Favoriting Music For a Free World with Dave Sewelson: Playlist from April 22, 2023 Favoriting

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Charles Mingus said jazz was a word invented to separate musicians from their money. Music for a Free World brings us together, drawing listeners to the healing power of smooth free jazz. Each week, surprise guests bring their own sides to spin and their instruments of choice to spontaneously jam.

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Favoriting April 22, 2023: Ellery Eskelin plays the tenor saxophone

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Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Approx. start time
Ellery Eskelin w/Andrea Parkins & Jim Black  We See (Thelonious Monk)   Favoriting Live in London, 2003 (The Vortex)      https://elleryeskelin.bandcamp.com   
Ellery Eskelin w/Andrea Parkins & Jim Black  Opener   Favoriting Live in London, 2003 (The Vortex)      https://elleryeskelin.bandcamp.com  0:24:01 (Pop-up)
Ellery Eskelin w/Andrea Parkins & Jim Black  Four Chords   Favoriting Live in London, 2003 (The Vortex)      https://elleryeskelin.bandcamp.com  0:30:00 (Pop-up)
Ellery Eskelin w/Andrea Parkins & Jim Black  Kicks   Favoriting Live in London, 2003 (The Vortex)      https://elleryeskelin.bandcamp.com  0:38:48 (Pop-up)
Ellery Eskelin w/Andrea Parkins & Jim Black  Modular   Favoriting Live in London, 2003 (The Vortex)      https://elleryeskelin.bandcamp.com  0:44:18 (Pop-up)
ZAH Mel Ellison - soprano and tenor saxophones, flute Michael Willens - acoustic bass Michael Levenson - percussion  New Growth   Favoriting 10:30 on the Eleventh  unrelased    https://soundcloud.com/ramichellery/sets/10-30-on-the-eleventh-zah  1:15:54 (Pop-up)
ZAH Mel Ellison - soprano and tenor saxophones, flute Michael Willens - acoustic bass Michael Levenson - percussion  What You Need to Hear   Favoriting 10:30 on the Eleventh  unrelased    https://soundcloud.com/ramichellery/sets/10-30-on-the-eleventh-zah  1:24:59 (Pop-up)
ZAH Mel Ellison - soprano and tenor saxophones, flute Michael Willens - acoustic bass Michael Levenson - percussion  Upswing   Favoriting 10:30 on the Eleventh  unrelased    https://soundcloud.com/ramichellery/sets/10-30-on-the-eleventh-zah  1:30:43 (Pop-up)
Trio New York Ellery Eskelin - tenor saxophone Gary Versace - Hammond B3 organ Gerald Cleaver - drums  Happenstance   Favoriting Live in New Haven 2012 (Firehouse 12)      https://elleryeskelin.bandcamp.com  1:46:58 (Pop-up)
Watazumi Doso Roshi  Saji   Favoriting Hotchiku  Polydor Nippon Grammophon Ltd  1968    2:19:05 (Pop-up)
Watazumi Doso Roshi  Watazumi no shirabe   Favoriting Hotchiku  Polydor Nippon Grammophon Ltd  1968    2:25:55 (Pop-up)
Watazumi Doso Roshi  Suzuru   Favoriting Hotchiku  Polydor Nippon Grammophon Ltd  1968    2:32:00 (Pop-up)
Ellery Eskelin  Across Breath   Favoriting Across Breath, Voice, Silence    2021  https://elleryeskelin.bandcamp.com  2:34:51 (Pop-up)
Ellery Eskelin, Christian Weber, Michael Griener  ABC   Favoriting The Pearls  Intakt    https://eskelinwebergrienerintakt.bandcamp.com/album/the-pearls  2:54:17 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:55pm
Dave Sewelson:

Welcome to the Free World!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:01pm
Andrew in Toronto:

Hi there Dave and all other listeners!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:02pm
Dave Sewelson:

↳ Andrew in Toronto @2:01
Hey Andrew in Toronto!
  2:16pm
DavidJ:

Hi, Dave, Ellery and all. Nice Monk!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:18pm
Dave Sewelson:

↳ DavidJ @2:16
yeah DavidJ
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:31pm
WR:

Hello Dave, Honorable Guest Ellery Eskelin and fellow listeners. Enjoying these excellent recordings being streamed.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:33pm
Dave Sewelson:

↳ WR @2:31
welcome to you WR...glad you diggin the sounds....
  2:34pm
claire:

ellery has the great tenor sound. what a player, too! hi guys! joy joy joy
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:35pm
Dave Sewelson:

↳ claire @2:34
Sista!!!
Avatar 🥁 2:36pm
northguineahills:

finished catching up of jeff g's archives (finally). what to do, what to do? ahhh Music for a free world!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:38pm
coelacanth∅:

Greetings Dave & Ellery and Freeworldlings
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:38pm
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ coelacanth∅ @2:38
hi coel!
Avatar 🥁 2:39pm
northguineahills:

↳ Andrew in Toronto @2:01
andrew, i tried to email you, but the one provided for me via your profile came back null...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:40pm
coelacanth∅:

olá Andrew!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:40pm
Dave Sewelson:

↳ northguineahills @2:36
oh man...ngh
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:40pm
Dave Sewelson:

↳ coelacanth∅ @2:38
hey sealy....
  2:41pm
Ellery:

Hi Claire…long time…
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:42pm
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ northguineahills @2:39
Thanks for telling me.
Please try spinables1959@gmai.com
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:42pm
doctorjazz:

Hello Free World Frequenters!
  2:45pm
claire:

ya - this record sounds great! i'm here listening while i do stuff at the desk...
Avatar 🥁 2:46pm
northguineahills:

↳ Andrew in Toronto @2:42
because it is mandatory to use both languages in official correspondences in Canada:

parce qu'il est obligatoire d'utiliser les deux langues dans les correspondances officielles au Canada:

thank you!

merci!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:48pm
Dave Sewelson:

↳ claire @2:45
do stuff!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:48pm
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ northguineahills @2:46
Nice one!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:49pm
Dave Sewelson:

↳ northguineahills @2:46
merci....
Avatar 🥁 2:49pm
northguineahills:

↳ Andrew in Toronto @2:42
watching the replay of York United FC vs Vancouver FC in the Canadian Championship (i am a footie dork)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:51pm
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ northguineahills @2:49
Cool. Me too.
I wish I could still watch the Premier League.
Avatar 🥁 2:58pm
northguineahills:

↳ Andrew in Toronto @2:51
Canadian Football's pyramid has grown just in the last four years. Outside of the three MLS teams, there is now a thriving Canadian Premier League (level II) and League 1 Canada (level III, divided into BC, OT, QC, and this year, a new AB division)
  3:03pm
claire:

↳ Dave Sewelson @2:48
"jugs and dodo" was mine. gene
ammons and dodo mamarosa
  3:04pm
Dean:

Nuts, I missed the first set. I adore Ellery Eskelin's music! Saw him at Luna Park in W. Hollywood a l-o-n-g time ago. His young niece was in attendance, sat at my table.
Avatar 3:07pm
Mr Fab:

Son of song-poem maestro Rodd Keith!
I have an Eskelin album where he plays along with samples of his dad’s records.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:09pm
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ northguineahills @2:58
Wow!
  3:10pm
Dean:

Ben Goldberg is performing next weekend with Myra Melford on the Cal campus.
  3:11pm
Dean:

Not too many weeks ago Goldberg played with Myra and Liberty Ellman, a free lunchtime show on campus. Was terrific.
  3:15pm
Dean:

The ubiquitous Jon Rosenberg
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doctorjazz:

↳ Dean @3:10
Great show-I've yet to catch Goldberg (saw Melford recently), on my To Do list for sure!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:17pm
Dave Sewelson:

↳ Dean @3:10
yeah!
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WR:

↳ Song: "New Growth" by "ZAH Mel Ellison - soprano and ten...
Thank you for sharing this!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:17pm
Dave Sewelson:

↳ Mr Fab @3:07
right Mr Fab...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:17pm
Dave Sewelson:

↳ Dean @3:04
wow Dean...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:18pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "New Growth" by "ZAH Mel Ellison - soprano and ten...
No vibes listed on the Soundcloud site, that's what I'm hearing, no?
Avatar 🥁 3:19pm
northguineahills:

↳ doctorjazz @3:18
it's an alto... ;0
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:20pm
doctorjazz:

↳ northguineahills @3:19
Not the sax, behind it, keyboard maybe (also not listed on the Soundcloud page)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:21pm
doctorjazz:

↳ northguineahills @3:19
Soundcloud also lists Tenor and soprano saxes...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:22pm
Dave Sewelson:

↳ doctorjazz @3:20
thats "percussion"...vibes..etc..
Avatar 🥁 3:23pm
northguineahills:

↳ doctorjazz @3:20
i was being a (not-so)-smart-ass....
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:25pm
doctorjazz:

↳ northguineahills @3:23
😎
Avatar 🥁 3:25pm
northguineahills:

i did it again! I was wondering why my tea had no flavor! (no tea bag).
  3:29pm
Dean:

Also saw Jim Black not too long ago at a good bar in Albany, the Ivy Room. Scott Amendola plays there frequently, and Alice Bag and The Avengers are due to make appearances in May. Would love for Ellery to head this way and grace that venue!
  3:30pm
Dean:

(That's Albany, CA, a small town near Berkeley.)
Avatar 🥁 3:35pm
northguineahills:

back in the before time (2005), I played in a combo that included andrea parkins (jim pugliesi, and doug wieselman for one of marco cappelli's italian doc remix iterations, i did turntables)
  3:36pm
Dean:

Looks like Ellison recorded an album at 1750 Arch Street c.'76.
  3:38pm
DavidJ:

“a Scrabble dictionary”!
  3:40pm
Dean:

Holy moly! Willens recorded the Beethoven piano concertos with the amazing Ronald Brautigam for BIS!
  3:40pm
Dean:

https://www.discogs.com/release/14209722-Ludwig-van-Beethoven-Ronald-Brautigam-K%C3%B6lner-Akademie-Michael-Willens-The-Piano-Concertos
  3:43pm
Dean:

Kölner Akademie
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:49pm
Gina Bacon:

Hey Dave, Ellery & all!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:52pm
Dave Sewelson:

↳ northguineahills @3:35
that's way back ngh...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:52pm
Dave Sewelson:

↳ Gina Bacon @3:49
GINA!!!!!!!
  3:53pm
Ellery:

Read the full story on ZAH here, http://elleryeskelin.blogspot.com/2021/03/1030-on-eleventh-zah.html
Avatar 🥁 3:58pm
northguineahills:

↳ Ellery @3:53
Thanks, Ellery. I knew I knew about ZAH, but I just couldn't place it. (i believe I read about them in the wire years ago)
  3:59pm
claire:

jeebus, ellery, you sound amazing
  4:01pm
claire:

↳ claire @3:59
lifetime of dedication, right there.
  4:01pm
Ellery:

You’re making me blush…
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:08pm
WR:

↳ Dean @3:40
Yoi. Willens has been very active.
  4:22pm
Ellery:

Regarding teaching: http://elleryeskelin.blogspot.com/2023/02/in-2023-renewed-emphasis-on-teaching.html
  4:25pm
Dean:

Willens has a number of recordings on cpo, a very respectable classical music label, particularly for early music.

Willens has worked with David Starobin, the superb guitarist who runs Bridge Records; Peter Schickele (aka PDQ Bach); and Keith Jarrett (on a disc of Lou Harrison works).
Avatar 🥁 4:39pm
northguineahills:

totally off topic. WFMU used to have a Lowrey organ on property (Monty Hall). Anyone know if it's still there (probably the wrong audience, heard one in a live recording in the archives last night)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:39pm
Andrew in Toronto:

That was a lovely show!
Thanks Dave and Ellery!
  4:40pm
claire:

↳ Ellery @4:01
i agree with andrew. a great afternoon of music. thanks, guys!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:41pm
Dave Sewelson:

Thanks for the thanks!
  4:43pm
Ellery:

Thanks all for listening…
  4:44pm
DavidJ:

This is so nice
  4:46pm
Dean:

Thank you, Ellery and Dave. Pleasant and instructive.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:51pm
WR:

↳ Song: "Across Breath" by "Ellery Eskelin"
Lovely!

Thank you Ellery and Dave. Learned a lot, enjoyed a lot.
  4:51pm
Dean:

And your heartbeat. And your gurgling stomach.
  4:52pm
DavidJ:

Another fine Saturday afternoon. Thank you Dave and Ellery!
Avatar 🥁 4:52pm
northguineahills:

Ellery, Dave, superb!!!
  4:53pm
Dean:

We were mere babes in 1995.
Avatar 🥁 4:53pm
northguineahills:

i wish you had 3 more hours, too...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:53pm
Gina Bacon:

Thank you, Dave & Ellery!
  4:54pm
DavidJ:

Yes, come back!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:54pm
WR:

Doug mentioned you were on his program years ago, he didn't say it was when the station was in Upsala College.

Yes sir, Ellery, we look forward to your next visit.
Avatar 🥁 4:54pm
northguineahills:

↳ Dean @4:53
yeah, you were younger than I am now! 😜 (I was a teenager in '95)
  4:55pm
Dean:

I was, in fact, an old fart then, too.

Sir Ellery was the name of Doug's first band in high school, by the way.
Avatar 🥁 4:55pm
northguineahills:

↳ WR @4:54
'95 was the year Uppsala went tits up (but the station stayed at the location for a bit).
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:56pm
Dave Sewelson:

Thanks all you listeners!!
  4:59pm
Dean:

Just learned there is a guitarist named Ismo Eskelinen.
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