What do you get when you infuse driving rock rhythms and cover songs, along with folk traditions of several countries together and put it in the hands and horns of jazz players? Well, for this New Sounds, we'll call it "post-jazz." Folks like The Bad Plus make this music, having fun by covering songs by Yes or Rush, and upping the fun quotient even more by doing arrangements of songs by Ligeti and Stravinsky. Then there's the Tiptons Sax Quartet who have incorporated Balkan music and Italian folk song rhythms into what they're doing. Also, from the UK, as if to answer The Bad Plus, there's the Neil Cowley Trio, bringing "prog" into the conversation as well. We'll hear from all these bands, along with something from the Matthew Shipp Trio and more.

PROGRAM # 2934 Post-Jazz (First aired on Thurs. 5/7/09)

ARTIST(S)	RECORDING	CUT(S)	SOURCE
The Bad Plus + Wendy Lewis	For all I care	Babbitt: Semi-Simple Variations, excerpt [1:30] Ligeti: Fem (Etude No. 8) [3:30] Wilco: Radio Cure [6:30]	Heads Up 3148 www.headsup.com
Neil Cowley Trio	Loud Louder Stop	Dinosaur Die [6:00]	Cake Music CACD 78551 www.cakemusic.co.uk
The Bad Plus	Give	1979 Semi-finalist [5:00]	Sony 58331 shop.myplay.com
Matthew Shipp	Harmonic Disorder	Mel Chi 2 [2:00] Quantum Waves [5:00]	Thirsty Ear 57187 www.thirstyear.com
The Tiptons Sax Quartet	Laws of Motion	Sind’ [3:00]	Tiptons Sax Quartet, no. # www.tiptonssaxquartet.com
Colin Stetson	New History Warfare Volume 1	As a Bird or Branch [4:00]	Aagoo Records 06 www.aagoo.com
The Tiptons Sax Quartet	Laws of Motion	Marjan [5:00]	See above.
Neil Cowley Trio	Loud Louder Stop	Synaesthesia Traffic, excerpt [2:00]	See above.