Angelini/Niescier/Abdou, Wojciech Jachna, Johnny Dyani & Amalie Dahl

French pianist Bruno Angelini found much inspiration in a quote from his favourite musician Wayne Shorter's graphic novel, "Emanon": "The lotus exists only in the swamp, in our world of turmoil, and the blooming flower purifies the water around it." It led him to make a recording called Lotus Flowers where he and saxophonists Angelika Niescier & Sakina Abdou pay tribute to Shorter and true "lotus flowers" like Nelson Mandela, Jack London, the IPCC scientists, Rosa Parks, Jane Addams, Berta Caceres and her daughter Laura, & Wangari Maathai who have tried to purify the "swamps" of our world. I think you could include the late bassist Johnny Dyani as a lotus flower too; his music brought so much joy to the jazz world, so much so that Steeplechase Records has again released Witchdoctor's Son with John Tchicai & Dudu Pukwana. That opens this show where you'll also hear tastes of new albums by Polish trumpeter Wojciech Jachna, Danish saxophonist Amalie Dahl, the TiTiTi Quartet from Slovenia, saxophonist Paul Dunmall, and Miguel Zenon & quartet in their first live recording.

Playlist

• Host speaks 00:00
• Johnny Dyani "Magwaza" from Witchdoctor's Son (Steeplechase) 01:57
• Dennis Gonzalez "Blues For Lester Bowie" from Herido: Live At St. James Cathedral Chicago (8th Harmonic Breakdown) 14:56
• host speaks 19:34
• Paul Dunmall "No Bad Karma Today" from Away With Troubles And Anxieties (Discus) 21:27
• Sifter "Oro Blanco" from Flake/Fracture (Queen Bee) 29:17
• Dinamitri Open Combo "Eden Was My Home" from Mappe Per L'Eden (Felmay) 36:18
• host speaks 43:41
• Ti Ti Ti "Vzaravnano" from Izba (Non-Aligned) 45:42
• Sandy Evans/Andrew Robson Quartet "Watussi Dreaming" from Zenith (Lamplight) 51:52
• Pandelis Karayorgis Trio "You Took My Coffee And Left" from Cocoon (Self-released) 58:27
• host speaks 1:03:35
• Miguel Zenon Quartet "Abre Cuto Guiri Mambo" from Vanguardia Subterranea (Miel) 1:05:22
• Karl Evangelista Trio "V" from Live At Kingman's Ivy Room (Self-released) 1:12:32
• Jon Irabagon Plainspeak "Malort Is My Shepherd" from Someone To Someone (Irrabagast) 1:20:16
• host speaks 1:27:08
• Amalie Dahl's Dafnie "We Don't Want Your Stupid War" from Stär Op Med Solen (Sonic Transmissions) 1:30:03
• Steve Adams, Lisa Mezzacappa & Jason Levis "The Old Crux" from Never But Dream The Days (Queen Bee) 1:37:09
• host speaks 1:46:58
• Wojciech Jachna Squad "Bleak Sun" from Ad Astra (Audio Cave) 1:48:33
• Jonathan Moritz Trio Secret Tempo "I Think You Hung The Moon" from Love You To Death (Infrequent Seams) 1:56:17
• Hi-Res Heart "Trail Of Tears" from Move Fast And Mend Things (Discus Music) 2:08:00
• host speaks 2:16:40
• Bruno Angelini, Sakina Abdou & Angelika Niescier "Rosa And The Thorns" from Lotus Flowers (Abalone) 2:19:13