Favoriting Music For a Free World with Dave Sewelson: Playlist from January 23, 2021 Favoriting

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Charles Mingus said jazz was a word invented to separate musicians from their money. Music for a Free World brings us together, drawing listeners to the healing power of smooth free jazz. Each week, surprise guests bring their own sides to spin and their instruments of choice to spontaneously jam.

Saturday 2 - 5pm (EDT) | On WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio
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Favoriting January 23, 2021: Gerald Cleaver is one of the New York jazz scene’s leading drummer and composers, who covers a wide range of stylistic ground.

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Artist Track Album Label Approx. start time
George Braith  Braith-A-Way   Favoriting Two Souls in One  Blue Note   
Cecil Taylor  Idut   Favoriting Cecil Taylor Unit  New World  0:23:48 (Pop-up)
Jerome Cooper  My Birds   Favoriting A Magical Approach  Mutable Music  0:38:41 (Pop-up)
Jerome Cooper  3 is to 1 as 4 is to 2   Favoriting A Magical Approach  Mutable Music  0:46:21 (Pop-up)
Roscoe Mitchell  Nonaah Trio   Favoriting Distant Radio Transmission  Wide Hive Records  0:57:14 (Pop-up)
Wynonie Harris  Shake That Thing   Favoriting More Greatest Hits  King Records  1:20:58 (Pop-up)
Horace Silver  The Cape Verdean Blues   Favoriting The Cape Verdean Blues  Blue Note  1:23:09 (Pop-up)
Muddy Waters  Rollin and Tumblin Pt 1   Favoriting The Real Folk Blues    1:28:06 (Pop-up)
Counter Trio  Lunch Counters and Others   Favoriting From a recent streaming concert    1:44:14 (Pop-up)
Gerald Cleaver & Dave Sewelson  Live   Favoriting live on WFMU  GTDR Records and Tapes  2:04:09 (Pop-up)
Muhal Richard Abrams  Levels And Degrees Of Light   Favoriting Levels And Degrees Of Light  Delmark  2:14:49 (Pop-up)
Bill Dixon  Valentina Di Sera   Favoriting Vade Mecum II  Soul Note  2:25:17 (Pop-up)
Gerald Cleaver  Photic Plains   Favoriting Signs  577 Records  2:28:20 (Pop-up)
Black Host  Test-Sunday   Favoriting Life in the Sugar Candle Mines  Northern Spy  2:34:46 (Pop-up)
James Blood Ulmer  Are You Glad to Be in America?   Favoriting Are You Glad to Be in America?  Artists House  2:47:10 (Pop-up)
Ornette Coleman  Street Woman   Favoriting Science Fiction  Columbia  2:50:46 (Pop-up)
Duke Ellington  Such Sweet Thunder (Cleo)   Favoriting Such Sweet Thunder  Columbia  2:55:25 (Pop-up)
Gerald Cleaver  Here   Favoriting To Be Announced    2:58:53 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

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Stork:

Hey, Dave! Soundin' good! Keep that propaganda comin!
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Dave Sewelson:

thanks Stork!
  2:00pm
DavidJ:

Hi Dave and all!
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fred:

I saw Gerald Cleaver with Joëlle Léandre and Mat Maneri at Instants Chavirés in Montreuil in January last year. So depressing how few I've seen since, but that show was a good memory
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 2:02pm
Sem:

Hello, Dave, the Stork, and DavidJ.
A good day for music for a free world.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 2:03pm
Sem:

And hello, to today's special guest. *waving*
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 2:08pm
WR:

hi all. hello Dave. Hot suit you wore on the Thursday AFA concert stream. Fun band you put together. enjoyed the music.
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 2:09pm
northguineahills:

*tunnels up from moletown, out of breath* Here!
  2:11pm
Gerald:

Waving back Sem
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 2:13pm
Dave Sewelson:

DavdJ!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 2:13pm
Dave Sewelson:

yeah fred..
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 2:13pm
Dave Sewelson:

Sem we are waving
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 2:15pm
fred:

@Gerald: have you known Joëlle for a while or was this gathering a newish meeting?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 2:16pm
Dave Sewelson:

WR thanks for tuning in the other night!
  2:22pm
DavidJ:

AFA Salon?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 2:24pm
WR:

yes. AFA On_Line Salon

www.artsforart.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 2:25pm
Dave Sewelson:

Tuesday Night
www.artsforart.org...
Avatar 2:26pm
devingraymusic:

ah this Cecil recording is amazing!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 2:26pm
Dave Sewelson:

ngh tommel opp
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 2:26pm
Dave Sewelson:

yeah devengraymusic
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 2:29pm
doctorjazz:

Hey folks!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 2:29pm
Dave Sewelson:

hey doc!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 2:35pm
fred:

I guess Cecil Taylor could be inspiring to a drummer. He definitely had a percussive side
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 2:39pm
northguineahills:

A Cecil album I have!
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 2:39pm
northguineahills:

(first one I got)
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 2:43pm
Dave Sewelson:

yeah ngh...
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Sem:

Lovin' this Cooper.
  2:44pm
Gerald:

More Cooper to come
  2:46pm
Gerald:

Cecil really does justice to the idea of the piano as a percussion instrument
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 2:46pm
Sem:

Alright!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 2:50pm
doctorjazz:

This Cooper is cool!
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 2:54pm
duke:

Shoulda been listening, but I got distracted. Glad I'm here.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 2:56pm
WR:

great memory, beautiful.
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 2:57pm
northguineahills:

Even (before last year), musicians still have to hide or show up w/o instruments b/c they had a tourist visa, not an artist visa. So, my friends and I had to find them instruments (if you use a laptop, or electronics, much easier to avoid)
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 2:58pm
northguineahills:

One band I was acquainted w/ from Europe got turned away at JFK b/c of the mistake....
  2:58pm
Alberto:

Jerome Cooper! what a great discover for my ears ans spirit! Super selection!
greetings from Spain (9pm here now)
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:00pm
Dave Sewelson:

welcome duke and Alberto
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northguineahills:

bienveninidos, Alberto!
  3:01pm
Gerald:

Another great Jerome one,
In Concert: From There To Hear
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 3:03pm
northguineahills:

ok, there's something wrong w/ me when I can't spell correctly en espanol. One more time, "bienvenidos". (I still can't spell in english).
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:03pm
Brian in UK:

What-Ho Mr Sewelson & listeners.
This sounds like avant-garde Frederick Delius.
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 3:04pm
northguineahills:

(I used to have a welcome mat that said, "Bienvenidos").
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 3:05pm
northguineahills:

What year is this Roscoe Mitchell from? (sounds like his latter period).
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:05pm
chresti:

Hi free world!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:05pm
Brian in UK:

fred, I saw William Parker & Hamid Drake in a trio a while back, I could not take my eyes off the drummer.
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northguineahills:

same here, Brian....
  3:08pm
Gerald:

This was commissioned in 2009
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:09pm
Dave Sewelson:

hey chresti and Brian...
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 3:12pm
northguineahills:

danke schoen, Gerald, enjoying your selection!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:13pm
Doug Schulkind:

Hello, beautifuls!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:14pm
fred:

@Brian: I never got to see Hamid Drake. Which is a shame.
Though at this point I'd sign for a live show with Andy on kazoo, I'm that desperate. I'm a dance fan, but not desperate enough to want to see Andy perform. Might get there soon
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:15pm
Dave Sewelson:

DOUG!!!!!!
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northguineahills:

Doug has entered the building!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:16pm
Brian in UK:

Are we going down the Danny Wallace route.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:17pm
chresti:

If you're French, the first answer is no, right fred?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:20pm
Doug Schulkind:

So much wisdom from Master Cleaver. So much love for Master Cleaver.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:21pm
fred:

@chresti: sadly, I have no clue. I got a letter from a dear friend today and I don't know how to reply, I'm so cut off from French society (and language)
  3:23pm
Gerald:

@northguineahills thanks for tuning in
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:27pm
chresti:

@fred, it's something a friend of my ex experienced, working as an interpreter/liaison when they did television productions over there.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:27pm
fred:

@chresti: Come to think of it, the French response is "yes, as you, wish, my lord". Backstabbing not excluded, but we're a nation of brown nosers
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:28pm
doctorjazz:

Great set selection, wow!
Last got to see Mr Cleaver in Philly, at Johnny Brenda's (with Nels Cline and Larry Ochs), and a house concert at a friend's house that is up there with my best live music experiences! Hope to be able to catch you live again soon
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:29pm
Doug Schulkind:

Pittsburgh legend Roger Humphries on drums there with Horace Silver. I'm hardly a native 'Burgher, but I know enough to revere Humphries. The good citizens of Detroit feel similarly regarding Mr. Cleaver.
  3:31pm
Gerald:

DRUM LEGEND
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fred:

@Doug: were you an army kid? You were in so many bands in high school, you must have moved a lot
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:31pm
chresti:

With this person, she always got a "no, c'est impossible!", on her first try, which was expected before finally getting through after several tries.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:32pm
Sem:

Needed that Muddy, wow.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:33pm
fred:

@chresti: Yeah, regular answer. Usually means a bribe is required, but sometimes chocolate might be enough
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:35pm
Brian in UK:

Gerald, nourishment is what we crave.
  3:36pm
?:

I made it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:36pm
Doug Schulkind:

@fred
I was in so many armies.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:37pm
Sem:

I remember that band, Doug.
  3:38pm
cooper-moore:

Preach it!
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chresti:

Ha Sem.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:39pm
fred:

Too bad "so many armies" split before recording a proper record, it would have changed hardcore noise folk history
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:40pm
Dave Sewelson:

cooper-moore!
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chresti:

Recording technology has improved, is improving.
  3:44pm
Gerald:

COOPER-MOORE FOR PRESIDENT
  3:44pm
Altered Beets:

Has anyone played along to any kind of weather, just improvising? Like, outside, covered enough where it doesn't mess you up, maybe under an open pavilion?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:44pm
Doug Schulkind:

My head is in the bass drum in the house.
  3:45pm
cooper-moore:

I decline the nomination!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:46pm
fred:

@Doug: is that a new yoga position?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:46pm
Dave Sewelson:

Altered Beets....sound goes faster in the cold....
  3:46pm
JD:

Go brothers
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:47pm
Dave Sewelson:

JD is in the house...watch out....
  3:47pm
Gerald:

JDA in the house
  3:49pm
Altered Beets:

There's so many variables to play with, right? It would always be a gamble, never the same way twice.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:54pm
Doug Schulkind:

Makes me want to pull out Blakey's "Drum Thunder Suite." But not until this show is over.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:55pm
Brian in UK:

I am imagining a train leaving a big city station crawling through the suburbs and getting up a head of steam as it heads along the tracks but the title belies that notion.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:55pm
coelacanth∅:

greetings Dave & Gerald
and Free worldlings
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devingraymusic:

darius taking that space!
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Gina Bacon:

Hey & happy Saturday, Dave, Gerald and streamerpeople!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:03pm
Sem:

Coel! Gina!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:03pm
chresti:

Something is breaking up?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:03pm
Dave Sewelson:

www.577records.com
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Gina Bacon:

Sem!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:05pm
coelacanth∅:

hi Sem hi Gina!
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chresti:

Hi coel and Gina and Sem!
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Sem:

Chresti!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:15pm
Gina Bacon:

Hey, coelacanthø!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:16pm
Gina Bacon:

Hi chresti!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:17pm
Dave Sewelson:

Gina and sealy!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:19pm
Gina Bacon:

Dave!
  4:23pm
Linda Lee:

so pleased to listen today, Dave! cheers!
  4:26pm
Jeff g. via app:

Such amazing-ness!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:28pm
Dave Sewelson:

thanks Linda Lee and Jeff the G
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WR:

A 577 record with Gerald with William Parker and Daniel Carter on bandcamp
danielcarternyc.bandcamp.com...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:31pm
Jeff Golick:

Joining late, so will have to go back and listen to it all. Did the Black Host group come up at all? I would love to hear more from that crew!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:31pm
WR:

Gerald Cleaver with Gerald Cleaver
577records.bandcamp.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:33pm
Dave Sewelson:

Coming up Jeff....
  4:34pm
Linda Lee:

*this* is lovely.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:35pm
Jeff Golick:

:)
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coelacanth∅:

hi chrestì!
  4:38pm
Linda Lee:

what is it about the tone of that guitar brings me back to the late 70s in lower manhattan? surely does!
  4:38pm
Linda Lee:

*that* was a good spot for sure.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:41pm
Jeff Golick:

Black Host at Bandcamp: geraldcleaversblackhost.bandcamp.com...
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coelacanth∅:

Whoa
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:45pm
Gina Bacon:

Thank you, Dave!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:46pm
Brian in UK:

Thanks Dave & Beat-Down Master.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:47pm
doctorjazz:

Great show today, thanks Gerald and Dave!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:47pm
Sem:

Thank you both for these hours, wonderful stuff.
  4:48pm
Linda Lee:

please give us the info for the performance again? thanks so much.
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fred:

That Black Host record is a fave of mine
  4:48pm
Linda Lee:

this is beautiful!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:48pm
chresti:

Thank you Dave and Gerald!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:49pm
Dave Sewelson:

Thanks to all you listenears!
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duke:

Thanks Dave and Gerald. Great show!
  4:49pm
Linda Lee:

thanks so much gentlemen!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:50pm
WR:

Tuesday night
www.artsforart.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:50pm
Dave Sewelson:

Linda here is the gig info...
www.artsforart.org...
  4:51pm
Linda Lee:

thank you both! xx
  4:51pm
Linda Lee:

thank you both! xx
  4:51pm
DavidJ:

Thank you Dave and Gerald!
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Gina Bacon:

Thanks, Dave and Gerald!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:52pm
Doug Schulkind:

Coming up at the top of the our, it's SOMEDAY MATINEE with Gina Bacon, live from Nashville. Gina's special guest today will be artist/activist Mike Younger.

Join the party right here: www.wfmu.org...
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devingraymusic:

thank you/all for the music!
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Gina Bacon:

That's me! Thanks, Doug!
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Jeff Golick:

Thanks, Gerald, and thanks, Dave!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:55pm
WR:

thank you Dave!

Gerald, you are such a gracious guest, using your time to shine a on so many others. 🤜🤛
  4:56pm
Gerald:

Thanks WR!
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Dave Sewelson:

Stay tuned for Gina next...we will fade out at 5....

wfmu.org...
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coelacanth∅:

Thanks Dave! Thanks Gerald!
take care y'all
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