Playlist for the Unpopular Music webcast for September 28, 2019

A variety show for the first weekend of autumn eschews a couple of Unpopular Music traditions. No Autumn Leaves, no commemoration of Coltrane, Springsteen, Ray Charles or any of the other September 23rd Birthday Club (or John Carter on the 24th.) We do dig into my project of catching up on the backlog of records that I haven't gotten onto my hard drive. (Please forgive the pops and crackles.) There's a bunch of 80's jazz, some high-modernist piano, some artificial folk music and a mandolin and banjo jam from the marketplace in Marrakesh.

And lastly, my inability to correctly pronounce a couple of Asian names and titles totally wrecks the last mic break. Apologies.



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Playlist for the Unpopular Music webcast for September 21, 2019

A real variety show for the last weekend of summer. Like last week, I try to keep both hours more equal in their freeness of form. We present a range of jazz-stylings An Americana set leads to an African and Africany set. Bach shows up again, along with some microtonal piano. A behind the scenes disaster is mostly kept from intruding on the proceedings.

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Playlist for the Unpopular Music webcast for September 14, 2019

Today's webcasct took place in conditions similar to what I was expecting last week, and ended up fitting just as well. The program basically consists of two second hours, two long free-form sets which cover a lot of ground stylistically and chronologically. There's some 13th century music from Galicia, a tribute to an electro-acoustic pioneer, some Bach, some reggae-jazz, some lighthouse-jazz, new-wave and Afro-pop, plus a variety of jazz offerings.

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Playlist for the Unpopular Music webcast for September 7, 2019

The first set keeps its usually jazzy nature, featuring a couple of recently released recordings of decades-old performances, plus a couple of today's finest trumpet players.

The second set is a century and genre spanning assembly, largely randomly programmed onto my phone and soundtracked my ride to work yesterday. I programmed it thinking it would go nicely with the predicted afternoon rain, but alas, the big storm just zipped by New England leaving us with a nice sunny day (sigh.)

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