The Weekend Planet

Bennie Maupin is a gifted composer and brilliant improvising player of reeds and flute. His bass clarinet work with Miles Davis was likened to a barracuda, prowling the lower clef. Keenly aware that ‘there are infinitely more sounds than there are notes’, Maupin is a master of quiet surprise and space. He is still growing, musically. On Early Reflections the 68-year-old from Detroit makes beautiful new music in Warsaw, with three fine young Polish jazz players and a superb female singer. Having previously recorded only operatic and Polish folk musics, Hania Chowaniec-Rybka here proves ‘sui generis’, quietly astonishing and absolutely comfortable.

Maupin’s official site:
www.benniemaupin.com

A very revealing, 2006-vintage interview is here:
www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=22723

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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 27.9. 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 )

2208
CD CUT 2, ’ESCONDIDO’
BENNIE MAUPIN, MICHAL TOKAJ, MICHAL BARANSKI AND LUKASZ ZYTA
BENPIN MUSIC ( BMI )
CRYPTOGRAMOPHONE CG137
( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
Worldwide: www.cryptogramophone.com )
BENNIE MAUPIN QUARTET - ’EARLY REFLECTIONS’
7: 43
( elegant, lyrical spacious ’modern acoustic chamber-jazz’ which is also limber, even funky. The 68-year-old American leader’s bass clarinet with the piano, ac bass and drums of three very much younger Poles - respectively, Michal Tokaj, Michal Baranski and Lukasz Zyta. Recorded in 2007 in Warsaw. Elsewhere, this album also involves a remarkable Polish singer )

SEGUE

2216
CD (DISC TWO) CUT 2, ’JOHN MCLAUGHLIN’
MILES DAVIS
PUB NOT SPEC
COLUMBIA LEGACY C2K 65774
( Through Sony Music )
MILES DAVIS - ’BITCHES BREW’
4: 25
(Named for its elec guitar-soloist, who is the primary soloist. Mesmeric blues-rock-jazz-fusion with two elec pianos {Joe Zawinul and Chick Corea}, two drummers {Lenny White and Jack De Johnette}, two percussionists {Don Alias on congas, Jumma Santos on shaker} , one ac bass {Dave Holland}, plus Miles’ trumpet, Wayne Shorter’s soprano sax and Bennie Maupin, showing why one reviewer likened his bass clarinet on this disc to ’a barracuda, prowling the lower clef’. Recorded in 1969 in NYC)

2222
CD CUT 4, ’ATMA’
BENNIE MAUPIN, MICHAL TOKAJ, MICHAL BARANSKI AND LUKASZ ZYTA
BENPIN MUSIC ( BMI )
CRYPTOGRAMOPHONE CG137
( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
Worldwide: www.cryptogramophone.com )
BENNIE MAUPIN QUARTET - ’EARLY REFLECTIONS’
8: 54
(Mostly quiet and spacious, but progressively intensifying.. The title refers to a term for the inner/true self/soul. The wordless female vocalist - Hania Chowaniec-Rybka - is really special. She usually sings opera or Polish folk. This is her first recoding as an improvising singer. You would never guess so - she sounds entirely convincing, and unmannered. Bennie plays soprano sax. The three young Polish players of piano, ac bass and drums are, respectively, Michal Tokaj, Michal Baranski and Lukasz Zyta )

SEGUE

2231
CD CUT 3, ’INSIDE THE SHADOWS’
BENNIE MAUPIN, MICHAL TOKAJ, MICHAL BARANSKI AND LUKASZ ZYTA
BENPIN MUSIC ( BMI )
CRYPTOGRAMOPHONE CG137
( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
Worldwide: www.cryptogramophone.com )
BENNIE MAUPIN QUARTET - ’EARLY REFLECTIONS’
2: 21
( perky, mobile group improvisation, which combines glee and a darker-edgier aspect. The 68-year-old American leader plays tenor sax , with the piano, ac bass and drums of three very much younger Poles - respectively, Michal Tokaj, Michal Baranski and Lukasz Zyta )

2235
CD CUT 2, ’SOLEÁ POR BULERIÁ: CALLES’ (STREETS )
GREG ALFONZETTI
PUB NOT SPEC
SOUNDPLANET - NO CATALOGUE NUMBER
( In Australia, through Vitamin: www.vitamin.net.au )
ARREBATO - ’ARREBATO’
6: 01
(AUSTRAL COMP AND PERF: Greg Alfonzetti’s flamenco guitar (s) mostly to fore, with nice use of Andrew Poniris’s soprano sax, plus ac bass, percussion and palmas { hand-claps } - dramatic-insistent contemporary flamenco.

ARREBATO GIGS/ MAJOR FESTIVAL ALERT ( Bellingen, NSW )

Bellingen Global Carnival
Friday 3 to Sunday 5 October, Bellingen Showgrounds

Arrebato are among its many performers.
Full festival details:
www.globalcarnival.com )

SEGUE

2241
CD CUT 4, ’LATE NIGHT’
MATT MCMAHON
APRA/ CONTROL
BIRDLAND RECORDS BL019
( www.birdland.com.au
Birdland label releases also available through www.cvibes.com )
MATT MCMAHON AND GUY STRAZZ - ’2 @ 1’
3: 49
(AUSTRAL COMP AND PERF: Matt’s piano in blues-tinged nocturne duo with Guy’s steel-stringed ac guitar.

MATT MCMAHON AND GUY STRAZZ CD LAUNCH GIG ALERT ( Sydney )

Friday October 3 @ 8.30 pm at The Sound Lounge (doors open 8.00pm)
Seymour Theatre Centre, corner City Rd and Cleveland St, Chippendale
Marilyn Crispell + Lloyd Swanton (bass), Simon Barker (drums)
Box office tel: 02 9351 7940
www.sima.org.au )

2246
CD CUT 3. ’I REMEMBER THAT DAY’
EMMA FRANZ
ALBERT MUSIC
EFRA003
( self-issued.
available worldwide through www.birdland.com.au )
EMMA FRANZ - ’THE CHANGING NATURE OF THINGS’
5: 06
(AUSTRAL COMP AND PERF: song of fond remembrance of an early beach-side day in a { the lyric implies } still-enduring love. Emma’s voice with pianist Matt McMahon, drummer Simon Barker and ac bassist Philip Rex )

SEGUE

2251
CD CUT 1. ’ALEGRE EM ACARI’
DOUG DE VRIES
CONTROL/ BR-RPL-07-00004
ACARI RECORDS AR 30/ DdV 605
( in Australia, as flagged on ’CD stockists’ prompt at www.dougdevries.com
worldwide, direct from www.acari.com.br )
DOUG DE VRIES MEETS MAURICIO CARRILHO - ’JACARANDA’
2: 57
(AUSTRAL COMP AND PERF: overtly Brazilian, bright choro for the Australian author and the Brazilian co-leader’s 7-stringed , nylon=string ac guitars, plus Luciano Rabello’s cavaquinho {uke-like} and Celsinho Silva’s pandeiro, which is a small tamborine/frame-drum.

DE VRIES/CARILLHO DUO CONCERTS ALERT (Melbourne, Adelaide)

Melbourne:
Wednesday 24th Sept, 9pm [open from 8pm]
Paris Cat Jazz Club, 6 Goldie Place, Melbourne
Phone Enquiries: 9642 4711 Email: info@pariscat.com.au or www.pariscat.com.au

and
Thursday 25th Sept, 1:00 pm: Lunchtime Concert Series
Monash University (Music Auditorium, Building 68) Clayton Campus
Event Inquiries: Jodie Wood; Phone: +61 3 9905 3230; Email: Jodie.Wood@arts.monash.edu.au

Adelaide:
Sunday 28 September, 8 pm
The Promethean Theatre, 116 Grote St, Adelaide
Tickets at the door, ...
This tour was made possible through the cultural exchange supported by Monash University
www.myspace.com/dougdevries )

2256
CD CUT 1 - ’TIZTA’
DESALEGN
CONTROL
TRANSMITTER RECORDS
( www.transmitter.net.au )
DEREB DESALEGN AND NICKY BOMBA - ’DRUMS AND LIONS’
4:30
(AUSTRAL COMP AND PERF: Dereb sings and plays masenqo - an upright Ethiopian fiddle. Nicky plays percussion and bass in this easy-grooving song)

DEREB DESALEGN/ ’ETHIO OZ’ GIG ALERT ( Melbourne )

Sunday 28 September 3 pm - 6 pm
@ Harambe Ethiopian Restaurant (upstairs) 205 - 207 Nicholson St Footscray

Western Suburbs Musicians Co-operative presents Muso Club, ’Ethio Oz’ - Ethiopian contemporary and traditional grooves :
Dereb Desalegn voice / masenko (Ethiopian fiddle) Seble Girma voice / dance; Ray Pereira - percussion; Duncan Foster - bass; Daniel Atlaw - keyboard; Robbie Avenaim - drums; Abiy Sahle - krar; Leo Dale - saxophone; Paul Coyle - trumpet ; Fikre Solomon and Rahel - dance.

Bookings 9687 7177 )

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11 PM NEWS
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2305
CD CUT 2, ’CHIKARA’
OLIVER MTUKUDZI
TUKU MUSIC
HEADS UP HUCD 3124
( in Australia through Fuse Music : www.fusemusic.com.au
worldwide: www.headsup.com {the label is a division of Telarc} )
OLIVER MTUKUDZI (AKA ’TUKU’} - ’TSIMBA ITSOKA’
5: 32
( Recognisably Zimbabwean. Tuku’s acoustic guitar introduces the song, which then revolves around his warm lead vocal with female chorus-responses, and a fine band. Sweet elec. guitar and sax, and mbira-like keys, elec. bass, drums-percussion. This is in effect the CD title-piece, drawn from a proverbial Shona phrase which says ’there is no footprint without the foot’.

OLIVER MTUKUDZI AUSTRALIAN TOUR ALERT

For further details/updates, go to:
http://zambezipromo.com.au/shows.html

As I publish - this afternoon of Tuesday 22.9.08 - the remaining gigs are:

Melbourne ( solo, acoustic)
Thursday 25th of September, 7.30 pm
The East Brunswick Club, 280 Lygon st, East Brunswick
Solo, acoustic performance.

Melbourne ( full band )
Friday 26th of September, 8.30 pm
The East Brunswick Club, 280 Lygon st, East Brunswick
Tickets: for shows 1 and 2 on sale at www.eastbrunswickclub.com or PH: 9388 9794

Sydney ( full band )
Saturday 27th of September, 8.30 pm
Venue: The Roxy Hotel, 69 George Street, Parramatta
Phone: (02) 9687 4221 or www.theroxy.com.au
Tickets: Moshtix (www.moshtix.com.au) or call (02) 9209 4635 or 0416333913

Perth ( full band )
Sunday 28th of September @ 6 pm
The Hyde Park Hotel, 331 Bulwer St, North Perth, WA. Phone: (08) 9328 6166
Tickets: Heatseeker (www.heatseeker.com.au) or call (08) 6210 2850

Brisbane ( full band )
Friday 3rd of October @ 8.30 pm
The Transcontinental Hotel, 482 George St, Brisbane (07) 3236 1366
Tickets:Oztix (www.oztix.com.au) or call 1300 762 545 )

2312
CD CUT 1, ’BOUNCE’
JERRY DOUGLAS, EDGAR MEYER AND SAM BUSH
NOLIVIAN SONGS, ADMIN BY BUG MUSIC (BMI)/ SAMANDA LYNN MUSIC (BMI)/ EGGBERT MUSIC/ HENDON MUSIC, INC, A BOOSEY AND HAWKES COMPANY (BMI)
KOCH RECORDS KOC-CD-4553
( in Australia through Shock www.shock.com.au
worldwide: www.kochentertainment.com )
JERRY DOUGLAS - ’GLIDE’
4: 10
( very limber, virtuosic trio in ’newgrass/post-grass’ mode: Douglas on very fleet slide dobro, Sam Bush on mandolin and Edgar Meyer plucking and bowing his bass with equal gusto.

ABC RADIO NATIONAL JERRY DOUGLAS ALERT

We explore his new CD next Saturday night, October 4th
More details here: www.abc.net.au/rn/weekendplanet/comingup )

SEGUE

2316
CD CUT 9, ’NOT LATER THAN NOW’
BENNIE MAUPIN, MICHAL TOKAJ, MICHAL BARANSKI AND LUKASZ ZYTA
BENPIN MUSIC ( BMI )
CRYPTOGRAMOPHONE CG137
( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
Worldwide: www.cryptogramophone.com )
BENNIE MAUPIN QUARTET - ’EARLY REFLECTIONS’
2: 38
(mobile group improvisation for the 68-year-old American leader ’s tenor sax and the piano, ac bass and drums of three very much younger Poles - respectively, Michal Tokaj, Michal Baranski and Lukasz Zyta )

SEGUE ( same-disc, consecutive)

2319
CD CUT 10, ’EARLY REFLECTIONS’
BENNIE MAUPIN
BENPIN MUSIC ( BMI )
CRYPTOGRAMOPHONE CG137
( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
Worldwide: www.cryptogramophone.com )
BENNIE MAUPIN QUARTET - ’EARLY REFLECTIONS’
5: 44
(begins as an airy, elegant and open jazz-waltz, then becomes a hotter, more intense one. The 68-year-old American leader ’s soprano sax with the piano, ac bass and drums of three very much younger Poles - respectively, Michal Tokaj, Michal Baranski and Lukasz Zyta )

2327
CD CUT 3, ’BHAIRAV’ (IN TEENTAAL)
TRAD, IMPROVISED UPON BY SHRI ARTHUR GRACIAS, PANDIT DEBU BHATTACHARYA AND SHRI MALAB DASGUPTA
PUB NOT SPEC
SELF-ISSUED CD
( available direct, worldwide from www.78records.com.au
Arthur Gracias site: www. Indo-jazz.com )
ARTHUR GRACIAS - ’RAAGS DOWNUNDER’
12: 19
(AUSTRAL COMP AND PERF: Hindustani classical meets jazz: Arthur is playing a much-modified electric guitar. Sitar and tabla are played - respectively - by Debu Bhattacharya and Shri Malab Dasgupta.

ARTHUR GRACIAS CD LAUNCH GIG ALERT ( Perth )

Monday October 6th @ 8.pm
Charles Hotel, 509 Charles Street, North Perth
(enter from Ellesmere St)
Tel 9444 1051 www.charleshotel.com.au
More details here: www.perthjazzsociety.com

The band that night:
Arthur Gracias - 18 stringed Indo jazz guitar, archtop guitar and keyboard
Ben Hodgkin - trumpet / flugelhorn
Mohan Sathyanath - mridangam / ghatam
Greg Brenton - drums
Manoli Vouyoucalos - double bass
Andre Gracias - piano / keyboard )

SEGUE

2339
CD CUT 13, ’SPIRITS OF THE TATRAS’
BENNIE MAUPIN
BENPIN MUSIC ( BMI )
CRYPTOGRAMOPHONE CG137
( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
Worldwide: www.cryptogramophone.com )
BENNIE MAUPIN QUARTET - ’EARLY REFLECTIONS’
9: 01
( dark in places, darkly beautiful in others. The remarkable, wordless female vocalist is Hania Chowaniec-Rybka. She usually sings opera or Polish folk, most especially songs from the Tatras - Poland’s highest mountains. This is her first recoding as an improvising singer. Bennie plays alto flute, with the piano, ac bass and drums of three very much younger Poles - respectively, Michal Tokaj, Michal Baranski and Lukasz Zyta )

2351
CD CUT 11 - ’KANGDING QINGGE/OLD TIMEY DANCE PARTY’
TRAD CHINESE TUNE/BÉLA FLECK, ARR BY SPARROW QUARTET
ABBYINCHINA MUSIC, ADMIN BY BUG MUSIC, BMI, ARR BY ABBYINCHINA MUSIC, ADMIN BY BUG MUSIC, BMI, FLECK MUSIC, ADMINISTERD BY BUG MUSIC, BMI, TIN EAR MUSIC, BMI, C-STRING TUNES, ASCAP
Nettwerk CD 30792-2
( in Australia, through Shock: www.shock.com.au
Worldwide: www.abigailwashburn.com )
ABIGAIL WASHBURN AND THE SPARROW QUARTET - ’THE SPARROW QUARTET’
4:38
(Jaunty: bowed cello, two banjos { Abigail and Béla Fleck } and a fiddle interact in medley of Béla original instrumental and a traditional Chinese/Tibetan folk {love} song that Abigail learned from ’old teacher Wang’ in Sichuan Province.)

2357
CD CUT 8, ’TEARS’
MICHAL TOKAJ
ZAIKS
CRYPTOGRAMOPHONE CG137
( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
Worldwide: www.cryptogramophone.com )
BENNIE MAUPIN QUARTET - ’EARLY REFLECTIONS’
2: 20 ( excerpt )
( gentle, spacious, wistful-lyrical ballad for the veteran American leader’s alto flute, the piano of its young Polish composer and his also-young compatriots. Michal Baranski plays ac bass and Lukasz Zyta the drums )

Presenter

Doug Spencer

Producer

Doug Spencer