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Saturday, January 26, 2019

Playlist for the Unpopular Music webcast for January 26, 2019

Very much a variety show today, a bit thrown together. At fisrt it may seem like I just broke the glass and pulled out Thelnious Monk and Bill Frisell in the first set, and there's a couple of long selections in the second hour. In the first hour we also have a set in tribute to the great pianist and film composer Michel Legrand. I had a hard time sleeping last night, and heard of his death from the radio in one of my waking moments. At 4AM, I actually contemplated just getting up and ripping my super-scratchy LP of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg onto my computer. I held off until about eight, and discovered I actually own one of Legrand's piano trio albums from the sixties (which was in slightly more presentable condition), so we'll hear a track from that instead.





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Saturday, January 19, 2019

Playlist for the Unpopular Music webcast for January 19, 2019

A blend of exuberance and more mellow and/or serious tones for you this week (not that these are mutually exclusive categories.) We pay tribute to the recently departed Joseph Jarman Check out this essay by Howard Mandel for how all-encompasing his work, and that of his many associates, was. Click through even just to see how Jarman has the misfortune to have once been the subject of a famous photograph, the cover of his first album, which has been used to identify him for the last fifty years or so. One could have worse misfortunes. Therefore, I'm using it, too


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Saturday, January 12, 2019

Webcast info for Januaty 12, 2019

It's the second week of January and I'm already slacking off. Well just some family obligations keeping me away from the Media Center this week. In my absence, we're presenting a repeat of the  January 7, 2017 episode.

As I said at the time, it features a "raucous first hour, [and a] contemplative, yet not, somnambulant second hour."

Saturday, January 5, 2019

Playlist for the Unpopular Music webcast for January 5, 2019

We have a kind of subdued program (though not without moments of exuberance) for what turned out to be a rather grey Saturday afternoon in Union Square. It's one of those "let's see what played on my phone the past week" kind of shows, and that's how it came out.


 
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