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

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Observations of Deviance is a vinyl focused, free form program that harkens back to early days of underground FM radio. Your host, David Mittleman, hunts down the most exotic, unusual and off-the-beaten-track music from around the world in a number of genres: Spiritual Jazz, Free Improvisation, Experimental Electronics, Ethnographic Oddities and World-Wide Psychedelic Funk. You are guaranteed to hear sounds you’ve never heard before.

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Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Approx. start time
 
Paul Motian  Ch'i Energy   Favoriting Conception Vessel  ECM  1973    0:02:54 (Pop-up)
Derek Bailey  Introduction / Advertisement   Favoriting Muckraker #9  Muckraker  2000    0:05:15 (Pop-up)
Derek Bailey  F/B (I) Electric   Favoriting String Theory  Paratactile  2000    0:08:50 (Pop-up)
Paul Motian  Tuesday Ends Saturday   Favoriting Tribute  ECM  1975    0:12:57 (Pop-up)
Derek Bailey  Explanation   Favoriting Chats  Incus  2001    0:19:31 (Pop-up)
Derek Bailey  DAT edit 9   Favoriting Domestic Jungle DAT  scatterArchive  2022    0:19:44 (Pop-up)
Warne Marsh  Excerpt   Favoriting Warne Marsh  Atlantic  1958  feat. Paul Motian  0:26:06 (Pop-up)
 
Derek Bailey  Henry   Favoriting Chats  Incus  2001    0:33:13 (Pop-up)
The Paul Bley Quartet  Ictus   Favoriting In the Beginning 1963-1964  ESP-Disk'  2012  feat. Paul Motian, Pharoah Sanders, David Izenzon  0:39:18 (Pop-up)
Derek Bailey / Tristan Honsinger  Performance   Favoriting Duo  Honest Jon's  2018    0:43:34 (Pop-up)
Paul Motian Trio  Prelude   Favoriting Dance  ECM  1978  feat. David Izenzon, Charles Brackeen  0:47:46 (Pop-up)
Derek Bailey & Company  An Announcement; DB / WG 1   Favoriting Klinker  Confront  2018    0:54:36 (Pop-up)
 
Derek Bailey & Cyro Baptista  Improvisation 1   Favoriting Cyro  Honest Jon's  2019    1:05:05 (Pop-up)
Paul Motian Trio  Dance   Favoriting Live Bremen, Germany, Sept 13, 1977  N/A  1977  feat. David Izenzon, Charles Brackeen  1:07:04 (Pop-up)
Paul Motian  Interview   Favoriting Jazz Capsule: Gerald Wilson at KBCA-FM 1974  N/A  1974  https://youtu.be/ws1oDtK7Q5Y?si=IKdwBlZKk9e4o4-J  1:20:19 (Pop-up)
Paul Bley / John Gilmore / Paul Motian / Gary Peacock  Turning   Favoriting Turning Point  Improvising Artists Inc.  1975  Mono, Recorded New York City, Mirasound Studio, March 9 1964  1:22:40 (Pop-up)
Derek Bailey  More Explanation   Favoriting Chats  Incus  2001    1:29:12 (Pop-up)
Derek Bailey & Min Xiao-Fen  Bai Ha She (Viper)   Favoriting Viper  Avant  1998    1:29:56 (Pop-up)
 
Derek Bailey & Paul Motian  Duo in Concert (Groningen)   Favoriting Duo in Concert  Frozen Reeds  2023  https://frozenreeds.bandcamp.com/album/duo-in-concert ; Recorded live on 7th December, 1990 at JazzMarathon at De Oosterpoort, Groningen, the Netherlands  1:35:59 (Pop-up)
Charlie Haden  For A Free Portugal   Favoriting Closeness  Horizon / A&M  1976  feat. Paul Motian  1:55:19 (Pop-up)
 
Derek Bailey  A Wanderer From The British World Of Fashion   Favoriting New Sights, Old Sounds / Solo Live  Morgue  1978    2:06:07 (Pop-up)
Derek Bailey  Interview   Favoriting Derek Bailey interviewed by Henry Kaiser KPFA 1989  N/A  1989  https://youtu.be/qAYJwjAEc0o?si=yyJDyTxLTCgdmVuX  2:09:13 (Pop-up)
Derek Bailey  4   Favoriting Domestic Jungle  scatterArchive  2022    2:12:13 (Pop-up)
Paul Motian Trio  Mushi Mushi   Favoriting Creative Music Studio Archive Selections Volume 2  Planet Arts  2015  feat. David Izenzon, Charles Brackeen; Live At The Creative Music Studio, December 3, 1977  2:16:30 (Pop-up)
Derek Bailey  Appleyard: Corporate Raider   Favoriting The Appleyard File  Incus  2001    2:26:22 (Pop-up)
Arcana  Broken Circle   Favoriting The Last Wave  DIW  1996  Derek Bailey, Bill Laswell, Tony Williams  2:29:42 (Pop-up)
 
Paul Motian  Rebica   Favoriting Conception Vessel  ECM  1973    2:35:38 (Pop-up)
Derek Bailey  The Ballad Of Big Bad Ben   Favoriting Chats  Incus  2001    2:46:46 (Pop-up)
MMD  Untitled   Favoriting Live Sapporo, Japan Nov. 7, 1987  N/A  1987  Milford Graves, Min Tanaka, Derek Bailey  2:48:08 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:02pm
WR:

Hi David and folks.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:02pm
doctorjazz:

Hi David, sounds great!
Avatar 7:03pm
Observations:

we are LIVE LIVE LIVE
Avatar 7:06pm
Observations:

Lots of guitars tonight 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
Avatar 7:08pm
Observations:

14 Downs Road
London E 5
England
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 7:20pm
Listener Gregory:

Good evening, David and deevs! I don't know much about Bailey but am a Motian fan from way back. His trio with Frisell and Lovano would leave me flattened every time I saw them.
Avatar 7:26pm
Observations:

👋👋👋👋👋
  7:34pm
Listener Gregory:

Someone asked me to send her an audio letter once, but I misunderstood and sent her a recording of me saying “h.” It was not well received.
  7:52pm
Listener Gregory:

Who are the other members of this trio, David? I have a lot of guesses, all of them wrong.
Avatar 7:53pm
Observations:

↳ Listener Gregory @7:52
David Izenzon, Charles Brackeen
Avatar 7:55pm
Observations:

↳ Song: "An Announcement; DB / WG 1" by "Derek Bailey & Co...
WG = tap dancer Will Gaines

www.theguardian.com...
Avatar 7:58pm
Observations:

↳ Song: "An Announcement; DB / WG 1" by "Derek Bailey & Co...
Recorded live at The Klinker, London on Thursday 24th August 2000
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 7:58pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ Observations @7:53
EXACTLY my guess!
OK, never thought of them.
  8:10pm
Listener Gregory:

I believe this “Dance” is a Motion tune, which he often played later in his life.
Avatar 8:12pm
Observations:

↳ Listener Gregory @8:10
correct, and there's a studio version on the album of the same name I played before
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:12pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Dance" by "Paul Motian Trio"
I'm so used to Motian in more "mainstream" contexts, Frissell, Evans, etc, interesting hear this live "out" piece!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:13pm
doctorjazz:

Been cooking and listening, getting ready for dinner tonight and upcoming family Chanukah party.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:14pm
doctorjazz:

Hey, LG, got any doubles you want to trade? (I'm finally organizing the "on deck" pile on the floor, putting them into racks, finding doubles I purchased).
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:15pm
doctorjazz:

Gotta check on my Miso Chicken...
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 8:18pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ Song: "Dance" by "Paul Motian Trio"
Wow, Motian gone wild!
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 8:18pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ doctorjazz @8:14
I don't think I do at the moment (that I know of), but let me check things out over the next couple of days.
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 8:19pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ doctorjazz @8:12
His work in the early Jarrett quartet was also kind of out there, which people forget about after decades of the "Standards" Keith Jarrett.
  8:23pm
Listener Gregory:

OK, I’m taking my pants off right now.
Avatar 8:38pm
Observations:

↳ Song: "Duo in Concert (Groningen)" by "Derek Bailey & Pa...
Mastered by Jim O’Rourke at Steamroom.
Artwork and design by Robert Beatty.
Avatar 8:39pm
Observations:

↳ Song: "Duo in Concert (Groningen)" by "Derek Bailey & Pa...
“This is one of those moments that we’re always hoping for, and it's so rare. And it's so hard to talk about, because it's so beautiful. It's like you're seeing some new species of plant that you never knew existed or something.” – Bill Frisell
  8:50pm
Listener Gregory:

I assume they’re going to break out in Someday My Prince Will Come at any moment.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:59pm
WR:

↳ Song: "Introduction / Advertisement" by "Derek Bailey"
Hi, have been listening in and out since the beginning. That Bailey advert is incredible. Loved it.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:59pm
doctorjazz:

OK, dinner done, just going to hang for a bit, take in the sounds.
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 8:59pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ doctorjazz @8:15
Wait, what is miso chicken???
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 9:01pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ Song: "For A Free Portugal" by "Charlie Haden"
I don't think I really knew at the time how Portugal was governed by an oppressive dictatorship into the 1970s. OK, I was in high school or something, but even afterwards I didn't know for a long time.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:04pm
WR:

↳ Song: "Interview" by "Paul Motian"
I missed this interview. Dinner talk took priority at that time. Hopefully will be able to listen to it from the archive.

I do have to note that I am on team Mo-tee-an with Motian name pronunciation. Although the man himself resigned to jazz people calling him Mo-shun, he got tired of correcting people. But his family name is Mo-tee-an
jazzcloset.blogspot.com...

Perhaps a quibble and one I should have mentioned at the beginning of the program. Thought I could let it go, but whatever.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:05pm
WR:

And a nice succinct bio by Motian's nephew.
paulmotian.com...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:06pm
WR:

↳ Listener Gregory @8:59
Miso chicken I run away even before you scare me.
Avatar 9:07pm
Observations:

↳ Song: "A Wanderer From The British World Of Fashion" by ...
www.discogs.com...
Avatar 9:08pm
Observations:

↳ Song: "A Wanderer From The British World Of Fashion" by ...
all titles on side two are from Byron's Don Juan
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:09pm
WR:

Sorry, David, that you have to put up with LG, doc & I random chatting while you try to focus on your program.
Avatar 9:09pm
Observations:

no worries
Avatar 9:10pm
Observations:

😄😎😄😎🙏
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:12pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Listener Gregory @8:59
NY Times Recipe:
cooking.nytimes.com...

Adjusted it a bit, added some soy sauce and garlic, put the chicken on a bed of sliced onions and potatoes. Great meal!

(sorry for another food post-I am enjoying the music and interview)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:12pm
doctorjazz:

(As a lapsed guitar player, I reallly do like to ear Bailey's comments and playing)
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 9:14pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ WR @9:04
I was corrected to say "Mo-tee-an" at some point in the previous century and then was told that this was a hypercorrection, and in fact "motion" was correct. As a result, I am not going to change again and will say "motion" until the day I die.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:15pm
WR:

↳ doctorjazz @9:12
I've got some chicken in the freezer. Miso chicken might be a good option.
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 9:16pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ doctorjazz @9:12
That looks very good, though the cooking time seems a bit short for full-sized chicken thighs with the bone.
David, you ought to have a recipes show some time!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:16pm
doctorjazz:

↳ WR @9:15
MollyJazz, our very picky eater. gave it thumbs up...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:18pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Listener Gregory @9:16
Cooking times in Times recipes are for those that have a sous chef doing the scut work...
Avatar 9:18pm
Observations:

stay till the end of tonight's show for some UNRELEASED unhinged live jams by Derek Bailey + Milford Graves + Min Tanaka
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:20pm
WR:

↳ Listener Gregory @9:14
yeah, I know. Paul Motian endorses your choice.
blogger.googleusercontent.com...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:20pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Mushi Mushi" by "Paul Motian Trio"
More recordings by this trio than I would have guessed, they're terriffic!
  9:21pm
Dean:

Stephen Paul Motian. Npr.org. Retrieved April 11, 2016. "His surname is Armenian, and is often mispronounced 'Moe-tee-un;' however, Paul Motian pronounced it 'MO-shun.'"
WP
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 9:21pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ Song: "Mushi Mushi" by "Paul Motian Trio"
It seems that Brackeen almost disappeared from the scene after playing with Motian. He recorded three albums in 10 years later (this from Wikipedia) and then stopped (recording).
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:26pm
WR:

Mr. Mo-Tee-YuN, although his family and name are from Armenia, had this to say:
blogger.googleusercontent.com...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:28pm
WR:

↳ Song: "Appleyard: Corporate Raider" by "Derek Bailey"
Eat it! On behalf of house of Appleyard. This goes hard.
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 9:28pm
Listener Gregory:

To all, putting my fingers in my ears: La La La La! Motion, Motion, Motion! I can't hear you! La La La La!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:31pm
WR:

↳ Listener Gregory @9:28
You mustn't miss the special message from Derek Bailey.

David, these "chats" from Bailey are gems. Loving them.
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 9:32pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ WR @9:31
Ditto.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:33pm
doctorjazz:

↳ WR @9:31
What WR said!
Avatar 9:36pm
Observations:

🙏🙏😎
Avatar 9:38pm
Observations:

↳ Song: "Appleyard: Corporate Raider" by "Derek Bailey"
www.discogs.com...
Avatar 9:38pm
Observations:

↳ Song: "More Explanation" by "Derek Bailey"
www.discogs.com...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:38pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Rebica" by "Paul Motian"
Charlie Haden bass (sounds like him), Sam Brown, guitar (not a fanmiliar name to me)
  9:45pm
Listener Gregory:

Whoever Brown is, he’s doing a pretty good job in high company here.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:46pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Rebica" by "Paul Motian"
Great track, again, didn't think of Motian's music as being "out", this free improv is very cool! (his later recordings aren't out, had his electric band, his Broadway series)
Avatar 9:49pm
Observations:

↳ Song: "Untitled" by "MMD"
DANCE: MMD, WITH TANAKA

A DANCER joined two musicians in the hourlong choreographic jam session presented Wednesday night at the Japan Society by a trio called MMD. Taking its name from the first initials of its members - Min Tanaka, dancer; Milford Graves, percussionist, and Derek Bailey, guitarist -MMD appears to strive for a vitality akin to that of a good jazz combo. And its three members are certainly accomplished in their fields. But what made their event puzzling rather than invigorating was Mr. Tanaka's performing manner.
Wearing a loosely fitting blue costume, he tottered stiffly about, occasionally taking a few pugnacious swats at the air, as if practicing some form of martial-arts drill. But usually his gestures were so staccato and disconnected that he could have been an automaton.

After leaving the stage for a few minutes, he returned totally nude and crouched and stood upright like a caveman learning to walk. He returned to some of the same kinds of disjointed steps that he had introduced in the opening section, then staggered with great agitation across the apron of the stage. He also did some grunting and groaning. Having previously suggested a robot and a caveman, he now could have been someone suffering from a breakdown. And when he put on the blue costume again, he continued to twitch and flail.

No matter how violently or mechanically he moved, Mr. Tanaka's facial expression remained almost totally blank. This stoniness, combined with the lack of flow in the kinds of steps he favored, gave his dancing an odd emotional range for, where as his robotized and Neanderthal movements were those of beings who were not fully human, his agitation was that of someone human on the verge of falling apart.

Thus his performance, though it held the attention, was also rather dismaying and, because there was no apparent dramatic motivation for any of the sequences, one could only wonder why MMD chose to have the choreographic aspect of its presentation look this way.

Jack Anderson - NYT April 26, 1982

www.nytimes.com...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:52pm
doctorjazz:

↳ doctorjazz @9:46
Though, the free improve Motian (or Mo-tee-an) is a better fit for a program with Derek Bailey, that's for sure.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:53pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Observations @9:49
Sounds like it would have been a trip to attend...
  9:54pm
Dean:

Min Tanaka's work with Bailey is beautiful, even exclusively audio.
Avatar 9:56pm
Observations:

The article I posted is from 1982, the music I'm playing is from 1987
  9:56pm
Listener Gregory:

So MMD… more performing without pants!
Avatar 9:56pm
Observations:

↳ Observations @9:56
just to clarify
Avatar 9:57pm
Observations:

↳ Listener Gregory @9:56
lol I never thought of that but you are right!!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:58pm
WR:

↳ Song: "Untitled" by "MMD"
Graves did several projects with Tanaka. Have seen some vids/films. First time hearing them with Bailey.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:58pm
doctorjazz:

About the end, great tributes, thanks David!
Avatar 9:59pm
Observations:

↳ WR @9:58
Bailey & Tanaka did a few things, including a VHS tape and this www.discogs.com...
Avatar 9:59pm
Observations:

going a little long tonight
  10:04pm
Listener Gregory:

Great idea for a show and very well executed. Thanks a lot, David!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:06pm
doctorjazz:

Bravo!!!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:07pm
WR:

Thank you! David! Laters all.
Avatar 10:08pm
Observations:

thanks

I'll be back next week
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