so deep, so heavy really fantastic
	7:30pm Listener Gregory: @Dave, you are off by a couple of miles: Winooski, VT. Four Quarters Brewing. It’s a v good brewery, but am not that crazy about milkshake IPAs. Need some time to figure out what I think about this.
	7:37pm doctorjazz: Hello David and listeners!
	7:38pm doctorjazz: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:17 This sounds really gross!
	🥁 7:39pm WR: Hi David and Observers.
	7:44pm doctorjazz: I bought a few bottles of this Miles Davis/Bitches Brew beer because of the label. www.dogfish.com... (It's really bad, disappointing)
	7:47pm Listener Gregory: @doctorj, your beer SOUNDS better than my beer.
	7:47pm Dean: Dang, a bad stout? That's too bad. I love big beers: barleywine style, triple IPAs, etc., but somehow Dogfish Head often strikes me as too busy or too precious.
	7:48pm zzz: nice to hear him talk on this. i’ve always been curious WLS and his Rastafarian practice
	7:49pm Dean: This is one of my favorite beers of late. It's high-octane, but bitter, bitter, bitter, and quenching at the same time. https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/20430/81744/
	7:49pm Observations: Haile Selassie's address to the United Nations, 1963 en.wikisource.org...
	7:52pm doctorjazz: ↳ Dean @7:47 I love a good stout or dark ale too, but, while I really wanted to like the Miles bottle, it was very bad.
	7:52pm northguineahills: of course, this is airing when I'm trying to finish my final project...
	7:55pm northguineahills: ↳ Dean @7:49 outside my arm's reach, unfortunately....
	7:56pm Listener Gregory: @NGH, as a former teacher, I have to tell you: Listen on the archive, post-project! It will still be here.
	7:58pm Listener Gregory: Wow, Dean, that is super-strong! I would try two ounces of it, if you would drink the rest. I love the bitter.
	7:59pm northguineahills: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:56 i'm still on jeff golick's wayne shorter tribute (granted, i didn't start until 9 days ago).
	7:59pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "Rastafari" by "Wadada Leo Smith" This is not at all what I imagined from an album of this title. I probably should have known better.
	7:59pm doctorjazz: ↳ northguineahills @7:52 What LG said-you've gotten this far, keep it going! The archives are a great thing! (and the interview is taped; will be just as fresh then)
	8:00pm Listener Gregory: ↳ northguineahills @7:59 You can do it!
	8:00pm Listener Gregory: ↳ northguineahills @7:59 Put on Wayne while finishing your project! At least there's no interview.
	8:01pm doctorjazz: (I just listened to Big Planet Noise in the archives this morning-too late for my beauty rest to be complete).
	8:01pm northguineahills: ↳ doctorjazz @7:59 i already have ad-infinitum in queue as it is... the good thing about that, is adding more to the queue, it doesn't change the length....
	8:02pm northguineahills: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:00 i keep on dipping into youtube segs about certain procdures (but, I should be done w/ that tonight)>
	8:05pm zzz: ↳ Song: "Freedom Song" by "Wadada Leo Smith" wow doing the the ‘80s synthy thing. that was pretty cool
	8:10pm Dean: Have to confess (actually, brag) that during the last WFMU marathon I won a number of grand prizes, two of which were WLS's multi-disc sets.
	8:10pm Observations: ↳ Dean @8:10 Kudos!
	8:14pm zzz: ↳ Dean @8:10 awesome Dean. i wanted that grand prize box set of the drummer duos but missed out on it! had to immediately console myself with a purchase of the ed blackwell duo disc (Blue Mountain Sun Drummer). lol
	8:16pm Observations: "Ten Freedom Summers is one of my life's defining works." – Wadada Leo Smith
	8:17pm doctorjazz: OK, well I"LL have to catch the rest in the archive, gotta run, thanks David!
	8:19pm Dean: I did purchase Ten Freedom Summers upon release.
	8:38pm Listener Gregory: Smith mentions Alan Pakula, and I turn the page of the paper to read the review of a new film, “Alan Pakula: Going for Truth.” Yikes!
	8:44pm Dean: I need to hear that Blackwell disc,@zzz.
	8:45pm Observations: ↳ Dean @8:44 stay tuned
	8:51pm Listener Gregory: There is a “more Kabell“ joke here, somewhere.
	8:52pm Dean: Smith was in New Haven long ago and again now? When was he in Valencia (or thereabouts) at Cal Arts?
	8:53pm Observations: ↳ Dean @8:52 circa 1994-2014 roughly
	8:54pm Listener Gregory: Review of the maple creemee milkshake IPA: not bad. I ttook a few sips to get used to, but then it was pretty drinkable. However, I would personally greatly prefer Phaze, a regular IPA by Four Quarters over this. It’s a bit gimmicky.
	8:54pm Dean: That works. A buddy of mine was there during some of those years. Knew of him.
	8:55pm zzz: tzadik release compiling the early Kabell records www.tzadik.com...
	9:03pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Blue Green Gardens of the Indigenous People of th... one of those recordings i've read about, but have never heard....
	9:09pm Dean: Oh, goodie.
	9:12pm Listener Gregory: Any day I hear Ed Blackwell is a good day.
	9:16pm Dean: Adam Rudolph recorded a bit with Yusef Lateef, yes?
	9:20pm Listener Gregory: I used to read Robert Palmer’s reviews in the Times when I was young. He was awesome. His book “Deep Blues” is fantastic.
	9:21pm Observations: Wadada does not improvise! He creates!!
	🥁 9:21pm WR: Many of Wadada's releases are available from his website: www.wadadaleosmith.com...
	9:21pm Dean: Wow. Robert Palmer. The most salient experience I had with one of his reviews was when he covered Big Jay McNeely's return to performing at the Roundhouse in London, 1980s or thereabout. Prior to that review, I used to hear McNeely at a tiny bar on the eastern edge of LA Countuy. He was working for USPS, but was obviously poised to kickstart his musical career.
	9:23pm Dean: Instead of "improvisation," then, try "autoschediasm."
	9:23pm Listener Gregory: I find this critique of improvisation (or is it just the word “improvisation”?) to be peculiar.
	9:24pm Listener Gregory: @Dean, I will try it, but I’m not optimistic.
	9:25pm Observations: ↳ Listener Gregory @9:23 Gary Bartz said similar thing, can't find exact quote right now
	9:26pm Dean: I wrote a paper in law school larded with the word "autoschediasm," c.2003. My professor, whom I adore, advised against using peculiar jargon, so I excised it. Fast forward to 2020 or so, and Tyshawn Sorey produces a work titled, Autoschediasms.
	9:28pm Observations: ↳ Listener Gregory @9:23 See this twitter.com...
	9:30pm Dean: "Autoschediastic" connotes hasty improvisation, which suggests that there are modes of deliberate improvisation.
	9:36pm Listener Gregory: Ethan Iverson suggests that many solos are not very improvised. The soloist comes upon a good solo and then re-uses large portions of it in recordings or future performances. THAT I understand. Of course, some solos can be constructed that way, and others have to be spontaneous, because the musician hasn’t played that song before. Consider many BlueNote recordings from the 50s and 60s.
	9:41pm Listener Gregory: The fact that Smith is playing this well in his 80s is insane.
	9:42pm zzz: whole show and especially the interview segments really adding to my already huge love and admiration for Wadada Leo Smith, thanks @observations
	9:45pm Observations: ↳ zzz @9:42 🙏🙏🙏
	9:54pm northguineahills: thanks, david, that was awesome!
	🥁 9:57pm WR: Thank you! Thank you! David!
	9:58pm northguineahills: ↳ Dean @9:30 highly structured real-time processes of recursive composition?
	9:58pm Listener Gregory: Thanks a lot, David. You clearly did a huge amount of research for those interviews, and the music was fantastic. One for the record books!
	🥁 9:59pm WR: ↳ Listener Gregory @9:58 what LG said!
	9:59pm Listener Gregory: Next week: greatest hits of bubblegum pop! Be there.
	10:01pm Observations: ↳ Listener Gregory @9:58 thank you!
	10:01pm Observations: Thanks to one and all, I'll be back next week

Observations of Deviance with David Mittleman: Playlist from April 11, 2023

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April 11, 2023: Wadada Leo Smith Interview

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time

Wadada Leo Smith	Love Supreme (For John Coltrane)	Kulture Jazz	ECM	1993		0:02:41 (Pop-up)
Wadada Leo Smith and N'Da Kulture	Lotus Garden	Golden Hearts Remembrance	Chap Chap	1997		0:06:30 (Pop-up)
Wadada Leo Smith	Nine (9) Stones On A Mountain	Creative Music - 1 (Six Solo Improvisations)	Kabell	1972		0:18:40 (Pop-up)
Wadada Leo Smith and Orange Wave Electric	Muhammad Ali's Spiritual Horizon	Fire Illuminations	Kabell	2023	https://wadadaleosmith1.bandcamp.com/album/fire-illuminations	0:24:06 (Pop-up)

Wadada Leo Smith	Interview Part 1	Interview March 20, 2023	N/A	2023		0:30:29 (Pop-up)

Wadada Leo Smith	Rastafari "Rastafari" by "Wadada Leo Smith"	Rastafari	Sackville	1983		0:54:44 (Pop-up)
Wadada Leo Smith	Freedom Song "Freedom Song" by "Wadada Leo Smith"	Human Rights	Kabell	1986		1:02:11 (Pop-up)
Wadada Leo Smith	Aura "Aura" by "Wadada Leo Smith"	Solo Music Ahkreanvention	Kabell	1979		1:04:41 (Pop-up)
Wadada Leo Smith	Dred Scott, 1857	Ten Freedom Summers	Cunieform	2012		1:07:45 (Pop-up)

Wadada Leo Smith	Interview Part 2	Interview March 20, 2023	N/A	2023		1:21:45 (Pop-up)

Wadada Leo Smith	Blues: Jah Jah Is The Perfect Love	Procession Of The Great Ancestry	1989	Chief		1:49:10 (Pop-up)
Wadada Leo Smith & Adam Rudolph	Fragrance of Light	Compassion	Kabell / Meta	2006	recorded live June 29, 2002 at The Electric Lodge, Venice, CA	1:51:55 (Pop-up)
Wadada Leo Smith With Milford Graves And Bill Laswell	Social Justice - A Fire for Reimagining the World	Sacred Ceremonies	TUM	2021		1:55:04 (Pop-up)
Wadada Leo Smith	Blue Green Gardens of the Indigenous People of the Great Plains	Red Chrysanthemums Solos 1977	Corbett vs. Dempsey	2015	recorded live in Los Angeles December 1977	2:01:31 (Pop-up)
New Dalta Ahkri	T Wmukl-D - A Dedication To The Fishermen Of The World	Reflectativity	Kabell	1975		2:03:05 (Pop-up)
Wadada Leo Smith and Ed Blackwell	Don't You Remember	The Blue Mountain's Sun Drummer	Kabell	2010	recorded live on October 23, 1986 at Brandeis University	2:07:52 (Pop-up)

Wadada Leo Smith	Interview Part 3	Interview March 20, 2023	N/A	2023		2:16:11 (Pop-up)

Wadada Leo Smith	Seven Rings Of Light In The Hola Trinity	Kulture Jazz	ECM	1993		2:41:32 (Pop-up)
New Dalta Ahkri	Pneuma "Pneuma" by "New Dalta Ahkri"	Song Of Humanity = Kanto Pri Homaro	Kabell	1977		2:43:50 (Pop-up)
Wadada Leo Smith and Orange Wave Electric	Tony Williams	Fire Illuminations	Kabell	2023	https://wadadaleosmith1.bandcamp.com/album/fire-illuminations	2:45:27 (Pop-up)
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Listener comments!
	7:01pm Yvang: Hi David and deviants!
	7:01pm zzz: @Observations! Really excited for this show with the master Wadada Leo Smith
	7:03pm Observations: We are live!
	7:10pm Listener Gregory: I came for the Wadada, but I'm staying for the Leo Smith!
	7:11pm Observations: www.discogs.com...
	7:12pm zzz: so good
	7:14pm Observations: Going to play tracks from (almost) every KABELL release: www.discogs.com...
	7:16pm zzz: ↳ Observations @7:14 was there any word on whether Fire Illuminations would get a physical release or just digital?
	7:17pm Listener Gregory: Also, I am going to drink a "maple creemee milkshake IPA" (sic). May God have mercy on me.
	7:17pm Observations: ↳ zzz @7:16 Yes, he will discuss that
	7:20pm zzz: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:17 adventurous music calls for adventurous beer drinking (but yeah that combo sounds kinda nasty!)
	7:25pm Dave in Vermont on the phone: With creemee in the name it must be from Vermont
	7:26pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Evening. Appreciating.
	7:26pm Dave in Vermont on the phone: I’m gonna guess Burlington Beer Co
	7:28pm zzz: ↳ Song: "Muhammad Ali's Spiritual Horizon" by "Wadada Leo ... i was on a flight earlier today and listened to this album twice, immediate repeat listen. rare practice for me. but it is so deep, so heavy really fantastic
	7:30pm Listener Gregory: @Dave, you are off by a couple of miles: Winooski, VT. Four Quarters Brewing. It’s a v good brewery, but am not that crazy about milkshake IPAs. Need some time to figure out what I think about this.
	7:37pm doctorjazz: Hello David and listeners!
	7:38pm doctorjazz: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:17 This sounds really gross!
	🥁 7:39pm WR: Hi David and Observers.
	7:44pm doctorjazz: I bought a few bottles of this Miles Davis/Bitches Brew beer because of the label. www.dogfish.com... (It's really bad, disappointing)
	7:47pm Listener Gregory: @doctorj, your beer SOUNDS better than my beer.
	7:47pm Dean: Dang, a bad stout? That's too bad. I love big beers: barleywine style, triple IPAs, etc., but somehow Dogfish Head often strikes me as too busy or too precious.
	7:48pm zzz: nice to hear him talk on this. i’ve always been curious WLS and his Rastafarian practice
	7:49pm Dean: This is one of my favorite beers of late. It's high-octane, but bitter, bitter, bitter, and quenching at the same time. https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/20430/81744/
	7:49pm Observations: Haile Selassie's address to the United Nations, 1963 en.wikisource.org...
	7:52pm doctorjazz: ↳ Dean @7:47 I love a good stout or dark ale too, but, while I really wanted to like the Miles bottle, it was very bad.
	7:52pm northguineahills: of course, this is airing when I'm trying to finish my final project...
	7:55pm northguineahills: ↳ Dean @7:49 outside my arm's reach, unfortunately....
	7:56pm Listener Gregory: @NGH, as a former teacher, I have to tell you: Listen on the archive, post-project! It will still be here.
	7:58pm Listener Gregory: Wow, Dean, that is super-strong! I would try two ounces of it, if you would drink the rest. I love the bitter.
	7:59pm northguineahills: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:56 i'm still on jeff golick's wayne shorter tribute (granted, i didn't start until 9 days ago).
	7:59pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "Rastafari" by "Wadada Leo Smith" This is not at all what I imagined from an album of this title. I probably should have known better.
	7:59pm doctorjazz: ↳ northguineahills @7:52 What LG said-you've gotten this far, keep it going! The archives are a great thing! (and the interview is taped; will be just as fresh then)
	8:00pm Listener Gregory: ↳ northguineahills @7:59 You can do it!
	8:00pm Listener Gregory: ↳ northguineahills @7:59 Put on Wayne while finishing your project! At least there's no interview.
	8:01pm doctorjazz: (I just listened to Big Planet Noise in the archives this morning-too late for my beauty rest to be complete).
	8:01pm northguineahills: ↳ doctorjazz @7:59 i already have ad-infinitum in queue as it is... the good thing about that, is adding more to the queue, it doesn't change the length....
	8:02pm northguineahills: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:00 i keep on dipping into youtube segs about certain procdures (but, I should be done w/ that tonight)>
	8:05pm zzz: ↳ Song: "Freedom Song" by "Wadada Leo Smith" wow doing the the ‘80s synthy thing. that was pretty cool
	8:10pm Dean: Have to confess (actually, brag) that during the last WFMU marathon I won a number of grand prizes, two of which were WLS's multi-disc sets.
	8:10pm Observations: ↳ Dean @8:10 Kudos!
	8:14pm zzz: ↳ Dean @8:10 awesome Dean. i wanted that grand prize box set of the drummer duos but missed out on it! had to immediately console myself with a purchase of the ed blackwell duo disc (Blue Mountain Sun Drummer). lol
	8:16pm Observations: "Ten Freedom Summers is one of my life's defining works." – Wadada Leo Smith
	8:17pm doctorjazz: OK, well I"LL have to catch the rest in the archive, gotta run, thanks David!
	8:19pm Dean: I did purchase Ten Freedom Summers upon release.
	8:38pm Listener Gregory: Smith mentions Alan Pakula, and I turn the page of the paper to read the review of a new film, “Alan Pakula: Going for Truth.” Yikes!
	8:44pm Dean: I need to hear that Blackwell disc,@zzz.
	8:45pm Observations: ↳ Dean @8:44 stay tuned
	8:51pm Listener Gregory: There is a “more Kabell“ joke here, somewhere.
	8:52pm Dean: Smith was in New Haven long ago and again now? When was he in Valencia (or thereabouts) at Cal Arts?
	8:53pm Observations: ↳ Dean @8:52 circa 1994-2014 roughly
	8:54pm Listener Gregory: Review of the maple creemee milkshake IPA: not bad. I ttook a few sips to get used to, but then it was pretty drinkable. However, I would personally greatly prefer Phaze, a regular IPA by Four Quarters over this. It’s a bit gimmicky.
	8:54pm Dean: That works. A buddy of mine was there during some of those years. Knew of him.
	8:55pm zzz: tzadik release compiling the early Kabell records www.tzadik.com...
	9:03pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Blue Green Gardens of the Indigenous People of th... one of those recordings i've read about, but have never heard....
	9:09pm Dean: Oh, goodie.
	9:12pm Listener Gregory: Any day I hear Ed Blackwell is a good day.
	9:16pm Dean: Adam Rudolph recorded a bit with Yusef Lateef, yes?
	9:20pm Listener Gregory: I used to read Robert Palmer’s reviews in the Times when I was young. He was awesome. His book “Deep Blues” is fantastic.
	9:21pm Observations: Wadada does not improvise! He creates!!
	🥁 9:21pm WR: Many of Wadada's releases are available from his website: www.wadadaleosmith.com...
	9:21pm Dean: Wow. Robert Palmer. The most salient experience I had with one of his reviews was when he covered Big Jay McNeely's return to performing at the Roundhouse in London, 1980s or thereabout. Prior to that review, I used to hear McNeely at a tiny bar on the eastern edge of LA Countuy. He was working for USPS, but was obviously poised to kickstart his musical career.
	9:23pm Dean: Instead of "improvisation," then, try "autoschediasm."
	9:23pm Listener Gregory: I find this critique of improvisation (or is it just the word “improvisation”?) to be peculiar.
	9:24pm Listener Gregory: @Dean, I will try it, but I’m not optimistic.
	9:25pm Observations: ↳ Listener Gregory @9:23 Gary Bartz said similar thing, can't find exact quote right now
	9:26pm Dean: I wrote a paper in law school larded with the word "autoschediasm," c.2003. My professor, whom I adore, advised against using peculiar jargon, so I excised it. Fast forward to 2020 or so, and Tyshawn Sorey produces a work titled, Autoschediasms.
	9:28pm Observations: ↳ Listener Gregory @9:23 See this twitter.com...
	9:30pm Dean: "Autoschediastic" connotes hasty improvisation, which suggests that there are modes of deliberate improvisation.
	9:36pm Listener Gregory: Ethan Iverson suggests that many solos are not very improvised. The soloist comes upon a good solo and then re-uses large portions of it in recordings or future performances. THAT I understand. Of course, some solos can be constructed that way, and others have to be spontaneous, because the musician hasn’t played that song before. Consider many BlueNote recordings from the 50s and 60s.
	9:41pm Listener Gregory: The fact that Smith is playing this well in his 80s is insane.
	9:42pm zzz: whole show and especially the interview segments really adding to my already huge love and admiration for Wadada Leo Smith, thanks @observations
	9:45pm Observations: ↳ zzz @9:42 🙏🙏🙏
	9:54pm northguineahills: thanks, david, that was awesome!
	🥁 9:57pm WR: Thank you! Thank you! David!
	9:58pm northguineahills: ↳ Dean @9:30 highly structured real-time processes of recursive composition?
	9:58pm Listener Gregory: Thanks a lot, David. You clearly did a huge amount of research for those interviews, and the music was fantastic. One for the record books!
	🥁 9:59pm WR: ↳ Listener Gregory @9:58 what LG said!
	9:59pm Listener Gregory: Next week: greatest hits of bubblegum pop! Be there.
	10:01pm Observations: ↳ Listener Gregory @9:58 thank you!
	10:01pm Observations: Thanks to one and all, I'll be back next week

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