Playlist for the Unpopular Music Webcast for December 9, 2017

An interesting show. Recorded during some snow that was really not worth mentioning (not that that stops me). There's an annual event called the Somerville Holiday Stroll (or something like that) that's supposed to bring people out here to Union Square, so there's Christmas music blaring from the Media Center out into the square, and probably bleeding onto the studio mic (most audible during the break around the 50-minute mark). However, it seems people are afraid of being caught in the snow like the Donner Party, so there's not much of a crowd. We did have the fire department stop by as the folks in the TV studio down the hall were using a fog machine and set off the fire alarm, but it was over before it got a chance to liven up a mic break.

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Music-wise we start out jazzy as usual, although some Latin weirdness emerges in the second set. The BFR computer once again cuts off Joe Albany's "Nearness of You". The second hour freeform set is book-ended with stuff from Hal Willner tribute albums - the Nino Rota one and another from the Monk one. There's some early and late 20th century classical music from Central Europe taking up a lot of space in between.

See for yourself after the break...
Some other notes -
Boo-Boo was the nickname of Monk's daughter Barbara, so this song is not about a cartoon bear. However, if you were to come around with a pic-i-nic basket containing cake and ice cream, I would not turn you away, provided you are not a bear. Charlie Rouse sounds particularly good on this track.

The sleeve/booklet of Word of Mouth just lists the full names of all the musicians who played on it (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock, etc) as some of the musicians under contract to other labels did not have permission to be credited. So these aren't complete guesses

In the archive, "The Nearness of You" runs in its entirety. The rant remains.

"Gilberto Misterioso" and "Él No Está Muerto" are reversed. As I mentioned, I needed to find another minute/minute-and-a-half to fill where "Nearness" was cut off. I found this Caetano Veloso track, which is a minute or so longer than what was scheduled to be the last track of the set, thinking it was a better middle song than ending song, but couldn't slot it in in time.

Much of Janáček's music is said to express his supposedly unrequited and definitely unconsummated love for a married woman forty years his junior.

I seem to have over-simplified the story of Panufnik's defection. Besides taking place in Zurich rather than London (although that's where he eventually ended up), he was in the cab when he out-maneuvered his handlers. Part of the story is related here.

And as we started, "Little Rootie Tootie" refers to the nickname of Monk's son.

So it's a rule at BFR (not that everyone follows it) that you should end your allotted time with at least five minutes of music to allow the next person to set up. This usually has me perusing my hard drive for something five to six minutes long that makes a good ending, and there's one song I've been resisting because it's a pretentious, pompous, and yes, rather cheesy rocker from the 80's which is slightly embarrassing to admit liking, but you know, pretentious, pompous, and yes, rather cheesy rockers from the 80's are part of what made me what I am today, particularly the part of me that is the presenter of this program. (Perhaps you remember the entry in Musician Magazine's one sentence record review section - "GTR - SHT.") Mind you, I'm writing this about four hours ahead of when this will be broadcast, so there's still time to bail out. You gotta admit, though, that's a pretty good riff.

artist	title	album	comments	label / date
Katie Lee	Real Sick Sounds	Songs of Couch and Consultation	1st part of theme	Commentary Records 1957
Naked City	Inside Straight	Naked City	2nd part of theme	Nonesuch 1989
Thelonious Monk	Boo Boo's Birthday	Underground	Thelonious Monk (p) Charlie Rouse (ts) Larry Gales (b) Ben Riley (d)	Columbia Jazz Masters 1967
Jaco Pastorius	Crisis	Word of Mouth	my best guess - Jaco Pastorius (b) Hubert Laws (pcc) Wayne Shorter (l) Michael Brecker (r) (ts) Herbie Hancock (p) Jack DeJohnette (or maybe Peter Erskine) (d)	Warner Bros. 1981
Joe Albany	The Nearness Of You	The Right Combination	Joe Albany (p) Warne Marsh (ts) Bob Whitlock (b) song by Hoagy Carmichael; Ned Washington	Contemporary 1957
Shelly Manne	Rhino Trot	Daktari	Shelly Manne (d) Justin Gordon, Bud Shank, Arthur C. Smith, Frank Strozier (woodwinds) Mike Wofford (p) Bob Bain (g) Bill Pitman (b) Larry Bunker, Frank Carlsson, Victor Feldman, Emil Richards (prc)	Atlantic 1967
Lisa Germano	Phantom Love	Geek The Girl	music behind DJ	4AD 1994
Branford Marsalis	Stretto from the Ghetto	I Heard You Twice the First Time	Branford Marsalis (ts) Kenny Kirkland (p) Robert Hurst (b) Jeff "Tain" Watts (d, tune)	Columbia 1992
John Zorn	Naked Lunch	The Interpretation of Dreams	Sae Hashimoto (vbs) Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz (b) Tyshawn Sorey (d)	Tzadik 2017
Meridian Brothers	Él No Está Muerto	¿Dónde Estás María?	from the mind of Eblis Álvarez "He is not dead"	Soundway Records 2017
Caetano Veloso	Gilberto Misterioso	Araçá Azul	Caetano Veloso (g, voc) Tuti Moreno (prc)	Phillips 1972
Nadia Sirota and Nico Muhly	Etude 1	First Things First	music behind DJ	New Amsterdam 2010
Teddy Charles	Show Time	Word From Bird	Teddy Charles (vbs) Hal Stein (as) Robert Newman (ts) George Barrow (bsx) Art Farmer (tp) Don Butterfield (tba) Jimmy Raney (g) Hall Overton (p) Addison Farmer (b) Ed Shaughnessy (d)	Koch International 1956
The Maya Beiser / Steven Schick Project	Gada Yina African	Caught by the Sky with Wire	music behind DJ	oo records 2001
The Carla Bley Band	8½	Amarcord Nino Rota	Carla Bley (arr, cnd, org, glk) Michael Mantler (trp) Gary Valente (tbn) Earl McIntyre (tba) Gary Windoo (ts) Courtenay Wynter (ww) Joe Daly (euph) Arturo O'Farrill (p) Steve Swallow (b) D. Sharpe (d)	Hannibal 1981
John Zorn	Blues Connotation	Spy vs. Spy	John Zorn, Tim Berne, (as) Mark Dresser (b)  Michael Vachter, Joey Baron (d) tune by Ornette Coleman	Nonesuch 1988
Don Byron & Bang on a Can All-Stars	Basquiat	A Ballad For Many	Don Byron (clt) Robert Black (b) Wendy Sutter (vc) Evan Ziporyn (b clt) David Cossin (prc) Mark Stewart (g) Lisa Moore (p)	Canteloupe 2006
Alban Berg Quartett	String Quartet No. 2 "Intimate Letters" - IV: Allegro	25th Anniversary Edition - Music of the Twentieth Century	music by Leoš Janáček	EMI 1993
Robert Whitney; Louisville Orchestra	Nocturne (1947 revised 1955)	Polski Nowoczesny	composition by Andrzej Panufnik	First Edition 1991
NRBQ and the Whole Wheat Horns	Little Rootie Tootie	That's the way I feel now - A tribute to Thelonious Monk	Terry Adams (p) Al Anderson (g) Joseph Spampinato (b) Tom Ardolino (d) Donn Adams (tbn) Keith Spring (ts) tune by Thelonious Monk	A&M 1984
Yo La Tengo	Tired Hippo	And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out	music behind DJ	Matador 2000
GTR	Imagining	GTR	song by Steve Hackett, Steve Howe, and Jonathan Mover	Arista 1986