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In A Mellow Tone
Wednesday March 17th, 2021 with Heavy Ben
Milford Graves

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Milford Graves (1941-2021) liberated drummers from the constraints of time keeping https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milford_Graves Pictured: percussionist Milford Graves and dancer Min Tanaka at a School for Austism Film still from www.fullmantis.com
Hour One
Rufus 3rd
The New York Art Quartet - Mohawk - Fontana - 1965
Nothing 11-10
Milford Graves With Sunny Morgan - Percussion Ensemble - ESP Disk - 1965
Full Mantis film trailer
Milford Graves (Director, Producer: Jake Meginsky) - Full Mantis - Mantis Film - 2018
www.fullmantis.com
www.imdb.com/title/tt8014482/
www.rottentomatoes.com/m/milford_graves_full_mantis
Batterie
Paul Bley Quintet - Barrage - ESP Disk - 1965 Canadian
Tabla Suite
The Giuseppi Logan Quartet - The Giuseppi Logan Quartet - ESP Disk - 1965
"L"
Lowell Davidson Trio - Lowell Davidson Trio - ESP Disk - 1965
Chove-chuva
Miriam Makeba - Makeba Sings! - RCA Victor - 1965
Ewe
Montego Joe - Wild & Warm - Prestige - 1965
Love Cry
Albert Ayler - Love Cry - Impulse - 1968
Black Woman
Sonny Sharrock - Black Woman - Vortex - 1969
Response
Milford Graves - Meditation Among Us - Kitty - 1977
Hour Two
Sounding The Universe
Milford Graves interviewed by Aakash Mittal - - - New Music USA - 2018
https://nmbx.newmusicusa.org/milford-graves-sounding-the-universe/
Blessing From The Rain Forest
Andrew Cyrille & Milford Graves - Dialogue Of The Drums - IPS - 1974
Untitled / Opus In Springtime / Untitled
Sun Ra, John Gilmore, Milford Graves, Andrew Cyrille, Don Moye Quintet - Untitled Recordings - Transparency - 2008 [recorded live in a park in Brooklyn in 1985]
Untitled performance recorded live in Hakushu Japan
Milford Graves & Tanaka Min - - - (not on label) - 1988
Stated With Peace
David Murray & Milford Graves - Real Deal - DIW - 1992
Back In No Time [excerpt]
Milford Graves & Bill Laswell - The Stone - M.O.D. Technologies - 2014
April
Sam Amidon - The Following Mountain - Nonesuch - 2017
Interactive CKCU
PeterB
Hey Ben. Looks like a great program. Nothing says great show music quite like total lack of discernible rhythm. q;^)

9:17 PM, March 17th, 2021
Ben Armstrong (host)
Hehe thanks Peter. There is enough structure in my 9-to-5 life! Strange as it may sound, the frenetic sounds can reset my state.

9:29 PM, March 17th, 2021
PeterB
... and trigger that all important "what the &^#@ was that?!" response...

9:36 PM, March 17th, 2021
Ben Armstrong (host)
If you've questioned your hearing, or your stereo, or your sanity... mission accomplished ;)

9:42 PM, March 17th, 2021
Muddy Watters
I can dig it! Great show!

10:25 PM, March 17th, 2021
Ben Armstrong (host)
Checked the playsheet history and Milford Graves had been played on only two other occasions (interestingly both times the collab w/ Sunny Morgan): once on Turn Up The Radio in 2013, the other by Bernard Stepien on Rabble Without a Cause in 2014. RIP.

10:43 PM, March 17th, 2021