#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)