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Day of the Dead Show - A Sonic Alter

By David Brown | The Jazz Continuum
November 1, 2022
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This week, we bring you G-Town Radio's 5th annual Day of the Dead weekend. For this week's Jazz Continuum program, we will feature a variety of jazz musicians paying homage to friends, mentors, and icons in the Jazz Continuum. Think of this as a sonic alter to those who came before in the music.

Playlist

Thelonious Monk "Esistrophy (Theme)" from Live at the It Club-Complete (Columbia) 00:30
Don Byas Quintet "I Remember Clifford" from Americans In Europe vol.s 2 (Impulse! ) 02:30
Rahsaan Roland Kirk "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" from The Return of the 5000 lb. Man (Warner Bros. Records) 09:45
The Kahil El'Zabar Quartet "Eddie Harris" from A Time For Healing (Spiritmuse Records) 16:02
James Brandon Lewis, Chad Taylor "Willisee" from A Time For Healing (Intakt) 24:55
Chad Taylor Trio "Reconciliation" from The Reel (Astral Spirit) 31:16
Sun Ra & His Arkestra "Limehouse Blues" from The Spirit of Jazz Cosmos Arkestra at WUHY, 1978 (Enterplanetary Koncepts) 36:35
Harry Skoler "Sue's Changes" from Living Sound: The Music Of Charles Mingus (Sunnyside) 40:55
Cheick Tidiane Seck "Tanjah" from Timbuktu—The Music Of Randy Weston (Komos) 53:51
Rudresh Mahanthappa "Both Hands" from Bird Calls (ACT) 1:05:51
Vi Redd "Now's The Time" from Bird Call (United Artists) 1:10:37
Lennie Tristano "Requium" from Tristano (Atlantic) 1:10:37
John Coltrane Quartet "Bessie's Blues" from Crescent (Impluse!) 1:21:34
Aki Takase "Take The Coltrane" from My Ellington (Intakt) 1:25:04
Alice Coltrane "A Love Supreme" from World Galaxy (Impulse!) 1:25:04
Duke Ellington "Lotus Blossom" from ... 'And His Mother Called Him Bill" (RCA Victor) 1:39:05
Duke Ellington, Ray Brown "Pitter Panther Patter" from This One's For Blanton (Pablo) 1:42:59
Matthew Shipp "Tone Poem for Duke" from To Duke (RogueArt) 1:46:01
Roscoe Mitchell Trio "Malachi" from Day and the Night (Dizim Records) 1:46:01
Art Ensemble Of Chicago "Suite for Lester" from Tribute to Lester (ECM Records) 2:01:13
Tim Berne "The Unknown" from Diminutive Mysteries (Mostly Hemphill) (JMT) 2:06:37
Jessica Williams "The House That Rouse Built" from In the Key Of Monk (Jazz Focus) 2:14:27
Anthony Braxton "Reflections" from Six Monk's Compositions (1987) (Black Saint) 2:20:14
Dave Douglas "Mary's Idea" from Soul On Soul (RCA Victor) 2:26:12
Deanna Witkowski "Force Of Nature" from Force Of Nature (MCG Jazz) 2:28:59
William Parker "Blue Limelight" from Migration of Silence Into And Out of The Tone World (Centering Records) 2:34:33
Joe Henderson "Miles Ahead" from So Near, So Far (Musings for Miles) (Verve) 2:41:50
Sun Ra Arkestra Directed by Marshall Allen "Wish Upon A Star" from Living Sky (Omni Sound) 2:46:21

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