Playlist for the Unpopular Music Webcast for August 25, 2018

Today we present a program marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of Leonard Bernstein. Bernstein is a primary influence on me, having demonstrated that different musics can live together in the same mind, even in the same music. We present today a sampling his work - his own music where he brings the concert world to the popular (ie Broadway) stage; where he brings elements of that stage (and the jazz sound-world) to his concert works. We have some jazz and rock interpretations of his works and a couple of the Maestro's benchmark interpretations of symphonic works.


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Webcast info for August 18, 2018

I will be out of town this weekend, so in my absence we will present a rerun of my tribute to the heat from August 1, 2015. This was a pretty eclectic program with every thing from usual suspects like Monk and Coltrane to some Janáček from the then recently departed Ivan Moravec to some film noir music to a bunch of pop songs to a jazz cover of Led Zeppelin.

Stay cool.

Playlist for the Unpopular Music Webcast for August 11, 2018

Another rainy day here in Somerville. This show is also livened up a live event happening just outside the window, overheard during the first two mic breaks.

Musically, we have a bit less jazzy show than the last two or three. We dip back in to a few albums that have been recently featured, and another couple of items from that box over by the window I've been sorting through the last month.

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Playlist for the Unpopular Music Webcast for August 4, 2018

Pretty much a jazz show for this hot, rain-soaked summer day. Playing a few items, if not necessarily new, new to the Unpopular Music library. (and a couple of things from albums I may go back to too often.) Also, live Googling (at least, acknowledged live Googling,)

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