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This is where all of culture and all of time are collapsed into one seductive portal and viewed through the panoramic lens of the exotic. Come and embark on an armchair-travel virtual-voyage to the heart of timeless darkness and beyond; embrace the numinous monolith of the exotic immensity. Let us find that place where hybridization meets its destiny as pure fantasy. Let us become observers observing those others who are ourselves. You wear your mask and I'll wear mine.

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Favoriting February 4, 2016: Quiet Villages Revisited: Exotic Jazz and Other Phantoms

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Artist Track Album Label Year Comments
  Intro          
Duke Pearson  The Phantom   Favoriting The Phantom  Blue Note  1968  with Bobby Hutcherson 
Don Cunningham Quartet  Quiet Village   Favoriting Something for Everyone  Exclusive  1965   

Music behind DJ:
Les Baxter 
Love Dance   Favoriting
Ritual of the Savage (Le Sacre du Sauvage) 
 
 
followed by Cal Tjader 
Don Cunningham Quartet  Tabu   Favoriting Something for Everyone    1965   
Yusef Lateef  Love Dance   Favoriting Prayer to the East  Savoy  1957  written by Les Baxter 
Yusef Lateef  A Long Time Ago   Favoriting The Diverse Yusef Lateef  Atlantic  1970  with vocals by The Sweet Inspirations 
Art Blakey  Elephant Walk   Favoriting Orgy In Rhythm  Blue Note  1957  with Sabu (vocals) 
The Latin Jazz Quintet  April Rain   Favoriting The Latin Jazz Quintet  United Artists  1961  with Eric Dolphy 

Music behind DJ:
 
Thunder and Rain  
 
 
 
 
Pete La Roca  Basra   Favoriting Basra  Blue Note  1965   
Pete La Roca  Dancing Girls   Favoriting Turkish Women at the Bath  Douglas  1967  with Chick Corea 
Michael Garrick Sextet with Norma Winstone  Temple Dancer   Favoriting The Heart Is a Lotus  Argo  1970   
Randy Weston  Marrakesh Blues   Favoriting Blue Moses  CTI  1972  produced by Creed Taylor 

Music behind DJ:
John Handy/Ali Akbar Khan 
The Soul and the Atma   Favoriting
Karuna Supreme 
 
1976 
 
A.K. Salim  Pepo Za Sarari (Trade Winds)   Favoriting Afro Soul / Drum Orgy  Prestige  1965   
Arthur Lyman  Trigger Fantasy   Favoriting Leis of Jazz  HiFi Records  1959  written by Herb Alpert 
Sun Ra  Overtones of China   Favoriting Sound of Joy  Delmark  1968  rec. 1956 or 57 for the Transition label 
Pharoah Sanders  Japan   Favoriting Tauhid  Impulse!  1967   

Music behind DJ:
Les Baxter 
Deep Night   Favoriting
Caribbean Moonlight 
 
 
 


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Listener comments!

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Flash Strap:

Good evening, my fellow explorers
Avatar 6:59pm
ndbob:

evening Evan and everyone!
Avatar 6:59pm
Flash Strap:

hey there bob
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Flash Strap:

how the heck are ya
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:02pm
Little Danny:

Oh I'm looking forward to this.
Avatar 7:02pm
ndbob:

I'm doing OK - lost in thought as I frequently am
Avatar 7:02pm
ndbob:

which goes well with Explorers Room - how are you?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:04pm
melinda:

hi Evan, Bob, Danny & others who will join later!
Avatar 7:04pm
Flash Strap:

Aloha fellow traveler Danny!
Avatar 7:04pm
ndbob:

Heya Danny and Melinda!
Avatar 7:05pm
Flash Strap:

Lost in thought as well, bob. Can hardly string together a coherence of any sort to be honest. Exploring the Mystery. At least I have company
Avatar 7:05pm
Flash Strap:

Ah Melinda, wonderful to see you this evening!
Avatar 7:08pm
Flash Strap:

Man this track is too cool
  7:09pm
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Hey Evan and all others, love this show! just signed up to tell you:) first time I've been able to catch it live!
Avatar 7:09pm
ndbob:

Sure is Evan!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:09pm
melinda:

This is great. I love vibes & flute. And everything else too.
Avatar 7:10pm
Flash Strap:

Thanks for saying so, mysterion-? Ever so happy to have you with us in real-time
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:10pm
Little Danny:

@Melinda agreed, vibes + flute can be deep magic
  7:12pm
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killing it!
Avatar 7:13pm
Flash Strap:

esp. when Hutcherson is handling those vibes. Not sure who's on the flute, though
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:16pm
melinda:

I heard a Bobby Hutcherson tune on another WFMU show and went out and got the CD because it reminded me of 70s Sesame St. jazz. I should get more.
Avatar 7:19pm
hyde:

the flute player on that was apparently Jerry Dodgion
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:20pm
Little Danny:

Hutcherson's "Bouquet" from his Happenings LP is some straight-up jazz exotica.
Avatar 7:25pm
Flash Strap:

@Danny: I agree
Avatar 7:25pm
Flash Strap:

Hello Hyde!
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Flash Strap:

@Melinda: vibes do have that Sesame St. quality on occasion. gentle, funky, educational, good for the young mind
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:28pm
Little Danny:

"Love Dance" is a Les Baxter composition, no? God I love this stuff.
Avatar 7:29pm
Flash Strap:

I'm sure this track is not news to most Drummersomers, but hell if it isn't one of the most direct, astonishing intersections of jazz and exotica
Avatar 7:29pm
Flash Strap:

yeah, heck yeah!
Avatar 7:29pm
ndbob:

@Evan very much a Doug song that's for sure!
Avatar 7:31pm
Flash Strap:

totally. it's hard to even play Yusef, considering Doug's mastery of the material, except that I know he wouldn't want me to not. We are nothing if not dutiful to the art that we serve
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:31pm
Doug Schulkind:

This one is pretty good.
Avatar 7:32pm
Flash Strap:

he is summoned
Avatar 7:32pm
Flash Strap:

hey Doug!
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northguineahills:

Yusef Lateef!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:34pm
Doug Schulkind:

The way that Yusef shows us the way to understand that all life is exotic and precious...
Avatar 7:35pm
Flash Strap:

NGH!
Avatar 7:37pm
Flash Strap:

I can't even stand this one, it's too good. It's the ecstatic, the sublime, the surrender of life into the expanse of time
Avatar 7:37pm
ndbob:

not just pretty good - pretty great
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:42pm
Doug Schulkind:

Remember the talk of Max Roach's hi-hat solo on last week's playlist? That solo was named for and dedicated to Mr. Jo Jones, who is playing on this Art Blakey record.
Avatar 7:43pm
Flash Strap:

Oh wow
Avatar 7:45pm
northguineahills:

Damn, Doug, that gets an 'Amen'!
Avatar 7:45pm
Flash Strap:

I was just thinking about him – a while back, I picked up a Haki Madhubuti record (Rise, Vision, Comin), and I just cleaned it off and listened to it this morning. I couldn't be sure, but I think he did this whole spiel on Jo Jones. I'll have to double check that I wasn't projecting
Avatar 7:45pm
Flash Strap:

@ NGH: seriously. Amen
  7:45pm
mysterion:

that's a cool coincidence
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:46pm
Little Danny:

Whoa, that's a choice insight Doug.
Avatar 7:46pm
hyde:

Philly Joe Jones really is amazing
Avatar 7:48pm
hyde:

R.I.P. to Maurice White. the ravages of 2016 continue.
Avatar 7:48pm
Flash Strap:

man
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:49pm
Doug Schulkind:

Trumpeter Wallace Roney plays on that Haki Madhubuti record. The last time I saw Roney, he was playing with... Art Blakey.

@hyde
Philly Joe Jones is amazing, but he is a different drummer.
Avatar 7:50pm
Flash Strap:

What a glorious network, Doug. And to think how blind to it I'd be without you
Avatar 7:51pm
hyde:

right, i always do that. Papa Joe Jones, right. didn't they die days apart?
Avatar 7:51pm
Flash Strap:

That Madhubuti record is great, but whoo does he drop some anti-gay ideas in the mix. Comes with the territory but damn
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:54pm
Doug Schulkind:

Your ear/eyes open my eye/ears, too, Brother Flash. And yeah, the ignorant shit from Haki Madhubuti is hard to take.
Avatar 7:57pm
ndbob:

excellent first hour Evan! catch the rest on the archive as always
Avatar 7:58pm
northguineahills:

I need this Thunder & Rain.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:00pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...amayzeeing Bass - how sweet the sound...
Avatar 8:01pm
Flash Strap:

ha, hey there Rabbit
Avatar 8:01pm
Flash Strap:

bye bob!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:02pm
Little Danny:

Oh - Latin Jazz Quintet had around four other LPs for Prestige/New Jazz. All have some really, really good moments and are worth checking out, Flash.
Avatar 8:03pm
Flash Strap:

on top of it being incredible, this record also has really exquisite Reid Miles cover art
Avatar 8:04pm
Flash Strap:

I don't think I have them all, Danny. I really should go completist on them
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Flash Strap:

the cover, which pleases my eyes to a mysteriously high degree: cdn.discogs.com...
Avatar 8:06pm
hyde:

i found La Roca's "Turkish Women at the Bath" record somewhere recently, the one with John Gilmore. it's really, really good.

and then he became a lawyer.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:06pm
Doug Schulkind:

@hyde
Yes, Jo and Joe Jones died four days apart in one brutal week in 1985.

Speaking of Pete La Roca cover art, it is hard to top Turkish Women At the Bath: londonjazzcollector.files.wordpress.com...
Avatar 8:07pm
hyde:

good ol' Ingres.
Avatar 8:07pm
Flash Strap:

'Bout to hear that one, in fact!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:09pm
Doug Schulkind:

Oh yes yes yes!
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Flash Strap:

And, this is just my opinion now, but I'll take Reid over Ingres most days. But I have sort of a bemused approach to Ingres' barely concealed fetishes and oft-limp Orientalist tropes. I love him, to be clear, I just have to give him a hard time
Avatar 8:11pm
hyde:

well, he deserves the hard time. but hoo boy, the guy could paint.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:11pm
Doug Schulkind:

I prefer the Ingres as the album cover (and especially the cover of the album that features THIS hypnotic wonder) than as the original.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:11pm
Doug Schulkind:

More about the original here: en.wikipedia.org...
Avatar 8:11pm
Flash Strap:

I am WITH you on that distinction, Doug
Avatar 8:14pm
Flash Strap:

that particular work is a sort of culmination of all his orientalisms and odalisques up to that point, filled with images of his wife, his true love (her sister, and her exact likeness by many accounts), some other paramour who was thought to look identical to them both, and for variety, a woman who was thought to be Raphael's mistress. it's based largely on a rather interesting report of an English woman who visited the baths, but given quite a male treatment
Avatar 8:15pm
Flash Strap:

he signed it, "Ingres, age 80" or something like that. it tickled him to be so bawdy at such an old age
Avatar 8:16pm
hyde:

i always laugh when i remember the bit about the guy who compared it to a cake full of maggots
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:17pm
Doug Schulkind:

In a cruel twist of fate, I have to go walk the dog. This is nonnegotiable.
Avatar 8:18pm
Flash Strap:

that's hilarious, Hyde. who said that?
Avatar 8:18pm
Flash Strap:

Oh no, not the dog! they do not negotiate
Avatar 8:19pm
hyde:

Paul Claudel, Camille Claudel's brother
  8:20pm
mysterion:

same here on the dog situ, Doug! been trying to set it up on my phone so we can bring the good vibes along
Avatar 8:24pm
Flash Strap:

Oh that's just such a wonderful quote Hyde! As for me, Gerome and Delacroix are placed much higher in my personal pantheon of classic Orientalsts than Ingres. Though I did once write a paper that attempted to draw a critical comparison between Ingres' bath, Picasso's appropriations of Matisse's women, and Fellini's harem in 8 1/2. So we have grown close, but mainly due to proximity
Avatar 8:28pm
Flash Strap:

this is such a cool record
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:31pm
Alex In Illinois:

Randy Weston, taking us on another sonic trip!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:45pm
Doug Schulkind:

Douggasm.
Avatar 8:53pm
Flash Strap:

This track is so lovely. Bringin' it to a close now
Avatar 8:54pm
hyde:

i don't really know this Pharoah Sanders record too well. the band is insane.
Avatar 8:56pm
northguineahills:

My wife just got a Korg Monotron, and was remixing the Sun Ra (while I was napping). Sounded nice. Thanks Flash!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:58pm
Doug Schulkind:

N e x t w e e k ! ! !
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hyde:

thanks, pal.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:59pm
Alex In Illinois:

Great Show!
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Flash Strap:

That sounds fun, NGH!
Avatar 9:01pm
Flash Strap:

Thank you, Hyde. And Alex! and all! All are thanked! See you guys next week for what looks like will be the inaugural 3 hour show!
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