Set List - February 25, 2013

Murray, Sunny - Flower - Sunny Murray - Shandar

Shaw, Woody - Hello to the Wind - The Woody Shaw Concert Ensemble at the Berliner Jazztage - Muse

Shaw, Woody - In the Land of the Blacks (Bilad as Sudan)   - The Woody Shaw Concert Ensemble at the Berliner Jazztage - Muse
Sanders, Pharaoh - Let Us Go Into the House of the Lord - Live at the Jazz Workshop on April 8, 1974 - Boot
Hancock, Herbie - Chameleon - Live in Kansas City on October 16, 1974 - Boot
Taylor, Hound Dog - Let's Get Funky - Beware of the Dog! - Alligator
Taylor, Hound Dog - Rock Me - Beware of the Dog! - Alligator
Ilori, Solomon - Grogbo Omo Ibile (Going Home) - American High Life - Blue Note

As Serious As Your Life - Valerie Willmer

First published in 1977, this book captures as a time and a place that I don't think exists in jazz anymore or in this world anymore, I don't think.  The subjects of this book (out there free jazz cats) were trying to make a living at jazz within the confines of the record industry as it coexisted with popular cultural.  Those days are long gone it seems and this book hinted at the direction that jazz musicians at the time were taking, education.  There was quite a list of jazz musicians who made their livings through college positions in this book - a sign of what was to come.  Now, jazz exists mainly along side classical music (European or whatever) as a product of cultural or educational subsidization, but not as an art form that lives and breaths and exists on its own with consumers keeping it alive.  An excellent book discussing free jazz musicians who were trying to "make it" and their engangement with society, this is highly recommended as not only as a guide to some historical music figures, but as a description of a slice of life that is no longer here.

Set List - February 18, 2013

Byrd, Donald - Xibaba - Electric Byrd - Blue Note
Blakey, Art and the Jazz Messengers - The Moontrane - Live at Rutgers University - April 16, 1969 - Bootleg
Weather Report - Early Minor - Live in Ossiach, Austria - July 27, 1971 - Bootleg
Hancock, Herbie - Sleeping Giant (partial) - Live at Baker's Keyboard Lounge, Detroit, MI - October 8, 1972 - Bootleg
Hancock, Herbie - You'll Know When You Get There - Live at the Jazz Workshop, Boston, MA - March 22, 1973 - Bootleg
Sanders, Pharaoh - Black Unity - Live at the Jazz Workshop, Boston, MA - March 11, 1973 - Bootleg

Set List - February 11, 2013

Byrd, Donald - Parisian Thoroughfare - First Flight - Delmark
Byrd, Donald - Here Am I - Byrd in Hand - Blue Note
Byrd, Donald - Concerto for Benjamin and Jonathan - Live on WDR - 02.26.1964 - Bootleg
Byrd, Donald - Elijah - A New Perspective - Blue Note
Byrd, Donald - I'm Tryin' to Get Home - I'm Tryin' to Get Home - Blue Note
Byrd, Donald - Mustang! - Mustang! - Blue Note
Byrd, Donald - The Loner - Slow Drag - Blue Note
Byrd, Donald - Loki - Black Byrd - Blue Note
Byrd, Donald - The Weasil - Fancy Free - Blue Note
Byrd, Donald - The Little Rasti - Ethiopian Knights - Blue Note

Set List - February 4, 2013

Washington, Tyrone - Natural Essence - Natural Essence - Blue Note
Shaw, Woody - The Awakening - Song of Songs - Contemporary
Hutcherson, Bobby - Song of Songs - Live at Montreux 1973 - Blue Note
Henderson, Joe - If You're Not Part of the Solution, You're Part of the Problem - At the Lighthouse - Milestone
Hubbard, Freddie - People Make the World Go Round - Polar AC - CTI
Coryell, Larry - Call to Higher Consciousness - Basics - Vanguard
Clarke, Stanley - Spanish Phases for Strings & Bass - Stanley Clarke - Nemporer
Clarke, Stanley - Journey to Love - Journey to Love - Nemporer
Owens, Jimmy - What's the Use - Jimmy Owens - Horizon
Slave - Slide - Slave - Cotillion
Slave - Son of Slide - Slave - Cotillion
Gaynor, Gloria - Honey Bee - Never Can Say Goodbye - MGM
The Main Ingredient - You've Got to Take It If You Want It - Bitter Sweet - RCA
Average White Band - Goin Home - Soul Searching - Atlantic
MFSB - Freddie's Dead - MFSB - Philadelphia International