
#2986: All Over the World Jazz
Will Calhoun, perhaps best known as the hard-hitting and inventive drummer for Living Colour (their release The Chair in the Doorway just came out this September), has also worked with tenor saxophone player Pharoah Sanders on a world-jazz effort, “Native Lands.” That record is a blend of jazz drumming, hand drums and other percussion, electronic soundscapes and trancey drum loops; with fluid melodic sax lines from Sanders, and contributions from Mos Def, Cheick Tidiane Seck (Mali), and Nana Vasconcelos (Brazil.)
For this New Sounds, we’ll hear a bit of Calhoun’s record, plus something from Pharoah Sanders as well. Sanders, since his time playing with Coltrane’s band in the early 60’s, has been able to limn all sorts of jazz styles, from free to mainstream, and has worked with yodelers, sitars, tablas, ouds and kotos to earn another designation of “world- jazz.” Plus, music from the Neil Cowley trio, a piano trio who sidle thrash, jazz, and groove. And more.
PROGRAM #2986, All Over the World Jazz (First aired on Mon. 9-28-09)
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ARTIST(S) |
RECORDING |
CUT(S) |
SOURCE |
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Vijay Iyer & Rudresh Mahanthappa |
Raw Materials |
The Shape of Things [3:25] |
Savoy Jazz 17603 |
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Pharoah Sanders & William Henderson |
A Prayer Before Dawn |
Midnight at Yoshi’s [5:58] |
Theresa Records TR127, |
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Will Calhoun (feat. Pharaoh Sanders) |
Native Lands |
Umoja [7:20] |
Half Note 4524 |
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Will Calhoun (feat. Mos Def, piano) |
Native Lands |
East [2:41] |
See above. |
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Neil Cowley Trio |
Loud Louder Stop |
Dinosaur, Die [6:09] |
CAKE #78551 |
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Tord Gustavsen Trio |
The Ground |
Edges of Happiness [3:07] |
ECM 1892 |
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Pharaoh Sanders, Hamid Drake, Adam Rudolph |
Spirits |
Sunrise, excerpt [14:00] |
Meta 004 |
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Will Calhoun (feat. Pharaoh Sanders) |
Native Lands |
Native Lands [6:04] |
See above. |

