Another Place on WDCB 90.9 FM

08/26/2024

Nevermind my bias, I enjoyed this week's show.

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03/22/2024

You are invited! THIS Saturday...
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03/07/2024

Coming soon...

07/09/2023

See you this evening at Fred Anderson Park !!!

09/01/2022

WDCB's Another Place will feature a tribute to the life and work of Jaimie Branch at midnight, this Sunday, Sept. 11 (headed into Monday morning). Our condolences go out to her family, friends and all of her fans in the international Avant-Garde Jazz community.

(Photo by Peter Gannushkin via International Anthem)

WDCB Listener-Supported Jazz & Blues 90.9 FM Chicago's Home for Jazz

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RIP Jaimie Breezy Branch

07/18/2022

ANOTHER PLACE is likely the only place you can hear George Freeman, The Scott Hesse Trio, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Steve Lacy, Mike Reed’s Loose Assembly, Flow, and Sumi Tonooka all in one program. Try it!

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06/27/2022

This week, on Another Place, you can hear the rare if not singular recording of Fred Anderson, Paul Lytton and Ingebrigt Håker Flaten. This tenor saxophone, drums and bass trio should not be missed.

From their sold-out performance on Aug. 23, 2006, at the Hideout, in Chicago, here, on WDCB Listener-Supported Jazz & Blues:

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06/22/2022

ANOTHER PLACE
In memoriam Fred Anderson 1929 - 2010
By Pete Kostakis
Photo by Lauren Deutsch

1

Baba Fred moved on
whispered a tipster
in Grant Park tonight
why steamy air hugged
Spirit of Music Garden

imagined chords from
Albin Polasek’s goddess
all but begged on a lyre
for a tenor saxophonist
of his bronze stature

l pictured him facing her
his upright caterpillar
prole to her aristo self
blue-collar saxophone
levered to unseen mass

cast that cat on a pillar
who crouched for the cause
the Lady of Music needs
a duettist from Bronzeville
Beauty’s BFF Fred Anderson

2

butterflies both world-wise
and learning the ropes
bruiser big or diminutive
took turns resting a spell
on my Duke Ellington t-shirt

replaced should they slip away
by new brethren landing
one grooved motionlessly
on the first Ducal word
“jazz is above all total

freedom to express oneself”
did they sip through fabric
a world known to them
of bells worth sippin’ at
in Spirit of Music Garden

sweat tasted that good
when Fred sipped saxoon
his notes played the stripes
on sheet music wallpaper
till air hugged them away

3

kaleidoscoping
butterflies took to him
one velvet beauty
respecting another
convention of sippers

tongue after nectar
mouth on the reed
monarch orange
obstinate black
the air hugged back

Fred left some gold too
horn anticipating
mouth to pull color from
9 a.m. on the dot
the day after he split

might butterflies es**rt
other chrysalises
to new velvet places
and gold of their own
Baba Fred moved on

6.24.2010

06/13/2022

Hear the Young Lions at the 1982 Kool Jazz Festival, this week, on Another Place!

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06/07/2022

THIS WEEK ON ANOTHER PLACE, Myra Melford's Fire & Water Quintet!

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05/29/2022

ANOTHER PLACE, TONITE, features the music of Michael Zerang!

Midnight, Sunday, May 29, on 90.9 FM WDCB and www.wdcb.org
https://wdcb.org/program/another-place

Arat Mountain Two Step, Michael Zerang and Hamid Drake, Ask the Sun, Okka Disk,1996

The Third Pythia of Flin Flon (for Shirka), Songs from the Big Book of Love, Michael Zerang & The Blue Lights, Pink Palace Records, 2015

Velvet Bell, Kyoto Aoki, Asian Improv Records, 2021

Dream Disobedience, Michael Zerang and Elisabeth Harnik, Not Two, 2020

For Ed Blackwell, Michael Zerang and Hamid Drake, Pink Palace, 2015

Cloud Walking, Natural Information Society, Eremite, 2012

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05/28/2022

Check out these cats at Southern University in New Orleans, courtesy of the Fred Anderson Archive at Experimental Sound Studio:

https://youtu.be/tWwjEf_QkBk

ess.org/caaThis video is from the Fred Anderson Collection at ESS - FA-076

05/23/2022

George Lewis featured this week on Another Place:

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05/16/2022

TONITE ON ANOTHER PLACE
WDCB 90.9 FM and www.wdcb.org
Sunday nights at midnight!

You may also listen anytime via the two-week archive:
https://wdcb.org/program/another-place

Anticipation & Inspiration, Improvisational Arts Quintet, including Alvin Fielder, London Branch, Alvin Thomas, Clyde Kerr Jr., Kidd Jordan, and John Reese (narrator), recorded live on Feb 23, 1976.

Chasin' Another Train (Of Thought), Vita Brevis, with Kidd Jordan, William Parker, Borah Bergman, Michael Wimberly, Some Real Music, 2013.

Unrest I, Brandee Younger, digital single, UMG, 2022. (Pictured.)

Akimbo, Music for Percussion and Piano, Phil Haynes and Michael Jefry.

Soul Stirrer, The Speed of Change, Mike Reed’s Loose Assembly, 482 Music, 2008.

It’s Time to Wake Up and Dream, Earth Walk, Jack DeJohnette, Blue Note, 1991.

Memories of a Pure Spring, A Thousand Evenings, Dave Douglas, RCA, 2000.

A Shift of the Eye, Terminal Valentine, Fred Longberg-Holm Trio. Atavistic, 2006.

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05/08/2022

This week, on Another Place!

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Episode One, Best of the Miyumi Project, vinyl (FPE 2020)

Respite, Portals Vol. 1: Mourning, Caroline Davis (Sunnyside Communications 2021)

On Green Dolphin Street, The COVID Tapes, Dave Rempis, (Aerophonic 2021)

San, Awon Ona, Hamid Drake and Ingrid Schmoliner (Klang Galerie 2021)

Prayer for Lester Bowie, David Sanford Big Band (Greenleaf Music 2021)

Funny (not much) Flow Quartet, led by guitarist Alejandro Urzagaste (TSR 2021)

Faced, Portals Vol. 1: Mourning, Caroline Davis (Sunnyside Communications 2021)

05/05/2022

Celebrating Kidd Jordan, on this, the day of his birth, in 1935!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko9ZBkKnrBo

Alvin Fielder, London Branch, Alvin Thomas, Clyde Kerr Jr, Kidd Jordan, John Reese (narrator) Feb 23, 1976

05/01/2022

TONITE ON ANOTHER PLACE: Branford Marsalis & David Murray!

Midnight, Sunday May 1, on 90.9 FM WDCB and www.wdcb.org
You may also listen via the two-week archive: https://wdcb.org/program/another-place

This week, we begin with one of my favorite albums from Branford Marsalis, this is the opening cut from The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, released in 1991, here is Roused About.

Roused About, The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, Branford Marsalis (Columbia)

Fast Life, David Murray & Branford Marsalis, the album is Fast Life, The David Murray Quartet +1, 1992 (Columbia)

Jazzosaurus Rex, David Murray, 1993 (Sony)

Countroniuous Rex, Branford Marsalis, 2000 (Sony)

Hope/Scope, David Murray, 1991 (Columbia)

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04/25/2022

TONITE ON ANOTHER PLACE: Powerhouse Sax Players

Midnight CST, Sunday, April 24, 2022
90.9 FM WDCB and www.wdcb.org
https://wdcb.org/program/another-place

This week, we dig into some powerhouse saxophone players with Kidd Jordan, Joe McPhee and Ken Vandermark.

Tenor & Drums, Kidd Jordan & Hamid Drake, A Night in November
Hekla, Joe McPhee, Of Things Beyond Thule, Vol. 2
Confluence, Ken Vandermark, Vandermark 5, Airports For Light
Law Years, Ken Vandermark’s Sound in Action Trio, Design in Time
Wade in the Water, Kidd & Hamid, A Night in November

Pictured: KIDD JORDAN.