Webcast info for September 29, 2018

This is the second week I have obligations keeping me away from the Media Center. I am fairly certain that this week, in place of a new live broadcast, we will present a classic episode from May 2, 2015. As I said last week, it's a good variety show episode, and one of the first to get much attention on Mixcloud. It starts out jazzy, and then goes through a Latin phase and a somewhat mellow section in the second hour. I think you'll enjoy.

Nope it was August 1, ,2015. Not sure how that happened. Will the third time be the charm.
The next live program is October 13.

Webcast info for September 22, 2018

I have some family and social obligations that will keep me away from the Media Center the next three weeks. This week in place of a new live broadcast, we will present a classic episode from May 2, 2015. Update: Nope, it was the October 21, 2017 again. Try again next week.


It's a good variety show episode, and one of the first to get much attention on Mixcloud. It starts out jazzy, and then goes through a Latin phase and a somewhat mellow section in the second hour. I think you'll enjoy.

Playlist for the Unpopular Music Webcast for September 15, 2018

A somewhat arbitrary selection for this week, with the usual jazzy/freeform divide, perhaps a bit too reliant on the Unpopular Music All-Stars (Coltrane, Zappa, Berne, Frisell, DeJohnette, Mingus.) I pump myself up a bit for Bill Frisell's show in Cambridge tonight. I present a more typical Randy Weston selection. Two events in and out side the Media Center provides minimal distraction. This post gets edited on air. Something for everyone!

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Playlist for the Unpopular Music Webcast for September 8, 2018

Today's program follows the usual template of jazzy first hour, less-jazzy second hour. We remember Randy Weston and Khaira Arby. (Over on Mixcloud, PFKToledo gives Randy a proper sendoff.) There's a jazzy-yet -haunting piece from between-wars Germany. There's some afro-jazz, some swinging library music, a few, let's say, "jazz-aware" classical pieces. And more, including a song which reminds me of my time working in the CD department of a bookstore where I had no jazz, or really any good records to play (imagine a context where the James Taylor Christmas Album is the album you actually look forward to.)

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Webcast info for September 1, 2018

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The Somerville Media Center is closed for the Labor Day Weekend, so in lieu of live webcast, we are rebroadcasting the episode from October 21, 2017. At the time I described it as "a somewhat arbitrary assortment of jazz, afro-pop, electronic, film music and a contemporary classical extravaganza."