Jazz Matters

This months show celebrates females in the music business showcasing artists who write and perform their own music. From Nina Simone to Little Simz, these strong female role models did it their way.

Tracklist

1. Sampa the Great - Healing

2. Denise Williams - Free

3. Sylvia Stripling - You can't turn me away

4. Gold in the Shade - Shining through

5. Jill Scott and 4 Hero - Got to get up (another day)

6. Swindle - Knowledge

7. Joyce Sims - Come into my life

8. Rene and Angela - Secret rendezvous

9. Nina Simone - African mailman

10. Teena Marie - Behind the groove

11. Patrice Rushen - Haven't you heard

12. Taste of Honey - Oogie boogie boogie

13. Gwen McCrae - All this love that I'm giving

14. Betty Davis - Git in here

15. Marva Whitney - I made a mistake because it's only you

16. Mangoes Hifi and Eva Lazarus - Babylon Raid

17. Terri Walker - Breakout

18. Little Simz - 101FM

19. Tampa the Great - Final form

20. Sa-roc - Goddess gang

21. Missy Elliott - Work it

22. Bahamadia - UKNOWHOWWEDU

23. Alice Russell - Humankind

24. Loose Ends - Hanging on a string

25. Erykah Badu - Appletree

Playlist

ARTHUR VEROCAI - PRESENTE GREGO

JOE ARMON JONES & MAXWELL OWIN feat. OSCAR JEROM - IDIOM

LOIS LANE - BANDA BLACK RIO

AZYMUTH - LINHA DO HORIZONTE (PHONOMAT BEIJANDO BELO HORIZONTE)

I CANI - NON FINIRA

LONNIE LISTON SMITH & THE COSMIC ECHOES - SUMMER

ALEKSANDIR - BETWEEN SUMMERS 

CAL TJADER - AQUARIUS 

POST NEBBIA - TELEVENDITE DI QUADRI

DEE TREE - FADING AWAY (SAINE REMIX)

STR4TA - RHYTHM IN YOUR MIND

DAVID AXELROD - Holy Thursday

THE SWEETS ENOUGHS - CERBERUS 

STR4TA - WE LIKE IT 

This show is dedicated to one of my present-day favourite musicians, Chico Mann. He is a multi-instrumentalist and record producer from New Jersey and part of a vibrant multicultural scene from NY.

I discovered Chico Mann in 2010 after buying his album "Analog Drift". A great dance and pop album that gained praise from critics, his peers and fans.

Chico Mann is the alter ego of Marcos Garcia. This musician is not only pursuing a solo music career with his alter ego. He is also a member of Antibalas and a heavy rock band called Here Lies Man. His eclecticism made him pair such a disparity of music influences such as Fela Kuti, Black Sabbath, Africa Bambaataa, Talking Heads, George Clinton and Willie Colon. A very unusual artist.

Playlist

1- Harmonia - CHICO MANN

2- Mayombe- CHICO MANN

3- Modern Technology - THE DAKTARIS

4- Dirty Money - ANTI BALAS

5- Floating on Water - HERE LIES MAN

6- El Paragua - CHICO MANN

7- In these Dreams - HERE LIES MAN

8- Come and Goes - CHICO MANN

9- Como Me Miras - CHICO MANN & CAPTAIN PLANET

10- Sorrow, Tears and Blood - CHICO MANN

11- Blindness - HERE LIES MAN

12- Se chifló Dub - ANTI BALAS

13- Swinging from trees - HERE LIES MANN

14- Not Yet - OCOTE SOUL SOUND (remix by CHICO MANN & QUANTIC)

15- Once in a Lifetime - CHICO MANN

16- Close to me - CHICO MANN

17- Who you runnin’ from - CHICO MANN

1 Matthew Halsall - Harmony With Nature [Live at Halle St Peters]

2 Werkha - Battered Mars Bar

3 Gaudi - E=MC2 [Late Night Tales Exclusive Dub]

4 Deep Fried Dub & SK Simeon - Waliwo Abakaaba Dub

5 Batila - Lobiko

6 Anthronauts ft Nongoma - Game Changer [Lee 'Scratch' Perry Dub]

7 Sarah Williams White - Monsters

8 Billy Marten - Human Replacement

9 Shade - This Side Of The Sun

10 Capsula - Ciudad Fantasma

11 Natalia Claver - El Tren

12 Ten Years After - I'd Love To Change The World

13 Curtis Harding - Where Is The Love?

14 Electric Eye - Last Call At The Infinity Pool

15 Pablo Bolivar - Invisible Dance [Ercos Blanko Remix]

16 Caoilfhionn Rose - Garden [Secret Track]

17 Nubya Garcia - Source [Dengue Dengue Dengue Remix]

18 Lisa Bella Donna - Audio-Visions

In this show, I talk with Spanish music journalist and promoter Amaia Santana, about her work and music in general, but particularly we consider COP26 Climate Change talks taking place, and she brings some of her choice selections. I also bring you some new and recent releases including some strong inspirational sounds in line with thoughts around COP26.

You can contact Amaia

Amaia @Wendy PellayoRecords

Fasten your belts, unknown destination with plenty of exotic audio travelling. Enjoy the trip! Warning: This mix contains explicit language but is not offensive

Playlist

1- Past, Present & Future - AFREAKA

2- Ne te Fáche pas - ORCHESTRE POLY-RYTHMO

3- Denizalti Ruzgalari - OKAY TEMIZ

4- Ayonha - HAMID EL SHAERI

5- Pelota- KHRUANGBIN

6- Baila mi Rumbita - LOS AMAYA

7- Want it Your Way - WATCH TV AND THE PRIMETIMES (ft GECKO TURNER) 8- In Spanish - RUBEN GARCIA

9- Night Lights - CRO-MAGNON

10- Pal Peru - GECKO TURNER

11- Just Say Goodbye - ESTHER PHILLIPS

All those that know me – know Joe Zawinul is my music man and my band was Weather report, then the Zawinul Syndicate.

Around 2002 Joe released the Faces and places album - I arranged what was my very first interview and it was with Joe Zawinul my music idol, using a mini disc recorder to record a phone call to Joe’s home in the USA.

For about an hour Joe took me through the Faces & Places album explaining track by track to me (see the lost interview Joe Zawinul 17th September) as we finished Joe asked me if there was anything else I wanted to talk about.

Not often do I get that said to me, so I took full advantage of Joe's offer, we finished talking 2 hours later and many mini disc’s, as Joe took me on his music journey from Cannonball Adderley to the Zawinul Syndicate, then we went onto discuss the change of the dynamics of bringing in new musicians or having less to get the sound he wanted, It was an amazing conversation and the start of our association.

After the interview, I transferred the recording to a CD, 2 weeks later I moved house and the CD disappeared!! - I searched everywhere, no CD.

Fast forward 19 years, I'm in the process of digitizing all of my music and I open a CD case and I find Joe, you would not believe the emotions I felt.

This presentation is the abridged version of my conversation with Joe, and I have mixed in his music to accompany Joe’s journey,

Tracklisting - Joe takes you from:-

Joe's (Mercy, Mercy, Mercy) with Cannonball Adderley

Miles Davis - Silent Way

Joe talking about Miles, and the silent way meeting with Herbie Hancock , John McLaughlin, Chick Corea, Tony Williams and Wayne Shorter.

Then we go straight into.

Weather Report - Black Market – Live.

Joe Zawinul talking about Weather Report and the best lineup they had.

Weather Report – Birdland.

Weather Report - Teen Town.

Salif Keita – Lony.

Joe Zawinul Talking About Salif Keita and the impact of the African musicians that took Joe’s music to the next level.

Salif Keita – Nyanafin.

Joe Zawinul - Waraya

Joe Zawinul - Orient Express

Joe Zawinul - Bimoya

Compare the first track, Mercy, Mercy, Mercy, to the last 3 tracks, Waraya, Orient Express and Bimoya, you will hear the musical journey that Joe made.

RIP Joe

7th July 1932 - 11th September 2007

https://www.zawinulonline.org/joe-zawinul-a-short-biography/

 This month's mix takes me back to when I discovered the pirate radio stations as a teenager. From Soul Nation to Unity Fresh, these radio stations opened my eyes to a whole new world of music. Starting with Chante Moore's and Loose Ends featuring twice on this mix due to their domination on the pirate radios. We finish with Mica Paris's should've known better beautifully produced by Omar.

1. Chante Moore - Loves taken over

2. Fifth of Heaven - Just a little more

3. Caron Wheeler - I adore you

4. Maze and Frankie Beverley – Twilight

5. Sylvia Striplin - You can't turn me away

6. Loose Ends - Don't you every try to change me

7. After 7 - Can't stop

8. Patrice Rushen - to each his own

9. Groove Theory - Tell me

10. Don Blackman - Hearts Desire

11. Loose Ends - Stay a little while child

12. Mica Paris - I should've known better

[00:00] OSCAR -  A PATRICIA

[03:10] NINA SIMONE - FEELING GOOD (NICOLAS JAAR EDIT)

[08:56] MONKEY SAFARI - PALOMAR 

[15:30] YEAHMAN - CARIÑITO (FT HAJNA, MINA SHANKHA) 

[20:35] NICOLA CRUZ -  A LA MUERTE

[24:44] PIGEON - YAGANA

[30:35] LAGARTIJEANDO - MANO DE FATIMA (FEAT. KHALIL MOUNJI)

[38:55] NOVALIMA - MACHETE

[42: 40] MERIDIAN BROTHERS - SALSA CALIENTE 

[47:16] EL BUHO - LA CUMBIA DEL CAFE MARTINEZ

[51:00] GABRIELE POSO - TAMBURO INFINITO

[53:30] THORNATO - LAST CHANCE (FEAT. THE SPY FROM CAIRO) 

[57:00] BOUBACAR TRAORÉ - FIGNIANA KOUMA (KRAUNT REMIX)

[62:05] NICKODEMUS - BAILA A TU MANERA (FEAT. SAMMY AYALA)

[66:10] KHEN - NEVER LOSE YOUR INNOCENCE 

[74:55] CHANCHA VIA CIRCUITO & EL BUHO - EL MAGO GEORGES 

[78:45] UJI - FAMILIA 

[82:55] TARANCÓN - GRACIAS A LA VIDA (EL BUHO REMIX)

[87:55] FACUNDO MOHRR & VALDOVINOS - RANDOM WALKS 

[95:30] EL BOOGALO DEL PERRO - LOS DESTELLOS 

[99:00] OPERA KALMA - C’EST LA MUSIQUE (ALBERTO JOSSUE REMIX)

[106:20] POIRIER & FLAVIA COELHO - CAFE COM LEITE (BOOGAT REMIX)

[110:36] ELIA Y ELIZABETH - TODO EN LA VIDA

[112:30] ONDATROPICA - CUMBIA ESPACIAL 

[116:30] OSCAR - PARA ELISA 

[119:18] CARIDAD DE La Luz AKA BRUJA - PARA MAMÁ

 Halloween Night is a good time for Rock & Roll. With this in check, I have made this selection. Rock music styles mingled such as oldies rock & roll with post-punk with doses of blues, goth, psychobilly, surf music, sixty garage, electro-punk or hard rock. The soundtrack to Halloween for me is a spine-chilling hell of the noise of rock music dark side.

Nothing like this musical genre with the right sounds reflects more the spirit of the scary night to celebrate the Night of the Dead. That’s the essence of this Mix. Fear and fun intertwined. Recommended to be played very LOUD! even to the annoyance of your neighbours, flatmates or inmates.

The artists you’ll hear are from a diverse group of musical outcasts from -one- Screamin’ - Jay Hawkins to -another- Screaming - Lord Sutch - the outrageous founder of the Monster Raving Loony Party in the UK. We will hear the pre-punk wild sound of Link Wray’s guitar matched with his frightening voice singing about the Hidden Charms. The extravagant and fearless Nina Hagen describes her nightmares, The Misfits celebrating the debauchery of Halloween night and The Cramps finding eyeballs in their martinis.

I’ve also added some of my Halloween fiends compatriots such as Paralisis Permanente -I have a passenger inside my body-, Alaska y Los Pegamoides- back spelling Murder- and even an Argentinian current band, Capsula, telling us the tale of the ghost town. In the garage department, special mention to Roky Erickson’s haunting voice as a Soul salesman or the cavernous sound of The Sonics hailing for the Witch.

The Playlist:

1- Dinner with Drac - ZACHERLE

2- The vampires - ARCHIE KING

3- A date with a vampire - THE SCREAMING TRIBESMEN

4- Human Fly - THE CRAMPS

5- Strychnine - THE FUZZTONES

6- The Creep - THE CREEPS

7- Spider Zombie - THE CREEPY CREEPS

8- Mambo Massacre Show - DAWHOLEENCHILADA

9- Tengo un pasajero - PARALISIS PERMANENTE

10- Redrum - ALASKA Y LOS PEGAMOIDES

11- Eyeball in my Martini - THE CRAMPS

12- Regresan de la Tumba - LOS TIKI PHANTOMS

13- Psycho - IMELDA MAY

14- More - CYCLE

15- Alligator Wine - SCREAMIN’ JAY HAWKINS

16- Voodoo Voodoo - LAVERN BAKER

17- Seven Deadly Sins - OUTCASTS

18- Thirteen Devils -THE DIRTY

19- Jack the Ripper - SCREAMING LORD SUTCH

20- Hidden Charms - LINK WRAY

21- We sell soul - THE SPADES

22- Alptraum - NINA HAGEN BAND

23- Halloween - THE MISFITS

24- She sells sanctuary - THE CULT

25- Ho ha - THE EIGHTIES MATCHBOX B-LINE DISASTER

26- The Witch - THE SONICS

27- Ciudad fantasma - CAPSULA

28- MONSTER MASH - MISFITS & JOHN CAFIERO

Note: Screaming sound effect taken from Careful with Axe Eugene (Ummagumma) by Pink Floyd

 This months jazz choice from Japan – just feel the vibes from musicians at the top of their game.

Peace and love.

My Cousin Ray.

Playlist

Sleep Walker - The Voyage feat Pharoh Sanders

Jazztronik - Sweet Rain

JABBERLOOP - Source Of Spring

Nautilus, Nanami Shimizu - I Can't Make You Love Me

Takuya Kuroda – ABC

JiLL-Decoy association – Kumo

Kyoto Jazz Massive – Eclipse

Hajime Yoshizawa, Navasha Daya – Celebration

SOIL & “PIMP” SESSIONS - Funky Goldman

PE'Z - Hale no sola sita -LA YELLOW SAMBA

Makoto Terashita & Harold Land - Dragon Dance