WFMU: The Laughing Clock with DJ Peter: Playlist from October 6, 2024

Listener comments!
	6:02pm adamdoesit: Hello DJ Peter and clock watchers! I'd like to apologize to all my Mets fans out there. I've been doing my best to ignore their success, and not watch or listen. This evening, I slipped up, and tuned in. I'm so sorry. I'll be listening to Ralph Peterson Jr instead now, m'kay?
	6:02pm northguineahills: Peter! clocketeers!
	6:06pm DJ Peter: adam I take it the Mets win if you do NOT watch? Hi northguineahills, how are you?
	6:08pm Listener Gregory: Hi. I’m here in a limited way…. Streaming on my phone. I can hear notes…. drums… I think it’s the right show.
	6:08pm northguineahills: cuica players who compose! kazzoo players, recorder players, the list is endless!
	6:10pm DJ Peter: ↳ Listener Gregory @6:08 LG: if your sister is with you, she'll tell you if it's the right show.
	🕰 6:14pm Jeff Golick: Hello! I really like the Ohad Talmor album.
	6:15pm adamdoesit: ↳ DJ Peter @6:06 You are correct. It's a long, sad story, but the TL;DR is that my inattention is precious.
	6:16pm DJ Peter: ↳ Jeff Golick @6:14 listening again it's clearer how it's some of Ornette's phrases stitched together and shaped...
	6:18pm Listener Gregory: My sister is back at her home now, DJP. We had a good visit, but I’m sure she was thrilled to get back to the comfort of contemporary country during her drive home.
	6:22pm Listener Gregory: Currently waiting to pick up dinner, but every place is jammed w leaf-peepers, so the delay is considerable. The music is making it tolerable..
	6:27pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Part 4" by "Black Artist Group" diggery ensuing!
	6:30pm Listener Gregory: I thought BAG was an arts organization like the AACM, not a performing group.
	6:35pm DJ Peter: ↳ Listener Gregory @6:30 You are correct, and it also included visual artists and others. Not sure how they actually billed themselves for the Paris concert. It may have been Joe Bowie's idea to follow Lester and the Art Ensemble to Paris.
	6:39pm northguineahills: gonna run in a bit, if i don't get back, thanks peter!
	6:41pm DJ Peter: ↳ northguineahills @6:39 cool running, NGH
	6:55pm Listener Gregory: Back home with a real signal and stereo. Let’s see if that’s better or worse.
	🕰 7:02pm Listener Gregory: Good photo today.
	7:11pm DJ Peter: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:02 you best believe i was thrilled to see street musicians and not have to hear them
	7:11pm Listener Gregory: Do you “duet” with samples? Since they don’t respond to you, I would say you “play over” them. Semantic question of the day.
	7:12pm tom tom the pipers son: hello peter and listeners, just got in from seeing live music....joe mc phee, william parker, dave sewelson and a tuba player whose name i did not catch....
	7:13pm DJ Peter: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:12 hey tom tom! so that's what Sewelson's been up to instead of his real job here on the Drummer stream
	7:15pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ DJ Peter @7:13 right, i was going to say something like that to him but he was engaged in conversation....
	7:16pm DJ Peter: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:11 More semantic antics. thanks!
	7:16pm DJ Peter: love the new avatars, tom tom. is it a variation on your NYT headlines project?
	7:19pm coelacanth∅: Greetings Peter
	7:20pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ DJ Peter @7:16 oh thanks peter, i'm trying to work the poetry into my visual work...i have some up on the wall and am not sure how i feel about them....i might try to make drawings out of them but i need to buy a projector....
	7:21pm DJ Peter: ↳ coelacanth∅ @7:19 hellø coelacnthø!
	7:21pm DJ Peter: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:20 what are you unsure about? just the scale to use?
	7:26pm adamdoesit: Welp. But hey, there's clarinet jazz, so that's ok.
	7:26pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ DJ Peter @7:21 i'm not sure if they have the complexity that i'm intending, putting the downmarket shopfronts against ny times language, to create a cognitive "oil and water" kind of playing off one another...in terms of scale i was thinking of them as posters...
	7:38pm tom tom the pipers son: the music gig was held in a liminal alley way leading to a community garden... it was a great place to see music, like a weed or rather a flower pop up out of a crack in the sidewalk
	7:42pm DJ Peter: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:38 love that! i once saw Dave Douglas and Uri Caine performing in a courtyard that was once a building -- crumbling walls, no ceiling.
	🕰 7:46pm Listener Gregory: ↳ DJ Peter @7:42 I once saw Susie Ibarra (with Craig Taborn) playing in a Renaissance refectory, with a faded fresco on the wall. It was a strange experience to go from New York to this spot to hear Downtown musicians play.
	7:50pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ DJ Peter @7:42 the "no production" aspect, seemed rare to encounter these days i had not seen mcphee before, but have heard so many people speak admirably of him, so i was eager to see him solo, as advertised...unfortunately he didn't play all that much in a group setting, but it was really good, there was a few minutes of tuba and bass playing in isolation that was interesting and sewelson squeezed out some high note screeching from his baritone sax
	7:50pm DJ Peter: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:46 love that too!
	7:50pm adamdoesit: So, here's my RPJ story. I was a college kid, interning at a radio station against his declared major. We went to hear and record a live date by RPJ and his quintet. At the sound check, I felt so intimidated, I couldn't look straight at him. He interpreted this as meaning that I was high -- "either you have been on, or you is on" -- which would have been accurate. He asked me to hook him up. I brought my whole damn stash. This made him laugh and laugh. We walked through the vernal park together, RPJ flicking out seeds and rolling a joint as we went. He told me a little about why he smoked a little grass and drank a little tequila to relax, but that it was probably better not to. This is many years back. I remember his warmth, and his presence, and every green thing around us that he lit up with his presence, like it was yesterday. A few hours later, he played the gig and made the rafters shake. RIP and thank you, Ralph.
	7:52pm DJ Peter: Great story, adamdoesit! I first saw RPJ in the Jon Faddis quartet, also on a college campus. And he seemed clearly high to me too but antic -- he was climbing over people in the audience during the other acts. but when they hit he was on
	7:53pm tom tom the pipers son: also joe mc phee looked a spry 83 or 84, there will be plenty of opportunity to see him
	7:56pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:26 maybe a better way to put it ...i was aiming for a "conversation" between text and image that i'm not sure is there.
	8:01pm adamdoesit: ↳ DJ Peter @7:52 He was huge. Thank you for giving him this night.
	8:11pm adamdoesit: ↳ Song: "Bealtine" by "Tyshawn Sorey Trio" ❤️❤️❤️ I love Tyshawn in his own right. He also fits with RPJ. They're both gods of thunder. And Aaron Diehl can play deep into anything. And Harish can go there with anyone. Is there anything better, live, now? I can't imagine what.
	8:13pm Listener Gregory: I have the vague memory that Peterson had serious drug problems later on, but it could be a memory confusion. Wasn’t he inactive for a while?
	8:16pm DJ Peter: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:13 Yes, he apparently kicked at some point, maybe when he started a family? Maybe when he started teaching? He died of cancer in March of 2021
	8:20pm DJ Peter: ↳ adamdoesit @8:11 Saw Fieldwork in Philly was it last year? Vijay Iyer & Steve Lehman. At the end of one extended workout someone in the audience shouted "I'm exhausted" and everyone cracked up. Sorey said something to the effect of "YOU're exhausted?!"
	8:23pm adamdoesit: ↳ DJ Peter @8:20 Lolol. RPJ's message to me was that he came up through what he came up through and that, though it may have not been the best solution, he did what he did to get through it. I don't begrudge it. I can't help but worry about Tyshawn's health, too. About his heart. He's a big, big guy. And he works very hard. I hope he sticks (sic) around for a long time to come.
	8:25pm Listener Gregory: Natural mistake: 2924 was a great year for jazz.
	8:34pm adamdoesit: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:25 From your lips (or fingertips) to time's ears!
	8:34pm DJ Peter: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:25 For as long as the 9 key is next to the 0 key I will make that natural mistake
	🕰 8:38pm Listener Gregory: ↳ DJ Peter @8:34 Yes, they should be arranged in alphabetical order. Then zero and nine would be far apart.
	8:41pm DJ Peter: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:38 sometimes the simple solution is the best. thank you
	🕰 8:42pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "Beauteous B" by "Ralph Peterson" I am so old, I remember when Don Byron used to play on people's records and even put out his own recordings.
	8:46pm DJ Peter: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:42 Hmm. Well Jeff and I have both spun from his 2022 record with Aruan Ortiz: Pastor's Paradox
	8:53pm solo mon: hey babes sounding real nice!
	8:55pm adamdoesit: What a treat. RIP RPJ. Thank you, DJ Peter!
	8:57pm tom tom the pipers son: thanks peter have a good week
	8:57pm Listener Gregory: Thanks a lot, Peter. Looking forward to the other drummers too.
	8:59pm DJ Peter: ↳ solo mon @8:53 thanks Solo! have a good show!
	9:07pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Peter
	10:38am doctorjazz: Cool show, DJ Peter; Got to see Peterson and his Fo'tet back in the day (it got some notice in the press at the time, seems mostly fogotten now). Thanks!

The Laughing Clock with DJ Peter: Playlist from October 6, 2024

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	New	Approx. start time
Count Basie	M Squad Theme (excerpt)	Basic Basie	MPS	1969	Eric Dixon (fl) Freddie Green (g) Norman Keenan (b) Harold Jones (d) Chico O'Farrill (arr), et al.		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Red Garland	M Squad Theme "M Squad Theme" by "Red Garland"	Red In Bluesville	Prestige	1969	4/17/1959: Red Garland (p) Sam Jones (b) Art Taylor (d)		0:00:29 (Pop-up)
Ohad Talmor	Accords — Quintet Variations on Tune 12	Back to the Land	Intakt	2024	February & April 2023, with "additional recording" in March 2023. Talmor (tenor sax, bass clarinet, Prophet 10, Mini-Moog), Chris Tordini (basses), Eric McPherson (drums), plus Joel Ross (vibes), David Virelles (piano)	*	0:05:30 (Pop-up)
Jason Robinson	Deployment "Deployment" by "Jason Robinson"	Ancestral Numbers II	Playscape Recordings	2024	8/23/2023: Jason Robinson (saxes, alto flute), Michael Dessen (trombone), Joshua White (piano), Drew Gress (bass), Ches Smith (drums, percussion)	*	0:09:32 (Pop-up)
Jason Anick & Jason Yeager	Emphemory	Sanctuary	Sunnyside	2024	May 2023: Jason Anick (violin), Jason Yeager (piano), Billy Buss (trumpet), Greg Loughman (bass), Mike Connors (drums)	*	0:16:49 (Pop-up)
Black Artist Group	Part 4 "Part 4" by "Black Artist Group"	For Peace And Liberty, In Paris dec 1972	We Want Sounds	2024	12/3/1972: Floyd LeFlore (trumpet, vocal, misc. instruments), Baikida Carroll (trumpet, flugelhorn, bass,misc. instruments, vocal), Joseph Bowie (trombone, misc. instruments, vocal), Oliver Lake (sax, mariba, misc. instruments, vocal), Charles "Bobo" Shaw (drums, xylophone, misc. instruments, vocal)	*	0:22:27 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Don Pullen	Big Alice (alternate take)	Richard's Tune	Sackville		2014 CD reissue of "Solo Piano Album" with two bonus tracks. Recorded 1975.		0:27:24 (Pop-up)
Ralph Peterson Fo'tet	Bottom "Bottom" by "Ralph Peterson Fo'tet"	The Reclamation Project	Evidence	1995	November 1994: Steve Wilson (sop) Bryan Carrott (vib,marimba) Belden Bullock (b) Ralph Peterson (d)		0:33:22 (Pop-up)
David Murray	Water Colors "Water Colors" by "David Murray"	Lovers	DIW	1988	12/15/1987: David Murray (ts) Dave Burrell (p) Fred Hopkins (b) Ralph Peterson (d)		0:37:41 (Pop-up)
Ralph Peterson Quintet	Art "Art" by "Ralph Peterson Quintet"	Art of Blakey	Blue Note	1994	March 1992: Graham Haynes (cnt) Frank "Ku-umba" Lacy (tb-1) Steve Wilson (sop-1,as-2) Craig Handy (ts-3) Michele March 1992: Graham Haynes (cnt) Steve Wilson (as) Michele Rosewoman (p) Phil Bowler (b) Ralph Peterson (d)Rosewoman (p) Phil Bowler (b) Ralph Peterson (d)		0:44:21 (Pop-up)
Ralph Peterson's Fo'tet	Ornettology	Ornettology	Blue Note	1991	August 1990: Don Byron (cl,b-cl) Bryan Carrott (vib) Melissa Slocum (b) Ralph Peterson (d)		0:49:02 (Pop-up)
Ralph Peterson	I Remember Bu "I Remember Bu" by "Ralph Peterson"	Triangular 2	Sirocco Jazz Limited	2000	December 1999: David Kikoski (p) Gerald Cannon (b) Ralph Peterson (d)		0:56:07 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Mary Lou Williams	Medi I "Medi I" by "Mary Lou Williams"	Zoning	Smithsonian Folkways		1/17/1974, with Bob Cranshaw (bass guitar). DJP edit.		1:02:54 (Pop-up)
Pauli Lyytinen	Korpi III "Korpi III" by "Pauli Lyytinen"	Lehto/Korpi	We Jazz	2024	saxes, live effects, mellotron, percussion, field recordings	*	1:09:39 (Pop-up)
Jason Stein	Crystalline "Crystalline" by "Jason Stein"	Anchors	TAO Forms	2024	December 2022: Jason Stein (bass clarinet), Joshua Abrams (bass), Gerald Cleaver (drums)	*	1:12:31 (Pop-up)
Lampen	Soleil du Sud 2 "Soleil du Sud 2" by "Lampen"	Halogen	We Jazz	2024	Kalle Kalima (guitar, bass), Tatu Ronkko (drums, percussion, electronics)	*	1:19:55 (Pop-up)
Louis Sclavis & Benjamin Moussay	Siete Lagunas	Unfolding	ECM	2024	March 2024. Sclavis (clarinet, bass clarinet), Moussay (piano)	*	1:24:51 (Pop-up)
Harry Skoler	AppleHands "AppleHands" by "Harry Skoler"	Red Brick Hill	Sunnyside	2024	August 2022: Harry Skoler (clarinet), Joel Ross (vibes), Dezron Douglas (bass), Johnathan Blake (drums)	*	1:27:38 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Susie Ibarra Trio	Dreams (Alternate Take)	Radiance	Hopscotch	1999	7/18/1999: Cooper-Moore (p,harp,diddley-bo) Charles Burnham (vln) Susie Ibarra (d,perc)		1:33:33 (Pop-up)
Out of the Blue	Nathan Jones "Nathan Jones" by "Out of the Blue"	Live at Mt. Fuji	Blue Note	1987	8/31/1986: Michael Philip Mossman (tp) Kenny Garrett (as) Ralph Bowen (ts) Harry Pickens (p) Kenny Davis (b) Ralph Peterson (d)		1:37:52 (Pop-up)
Ralph Peterson Quintet	Forth and Back	Volition	Blue Note	1990	February 1989: Terence Blanchard (tp) Steve Wilson (sop) Geri Allen (p) Phil Bowler (b) Ralph Peterson (d)		1:49:09 (Pop-up)
David Murray Octet	Thabo "Thabo" by "David Murray Octet"	Hope Scope	Black Saint	1991	5/12/1987: Hugh Ragin, Rasul Siddik (tp) Craig Harris (tb) James Spaulding (as) David Murray (ts,b-cl) Dave Burrell (p) Wilber Morris (b) Ralph Peterson (d)		1:53:45 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Herbie Hancock	Mimosa (alternate take)	Inventions & Dimensions	Blue Note		8/30/1963: Herbie Hancock (p) Paul Chambers (b) Willie Bobo (d) Osvaldo "Chihuahua" Martinez (bongos, finger cymbal)		2:03:36 (Pop-up)
Tyshawn Sorey Trio	Bealtine "Bealtine" by "Tyshawn Sorey Trio"	The Susceptible Now	Pi Recordings	2024	6/20/2024: Aaron Diehl (piano), Harish Raghavan (bass), Tyshawn Sorey (drums, arranger)	*	2:07:04 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Max Roach & Abdullah Ibrahim	Acclamation	Streams of Consciousness			9/20/1977. Originally on Baystate (Japan).		2:22:24 (Pop-up)
Ralph Peterson Jr. and The Fo'tet	Back to Stay	Back to Stay	Sirocco Jazz Limited	1999	Spring 1999: Ralph Bowen (sop) Michael Brecker (ts) Bryan Carrott (vib,mar) Belden Bullock (b) Ralph Peterson (d,perc)		2:24:21 (Pop-up)
Ralph Peterson Trio featuring Geri Allen	Princess	Triangular	Blue Note	1989	August 1988: Geri Allen (p) Essiet Essiet (b) Ralph Peterson (d)		2:29:59 (Pop-up)
Ralph Peterson	Beauteous B "Beauteous B" by "Ralph Peterson"	The Fo'tet Augmented	Criss Cross	2004	12/9/2003: Don Byron (b-cl) Bryan Carrott (vib) Belden Bullock (b) Ralph Peterson (d) Eguie Castrillo (perc)		2:36:12 (Pop-up)
Ralph Peterson	Soweto 6 "Soweto 6" by "Ralph Peterson"	V	Blue Note	1988	April 1988: Terence Blanchard (tp) Steve Wilson (as) Geri Allen (p) Phil Bowler (b) Ralph Peterson (d)		2:41:35 (Pop-up)
Aggregate Prime	Queen Tiye [aka Ballad for Queen Tiye]	Dream Deferred	Onyx	2016	Gary Thomas- flute. Mark Whitfield - Guitar. Kenny Davis - Bass. Vijay Iyer - Piano. Ralph Peterson - Drums		2:47:27 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Joe Chambers Moving Picture Orchestra	M Squad Theme	Live at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola	Savant	2012	September 2011. Craig Handy (tenor sax), David Weiss (trumpet), Xavier Davis (piano), Dwayne Burno (bass), Joe Chambers (drums, vibes, arranger), Steve Berrios (percussion), et al.		2:53:39 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	6:02pm adamdoesit: Hello DJ Peter and clock watchers! I'd like to apologize to all my Mets fans out there. I've been doing my best to ignore their success, and not watch or listen. This evening, I slipped up, and tuned in. I'm so sorry. I'll be listening to Ralph Peterson Jr instead now, m'kay?
	6:02pm northguineahills: Peter! clocketeers!
	6:06pm DJ Peter: adam I take it the Mets win if you do NOT watch? Hi northguineahills, how are you?
	6:08pm Listener Gregory: Hi. I’m here in a limited way…. Streaming on my phone. I can hear notes…. drums… I think it’s the right show.
	6:08pm northguineahills: cuica players who compose! kazzoo players, recorder players, the list is endless!
	6:10pm DJ Peter: ↳ Listener Gregory @6:08 LG: if your sister is with you, she'll tell you if it's the right show.
	🕰 6:14pm Jeff Golick: Hello! I really like the Ohad Talmor album.
	6:15pm adamdoesit: ↳ DJ Peter @6:06 You are correct. It's a long, sad story, but the TL;DR is that my inattention is precious.
	6:16pm DJ Peter: ↳ Jeff Golick @6:14 listening again it's clearer how it's some of Ornette's phrases stitched together and shaped...
	6:18pm Listener Gregory: My sister is back at her home now, DJP. We had a good visit, but I’m sure she was thrilled to get back to the comfort of contemporary country during her drive home.
	6:22pm Listener Gregory: Currently waiting to pick up dinner, but every place is jammed w leaf-peepers, so the delay is considerable. The music is making it tolerable..
	6:27pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Part 4" by "Black Artist Group" diggery ensuing!
	6:30pm Listener Gregory: I thought BAG was an arts organization like the AACM, not a performing group.
	6:35pm DJ Peter: ↳ Listener Gregory @6:30 You are correct, and it also included visual artists and others. Not sure how they actually billed themselves for the Paris concert. It may have been Joe Bowie's idea to follow Lester and the Art Ensemble to Paris.
	6:39pm northguineahills: gonna run in a bit, if i don't get back, thanks peter!
	6:41pm DJ Peter: ↳ northguineahills @6:39 cool running, NGH
	6:55pm Listener Gregory: Back home with a real signal and stereo. Let’s see if that’s better or worse.
	🕰 7:02pm Listener Gregory: Good photo today.
	7:11pm DJ Peter: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:02 you best believe i was thrilled to see street musicians and not have to hear them
	7:11pm Listener Gregory: Do you “duet” with samples? Since they don’t respond to you, I would say you “play over” them. Semantic question of the day.
	7:12pm tom tom the pipers son: hello peter and listeners, just got in from seeing live music....joe mc phee, william parker, dave sewelson and a tuba player whose name i did not catch....
	7:13pm DJ Peter: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:12 hey tom tom! so that's what Sewelson's been up to instead of his real job here on the Drummer stream
	7:15pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ DJ Peter @7:13 right, i was going to say something like that to him but he was engaged in conversation....
	7:16pm DJ Peter: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:11 More semantic antics. thanks!
	7:16pm DJ Peter: love the new avatars, tom tom. is it a variation on your NYT headlines project?
	7:19pm coelacanth∅: Greetings Peter
	7:20pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ DJ Peter @7:16 oh thanks peter, i'm trying to work the poetry into my visual work...i have some up on the wall and am not sure how i feel about them....i might try to make drawings out of them but i need to buy a projector....
	7:21pm DJ Peter: ↳ coelacanth∅ @7:19 hellø coelacnthø!
	7:21pm DJ Peter: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:20 what are you unsure about? just the scale to use?
	7:26pm adamdoesit: Welp. But hey, there's clarinet jazz, so that's ok.
	7:26pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ DJ Peter @7:21 i'm not sure if they have the complexity that i'm intending, putting the downmarket shopfronts against ny times language, to create a cognitive "oil and water" kind of playing off one another...in terms of scale i was thinking of them as posters...
	7:38pm tom tom the pipers son: the music gig was held in a liminal alley way leading to a community garden... it was a great place to see music, like a weed or rather a flower pop up out of a crack in the sidewalk
	7:42pm DJ Peter: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:38 love that! i once saw Dave Douglas and Uri Caine performing in a courtyard that was once a building -- crumbling walls, no ceiling.
	🕰 7:46pm Listener Gregory: ↳ DJ Peter @7:42 I once saw Susie Ibarra (with Craig Taborn) playing in a Renaissance refectory, with a faded fresco on the wall. It was a strange experience to go from New York to this spot to hear Downtown musicians play.
	7:50pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ DJ Peter @7:42 the "no production" aspect, seemed rare to encounter these days i had not seen mcphee before, but have heard so many people speak admirably of him, so i was eager to see him solo, as advertised...unfortunately he didn't play all that much in a group setting, but it was really good, there was a few minutes of tuba and bass playing in isolation that was interesting and sewelson squeezed out some high note screeching from his baritone sax
	7:50pm DJ Peter: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:46 love that too!
	7:50pm adamdoesit: So, here's my RPJ story. I was a college kid, interning at a radio station against his declared major. We went to hear and record a live date by RPJ and his quintet. At the sound check, I felt so intimidated, I couldn't look straight at him. He interpreted this as meaning that I was high -- "either you have been on, or you is on" -- which would have been accurate. He asked me to hook him up. I brought my whole damn stash. This made him laugh and laugh. We walked through the vernal park together, RPJ flicking out seeds and rolling a joint as we went. He told me a little about why he smoked a little grass and drank a little tequila to relax, but that it was probably better not to. This is many years back. I remember his warmth, and his presence, and every green thing around us that he lit up with his presence, like it was yesterday. A few hours later, he played the gig and made the rafters shake. RIP and thank you, Ralph.
	7:52pm DJ Peter: Great story, adamdoesit! I first saw RPJ in the Jon Faddis quartet, also on a college campus. And he seemed clearly high to me too but antic -- he was climbing over people in the audience during the other acts. but when they hit he was on
	7:53pm tom tom the pipers son: also joe mc phee looked a spry 83 or 84, there will be plenty of opportunity to see him
	7:56pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:26 maybe a better way to put it ...i was aiming for a "conversation" between text and image that i'm not sure is there.
	8:01pm adamdoesit: ↳ DJ Peter @7:52 He was huge. Thank you for giving him this night.
	8:11pm adamdoesit: ↳ Song: "Bealtine" by "Tyshawn Sorey Trio" ❤️❤️❤️ I love Tyshawn in his own right. He also fits with RPJ. They're both gods of thunder. And Aaron Diehl can play deep into anything. And Harish can go there with anyone. Is there anything better, live, now? I can't imagine what.
	8:13pm Listener Gregory: I have the vague memory that Peterson had serious drug problems later on, but it could be a memory confusion. Wasn’t he inactive for a while?
	8:16pm DJ Peter: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:13 Yes, he apparently kicked at some point, maybe when he started a family? Maybe when he started teaching? He died of cancer in March of 2021
	8:20pm DJ Peter: ↳ adamdoesit @8:11 Saw Fieldwork in Philly was it last year? Vijay Iyer & Steve Lehman. At the end of one extended workout someone in the audience shouted "I'm exhausted" and everyone cracked up. Sorey said something to the effect of "YOU're exhausted?!"
	8:23pm adamdoesit: ↳ DJ Peter @8:20 Lolol. RPJ's message to me was that he came up through what he came up through and that, though it may have not been the best solution, he did what he did to get through it. I don't begrudge it. I can't help but worry about Tyshawn's health, too. About his heart. He's a big, big guy. And he works very hard. I hope he sticks (sic) around for a long time to come.
	8:25pm Listener Gregory: Natural mistake: 2924 was a great year for jazz.
	8:34pm adamdoesit: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:25 From your lips (or fingertips) to time's ears!
	8:34pm DJ Peter: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:25 For as long as the 9 key is next to the 0 key I will make that natural mistake
	🕰 8:38pm Listener Gregory: ↳ DJ Peter @8:34 Yes, they should be arranged in alphabetical order. Then zero and nine would be far apart.
	8:41pm DJ Peter: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:38 sometimes the simple solution is the best. thank you
	🕰 8:42pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "Beauteous B" by "Ralph Peterson" I am so old, I remember when Don Byron used to play on people's records and even put out his own recordings.
	8:46pm DJ Peter: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:42 Hmm. Well Jeff and I have both spun from his 2022 record with Aruan Ortiz: Pastor's Paradox
	8:53pm solo mon: hey babes sounding real nice!
	8:55pm adamdoesit: What a treat. RIP RPJ. Thank you, DJ Peter!
	8:57pm tom tom the pipers son: thanks peter have a good week
	8:57pm Listener Gregory: Thanks a lot, Peter. Looking forward to the other drummers too.
	8:59pm DJ Peter: ↳ solo mon @8:53 thanks Solo! have a good show!
	9:07pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Peter
	10:38am doctorjazz: Cool show, DJ Peter; Got to see Peterson and his Fo'tet back in the day (it got some notice in the press at the time, seems mostly fogotten now). Thanks!

The Laughing Clock with DJ Peter: Playlist from October 6, 2024

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