The Weekend Planet

‘Jazz is Like a Banana.’ If you know which famous Frenchman said so, rejoice - the New Jungle Orchestra’s Jazz is Like a Banana is much more fun than he was! Danish guitarist Pierre Dørge founded the NJO in 1980. Musically and physically, they’ve explored more of our planet than has any other large ‘jazz’ ensemble. However defined, ‘jazz’ is but one of their many sources. The NJO is an ever-inventive, never-predictable marriage of tenderness, exuberance, reverence, dadaist humour, exquisitely intricate constructions, earthy grooves and spontaneous explosions.

Discover more here: www.newjungleorchestra.com
To read a revealing article, click its ‘All About Jazz on Pierre Dørge’ link.

Playlist

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Details of each track are presented in the following order:
BROADCAST TIME
TRACK NUMBER AND TITLE
COMPOSER
PUBLISHING AND COPYRIGHT DETAILS
RECORDING COMPANY AND CD NUMBER
( distributor/ source details, in brackets like this, in lower-case)
ARTIST AND CD TITLE
Duration of track
Description of track, in lower-case.
Where relevant, further info links to information, gigs/events/related programs

’THE WEEKEND PLANET’ SAT 16.2.08

2205
THEME:
(details below, as per the original CD.. This cut is also on these compilations Ketama - ’Nuevos Medios Coleccion’ - Nuevos Medios NM 15 820
{ in Australia via MGM www.thegroovemerchants.com
worldwide, via: www.flamenco-world.com/noticias/nuevos.htm }
and ’Jarabi - the best of Toumani Diabate’ (Hannibal 334352 )

CD CUT 1, ’JARABI’
TRAD, ARR TOUMANI DIABATE
HAMILCAR MUSIC LTD
HANNIBAL HNCD 1323
( in Australia, some releases through Stomp Enquiries to: ben@stomp.com.au
worldwide: www.rykodisc.com )
KETAMA, TOUMANI DIABATE, DANNY THOMPSON - ’SONGHAI’
THIRTY SECONDS (EXCERPT)
(retains a stately-Manding air, whilst also embracing flamenco elements. Toumani Diabate’s kora, Danny Thompson’s beautiful double bass and Ketama’s flamenco guitars )

2207
CD CUT 1, ’TARANAKI’
PIERRE DØRGE
STEEPLECHASE MUSIC ( KODA )
STEEPLECHASE SCCD 31636
( in Australasia, through Australian Northern Europe Liaisons
www.henk.com.au
worldwide: www.steeplechase.dk )
PIERRE DØRGE AND NEW JUNGLE ORCHESTRA - ’JAZZ IS LIKE A BANANA’
5: 58
( Lots of different instrumental colours on this instrumental to ode the New Zealand volcano that Europeans formerly called ’Mount Egmont’. Pierre’s electric guitar is the star. Jakob Mygind’s soprano saxophone and trumpeter Kasper Tranberg’s fluegelhorn {I think} also step out.

YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE JUST HOW BEAUTIFUL TARANAKI { AKA ’MOUNT EGMONT’ } IS?

Have a look, here:
www.taranakialpineclub.co.nz/gallery.htm

YOU WOULD LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE VOLCANO?
Look here (more photos, too):
http://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/volc_images/img_egmont.html )

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2213
CD CUT 13, ’THE VIEW FROM HOME’
BRYAN BOWERS
SEATTLE SOUNDS (ASCAP)
FLYING FISH FF70037
(this may or may not be available, still. If so it’s likely:
In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
worldwide through Rounder: www.rounder.com )
BRYAN BOWERS - ’THE VIEW FROM HOME’
2: 21
(gospel-grassish in tone - beautiful celebratory song praising the natural wonders enjoyed by residents of Seattle - high male voice and harmonies w autoharp, ac bass, dobro, banjo and ac guitar. The key lines refers to Mount Rainier: ’to the south lies the mountain, a glory to behold’.

YOU WOULD LIKE SEE THE FULL SONG LYRIC?
{the final verse is especially nice}

It’s here:
www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/folk-song-lyrics/View_From_Home.htm

YOU WOULD LIKE SEE THE GLORIOUS VIEW IN QUESTION?

Go to:
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/mt-rainier-zoomed-from-seattle/3101427024

and here:
www.artistrising.com/products/168041/mt-rainier-and-seattle-skyline.htm )

and here:
http://seattle-photos.blogspot.com/2007/12/mt-rainier-viewed-from-colman-park.html )

2218
CD CUT 8, ’TILO AKANDITA BRIKAMA’
PIERRE DØRGE
STEEPLECHASE MUSIC ( KODA )
STEEPLECHASE SCCD 31636
( in Australasia, through Australian Northern Europe Liaisons
www.henk.com.au
worldwide: www.steeplechase.dk )
PIERRE DØRGE AND NEW JUNGLE ORCHESTRA - ’JAZZ IS LIKE A BANANA’
4: 16
( Very lyrical, unrushed requiem song for a late West African griot friend - Alhaji Bai Konte of the Gambia. Guitarist-leader Pierre has visited The Gambia at least ten times. The Orchestra sings as well as plays - nicely-gently, in Mandinkan/ Malinke, whilst not pretending to be Africans. Features Pierre’s elec.guitar, plus tenor sax and trumpet soloists. Dembo Konte - who sings and plays kora on ’Madiba Jabi’ {cut-following, in this show} - is the late dedicatee’s son )

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2222
CD CUT 5, ’MADIBA JABI’
SANA JOBARTEH/DEMBO KONTE
CD IS P & C 1990 ROGUE RECORDS
ROGUE RECORDS FMSD 5020
(THIS CD IS PROBABLY NO LONGER AVAILABLE )
DEMBO KONTE AND KAUSU KUYATEH - ’JALI ROLL’
8: 13
(West African: stately, Manding song for the two co-leaders’ male African voices and koras {harp-lutes} , plus Abdul Tee-jay’s ac guitar - v lovely, especially its transition into the celebratory-rolling latter section. Dembo Konte is the son of the late Alhaji Bai Konte of the Gambia - the dedicatee of the cut-preceding, in this show)

2233
CD CUT 6, ÇAMPAIGN OR COME SWINE’
FLORIAN ROSS
GEMA
BIRDLAND BL016
( www.birdland.com.au
Birdland label releases also available through www.cvibes.com )
JAZZGROOVE MOTHERHSIP ORCHESTRA - ’DREAM WHEEL’
(Live At The Sound Lounge with Florian Ross)
9: 00
(AUSTRAL PERF: ’live’, sauntering big-band piece, with its German composer on electric piano. It alludes to ’Come Rain or Come Shine’. The Australian ensemble’s soloists on this are trombonist Lucian McGuinness and tenor saxophonist Roger Manins.

JAZZGROOVE MOTHERSHIP ORCHESTRA GIG ALERT (Sydney)

with the Vienna-resident US trombonist/composer/arranger Ed Partyka.
Thursday February 21st, 8.30 pm ’
@ ’The Sound Lounge’ (doors open 8.00pm)
Seymour Theatre Centre, corner City Rd and Cleveland St, Chippendale
Box office tel: 02 9351 7940
Presented by SIMA; full program details www.sima.org.au )

SEGUE

2242
CD CUT 7, ’JAZZ IS LIKE A BANANA’
PIERRE DØRGE
STEEPLECHASE MUSIC ( KODA )
STEEPLECHASE SCCD 31636
( in Australasia, through Australian Northern Europe Liaisons
www.henk.com.au
worldwide: www.steeplechase.dk )
PIERRE DØRGE AND NEW JUNGLE ORCHESTRA - ’JAZZ IS LIKE A BANANA’
6: 36
(perky, at times blues-strutting, at times calypso-esque-cum-mambo piece for jazz-centric { but not just ’jazz’ } little big band. The composer is the electric guitarist, with solos on trumpet, tenor sax {Morten Carlsen, I think - a really good, post-Rollins/ post-Trane rampant solo} and robust trombone {Kenneth Agerholm}. Lots of shifts. It even -briefly - alludes to ’Caravan’. The title refers to a remark allegedly made in 1949 by Jean-Paul Sartre at the Paris Jazz Festival. He was speaking to Charlie ’Bird’ Parker, shortly after ’Bird’ had said ’I’m very glad to have met you Mr Sartre. I like your playing very much!’ )

2250
CD 1, CUT 14, ’BANANA REPUBLICS’
GOODMAN/BURGH/ROTHERNEL
BIG EARS MUSIC, INC/RED PAJAMAS MUSIC, INC ASCAP
RED PAJAMAS RECORDS RPJ-008
(This may or may not be available in Australia, still, through Shock.
If not/ elsewhere, go to www.ohboy.com/red
STEVE GOODMAN - ’NO BIG SURPRISE - THE STEVE GOODMAN ANTHOLOGY’
3: 43
(bitter-sweet song about US expats who exploit Latin America and who end up sadly-pathetic shadows of themselves ... with male voice, acoustic guitar, recorder )

2255
CD CUT 6, ’MÉO GRAIN DÓR (RÊVE DE LOULOU/ GIGUE À MÉO/ LOSTIDARIA/ GRAIN D’OR #2)’
PASCAL GEMME
SOCAN
ROUES ET ARCHETS RA006
( to my knowledge no Australian distributor
Worldwide: www.rouesetarchets.com )
GENTICORUM - ’MALINS PLAISIRS’
3: 50 (excerpt)

GENTICORUM AUSTRALIAN TOUR ALERT (extensive)

They begin at the Nannup Folk Festival in WA from Feb 29th - March 2nd and then in many mainland Australian places through to March 30th.
Full details - with venue-links - are here: www.genticorum.com/en/show_upcoming.html

AND
GENTICORUM ON ABC RADIO NATIONAL ALERT

This CD will be explored on ’The Daily Planet’ on Thursday 28th Feb.

’The Daily Planet’ with Lucky Oceans airs Monday to Friday at 2.20pm
Except on Fridays, it has a second airing at 11.20 pm
website {includes audio} : www.abc.net.au/rn/dailyplanet )

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11PM NEWS
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2305
CD CUT 1, ’THE ROAD TO PORT FAIRY’ (THE TAP ROOM/ THE ROAD TO PORT FAIRY/ THE ABBEYLEIX/ SWEENEY’S DREAM)
(RESP) TRAD/ TIME WHELAN/ SEAN RYAN/ TRAD. ALL ARR BY TROUBLE IN THE KITCHEN
PUBS NOT SPEC. PRESUMABLY, THE ARRS ARE APRA
TRADVSVILLE RECORDS TVLCD 0803
( in Australia through www.indie-cds.com
Available worldwide via www.troubleinthekitchen.com )
TROUBLE IN THE KITCHEN - ’THE NEXT TURN’
4: 38
(ALL AUSTRAL PERF AND ARR. PART-AUSTRAL COMP: Irish in style. Lively set of reels delivered with real flair - grace as well as oomph. Adrian Barker’s fiddle, Ben Stephenson’s flute, Joe Ferguson’s bouzouki and Kate Burke’s guitar.

ABC RADIO NATIONAL ’TROUBLE..’ALERT
We explore this album { the songs are good, too} next Saturday, Feb 23rd.
More details here: www.abc.net.au/rn/weekendplanet/comingup

PORT FAIRY FESTIVAL ALERT
It includes Trouble in the Kitchen and it happens March 7-10, inc.
Full festival details here: www.portfairyfolkfestival.com

Radio National’s ’Music Deli’ will broadcast from Port Fairy on March 7th )

2311
CD CUT 2, ’MEN’
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III
SNOWDEN MUSIC (ASCAP0
VIRGIN RECORDS CDV 2703
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III - ’HISTORY’
3: 33
(haunting/provocative song on ’men’- a brilliant and brave piece of writing. Male voice w spare, v well-played open-tuned ac guitar, bowed bass and accordion. This 1992 album may or may not available still. There is a good version on his ’live’CD, ’So Damn Happy’
{ Sanctuary Records SANCD197
in Australia through Shock. www.shock.com.au
worldwide: www.sanctuaryrecordsgroup.co.uk } )

LOUDON’S FEB/MARCH AUSTRALIAN TOUR ALERT (WITH DAUGHTER, LUCY WAINWRIGHT ROCHE )

For the schedule with ’live’ links to each venue, go to www.lwiii.com/itinerary.php
The brief version is as below:

February
Wednesday 27 Wrestpoint Showroom Hobart
Friday 29 Heritage Hotel Bulli

March
Saturday 01 Tilley’s Devine Cafe Canberra
Monday 03 The Basement Sydney
Wednesday 05 The Tivoli Brisbane
Thursday 06 Joe’s Waterhole Eumundi
Saturday 08 Port Fairy Folk Festival Port Fairy
Sunday 09 Port Fairy Folk Festival Port Fairy
Wednesday 12 The National Theatre St Kilda, Melbourne
Friday 14 The Palais Theatre Hepburn Springs, Dayelsford
Sunday 16 Blue Mountains Music Festival Katoomba
Wednesday 19 The Factory Theatre Enmore, Sydney
Thursday 20 Playhouse Theatre Newcastle
Friday 21 East Coast Blues & Roots Festival Byron Bay
Sunday 23 The Sound Lounge Gold Coast
Wednesday 26 The Governor Hindmarsh Adelaide
Friday 28 Fly By Night Perth )

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2315
CD CUT 6, ’BLUE MASK’
PIERRE DØRGE
STEEPLECHASE MUSIC ( KODA )
STEEPLECHASE SCCD 31636
( in Australasia, through Australian Northern Europe Liaisons
www.henk.com.au
worldwide: www.steeplechase.dk )
PIERRE DØRGE AND NEW JUNGLE ORCHESTRA - ’JAZZ IS LIKE A BANANA’
4: 15
( Yes, these mostly-Danes have spent time in China! This quirky-cum-mysterioso more-or-less-modern jazz piece has various moods, and a definite ’Asian’ accent. The composer is the electric guitarist, his wife Irene Becker its pianist. It also features the cornet { I think } played { I think } by Kasper Tranberg

SEGUE

2319
CD CUT 2, ’TYRANNY OF FIXED NUMBERS’
ADAM ROGERS
PUB NOT SPEC.
CRISS CROSS JAZZ CRISS 1263 CD
( no Australian distributor.
Worldwide: www.crisscrossjazz.com )
ADAM ROGERS - ÁPPARITION
6: 33
(muscular-anthemic modern jazz. It features the leader’s electric guitar, and Chris Potter’s tenor sax , with pianist Edward Simon, ac bassist Scott Colley and drummer Clarence Penn.

ADAM ROGERS/ CHRIS POTTER GIG/FESTIVAL ALERT (Perth, only)

Saturday March 1st, 8pm @ Perth Concert Hall

The Chris Potter Underground, with special guests. The core quartet is as above sax/guitar/bass-wise, plus drummer Nate Smith.

Their special, Australian guests include a string trio of violinist Paul Wright, violist Kathy Potter and cellist Zoë Knighton , plus Dale Barlow on flute, clarinetist Adrian Cunningham and bassoonist Peter Moore.

It’s part of the Perth International Arts Festival, which runs Feb 8 through March 2nd

Full festival details here: www.perthfestival.com.au
Details/bookings for this concert here: www.perthfestival.com.au/music/chrispotter )

2328
CD CUT 2, ’A MINOR DISTURBANCE TO MR NIELSEN’
PIERRE DØRGE
STEEPLECHASE MUSIC ( KODA )
STEEPLECHASE SCCD 31636
( in Australasia, through Australian Northern Europe Liaisons
www.henk.com.au
worldwide: www.steeplechase.dk )
PIERRE DØRGE AND NEW JUNGLE ORCHESTRA - ’JAZZ IS LIKE A BANANA’
10: 38
( Richly and variously-textured piece which has quirky-humorous and blues-strutting moments , but is centrally a celebration of the beauty of Nielsen’s oft- hymn/hymn-like music {the composer best-loved by his fellow Danes}. There’s some remarkable horn-playing/ arranging here. Pierre is the striking elec. guitarist. Piece includes variations on some of Nielsen’s organ music.

LIKE TO KNOW A BIT MORE ABOUT CARL NIELSEN { 1865- 1932 } ?

Start here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Nielsen

LIKE TO KNOW A LOT ABOUT DENMARK’S BEST-LOVED COMPOSER?

Go to :
http://carlnielsen.dk/pages/the-society/about-us.php )

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2339
CD CUT 4, ’ARCHIPELAGO’
SØREN KRISTIANSEN
PUB NOT SPEC
STUNT RECORDS STUCD 07142
( In Australia, through Australian Northern Europe Liaisons
www.henk.com.au
Worldwide: www.sundance.dk )
SØREN KRISTIANSEN - ’WITH A SONG IN MY HEART’
5: 30
( Spare, meditative piano solo. Has in mind the mostly-tranquil Danish waters around the archipelago where the pianist was born - as was Carl Nielsen )

2347
CD CUT 3, ’SABRALI SA SA’
TRAD BULGARIAN, ARR ZVETAN GEORGIEV
MUSIC IS PUBLIC DOMAIN, ARR PUBLISHER NOT SPEC
SILENT RECORDINGS SIL016
( in Australian through Vitamin: www.vitamin.net/au
Worldwide: www.undercovermusic.com.au )
SHAUN PARKER - ’THIS SHOW IS ABOUT PEOPLE’
2: 42
(AUSTRAL PERF: Bulgarian song, with a mix of almost-solemn and playful elements. Boys - passing by - hide some of the girls’ belongings. Mostly sung, partly spoken, a cappella, by three female voices. Jane Birmingham {alto}, Silvia Entcheva {soprano} and Mara Kiek {mezzo soprano}: as ’Trio Pippero’.

ABC RADIO NATIONAL ’THIS SHOW..’ ALERT
This CD will be explored on ’The Daily Planet’ on Wednesday 20th Feb.

’The Daily Planet’ with Lucky Oceans airs Monday to Friday at 2.20pm
Except on Fridays, it has a second airing at 11.20 pm
website {includes audio} : www.abc.net.au/rn/dailyplanet )

SEGUE

2350
CD CUT 5, ’I COULD HAVE LIED’
MICHAEL STORY
(PRESUMABLY) APRA
SELF-ISSUED DISC WITH NO CATALOG NUMBER
( www.myspace.com/michaelstorybass )
MICHAEL STORY TRIO - ’MICHAEL STORY TRIO’
6: 23
(AUSTRAL COMP AND PERF: Agile-staccato, restless and propulsive-interactive jazz trio. The leader-composer is the ac bassist, with pianist Luke Howard and drummer Daniel Farrugia.

MICHAEL STORY TRIO GIG ALERT ( Melbourne )

Thursday 21st February, 9 pm at Paris Cat jazz club.
6 Goldie Place (off Lonsdale Street), Melbourne CBD
The trio is as above. www.myspace.com/michaelstorybass )

2358
CD CUT 6, ’THREE FOR ONE’
HILARIO DURAN
JANIJAM MUSIC
JUSTIN TIME JUST 101-2
( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
worldwide: www.justin-time.com )
HILARIO DURAN - ’KILLER TUMBAO’
1: 00 (excerpt)
(Cuban: Duran’s solo piano initially, then with congas and timbales, played, respectively by Jose Luis Quintana {Changuito} and Tata Güines. A remarkable, very alert and unusual trio. Tata Güines - one of the all-time greats of the conga {aka ’tumbadora’ in Cuba} - died, in Havana, aged 77, on Monday February 4th.

YOU WOULD LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT TATA GÜINES?
Go to:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080204/music_nm/cuba_music_guines_dc_1 )

Presenter

Doug Spencer

Producer

Doug Spencer