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Jazz Collective #3


The Empty Foxhole

Jazz Collective #3
1/29/16

I figured out a new way to search the review archives, which go back 15 years or more. It helped me build a show of drum-led duos and jazz violinists. I made mistakes like front-announcing the wrong song titles a few times, but overall the show flowed pretty well.

Hour 1: Starts at 9:55 so you get a few minutes of Mitch Lemay. Then I get percussive with Max Roach’s M’Boom, Idris Muhammad, Wadada Leo Smith & Jack deJohnette, Walt Dickerson. I enjoyed this hour a lot, it was very percussive and exciting.

Hour 2: Test, Weasel Walter & Chris Pitsiokos, Joe McPhee.

Hour 3: David S. Ware, Joseph Jarman, Anthony Braxton, wrapping up with Ornette Coleman. More instrumental this hour but very rhythmic at times.

Hour 4: Joe Venuti, Billy Harper, Rob Mazurek and Exploding Star Orchestra.

Here’s the playlist.

Each mp3 is 70 minutes long and starts a few minutes before the hour, and ends a few minutes after.
Streams will be available until February 12.

Streams via kfjc.org.

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Jazz Collective #2

joealbany
Joe Albany

Jazz Collective #2
11/20/15

It was Freak Week, so the break clock was suspended and the only break I was required to take was for the FCC-mandated legal ID at the top of the hour – Broadcasting from foothill college this is KFJC Los Altos Hills. DJs come up with special themes for their shows, focusing on artists in a musicological in-depth way. I couldn’t think of anything that satisfied me so I took a strucuralist approach. I went to the library, in the first box of the A section and played with the library. In four hours, I got from Kamal Abdul Alim to the All Star Trumpet Spectacular. The show was actually fun to do, a lot of the tracks were great listens and the show flowed smoother than I would have expected. In a future Jazz Collective show, I’ll continue it.

Hour 1: Starts at 9:55 so you get a few minutes of Ding Dong DJ’s wildly provocative Freak Week show. Then I play from Kamal Abdul Alim to Joshua Abrams.

Hour 2: From Joshua Abrams to Cannonball Adderley.

Hour 3: Cannonball Adderley to Joe Albany.

Hour 4: Joe Albany to the All Star Trumpet Spectacular.

Here’s the playlist.

Each mp3 is 70 minutes long and starts a few minutes before the hour, and ends a few minutes after.
Streams will be available until December 4th.

Streams via kfjc.org.

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Jazz Collective #1

one-night-in-chicago

Jazz Collective #1
10/9/15

This was my first time hosting the Jazz Collective, a long-running show hosted by an ever-evolving platoon of KFJC DJs. From a programming perspective, you are expected to choose from the Jazz library or new Jazz releases. You don’t have to play 35% current releases, which is usually the case when you are programming at KFJC. This made it easier to program. It was my first daytime shift. It was during fundraiser. There were more breaks than I’d taken before and more work in the booth, faster record juggling, and more on-mic presentations. It was kind of stressful.

Hour 1: Starts at 1:55 so you get a few minutes of Sally Goodin. I started out with a Charlie Parker album, and moved through Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, and Gerry Mulligan, featuring saxes throughout the hour.

Hour 2: Clifford Brown, Ben Webster, and then more modern with Steve Lehman, Yoni Kretzmer, and Lisa Mezzacappa.

Hour 3: Lisa Mezzacappa skipped as soon as I went to the bathroom! Then I explored a more Eastern take on jazz.

Hour 4: Further and further afield.

Here’s the playlist.

Each mp3 is 70 minutes long and starts a few minutes before the hour, and ends a few minutes after.
Streams will be available until October 2.

Streams via kfjc.org.