Starting from the crosshairs of 60’s hard bop, Jazz Advance moves through time and location covering off everything from contemporary Northern European Avant Guard to Brazilian Bossa Nova, Rare Groove to Cake Walks of the early 1900’s. This program draws from personal record collecting to in studio performances of local and international players. Each show finds a unique look at this ever evolving and always influential form called Jazz.

Jeffery Plansker is a commercial film director and native of Detroit. He runs the “occasional” online radio station pocketradio.org and the art & design business of pocketstudio.org. Additionally he maintains a record & DVD label called geodesic.com where the project “Beneath Detroit” is currently under way. His collection of jazz recordings is in the thousands.

Yusef Lateef – Prayer To The South (Theme)

Eberhard Weber – The Colours Of Chloe / The Colours Of Chloe – ECM 1042ST
Gary Burton – Claude & Betty . Passengers – ECM 1092
Bill Frisell – Start / In Line – ECM 1241
John Abercrombie + Ralph Towner – Parasol / Sargasso Sea – ECM 1080
Pat Metheny – Country Poem/New Chataqua – ECM 1-1131

Gary Burton – Semblance / Times Square – ECM 1-1111
John Abercrombie – Gateway / Back – Woods Song – ECM 1061
Dave Holland – Perspicuity / Seeds Of Time – ECM 1292
Steve Tibbets – Climbing / Safe Journey – ECM 1270
John Abercrombie +Jan Hammer + Jack De Johnette / Timeless / Timeless – ECM 1-1047
Ralph Towner – ERG / Diary – ECM 1032

Paul Motian Trio – The Sunflower / Le Votage – ECM 1-1138
Gary Burton New Quartet – Tying Up Loose Ends – ECM 1030
Bill Frisell – Shorts / In Line – ECM 1241
Ralph Towner – Waterwheel / Batik – ECM 1-1121
DEAD AIR
INTERVIEW w Manfred Eicher
Egberto Gismonti / Nana Vasconcelos – Rio De Jeneiro – ECM 25015