Floros Floridis, Tyshawn Sorey & Phil Haynes’ Daydream Trio

This episode is a truly mixed bag featuring drummer-led piano trios, the saxophone playing of a true jazz legend in Greece, live recordings from New York, and the usual music from faraway lands. Drummer Tyshawn Sorey has been hailed as one of the most important creators of our time, and his recent The Susceptible Now continues a string of albums of deconstructed and altered music. Fellow drummer Phil Haynes, part of the rarely-recorded and rarely-seen Daydream Trio, delves into the music of Ellington and Strayhorn. Perhaps Duke and Strays Live with pianist Steve Rudolph and bassist Drew Gress is not perhaps as "radical" as the Sorey session, but Haynes and friends take their own form of liberties with very familiar tunes, and the result in both cases, is highly original and brilliant improvisation. Saxophonist Floros Floridis holds the distinction of creating the first modern jazz album produced in Greece back in 1979 with pianist Sikis Papadimitriou. The new Temporal Driftness provides an opportunity to hear this important European player in full-blown free jazz mode, playing with bassist Matthias Bauer & drummerJoe Hertenstein. Saxophonist and presenter Stephen Gauci has been a champion of free jazz in NYC through his creation of various improv series at different locations, including Scholes Street Studios where he records many of the artists he features. You'll hear pair of those, plus the Midi 4 Quartet from Poland, saxophonist Rick Countryman from Manila, and Amsterdam trumpeter Dennis Sekretarev. Lots more interesting stuff as well.

Playlist

• Unionen "6983" from Unionen (We Jazz) 00:00
• Matt Mitchell Trio "Sponger" from Zealous Angles (Pi Recordings) 05:23
• Host speaks 09:29
• Ken Kobayashi, Jeff Miles & Michael Gilbert "#2" from Live at Scholes Street Studio (Gauci Music) 11:25
• Jesper Zeuthen, Marilyn Mazur & Anders Christensen "Statement II" from Sound Flower (Loveland) 21:37
• Peggy Lee & Cole Schmidt "Blame" from Forever Stories Of Moving Parties (Earshift ) 28:30
• Host speaks 34:07
• Mikko Innanen 10+ "Clustrophy" from Pori/Malmi (Fiasko) 35:43
• Porchbone "Improvisation 2" from Porchbone (Driff) 45:51
• Stephen Gauci & Patrick Golden "Improvisation 3" from Live at Scholes Street Studio (Gauci Music) 51:18
• Host speaks 57:08
• Tyshawn Sorey Trio "Bealtime" from The Susceptible Now (Pi Recordings) 59:49
• Midi 4 "Sunday's Psychoanalysis" from Cats, Dogs & Dwarfs (Alpaka) 1:15:05
• Host speaks 1:21:59
• Floros Floridis, Matthias Bauer & Joe Hertenstein "Drift 1" from Temporal Driftness (Evil Rabbit) 1:23:32
• Mike Reed "Floating With An Intimate Stranger" from The Separatist Party (We Jazz) 1:28:01
• Joe Fonda "Bright Light Opus 5" from Eyes On The Horizon (Long Song) 1:33:06
• Host speaks 1:40:5
• Dennis Sekretarev "Lucky Eight" from Mobius (TryTone) 1:42:24
• Rodrigo Amado & The Attic "Corps" from La Grande Crue (NoBusiness) 1:48:50
• Host speaks 2:03:42
• Rick Countryman, Christian Bucher & Simon Tan "Beauty In The Darkness" from Unanimity (Self-released) 2:04:54
• The Diagonal "Freakadelic" from Filter (Not Two) 2:11:12
• Host speaks 2:17:32
• Phil Haynes Daydream Trio "African Flower" from Duke and Strays Live (Corner Store Music) 2:20:29