The Weekend Planet

Marc Copland is a very lyrical, sensitive pianist. He’s adventurous, too. There are plenty of louder, busier improvising keyboardists, but very few so creative and consistently eloquent. Time Within Time is a sublime solo set. Bookends is an equally compelling double-CD of studio and concert duets with saxophonist David Liebman. Copland’s pianistic ‘voice’ is as distinctive as any singer’s, his ‘touch’as tender as any lover’s.

Marc has an informative website (especially the ‘interview with Marc’) :
www.marccopland.com

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’ SUN 6.7.08 (repeat: 1st aired on July 22nd last year)

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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 )

2208
CD (DISC TWO) CUT 1, ’CRY WANT’
JIMMY GIUFFRE
PUB NOT SPEC
HATOLOGY 2-587
( in Australia through Select Audio-Visual Distribution
www.savd.com.au
worldwide: www.hathut.com )
DAVID LIEBMAN - MARC COPLAND DUO - ’BOOKENDS’
7 03
(very open, searing-balladic conversation between two great improvising musicians. David on tenor sax and Marc on piano, in concert in 2004 )

SEGUE

2215
CD CUT 9, ’SOME OTHER TIME’
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
PUB NOT SPEC
HATOLOGY 619
( in Australia through Select Audio-Visual Distribution
www.savd.com.au
worldwide: www.hathut.com )
MARC COPLAND (SOLO) - ’TIME WITHIN TIME’
3: 09
( Solo piano - exquisite touch. Reverie-version {one of four different treatments it gets on this all-solo-piano disc} of a melody which Bill Evans also loved. It comes from Bernstein’s 1944 musical, ’On The Town’ )

2221
CD CUT 2, ’RIVER’S RUN’
MARC COPLAND
PUB NOT SPEC
HATOLOGY 619
( in Australia through Select Audio-Visual Distribution
www.savd.com.au
worldwide: www.hathut.com )
MARC COPLAND (SOLO) - ’TIME WITHIN TIME’
5: 53
( spiralling, solo piano. His exquisite ’touch’ is captured well)

SEGUE

2227
CD (DISC ONE) CUT 6, ’IN YOUR OWN SWEET WAY’
DAVE BRUBECK
PUB NOT SPEC
HATOLOGY 2-587
( in Australia through Select Audio-Visual Distribution
www.savd.com.au
worldwide: www.hathut.com )
DAVID LIEBMAN - MARC COPLAND DUO - ’BOOKENDS’
7: 54
(sweetly waltzing piano/sax duo, in studio. Dave on soprano sax )

2237
CD CUT 3, ’LITTLE SUEDE SHOES/ DAY BY DAY’
(RESP) CHARLIE PARKER/ SAMMY CAHN, ALEX STORDAHL AND PAUL WESTON. ARR BY FRED HERSCH
PUB NOT SPEC
MAXJAZZ MXJ 122
( in Australia, through Rockian Trading www.rockian.biz
worldwide: www.maxjazz.com )
NANCY KING - ’LIVE AT JAZZ STANDARD WITH FRED HERSCH’
5: 32
(’Live’ and very playful interweaving of song with words and a scat-treatment of bebop number. Nancy’s husky voice and Fred’s very alert, swinging-syncopated piano. This is one of the great ’live’ jazz vocal albums )

SEGUE

2243
CD CUT 1, ’SPAIN’
CHICK COREA, INCORPORATING PART OF SECOND MOVEMENT OF JOAQUIN RODRIGO’S - ’CONCERTO D’ARANJUEZ’
PUB NOT SPEC
BLUE NOTE CDP 95477 2
( Through EMI
www.bluenote.com )
BOBBY MCFERRIN & CHICK COREA - ’PLAY’
9: 50
(very ’live’ and very playful - Bobby’s wordless male vocal and Chick’s piano. Hispanic-tinged extravaganza {see composer-note above} which ranges from haunting through to cheerfully rampaging )

2253
CD CUT 1, ’COIL’
GERARD BROPHY
PRESUMABLY) APRA
TALL POPPIES TP 193
( In Australia through Select Audio Visual Distribution
worldwide: www.tallpoppies.net )
CLAIRE EDWARDES - ’COIL’
5: 50 (excerpt)
(AUSTRAL COMP AND PERF: Solo vibraphone. Rhythmic. Not ’faux--gamelan’ but Indonesian {and East African} tuned-percussive traditions have almost certainly influenced this late 20th century Australian composition)

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2305
CD CUT 1, ’SOME OTHER TIME’
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
PUB NOT SPEC
HATOLOGY 619
( in Australia through Select Audio-Visual Distribution
www.savd.com.au
worldwide: www.hathut.com )
MARC COPLAND (SOLO) - ’TIME WITHIN TIME’
2: 56
( Solo piano - exquisite touch. Copland plays this melody {which Bill Evans also loved} four different ways on this CD. Originally from Bernstein’s 1944 musical, ’On The Town’ )

2309
CD (DISC ONE) CUT4, ’LESTER LEAPS IN’
LESTER YOUNG
PUB NOT SPEC
HATOLOGY 2-587
( in Australia through Select Audio-Visual Distribution
www.savd.com.au
worldwide: www.hathut.com )
DAVID LIEBMAN - MARC COPLAND DUO - ’BOOKENDS’
3: 06
(Liebman’s masterful tenor sax, absolutely solo. Lester Young - the saxophonist who penned this - was Billie Holiday’s musical alter ego )

SEGUE

2312
CD CUT 6, ’TIME WAS’
MARC COPLAND
PUB NOT SPEC
HATOLOGY 619
( in Australia through Select Audio-Visual Distribution
www.savd.com.au
worldwide: www.hathut.com )
MARC COPLAND (SOLO) - ’TIME WITHIN TIME’
6: 01
(solo piano. Crystalline )

2320
CD CUT 5, ’OUR DISCUSSION’
NINA NASTASIA
C. NINA NASTASIA 2007-07-18
FATCAT RECORDS FATCD53
( in Australia through Inertia: www.inertia-music.com
Worldwide: www.fat-cat.co.uk )
NINA NASTASIA AND JIM WHITE - ’YOU FOLLOW ME’
2: 58
(AUSTRAL PERF: Unsettled-intimate song for US author’s female voice and ac guitar, in duet w its Australian drummer {who’s one of The Dirty Three}

YOU’D LIKE TO SEE THE LYRIC TO THIS SONG?
Go to: www.alwaysontherun.net/ninanastasia.htm#y

SEGUE

2323
CD CUT 2, ’VOICES OF WATER’
TADAO SAWAI
PUB NOT SPEC
TALL POPPIES TP044
( In Australia through Select Audio Visual Distribution
worldwide: www.tallpoppies.net )
SATSUKI ODAMURA - ’LIKE A BIRD’
11: 10
(AUSTRAL PERF: contemporary duet for standard and bass versions of the koto {the long-board, plucked zither that’s emblematic of Japan}. The bass version is 20th century invention, also known as jushichigen. Satsuki’s bass koto, the composer’s conventional one.

YOU’D LIKE TO KNOW A DEAL MORE ABOUT THE KOTO, INCLUDING THE JUSHICHIGEN?
A good place to start {with many links} is here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koto_%28musical_instrument%29 )

2336
CD (DISC TWO) CUT 3, ’IMPRESSIONS’
JOHN COLTRANE
PUB NOT SPEC (BUT PROBABLY JOWCOL MUSIC)
HATOLOGY 2-587
( in Australia through Select Audio-Visual Distribution
www.savd.com.au
worldwide: www.hathut.com )
DAVID LIEBMAN - MARC COPLAND DUO - ’BOOKENDS’
12: 17
( Copland’s piano, Liebman’s tenor sax in duet - a remarkable, wide-ranging and fresh rendition of a seminal ’Trane piece )

SEGUE

2348
CD CUT 5, ’SOME OTHER TIME’
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
PUB NOT SPEC
HATOLOGY 619
( in Australia through Select Audio-Visual Distribution
www.savd.com.au
worldwide: www.hathut.com )
MARC COPLAND (SOLO) - ’TIME WITHIN TIME’
3: 30
( Solo piano - exquisite touch and a deal of gravitas.. Copland plays this melody {which Bill Evans also loved} four different ways on this CD. Originally from Bernstein’s 1944 musical, ’On The Town’ )

2353
CD (DISC ONE) CUT 8, ’BOOKENDS TWO’
MARC COPLAND
PUB NOT SPEC
HATOLOGY 2-587
( in Australia through Select Audio-Visual Distribution
www.savd.com.au
worldwide: www.hathut.com )
DAVID LIEBMAN - MARC COPLAND DUO - ’BOOKENDS’
5: 40 (excerpt)
(Marc’s piano, David’s soprano sax : a sweetly-waltzing duet. Briefly, a little more ’raucous’ in its middle part, but lyrical, throughout )

Presenter

Doug Spencer

Producer

Doug Spencer