Webcast info for August 30, 2019

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Since the Somerville Media Center is closed for the weekend, today we are presenting a rewebcast of the episode from September 8, 2018. I'm sure you're all nostalgic for 51 weeks ago. Jim Mattis was Secretary of Defense. Drake topped the Billboard charts. Hurricane Florence was making its way towards the Carolinas

Meanwhile, Unpopular Music mourned Randy Weston and Khaira Arby, presented "a jazzy-yet -haunting piece from between-wars Germany", some afro-jazz, some swinging library music, a few, let's say, "jazz-aware" classical pieces, and more.

Let's all reminisce together!

Fashion appreciation from Thelonious Monk

Via Boing Boing -

Among Thelonious Monk's many gifts was his fashion sense. While his own duds are pretty sharp, here, he shows his admiration for saxophonist Johnny Griffin's fabulous Danish pants, from, I'm guessing 1967. Sadly, no color film exists of this clip.

Playlist for the Unpopular Music webcast for August 24, 2019

A variety show which ends up featuring a handful of Boston Jazz Institutions, some longstanding, some transient. We also dip into a couple of records I can't help dipping back into, a couple of albums I'll probably be dipping into over the next few weeks.

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A word from Duke Ellington

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Found in the liner notes of Herbie Hancock's "Gershwin's World" -

"It is becoming increasingly difficult to decide where jazz starts or where it stops, where Tin Pan Alley begins and jazz ends, or even where the borderline lies between classical music and jazz. I feel there is no boundary line. - Duke Ellington

Playlist for the Unpopular Music webcast for August 17, 2019

A quality if arbitrary selection for you today. The first hour typically jazzy, with a free-form hour for the second.

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Playlist for the Unpopular Music webcast for August 3, 2019

A variety show for you today. The first hour starts out with jazz as usual, winding it's way towards some senior citizen Americana. The second hour passes starts with some lawn mower powered avant-rock, through some contemporary classical from Soviet Union escapees, electronic music (both abstract and not), a guitar-synthesizer duel, and a wah-wah trombone rock-out to wrap it up.



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