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Here is the music played on "Straight, No Chaser" on June 21: Charles Persip And The Jazz Statesmen -- "The Champ (A Suite In Six Movements)" -- Charles Persip And The Jazz Statesmen -- Bethlehem Robin Eubanks Sextet -- "Back In The Day" -- 4: JJ / Slide / Curtis And Al -- TCB Phillip Johnston's Big Trouble -- "(They) Call Me Daisy" -- Flood At The Ant Farm -- Black Saint Joe Chambers -- "The Almoravid" -- The Almoravid -- 32 Jazz Geri Allen & Timeline -- "Four By Five" -- Live -- Motema (N) In memory of Bill Dixon: Bill Dixon -- "Pellucity" -- Vade Mecum -- Soul Note Bill Dixon -- "Metamorphoses 1962-1966" -- Intents And Purposes -- RCA Victor Positive Catastrophe -- "Plena Quicksand Movement" -- Garabatos, Volume One -- Cuneiform Hamiet Bluiett Sextet -- "Head Start" -- Young Warrior, Old Warrior -- Mapleshade Victor Noriega -- "Endgame" -- Stone's Throw -- TD Bill Dixon -- "Molti Moti Anni Fa..." -- Son of Sisyphus -- Soul Note Bill Dixon & Tony Oxley -- "Sine Qua Non #1" -- Papyrus, Volume 1 -- Soul Note Bill Dixon Orchestra -- "Contour Three" -- 17 Musicians In Search of A Sound: Darfur -- AUM Fidelity Vandermark 5 -- "Cement" -- Annular Gift -- Not Two New York Art Quartet -- "Pa Tirsdag" -- Old Stuff -- Cuneiform (N) = new release Megan Sullivan will be your guest host on "Straight, No Chaser" on June 28 & July 5. Thanks for listening to jazz on KBCS! David Utevsky, Host, "Straight, No Chaser"

Thanks to Bill Barton for sitting in on “Straight, No Chaser” on June 14. Here is the music Bill played: Jacky Terrasson – “Ruby My Dear” – Push – Concord (N) James Weidman – “Our Journey” – Three Worlds – Inner Circle Chico Hamilton – “Forest Flower” – Man From Two Worlds – Impulse! Billy Harper – “Who Here Can Judge Our Fates?” – Blueprints of Jazz Vol. 2 – Talking House McCoy Tyner – “Walk Spirit, Talk Spirit” – La Leyenda de la Hora (The Legend of the Hour) – Columbia Charlie Haden (with Hampton Hawes) – “Turnaround” – The Golden Number – A&M Amir ElSaffar & Hafez Modirzadeh – “Facets Seven/Eight” – Radif Suite – Pi (N) Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra – “Mount Harissa” – Far East Suite – Asian Improv Ideal Bread – “Quirks” – The Ideal Bread – KMB Jazz The Claire Daly Band – “Simone” – Rah! Rah! – (self) Chris McGregor’s Brotherhood of Breath – “Sweet As Honey” – Country Cooking – Virgin Abdullah Ibrahim – “Jabulani (Joy)” – The Journey – Chiaroscuro / Downtown Sound Thanks for listening to jazz on KBCS!

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My deepest thanks to the listeners who donated to KBCS during this week's Pledge Drive edition of "Straight, No Chaser"! Here is the music we heard on June 7: Jessica Williams -- "Justice" -- Gratitude -- Candid Sam Yahel -- "United" -- Hometown -- Positone Dave Holland Octet -- "Blue Jean" -- Pathways -- Dare2 (N) David Murray Big Band -- "Lovejoy" -- David Murray Big Band Conducted By Lawrence "Butch" Morris -- DIW *Jack De Johnette -- "Time Warps" -- Dancing With Nature Spirits -- ECM *Rudresh Mahanthappa -- "Mayalam" -- Mother Tongue -- Pi * Rudresh Mahanthappa is appearing with Jack De Johnette at The Jazz Alley, Seattle, June 8 and 9. Gerry Gibbs -- "Black Satin" (from On The Corner) -- Gerry Gibbs And The Electric Thrasher Band Play The Music of Miles Davis 1967-1975 -- Whaling City Sound (N) Ilhan Ersahin -- "Les Ottomans" -- Ilhan Ershin's Istanbul Sessions With Erik Truffaz -- Nublu (N) Andrew Oliver Sextet -- "800 Turtles" -- 82% Chance of Rain -- OA2 (N) Ziggurat Quartet -- "10 to 5" -- Calculated Gestures -- Origin (N) Allison Miller -- "Intermission" -- Boom Tic Boom -- Foxhaven (N) Steve Coleman And Five Elements -- "Beba" -- Harvesting Semblances And Affinities -- Pi (N) Jim Knodle & Dave Storrs -- "JavaRama" -- Unprepared -- Louie Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey -- "Mountain Scream" -- Welcome Home -- Accurate Dr. Lonnie Smith -- "Beehive" -- Spiral -- Palmetto (N) (N) = new release Glenn Williams will be your guest host on "Straight, No Chaser" next Monday, June 14. Continue to listen...

Here are the musical selections heard on "Straight, No Chaser" on May 31: Hank Jones & Chieck-Tidiane Seck -- "Make" -- Hank Jones Meets Chieck-Tidiane Seck And The Mandinkas: Sarala -- Verve (In memory of Hank Jones, 1918-2010) Charlie Hunter -- "Drop A Dime" -- Gentlemen, I Neglected To Inform You That You Will Not Be Getting Paid -- Spire Artists Charles Mingus -- "New York Sketchbook" -- Jazz Workshop 1957-1958 -- Fresh Sound Hal Galper -- "Take The Coltrane" -- E Pluribus Unum: Live In Seattle -- Origin (N) Jason Adasiewicz's Rolldown -- "Green Grass" -- Varmint -- Cuneiform Jack De Johnette -- "Cobilla" -- Music We Are -- Golden Beams Matthew Shipp -- "Teleportation" -- 4D -- Thirsty Ear Jayna Nelson -- "Junk DNA Dance" -- Bloom of Creation -- Sun Jump The Nels Cline Singers -- "And Now The Queen" -- Initiate -- Cryptogramophone (N) Ryan Blotnick -- "Business Class" -- Everything Forgets -- Songlines Scott DuBois -- "River Life" -- Black Hawk Dance -- Sunnyside (N) Amir El Saffar & Hafez Modirzadeh -- "Bird of Prey" -- Radif Suite -- Pi Sonore -- "A Dyed String" -- Call Before You Dig . . . Loft / Koln -- Okka Disk Akira Sakata & Chikamorachi -- "Yo! Yo! Dime" -- Friendly Pants -- Family Vineyard Cassandra Wilson -- "New African Blues" -- She Who Weeps -- JMT (Cassandra Wilson is appearing at The Jazz Alley in Seattle, June 3-6) Terence Blanchard -- "Bounce / Let's Go Off" -- Bounce -- Blue Note (Terence Blanchard will play at The Bellevue Jazz Festival on June 5) Aaron Goldberg -- "I Mean You" -- Home -- Sunnyside (N) = new release Thanks for listening to jazz on KBCS! David Utevsky, Host "Straight, No Chaser" Mondays, 9 - 11 p.m., Pacific time KBCS 91.3 FM Bellevue-Seattle Live streaming and audio archives at www.kbcs.fm

Here is the playlist for "Straight, No Chaser" on May 24: (*) Regina Carter -- "Day Dreaming On The Niger" -- Reverse Thread -- E1 (N) Ron Carter Nonet -- "First Trip" -- Eight Plus -- Dreyfus Jazz (**) Hank Jones -- "Six & Four" -- Live At Maybeck Recital Hall, Volume 16 -- Concord Jazz (**) Ray Drummond, Billy Higgins & Hank Jones -- "Allen's Alley" -- The Essence -- DMP (**) Hank Jones & Frank Wess -- "Sara's Song" -- Hank & Frank -- Lineage Yaron Herman Trio -- "Lamidbar" -- Muse -- Sunnyside Bill Frisell -- "Shutter, Dream" -- Disfarmer -- Nonesuch David Belmont -- "Lake St. Dream" -- Wind Water Journal Entries -- www.davidbelmont.com (N) Peter Epstein & Idée Fixe -- "Creamy Center" -- Abstract Realism -- Origin (N) Linda Oh Trio -- "Fourth Limb" -- Entry -- www.lindaohmusic.com Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics -- "Cha Cha" -- Inspiration Information -- Strut Sun Ra -- "Where Pathways Meet" -- Lanquidity -- Evidence Gerry Gibbs And The Electric Thrasher Orchestra -- "Calypso Frelimo" -- Gerry Gibbs And The Electric Thrasher Orchestra Play The Music of Miles Davis 1967-1975 -- Whaling City (N) Franz Koglmann -- "Maison a Bordeaux" -- Venus In Transit -- Between The Lines Dana Reason Trio -- "Let's Talk" -- Revealed -- Circumvention (N) The Claudia Quintet With Gary Versace -- "American Standard" -- Royal Toast -- Cuneiform (N) Tomasz Stanko Quintet -- "Terminal 7" -- Dark Eyes -- ECM (N) Woody Witt -- "Standard Form Requirement" -- Fist Impression -- Blue Bamboo Music (N) Allan Chase Quartet -- "Yeah" -- Dark Clouds With Silver Linings -- Accurate (*) Regina Carter plays at the Jazz Alley in Seattle, May 25 & 26. (**) In memory of Hank Jones, 1918-2010. (N) = new release

Thanks to Brett Watanabe for hosting “Straight, No Chaser” on May 17. Here is the music that Brett played: Woody Shaw – “Blues For Ball” – Stepping Stones – Columbia Claudia Quintet – “Just Like Him” – I, Claudia – Cuneiform Adegoke Steve Colson – “Circumstantial” – The Untarnished Dream – Silver Sphinx Recordings (N) BenAllison – “Respiration” – Little Things Run The World – Palmetto Tom Varner – “Maybe Yes” – Swimming – Omnitone Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers – “Lester Left Town” – Africaine – Blue Note Project W – “In A Pickle” – Project W – Apraxia Yusef Lateef – “Revelation” – The Centaur & The Phoenix – Riverside Living Daylights – “Spaghetti Western” – 500 Pound Cat – Liquid City Barry Altschul – “King Korn” – You Can’t Name Your Own Town – 32 Jazz Horace Tapscott – “Nyja’s Theme” – Hat Hut Thanks for listening to jazz on KBCS! David Utevsky Host, "Straight, No Chaser" Mondays, 9 - 11 p.m., Pacific time KBCS 91.3 FM Bellevue-Seattle Live streaming and audio archives at www.kbcs.fm

Here is the May 10 playlist for "Straight, No Chaser" on KBCS-FM. All programs are available on demand for two weeks in the KBCS audio archives at www.kbcs.fm Billie Holiday -- "How Could You?" -- The Quintessential Billie Holiday, Volume 4 -- Columbia Allen Toussaint -- "West End Blues" -- The Bright Misssissippi -- Nonesuch George Coleman -- "You Mean So Much To Me" -- My Horns of Plenty -- Verve Ray Draper Quintet -- "Mimi's Interlude" -- Tuba Sounds -- Prestige The Cecil McBee Band -- "Sleeping Giant" -- Unspoken -- Palmetto David Murray -- "High Priest" -- Shakill's Warrior -- DIW Jayna Nelson -- "Reality Shifts" -- Bloom of Creation -- Sun Jump (N) Andrew Hill -- "Interfusion" -- Mosaic Select -- Mosaic Dave Douglas & Brass Ecstasy -- "Fats" -- Spirit Moves -- Green Leaf Music Arun Luthra's Svaha -- "Tangibility" -- Tangibility -- (self) Allison Miller -- "Be Melting Snow" -- Boom Tic Boom -- Foxhaven (N) Nels Cline Singers -- "Grow Closer" -- Initiate -- Cryptogramophone (N) Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble -- "The Moment's Energy, Part V" -- The Moment's Energy -- ECM Anthony Braxton -- "Opus 26-F" -- The Complete Arista Recordings of Anthony Braxton -- Mosaic Matt Wilson Quartet -- "Code Yellow" -- Humidity -- Palmetto Ron Miles -- "Just Like You (I Don't Want To Be)" -- Witness -- Capri Brett Watanabe will be the guest host on "Straight, No Chaser" next Monday, May 17.

I'm a volunteer music programmer at KBCS 91.3 FM, Bellevue-Seattle. My jazz show, "Straight, No Chaser," is broadcast Mondays from 9:00 to 11:00 p.m. Pacific time. All programs are available on demand 24/7 in the KBCS audio archives at www.kbcs.fm for two weeks after the broadcast date. I'll post some playlists here in case any members are interested. Thanks to John Midgley for guest-hosting "Straight, No Chaser" on April 26. Here is the music that John played: Sam Rivers -- "Downstairs Blues Upstairs" -- Fuchsia Swing Song -- Blue Note Andrew Hill -- "Subterfuge" -- Black Fire -- Blue Note Drew Gress -- "Chevelle" -- The Irrational Numbers -- Koch Tineke Postma -- "Motivation" -- The Traveller -- Etc. Geri Allen -- "Red Velvet In Winter" -- Flying Toward The Sound -- Motema (N) Paul Bley & Gary Peacock -- "Again Anew" -- Partners -- Owl Charles Lloyd -- "Of Course, Of Course" -- Of Course, Of Course -- Mosaic Anthony Brown's Asian American Orchestra -- "Evidence" -- Monk's Moods -- Keeper Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Strings -- "Ice" -- Renegades -- Delmark Eric Dolphy -- "17 West"-- Out There -- Prestige George Russell -- "Ye Hypocrite, Ye Beelzebub" -- The RCA Victor Workshop -- RCA Victor Joe Lovano -- "Buckeyes" -- Streams of Expression -- Blue Note Marty Ehrlich -- "Like I Said" -- Line On Love -- Palmetto Ingrid Jensen -- "Fallin'" -- Here On Earth -- Enja / Justin Time Laim Sillery -- "Phenomenology" -- Phenomenology -- OA2 (N) Jackie McLean -- "Plight" -- Action -- Blue Note Dexter Gordon -- "Modal Mood" -- Dexter Calling -- Blue Note Edward Simon -- "Evolution" -- Unicity -- CamJazz Be sure to listen to John's program, "Jazz Kaleidoscope," available in the audio archives at www.kbcs.fm. Here is the playlist for the May 3 edition of "Straight, No Chaser": Bobby Hutcherson -- "Out of This World" -- Wise One -- Kind of Blue John Abercrombie Quartet -- "Out of Towner" -- Wait Till You See Her -- ECM Rez Abassi -- "Insulin" -- Things To Come -- Sunnyside (*) Pat Martino -- "The Phineas Trane" -- Think Tank -- Blue Note Roswell Rudd -- "To The Day" -- Trombone Tribe -- Sunnyside Robin Eubanks -- "Different Perspectives" -- Different Perspectives -- JMT Scott DuBois -- "Dust Celebration" -- Black Hawk Dance -- Sunnyside (N) Paul Motian -- "Drum Music" -- Lost In A Dream -- ECM (N) Giuseppi Logan Quintet -- "Freddie Freeloader" -- The Giuseppi Logan Quintet -- Tompkins Square (N) (**) Ronin -- "Blue Poo" -- Outside The Box -- (self) (N) Darius Jones Trio -- "Cry Out" -- Man'ish Boy -- AUM Fidelity (N) Clarinet Trio Two -- "Dreierlei" -- Translucent Tones -- Leo Clark Gibson -- "Praise For The Icons" -- Iapetus -- Pony Boy (N) Flat Earth Society -- "Rearm, Get That Char!" -- Cheer Me, Perverts! -- Crammed Discs Either/Orchestra -- "Amiak Abet Abet" -- More Beautiful Than Death -- Accurate Cindy Blackman -- "Vashkar--The Alternate Dimension Theory" -- Another Lifetime -- 4Q (N) (*) Pat Martino will be at the Bellevue Jazz Festival on June 5. (**) Ronin appears in a CD release performance at Soul Food Books in Renton, May 14 at 8 p.m. (N) = new release Thanks for listening to jazz on KBCS! David Utevsky, Host "Straight, No Chaser" KBCS-FM 3000 Landerholme Circle S.E.\ Bellevue, WA 98007 Home mailing address: David Utevsky 802 33rd Ave. Seattle, WA 98122