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Creative Music May 29, 2014 10pm - Midnight

Blog Name:Progressive Nights

Blog Author:Miff Mole

Posted on:May 29, 2014

The Index of Possibilities is deployed transparently throughout any programming span, regardless of projection intent. It illuminates the phrase "more of a guideline than a rule" and The Index can also take the heat in a pinch, as in "that escalated quickly." 
  • Mantra by Alice Coltrane to begin. Joe Henderson and Pharoah Sanders pretty much on edge from beginning to end. Not much more, not much less. Mantra.
  • Song for Charles by the Art Ensemble of Chicago to start Free Time. No one has ever knitted the sounds created into such a solid aural fabric of fascination. Maybe it's just me. (paris, 1969)
  • Make your own Index of Possibilities. Wrap your brain around it, see what it can do for you. Everybody's different!

Thanks for listening.

Creative Music May 22, 2014 10pm - Midnight

Blog Name:Progressive Nights

Blog Author:Miff Mole

Posted on:May 22, 2014

Tonight's program shamelessly pandering to the broadest demographic of Jazzheads if they are free wheeling modernists unconcerned by implications of structure and/or the suggestion of reconstructed textures vis-a-vis oblique voicings. It's a three day weekend where we should be more thankful than Thanksgiving. Game On!
  • I felt like the first hour should have been enjoyable if one is anywhere near the above rhetorical description.
  • Sun Ra was born 100 years ago, hence the spotlight tonight. I just call it Sun Ra Day. It could be any day of the year. It will always be special. Besides, I don't want to get into it about the Saturn thing.
  • So many angles to Jazz. Swangin'!
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Live Blogging Bobby Watson with SCPA Jazz Ensemble at Jazz Live Tuesday May 20 2014

Blog Name:Jazz Live

Blog Author:Vince Outlaw

Posted on:May 20, 2014

Jazz great Bobby Watson plays with the next generation of Jazz greats from the San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts (SCPA) Jazz Ensemble at Jazz Live San Diego, Tuesday, May 20, 2014, 8-10 PM PT. The 2 hour Jazz Live broadcast includes an interview with Bobby and a preview of our next Jazz Live (Stanley Jordan, 6/10/14). There's a lot that goes on before, during, and after the show, and we'll do our best to capture it all right here on the Jazz Live San Diego Blog...scroll to the bottom of the post to see how you can be part of he show.

Creative Music May 8, 2014 10pm - Midnight

Blog Name:Progressive Nights

Blog Author:Miff Mole

Posted on:May 8, 2014

I have been operating on the assumption that it's the 9th of May. Forty five minutes left in the day and I just found out it's the 8th. Could be worse, somehow. And now, Program Notes:
  • John McNeil arranged a great spin on Giuffre's 'The Train And The River,' and I played 'Sugar Craft' instead of 'Whatever Happened To Gus' by MMW. Once a year I make myself go to a different tune from Combustication. It's only because WHTG is the most perfect assemblage of ideas ever.
  • Each layer of Free Time has brought some new angle to fascinate me so I'm hoping it's doing the same for you. Joseph Jarman, Steve Lehman (spotlight on Damion Reid), Steve Lacy, Shadow Boxer's Delight (unreal), Jason Kao Hwang, Tin/Bag (Free Time can be pretty, too), and Andrew Hill to end the show.
  • May 25th, check the Jazz Calendar for the Jazz Workshop event. 
Thanks for listening.


Creative Music May 1, 2014 10pm - Midnight

Blog Name:Progressive Nights

Blog Author:Miff Mole

Posted on:May 1, 2014

An image from somewhere in the pages of William S. Burroughs comes close to dramatically summarizing my mind of late, "a blizzard of glass shards." Google doesn't back me up on this but it doesn't matter. Tonight was really about making it "just this" and not "that."
  • Dusk, by Andrew Hill, sounded especially beautiful tonight. The Sun Died, as reconstructed by Ellery Eskelin, was superb. Apparently, context is everything. Some close calls really showed the value of my Index of Possibilities theory. Similar to Cecil Taylor's "...just don't hesitate."
  • Cecil Taylor, Dewey Redman, and Elvin Jones. Lots of space and power.
  • Grachan Moncur III has a real way with making a tune hum. Love And Hate, from Exploration.
Thanks for listening.