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Saturday, March 3, 2018

Playlist for the Unpopular Music Webcast for March 3, 2018

After riding out the big storm yesterday, we celebrate the birthday's of your host and Robyn Hitchcock with a various yet jazzy selection of stimulating sounds.



See the playlist after the break...
The BFR archive recorder was out-of-sync, so I didn't take home the mic breaks from the first half-hour. No great loss I assure you. Below are some of the comments I made, plus some others I didn't get around to making then and later.

I keep a list of the tracks that I've played on the program over the years, and being somewhat certain I'd played the version of Caravan from Money Jungle sometime in the past, I double-checked and was surprised to find I've never played any version of Caravan.

The title "Vizcaino" likely refers to the old Spanish term for a Basque speaking person, and not to journeyman utility infielder José Vizcaíno, despite spending two of his 18 big-league seasons with Terry Riley's hometown San Francisco Giants.

Frasquita Serenade is based on the instrumental work derived from the aria “Hab’ ein blaues Himmelbett” from Franz Lehar's 1922 operetta "Frasquita." The violinist Fritz Kreisler made a popular transcription/encore piece, and John Kirby, one of the dedicatees of Don Byron's Bug Music album, had a hit with his dance band arrangement.

In Bob Dylan's Visions of Johanna, I've never been sure if Louise "seems like the mirror" or "seems like Vermeer." On Robyn Hitchcock's Robyn Sings, he performs the song twice, once solo acoustic and once with a band which sounds like the Band, using these two variations respectively. (I generally prefer Dylan's solo versions than the band version on Blonde on Blonde (which is not with the Band), but Robyn's band version is quite good.) (By the way, the official version at BobDylan.com says "mirror.")

One thing about live albums from 1979, as opposed to more recent live albums, is that you don't have persons in the audience going "whoo" or even "whooooooooooooooooooo" at the end of the song.

Although the Soundtrack Factory label did specialize in putting out crappy sounding transfers from not original sources, Orson Wells was not always as attentive to the sound in his films as he was to the visuals.

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 Records
1989
Duke Ellington Caravan Money Jungle Duke Ellington (p) Charles Mingus (b) Max Roach (d) Blue Note
1962
Paul Motian Trio Duke Ellington's Sound Of Love Sound of Love Paul Motian (d) Joe Lovano (ts) Bill Frisell (g)
tune by Charles Mingus
Winter & Winter
1995
Del Sol String Quartet with Gyan Riley Dark Queen Mantra – I: Vizcaino Dark Queen Mantra composition by Terry Riley Sono Luminus
2017
Wayne Horvitz This New Generation This New Generation music behind DJ Nonesuch
1985
Don Byron Frasquita Serenade Bug Music Don Byron (clt) Steve Wilson (as) Charles Lewis (trp) Uri Caine (p) Kenny Davis (b) Billy Hart (d)
music by Franz Lehar, Heinz Reichart, and A. M. Willner
based on the John Kirby arrangement
Nonesuch
1996
Tim Berne's Bloodcount What Are the Odds? Poisoned Minds: The Paris Concert Tim Berne (as, bs) Chris Speed (ts, clt) Michael Formanek(b) Jim Black (d) Marc Ducret (g) JMT
1994
Lennie Tristano Everything happens to me Solo in Europe song by Matt Dennis and Tom Adair Unique Records
1965
Thelonious Monk Nutty London Collection Thelonious Monk (p) Al McKibbon (b) Art Blakey (d) Black Lion
1971
Nadia Sirota and Nico Muhly Etude 1 First Things First music behind DJ New Amsterdam
2010
Robyn Hitchcock Visions of Johanna Robyn Sings Robyn Hitchcock (voc, g, harmonica) Grant-Lee Phillips (b, voc) Jon Brion (g) Richmond Chutney (d) Bill Bonk (p, harmonica) Editions PAF!
2002
Asiko Rock Group Lagos City Asiko Rock Group music behind DJ EMI Nigeria
1972
Chick Corea and Gary Burton Señor Mouse In Concert, Zurich, October 28, 1979 Chick Corea and Gary Burton ECM
1979
Bernard Herrmann The Magnificent Ambersons - Isabel Death Original Soundtrack: Citizen Kane plus The Magnificent Ambersons music by Bernard Herrmann from the film by Orson Wells Soundtrack Factory
1942
Mari Kimura Eigenspace Voyage Apollonian music by Mari Kimura Innova
2017
Huang Ruo / International Contemporary Ensemble Yueh Fei: Concerto No. 1 for Eight Players - Movement V Huang: Chamber Concerto Cycle music by Huang Ruo Naxos
2006
Steve Reich Ensemble Hindenburg - Part 2: Niebelung Zeppelin Three Tales music by Steve Reich
from the "documentary digital video opera" by Reich and Beryl Korot
Nonesuch
2002
Fred Hersch + Bill Frisell Yesterdays Songs We Know Fred Hersch (p) Bill Frisell (g)
song by Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach
Nonesuch
1998
Kris Davis / Craig Taborn Love in Outer Space Octopus tune by Sun Ra Pyroclastic Records
2016
Bill Frisell and Vinicius Cantuária Lagrimas Mexicanas Lagrimas Mexicanas Bill Frisell (elec g, acst g, loops) Vinicius Cantuária (voc, prc, acst g) Songlines
2011
Michael Gordon My Frig Light Is Calling music behind DJ Nonesuch
2004
Assa Sica et T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou J'ai raison d'etre amoures Echo Sonores du Benin

Echos Sonores Du Benin
1979?

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