Thursday, February 14, while most people were sharing some quality time with their loved one on Valentine's Day night, I was in the on-air studio of the radio station of which I co-host a weekly jazz/improvised music show. What can I say - I have a very understanding spouse who is willing to let me pursue my love of this music. This night I spent the first third of the show - it's a ninety minute program - celebrating the recent release of a wonderful wordless novel called Let That Bad Air Out: Buddy Bolden's Last Parade" by Toronto artist/printmaker Stefan Berg from Porcupine's Quill Books.
You can see images from the book on our slide show at: IMC
Here are a couple here:



I read from an email interview I had conducted with the artist as well several passages from books dealing with Buddy Bolden. I played a selection of Dixieland jazz to get us in the mood.
The second and final thirds of the show was devoted to more recent music which we (the association I belong to: Improvised Music Collective)had received from jazz and improvising artists from around the world. I played music from musicians from Montreal, Toronto, Sweden, Switzerland, USA, and France.
Here is the playlist for the entire show:
artist / album / selection
SET 1
Sidney Bechet Dixieland Jazz: This Was the Jazz Age I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say
SET 2
Bunk Johnson Brass Band - Dixieland Jazz: This Was the Jazz Age - Just a Little While to Stay Here
Edmond Hall - Dixieland Jazz: This Was the Jazz Age - Royal Garden Blues
Johnny Dodd's Black Bottom Stompers - Dixieland Jazz: This Was the Jazz Age - New Orleans Stomp
Henry "Red" Allen - Dixieland Jazz: This Was the Jazz Age - King Porter Blues
Sidney Bechet - Dixieland Jazz: This Was the Jazz Age - Really the Blues
Mugsy Spanier - Dixieland Jazz: This Was the Jazz Age - Dipper Mouth Blues
Wild Bill Davison - Dixieland Jazz: This Was the Jazz Age - Muskrat Ramble
Kid Ory - Dixieland Jazz: This Was the Jazz Age - Blues For Jimmie
SET 3
Francois Carrier & Michel Lambert - Kathmandu - Impro for the Monks
Chris Greco Trio - Pleiadian Call - Ask
Jalazz - Between Spaces - Wie du Dir, So ich Mir
Biggi Vinkeloe Trio - Mbat - Fenska
SET 4
CBD Trio - Suspension - Alap
Francois Ingold Trio - Fat Free - Lust for Life
Harley Card - Non-Fiction - Right Arm
SET 5
Vinkeloe/Weaver/Smith - Desert Sweets - Blue Lupine
Chaos Butterfly & Biggi Vinkeloe - Live at Studio Fabriken - Joy, Hmm… 1
Next week, fellow IMCer Mark Othmer profiles guitarist Sonny Sharrock and features his seminal recording Ask The Ages
Till next time...
Ron
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