Playlist for the Unpopular Music Webcast for April 22, 2017

As I was assembling the program this morning, I came to realize that the challenge of this webcast, and I imagine any radio show, is in making the arbitrary sequence of musical selections seem inevitable. Perhaps this weeks selections are a bit too arbitrary to pull that off, perhaps not.

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See the playlist after the break...

artist	song	album	comment	label / date
Joseph Gershenson	This Island Earth	This Island Earth	special Earth Day guest 1st part of theme music by Henry Mancini (?)	1955
Naked City	Inside Straight	Naked City	2nd part of theme	Nonesuch 1989
Masada	Tzofeh	Alef	John Zorn (as, tune) Dave Douglas (trp) Greg Cohen (b) Joey Baron (d)	Tzadik 1994
Sonny Clark	Speak Low	Sonny's Crib	Sonny Clark (p) Donald Byrd (trp) Curtis Fuller (tbn) John Coltrane (ts) Paul Chambers (b) Art Taylor (d)	Blue Note 1957
Joe Lovano	Song and Dance	Quartets - Live at the Village Vanguard	Joe Lovano (ts) Tom Harrell (trp) Anthony Cox (b) Billy Hart (d)	Blue Note 1994
Martin Denny	Ruby	The Best of Martin Denny	song by Heinz Eric Roemheld and Mitchell Parish	Liberty 1961
Dawn Upshaw / Jessica Rivera / Ladies of the Atlanta Symphony Chorus / Atlanta Symphony Orchestra / Robert Spano	Mariana, tus ojos	Ainadamar	Dawn Upshaw as Margarita Xirgu Jessica Rivera as Nuria music by Osvaldo Golijov, text by David Henry Hwang	Deutsche Grammophon 2005
Erik Friedlander	Promises, Promises	Great Jewish Music: Burt Bacharach	Erik Friedlander (vc, arr.) Chris Speed (clt) Andrew D'Angelo (b clt) Drew Gress (b)	Tzadik 1997
Kristan Jarvi; Absolute Ensemble	Absolution	Absolution	music by Charles Coleman	enja 1999
Nadia Sirota and Nico Muhly	Etude 1	First Things First	music behind DJ	New Amsterdam 2010
Paul Bley	Ramblin'	Mr. Joy	Paul Bley (p) Gary Peacock (b) Billy Elgart (d) tune by Ornette Coleman	Limelight 1968
The Police	The Other Way of Stopping	Zenyatta Mondatta	music behind DJ	A&M 1980
Frank Zappa	Planet of My Dreams	Them or Us	Bob Harris (lead voc) Ray White, Ike Willis, Thana Harris (b voc) George Duke (p) Patrick O'Hearn (b) Chad Wackerman (d)	Barking Pumpkin 1984
Yvonne Loriod, Jeanne Loriod, Orchestre de l'Opéra Bastille, Myung-Whun Chung	Turangalîla Symphonie - I: Introduction. Modéré, un peu vif	Messiaen: Turangalîla Symphonie	music by Olivier Messiaen	Deutsche Grammophon 1991
Brian Eno - David Byrne	Pitch to Voltage	My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts [2006 Expanded Version]		Nonesuch 1981
Marc-André Hamelin; BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; Andrew Litton	Piano Concerto No. 2 - III: Contrasts: Andante; Allegro	Shostakovich: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2; Shchedrin: Piano Concerto No. 2	music composed by Rodion Shchedrin	Hyperion 2003
Ursula Holliger	Stanza II	Garden Rain	Ursula Holliger (hrp) music by Tōru Takemitsu	Deutsche Grammophon 1972
Bang on a Can All-Stars	Exquisite Corpses	Renegade Heaven	Evan Ziporyn (clt) Maya Beiser (vc) Lisa Moore (keys) Mark Stewart (g) Robert Black (b) Steven Schick (prc) music by Phil Kline	Cantaloupe Music 1998
Roy Buchanan	Hey Joe	Live From Austin, TX	Roy Buchanan (voc, g) Malcolm Lukens (org) John Harrison (b) Byrd Foster (d) song by Billy Roberts	New West Records 1976
Tom Zé	Complexo de Épico	Todos os Olhos	Every Brazilian composer has a complex... This concern Of speaking so seriously, To look so serious To be so serious To smile so serious To cry so seriously To play so seriously To love so serious?	Luaka Bop 1973
Herbie Hancock	Earth Beat	Future Shock	music behind DJ	Coulumbia 1983
Manu Dibango	Soukouss	Manu Dibango (aka Collection Blanche)		disque festive 1971