[JPL] Still Another Jazz Show Nov 5

[Dick Crockett]

Still Another Jazz Show Nov 5
ANTONIO SANCHEZ   “One For Antonio”  “Did You Get It?”
  MIGRATION   Cam Jazz
JOSH ROSEMAN  “Greasy Feets Music”  “Thoroughfare” 
NEW CONSTELLATIONS: LIVE IN VIENNA   Accurate Records
DAVID MURRAY   “Sacred Ground”/Cassandra Wilson   
SACRED GROUND
Justin Time Records
KATIE BULL “Twisted”  THE STORY SO FAR  Corn Hill
Indie
JOHN MCLEAN   “Better Angels”  “Ready For The War”  
BETTER ANGELS 
Origin Records
HOWARD WILEY   “Twelve Gates To The City”   ANGOLA
PROJECT  H.N.I.C. Music 
DAYNA STEPHENS featuring John Scofield    “Smoking
Gun” “Teeth”
THE TIMELESS NOW  CTA Records
SEAN JONES   “Allison”  ”It's Just A Matter Of Time”  
KALEIDISCOPE   Mack Avenue Records
HERBIE HANCOCK   “River”  “Tea Leaf Prophecy”  RIVER: 
THE JONI LETTERS  Verve Music
Percussionist ANTHONY SANCHEZ debut as a leader on the
new MIGRATION cd, highlights his meteoric rise as a
contemporary progressive jazz artist is well
documented here with a send off by todays great
musicians who appear on this cd, Chick Corea, Wayne
Shorter,  Pat Metheny, Chris Potter, David Sanchez,
Scott Colley and the maestro here, percussionist
Antonio Sanchez.  This is potent progressive
mainstream. Frankly it's a bias, for a walk around my
favorite place, the beach along the bay between
Monterey and Pacific Grove is no greater love. 
You walk the walk, dig the progressive contemporaries
along with the birds and the bee and never forget the
bliss. The Aries, furies and the breeze will never
forget your face.  And while you're away, dig “Did You
Get It?”  For life is a question mark. 
Trombonist JOSH ROSEMAN confers with his NEW
CONSTELLATIONS: LIVE IN VIENNA.   Recorded live at Joe
Zawinul's “Bird Land,” relevant to Joe's recent
passing, this blends interesting young modern
musicians with new scales.  We played “Greasy Feats
Music” and “Thoroughfare,” reggaes to the truth.  So
much percussive energy provided by No Cal's Justin
Brown, a member of the Joe Gilman trio. 
DAVID MURRAY begins the next segment from the latest
cd, SACRED GROUND.  David Murray is a native of
Berkley and graduate of Berkley High School music
curriculum that produced inventive saxophonists Joshua
Redman, Howard Wiley and Dayna Stephens. He's the
beloved, very talented, non conformist, who prefers to
go his own way, living in Paris. He possesses a tone
and strength of a Coleman Hawkins and outward
conception of a John Coltrane.  His recent recordings
on Justin Time Records are gems.
We played the title tune “Sacred Ground,” with
Cassandra Wilson. 
Speaking of musicians who go their own way.  Follow
their journey.  KATIE BULL  
fits the profile.  THE STORY, SO FAR is an interesting
adage. Since everything changes minute by minute. Try
hard as we can to capture the moment, it goes, making
room for another glorious moment.  It's jazz celebre'.
It's what we enjoy through a live performance,
crystalline to an ever evolving Universe.  Katie Bull
is a jazz vocalist, multi media writer/performer and
voice coach. There are more important things in life
than the glitter and glare of celebrity. We played
Katie Bull singing “Twisted” by Annie Ross and
saxophonist Wardell Gray. Bull's take on this jazz
classic is unique and on fire.
Guitarist JOHN MCLEAN concludes this segment of SAJS
with the title tune from his new BETTER ANGELS. It
blends voice, reeds, violin into a vibrant acoustic
and electric ensemble. And we played an unforgettable
presentation with Grazyna Auguscik singing Janis Ian's
“Ready For The War.” John Mclean, Grazyna Auguscik,
Jim Gailoretto, reeds, Zach Brock, violin, Karl
Montzka, organ, Larry Kohut, bass and Eric Montzka,
drums.  Chicago's better angels.
The second hour to SAJS feature two other jazz alumni
from the Berkley High music department. Saxophonist
HOWARD WILEY begins the first segment with his new cd,
THE ANGOLA PROJECT.   Wiley conceived the idea for
this project from listening to a conversation with a
prisoner named Bama from Angola Prison in Louisiana,
recorded by Alan Lomax. “One of the saddest I've ever
heard,” says Wiley, as Bama describes the very few
options for a black man in the South at the beginning
of the 20th century.  
We played the New Orleans inspired “Twelve Gates To
The City.”  An  uplifting saxophone solo on “The
Conversation” by David Murray.
Saxophonist DAYNA STEPHENS is next with his new cd,
THE TIMELESS NOW. Guitarist John Scofield sits in on
this cd with young pianist Taylor Eigsti,  Ben Street,
bass, Eric Harland, drums and trombonist NickVagenas. 
I can't tell you how this cd is, in case you haven't
noticed, put “The Timeless Now”  in your special
favorites. It's so well conceived, imagined and
constructed. There are so many riffs to conjure here,
that you'll be over imagined. Caution: Don't watch an
air show, visit a car show, or watch over 24 hours of
television, at least a day and a half after you listen
to this. It's just too good to recognize the  endless
small uncovering uniqueness. We played “Smoking Gun”
and “Teeth” with Taylor Eigsti's free endless Rhodes
playing.
SEAN JONES and new cd,  KALEIDOSCOPE conclude this
segment with the tune “Allison,” a slow busy bossa
nova with a high end groove.  The vocalize seals it as
a memorable open to an interesting new contemporary
jazz cd. It's something you ride into the setting sun
in the West with...
We continue with SEAN JONES  in the last segment from
the new KALEIDOSCOPE cd on SAJS.  
We don't usually enjoy the fruits of combining vocals
with prominent musicians, but in this case,  as well
as, with HERBIE HANCOCK'S, THE JONI LETTERS, they're
just too good to pass up.
We played “It's Just A Matter Of Time” with singers
Gretchen Parlato and Sachal Vasandani.  This is a cd
of love, mystery, spirituality and rejuvenation.
Listen to Orrin   Evans, “I Come To Thee” and Kim
Burrell's interpretation. It'll shake your stars.
The denouement of this is more apply apropos with
HERBIE HANCOCK'S  RIVER, THE JONI LETTERS.  Jazz radio
show can mix the music to tell a story, whether
bright, or melancholy, or dark, or light, or magic, or
shades of gray. Herbie Hancock and Larry Klein combine
to generate new focus with Joni Mitchell's songs. The
center of Joni Mitchell's songs: Can me and you reach
an understanding?  Our dark, and light sides reveal
outer layers of we, stripping away, the artichoke
humans. What about you and me?  This is the center of
Joni Mitchell's personal messages.
At first, when looking at this new Herbie Hancock cd,
I thought,oh no, not another, for programmers tend to
make decisions quickly on the voracity of a project. 
This is a special sequential project, presenting Joni
Mitchell's songs and poetry in a different venue and
this new approach under the guidance of a very
prominent jazz pianist is very successful. We played
“River,” with a Corinne Bailey Rae introspective and a
quaint, powerful study of personal, yet frail
relationships in “Tea Leaf Prophesy” with Joni
Mitchell, the classic emblematic of our ongoings and
comings.   
Herbie Hancock's “River, The Joni Letters,” will
reveal to you in your silence, your inner most
secrets.  Prominent jazz musicians, Herbie Hancock,
Wayne Shorter, Dave Holland, Vinnie Colaiuta and
guitarist Larry Loueke make it so...
This is the glorious night time of the All Night Jazz
Show. The streets are alive with music. 
This what is so.
Dick Crockett
STILL ANOTHER JAZZ SHOW
MONDAYS 10 am & 10 pm, Pacific
“The Voice” 88.7fm
4623 T Street, Suite A
Sacramento, Ca 95819-4743
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