Favoriting Observations of Deviance with David Mittleman: Playlist from April 20, 2024 Favoriting

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Observations of Deviance is a vinyl focused, free form program that harkens back to early days of underground FM radio. Your host, David Mittleman, hunts down the most exotic, unusual and off-the-beaten-track music from around the world in a number of genres: Spiritual Jazz, Free Improvisation, Experimental Electronics, Ethnographic Oddities and World-Wide Psychedelic Funk. You are guaranteed to hear sounds you’ve never heard before.

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Favoriting April 20, 2024: Hats Off To Herbie: The Music of Herbie Nichols

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Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Approx. start time
 
Herbie Nichols  Step Tempest   Favoriting The Prophetic Herbie Nichols Vol. 1 & 2  Blue Note  2021  originally released 1955  0:02:40 (Pop-up)
Herbie Nichols  Interview Part 1   Favoriting Interview  N/A  1962  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgrgpKxT6LQ&t=921s  0:07:48 (Pop-up)
Herbie Nichols Trio  House Party Starting   Favoriting Herbie Nichols Trio  Blue Note  2023  originally released 1956  0:08:53 (Pop-up)
Roswell Rudd  Herbie Nichols   Favoriting The Third World  Blue Note  1975  liner notes  0:14:29 (Pop-up)
Fay Victor / Herbie Nichols SUNG  Tonight   Favoriting Life Is Funny That Way  TAO Forms  2024  https://fayvictor.bandcamp.com/album/life-is-funny-that-way  0:17:15 (Pop-up)
Herbie Nichols  Nichols And Dimes   Favoriting Thelonious Monk And Herbie Nichols  Savoy  1986  originally released 1952  0:26:44 (Pop-up)
 
Herbie Nichols Trio  Portrait Of Ucha   Favoriting Love, Gloom, Cash, Love  Bethlehem  1958    0:33:40 (Pop-up)
Herbie Nichols Trio  Terpsichore   Favoriting Herbie Nichols Trio  Blue Note  2023  originally released 1956  0:37:26 (Pop-up)
Herbie Nichols  Interview Part 2   Favoriting Interview  N/A  1962  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgrgpKxT6LQ&t=921s  0:41:24 (Pop-up)
Roswell Rudd - Steve Lacy - Misha Mengelberg - Kent Carter - Han Bennink  Twelve Bars   Favoriting Regeneration  Soul Note  1983  composed by Herbie Nichols  0:43:40 (Pop-up)
Herbie Nichols  Blue Chopsticks   Favoriting The Prophetic Herbie Nichols Vol. 1 & 2  Blue Note  2021  originally released 1955  0:48:06 (Pop-up)
Archie Shepp  The Lady Sings The Blues   Favoriting Live In San Francisco  Impulse!  1966  composed by Herbie Nichols  0:52:28 (Pop-up)
 
Herbie Nichols Trio  Hangover Triangle   Favoriting Herbie Nichols Trio  Blue Note  2023  originally released 1956  1:04:08 (Pop-up)
Billie Holiday  Lady Sings The Blues   Favoriting Lady Sings The Blues  Verve  1956  composed by Herbie Nichols  1:08:01 (Pop-up)
Herbie Nichols  Good Story Blues   Favoriting Thelonious Monk And Herbie Nichols  Savoy  1986  originally released 1952  1:11:44 (Pop-up)
Herbie Nichols  Interview Part 3   Favoriting Interview  N/A  1962  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgrgpKxT6LQ&t=921s  1:14:38 (Pop-up)
Misha Mengelberg - Steve Lacy - George Lewis - Arjen Gorter - Han Bennink  Hangover Triangle   Favoriting Change Of Season (Music Of Herbie Nichols)  Soul Note  1985  composed by Herbie Nichols  1:19:37 (Pop-up)
Herbie Nichols  Shuffle Montgomery   Favoriting The Prophetic Herbie Nichols Vol. 1 & 2  Blue Note  2021  originally released 1955  1:23:22 (Pop-up)
Eddie Chatterbox Trio  The Gig   Favoriting The Acquaduct  Rectangle  1996  composed by Herbie Nichols  1:27:33 (Pop-up)
 
Herbie Nichols Trio  The Gig   Favoriting Herbie Nichols Trio  Blue Note  2023  originally released 1956  1:35:33 (Pop-up)
Fay Victor / Herbie Nichols SUNG  The Bassist   Favoriting Life Is Funny That Way  TAO Forms  2024  https://fayvictor.bandcamp.com/album/life-is-funny-that-way  1:39:53 (Pop-up)
Roswell Rudd  Interview   Favoriting Interview  N/A  1997  https://youtu.be/HX-EyFnHEt4?si=w5X6QQC2PgXkahTo  1:46:38 (Pop-up)
Thumbscrew  House Party Starting   Favoriting Theirs  Cuneiform  2018  composed by Herbie Nichols  1:50:09 (Pop-up)
Herbie Nichols Trio  Riff Primitif   Favoriting Vol. 2  Blue Note / Japan  1996    1:56:10 (Pop-up)
Mary Lou Williams  Opus Z   Favoriting Piano Panorama 10"  Atlantic  1951  composed by Herbie Nichols  2:00:19 (Pop-up)
 
Herbie Nichols  Cro-Magnon Nights   Favoriting The Prophetic Herbie Nichols Vol. 1 & 2  Blue Note  2021  originally released 1955  2:06:10 (Pop-up)
Herbie Nichols  Interview Part 4   Favoriting Interview  N/A  1962  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgrgpKxT6LQ&t=921s  2:10:48 (Pop-up)
Herbie Nichols  The Third World   Favoriting The Prophetic Herbie Nichols Vol. 1 & 2  Blue Note  2021  originally released 1955  2:11:21 (Pop-up)
The Herbie Nichols Project  Riff Primitif   Favoriting Dr. Cyclops' Dream  Soul Note  1999  composed by Herbie Nichols  2:15:33 (Pop-up)
Fay Victor / Herbie Nichols SUNG  Shuffle Montgomery   Favoriting Life Is Funny That Way  TAO Forms  2024  https://fayvictor.bandcamp.com/album/life-is-funny-that-way  2:21:44 (Pop-up)
Herbie Nichols  Interview Part 5   Favoriting Interview  N/A  1962  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgrgpKxT6LQ&t=921s  2:27:16 (Pop-up)
Herbie Nichols  Who's Blues   Favoriting Thelonious Monk And Herbie Nichols  Savoy  1986  originally released 1952  2:29:55 (Pop-up)
 
ICP Orchestra  Hangover Triangle   Favoriting Extension Red, White & Blue: The ICP Orchestra Performs Herbie Nichols  ICP  1984  recorded May 11, 1984, Rotterdam  2:35:44 (Pop-up)
Herbie Nichols Trio  Chit-Chatting   Favoriting Herbie Nichols Trio  Blue Note  2023  originally released 1956  2:42:04 (Pop-up)
Herbie Nichols  2300 Skidoo   Favoriting The Prophetic Herbie Nichols Vol. 1 & 2  Blue Note  2021  originally released 1955  2:46:04 (Pop-up)
Herbie Nichols  Interview Part 6   Favoriting Interview  N/A  1962  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgrgpKxT6LQ&t=921s  2:50:46 (Pop-up)
ICP Orchestra & Guests  Blue Chopsticks   Favoriting New Movements in Jazz  Radio Nederland  1987  recorded August 13th, 1983, Meervaart, Amsterdam  2:52:57 (Pop-up)
 


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Listener comments!

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doctorjazz:

Hi David! Great subject for a show!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:01pm
Andrew in Toronto:

Good evening, David, and all other listeners!
Avatar 7:03pm
Observations:

we are live now now now
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:04pm
doctorjazz:

Haven't heard the Fay Victor versions yet-Bassist Ben Allison has done a number of albums of Nichols album, releasing one not very long ago with a trio.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:05pm
doctorjazz:

I think for a while Nichols was dissed as a Monk copier, which lost him some focus on his very original take on jazz.
Avatar 7:11pm
Observations:

Herbert Horatio Nichols (January 3, 1919 – April 12, 1963) He only lived until age 44; I'm almost 10 years older than that now.
Avatar 7:16pm
Observations:

↳ Song: "Herbie Nichols" by "Roswell Rudd"
Me reading Roswell's liner notes
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:33pm
doctorjazz:

Sorry I have to go now, will have to check out the arhcive show!
Avatar 7:35pm
Observations:

↳ doctorjazz @7:33
🙏😎
Avatar 7:38pm
Observations:

↳ Song: "Terpsichore" by "Herbie Nichols Trio"
In Greek mythology, Terpsichore [Greek: Τερψιχόρη, "delight in dancing"] is one of the nine Muses and goddess of dance and chorus. She lends her name to the word "terpsichorean", which means "of or relating to dance".
Avatar 7:46pm
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↳ Song: "Twelve Bars" by "Roswell Rudd - Steve Lacy - Mish...
"There are some very disturbing things going on behind the jocular facade." - Roswell Rudd on this song, from the liner notes
  7:46pm
Dean:

Just a week or so ago I shipped to doctorjazz a duplicate copy of Love, Gloom, Cash, Love that I'd acquired. He always reciprocates. it's a fun cross-continental exchange.

I am twenty years older than Nichols at his death, which means I'd been alive for almost four years when he departed.
  7:49pm
Dean:

Were he still here on the board, doctorjazz would mentioned Duck Baker's disc devoted to Nichols compositions, Spinning Song. I won't be surprised if we hear it here.
  7:51pm
Dean:

^would have mentioned
Avatar 7:53pm
Observations:

↳ Song: "The Lady Sings The Blues" by "Archie Shepp"
featuring & arranged by Roswell Rudd
Avatar 7:54pm
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↳ Dean @7:49
there will be a guitar version of a Nichols' tune, but not Duck. I won't have time for him tonight, but I think the other guitar player's version is pretty cool and not that well known
  8:01pm
Dean:

Piqued interest!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:01pm
Doug Schulkind:

My introduction to Herbie Nichols was via A.B. Spellman's incredible book Black Music: Four Lives. (Later republished under the ridiculous title Four Lives in the Bebop Business.) It has four sections dedicated to four musicians, Nichols, Ornette, Jackie McLean, and Cecil Taylor. A fantastic read.
  8:02pm
Anne Sealey:

Herbie Nichols Music is very nice and is definitely something that I will continue to listen too
Thank You David much
love herbie nichols
Avatar 8:05pm
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↳ Doug Schulkind @8:01
Great book! I have the one titled "Business", I found it nearly 30 years ago in some dusty old used book store.
  8:07pm
Dean:

I think it's pronounced

tair-psee-KHO-rey

But OED provides

/ˌtəːpˈsɪkəriː/

i.e., tup-SICK-er-ee

Let's call the whole thing off.
  8:09pm
Timothy:

Incredible Music...
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↳ Anne Sealey @8:02
😎🙏👋😎🙏
Avatar 8:12pm
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↳ Song: "Good Story Blues" by "Herbie Nichols"
www.discogs.com...
Avatar 8:12pm
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↳ Song: "Good Story Blues" by "Herbie Nichols"
Chocolate Williams And His Chocolateers
  8:14pm
Dean:

I'm gonna guess that I first learned about Nichols c/o Dave Douglas' Tiny Bell Trio.
  8:17pm
Dean:

This interview is from 1962.

https://theperlichpost.blogspot.com/2022/01/happy-birthday-herbie-nichols.html
Avatar 8:19pm
Observations:

↳ Dean @8:17
thanks for looking that up
  8:20pm
Dean:

Always my pleasure. I look stuff up.
  8:20pm
Norman Sealey:

Thanks for all your wonderful music Uncle Herbie, you are forever blessed and in our hearts and lives
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:24pm
coelacanth∅:

Greetings David and others
  8:26pm
Dean:

George Lewis included a paper I wrote *in law school* for a course syllabus at Columbia. I think he cites it, too, in a book published later by Duke UP:

https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/2347/chapter/920944/From-Network-Bands-to-Ubiquitous-ComputingRich
Avatar 8:28pm
northguineahills:

david! my friends!
  8:28pm
Dean:

In fact, I don't think Lewis cited it in the book. It was a professor at Cambridge who cited it to criticize it. I'm okay with that.

Ah, the guitar piece. Amazing.
Avatar 8:29pm
northguineahills:

↳ Song: "The Gig" by "Eddie Chatterbox Trio"
it's as if derek bailey got into fisticuffs w/ john fahey....
Avatar 8:29pm
Observations:

↳ Song: "The Gig" by "Eddie Chatterbox Trio"
rectangle-records.bandcamp.com...
  8:39pm
Bb:

Random question, but does anyone know that song that was just playing on the break?
  8:39pm
Bb:

With that wa guitar sound
Avatar 8:40pm
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↳ Bb @8:39
spirit 'the other song'
  8:41pm
Bb:

Ty !!
Avatar 8:43pm
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↳ Song: "The Bassist" by "Fay Victor / Herbie Nichols SUNG"
It's called "The Bassist," but there is no bass on the track. Sarcasm? Irony?
Avatar 8:44pm
Observations:

↳ Song: "The Bassist" by "Fay Victor / Herbie Nichols SUNG"
also, no piano in a tribute to a pianist. I like the sense of humor
  8:45pm
Dean:

Life is funny that way.
Avatar 8:49pm
northguineahills:

↳ Observations @8:43
there's more bass when there's no bass you can hear. discuss.
Avatar 9:02pm
kwatts:

I really appreciate deep dives with stories and interviews and listener comments. Thank you so much for putting it together David!
Avatar 9:07pm
Observations:

↳ kwatts @9:02
😍🙏😎👋🙏✌️🙏
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Observations:

The stream sends out a daily email with news and announcements about the day's programming, including special shows and fill-ins, and links to all the playlists for the day.

We share our mailing list with no one ever.

Details - buttondown.email...
Avatar 9:12pm
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After my show, stay tuned for Mike Lupica's Hotwire Mandate -----> wfmu.org...
Avatar 9:16pm
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↳ Song: "Riff Primitif" by "The Herbie Nichols Project"
Frank Kimbrough – piano
Ben Allison – double bass
Ted Nash – tenor saxophone, alto flute, bass clarinet
Michael Blake – tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
Ron Horton – trumpet, flugelhorn
Tim Horner – drums
Avatar 9:16pm
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↳ Song: "Riff Primitif" by "The Herbie Nichols Project"
en.wikipedia.org...
Avatar 9:37pm
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↳ Song: "Hangover Triangle" by "ICP Orchestra"
www.discogs.com...
Avatar 9:38pm
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↳ Song: "Hangover Triangle" by "ICP Orchestra"
Alto Saxophone – Paul Termos
Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone – Sean Bergin
Cello – Ernst Reijseger
Clarinet, Alto Saxophone – Michael Moore
Percussion – Han Bennink
Piano – Misha Mengelberg
Soprano Saxophone – Steve Lacy
Trombone – Garret List, Wolter Wierbos
Trumpet – Toon De Gouw
Tuba – Lari Fishkind
Viola – Maurice Horsthuis
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↳ Song: "Blue Chopsticks" by "ICP Orchestra & Guests"
www.discogs.com...
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Observations:

Thank you one and all!

Next week-

Dispatch from the 2024 Tucson Jazz Festival!!!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:43am
doctorjazz:

Great tribute to Herbie Nichols, just did my catch-up (that guitar track was wild).
Thanks David!
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