The Fusion Reactor #59 - Tony Williams

Yep, this is the week we'll have the Tony Williams artist spotlight. I've been looking forward to this for quite some time!

I've changed a setting where now only registered blogger users can leave comments on the blog. This is because last week I deleted a ton of spam "comments" from the blog, and that was no fun. It's not that I don't want you to comment - I do! I just don't think any of you would enjoy your valid comment getting buried in a bunch of spam.

Here's the playlist:

Artist	Title	Duration
Glass Hammer	A Maker Of Crowns	15:22
Miles Davis	Pinocchio	05:09
Tony Williams (Lifetime)	Vashkar	05:06
Tony Williams (Lifetime)	Spectrum	08:58
King Crimson	The Howler	04:14
Tony Williams (Lifetime)	To Whom It May Concern - Them/Us	07:19
Tony Williams (Lifetime)	Vuelta Abajo	05:01
Vangelis	Tales of the Future	04:47
Tony Williams (Lifetime)	Fred	06:49
Tony Williams (Lifetime)	Red Alert	04:40
Vertú	The Call	07:23
Pursuit	Quest	06:56
Tony Williams (Lifetime)	Lady Jane	04:01
Tony Williams (Lifetime)	Million Dollar Legs	06:39
Waking Vision Trio	Boundless	05:05
Simon Apple	A Lot Of Hope	04:59
Tony Williams	China Road	02:46
Tony Williams	Wilderness Voyager	02:09
Tony Williams	Wilderness Island	02:50
Umphrey's McGee	Uncle Wally	04:17
Ahvak	Melet	02:53

The links to stream and download are now active. Enjoy!

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The Fusion Reactor #58 - By the Numbers

This week all the tunes - or at least the titles - revolved around numbers. Here's the playlist:

Going on 17	Goodman, Jerry	07:17
7/1000	Volta Do Mar	03:37
1969	Gamalon	03:26
Trio #2	Mays, Lyle	05:27
Jazz 1960	Uz Jsme Doma	02:53
43	Schleigho	07:09
0274	Holdsworth, Allan	07:48
100 Diversions	Echolyn	07:33
21	Echolyn	05:48
One For Daddy-O	Cannonball Adderley	08:27
Nactolos 21	Proto-Kaw	11:38
Call It '95	Herbie Hancock	04:41
Psalm 61	Ajalon	04:05
Jeep on 35	Scofield, John	04:31
One in Seven	Soulive	05:17
180 Bliss	Lake Trout	05:37
5G	Bruford, Bill	07:53
50/50	Vital Information	04:40
One And One	Davis, Miles	06:09
Zero Tolerance for Silence, part 2	Metheny, Pat	05:17
Between The Two	Salem Hill	05:43

The links to stream and download are now active. Enjoy! Feel free to leave a comment.

The Fusion Reactor #57 - Cover Tunes

This was a fun one. Everything I played was, in one way or another, a cover tune. I've included the orginal artist also, in case you were wondering.

Ginger Baker Trio - Ramblin' (Ornette Coleman) 04:23
Pat Metheny and Jim Hall - All The Things You Are (J.Kern/O.Hammerstein) 06:59
Yes - Every Little Thing (Beatles) 05:42
John Zorn - The James Bond Theme (Norman & Barry) 03:06
John McLaughlin - Afro Blue (John Coltrane) 06:55
Al DiMeola - Senor Mouse (Chick Corea) 07:22
Allan Holdsworth - Proto-Cosmos (Tony Williams) 05:06
Camper Van Beethoven- Interstellar Overdrive (Pink Floyd) 07:45
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey - Off Minor (Thelonious Monk) 04:26
Charlie Hunter - Epistrophy (Thelonious Monk) 03:41
Herbie Hancock - Butterfly (Herbie Hancock) 06:10
Schleigho - Used To Be a Cha-Cha (live) (Jaco Pastorious) 11:35
Neal Morse - Where The Streets Have No Name (U2) 05:48
Medeski Martin & Wood - Syeeda's Song Flute (John Coltrane) 05:57
Béla Fleck & the Flecktones - Hoe Down (Aaron Copland) 08:23
Umphrey's McGee - Waiting Room (Fugazi) 02:47
Niacin - Birdland (Weather Report) 06:34
Birdsongs of the Mesozoic - The Simpsons (Danny Elfman) 02:00
T.J. Kirk - Serenade To A Cuckoo (Roland Kirk) 04:56
Ajalon - You And Me (Moody Blues) 04:36
Tony Levin Band - Peter Gunn (Henry Mancini) 03:49
Iona - When I Survey* (Isaac Watts) 08:06

* Dedicated to the memory of Charlene Nedrow. RIP.

The links to stream and download are now active. Enjoy! Feel free to leave a comment.

The Fusion Reactor #56: Several Themes

I really didn't have any single thing going on during this show. I was running it live, which is a bunch more fun for me than pre-programming it, pre-recording the voice parts, and letting the computer run with it at the appointed time. Not only do I get to run with whatever comes to mind and play off the discussion in the chat room, doing the show live opens up the exciting possibility of a mistake.

There was one error committed during this show, but I'm not sure if anyone will catch it. I was getting a call on my cell phone during my first voiceover, but I don't count that as an error, just a weird interference sound on the mic.

So, the themes during the show were a) songs I listened to in the car recently, b) fill in the blank with "I hope you have _______", c) fill in the blank with "I hope you DON'T have _______" and d) unclassified unthemed stuff I just wanted you to hear, or maybe I wanted to hear. The playlist should help a bit in that regard:

The Perfect Date - Vital Information 05:27 (B)
Some Food - Upright 04:26 (B)
Crescent - McLaughlin, John 07:42 (D)
The Coming Dawn (Thanatopsis) - Kansas 05:45 (A)
Lame Duck - Palacios, Tony 05:20 (A)
Xanax Taxi - Brand X 05:59 (D)
Illusions - Chick Corea Elektric Band 11:41 (C)
Sword Of Goliath - Ajalon 05:52 (A)
The Homeward Race - Bainbridge, Dave 05:26 (A)
The St. Vitus Dance - Horace Silver 04:10 (C)
Lungs - Abercrombie, John 11:47 (B)
Medieval Overture - Return To Forever 05:14 (D)
Through A Glass Darkly - Glass Hammer 06:50 (A)
The Feeling Of Tomorrow's Better - Pursuit 09:50 (A)
Joy Filled Summer - Williams, Tony (Lifetime) 05:54 (B)
Red Tape - Schleigho 09:32 (C)
Calcutta - Dixie Dregs 05:28 (D)

Of course, these are all from my collection so I got them for a reason, but personally I feel the playlist kicked butt. Let me know what you think when you hear it. You can either download it or stream it.

The Fusion Reactor #55: Prog/Fusion from A to Z

Before I forget, let me mention that all the Fusion Reactors below are mp3PRO. That means that if you have the mp3PRO decoder installed, they will sound much better.

So anyway, here is episode #55 of The Fusion Reactor. I stuffed 26 songs into this one. Why 26? I'm sure it will become obvious as soon as you look at it, but there's one for each letter of the alphabet.

Ajalon - Anthem Of The Seventh Day
Brand X - Mental Floss
Cryptic Vision - Colored Leaf
DiMeola, Al - Chasin' the Voodoo
Echolyn - Texas Dust
Finnforest - Sanaton laulu
Gamalon - 1969
Hancock, Herbie - Heartbeat
Iona - Bi-se I mo Shuil - Part 2
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey - Improvisation For STS9
KBB - Hatenaki Shoudou
Levin, Tony Band - Geronimo
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Cosmic Strut
Niacin - For Crying Out Loud
Ozric Tentacles - Bizarre Bazaar
Passport - Eternal Spiral
Quintessence - Notting Hill Gate
Rollins, Sonny - Paul's Pal
Schleigho - Hepa Mocha
Tortoise - DJed pt 2
Uz Jsme Doma - Bila Hul - (Blind Man's Cane)
Vert - Marakesh
Weather Report - Barbary Coast
XII Alphonso - Eclipse
Yes - Going For the One
Zappa, Frank - Peaches En Regalia

See? I even managed to cleverly fit in Sonny Rollins as the classic jazz track. And boy am I glad I did. It's been a while since I listened to that one.

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The Fusion Reactor #54 - Twins!

This week, SAM (the broadcasting software) and I played a game. I suggested Global Thermonuclear Destruction, SAM suggested chess, and we compromised on Twins. Basically, SAM picked a song from the vast Fusion Reactor library of tunes, and I responded by picking another song that I thought fit in with it. If SAM picked prog, I picked fusion. If SAM picked fusion, I picked prog. Well, mostly. Here's what got played:

Hurry Up... And Wait - Soulive 04:06
Wait for Me - Vangelis 05:28
Dry Ice - Electromagnets 05:06
Tenky led (Thin Ice) - Uz Jsme Doma 03:48
Tony's Jam - King Crimson 12:59
Toejam - Fuze 02:27
New Age Blues - Livgren, Kerry 03:55
Pyramid - Hammer, Jan 03:00
Man In The Green Shirt - Weather Report 14:22
Belted Sweater - Don Caballero 02:09
Strange Meadow Lark - Brubeck, Dave 07:22
Strangeness - Brand X 03:27
Red and Orange - Abercrombie, John 05:14
Strance of the Spirit Red Gator - Medeski Martin & Wood 05:57
Sorrow & Promise - VIII. Soul of Mine - Divine In Sight 02:43
Soul Diversion - Niacin 05:04
Sound After Day - Volta Do Mar 03:00
Sound Chaser - Yes 09:23
V-2 Schneider - Bowie, David 03:11
Rocket's Tail - Bush, Kate 04:08
Rave Kids - Schleigho 06:13
Children's Song - Return To Forever 02:51

As usual, you can either stream or download the podcast, depending on your preference.