WFMU: The Laughing Clock with DJ Peter: Playlist from January 21, 2024

Listener comments!
	7:01pm Michael 98145: Ah, hello
	7:01pm doctorjazz: Hi, DJ Peter-did you say you were on the West Coast?
	7:02pm Doug Schulkind: Laugh clock laugh!
	7:04pm Listener Gregory: I am listening from the past, but I enjoy the music of the future.
	7:05pm adamdoesit: Hello DJ Peter and clockers! I hope everyone's spatio-temporal crises are subsiding.
	7:05pm doctorjazz: Now I'm dizzy...(not Dizzy). And I just lost sound, it's back, good.
	7:06pm DJ Peter: Hi Michael 98145. Is that Washington State? Doc, I've been flying back and forth between the coasts and I don't even know where I am anymore. LG with the big ears! adamdoesit: what phase of the moon is it?
	7:07pm Michael 98145: ↳ DJ Peter @7:06 Yup. Seattle USA.
	🕰 7:07pm Jeff Golick: What a fascinating structure.
	7:08pm adamdoesit: ↳ DJ Peter @7:06 Moon phase set to stun? For months I've been wondering why your theme music sounds so familiar. The other day, it hit me: Police Squad! In parodying M Squad, Zucker, Abrams, and Zucker burlesqued the music, too.
	7:08pm bigplanetnoise: Greetings, DJ Pete and all!
	7:08pm DJ Peter: Hey Jeff! If you mean the Fujii... they disguise it right away don't they
	7:09pm DJ Peter: ↳ adamdoesit @7:08 Absolutely! It's a straight up parody, down to the triplets. (Recently got the entire series on dvd to show to Mrs. DJP and she loved it. Her fave character is the shoe shine boy.)
	🕰 7:10pm Jeff Golick: ↳ DJ Peter @7:08 YUP. Though that building is also pretty neat looking.
	7:11pm DJ Peter: ↳ DJ Peter @7:09 Also if you didn't know: many episodes of M Squad begin with Lee Marvin's voice-over saying, "I was on my way to meet my boss, already at the crime scene" and Police Squad does the same.
	7:11pm Listener Gregory: This Fujii piece is actually composed!
	7:12pm doctorjazz: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:11 I wouldn't have guessed, sounds like improv...
	7:12pm Michael 98145: ( duck ! "A CME was observed lifting off the Sun on 20 Jan and is expected to cause up to G2 (Moderate) geomagnetic storming on 22-23 Jan (UTC days)." )
	7:13pm adamdoesit: ↳ DJ Peter @7:09 It's so good. The boxer in ep 2 speaks to your temporal condition: Ref: "How many fingers am I holding up?"' Boxer: "Thursday."
	7:13pm DJ Peter: ↳ Michael 98145 @7:12 Yikes so when does that hit us in North America?
	7:14pm Listener Gregory: Tuba??
	7:14pm DJ Peter: ↳ adamdoesit @7:13 Love it
	7:14pm DJ Peter: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:14 Daley is switching back and forth between tuba and euphonium; Craig Harris also in their on trombone
	7:18pm Listener Gregory: @DJP, interesting composition.
	7:18pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Boulanger's Variation" by "Chien Chien Lu" Like this, new name to me.
	7:19pm Listener Gregory: Moon is almost full and very bright here. Got a chance to enjoy it, walking home with my takeout. (I was walking home, not the moon. Sorry for the dangler, Jeff.)
	7:19pm Michael 98145: ↳ DJ Peter @7:13 Not quite sure -- looks like in a day or two
	🕰 7:22pm Jeff Golick: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:19 Got to make some allowances for style, LG.
	7:22pm Michael 98145: Moon @ 86.6%, Waxing Gibbous
	7:22pm DJ Peter: ↳ doctorjazz @7:18 Me too. From Taiwan, studied at University of the Arts (Philadelphia). I think she had a self-released album but I didn't encounter it.
	🕰 7:23pm Jeff Golick: I'm not a big Apple fanboy, but in the weather app in iOS, the moon info and imagery is cool.
	7:23pm Michael 98145: ↳ Michael 98145 @7:22 Jan 25th "wolf moon"
	7:23pm DJ Peter: ↳ Michael 98145 @7:22 Michael: your avatar is a stargazer of some kind
	7:25pm Michael 98145: ↳ DJ Peter @7:23 usually too cloudy here to see the stars
	🕰 7:25pm Jeff Golick: ↳ Song: "Gemini" by "Aaron Diehl & The Knights" Thanks for playing this one. And the cover is great.
	7:27pm DJ Peter: ↳ Jeff Golick @7:25 I wonder what Mary Lou would have thought of it. A modest and dignified woman.
	7:27pm adamdoesit: ↳ Song: "Gemini" by "Aaron Diehl & The Knights" Aaron "the Real" Diehl.
	🕰 7:30pm Listener Gregory: “Boulanger” also means “baker” in French, no?
	🕰 7:30pm Jeff Golick: Speaking truth re Fujii's release cadence.
	🕰 7:31pm Listener Gregory: Fujii was the last artist I heard before the pandemic shut everything down. I have yet to get a bad album by her, and I have a couple dozen (I guess).
	7:32pm DJ Peter: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:30 Oh you're right! Maybe a Boulanger's Variation is like a Baker's Dozen.
	7:33pm adamdoesit: ↳ Song: "Gemini" by "Aaron Diehl & The Knights" Is bassoonist and slow-motion bird photographer* Brad Balliett any relation of the late NYer jazz critic Whitney? * no, really: twitter.com...
	7:34pm DJ Peter: ↳ adamdoesit @7:33 ... jaw... meet floor... !!!
	🕰 7:35pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "Jitterbug Waltz" by "Jason Moran" Beautiful deconstruction.
	7:37pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Jitterbug Waltz" by "Jason Moran" Quite a deconstruction, to be sure-went to check on my food at the beginning, don't hear much Waller (not a bad thing). Oh, there's the melody!
	7:44pm Michael 98145: Never really thought about this before now ... "Around the same time the song came out, the expression "ballin' the jack" was used by railroad workers to mean "going at full speed." 'The 'Jack' was the slang name for a railroad locomotive, and balling meant going at high speed, itself derived from the ball type of railroad signal in which a high ball meant a clear line"
	7:46pm DJ Peter: ↳ Michael 98145 @7:44 From coast to coast, From Canada to Mexico, They're doin' a new dance A tried-and-a-true dance That will sweep the land And you'll think it's so grand You'll have to learn how to do it So please don't boo woo it Coz we've got this little dance That's gonna rise to fame It's sure to put most any other dance to shame "coast to coast"
	7:47pm DJ Peter: ↳ DJ Peter @7:46 Really interesting, Michael. Didn't know that! JR Europe musta lifted that.
	7:48pm adamdoesit: ↳ Michael 98145 @7:44 Wow, neat! Much like the later "balls to the wall" (the ball-topped throttle levers of an aircraft pushed all the way forward, towards the firewall, for full power).
	🕰 7:49pm Listener Gregory: So, violating every law I hold sacred, I actually LEFT THE HOUSE on Saturday, missing Jeff's show, to hear live music: Camille Thurman, backed by a quartet. Thurman plays tenor (in the Jazz at Lincoln Center band, no less) and (more often here) sings.
	7:50pm DJ Peter: ↳ adamdoesit @7:48 Really! Wow! I assumed the reference was more anatomical... super super cool
	7:50pm adamdoesit: ↳ DJ Peter @7:50 I mean, those balls are situated in the cockpit, so take your pick.
	🕰 7:51pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:49 The show was quite enjoyable, but more mainstream than the fare we get here. Young pianist Jordan Williams impressed me in particular. Also of note was the trumpeter Wallace Roney, Jr, who was pretty good, though with a weird stage demeanor. I kept thinking, "Wallace Roney as your dad, and Geri Allen as your mom... no pressure!"
	🕰 7:52pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:51 This was all prompted by my belief that "Feed the Fire" is a Geri Allen composition. Oops, thanks, Peter!
	7:52pm Michael 98145: Falling even farther down that rabbit hole ... "A jackshaft is an intermediate shaft used to transfer power from a powered shaft such as the output shaft of an engine or motor to driven shafts such as the drive axles of a locomotive."
	7:54pm adamdoesit: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:51 Heh. Thanks for the heads-up on Jordan Williams. Sounds like a satisfying show.
	7:56pm doctorjazz: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:51 Sounds fun!
	🕰 7:57pm Jeff Golick: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:49 Noted.
	7:59pm DJ Peter: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:52 Catching up on the comments... LG did I misspeak? "Feed the Fire" is indeed Geri Allen; Moran is the one who mashed it up with James Reese Europe. And THAT'S what we call Ballin' the Jack.
	🕰 8:00pm Listener Gregory: ↳ DJ Peter @7:59 You said it just as I was typing it. The question is, how did you know what I was typing??
	🕰 8:00pm Jeff Golick: Gotta walk the dog. (Actual walk. Actual dog.)
	🕰 8:01pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Jeff Golick @8:00 Look for moon.
	8:01pm Michael 98145: keep watching the skies
	8:02pm DJ Peter: Has it been too much Jason Moran today, folks? I gotta say, for me it's been fascinating to hear Jeff's take, Stork's take, and then my take. (Of course we shared our plans but even if we hadn't, I think we would have taken completely different approaches.)
	8:03pm northguineahills: ok, what can i expect from my bleeding (literal and figurative) hoserinos?
	8:05pm Little Danny: hey peter, hey all!
	8:05pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Gangsterism On Canvas" by "Jason Moran" digging, jeff gave an amazing bday sess for jason moran this morn...
	8:06pm DJ Peter: ↳ Song: "The 13th Floor" by "Greg Osby" northguineahills, can I hand you a literal and figurative cold compress? Hey Danny! Glad to see you!
	8:07pm DJ Peter: ↳ Song: "Body and Soul" by "Jason Moran" More deconstruction
	8:08pm doctorjazz: ↳ DJ Peter @8:02 It's been Great-I see his name all over. On many albums, but hadn't stopped ro consider a body of work by him. Great stuff!
	8:09pm Michael 98145: ↳ DJ Peter @8:02 too much?? why, no
	8:10pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Body and Soul" by "Jason Moran" Speaking of balls, some say its takes them to do this tune after Hawk and Trane (and he doesn't recall either version)!
	8:10pm northguineahills: ↳ DJ Peter @8:06 thankfully, the hand wasn't literally (i'd have to throw it the tompkins sq dog park, othewises)
	8:10pm northguineahills: ↳ northguineahills @8:10 errr, literal...
	8:10pm Dean: This track has a Mehldau thing going on.
	8:11pm Dean: "Body & Soul," I mean.
	8:11pm DJ Peter: Hey Dean: yeah, I hear that. Don't think of the two of them together usually but you're right
	8:12pm doctorjazz: ↳ Dean @8:10 It's that intellectualizing, deconstruction thing Mehldau does...
	8:13pm northguineahills: i've done this before w/ a piano and a vocalist.... but was ignorant it had been done before (random ideas done at the moment0
	8:13pm Dean: I've always enjoyed Moran, because he does seem to be a moving target from the point of view of folks who want to pigeon-hole him.
	8:13pm northguineahills: ↳ doctorjazz @8:12 stop doctorizing that jazz, man!
	🕰 8:14pm Listener Gregory: Who would you say are Moran's main influences as a pianist? I don't think the usual suspects like Bill Evans, Herbie, Cecil Taylor, etc. fit the bill. But who?? If anyone.
	8:14pm northguineahills: ↳ Dean @8:11 chords, post-haste! (the only thing my father taught me)
	8:15pm DJ Peter: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:14 I think he studied with Jaki Byard? I hear a little Andrew Hill in conception (but different attack).
	8:15pm northguineahills: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:14 uhhhhhhh....... everyone?
	🕰 8:16pm Listener Gregory: ↳ northguineahills @8:15 Maybe that Monk, Ellington, old-style percussive piano?
	8:16pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Ringing My Phone (Straight Outta Istanbul)" by "J... been diggin esp vocals...hello people...dj peter
	🕰 8:17pm Listener Gregory: ↳ DJ Peter @8:15 Andrew Hill is a nice connection.
	8:17pm DJ Peter: tom tom, hello hello!
	8:18pm northguineahills: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:16 depending on the piece, i hear everyone... (sound-wise), maybe not as percussive as some of the aforementioned, but close...
	🕰 8:18pm WR: Hello DJ Peter and folks.
	🕰 8:18pm Listener Gregory: ↳ DJ Peter @8:15 And since you've been playing her, maybe Mary Lou Williams?
	8:19pm Jon: Love this Moran
	8:19pm DJ Peter: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:18 Oh yeah, that's good. I think some of that darkness and melodicism is in there. Hi Jon! Hi WR! (Gotta run, lots of short tracks coming up)
	8:23pm tom tom the pipers son: he just touched on some chromatic stuff a la ahmad jamal.... before slight break
	🕰 8:25pm WR: whitney.org... Moran's Whitney Museum exhibit / collaboration was glorious. On the link is a little slice of each facet. I spent a day there.
	8:25pm Dean: Dig this headline from seven years ago: "Alicia Hall Moran and Jason Moran: What We Learned From Michelle Obama: Husband and wife Jason Moran and Alicia Hall Moran, both highly accomplished musicians, talk about the first lady's inspiring influence on their lives, their marriage and art" Different kinda influence.
	8:27pm Dean: From a NYT story in 2015: "Tuesday's concert, a benefit for Harlem Stage, featured Jason Moran and Geri Allen, two prominent jazz pianists who count Mr. [Cecil] Taylor among their lodestars."
	8:31pm DJ Peter: ↳ Dean @8:27 Ah, Geri Allen surely an influence too. Emerges a good dozen years before Moran
	8:33pm doctorjazz: Love that chromatic harmonica!
	8:35pm doctorjazz: ↳ WR @8:25 Hattiecut posted this link to a Moran show at Mass MOCA on Stork's show earlier today: massmoca.org...
	🕰 8:39pm Listener Gregory: ↳ doctorjazz @8:35 I reviewed that on Jeff’s show in the fall. I was mostly not that impressed. The stage reproductions were kind of interesting for jazz fans, though.
	8:39pm tom tom the pipers son: from what i heard today seems that moran does most interesting things around the margins of his playing (like the telephone call, or a dampened background repeating figure) hi playing, which i think is pretty traditional, although what's playin now isn't really, anyway a limited perspective from me
	8:40pm doctorjazz: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:39 OK, thanks (didn't remember). I'll be there in June (at the Solid Sound festival), may check it out but doesn't seem essential now. Thanks.
	8:40pm DJ Peter: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:39 I like that. He makes the trad stuff weird and vice versa.
	8:41pm doctorjazz: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:39 He does have more odd constrictions than I'd have tought before, which I like.
	8:41pm Dean: I hear in Moran a sympathy with Branford. Always bumping into and across expectations. Frankly, I'm a fan of artists who mash up conservatism with experimentation.
	8:41pm DJ Peter: Me too, Dean. As you may have gathered!
	8:42pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ DJ Peter @8:40 yes that's what i was trying to say, he has a base he plays with
	8:44pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ doctorjazz @8:41 there was a background dampenened refrain thatwas in something stork played, the word 'crippled' came to mind
	8:45pm Dean: I did gather as much. I'm a librarian, professionally and in many respects personally. We are all about being affirmatively conservative, but also eager to spread out and learn new practices.
	8:46pm adamdoesit: Cool stuff this evening. Thank you, DJ Peter!
	8:46pm tom tom the pipers son: i do not like moran's paintings at all
	8:47pm DJ Peter: ↳ adamdoesit @8:46 Glad to do it, adamdoesit! Thanks for chiming in!
	8:48pm Dean: Yeah, well, except for maybe one, I don't like Leonardo's, either.
	🕰 8:48pm Listener Gregory: ↳ doctorjazz @8:40 @doctorj, I can send you a file of my collected WFMU comments. That way you can review them from time to time and keep them at the front of your mind. Jeff saw Moran's show in the city and felt much as I did, if I remember correctly.
	8:48pm doctorjazz: Digging this last free-form set as well. Almost the end, thanks DJ Peter, cool show!
	8:48pm Jeff g. via app: Ooooh liking this.
	8:49pm doctorjazz: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:48 Send it over, I will DEFINITELY commit all of it to memory!
	8:49pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Dean @8:48 he was more a photographer in waiting
	8:49pm northguineahills: heading towards some sonny sharrock territory...
	🕰 8:49pm Listener Gregory: ↳ doctorjazz @8:40 That said, if you’re actually there, no harm in spending 10 min checking them out. Maybe you’ll like it more than I did.
	8:50pm northguineahills: ↳ Jeff g. via app @8:48 totally, not your scene here, man. no sounds here you'd like! 😜
	8:51pm doctorjazz: Puppy keeping me in the house; was here for Jeff's show, for Stork, DJGG, Julie, now DJ Peter. What'll I listen to at work tomorrow? (Joe McGasco won't be bad, mostly miss him catching up with the Sunday shows on the Drummer Stream).
	8:51pm DJ Peter: ↳ northguineahills @8:49 It takes two guitars to try to get to Sharrock territory
	8:52pm Listener Gregory: Tim Berne’s sound here seems different from his usual! Style is the same though. This album sounds great!
	8:53pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Craw" by "Sunny Five" Ches Smith is EVERYWHERE these days...
	8:53pm DJ Peter: Gonna try to squeeze one more in... with Solo Mon's forebearance... sorry/thanks!
	8:53pm Little Danny: digging this!
	8:53pm doctorjazz: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:52 Have't seen Berne in quite a while; if I ever get out of the house again...
	8:55pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Recordaçāo" by "Fachada" Now THERE'S a left turn!
	🕰 8:55pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "Craw" by "Sunny Five" Unusual to have two very active guitarists in this group.
	8:56pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Recordaçāo" by "Fachada" Electrical Cowbell, going to be the very next phase...
	8:58pm doctorjazz: Thanks again, DJ Peter!
	🕰 8:58pm Listener Gregory: Very nice show, Peter. Thanks as ever!
	🕰 8:59pm WR: Many thank yous Peter, great episode. PS: forgot to write that I like the clock pic this week.
	8:59pm tom tom the pipers son: thanks peter
	8:59pm northguineahills: peter, thanks!
	9:00pm DJ Peter: Hey everybody thanks for tuning in! So gratifying to have great listeners. (And apparently that includes Solo Mon hahahaha)

The Laughing Clock with DJ Peter: Playlist from January 21, 2024

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January 21, 2024: Jason Moran at 49

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	New	Approx. start time
Count Basie	M Squad Theme (excerpt)	Basic Basie	MPS	1969	Eric Dixon (fl) Freddie Green (g) Norman Keenan (b) Harold Jones (d) Chico O'Farrill (arr), et al.		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Red Garland	M Squad Theme "M Squad Theme" by "Red Garland"	Red In Bluesville	Prestige	1969	4/17/1959: Red Garland (p) Sam Jones (b) Art Taylor (d)		0:00:31 (Pop-up)
Satoko Fujii Tokyo Trio	Along the Way	Jet Black	Libra Records	2024	3/21/2023: Satoko Fujii (p) Takashi Sugawa (b,cello) Ittetsu Takemura (d). Release date: January 26	*	0:04:05 (Pop-up)
Joseph Daley	Precious Naomi "Precious Naomi" by "Joseph Daley"	The Tuba Trio Chronicles, Volume II	JoDa Music	2024	April 2018: Daley (tuba, euphonium, piano, drone flute, percussion, voice), Scott Robinson (saxes, flute), Warren Smith (MPI vibraphone, marimba, tympani, perucssion), Bill Cole (sona, nagaswarm, didigeridoo, Ghanian flute), Craig Harris (trombone, didgeridoo, flute, voice, percussion), Althea Sullycole (kora); Sarah Sully (voice)*	*	0:10:28 (Pop-up)
Chien Chien Lu	Boulanger's Variation	Built In System: Live in New York	Giant Step Arts	2023	1/12/2023: Jeremy Pelt (tp) Chien Chien Lu (vib) Richie Goods (b) Allan Mednard (d)	*	0:15:34 (Pop-up)
Aaron Diehl & The Knights	Gemini "Gemini" by "Aaron Diehl & The Knights"	Zodiac Suite	Mack Avenue	2023	Diehl (p); David Wong (bass); Aaron Kimmel (drums); Sycil Mathai (trumpet); Nate Mayland (trombone); Michael P. Atkinson ( horn); Gustav Highstein (oboe); Brad Balliett (bassoon); Alex Sopp (flute); Chad Smith (clarinets); Aaron Nijoma Grevious, Kristi Helberg, Nanae Iwata, George Meyer, Miho Saegusa (violin); Kyle Armbrust, Mario Gotoh, Miranda Sielaff (viola); Gabriel Cabezas, Alex Greenbaum, Caitlin Sullivan (cello); Mikaela Bennett (vocal); Mary Lou Williams (arranger); Colin Jacobsen (director); Eric Jacobsen (conductor)	*	0:23:14 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Don Pullen	Big Alice (alternate take)	Richard's Tune	Sackville		2014 CD reissue of "Solo Piano Album" with two bonus tracks. Recorded 1975.		0:25:19 (Pop-up)
Happy 49th Birthday Jason Moran! "Happy 49th Birthday Jason Moran!"
Jason Moran	Jitterbug Waltz "Jitterbug Waltz" by "Jason Moran"	All Rise: A Joyful Elegy For Fats Waller	Blue Note	2014	Fall 2013: Leron Thomas (tp,vcl) Josh Roseman (tb) Steve Lehman (sax) Jason Moran (p,org,el-p) Tarus Mateen (b) Charles Haynes (d,vcl) Nasheet Waits (d) Meshell Ndegeocello, Lisa E. Harris (vcl)		0:31:22 (Pop-up)
Jason Moran	Reanimation "Reanimation" by "Jason Moran"	The Armory Concert	YES Records		3/7/2016.		0:37:31 (Pop-up)
Jason Moran	Ballin' the Jack / Feed the Fire	From the Dancehall to the Battlefield	YES Records	2023	Moran - Piano and voice; Tarus Mateen - Bass; Nasheet Waits - Drums; David Adewumi - Trumpet; Logan Richardson - Alto Saxophone; Brian Settles - Tenor Saxophone; Darryl Harper - Clarinet; Reginald Cyntje & Chris Bates - Trombone; Jose Davila - Tuba, Helicon.	*	0:40:46 (Pop-up)
BlankFor.ms - Jason Moran - Marcus Gilmore	Eighth Pose	Refract	Red Hook Records	2023	May 2022: BlankFor.ms [aka Tyler Gilmore] (electronics, loops, processing), Jason Moran (piano), Marcus Gilmore (drums)	*	0:46:33 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Mary Lou Williams	Medi I "Medi I" by "Mary Lou Williams"	Zoning	Smithsonian Folkways		1/17/1974, with Bob Cranshaw (bass guitar). DJP remix.		0:50:33 (Pop-up)
Greg Osby	The 13th Floor "The 13th Floor" by "Greg Osby"	Further Ado	Blue Note		March 1997: Greg Osby (as) Jason Moran (p) Lonnie Plaxico (b) Eric Harland (d)		0:55:43 (Pop-up)
Jason Moran	Gangsterism On Canvas	Soundtrack to Human Motion	Blue Note		August 1998: Greg Osby (sop,as) Stefon Harris (vib) Jason Moran (p) Lonnie Plaxico (b) Eric Harland (d)		1:02:24 (Pop-up)
Jason Moran	Body and Soul "Body and Soul" by "Jason Moran"	Modernistic	Blue Note		4/12/2002.		1:06:50 (Pop-up)
Jason Moran	Ringing My Phone (Straight Outta Istanbul)	[Presents] The Bandwagon	Blue Note		November 2002: Jason Moran (p) Tarus Mateen (b,el-b) Nasheet Waits (d)		1:10:33 (Pop-up)
Jason Moran	Study No. 6 "Study No. 6" by "Jason Moran"	Ten	Blue Note		October 2009: Jason Moran (p) Tarus Mateen (b,el-b) Nasheet Waits (d)		1:18:44 (Pop-up)
Charles Lloyd & Jason Moran	Bess, You Is My Woman Now	Hagar's Song	ECM	2013	April 2012.		1:21:52 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ: Susie Ibarra Trio	Dreams (Alternate Take)	Radiance	Hopscotch	1999	7/18/1999: Cooper-Moore (p,harp,diddley-bo) Charles Burnham (vln) Susie Ibarra (d,perc)		1:25:27 (Pop-up)
Toots Thielemans	Blues in the Closet	For My Lady (with the Shirley Horn Trio)	Verve		April 1991: Toots Thielemans (hca) Shirley Horn (p,vcl) Charles Ables (b) Steve Williams (d)		1:30:26 (Pop-up)
Rich Halley	Angular Logic "Angular Logic" by "Rich Halley"	Fire Within	Pine Eagle Records	2023	7/12/2003: Rich Halley (ts) Matthew Shipp (p) Michael Bisio (b) Newman Taylor Baker (d)	*	1:34:35 (Pop-up)
Otis Spann	It Must Have Been the Devil	Walking the Blues	Candid	1972	1960. Spann (vocal, piano), Robert Lockwood Jr. (guitar)		1:41:38 (Pop-up)
Sunny Five	Craw "Craw" by "Sunny Five"	Candid	Intakt Records	2024	September 2022: Tim Berne (alto sax), Marc Ducret (guitars), David Torn (electric guitar, live multi-looping), Devin Hoff (bass), Ches Smith (drums, electronics)	*	1:45:21 (Pop-up)
Fachada	Recordaçāo "Recordaçāo" by "Fachada"	Cidade da selva	Electric Cowbell Records	2023	Fachada [Rob Smith]: drums, bass, fender Rhodes, RMI Electra-piano, synthesizer, congas, rebolo, pandeiro, shakers, bells, triangle, cuica. Ty Hussell on electric guitar, Adrian Baxter on flute.	*	1:53:59 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Joe Chambers Moving Picture Orchestra	M Squad Theme	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.		1:56:16 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	7:01pm Michael 98145: Ah, hello
	7:01pm doctorjazz: Hi, DJ Peter-did you say you were on the West Coast?
	7:02pm Doug Schulkind: Laugh clock laugh!
	7:04pm Listener Gregory: I am listening from the past, but I enjoy the music of the future.
	7:05pm adamdoesit: Hello DJ Peter and clockers! I hope everyone's spatio-temporal crises are subsiding.
	7:05pm doctorjazz: Now I'm dizzy...(not Dizzy). And I just lost sound, it's back, good.
	7:06pm DJ Peter: Hi Michael 98145. Is that Washington State? Doc, I've been flying back and forth between the coasts and I don't even know where I am anymore. LG with the big ears! adamdoesit: what phase of the moon is it?
	7:07pm Michael 98145: ↳ DJ Peter @7:06 Yup. Seattle USA.
	🕰 7:07pm Jeff Golick: What a fascinating structure.
	7:08pm adamdoesit: ↳ DJ Peter @7:06 Moon phase set to stun? For months I've been wondering why your theme music sounds so familiar. The other day, it hit me: Police Squad! In parodying M Squad, Zucker, Abrams, and Zucker burlesqued the music, too.
	7:08pm bigplanetnoise: Greetings, DJ Pete and all!
	7:08pm DJ Peter: Hey Jeff! If you mean the Fujii... they disguise it right away don't they
	7:09pm DJ Peter: ↳ adamdoesit @7:08 Absolutely! It's a straight up parody, down to the triplets. (Recently got the entire series on dvd to show to Mrs. DJP and she loved it. Her fave character is the shoe shine boy.)
	🕰 7:10pm Jeff Golick: ↳ DJ Peter @7:08 YUP. Though that building is also pretty neat looking.
	7:11pm DJ Peter: ↳ DJ Peter @7:09 Also if you didn't know: many episodes of M Squad begin with Lee Marvin's voice-over saying, "I was on my way to meet my boss, already at the crime scene" and Police Squad does the same.
	7:11pm Listener Gregory: This Fujii piece is actually composed!
	7:12pm doctorjazz: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:11 I wouldn't have guessed, sounds like improv...
	7:12pm Michael 98145: ( duck ! "A CME was observed lifting off the Sun on 20 Jan and is expected to cause up to G2 (Moderate) geomagnetic storming on 22-23 Jan (UTC days)." )
	7:13pm adamdoesit: ↳ DJ Peter @7:09 It's so good. The boxer in ep 2 speaks to your temporal condition: Ref: "How many fingers am I holding up?"' Boxer: "Thursday."
	7:13pm DJ Peter: ↳ Michael 98145 @7:12 Yikes so when does that hit us in North America?
	7:14pm Listener Gregory: Tuba??
	7:14pm DJ Peter: ↳ adamdoesit @7:13 Love it
	7:14pm DJ Peter: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:14 Daley is switching back and forth between tuba and euphonium; Craig Harris also in their on trombone
	7:18pm Listener Gregory: @DJP, interesting composition.
	7:18pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Boulanger's Variation" by "Chien Chien Lu" Like this, new name to me.
	7:19pm Listener Gregory: Moon is almost full and very bright here. Got a chance to enjoy it, walking home with my takeout. (I was walking home, not the moon. Sorry for the dangler, Jeff.)
	7:19pm Michael 98145: ↳ DJ Peter @7:13 Not quite sure -- looks like in a day or two
	🕰 7:22pm Jeff Golick: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:19 Got to make some allowances for style, LG.
	7:22pm Michael 98145: Moon @ 86.6%, Waxing Gibbous
	7:22pm DJ Peter: ↳ doctorjazz @7:18 Me too. From Taiwan, studied at University of the Arts (Philadelphia). I think she had a self-released album but I didn't encounter it.
	🕰 7:23pm Jeff Golick: I'm not a big Apple fanboy, but in the weather app in iOS, the moon info and imagery is cool.
	7:23pm Michael 98145: ↳ Michael 98145 @7:22 Jan 25th "wolf moon"
	7:23pm DJ Peter: ↳ Michael 98145 @7:22 Michael: your avatar is a stargazer of some kind
	7:25pm Michael 98145: ↳ DJ Peter @7:23 usually too cloudy here to see the stars
	🕰 7:25pm Jeff Golick: ↳ Song: "Gemini" by "Aaron Diehl & The Knights" Thanks for playing this one. And the cover is great.
	7:27pm DJ Peter: ↳ Jeff Golick @7:25 I wonder what Mary Lou would have thought of it. A modest and dignified woman.
	7:27pm adamdoesit: ↳ Song: "Gemini" by "Aaron Diehl & The Knights" Aaron "the Real" Diehl.
	🕰 7:30pm Listener Gregory: “Boulanger” also means “baker” in French, no?
	🕰 7:30pm Jeff Golick: Speaking truth re Fujii's release cadence.
	🕰 7:31pm Listener Gregory: Fujii was the last artist I heard before the pandemic shut everything down. I have yet to get a bad album by her, and I have a couple dozen (I guess).
	7:32pm DJ Peter: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:30 Oh you're right! Maybe a Boulanger's Variation is like a Baker's Dozen.
	7:33pm adamdoesit: ↳ Song: "Gemini" by "Aaron Diehl & The Knights" Is bassoonist and slow-motion bird photographer* Brad Balliett any relation of the late NYer jazz critic Whitney? * no, really: twitter.com...
	7:34pm DJ Peter: ↳ adamdoesit @7:33 ... jaw... meet floor... !!!
	🕰 7:35pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "Jitterbug Waltz" by "Jason Moran" Beautiful deconstruction.
	7:37pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Jitterbug Waltz" by "Jason Moran" Quite a deconstruction, to be sure-went to check on my food at the beginning, don't hear much Waller (not a bad thing). Oh, there's the melody!
	7:44pm Michael 98145: Never really thought about this before now ... "Around the same time the song came out, the expression "ballin' the jack" was used by railroad workers to mean "going at full speed." 'The 'Jack' was the slang name for a railroad locomotive, and balling meant going at high speed, itself derived from the ball type of railroad signal in which a high ball meant a clear line"
	7:46pm DJ Peter: ↳ Michael 98145 @7:44 From coast to coast, From Canada to Mexico, They're doin' a new dance A tried-and-a-true dance That will sweep the land And you'll think it's so grand You'll have to learn how to do it So please don't boo woo it Coz we've got this little dance That's gonna rise to fame It's sure to put most any other dance to shame "coast to coast"
	7:47pm DJ Peter: ↳ DJ Peter @7:46 Really interesting, Michael. Didn't know that! JR Europe musta lifted that.
	7:48pm adamdoesit: ↳ Michael 98145 @7:44 Wow, neat! Much like the later "balls to the wall" (the ball-topped throttle levers of an aircraft pushed all the way forward, towards the firewall, for full power).
	🕰 7:49pm Listener Gregory: So, violating every law I hold sacred, I actually LEFT THE HOUSE on Saturday, missing Jeff's show, to hear live music: Camille Thurman, backed by a quartet. Thurman plays tenor (in the Jazz at Lincoln Center band, no less) and (more often here) sings.
	7:50pm DJ Peter: ↳ adamdoesit @7:48 Really! Wow! I assumed the reference was more anatomical... super super cool
	7:50pm adamdoesit: ↳ DJ Peter @7:50 I mean, those balls are situated in the cockpit, so take your pick.
	🕰 7:51pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:49 The show was quite enjoyable, but more mainstream than the fare we get here. Young pianist Jordan Williams impressed me in particular. Also of note was the trumpeter Wallace Roney, Jr, who was pretty good, though with a weird stage demeanor. I kept thinking, "Wallace Roney as your dad, and Geri Allen as your mom... no pressure!"
	🕰 7:52pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:51 This was all prompted by my belief that "Feed the Fire" is a Geri Allen composition. Oops, thanks, Peter!
	7:52pm Michael 98145: Falling even farther down that rabbit hole ... "A jackshaft is an intermediate shaft used to transfer power from a powered shaft such as the output shaft of an engine or motor to driven shafts such as the drive axles of a locomotive."
	7:54pm adamdoesit: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:51 Heh. Thanks for the heads-up on Jordan Williams. Sounds like a satisfying show.
	7:56pm doctorjazz: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:51 Sounds fun!
	🕰 7:57pm Jeff Golick: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:49 Noted.
	7:59pm DJ Peter: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:52 Catching up on the comments... LG did I misspeak? "Feed the Fire" is indeed Geri Allen; Moran is the one who mashed it up with James Reese Europe. And THAT'S what we call Ballin' the Jack.
	🕰 8:00pm Listener Gregory: ↳ DJ Peter @7:59 You said it just as I was typing it. The question is, how did you know what I was typing??
	🕰 8:00pm Jeff Golick: Gotta walk the dog. (Actual walk. Actual dog.)
	🕰 8:01pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Jeff Golick @8:00 Look for moon.
	8:01pm Michael 98145: keep watching the skies
	8:02pm DJ Peter: Has it been too much Jason Moran today, folks? I gotta say, for me it's been fascinating to hear Jeff's take, Stork's take, and then my take. (Of course we shared our plans but even if we hadn't, I think we would have taken completely different approaches.)
	8:03pm northguineahills: ok, what can i expect from my bleeding (literal and figurative) hoserinos?
	8:05pm Little Danny: hey peter, hey all!
	8:05pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Gangsterism On Canvas" by "Jason Moran" digging, jeff gave an amazing bday sess for jason moran this morn...
	8:06pm DJ Peter: ↳ Song: "The 13th Floor" by "Greg Osby" northguineahills, can I hand you a literal and figurative cold compress? Hey Danny! Glad to see you!
	8:07pm DJ Peter: ↳ Song: "Body and Soul" by "Jason Moran" More deconstruction
	8:08pm doctorjazz: ↳ DJ Peter @8:02 It's been Great-I see his name all over. On many albums, but hadn't stopped ro consider a body of work by him. Great stuff!
	8:09pm Michael 98145: ↳ DJ Peter @8:02 too much?? why, no
	8:10pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Body and Soul" by "Jason Moran" Speaking of balls, some say its takes them to do this tune after Hawk and Trane (and he doesn't recall either version)!
	8:10pm northguineahills: ↳ DJ Peter @8:06 thankfully, the hand wasn't literally (i'd have to throw it the tompkins sq dog park, othewises)
	8:10pm northguineahills: ↳ northguineahills @8:10 errr, literal...
	8:10pm Dean: This track has a Mehldau thing going on.
	8:11pm Dean: "Body & Soul," I mean.
	8:11pm DJ Peter: Hey Dean: yeah, I hear that. Don't think of the two of them together usually but you're right
	8:12pm doctorjazz: ↳ Dean @8:10 It's that intellectualizing, deconstruction thing Mehldau does...
	8:13pm northguineahills: i've done this before w/ a piano and a vocalist.... but was ignorant it had been done before (random ideas done at the moment0
	8:13pm Dean: I've always enjoyed Moran, because he does seem to be a moving target from the point of view of folks who want to pigeon-hole him.
	8:13pm northguineahills: ↳ doctorjazz @8:12 stop doctorizing that jazz, man!
	🕰 8:14pm Listener Gregory: Who would you say are Moran's main influences as a pianist? I don't think the usual suspects like Bill Evans, Herbie, Cecil Taylor, etc. fit the bill. But who?? If anyone.
	8:14pm northguineahills: ↳ Dean @8:11 chords, post-haste! (the only thing my father taught me)
	8:15pm DJ Peter: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:14 I think he studied with Jaki Byard? I hear a little Andrew Hill in conception (but different attack).
	8:15pm northguineahills: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:14 uhhhhhhh....... everyone?
	🕰 8:16pm Listener Gregory: ↳ northguineahills @8:15 Maybe that Monk, Ellington, old-style percussive piano?
	8:16pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Ringing My Phone (Straight Outta Istanbul)" by "J... been diggin esp vocals...hello people...dj peter
	🕰 8:17pm Listener Gregory: ↳ DJ Peter @8:15 Andrew Hill is a nice connection.
	8:17pm DJ Peter: tom tom, hello hello!
	8:18pm northguineahills: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:16 depending on the piece, i hear everyone... (sound-wise), maybe not as percussive as some of the aforementioned, but close...
	🕰 8:18pm WR: Hello DJ Peter and folks.
	🕰 8:18pm Listener Gregory: ↳ DJ Peter @8:15 And since you've been playing her, maybe Mary Lou Williams?
	8:19pm Jon: Love this Moran
	8:19pm DJ Peter: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:18 Oh yeah, that's good. I think some of that darkness and melodicism is in there. Hi Jon! Hi WR! (Gotta run, lots of short tracks coming up)
	8:23pm tom tom the pipers son: he just touched on some chromatic stuff a la ahmad jamal.... before slight break
	🕰 8:25pm WR: whitney.org... Moran's Whitney Museum exhibit / collaboration was glorious. On the link is a little slice of each facet. I spent a day there.
	8:25pm Dean: Dig this headline from seven years ago: "Alicia Hall Moran and Jason Moran: What We Learned From Michelle Obama: Husband and wife Jason Moran and Alicia Hall Moran, both highly accomplished musicians, talk about the first lady's inspiring influence on their lives, their marriage and art" Different kinda influence.
	8:27pm Dean: From a NYT story in 2015: "Tuesday's concert, a benefit for Harlem Stage, featured Jason Moran and Geri Allen, two prominent jazz pianists who count Mr. [Cecil] Taylor among their lodestars."
	8:31pm DJ Peter: ↳ Dean @8:27 Ah, Geri Allen surely an influence too. Emerges a good dozen years before Moran
	8:33pm doctorjazz: Love that chromatic harmonica!
	8:35pm doctorjazz: ↳ WR @8:25 Hattiecut posted this link to a Moran show at Mass MOCA on Stork's show earlier today: massmoca.org...
	🕰 8:39pm Listener Gregory: ↳ doctorjazz @8:35 I reviewed that on Jeff’s show in the fall. I was mostly not that impressed. The stage reproductions were kind of interesting for jazz fans, though.
	8:39pm tom tom the pipers son: from what i heard today seems that moran does most interesting things around the margins of his playing (like the telephone call, or a dampened background repeating figure) hi playing, which i think is pretty traditional, although what's playin now isn't really, anyway a limited perspective from me
	8:40pm doctorjazz: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:39 OK, thanks (didn't remember). I'll be there in June (at the Solid Sound festival), may check it out but doesn't seem essential now. Thanks.
	8:40pm DJ Peter: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:39 I like that. He makes the trad stuff weird and vice versa.
	8:41pm doctorjazz: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:39 He does have more odd constrictions than I'd have tought before, which I like.
	8:41pm Dean: I hear in Moran a sympathy with Branford. Always bumping into and across expectations. Frankly, I'm a fan of artists who mash up conservatism with experimentation.
	8:41pm DJ Peter: Me too, Dean. As you may have gathered!
	8:42pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ DJ Peter @8:40 yes that's what i was trying to say, he has a base he plays with
	8:44pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ doctorjazz @8:41 there was a background dampenened refrain thatwas in something stork played, the word 'crippled' came to mind
	8:45pm Dean: I did gather as much. I'm a librarian, professionally and in many respects personally. We are all about being affirmatively conservative, but also eager to spread out and learn new practices.
	8:46pm adamdoesit: Cool stuff this evening. Thank you, DJ Peter!
	8:46pm tom tom the pipers son: i do not like moran's paintings at all
	8:47pm DJ Peter: ↳ adamdoesit @8:46 Glad to do it, adamdoesit! Thanks for chiming in!
	8:48pm Dean: Yeah, well, except for maybe one, I don't like Leonardo's, either.
	🕰 8:48pm Listener Gregory: ↳ doctorjazz @8:40 @doctorj, I can send you a file of my collected WFMU comments. That way you can review them from time to time and keep them at the front of your mind. Jeff saw Moran's show in the city and felt much as I did, if I remember correctly.
	8:48pm doctorjazz: Digging this last free-form set as well. Almost the end, thanks DJ Peter, cool show!
	8:48pm Jeff g. via app: Ooooh liking this.
	8:49pm doctorjazz: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:48 Send it over, I will DEFINITELY commit all of it to memory!
	8:49pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Dean @8:48 he was more a photographer in waiting
	8:49pm northguineahills: heading towards some sonny sharrock territory...
	🕰 8:49pm Listener Gregory: ↳ doctorjazz @8:40 That said, if you’re actually there, no harm in spending 10 min checking them out. Maybe you’ll like it more than I did.
	8:50pm northguineahills: ↳ Jeff g. via app @8:48 totally, not your scene here, man. no sounds here you'd like! 😜
	8:51pm doctorjazz: Puppy keeping me in the house; was here for Jeff's show, for Stork, DJGG, Julie, now DJ Peter. What'll I listen to at work tomorrow? (Joe McGasco won't be bad, mostly miss him catching up with the Sunday shows on the Drummer Stream).
	8:51pm DJ Peter: ↳ northguineahills @8:49 It takes two guitars to try to get to Sharrock territory
	8:52pm Listener Gregory: Tim Berne’s sound here seems different from his usual! Style is the same though. This album sounds great!
	8:53pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Craw" by "Sunny Five" Ches Smith is EVERYWHERE these days...
	8:53pm DJ Peter: Gonna try to squeeze one more in... with Solo Mon's forebearance... sorry/thanks!
	8:53pm Little Danny: digging this!
	8:53pm doctorjazz: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:52 Have't seen Berne in quite a while; if I ever get out of the house again...
	8:55pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Recordaçāo" by "Fachada" Now THERE'S a left turn!
	🕰 8:55pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "Craw" by "Sunny Five" Unusual to have two very active guitarists in this group.
	8:56pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Recordaçāo" by "Fachada" Electrical Cowbell, going to be the very next phase...
	8:58pm doctorjazz: Thanks again, DJ Peter!
	🕰 8:58pm Listener Gregory: Very nice show, Peter. Thanks as ever!
	🕰 8:59pm WR: Many thank yous Peter, great episode. PS: forgot to write that I like the clock pic this week.
	8:59pm tom tom the pipers son: thanks peter
	8:59pm northguineahills: peter, thanks!
	9:00pm DJ Peter: Hey everybody thanks for tuning in! So gratifying to have great listeners. (And apparently that includes Solo Mon hahahaha)

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