Jazz, Modern, World and Beyond…

We’re laying out a hearty jazz buffet for Deep Threes Radio #15, with a sideboard full of sweet rock, classical and electronic treats. Henry Threadgill serves up a delightful coconut dish from 2001′s Everybodys Mouth’s A Book, but there’s no doubt he’s still cooking up some innovative dishes. He’s backing Judith Sanchez Ruiz during an improv dance performance in the first clip. Then Henry is cooking up a storm in a fresh out of the oven performance from May of this year.

Virtuoso Rahsaan Roland Kirk didn’t need to cook with onions to draw a tear. In this 1973 clip, he serves up one of his staples, “Volunteered Slavery” in Bologna, Italy.

You simply can’t pass up the Ornette Coleman steam table. Be sure to heap some “Free Jazz” onto your plate.

Avant-garde sound artist Keisuki Oki treated us to a quick and easy popover during the show. He is also a member of Valve/Memberance. Watch them bring a studio to a slow boil with this piece…

Ethel raids a pantry of eclectic influences to bake their postclassical souffles. This profile proves that too many cooks do not spoil the broth…

Our local farmer’s market had a harvest of Yo La Tengo that we couldn’t pass up. Left to age in a cask until the dawn of the digital age, here’s “home video” that blazed the trail for today’s YouTube bedhead cover artists…

The teachable moment here is to always stick with it, gang - “You Can Have It All”.

Manicmiles tops the whole meal off by whipping up a delightful video parfait from stock footage and Yo La Tengo’s “Little Eyes”. Yummy!

In a week filled with classical influences, Deep Threes #13 embraces Bitcrush’s steadfast adherence to the dogma of shoegazing. They have two new releases. Of Embers dares the listener to burn up a set of headphones while immersed in meandering jams. We’ll treat you to one of the remixes off From Arcs To Embers. Here’s an introspective video for “Colder”.

We’ll also hear underground space rock legends Alien Planetscapes take part in a Brian Eno tribute. The lighting on this video of Doug Walker’s improvised flute solo seems otherworldly. Have you ever woken up in the middle of the desert, engulfed by a beacon of light that quickly shot across the night sky? Try watching this clip with those dark glasses you inexplicable found in your shirt pocket…

Our show takes off on a good old-fashioned jet airplane piloted by Doug Neff, blasting a long track from his group’s eponymous Le Chat Electronique through your complimentary headphones. Here they are at a recent show in the cool clear light of day.

Incandescent Sky wraps up our last set by evoking a trip to a frozen continent. If you’re weak in geography you’ll just have to tune in to find out which one. The search algorithms took a strange turn, guiding us to this gum chewing sarcasm from the Light Safety Unit.

Our plan to take you deeper into the world of Le Chat Electronique was thwarted by a dirth of cameras at their gigs. The search gods saw fit to console us with the finer points of changing a light bulb.

Deep Threes Radio #12 features a piece from avant-garde composer “Blue” Gene Tyranny. He taught at Mills College early in his career, and has performed with John Cage, Robert Ashley and Laurie Anderson. Here’s an interview about his involvement with the play Flip Side.

A music professor once told me that every formally trained musician has a garage band past. Gene’s is definitely blue chip. Allmusic.com founder Michael Erlewine pulled together still photos and live recordings from the group he fronted in the late ’60s, the Prime Movers Blues Band. The lineup on this video features Gene on keyboards, credited under his real name, Robert Sheff and Iggy Pop on drums.

There’s a couple of splashes of Red in our show’s final set, but we held back “Don’t Press The Red Button” by Chicago’s psych-fusion jam band Algernon so you could check out the video. Stay calm - we’ll play another track from their new album Ghost Surveillance.

Algernon, the band, is just a touch camera shy - at least according to the search results. Artist re-imagining Daniel Keyes’ Flowers for Algernon abound, such as this version starring fuzzy mutant puppets.

The results for “Ghost Surveillance” yield a plethora of fanatics, conspiracy theorists, alarmists and charlatans, depending on your point of view. Hats off to jtpfreak for coming clean - after racking up about a bazillion views, of course!

Music by The Boo Radleys isn’t too spooky for Deep Threes #12, and I couldn’t hold back the pun until Halloween. Here’s a killer clip of “Lazarus” live. Then the band dons ghoulish costumes to ask a fruitylicious Carolyn “Does This Hurt?”.

Prozac is one way to ease the pain - even your doggies can get a prescription. Michael Moore explored this dark underworld in a 1994 episode of TV Nation.

 You’ll hear some traditional Chinese music for watching the sun go down on Deep Threes Radio #11. Wu Man talks about the confluence of musical traditions in her homeland, and breaks down some of the basics of playing the pipa.

Allen Ginsburg may be best remembered for his poems that skirted the boundaries of obscenity, but he could work clean - for about a minute or so, as you’ll hear on the show. Woah!

This rarely seen clip of an interview Ginsburg gave in 1972 comes from the vaults of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

We’ll also hear a song from Turkish pianist and composer Fahir Atakoglu’s Faces & Places. Meet the band at this 2001 rehearsal.

Stanley Clarke plays bass. Like nobody’s business. Clarke’s recording career as a musician, producer and composer now spans across five decades with the release this week of The Stanley Clarke Band. We’ll play a track on Deep Three Radio #9.

Stanley reached out to his fans to weigh in on global warming by voice mail. “How’s The Weather Up There?” includes some of those messages. Some of the inspiration comes from his 1973 composition “After The Cosmic Rain”. Here’s Return to Nowhere performing the song for German TV.

Larry Graham of Sly & The Family Stone pioneered the funky lead and rhythm bass techniques Clarke adapted to his jazz/fusion style. They took the stage together in Japan in 1985 to lay down an informative and intense medley of “School Days” and “Sex Machine”.

Stanley fronted his own band at the 1977 Montreux Jazz Festival. This is “Hot Fun” live.

The late Gregory Hines hoofed it to Stanley’s bass playing in a 1993 talk show appearance. Host Arsenio Hall interviewed Stanley before the performance. The cult like woofing that Hall could drag out of the audience did not carry him through the talk show wars of the mid ’90s.

Japan’s piano sensation Hiromi joined drummer Lenny White to form The Stanley Clarke Trio on last year’s Jazz in the Garden. She’s featured in the 2010 band’s expanded lineup. Here she is injecting her personality into “Brain Training” for a Japanese morning show. Wake up already!