We were troubled by persistent studio gremlins week - but hopefully the music shone through! It ranged from an outstanding version of Coltrane’s Resolution (the first of two tracks featuring guitarist Bill Frisell) to a new afrobeat 12in single from Montpellier’s Fanga - more signs that afrobeat is now a worldwide style.

In between were classic tracks from Weather Report (Mysterious Traveller) and Art Blakey (Moanin’). As great music does, each made us listen again - the tiny double-tracked soprano sax phrases of Wayne Shorter and the outstanding tenor solo from Benny Golson were reminders of how diverse jazz can be.

If you’re one of our many readers and listeners from around the world, then we’d love to hear from you. Just send us a comment on the playlists or any of our other features on this blog. Welcome to new blogfans in India and South Africa!

1. Heliocentrics - Sirius B
2. Marc Johnson - Resolution
3. Jimmy Heath - Angel Man
4. Weather Report - Mysterious Traveller
5. Carmen Lundy - All Day, All Night
6. Miles Davis - All Blues
7. Jose James - Nola
8. Bill Frisell - 1968
9. Fanga - Natural Juice (Ashanti Mix)
10. Roberto Roena - Take Five (Nicola Conte remix)
11. Art Blakey - Moanin’
12. Manu Katche - So Groovy
13. Pharoah Sanders - Wise One
14. Indigo Jam Unit - Rumble
15. Christian Prommer’s Drumlesson - Plastic Dreams
16. Joe Henderson - Black Narcissus
17. Nostalgia 77 - Journey Home

As always - if you missed the music live, then check out our Listen Again feature. Just click on the link to the right of the blog and enjoy!

A solo show with Derek tonight and some interesting choices which - in part - reflect his summer break on soca-drenched Grenada as well as featuring some new Japanese jazz from Indigo Jam Unit together with some Blue Note favourites.

Here’s one anniversary for Cosmic Jazz readers and listeners to check out: 17 August is the 50th anniversary of the release of Miles Davis’ A Kind of Blue and if you’re still wondering what all the fuss is about, then have a look at this article from online magazine Slate.

http://www.slate.com/id/2225336/

Listen out for more from A Kind of Blue in next week’s show and - as always - if you missed the music live, then check out our Listen Again feature. Just click on the link to the right of the blog and enjoy!

1. Wynton Marsalis - First Slow Dance
2. Ornette Coleman - Focus on Sanity
3. Sonny Rollins - St. Thomas
4. Ernest Ranglin - Congo Man
5. The Joe Harriott Quintet - Compound
6. Indigo Jam Unit - Pirates
7. Oumou Sangare - Wele Wele
8. Lee Morgan - Twice Around
9. Donald Byrd - Dixie Lee
10. Nicola Conte - The Nubian Queens
11. Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson - Peace Go With You Brother
12. Eddie Harris - Velocity
13. Charles Mingus - Better Git it in Your Soul
14. Horace Silver - The Jody Grind
15. Grachan Moncur - Evolution
16. Quasimode - Giant Black Shadow
17. Grant Green - My Favourite Things
18. Lonnie Plaxico - Windy City

Tonight’s show was with special guest presenter Alan Bramwell. Music ranged from Marc Moulin’s funky opener to classics like My Favourite Things and Four on Six. Alan also played some great cuts from this year’s Newport Jazz Festival, with Vijay Iyer’s innovative version of Ronnie Foster’s Mystic Brew a real highlight. If you want to find more of this music just go to
http://www.npr.org/music/newportjazz/index2.html

You can hear several complete concerts from artitsts like Joe Lovano, James Carter and Esperanza Spalding with some of them downloadable. Check it out!

1. Marc Moulin - Silver (Who Stole the Groove)
2. Jimmy Smith - The Cat
3. John Coltrane - My Favourite Things
4. Herbie Hancock - Thieves in the Temples
5. Lars Danielson - Tarantella
6. Vijay Iyer - Mystic Brew
7. Wes Montgomery - Four on Six
8. David Fathead Newman - Weird Beard
9. Bobby Timmons - This Here/Moanin’
10. Roy Budd - Get Carter
11. Mavis Staples - Why Am I Treated So Bad
12. Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges - Stompy Jones
13. Dave Brubeck - Ellington Mix
14. St. Germain - Rose Rouge

You can play tonight’s show in full at any time over the next week. Just look over to right of the page under the Search section and above the ICR logo and click on the date. That’s it!

If you like what you hear, let us know. To download and save the show into Real Player, just hover over the bottom of the box until you see the words Download this clip and then save with a right click into Real Player.

Tonight’s show features new music from Will Holland’s Quantic with the Combo Barbaro (one of the best things he’s done we think), Acoustic Ladyland, Branford Marsalis, Mos Def and more, a tribute to jazz theorist and composer George Russell, a special mix of variations on John Coltrane’s classic track A Love Supreme and some left field treasures like the delights of Brazil’s Brownman Greenman, the beauty of Neil Cowley’s piano trio and David Sanborn’s funky take on Ornette Coleman’s Ramblin’. It’s all here in the world of Cosmic Jazz!

If you didn’t catch the show, then don’t forget our Listen Again facility. Just click on the text on the righthand side of this page and sit back and enjoy. Don’t forget to tell us what you think via the Comments facility especially if you’re one of our many listeners around the world.

Apologies for a couple of fader glitches tonight - we’re working on it…

1. Santana - Eternal Caravan of Reincarnation
2. Quantic and the Combo Barbaro - The Dreaming Mind pt 1
3. Mos Def - Quiet Dog Bite Hand
4. Quincy Jones - Hikkey-Burr
5. Terry Callier - Ride Suite Ride
6. Brownman Greenman - John Crow Flies East
7. Neil Cowley Trio - Streets Paved With Half Baguettes pt 2
8. Studio Apartment - Dazzling
9. The Jazz Crusaders - Young Rabbits
10. Azymuth - Linha de Horizonte
11. Gato Barbieri - Ruby
12. Branford Marsalis Quartet - Jabberwocky
13. David Sanborn - Ramblin’
14. Sun Ra - UFO
15. A Love Supreme Mix - Branford Marsalis Quartet/Dwight Trible and the Life Force Trio/Carlos Santana and John McLaughlin/Miguel ‘Anga’ Dias/Alice Coltrane
16. Santana - Song of the Wind
17. Roy Haynes - Quiet Fire
18. George Russell - The Paleolithic Game
19. Acoustic Ladyland - The Mighty Q
20. Jet Sounds - Nuspirit Helsinki

Here’s the playlist for Alan’s show last week. Sorry that it’s not available as a Listen Again - but don’t worry, this week’s show will be.

1. Compared to What - Les McCann and Eddie Harris
2. Black History/The World - Gill Scott Heron
3. Los Indios - Mongo Santamaria
4. Death Wish Main Theme - Herbie Hancock
5. Carpetbaggers Main Theme - Jimmy Smith
6. Groves Groove - Benny Golson
7. I Wish I Knew (How It Would Feel To Be Free) - Billy Taylor Trio
8. Serengeti - Cal Tjader
9. Stronger To Me - Amy Winehouse
10. Strong Man - Abbey Lincoln
11. Freedom Day - Abbey Lincoln
12. Tarantella - Lars Danielsson
13. Cousin Flo - Archie Shepp and Horace Parlan
14. In Walked Bud - Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers (feat. Thelonious Monk)
15. The Dancer - Stanley Clarke
16. Funk Joint - Marcus Miller
17. Faubus Fables (original version) Charles Mingus