webcast info for January 27, 2018

We are out of town this weekend, so in place of a live webcaast, we have programmed to rerun the Thelonious Monk 100th Anniversary program in its stead.

I am a bit proud of this show, and have playing been tracks that didn't make the final cut (or had forgotten to include) ever since. Hopefully now I can shut up about it, and move on from it towards new triumphs the will deserve the royal we as well.

Playlist for the Unpopular Music Webcast for January 20, 2018

This week I took the time time to dig through a couple of boxes, looking to freshen up the old playlist. I came up with a few different things by folks I usually play, fresh enough I hope. There's a long Weirdo Dutch Jazz suite from the Willem Breuker Kolletief from a disc I forgot I had. There was also a Sonny Rollins collection I had forgotten about that had a track I wanted to use for my Monk centenary program. A disc from swingin' London of jazz interpretations of pop songs of the time that I'll eventually make you sick of. And, as they say, more!

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Playlist for the Unpopular Music Webcast for January 13, 2018

As the temperature plummets outside, some selections from across infinity to keep you warm. A somewhat scatter-shot collection, mostly jazz in the first hour, mostly not-jazz in the second.



The archive differs a bit from the webcast, mostly because I screwed something up in getting the recording off the BFR backup drive. So it's just the music, with no talking. No great loss as it was far from my best day as an announcer (plus a lot of noise from outside, too.) The show was basically in three sets, so I stuck in some electronic atmosphere to separate them. I moved the Duke track from the end to the beginning since it fits in that set better, and the Veloso track was from the BFR library and was just filling time anyway, so you won't miss that either.

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Playlist for the Unpopular Music Webcast for January 6, 2018

Baby, it's cold outside, and it's not that warm in the Doug Ashford Radio Room either, but we are here with warming entertainment (and, honestly, to get out of the house for while.) We begin with New Year's greetings, and acknowledge the cold with songs. We also remember the great Roswell Rudd, the most amiable of avant-gardists, who died in late December.

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