WFMU RADIO: Give The Drummer Some 01/18/19

Listener comments!

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8:52am listener james from westwood:

Good Friday, Doug and all you saxy folks!

8:54am Doug Schulkind:

If you want my body (of work) and you think I'm saxy,
come on, sugar, tell me so...

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9:00am listener james from westwood:

We keep things sax positive on this side!

9:00am Webhamster Henry:

Hey Doug! I dreamed I was in Pittsburgh last night! No Maidenform bra though.

9:01am thedunkel:

Good Morning Mr. Drummer!

9:01am Doug Schulkind:

Calgon, take you away, Webhamster Henry!

9:01am Doug Schulkind:

Greetings, thedunkel!

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9:02am Granny Spicy Tuna:

Uh oh, hold me back on the sax jokes!

9:02am Stanley:

Honk, honk, wakkawakkawakka, parrrrrrp!

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9:03am βrian:

A new head cold and a new 5-year old. We're listening in. Good morning.

9:03am Sem:

Hello, is this the right chat board for an argument?

Greets, Doug, and all inclined to give the drummer some, and then, some more.

Stanley, thanks to you 'cocorico" is a deeply embedded earworm.

9:03am Doug Schulkind:

I'm down with GST!

Way to make an entrance, Stanley!

9:04am mauri:

Hey Doug and all!

9:04am Doug Schulkind:

Hello, heady βrian! Ahoy, Sem!

9:05am Uncle Michael:

Hey, that's me!

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9:06am βrian:

"Mon Oncle de Topeka."

9:06am Stanley:

Sem - I fancy myself as some sort of French rooster

9:06am Rusty:

Long Live Joseph Jarman and the Art Ensemble of Chicago and AACM

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9:08am Granny Spicy Tuna:

Let us wallow in these feelings of love and loss and respect and beauty together…

9:08am Doug Schulkind:

Pleasure to read you, mauri! Hello, brother Uncle Michael! Man you said it, Rusty. Welcome!

9:11am Doug Schulkind:

Non-Cognitive Aspects of the City: books.google.com...

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9:12am βrian:

@Stanley: "Cocorico !"

9:14am Uncle Michael:

If I weren't committed to Pufnstuf, I'd consider a Jacques Tati avatar.

9:17am Doug Schulkind:

Mon Oncle Michel!

9:19am still b/p:

Sometimes, going about this and that here in my apartment, I try to pull off the Tati walk and posture for a minute.

9:23am Doug Schulkind:

b/p eternal!

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9:24am βrian:

Jaques Tati: "Ceci est bien une pipe."

9:25am Scott:

Present! Love the Certain Blacks album.

9:25am Mark R:

Morning Doug! Nice Joseph Jarman tribute you have going here. Foortnote: I played "Non-Cognitive Aspects of the City" on the very first radio show I ever did, on WCBN in Ann Arbor.

9:26am Doug Schulkind:

And it loves you, Scott. As do we all!

9:26am Doug Schulkind:

You are a man of wealth and taste, Mark R! Well, a man of taste, certainly.

9:28am Stanley:

@βrian: next door at our house in France had a rooster that went 'cocorico'.
Until he 'mysteriously' disappeared.

9:28am Doug Schulkind:

Chicago Beau and/or Julio Finn on harmonica here. Also heard on the phenomenal Archie Shepp/Philly Joe Jones LP on America.

9:29am Scott:

I have a soft spot for free jazz harmonica. Frank Lowe pulls it out sometimes, and I have a duo record where Charles Tyler plays harmonica.

9:31am Mark R:

Wonder if Joseph and Anthony were having a poke at Dave Mason's "Alone Together" or was it just a coincidence?

9:31am Doug Schulkind:

Franke Lowe on his "Fresh" album, yes, Scott?

9:32am Doug Schulkind:

It would not surprise me in the least if Mr. Braxton was a big Dave Mason fan.

9:32am Doug Schulkind:

Seriously.

9:34am Jeff g.:

Greetings from Jamaica. Where there is snow on the ground. Much love for Jarman; Doug; and all listeners of distinction.

9:35am Doug Schulkind:

Love and hellos, Jeff G!

9:35am Mark R:

There is snow on the ground in NJ, too. Although the big stuff is supposed to hit Saturday afternoon.

9:36am Sem:

Stanley, the other day when you wrote 'cocorico", I naturally ran the word through a translating service. Result: it means coconut, in Catalan.

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9:36am βrian:

I discovered that hens can learn to crow.

9:37am Jeff Conklin:

Tuned in, perfect jams for this grey day. Rest in power, JJ.

9:39am Scott:

Does Lowe play harmonica on Fresh? I can't recall, but I know he plays it on that Out Loud set.

9:48am Doug Schulkind:

Respect, Avant Jeff Conklin!

9:48am Doug Schulkind:

@Scott
Just check the Fresh lineup. No harmonica in sight.

9:49am Artie:

Nothing and everything that Mr. Braxton does or likes is yet another delightful surprise.

9:50am Doug Schulkind:

Another delightful surprise: Artie! (Not really a surprise.)

9:51am Jeff Conklin:

Harmonica wouldn’t have at all been out of place on Chu’s Blues though! Love that record, gonna pull it out for later listening.

9:51am Doug Schulkind:

The death of Christopher Gaddy, heard on marimba here, hit Jarman and his fellow Chicagoans hard. The next selection is "Song For Christopher."

9:52am alanr:

Here is the link to some of the interview with Jarman that was included in "Inside Out In The Open." (wait until the program is over to watch it, please) youtu.be...

9:53am alanr:

Thank you a million for programming this memorial, Doug.

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9:57am βrian:

Five-Year Old is having a little trouble with this music. I don't know *what* her problem is!

9:58am Doug Schulkind:

There is nothing else I could do, alanr.

I urge everyone to follow Alan's link to watch the brief filmed interview segment with Joseph Jarman. Then be sure to watch the entire film. It is extraordinary: www.insideoutintheopen.net

9:59am Doug Schulkind:

@βrian
Tell your five-year-old that these guys were making music to bug grown-ups. Maybe she can connect via solidarity.

10:00am Scott:

Conklin, I heard there's a Mo' Jiggs free jazz record somewhere.

10:00am Doug Schulkind:

Sheri Scott singing here.

10:03am alanr:

Here is a link to Inside Out In The Open in its entirety: youtu.be...

10:06am Jeff Conklin:

@Scott: !?!?

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10:06am listener james from westwood:

It takes exquisite skill and practice to create this wild and glorious sound.

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10:07am βrian:

Furrowed brows: "Well ..."

10:07am Doug Schulkind:

Oh WOW, Alan. I didn't realize! The film is splendid and vital thing.

10:08am Doug Schulkind:

@listener james from westwood
It is hard to imagine just how incredibly FUN it must have been—it must continue to be—to participate in such a collective creation.

10:11am alanr:

while that film is being screened in front of audiences more than ever this year (China, Portugal, and coming up Germany) it also needs to be available to a wider audience. It's a challenge to get social screenings!!

10:12am Doug Schulkind:

Along with Christopher Gaddy, another performer from Jarman's "Song For" lineup passed away in 1967. Bassist Charles Clark.

10:12am Scott:

Yeah Jeff, I swear I think Byron Coley told me that, but it's kinda fuzzy! Sorta makes sense tho.

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10:13am βrian:

Do I hear a zither?

10:14am Doug Schulkind:

@alanr
You must have it screened at City of Asylum here in Pittsburgh. An amazing space. I will hip you to this place. It is right in their wheelhouse.

10:14am chresti:

Good morning some drum!

10:16am Doug Schulkind:

Good morning, entire chresti!

10:28am holland oats:

drumma! assembled ensemblers! lovely tribute doug

10:28am Doug Schulkind:

Here is a remembrance of the wonderful Larayne Black I wrote back in 2008: blog.wfmu.org...

10:29am Jeff Golick:

Love hearing about those connections, @Doug. Just was reading about Thulani Davis, and learned that she is a cousin of composer/pianist Anthony Davis, with whom she's collaborated.

10:29am Jessie:

I did not refuse! (to take the horn) I took it and kept it until I saw him again, or he came to collect it. (I think the party was at Laura's house). Funny, I think I never got to that point in the story, so you assumed a different ending.

10:29am Doug Schulkind:

holland oats!

10:31am Doug Schulkind:

Holy moly! I thought you politely declined! Whenever I've asked you to tell that story, I think I got so overexcited, I forgot to hear the ending.

My apologies, darling.

10:32am Doug Schulkind:

Breaking news, everyone. Jessie DID take Jarman's horn home with her! (OK, I'm getting overexcited again.)

10:36am Doug Schulkind:

William Parker is on bass here, with Frank Lowe. On January 26th, William Parker will be the first guest ever on the new Give the Drummer Radio broadcast, Music For a Free World with Dave Sewelson: wfmu.org...

10:36am Scott McDowell:

Great ending to the story! : )

10:36am Jeff Golick:

Frank Lowe was not fooling around.

10:38am Doug Schulkind:

The violinist on this track, billed as "The Wizard," has long been misidentified as Leroy Jenkins. It is Raymond Lee Chang.

10:40am Doug Schulkind:

@Scott
I am more fascinated by the very likely possibility that it was my wife's friend's mother, Larayne Black, who first connected Jarman to Buddhism.

10:41am Stanley:

Why do I like stuff like this?

10:41am Doug Schulkind:

I love listening to Jarman singing sweetly on his horn in the background here whilst Frank Lowe blows his beautiful brains out.

10:42am Stanley:

Seriously, I love this but it's so wild.

10:42am Doug Schulkind:

@Stanley
Because you are the proud owner of a human heart.

10:43am Stanley:

You make me laugh, Doug.

10:46am Doug Schulkind:

The pleasure is mine, Stanley!

10:49am Mikey_B:

man this frank lowe track split my mind open. love it.

10:51am fred:

Good morning Doug and listeners

10:51am Doug Schulkind:

@Mikey_B
The love is palpable. It's a song Jarman wrote for his then wife (the wonderful poet, writer, playwright, journalist) Thulani Davis.

10:51am Doug Schulkind:

Almighty fred!

10:57am Mikey_B:

didn't know that going in but the inspiration makes perfect sense. so much passion. didn't know much about jarman or the ensemble but this show will remedy my grievous miscalculation..

11:01am Jeff Golick:

@Doug: it's correct on the playlist -- it IS AECO Recordings. I've been wondering about that last O recently, but that's apparently where it goes.

11:01am Jeff Golick:

(No, I don't get out much, why do you ask.)

11:02am holland oats:

last weekend's MFAFW beta-broadcast was fantastic

11:04am Doug Schulkind:

@Jeff Golick
My mistake was my only mistake. Thanks for having my back.

11:04am fred:

I foolishly hoped I'd be able to listen to the whole show after dealing with a tax issue. Then a health insurance problem threw me hours off schedule. On a positive note, I follow closely the path of the Art Ensemble of Chicago box set slowly getting closer (maybe tomorrow, probably early next week)

11:06am Doug Schulkind:

I have that beautiful box in my clutches, fred. It's a thing to be/hold.

11:09am Doug Schulkind:

@holland oats
It's only gonna get better and more better!

11:10am Doug Schulkind:

Jarman on baritone sax here. A treat!

11:13am Doug Schulkind:

Craig Harris on trombone here.

11:15am Doug Schulkind:

Careful everyone. You know what happens when I make five comments in a row. You all owe me a back rub!

Ooops.

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11:19am dutchtheo:

Howdy! one for Jarman, one for eternity, one to come back to

11:20am Doug Schulkind:

It will always be here, ready to serve, dutchtheo!

11:22am still b/p:

Give the Drummer Some Shiatsu.

11:23am Doug Schulkind:

Now you're talking!

11:24am Doug Schulkind:

Thurman Barker on drums here. We heard him at the top of the show playing on Jarman's earliest tracks from 1966.

11:26am Doug Schulkind:

Very thrilled and excited to learn recently that past AACM leader Nicole Mitchell is becoming the new head of the vaunted jazz program at the University of Pittsburgh. An inspired choice!

11:30am fred:

@Doug: do you think you could get her to make an appearance on your show? Interview, guest DJ, anything?

11:31am Jeff Golick:

I read it as LIFE LINE with ABC inserted in there.

11:32am Dean:

Anagram for "beneficial"

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11:34am doctorjazz:

Late check in, but have been loving the sounds since the beginning!

11:35am Doug Schulkind:

Jeff Golick, I love you. Dean, you too.

11:36am Doug Schulkind:

@fred
That is a wonderful thought. I'm not sure that she has even arrived in town yet. I can put out feelers.

11:37am Dean:

Olive you, too, Doug.

11:39am Doug Schulkind:

Geri Allen is playing piano and synth on this record. She had been the previous director of the jazz program at the University of Pittsburgh until her unexpected death in June of 2017.

11:41am Doug Schulkind:

So glad you've been catching it, doctorjazz!

11:43am Sem:

Extraordinary morning of music, Doug, just the thing for those of us chained to a keyboard, or similar. Thank you for all of the Friday mornings.
p.s. I envy anyone's ability to put out feelers.

11:45am Doug Schulkind:

@Sem
Actually, I just open up the hatch and let the feelers go under their own free will.

11:45am burke:

I ordered a set of feelers online. They're in the closet most of the time. But I've been known to put them out.

11:45am Dean:

Myra Melford on this one, yes?

11:46am Doug Schulkind:

@Dean
Myra Melford on piano/harmonium.

11:46am Doug Schulkind:

Oh boy! Jarman on oboe!

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11:47am Granny Spicy Tuna:

Sem, as a flaming giraffe, you have two excellent "feelers" on your head.

11:47am Doug Schulkind:

GTDS will be going about three minutes past noon today. Blessings upon Uncle Michael for letting me rupture the Hinky Dinky Time/Space Continuum.

11:47am Dean:

Speaking of great musicians ensconced at research universities, she is Professor of Composition and Improvisational Practices here at Berkeley.

11:48am Doug Schulkind:

burke is here! burke is here!

11:48am Sem:

Ossicones can be a hindrance as well, GST. But thanks for pointing out the upside!

11:49am Doug Schulkind:

@Dean
Well, she appears to be trading the Berkeley Bowl for a place that puts fries and coleslaw on its sandwichdes.

11:50am Jeff Golick:

...as any reasonable person would, @Doug!

11:51am Jeff Golick:

Am really enjoying this set, btw, of lesser-known-to-me Jarman.

11:51am Dean:

Is she moving to Pittsburgh?

11:52am Uncle Michael:

I'm loving this show. I could easily listen to 11 more minutes of this!

11:53am Dean:

Anyway, Berkeley Bowl is pretty amazing in some respects. Produce, beer, beer, bulk foods, beer... Did I mention beer? Saw Justice Kavanaugh there a week or two ago.

11:53am Uncle Michael:

The, you know...my little thing:

www.wfmu.org...

11:53am fred:

@Dean: a former coworker will be starting as assistant professor at CNMAT soon. They got a good one in my opinion, a composer, scientist, and developer (also a father of young kids, which redirected his multitasking some)

11:54am Doug Schulkind:

@Dean
Yes, she is moving to Pittsburgh to become the new head of the Univ. of Pittsburgh's jazz program.

11:54am Dean:

Oh, nice, fred! Name? Will look for announcements, lectures, events, etc.

11:55am Dean:

Our loss, then!

11:55am Doug Schulkind:

Happy to make you happy, Jeff Golick.

11:56am Rich in Washington:

Wonderful show today, Doug! I've been too busy getting ready and commuting to work to commentify today, but finally landed, so...

11:56am fred:

@Dean: Carmine Emanuele Cella. Show up with a WFMU T-shirt, he's seen me wearing those so often it might right a bell (maybe not, he has a lot going on)

11:57am Doug Schulkind:

Along with Yosuke Yamashit, three old friends: Jarman/Malachi Favors/Don Moye.

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11:57am Granny Spicy Tuna:

Thanks for this glorious indulgence, Doug AND Uncle Michael. See you in the Hinky Dinky lounge soon…

11:59am Doug Schulkind:

It's been my exceeding delight, Granny Spicy Tuna!

11:59am Dean:

Thanks, fred. Will do!

I'm confused. Upthread reads, "Nicole Mitchell is becoming the new head of the vaunted jazz program at the University of Pittsburgh." Is Tiger Trio going to lead the program?

11:59am Jeff Golick:

Clicky-starred this whole ep a while back, but thanks for the whole enchilada, @Doug.

11:59am Doug Schulkind:

Roscoe Mitchell here on alto. May God love and protect him.

12:00pm Dean:

Hoping to hear Roscoe with Tyshawn at a house in Berkeley in March...

12:00pm Doug Schulkind:

All hail the mighty Hinky Dinky Time, up next on the Drummer Stream!

PLAYLIST: wfmu.org...

12:01pm Doug Schulkind:

@Dean
Powerhouse!

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12:01pm dutchtheo:

Thanks, Doug!

12:02pm Webhamster Henry:

Thanks Doug! What a wide-ranging talent he was!

12:02pm Doug Schulkind:

Here's a brief musing I wrote on the death of Lester Bowie: wfmu.org...

12:03pm fred:

Thanks Doug!

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12:03pm listener james from westwood:

Grateful for the kind and wide-ranging tribute; as always, picking only 3 hours must be so rough. Thanks!!

12:05pm burke:

Ciao!

12:07pm Doug Schulkind:

Thank you, everyone! That was sweet!

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9:29am Brian in UK:

Doug, a moving tribute. Sadly, I was attending my sister in laws funeral yesterday. Even worse, my brother is dealing with the consequences of Parkinsons Disease. Ah life.

The good news, just got a copy of The True Story of Abner Jay on record.

9:39am Doug Schulkind:

I am so sorry, Brian.

Theme Music: Sarah Webster Fabio	Jujus: Alchemy of the Blues	Jujus: Alchemy of the Blues (Folkways 1976)
ECD	In Tempo	Major Force: The Original Art-Form (Mo' Wax 1990)

Joseph Jarman	Non-Cognitive Aspects of the City 0:07:44 Pop-up)	Song For (Delmark 1966)
Art Ensemble of Chicago	One for Jarman 0:21:26 Pop-up)	Certain Blacks (America 1970)
Joseph Jarman & Anthony Braxton	Together Alone 0:28:30 Pop-up)	Together Alone (Delmark 1971)
Art Ensemble of Chicago	Theme de Celine 0:34:06 Pop-up)	Les Stances à Sophie (OST) (Nessa 1970)

Joseph Jarman	Little Fox Run 0:44:43 Pop-up)	Song For (Delmark 1966)
Joseph Jarman	Song for Christopher 0:51:37 Pop-up)	As If It Were the Seasons (Delmark 1968)
Art Ensemble of Chicago	Illistrum 1:12:35 Pop-up)	Fanfare for the Warriors (Atlantic 1973)

Frank Lowe	Thulani 1:27:36 Pop-up)	Black Beings (ESP 1973)
Joseph Jarman & Don Moye	Nke Ala (The Earth) 1:49:43 Pop-up)	Egwu-Anwu (Sun Song) (India Navigation 1978)
Joseph Jarman	Song for Eric 1:52:43 Pop-up)	Sunbound, Volume One (AECO Recordings 1976)

Joseph Jarman and Don Moye feat. Johnny Dyani	Black Paladins 2:02:46 Pop-up)	Black Paladins
Joseph Jarman & Don Moye	Sun Spots 2:10:42 Pop-up)	Earth Passage/Density (Black Saint 1981)
Muhal Richard Abrams	Ja Do Thu (Dedicated to Jarman, Douglas & Thurman) 2:21:41 Pop-up)	Lifea Blinec (Arista/Novus 1978)

Joseph Jarman	Oh Sensei Ni Sasageru 2:33:13 Pop-up)	Inheritance (Baybridge 1983)
Equal Interest	Rondo for Jenny 2:42:36 Pop-up)	Equal Interest (OmniTone 1999)
Yosuke Yamashita	For J 2:49:56 Pop-up)	First Time (Frasco 1979)
Art Ensemble of Chicago	Hail We Now Sing Joy 2:57:51 Pop-up)	The Meeting (Pi 2003)

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