Tracklist for the show 10th August 2019

The show can listened to here : Soul Legends Radio

Tracklisting for the Shows 06/06/19 and 08/06/19

Tracklist Week Ending 18th May 2019

STRATA ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW

Named as one of Jazzwise Magazine's "One to Watch in 2019" and nominated for both "Best Band" and "Best EP/Album" at this year's Scottish Jazz Awards, Graham Costello’s STRATA blend stylistic elements of jazz, minimalism, and celebrated progressive/noise bands together with a strong DIY ethic, winning over audiences with towering dynamics and a raw and genuine enthusiasm. The music explores polyrhythm, collective groove and, at it's true core, improvisation.

As well as sell-out concerts and standing ovations at Scotland’s top jazz festivals, STRATA have ran their own monthly residency at Glasgow’s renowned independent venue Bloc. Here, they've continued to craft their sound and bring improvised music to newer audiences since February 2017, forging a strong and unique connection between the jazz and independent/underground communities.

Harry Weir - tenor saxophone

Liam Shortall - trombone
Fergus McCreadie - piano
Joe Williamson - guitar
Mark Hendry - electric bass
Graham Costello - drums and composition

WEBSITE: https://www.gcstrata.net

"Watching STRATA is an intense and exhilarating experience, full of contrasts."

- L O N D O N   J A Z Z   N E W S -

"the unrelenting waves of cinematic imagery accrue an intensity that never seems to level off, even after the last note has faded."

- B A N D C A M P -

"their glinting, jazz rock has been like a meteorite on the scene in Scotland and beyond."

- T H E   N A T I O N A L -

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Track Listings for the Radio show dated 13th April 2019

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The Boogie Wonderland Show Playlist

Cleon and Jazz Pidjay - Freedom Sound

Arrested Development - Tennessee

Georgie B - If U Want It (U Can Have It)

Chidi - My Love Thang

Robin Thicke -  Magic (Album Version)

Glenn Jones - Everyday

DonE Rick Clarke - One Dance Final Edit

Cody Chestnutt - LOVE IS MORE THAN A WEDDING DAY

Bobby Womack - If You Think You're Lonely Now

Lake Effect - LastNight -feat Michael Avery

Nuyorican Soul -  I Am the Black Gold of the Sun

The Dells - All About the Paper [Original 12' Mix]

01 Vindeltrappen

Jakob Sorenson Interview - Part 1

02 Pelsfrakker

Jakob Sorenson Interview - Part 2

03 Op ned Henover

Jakob Sorenson Interview - Part 3

04 Forandringens fortvivlelse

Jakob Sorenson Interview - Part 4

05 Bagland

Album of the Week UNam - Future Love

The Crazeology Radio Show Playlist

Freckle Legend - The Long Walk Home

Billy Ray Sheppard - Silk

Jay Lawerence -  Vamonos

Laila Biali - The Book of Love

Mark Murphy -  Secret Sun

Paul Austerlitz -  Oriki

Gorgeous -  there it is

Trey Wright -  From Now On

Walter Beasley - Its Alright

01 Vindeltrappen

Jakob Sorenson Interview - Part 1

02 Pelsfrakker

Jakob Sorenson Interview - Part 2

03 Op ned Henover

Jakob Sorenson Interview - Part 3

04 Forandringens fortvivlelse

Jakob Sorenson Interview - Part 4

05 Bagland

Album of the Week U-Nam - Future Love

Drew Williams All You Need to Know

With its smart contemporary touches and comic book source material, Wing Walker Orchestra's nifty debut album, Hazel, likely won't draw comparisons to The Far East Suite. But it's no stretch to say that writer-arranger Drew Williams' spirited East Coast ensemble owes more than a little to the Duke Ellington masterpiece.

Williams, a native of Kansas City, was early into his studies as a classical saxophone major at Missouri's Truman State University when one of his professors kept after him to join the jazz improvisers on campus.

When the professor, well-regarded saxophonist Tim AuBuchon, succeeded in getting his promising student to participate, the results weren't pretty. "I was terrible," Williams said. "I had never even used a jazz mouthpiece. I couldn't play in tune."

But he kept at it, schooling himself on albums by contemporary players his instructor told him to listen to. With its unforgettable tones and melodies, The Far East Suite opened Williams up not only to the glowing possibilities of playing as well as composing jazz music.

The rub was that Truman State didn't offer a jazz degree. By time Williams decided he wanted to pursue jazz, two years into his studies, it was too late to leave. But, he said, "It turned out to be an incredible experience." Free of the codified approach of many jazz schools, he was able to find his own voice at his own pace. (He also found himself with a bass clarinet when AuBuchon, a onetime regular on the Chicago scene with two well-received albums to his credit, sold him his vintage model for cheap.)

Now here is Williams at 30, leading an innovative 11-person ensemble featuring some of the best young players in the country. Playing bass clarinet exclusively on Hazel, he fulfills a dream in combining his love of film music and his love of graphic novels by adapting Saga, the popular Star Wars-inspired space opera of which he is enamored, as a seven-part suite.

The album, produced by Alan Ferber and released on the ears&eyes label, also boasts intoxicating versions of Tune-Yards' "Look Around" (from the album Nikki Nack) and as a bonus track, Michael Attias' "Marina," one in a series of lo-fi electronic pieces by that first-rate saxophonist.

"When I cover stuff, I'd rather blow it up and try it from a different angle," said Williams. "On 'Look Around' the melodies are so incredible and difficult to notate, they're hard to mimic, but we locked into the groove and kept the groove dirty and loose. It builds to a kind of Mingus free for all."

"Marina," regarded by its composer as too difficult to play, did indeed prove to be a challenge for Williams and company. But after playing it live over the course of two years, the orchestra adopted it as one of their favorites.

Williams, who is picky about saxophonists, drafted a pair of terrific ones to animate the music and attain the right harmonic warmth: altoist (and clarinetist) Brad Mulholland and tenorist Eric Trudel. The band also features trumpeters John Blevins and Danny Gouker, trombonists Karl Lyden and Nick Grinder, guitarist Jeff McLaughlin, bassist Adam Hopkins and drummer Nathan Ellman-Bell. Everyone leaves their mark.

Williams was born on June 29, 1988 in Lee's Summit, Missouri. At 15, he knew he wanted to pursue music as a career. Albums including Ben Allison's Little Things Run the World, featuring tenor saxophonist Michael Blake, helped win him over to jazz. "It sounded more like the rock music I was playing in high school than jazz," he said.

The deeper Williams got into playing jazz, and the more he was exposed to other rock-influenced jazz composers including Guillermo Klein, the more he became interested in writing it. Here, too, he struggled in the early going. "Nothing was happening with my early pieces," he said. "Some of what I wrote kinda worked, then it didn't, then it did, then one day I wrote two chords and said, can we play this? Baby steps."

He experienced a breakthrough with a set of music he wrote for a college recital. He used those pieces when he auditioned, successfully, for New York University's Master's program in jazz composition. During his time there, he had the great good fortune of studying with faculty heavies Ralph Alessi, Alan Ferber and Rich Perry. 

Wing Walker Orchestra, drawn partly from his NYU confreres, came together gradually. The first song Williams composed for the band, the edgy, ethereal "Forest Boats," was inspired by the films of Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind). "I wanted to capture the melancholy, folksy and quirky feeling of the music in these films, for which Jon Brion did most of the scoring," he said.

With its recurring characters, layered themes and interlaced motifs, "Forest Boats" pointed the way to Hazel. Among the distinctive touches on the "Hazel Suite" are drum overdubs and hand claps that boost the energy and intensity of the music.

The orchestra has provided a platform and arrangements for the compositions of such formidable guest players as Michael Attias, Shane Endsley, Jonathan Finlayson and Jason Palmer. The ensemble also has collaborated with the Festival of New Trumpet Music to present two nights of expansive sounds. And Williams has promoted Wind Walker Orchestra and the scene it is part of (he also plays with and composes for Mister Mozart, Bolo and Matterhorn) by hosting a podcast and compiling ear-opening mixtapes.

"I'd like to think that my music reflects all the musical experiences I've had in my life," he said. "I played rock music in high school, got an undergraduate degree in classical music and acquired a Master's in jazz composition. I'm creating music that fits between the lines."

Website: http://www.williamsdrew.com/

Track Listings for the Radio show dated 30th March 2019

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The Crazeology Radio Show Playlist

Daniel Herskedal -The Horizon

Jeff Ballard - Miro

Julian Argüelles' - Tonadas Alegrías

Mark Lockheart - Party Animal

Stuart McCallum - NEWTON

Tim Garland - The Lady In The North

Anton Eger - HERb +++ gA

Ant Law - The Act Itself

01 An Idea (or the Horns)

02 Backbone (or the Wings)

Drew Williams Interview - Part 1

03 Ghosts (or the Horrors)

Drew Williams Interview - Part 2

04 Lying (or the Will)

05 Interlude

Drew Williams Interview - Part 3

06 Heists (or Your Majesty)

Drew Williams Interview - Part 4

07 Ignition (or Hazel)

08 Look Around

Album of the Week: Adam Baldych Quartet - Sacrum Profanum

Vula Viel All You Need To Know

Forward-thinking UK trio Vula Viel release their sophomore album, ‘Do Not Be Afraid’ on 25th January 2019, continuing their unique musical journey centred around the Gyil (Ghanaian xylophone).

The band’s new set confidently weaves sparse polyrhythms and intricate rhythm structures around bandleader Bex Burch’s Gyil lines and take the instrument’s sound into new territory, with bassist Ruth Goller (Acoustic Ladyland, Melt Yourself Down, Rokia Traore) and drummer Jim Hart (Cloudmakers, Ralph Alessi, Electric Biddle) introducing a rough, post-punk edge to the band’s sound.

In Bex’s own words: “I have loved making this music. The incredible Dagaare systems which form the foundation have given me the structure on which to write tunes, craft grooves and choose my own meanings. I’ve gone deeper into what moves me in the Dagaare music, the fundamentals - asymmetry, space and chaos. I love how Do Not Be Afraid feels - a totally unusual and unique groove. As musicians, Ruth and Jim are incredible: They bring passion, talent, intuition and a depth that I wouldn’t have access to without them.”

Vula Viel was formed in 2013 by Bex Burch. After studying at Guildhall and training as a classical percussionist, she embarked on a life-changing three-year period living, farming and studying with xylophone master Thomas Sekgura in Upper West Ghana; the band’s name means ‘Good is Good’ in the Dagaare language. After being mentored in the deep traditions around the Gyil, a large African xylophone made of sacred lliga wood, Burch began the journey to bring the instrument into her own music. The acclaimed debut Vula Viel album in 2015, ‘Good is Good’, was the first realisation of her vision and ‘Do Not Be Afraid’ is the first set of Burch originals,written on traditional Dagaare forms.

Described as “Ghanaian minimalism”, with the unassuming ability to blur the lines between atmospheres – Vula Viel’s sound may nod to Steve Reichian jazz, but influences don’t stop there: one can hear echoes of Bill Laswell and the irresistible energy of Arthur Russell.

Website: https://vulaviel.com/

Track Listings for the Radio show dated 23rd March 2019

A link to the show can be found here:

The Crazeology Radio Show Playlist

James Brandon Lewis - Sir Real Denard

Kait Dunton - Dear John

Jessica Pavone - and Maybe in the End

Catherine Rusell - When Did You Leave Heaven

Ashley Pezzotti -  We've Only Just Begun

Paul Dietrich -  Settle

Tomeka Reid Filippo Monico - the mouser

Yuriy Galkin - Revival 1

Foster Young Zerang -A

Guillermo Gregorio Brandon Lopez - Episode 4

Adam Hawley Just Dance ft  Dave Koz

01 Well Come

VulaViel Interview - Part 1

02 Do Not be Afraid

VulaViel Interview - Part 2

03 I Learn

VulaViel Interview - Part 3

04 Inside Mirror

VulaViel Interview - Part 4

05 Fire

Album of the week:  Dave Helsbocks Random Control - Tour D'Horizon

Archipelago All You Need To Know

‘A shape-shifting sound..moves coherently between crisp, punchy riffing and introspective ambient passages’  - Kevin Le Gendre

Award winning Tyneside trio Archipelago fuse genre blending post-jazz dreamscapes with alt-rock and improvisation to name a few, taking inspiration from musicians as diverse as Don Cherry, Morphine and Joni Mitchell.

Since releasing their debut LP ‘Weightless’ in 2017, Archipelago have received national airplay (Late Junction, Jazz on 3), been selected as ambassador artists for the Jazz North ‘Northern Line’ touring scheme, and received a prestigious 'Peter Whittingham Development Award’ from Help Musicians UK.

With the support of Help Musicians UK and Cobalt Studios in Newcastle upon Tyne, they began running ‘BETWEEN WAVES’, a collaborative residency-gig series for female-identifying artists to make new music with Archipelago. Highlighting the multifaceted power of improvisation and jazz to cross genres and open up connections with artists in different modes, BETWEEN WAVES also celebrates the ever growing northern creative scenes. After receiving a huge number of applications, Archipelago invited Rosie Frater-Taylor, a multi-instrumentalist/songwriter, Faith Brackenbury, an improvisor/violinist/vocalist, Lisette Auton, a disabled writer/spoken word artist and Fran Bundey, a sound artist/vocal looping musician for their first edition of BETWEEN WAVES.

Archipelago are now working towards their next release in 2019 and also collaborating as a ‘superband’ with Leeds trio J Frisco after a commission from Lancaster Jazz Festival. Archipelago have a fast growing reputation for their honest, engaged musicianship and compelling live performances

Website: https://archipelago-jam.com/

Track Listings for the Radio shows 14th March and 16th March 2019

Links to the shows can be found here:

The Boogie Wonderland Show Playlist

Ollie & Jerry  - Breakin There s No Stopping Us

Fire Fox - Radiotron

George Kranz -  Din Daa Daa

Hot Streak -  Body Work

Ollie & Jerry - Electric Boogaloo

3-V -  Heart Of The Beat

Re-Flex - Cut It

Rufus & Chaka Khan -  Ain_t Nobody

The Bar Kays -  Freakshow On The Dance Floor

Ollie And Jerry -  Showdown

Carol Lynn Townes -  99 0 5

Chris The Glove Taylor & David Storrs -  Reckless

Fire Fox -  Street People

Archipelago - BETWEEN WAVES - 01 Picture This (with Rosie Frater-Taylor)

Archipelago Interview - Part1

Archipelago - Weightless - 05 Light Pollution

Archipelago Interview - Part2

Archipelago - Weightless - 10 Glittercliff

Archipelago Interview - Part3

Archipelago - Weightless - 07 Vessels

Archipelago Interview - Part4

Archipelago - BETWEEN WAVES - 06 Earth (With Faith Brackenbury)

Album of the week:  Chris Potter - Circuits

The Crazeology Radio Show Playlist

gorgeous - there it is

Jon Lundborn & Big Five Chord -  People Be Talking

Nunam Iqua - The Arctic

Amina Figarova -  Road To The Sun

Jeff Pifher And Socrates -  Alternate Futures

AUDIO VEIN feat NBB Symphonic Bop -  Under construction

Archipelago - BETWEEN WAVES - 01 Picture This (with Rosie Frater-Taylor)

Archipelago Interview - Part1

Archipelago - Weightless - 05 Light Pollution

Archipelago Interview - Part2

Archipelago - Weightless - 10 Glittercliff

Archipelago Interview - Part3

Archipelago - Weightless - 07 Vessels

Archipelago Interview - Part4

Archipelago - BETWEEN WAVES - 06 Earth (With Faith Brackenbury)

Album of the Week - Chris Potter - Circuits

Dave Meder All You Need To Know

I’m chasing the lofty goal of being able to play everything,” says the pianist, composer and educator Dave Meder, discussing the panoramic, genre-bending approach that has earned him slots in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition and the American Pianists Awards.

At only 28, Meder has already found a uniquely versatile artistic voice, evident in his debut album, Passage (Outside In Music), a dynamically interactive piano-trio outing with appearances by generation-defining saxophonists Chris Potter and Miguel Zenón. Traversing an affecting gospel standard, a bold deconstruction of Monk, a title track inspired by minimalists Philip Glass and John Adams, and pieces featuring the most progressive ideas in jazz harmony, rhythm and improvisation, Passage is the work of a young artist whose defining aesthetic is his remarkable sense of stylistic adventure. Indeed, his most appropriate touchstones are historically resourceful postmodernists like Jaki Byard—a hero to whom Meder paid tribute at Jazz at Lincoln Center—and two of Byard’s proteges, Jason Moran and Fred Hersch.

On top of the album’s next-level playing, Passage is an ideal showcase for Meder’s cultivated gifts as a composer-arranger, talents that earlier earned him an ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Award, the FirstMusic Commission of the New York Youth Symphony and a slot in the BMI Jazz Composers Workshop. In the way of live performance, his abilities have been no less lauded. Meder has performed in some of New York’s most hallowed jazz rooms, with dates at Smalls Jazz Club, a multi-night solo-piano engagement at Jazz at Kitano and several headlining stands at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola. His international bookings have included a Tokyo Jazz Festival appearance with a big band led by Makoto Ozone, as well as a guest appearance with the Tom Jobim Youth Orchestra at São Paulo’s iconic Ibirapuera Auditorium. In 2013 he won the esteemed Jacksonville Jazz Piano Competition, formerly the Great American Piano Competition. Meder has also been named a finalist for the 2019 American Pianists Association Cole Porter Fellowship—like the Monk competition, among the most prestigious contests in jazz.

As the Assistant Professor of Jazz Piano at the University of North Texas, Meder is the youngest instructor employed in one of the nation’s most renowned music programs. Before he relocated from New York to Texas for the UNT post, he taught at NYU and Juilliard; he also served as a guest instructor abroad in Italy, as part of the Juilliard Jazz Workshop, and Honduras, in a program facilitated by the U.S. State Department.

Remarkably, the beginnings of Meder’s jazz education were mostly self-guided. Born, raised and classically trained in Tampa, Florida, he was still a teenager when he began teaching at a local music shop, while also building his own private teaching practice. While ensconced in his classical studies, he was persuaded by friends to help them form a jazz band in their middle school, whose music department lacked a formal jazz program. With oversight from a generous band director, the jazz ensemble became a reality and Meder became enamored of the art form, working at it largely on his own until college.

During undergraduate studies at Florida State University—from which Meder graduated summa cum laude in 2013 with degrees in music, Spanish and political science—tutelage under Marcus Roberts bolstered the pianist’s strikingly authentic handle on historical jazz styles. He was able to immerse himself in the music’s legacy firsthand in 2011, when he took part in two of jazz education’s most crucial incubators, the Kennedy Center’s Betty Carter Jazz Ahead program and the Steans Music Institute at the Ravinia Festival. Through these opportunities, Meder interfaced with and learned from such jazz legends as George Cables, Nathan Davis, Curtis Fuller and David Baker.

A move to New York in 2013 afforded Meder a chance to study with jazz’s leading edge. In the city, his mentors included Kenny Barron, Dave Douglas, Ari Hoenig, Mark Turner, Jean-Michel Pilc and Fred Hersch, as well as, from the classical world, Julian Martin and Philip Lasser. After earning his master’s from NYU, he continued on to Juilliard, where he received an Artist Diploma and toured as part of the premier ensemble of the school.

Concurrent to his graduate studies, Meder worked for three years as the music director of Fordham Lutheran Church in the Bronx, furthering another creative through-line in his life. “I was raised in the church, and I’ve always played there,” Meder says. “In the context of all the other ‘brainy’ stuff I’ve studied in school, [the church] forced me to make a soulful connection to it—to try and make what I was absorbing more personal and musical.” Indeed, his music conveys a tremendous depth, yet remains eminently soulful, a common aspiration not often attained in modern jazz.

Website: https://www.davemeder.com/

Track Listings for the Radio shows 7th March and 9th March 2019

Links to the shows can be found here:

The Boogie Wonderland ShowPlaylist

Burley Chassis (Sam Tweaks) - Harder Than Jezahel

Sam Tweaks - Rubberband Sam

Stone Paxton - Steppin Long Version

Cheri Maree - I Want You Back (7_ Mix)

Dave Mascall  feat Ian Thompson - 01 Feel the heat

Diasy Hicks - When I'm Gone (Alex Di Ciò Jazid remix) - Daisy Hicks

Flevans - Invisible (feat Laura Vane)

Ray Chew - Fools Like Me (feat Valerie Simpson) radio edit

Tensei - Liquid Tongues feat A  Billi Free

Soul Messengers - Be right here mp3

The Dogget Brothers - You Give Me Something (Remix)

Will Downing - Sexy

Alexis Evans -  I Made A Deal With Myself

Dave Meder Interview - Part 1

02_For_Wayne

Dave Meder Interview - Part 2

03_The_Old_Rugged_Cross

Dave Meder Interview - Part 3

04_This_Road_feat_Miguel_Zen_n

Dave Meder Interview - Part 4

05_Break_Points

06_Golden_Hour

The Crazeology Radio Show Playlist

Ben Bierman - Let's Chill One

Cyrille Aimee - Being Alive

Ivan Conti - Encontro

Michael Whalen -  Duck Walk

Moppa Elliott Jazz Band - Herminie

OKKO - Soma

Salif Keta  - Were Were  Un Autre Blanc

Alex Scheuerer - London Flavour

Alex Sipiagin - No Fo Skies

Call Me Saxy  - Havana feat

01_Work

Dave Meder Interview - Part 1

02_For_Wayne

Dave Meder Interview - Part 2

03_The_Old_Rugged_Cross

Dave Meder Interview - Part 3

04_This_Road_feat_Miguel_Zen_n

Dave Meder Interview - Part 4

05_Break_Points

06_Golden_Hour

Chase Huna U Best Believe

Deon Yates Quintastic

Album of the Week -  4 Wheel Drive

Track Listings for the Radio shows 28th February and 2nd March 2019

Links to the shows can be found here:

The Boogie Wonderland Show - 01/11/2018 Playlist
Lou Rawls	You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine (Kenny Summit, Frankie Knuckles & Eric Kupper Remix)
Moonlight Benjamin	Siltane
Liraz	Shirin Joon
Lauras_Jingle
Rendell Carr	Black Mosque
Sandman Project	Royal Family
Steve Grand Housing Auothority	I Wanna Go Higher (Proper 2016 Remix)
Thabang Tabane	Thuli (Mama)
JP BIMENI	DONT FADE AWAY
Winston Mcanuff and fixi	One Note feat
DJ Rolando	Knights of the Jaguar
Cuavo	In Search Of The Essence
3	It_s a Thing or it Ain_t
Bright Dog Red Interview	Part 1
4	Cruisin_
Bright Dog Red Interview	Part 2
5	Out There There_s a Field
Bright Dog Red Interview	Part 3
6	I Would Remain Reticent
Bright Dog Red Interview	Part 4
1	Breaking Down Barriers
2	Feen for Greener Grass

The Crazeology Radio Show - 03/11/2018
Drums and Tuba	Drowning
Elliot Deutsch	Fake News
Eskadet	Jade
Faro	Heaven and Here
Artur Bayramgalin	The Morning Moon
Marc Hartman	People Of Beijing
Amaro Freitas	Mantra
The Gondwana Orceshtra	The Creator Has a Master
Ayun Inserto Jazz Orchestra	Three and Me
3	It_s a Thing or it Ain_t
Bright Dog Red Interview	Part 1
4	Cruisin_
Bright Dog Red Interview	Part 2
5	Out There There_s a Field
Bright Dog Red Interview	Part 3
6	I Would Remain Reticent
Bright Dog Red Interview	Part 4
1	Breaking Down Barriers
2	Feen for Greener Grass