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.
See the playlist after the break...
Since there's no DJ, there are some notes.
Back at Famous Music College, an instructor once led us through the celebrated 1966 Miles Davis recording of the Wayne Shorter tune Footprints (which is basically a minor key blues in 3/4 time) to point out the various changes of meter from 3/4 and 4/4 and their various subdivisions, noting that it was essential to play the song this way. Part of the composition that a lead sheet or transcription will not tell you. This 2001 recording by Shorter's quartet of the last couple decades not only changes up the meter, but the grooves as well, adding another layer
On Dewey Baby, Pine takes the first solo. Both these guys get pegged as Coltrane impersonators (not entirely without reason), so it's good to hear them channel a different sax icon.
I was looking for something to play for Martin Luther King Jr. Day that was about the things he did in his life, rather than reactions to his death, which is what most of the songs I was finding were. (There will be time for that in April.) I did end up reading that Precious Lord was one of his favorite songs, so here it is. In fact, just about the last thing he did in his life was to be sure that Precious Lord would be played at the event he was preparing to attend.
I introduced Strange Weather as "our new national anthem." While I've used that introduction one or twice before in relation to our life here in Trumpistan, there certainly has been a whole mess of strange weather here in these Unites States lately. Of course, this song is not actually about the weather, but it does have both Bill Frisell and Robert Quine on it. And for a long time I never did buy an umbrella because there was always one around.
I wish I had more to say about Jocy de Oliveira, but I don't know anything about her or her music. I heard another track on this album on This is the Modern World with DJ Trouble on WFMU and tracked down a copy on the interwebs. This piece in particular shows the influence of Luciano Berio, with whom her website mentions she had some sort of "relationship." Looking now at her Wikipedia page, I realize that sitting in that big box of cassette tapes over there in the corner is a copy that I made of her recording of Messiaen's "Catalogue des Oiseaux" after taking it out of the Brighton branch of the Boston Public Library 20-25 years ago.
Here's you SAT analogy for today. Farrah Fawcett:Michael Jackson::Aldous Huxley:_____? There are actually two answers, each of which is the "correct" one depending on your argument. Huxley and Stravinsky were neighbors in Beverley Hills. This is from Stravinsky's late Gesualdo-meets-Webern phase.
artist
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title
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album
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comments
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label / date
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| Katie Lee | Real Sick Sounds | Songs of Couch and Consultation | 1st part of theme | Commentary Records 1957 |
| Naked City | Inside Straight | Naked City | 2nd part of theme | Nonesuch Records 1989 |
Wayne Shorter
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Footprints
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Footprints Live!
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Wayne Shorter (ss, ts) Danilo Pérez (p) John
Pattitucci (b) Brian Blade (d)
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Verve
2001
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Steve Lacy / Roswell Rudd
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Traces
|
Monk’s Dream
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Steve Lacy (ss) Roswell Rudd (tbn) Irene Aebi (voc)
Jean-Jacques Avenell (b) John Betsch (d)
music by Steve Lacy, poem by Taigu Ryokan (translated
John Stevens)
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Verve
1999
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Jack DeJohnette
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Aho
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Zebra
|
Jack DeJohnette (syn) Lester Bowie (trp)
for
the video program “Tadayuki Naito / Zebra”
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MCA Records
1985
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Branford Marsalis Trio
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Dewey Baby
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The beautyful ones are not yet born
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Branford Marsalis (l) Courtney Pine (r) (ts) Rob
Hurst (b) Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts (d)
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Columbia
1991
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Wayne Horvitz
|
This New Generation
|
This New Generation
|
music behind DJ
|
Nonesuch
1985
|
John Lee Hooker
|
I’m in the mood
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Whiskey and Wimmen - John Lee Hooker’s Finest
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John Lee Hooker (voc, g) Eddie Taylor (g)
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Vee Jay
1959
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Maceo and All the King’s Men
|
For No One
|
Let It Be - Black America
sings Lennon & McCartney and Harrison
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Maceo Parker (as, ts) ‘Sweet’ Charles Sherrell
(voc, b) Melvin Parker (d) Jimmy Nolen (g) Garett Tilford (ts)
Joseph Davis, Robert Griffith, Richard Griffith (trp)
song by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, arr. Richard
Griffith
originally from Funky Music Machine
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Ace Records
1972
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Sister Rosetta Tharpe
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Precious Lord, Take My Hand
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The Gospel Roots of Elvis Presley
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for Martin Luther King Day
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1941
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Nadia Sirota and Nico Muhly
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Etude 1
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First Things First
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music behind DJ
|
New Amsterdam
2010
|
Marianne Faithfull
|
Strange Weather
|
Strange Weather
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Marianne Faithfull (voc) Bill Frisell, Robert Quine
(g) Fernando Saunders (b) J. T. Lewis (d) Garth Hudson and/or
William Schimmel (acrd)
song by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan
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Island
1987
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Yo La Tengo
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Georgia vs. Yo La Tengo
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Summer Sun
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music behind DJ
|
Matador
2003
|
Gunther Schuller / The Brass Ensemble of the Jazz and
Classical Society
|
Three Little Feelings
|
Birth of the Third Stream
|
composition by John Lewis
featuring Miles Davis (trp, flg)
John Ware, Bernie Glow, Arthur Stratter, Mel Broiles,
Carmone Fornarotto, Joe Wilder (trp) J. J. Johnson (solo), Urbie Green,
John Clark (tbn) Joseph Singer, Ray Alonge, Arthur Sussman, Jim
Bufington (hrn) John Swallow, Ronald Ricketts (bar hrn) Bill
Barber (tba) Milt Hinton (b) Osie Johnson (d) Dick Horowitz (tym,
prc)
originally on the album “Music for Brass”
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Columbia
1956
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Estoria II
|
Estorias para Voz, Instruments Acusticos e
Electonicos
|
Rozalyn Wykes (voc) Rich O’Donnell (prc)
composition by Jocy de Oliveria
recorded at Electronic Music Studio of Washington
University, St. Louis, USA
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Blume
1981
|
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Robert Craft / Columbia Symphony Orchestra
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Variations (Aldous Huxley in memoriam)
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Igor Stravinsky Edition, Vol. XII
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music by Igor Stravinsky
|
Sony Classical
1966
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Krsitjan Jarvi / Absolute Ensemble
|
Architectonics II
|
Architechtonics
|
Valerie Chermiset (flt) Vadim Lando (clt) Matt
Hershkovitz (p, syn) Ann Kim (vc) music by Erki-Sven Tuur
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2001
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Birdsongs of the Mesozoic
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Bridge Underwater
|
Dawn of the Cycads
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music by Roger Miller
originally from Magnetic Flip
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Cuneiform Records
1984
|
Caetano Veloso
|
Parabens
|
Abracaco
|
Caetano
Veloso (voc, g)
with
Banda Cê
Pedro Sá (g, voc)
Ricardo Dias Gomes (b, keys, voc Marcelo Callado (d, prc, voc)
Thalmas de Freitas, Nina Becker, Lan Lan, Alinne Moraes (voc)
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Universal Records
2012
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AKA Gelbart
|
Twist and Shout
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Please Please Me
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song by Phil Medley and Bert Berns
|
2015
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Herbie Hancock
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Earth Beat
|
Future Shock
|
music behind DJ
|
Columbia
1983
|
Duke Ellington
|
Money Jungle
|
Money Jungle
|
Duke Ellington (p) Charles Mingus (b) Max Roach (d)
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Blue Note
1962
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