Playlist for the Unpopular Music webcast for May 18, 2019

A variety show for you today on this lovely afternoon in Somerville. A jazzy first hour, with some more contemporary (classical and otherwise) in the second, featuring some crazy piano music, some crazy piano music transcribed for barrel organ, an excerpt from a banjo concerto, some minimalism-meets-math-rock-meets-jazz and more. Several of the Unpopular Music All-Stars are also heard from.



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Playlist for the Unpopular Music webcast for May 11, 2019

Some music for a lovey day in Somerville. We're pretty jazzy for both hours. I get lazy and bust out a twenty-minute version of an Art Ensemble classic in the second hour. Monk comes back after a couple of weeks off. We also get some revolutionary French jazz from the seventies.

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Playlist for the Unpopular Music webcast for May 4, 2019

Greetings from Somerville, where April showers bring May showers. We have a few flower references regardless. There's the usual jazz/not jazz breakdown between hours one and two. We've got some faux-Wagner film music. Some legendary guitarists getting introspective. And of course some May flowers.

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No Star Wars references except for an RIP to Peter Mayhew.

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