1. Olli Ahvenlahti - Paint It Blue - Mirror Mirror (We Jazz)
2. Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - Detroit Red Hynotic Joints II (Pheelco)
3. Amanda Whiting - Intertwined (feat. Peach) - The Liminality of Her (First Word)
4. New Jazz Underground - “2” - cook/swing/work/relax (artist release)
5. Kamasi Washington - The Garden Path - Fearless Movement (Young)
6. Lawrence Fields - To The Surface - To The Surface (Rhythm ‘n Flow)
7. Herbie Tsoaeli - Work & Wait - African Time (iSandi Sarona)
8. Isaiah Collier & The Chosen Few - Perspective (Peace and Love) - The Almighty
(Division 81)
9. Sean Mason - Closure - The Southern Suite (Blue Engine Records)
10. Avishai Darash - Don’t Think, Dance - Between Hope and Despair (Concreate
Productions)
11. erivan gd - El muro - Collectives (artist release)
12. Alan Braufman - Edge of Time - Infinite Love Infinite Tears (The Control Group/Valley of
Search)
13. Germano Zenga - Tupac Amaru - Gato! An Evolving Idea (Caligola)
14. Soyuz - Verocai - Soyuz II Remastered (Mr. Bongo)
15. Jamie Breiwick - Try To Remember - Nu Trio (Side B Recordings)
16. Jonathan Seiberlich - Alive for Now - Isolation Suite (artist release)
17. Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly - Destejer - Mestizx (International Anthem)
18. THE CHOIR INVISIBLE (with Charlotte Greve, Vinnie Sperrazza and Chris Tordini) -
Membrane - The Town of Two Faces (Intakt)
19. Jack Walrath - Roadkill - Live at Smalls (Cellar Music Group)

RADIO.D59B / SOUND TRAVELS #40 w/ Pierre Ringwald

Bootleg Series 001
“Reflections” comp. Thelonious Monk
Recorded live at the Sharon Lynne Wilson Center, Brookfield, WI on 1/23/14
Field recording by Rick Krause
Jamie Breiwick, flugelhorn
Mark Davis, piano
John Price, bass
Devin Drobka, drums

Reflections

"We not gonna let the White Man make us slaves anymore, we gonna put the White Man outside the Freedom Door!". Milwaukee, 1967 and the Journal-Sentinal's headline read "RIOT ERUPTS AGAIN; SNIPING, FIRES RAGE" . Meanwhile the clandestine "Black Arts Theatre" and it's musical director Will Crittendon are busy cutting this amazing snapshot of the tense vibe on the streets. On the flip side Brenda and her backup singers shout "Black is Rising Up Oh Yeah! Nigger is No Longer Our Name!". Will also recorded a spiritual/free/ethnic jazz LP ("Message From the Third World") around the same time, before heading to NYC where he produced a few 45s in a similar vein (the Sweet Breeze record being a stand out), before transitioning into a much less socially-conscious career as a disco producer. The Raynard 45 fascinatingly combines mid-60s Motown girl group sounds, a Coltrane-influenced modal jazz piano and a trance-y R&B back beat with Black Power lyrics. It remains one of the rarest black records from the city.

Brenda & The Afroettes - Color Me Black (Raynard)

The rare 45 mix of Penny Goodwin's classic early 70s down-tempo rare groove. It excludes the LP versions double-time ending where Penny starts ranting about acid and track marks, but probably ends up being a generally more cohesive piece of music. Penny is from Milwaukee and still sings here occasionally to this day. The sessions that produced this record and the rest of her 'Portrait of a Gemini' LP were done in Chicago, however, with Richard Evans stepping in on arrangements. His string charts in particular really add a lot to this track. The title is taken from an old Jewish proverb, with lyrics cleverly adapting the sentiment for the switched-on kids of the late 60s/early 70s generation. Sy Lefco, the writer, penned many other tunes for black and white groups in Milwaukee at the time- effortlessly crisscrossing genre and racial boundaries. 



Penny Goodwin - Too Soon You're Old (Sidney)

24 For An Unwashed Grape

01 Ballad

01 Mauritius - Wild1

07 Stasis

03 LinaraClap

02 Linara - Take2

01 Linara - Take1

Trumpeter-composer-bandleader-educator-designer Jamie Breiwick dwells in that nether region of America called the heartland. His native Racine is a Warm Valley nestled among several urban musical scenes, which makes him valuable to each of them – Chicago, Milwaukee, Madison and Minneapolis. At times he’ll think of that nether region as Dreamland, the imaginative name of the Thelonious Monk repertory band that he founded and leads. It’s named for an obscure Monk tune which, like so much of the legacy of that great and eccentric musician, needs dusting off and raising to the light of day. Breiwick is just beginning to reach his prime and, as a man gifted in enterprise as well as artistry, you can find him performing at any one of those cities in a myriad of musical groups and collaborations.

Reflections

Jamie Breiwick

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