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Cosmic Jazz has moved!

cosmicjazz — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:32:57 +0000

We have moved to our brand new blog at cosmicjazz.co.uk. Join us there for playlists, features, reviews and much more. Listen Again too? Of course!

Playlist - 10 September 2009

cosmicjazz — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:30:37 +0000

Back to a Neil and Derek alternate tracks-style show! It was good to work together again on the decks and create a mix and blend we think works. We never know exactly where the show is going but this week we took the show in a latin direction, reflecting our upcoming live set at Saints in Ipswich on 23 September.

We started with the lead track from Joe Lovano’s new CD and then played a mix of new (Mayer Hawthorne’s perfect retro-soul Maybe So Maybe No) and old (the reissued Smatter from Gnu High festuring Keith Jarrett). The best modal moment of the show was undoubtedly Art Blakey’s powerhouse groove Nihon Bash, from the Riverside vinyl reissue Kyoto featuring Freddie Hubbard, Curtis Fuller and Wayne Shorter. This was the Messengers set to 11 and the Sadao Watanabe-composed featured track is probably the album’s best moment.

1. Joe Lovano Us Five - Powerhouse
2. Roland Kirk - The Call
3. Kenny Wheeler - Smatter
4. Frank Morgan - Footprints
5. Mayer Hawthorne - Maybe So Maybe No
6. Nation of Multiverse - Hanikami
7. Flying Lotus - Melt
8. Mr Scruff - Stockport Carnival
9. Art Blakey - Nihon Bash
10. Chicago Afrobeat Project - Jekajo
11. Kwabena Okai - Obiaro Bewu
12. Michel Petrucciani - Miles Davis’ Licks
13. Miles Davis - Jean Pierre
14. Charlie Palmieri - Descarga (Around Midnight) Charanson
15. Charlie Palmieri talking about the danzon/Kenny Barron - Fungi Mama
16. Sun Ra - Springtime Again
17. The Afro-Rican Ensemble - Tanga
18. Tito Puente - Watu Watsuri (Gilles Peterson re-edit)
19. Indigo Jam Unit - Arctic Circle
20. Christian Prommer’s Drumlesson - Can You Feel It?

Next week we’ll have new music from pianist Robert Glasper and some remixes from the Dub Colossus Return to Addis project together with more latin jazz to get you ready for 23 September. We’ll also feature a track from the new release by Norwich-based Red Shadow Quartet who play at the Milestones Club in Lowestoft on 01 November.

Unfortunately, this week’s show isn’t available via our Listen Again facility - but next week’s will be!

What’s on this week 07

cosmicjazz — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 21:36:16 +0000

Every week at 9:30 pm on Cosmic Jazz we let you know about music you can hear locally.
Now the blog will have key details of these listings and we’ll show the first upcoming show at each venue.
Contact details help you get in touch with the venue.
If you’ve been to see jazz locally, write and tell us about it via the comments facility on the blog.

Fleece Jazz at Stoke by Nayland Golf Club
11 September - Mairi Wilson’s Threesome
Website: www.fleecejazzatkerseymill.org.uk
Phone: 01787 211865

Ipswich Jazz Club
27 September - Matt Wates Sextet
Website: www.ipswichjazzclub.co.uk
Phone: 01473 231552

Milestones Jazz Club, Lowestoft
01 November - The Red Shadow Quartet
Website: www.milestonesjazz@hotmail.co.uk
Phone: 01502 568684

Lakeside Theatre, Colchester
no jazz events currently
Website: www.mercurytheatre.co.uk/artson5
Phone: 01206 573948

Colchester Arts Centre
no jazz events currently
Website: www.colchesterartscentre.com
Phone: 01206 500900

Cambridge Modern Jazz Club
07 October - Mike Westbrook Band (Off Abbey Road)
Website: www.cambridgejazz.org
Phone: 01223 51151

What’s on this week 06

cosmicjazz — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 19:38:10 +0000

Fleece Jazz at Stoke by Nayland Golf Club
07 August - Barb Junger
Website: www.fleecejazzatkerseymill.org.uk
Phone: 01787 211865

Ipswich Jazz Club
16 August - Alan Barnes and the David Newton Trio
Website: www.ipswichjazzclub.co.uk
Phone: 01473 231552

Milestones Jazz Club, Lowestoft
06 September - Gianni Boscarino Quartet
Website: www.milestonesjazz@hotmail.co.uk
Phone: 01502 568684

Lakeside Theatre, Colchester
no jazz events currently
Website: www.mercurytheatre.co.uk/artson5
Phone: 01206 573948

Colchester Arts Centre
no jazz events currently
Website: www.colchesterartscentre.com
Phone: 01206 500900

Cambridge Modern Jazz Club
07 October - Mike Westbrook Off Abbey Road Project
Website: www.cambridgejazz.org
Phone: 01223 51151

Cosmic Jazz goes live!

cosmicjazz — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 19:37:26 +0000

Yes - Cosmic Jazz goes live again! We’re back at Saints Wine Bar on 23 September when this time Cosmic Jazz Club does Latin jazz.

Tickets are £3 for admission and a tapas taster or £10 for admission and a full tapas selection - available from Saints on St Peter’s Street, Ipswich.

Call in or call on 01473 252438. We’ll be playing from 7.30 ’til late. See you there!

Playlist - 3rd September 2009

cosmicjazz — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:06:40 +0000

A solo show from Derek tonight with some old favourites from EST (the impossibly beautiful Seven Days of Falling), Carmen Lundy (featuring the spoken words of Langston Hughes’ I’ve Known Rivers and Tubby Hayes’ Down in the Village (recently revived by Japanese jazzers Quasimode).

There was also a great Latin Jazz section in celebration of another Cosmic Jazz Club night - 23 September at Saints Wine Bar here in Ipswich. More details of the show elsewhere on the blog.

1. Alberto Favero - Primer Movimiento
2. Esbjorn Svensson Trio - Seven Days of Falling
3. Carmen Lundy - One More River to Cross
4. Roland Kirk - Making Love After Hours
5. Roland Kirk - The Call
6. Nostalgia 77 - Steps of the Sun
7. Ravi Coltrane - For Zoe
8. Mulatu Astake and the Heliocentrics - Masenqo
9. Nation of Multiverse - Can You Feel How I Feel?
10. 45 aka Swing-0 - I Believe
11. Soil & “Pimp” Sessions - Sahara
12. Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - Kyoto
13 Mingus Big Band - Cumbia & Jazz Fusion
14. Dizzie Gillespie y Machito - Exuberante
15. The Tubby Hayes Quintet - Down in the Village
16. Michael Brecker - Madame Toulouse

Playlist - 27 August 2009

cosmicjazz — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:10:13 +0000

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!

Playlist - 20th August 2009

cosmicjazz — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:03:51 +0000

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

Playlist - 13th August 2009

cosmicjazz — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:03:15 +0000

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.

Playlist - 06 August 2009

cosmicjazz — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:05:58 +0000

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