Author: Cynthia McGuirl
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Frisell, Motian, Lovano & Nothing Else Part 2/3
More released and unreleased music from the Paul Motian Trio with Bill Frisell & Joe Lovano. With readings about band size, instrument and song possibilities from Paul Motian’s 1986 Band Book. Set List:https://jazzcloset.blogspot.com/2024/10/frisell-motian-lovano-trio-nothing-else.html Photo: Paul Motian, Bill Frisell & Joe Lovano 1980s photo © Cheung Ching Ming
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Frisell, Motian, Lovano & Nothing Else Part1/3
This week’s podcast is a rebroadcast of an episode first aired on December 3, 2018. The show features released and unreleased music, and readings from paul Motian’s unpublished autobiography. Podcast & Set List: https://jazzcloset.blogspot.com/2024/10/frisell-motian-lovano-trio-and-nothing.html Photo: 1987 Paul Motian Trio onstage Instanbul, Turkey photographer unknown ©Paul Motian
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1980s: Paul Motian Quintet Version 2 Part 2
This week’s podcast is a rebroadcast of an episode first aired on October 8, 2018. In honor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day, this show features Kaw-Creek Native American Jim Pepper. With Paul Motian, Joe Lovano, Jim Pepper, Bill Frisell, Ed Sculler. Featuring tunes with Jim Pepper as leader and unreleased Quintet rehearsal recordings and a gig…
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Motian Live & Unreleased
This week’s podcast is a rebroadcast of an episode first aired on May 7, 2018. A selection of Motian live recordings spanning the years 1969-2011. All are unreleased. No readings but 1969 datebook pages & a receipt from the 1969 European tour with Keith Jarrett are shown along with a video link to the Jarrett…
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Charlie & Paul Part 3/4
This week’s podcast is a rebroadcast of an episode first aired on August 14, 2017. Haden & Motian. Music from past resistances is appropriate for the current resistance. With readings from Motian’s autobiography about Keith Jarrett’s American Quartet on tour in Japan in 1974. Podcast & Set List: https://jazzcloset.blogspot.com/2024/09/charlie-paul-part-34-081417.html Keith Jarrett’s American Quartet on tour in…
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More Tim Berne
This week’s featured podcast is More Tim Berne. Since we did so much talking in the previous show, I thought we needed a mostly music of Tim Berne episode. Check out his Bandcamp page and buy music from live musicians! Set List & Podcast: https://jazzcloset.blogspot.com/2024/08/more-tim-berne-music-121817.html Photo: Tim Berne’s Snakeoil: from l to r: Ches Smith,…
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Tim Berne Interview
This week’s featured podcast is Tim Berne Interview. While Paul Motian was figuring out his band in the early 1980s, he was also playing in other peoples bands. Tim Berne talks about his first European Tour and more. He released a live CD from the tour in 2017. Check out his Bandcamp page and buy…
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The First Trio 1976 Motian, Bracken, Izenzon
This week’s podcast features Paul Motian’s First Trio as leader with Charles Bracken and David Izenzon. I feature an unreleased 1977 concert at Creative Music Studios in upstate New York and readings about the group from the Archive. Set List & Podcast: https://jazzcloset.blogspot.com/2021/07/the-first-trio-paul-motian-charles.html Photo: David Izenzon, Charles Bracken, Paul Motian 1977 photo: ©Richard Berner
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V2 Motian Songbook M-R
This week’s podcast features recordings from the Paul Motian Songbook V2 M-R (with 1 S). Some of the compositions in the Songbook are unrecorded but I found versions on rehearsal tapes of a few. The last one I play is an early version of ‘Sam Brown’ which was titled ‘Brownstone’. I include that composition and…
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Portrait In Jazz
This week’s featured podcast has some well known tunes and some obscure. Portrait In Jazz was the first Bill Evans Trio with both Scott LaFaro and Paul Motian. Readings about Paul Motian remembering Jackie Paris, liner notes from Mr. Counterpoint (a 1962 John Gamba album with Don Cinderella and Paul Motian) and more. Photo: Scott…
