Favoriting The Laughing Clock with DJ Peter: Playlist from January 14, 2024 Favoriting

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Obscure musical gems, avant experimentation, and classics worth rehearing. A conurbation of Leslie speakers, timbales, plungers, arch-tops, tablas, and squeaky reeds. Black ties, pork pies, Cuban boots, Nudie suits, bobbysocks, turtlenecks, and high-heeled sneakers. Jazz is the north star but it’s a wide universe, so says The Laughing Clock.

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Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Images Approx. start time
Count Basie  M Squad Theme (excerpt)   Favoriting Basic Basie  MPS  1969   
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Music behind DJ:
Red Garland 

M Squad Theme   Favoriting

Red In Bluesville 

Prestige 

1969 

4/17/1959: Red Garland (p) Sam Jones (b) Art Taylor (d) 

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Kenny Wheeler  The Sweet Time Suite, Parts I — Opening   Favoriting Music for Large & Small Ensembles  ECM  1990   
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Kenny Wheeler  The Sweet Time Suite, Part II—For H, Part III—For Jan   Favoriting Music for Large & Small Ensembles  ECM  1990  January 1990: Kenny Wheeler (tp,flhrn) David Horler (tb) Stan Sulzmann (ts) John Taylor (p) John Abercrombie (g) Dave Holland (b) Peter Erskine (d) Norma Winstone (vcl), et al. 
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Kenny Wheeler and Paul Bley  Presto   Favoriting [Touché]  Justin Time  1996  7/19/1996. 
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Kenny Wheeler "lost quartet"  audience recording (excerpt)   Favoriting Lovere, July 2nd 1978      Wheeler (tp), Evan Parker (ts, ss), Barry Guy (b), Paul Lytton (d). 
Lytton, Parker, and Guy c. 2017.
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Lytton, Parker, and Guy c. 2017.
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Music behind DJ:
Don Pullen 

Big Alice (alternate take)   Favoriting

Richard's Tune 

Sackville 

 

2014 CD reissue of "Solo Piano Album" with two bonus tracks. Recorded 1975. 

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Anthony Braxton  B1 = Comp. 23 E   Favoriting At Moers Festival  Ring  1976  6/2/1974: Kenny Wheeler (tp,flhrn) Anthony Braxton (as,cl,sopranino,fl,alto-fl,contrabass-cl) Dave Holland (b) Barry Altschul (d) 
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Maynard Ferguson  Free Wheeler   Favoriting M.F. Horn Two  Columbia  1972  January 1972: Maynard Ferguson (tp,flhrn,v-tb) Pete Jackson (p,el-p) Randy Jones (d) Kenny Wheeler (comp,arr) 
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Music behind DJ:
Mary Lou Williams 

Medi I   Favoriting

Zoning 

Smithsonian Folkways 

 

1/17/1974, with Bob Cranshaw (bass guitar). DJP remix. 

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Azimuth with Ralph Towner  The Longest Day   Favoriting Départ  ECM  1980  December 1979: Kenny Wheeler (tp,flhrn) John Taylor (p,org) Norma Winstone (vcl) Ralph Towner (g,12-string-g) 
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Kenny Wheeler, Norma Winstone, London Vocal Project  The Bereaved Swan   Favoriting Mirrors  Edition  2013  June & August 2012: Stevie Smith (poem) Kenny Wheeler (flhrn) Mark Lockheart (sax) Nikki Iles (p) Steve Watts (b) James Maddren (d) Norma Winstone (vcl) London Vocal Project (vcl group) Pete Churchill (dir) 
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Bill Frisell  Resistor   Favoriting Rambler  ECM  1985  August 1984: Kenny Wheeler (cnt,tp,flhrn) Bill Frisell (g,g-synt) Bob Stewart (tu) Jerome Harris (el-b) Paul Motian (d) 
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Azimuth  Greek Triangle   Favoriting Azimuth  ECM  1977  March 1977, Oslo. 
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Music behind DJ:
Susie Ibarra Trio 

Dreams (Alternate Take)   Favoriting

Radiance 

Hopscotch 

1999 

7/18/1999: Cooper-Moore (p,harp,diddley-bo) Charles Burnham (vln) Susie Ibarra (d,perc) 

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Paolino Dalla Porta  Kandinsky   Favoriting Tales  Soul Note  1993  May 1993: Kenny Wheeler (tp,flhrn) Stefano Battaglia (p) Paolino Dalla Porta (b) Bill Elgart (d) 
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European Music Orchestra  The Sweet Yakity Waltz   Favoriting Guest  Soul Note  1994  January-February 1994: Kenny Wheeler (tp,flhrn) Claudio Fasoli (ts,sop,cond) Sergio Pietruschi (p) Paolo Birro (p) Ermanno M. Signorelli (el-g) Stefano Lionello (b) Enzo Carpentieri (d) Luca Palmarin (perc), et al. 
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Claudio Fasoli  Epic   Favoriting Welcome  Soul Note  1987  3/26/1986: Kenny Wheeler (tp,flhrn) Claudio Fasoli (ts,sop) Jean-Francois Jenny-Clark (b) Daniel Humair (d) 
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Music behind DJ:
Herbie Hancock 

Mimosa (alternate take)   Favoriting

Inventions & Dimensions 

Blue Note 

 

8/30/1963: Herbie Hancock (p) Paul Chambers (b) Willie Bobo (d) Osvaldo "Chihuahua" Martinez (bongos, finger cymbal) 

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The Spontaneous Music Ensemble  Part 1 (of Part I)   Favoriting Karyōbin  Island  1968  2/18/1968: Kenny Wheeler (tp,flhrn) Evan Parker (sop) Derek Bailey (g) Dave Holland (b) John Stevens (d) 
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Music behind DJ:
Joe Chambers Moving Picture Orchestra 

M Squad Theme   Favoriting

Live at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola 

Savant 

2012 

September 2011. Craig Handy (tenor sax), David Weiss (trumpet), Xavier Davis (piano), Dwayne Burno (bass), Joe Chambers (drums, vibes, arranger), Steve Berrios (percussion), et al. 

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Listener comments!

Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:56pm
DJ Peter:

HBD Kenny Wheeler (1930-2014)!
  7:02pm
Listener Gregory:

Dallas’s destruction allows us all to turn on this super-loud show right on time.
Avatar 7:02pm
Hill Country Fox:

Keep it loud Peter… actually louder. I’m hopping in the shower and I don’t want to miss anything!
Avatar 7:06pm
Hill Country Fox:

Changed profile pic to be more cornet adjacent… :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:08pm
Michael 98145:

↳ Hill Country Fox @7:06
whoa - cute !
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:08pm
DJ Peter:

↳ Song: "The Sweet Time Suite, Parts I — Opening" by "Kenn...
Ethan Iverson published appreciations of Kenny Wheeler by Ingrid Jensen and Darcy James Argue, including this granular “orchestrator’s view” of this opening chorale.

ethaniverson.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:10pm
DJ Peter:

The Cowboys loss is the Clock's gain! Hi LG, glad you mad it home safe Fox, welcome Michael 98145!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:18pm
doctorjazz:

Hello DJ Peter, Laughing folk!
Avatar 🕰 7:19pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ Song: "The Sweet Time Suite, Part II—For H, Part III—For...
This is a real Who's Who of (mostly) British jazz. I wonder how Abercrombie got involved in this.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:19pm
Rich in Washington:

Greetings, Peter! Tooned in!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:20pm
DJ Peter:

Hi Doc! Welcome in!

Rich in Washington, what's the temperature there?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:20pm
doctorjazz:

↳ DJ Peter @7:08
Ethan Iverson is appearing at The Village Vanguard at the end of January-seen him once (under his own name, a few times witjh The Bad Plus), thinking it's be nice to catch him again. (Kris Davis is also having a run there-it's piano month at The Vanguard)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:23pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Presto" by "Kenny Wheeler and Paul Bley"
This is cool!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:24pm
DJ Peter:

↳ doctorjazz @7:20
Iverson has another record coming out (trio I think)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:26pm
doctorjazz:

Just came back from a family event, a 1 year old birthday party inPerkasie, Pa (I'd never heard of it either-had to drive multiple windy country roads, some of which were shut on the return trip. The trip there qas 1.2 hours, home almost an hour longer because of all the detouring...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:28pm
DJ Peter:

↳ doctorjazz @7:26
Haven't heard of Perkasie either but let's think of some music-related puns and send them to Moppa Elliott of Mostly Other People Do the Killing!
Avatar 🕰 7:28pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ doctorjazz @7:26
I tried to warn you this morning! Until the baby can at least talk in complete sentences, I don't think you have to go. Also, no one ever has to go to Pennsylvania.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:29pm
Rich in Washington:

↳ DJ Peter @7:20
It was creeping up a bit but holding at 25 degrees! Woo hoo!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:29pm
doctorjazz:

↳ DJ Peter @7:24
I have some of his albums (under his name0, whicfh I like. He has a bit of an odd style, idiosyncratyic timing. (Reminds me a bit of the Micros Joel Forrester in that way, though they don't sound alike, but they both have idiosyncratic timing...)
Avatar 🕰 7:29pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ DJ Peter @7:28
Let's give the Perkussie players some!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:30pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Listener Gregory @7:28
She was the sweetest little thing, though...and it was in a very good Italian restaurant (her dad is from Italy)
Avatar 7:33pm
kwatts:

Ken Smith basses are handmade in Perkasie, PA.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:35pm
doctorjazz:

↳ kwatts @7:33
Really! There's something there aside from the Italian Restaurant! (I wouldn'have guessed)
(It's not too far from the Poconos, I believe).
Avatar 🕰 7:35pm
Listener Gregory:

The Don Pullen-Kenny Wheeler duos are really fantastic, but no one talks about them.
Avatar 🕰 7:36pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ doctorjazz @7:35
One of the Perkasies of buying a bass there is you get good Italian food.
(I'm trying my hardest, people! Surely someone can do better.)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:37pm
DJ Peter:

↳ Listener Gregory @7:35
Ooh, let me work on that. I think i have some solo kenny wheeler, maybe i can mix with Pullen
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:38pm
doctorjazz:

↳ doctorjazz @7:35
If you happen to be buying a bass in Perkasie, Pa, be sure to stop at Sapori Italian Restaurant (if you have money left after puschasing a handmade bass...)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:43pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "B1 = Comp. 23 E" by "Anthony Braxton"
Braxton's song titles always fascinate me, so I googled this album. The one I found on Bandcamp didn't list any title that looked like this, though...
www.discogs.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:43pm
DJ Peter:

↳ kwatts @7:33
Cool! Do you have a photo of a fave Ken Smith bass, kwatts?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:44pm
Michael 98145:

↳ doctorjazz @7:35
Actually, the Poconos can be quite nice. Had ancestors in Coal Country up there.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:45pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Michael 98145 @7:44
OH, I know, went mountain biking there a long time ago, it's gorgeous (wound up in a local emergency room, but that's another story)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:46pm
doctorjazz:

The Ken Smith Bass Website:

www.kensmithbasses.com
(looks to be all electric basses from my quick perusal(
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:50pm
DJ Peter:

↳ doctorjazz @7:46
Sweet! Beautiful woods, the shape is a bit like a splayed out Telecaster
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:50pm
Michael 98145:

↳ doctorjazz @7:45
yikes
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:52pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Michael 98145 @7:50
I have to say, it was a VERY NICE Emergency Room as well...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:55pm
DJ Peter:

↳ doctorjazz @7:52
Another recording from this period with a lot of Brits and a few Canadians...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:55pm
DJ Peter:

coming up that is
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Hill Country Fox:

Ok, catching up. All the road grime is off me. Love all the PA hating. Yes, stay away from PA. I’ve met some real scoundrels from there. And the chocolate is really waxy… left a bad taste in my mouth.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:59pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Hill Country Fox @7:56
They actually DID have some chocolate (which was not good), and some cupcakes (which were also not good), the only sour notes in the meal...
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Listener Gregory:

When I used to see game consoles, I was paid PerCasio.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:59pm
DJ Peter:

↳ Listener Gregory @7:59
There it is!
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doctorjazz:

↳ doctorjazz @7:59
What is this trend of salting all these sweets (Ice cream, cakes)? I don't get it, and hate the taste...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:00pm
doctorjazz:

↳ doctorjazz @8:00
(I make an exception for chocolate covered pretzels...)
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Listener Gregory:

Looking at a map, I see that Skydive Philadelphia is actually in Perkasie, so I wonder what @doctorj was really doing there.
Avatar 🕰 8:06pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ Song: "Free Wheeler" by "Maynard Ferguson"
I'm kind of an MF hater, but that was pretty good.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:08pm
DJ Peter:

If I believed in guilt, Ferguson would be a guilty pleasure. Sometimes some bad taste is what you need.
Avatar 🕰 8:10pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ Song: "The Longest Day" by "Azimuth with Ralph Towner"
Somehow, I have lived this long without knowing what Azimuth was, though I saw all their records in the shops. Maybe the problem was that only later did I get to know Winstone and Wheeler.
Avatar 8:10pm
Hill Country Fox:

↳ Song: "The Longest Day" by "Azimuth with Ralph Towner"
L🔥VE this.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:14pm
DJ Peter:

↳ Song: "The Bereaved Swan" by "Kenny Wheeler, Norma Winst...
Stevie Smith swan
robertfrostsbanjo.blogspot.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:14pm
DJ Peter:

The poem that Wheeler has set to music ^^^
  8:15pm
Dean:

Well, when you make ice cream you need salt, but that doesn't have anything to do with the ingredients in the ice cream itself.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:16pm
DJ Peter:

Yes, what you need is ice, salt, and a lot of kids who really want ice cream to take turns cranking
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:16pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Dean @8:15
You add a bit, but if it TASTES very salty, something's wrong (to me, anyway)
Avatar 8:17pm
Hill Country Fox:

↳ doctorjazz @8:16
I like finishing salt… a lovely smattering of pink Himalayan sea salt on REALLY good dark chocolate is the tits.
  8:22pm
Dean:

Ice cream salt isn't added to the icing cream; it helps the temperature decrease. I'm not much a sweets eater, and I do sometimes enjoy salted sweets, but then I only occasionally enjoy sweets at all. Except for Gateau St. Honore, which I would consume every day if I could, I don't much need dessert.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:22pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Resistor" by "Bill Frisell"
Electric bass and tuba, great bottom end combo (actually love any tuba bass)!
Avatar 🕰 8:23pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ doctorjazz @8:22
Interesting... Jerome Harris returns 20 years later to play in some of Motian's groups, but an acoustic bass guitar.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:26pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Listener Gregory @8:23
I believe Harris also plays electric guitar.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:27pm
doctorjazz:

Lots of ECM recordings (which I'd have guessed), but more non-ECM recordings (than I would have guessed).
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:28pm
doctorjazz:

Gotta run, will try to catch up with the last half hour, nice show! Thanks, DJ Peter, Clock Punchers!
  8:28pm
Dean:

A neighbor who has played bass for, e.g., Country Joe, is standing outside right now chatting with my wife. He's terrific.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:35pm
coelacanth∅:

hello Peter and all
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:39pm
DJ Peter:

How's 2024 treating you thus far, coelacanthø?
Avatar 🕰 8:41pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ doctorjazz @8:28
It's a long way to Perkasie,
It's a long way to go.
It's a long way to Perkasie,
To the sweetest 1-year-old I know!
Goodbye, Ocean City,
Farewell, Trenton fair!
It's a long long way to Perkasie,
But my heart's right there.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:45pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Listener Gregory @8:41
;- )
  8:49pm
Dean:

No! Not Country Joe. Dan Hicks.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:50pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Epic" by "Claudio Fasoli"
I've gotten a few of these Black Saint/Soul Note boxes. Don't Have this one, looks like it's worth get going! (Currently working my way through the Trovesi box)
www.discogs.com...
Avatar 🕰 8:51pm
Listener Gregory:

It seems that you won't be playing anything from Angel Song, which is probably good, because now you won't hear my story of when I heard the group live in London. It's not much of a story, to be honest.
Avatar 8:51pm
Hill Country Fox:

I knew you couldn’t leave us Doc J. :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:51pm
DJ Peter:

↳ doctorjazz @8:50
I wouldna hurd of some of these Italian guys (some of them coming out as the LP was being phased out) but as you intuited they are collected in a Kenny Wheeler box
Avatar 8:52pm
Hill Country Fox:

↳ Listener Gregory @8:51
Hahaha…
Avatar 🕰 8:52pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ DJ Peter @8:51
Soul Note box?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:52pm
DJ Peter:

↳ Listener Gregory @8:51
Such a great album! I didn't omit it just to obscure. Just other stuff I thought worth airing
  8:53pm
Dean:

Oh, crap...Bob Dylan?!
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/14/us/hot-air-balloon-crash-arizona.html
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:54pm
DJ Peter:

What!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:55pm
DJ Peter:

not yet on the app... will look at your link
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:56pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Hill Country Fox @8:51
Hard to go...family has to wait...
Avatar 🕰 8:58pm
Listener Gregory:

Great show, Peter! And not at all too much of a good thing, as it would be with some artists who don't have Wheeler's diversity. Thanks a mil.
See you all in Perkasie!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:58pm
doctorjazz:

↳ DJ Peter @8:51
The boxes are out of print, but available at good prices online...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:58pm
doctorjazz:

Thanks, DJ Peter!
Avatar 8:59pm
Hill Country Fox:

Nite, nite. I’m lactose intolerant.
Avatar 🕰 9:00pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ Dean @8:53
The story doesn't seem to mention Bob Dylan.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:00pm
DJ Peter:

↳ Listener Gregory @8:58
Next year in Perkasie!
  9:00pm
Dean:

I'M JOKING. See Ken's show Wednesday mornings.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:00pm
coelacanth∅:

Thanks Peter!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:02pm
DJ Peter:

Dean! Oy.
  🕰 Swag For Life Member 9:13pm
WR:

Thank you! Peter!
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