David Bixler, Milosz Pieczonka, Reza Askari, Marilyn Crispell & Jason Stein

This edition of One Man's Jazz is the 600th done for Taint Radio, and to mark the occasion two albums that would have fit in perfectly with Black History Month in February, but good music has no timetable. Saxophonist David Bixler drew upon not on the jazz poetry of the great Black Poet, Langston Hughes, but rather on his concepts in writing and how he used words with pitch and rhythm and phrasing. The final result was The Langston Hughes Project Vol. 1; you'll hear the entire album in the second hour. Another poet—this time the current poet-in-residence at the Lincoln Center—Mahogany L. Browne hooks up with pianist Sean Mason to create the very contemporary Chrome Valley. And there are plenty of other new releases cracked open for the occasion: bass clarinetist Jason Stein, pianist Marilyn Crispell, bassist Damon Smith and drummer Adam Shead hit with Spi-ralling Horn, Polish saxophonist Milos Pieczonka's debut, German bassist Reza Askari & ROAR, Andy Milne's Time Will Tell, the veteran Anna Kaluza from Germany, and a pair from Scandinavia: Norway's The Core returning after a long hiatus and Finnish multi-reedist Jorma Tapio and his Puhti Trio. It's a great show. Dig in!

Playlist

• David Virelles "Sueno" from Motion (Justin Time) 00:00
• Host speaks 08:45
• Jason Stein, Marilyn Crispell, Damon Smith & Adam Shead "A Song Paid By Signing" from Spi-ralling Horn (Irritable Mystic) 11:26
• Ethnic Heritage Ensemble "Ornette" from Open Me, A Higher Consciousness Of Sound And Spirit (Spiritmuse) 23:04
• Host speaks 30:24
• Milosz Pieczonka "Flicker" from Asleep (Self-released) 31:50
• Massimo De Mattia & Suonomadre "Domicide" from Domicide (Aut Records) 39:14
• Kevin Sun Trio "Lowlands" from The Fate Of The Tenor (Endectomorph) 45:10
• Host speaks 50:19
• Mahogany L. Browne & Sean Mason "Homer, Louisiana (Prelude)" from Chrome Valley (Soapbox Presents) 52:30
• Mahogany L. Browne & Sean Mason "Kerosene Litany" from Chrome Valley (Soapbox Presents) 55:14
• Mahogany L. Browne & Sean Mason "Working Title" from Chrome Valley (Soapbox Presents) 57:07
• Milosz Pieczonka "Too Much Of DR" from Asleep (Self-released) 1:03:29
• Puhti Trio "Trochanter" from Sammal (Running Moose) 1:08:35
• Host speaks 1:13:26
• David Bixler "The Langston Hughes Project Vol.1" from The Langston Hughes Project Vol.1 (Self-released) 1:17:09
• Host speaks 1:57:28
• Reza Akari & ROAR "Synecdoche" from Zen World Cables (Boomslang) 1:58:30
• Ivo Perelman, Mark Helias & David Leon "A Night For Counting Stars" from Bird's Eye (Pyroclastic) 2:48:26
• Andy Milne}} Unison Trio "Purity Of Heart" from Time Will Tell (Sunnyside) 2:57:14
• Host speaks3:03:47
• Joey Baron Quartet "Slow Charleston" from We'll Soon Find Out (Intuition) 3:05:06