The John Sinclair Foundation Presents
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BLUES, JAZZ & REEFER—KEEPING THE MUSIC ALIVE
Mondays The John Sinclair Radio Show plus Fly By Night with Steve The Fly Tuesdays The Blues Show with Bruce Pingree plus Blues From the Red Rooster Lounge with Cary Wolfson Wednesdays Blues & Roots with John Sinclair plus The Dr. Doo Wop Show with William Levy Thursdays Mood Indigo with Leslie Keros plus Beyond The Groove Yard with George Klein Fridays Sounds of Blue with Bob Putignano plus The Soul Lucille Show with Lucille DJ Saturdays Big City Blues Cruise with Martino D’Lorenzo plus Party Train with Linda Lexy Sundays Roots & Branches with Famous Coachman or The Black Pope plus Jazz Lunatique with David Kunian
* Welcome to December and another month of distinctive programming from RadioFreeAmsterdam.org, our internet radio station dedicated to Blues, Jazz & Reefer, with a stellar lineup of classic blues radio shows by Bruce Pingree, Cary Wolfson, and John Sinclair; stellar jazz shows by Leslie Keros, whose Mood Indigo program completed its run of 252 episodes, and by George Klein, whose Beyond The Groove Yard show repeats his initial run of episodes for the month; awesome rhythm & blues and soul from Bill Levy, Bob Putignano, Lucille DJ, Tino Gross, and Linda Lexy; freeform shows by Steve The Fly, David Kunian, and our flagship program, The John Sinclair Radio Show, plus a series of programs from our Vintage Radio Vaults by the late great Detroit blues deejay Famous Coachman on WDET-FM and a special episode featuring the legendary Black Pope.
Push the 24/7 button and listen to hour after hour on end of Radio Free Amsterdam programming—just like a real radio station. DECEMBER 2018 PROGRAM GUIDE
Saturday, December 1 BOOM BOOM BIG CITY BLUES CRUISE 75
Martino D’Lorenzo is playing the blues on 45s, 78s and LPs from behind the wheel of the Big City Blues Cruise bus, spinning his classic modern radio programs from the 1980s and 1990s originally aired on WEMU-FM in Ypsilanti MI and now heard every Saturday on Radio Free Amsterdam. Episode 75 features music by Red Prysock, Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson, T-Bone Walker, Professor Longhair, Little Walter, Muddy Waters, Guitar Junior, B.B. King, and Buddy Guy.
CLAP YOUR HANDS PARTY TRAIN 60
Linda Lexy is driving the Party Train all the way from Funky D Studios in Detroit, where she’s playing music by Tino Gross, Mitty Collier, Little Willie John, Cookie & His Cupcakes, Sherri Taylor & Singin’ Sammy Ward, Reginald Milton & The Soul Jets, Gladys Knight & The Pips, The Showstoppers, The Marathons, Rufus featuring Chaka Khan, Phil Flowers, The Rollers, Bobby Patterson, Jackson 5, Helene Smith, Etta James, Otis Redding, the Howling Diablos
Sunday, December 2 STOOP DOWN BABY ROOTS & BRANCHES 23
Our second installment of Famous Coachman’s Blues & Music After Hours show on WDET-FM in Detroit in 1991 has music by Chick Willis, Buddy Guy, Bobby “Blue” Bland, Latimore, Joe Simon, Albert Collins, Lynn White, Gyp Roberts, B.B. King, and an unidentified gospel group to close the show.
PASSION DANCE JAZZ LUNATIQUE 201
David Kunian is playing an hour of music by the great pianist McCoy Tyner from albums dating from the sixties to the present.
Monday, December 3 MOVE YOUR HAND JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 783
Episode 783 is coming from the Advantage Living Center rehab faciity where I’m recovering from a fall on my ass and playing music taken mostly from a collection I found in my files called Blue Note Singles, augmented by some other Blue Note funk by Dexter Gordon & Jackie McLean and Kenny Werner.
ROACHA-CHA BLAKEBEATS FLY BY NIGHT 286
Steve Fly dips into his wax collection and constructs a hanging garden of jazz drum delights featuring Art Blakey and Max Roach playing songs by Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, and Roach, the Fly spins bare back to back rhythms of the Afro-jazz bop persuasion. Special thanks to John Sinclair.
Tuesday, December 4 RATS AND ROACHES THE BLUES SHOW 360
Bruce Pingree is playing music in Episode 360 by B.B. King, Snooky Pryor, Mel Brown, Sunnyland Slim, and Silas Hogan from September 16, and Pee Wee Crayton, Johnny Nicholas, Cutis Salgado & Alan Hagar, Marcia Ball, and Sax Gordon.
JAMMING WITH OTIS RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 329
Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by Otis Rush, Otis Rush, Jimmy Dawkins, Joe Louis Walker, Bob Margolin, Gary Primich, and Otis Grand.
Wednesday, December 5 SLIDE ME DOWN BLUES & ROOTS 45
Episode 45 in our Blues & Roots series with John Sinclair for WWOZ-FM in New Orleans at the turn of the century features music by Little Walter, Al Hibbler, L.C. McKinley, Ernest Cotton, Cowboy Jack Cooley, Harold Burrage, Johnny Adams, Champion Jack Dupree, Otis & Lucille Spann, and multiple cuts by both Smiley Lewis, and Roosevelt Sykes.
CRAZY OVER YOU THE DR.DOO WOP SHOW 07
Dr. Doo Wop has risen from the ashes of the past like a rock & roll phoenix to bring some great music from the Golden Age of American Music as played on his programs from the turn of the century for Radio 100 in Amsterdam, with cuts in Episode 7 by The Coasters, The Jaguars, The Four Fellows, Lee Andrews & The Hearts, The Calvanes, The Scott Brothers, The Five Satins, The Washington Squares, The Blues Brothers, Al Bowley, Ben E. King, Marvin Gaye, The Falcons, Don Latin & The Digitones, The Sireens, and Ruth Brown.
Thursday, December 6 NITTY GRITTY MOOD INDIGO 105
Leslie Keros is playing music this week by Shirley Scott & Stanley Turrentine, Carl Saunders & Phil Woods, Jesse Davis, Joey DeFrancesco, Camille Howard, Hal Singer, Fred Wesley & The J.B.’s, Lalama Brothers, Norman Simmons, and Houston Person.
BACK TO THE TRACKS BEYOND THE GROOVE YARD 01
This month we’re broadcasting George Klein’s first series of his fine jazz program called Beyond The Groove Yard, coming out of Ypsilanti, Michigan with an hour of music celebrating the 75th Anniversary of Blue Note Records by playing great cuts by Tina Brooks, Freddie Redd, Jackie McLean, Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, Jimmy Smith, Kenny Burrell, Sonny Red, and Donald Byrd.
Friday, December 7 SMOOTH SAILING SOUNDS OF BLUE 166
Bob Putignano is playing music in Episode 166 by Rahsaan Roland, Arnett Cobb, Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson, The Gene Harris Trio, Percy Heath, The Three Sounds and Jack McDuff.
FUNKY MAMA THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 170
Lucille DJ is on the air from the heart of Italy with a killer hour of soul & super heavy funk and a guest spot by John Sinclair with tunes by Archie Bell & The Drells, Millie Jackson, Alice Clark, Sly & the Family Stone, The Isley Brothers, Charles Earland, Azymuth, Joe Lovano & Hank Jones, Lou Donaldson, Bernie Worrell, Ice, The Temptations, Gil Scott-Heron, and James Brown.
Saturday, December 8 LEAPING ON LENOX BIG CITY BLUES CRUISE 76
Martino D’Lorenzo is playing the blues on 45s, 78s and LPs from behind the wheel of the Big City Blues Cruise bus, spinning his classic modern radio programs from the 1980s and 1990s originally aired on WEMU-FM in Ypsilanti MI and now heard every Saturday on Radio Free Amsterdam. Episode 76 features music by Red Prysock, Earl Hooker, Big Walter Horton, Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis, Billy Wright, Magic Sam, James Cotton, Lightning Hopkins, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Robert Johnson, Albert Collins, Eddie Burns, and John Lee Hooker.
RAISE YOUR HAND PARTY TRAIN 61
Linda Lexy is driving the Party Train all the way from Funky D Studios in Detroit, where she’s playing music by Tino Gross, The Falcons, Marie Knight, Charles Sheffield, The Charmettes, Abraham & The Metronomes, The Fantastic Johnny C, Clarence Reid, Nathan Bartell, The Bar-Kays, James Brown, The Isley Brothers, Leroy Hutson, Eddie Floyd, The Staples Singers, Naomi Shelton & The Gospel Queens, The Mighty Hannibal, Tino G's Dumpster Machine, and Walter “Wolfman” Washington & The Roadmasters.
Sunday, December 9 AFTER HOURS ROOTS & BRANCHES 24
Out third installment of Famous Coachman’s Blues & Music After Hours show on WDET-FM, Public Radio in Detroit from 1991 features music by Erskine Hawkins, Eddie Burns, A.C. Reed, Joe Hunter, Little Milton, Otis Rush, Lynn White, Jimmy Forrest, Dorothy Moore, Bobby “Blue” Bland, Denise LaSalle, Albert Collins, the Butler Twins, Little Joe Blue, Willie D. Warren, and Sonny Boy Williamson.
REACTOR JAZZ LUNATIQUE 202
David Kunian is celebrating Halloween 2018 with a program of music by Sun Ra & His Arkestra, Public Enemy, Screaming Jay Hawkins, The Gun Club, Prince La La, Tammy Lynn & the AFO Executives, Candace Graves, R + R = Now, Go Go Penguin, and Dyson Malone & The Tangle.
Monday, December 10 STRIKE HARD JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 784
Episode 784 is coming from the Advantage Living Center rehab faciity in Warren MI where they’re going to hold me for another week or two until i’m fully recovered from a fall on my ass last month, and i’m playing music today from a pair of interesting collections i found in my files called Far Out Jazz & Afro Funk and Funk Soul Sisters, with tunes by Marcos Valle, Future Warriors, Ann Sexton, Eighties Ladies, Betty Wright, Jody Gayles, Betty Harris, The Jones Girls, Trouble Man, Deniece Chandler, and Ella Washington.
UNFUNKY UFO FLY BY NIGHT 287
Steve The Fly is flying the friendly skies in Epiode 287 with selections from Robert Anton Wilson, Parliament, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, James Brown, The Meters, and Sun Ra & His Arkestra.
Tuesday, December 11 DEACON’S HOP THE BLUES SHOW 361
Bruce Pingree is playing music this week by Ray Charles, Roy Buchanan, Tiny Bradshaw, and Big Jay McNeely.
DO THE ROMP RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 330
Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by Otis Rush, Jr. Kimbrough, Lacy Gibson, Bob Margolin, Joe Louis Walker–Bruce Katz–Giles Robson, Guitar Shorty, Bill Perry, John Lee Hooker, Catfish Keith, The Kinsey Report, and Frank Bey.
Wednesday, December 12 GOING DOWN SOUTH BLUES & ROOTS 46
Episode 46 presents an hour of blues from WWOZ-FM in New Orleans from 2000 with Little Walter, King Alex & The Untouchables, Earl Gaines, Willie King & The Liberators, Eddy Clearwater, North Mississippi All Stars, Kudzu Kings, John Sinclair & His Blues Scholars, South Side Slim, James Armstrong, Frankie Lee, and Albert King.
SENT UP THE DR. DOO WOP SHOW 08
Dr. Doo Wop has risen from the ashes of the past like a rock & roll phoenix to bring some great music from the golden age of american music as played on his programs from the turn of the century for Radio 100 In Amsterdam, with tunes In Episode 8 by Connie Francis, The Statens, The Imaginations, The Falcons, Al Bowley, The Nutmegs, Gold D. Coat & The Thunders, Otis Redding, The Wildcats, Ruth Brown, Mickey & Sylvia, And The Five Satins.
Thursday, December 13 STEPPING OUT MOOD INDIGO 106
Leslie Keros is playing music this week by Shirley Scott & Stanley Turrentine, Harold Vick, Grant Green, Nnenna Freelon, Joshua Redman, Sonny Rollins, Horace Parlan, Little Charlie & The Nightcats, Amos Milburn, the Jimmy Heath Sextet, and Eddie Jefferson.
BLUE NOTES BEYOND THE GROOVE YARD 02
George Klein’s second episode of Beyond The Groove Yard continues his celebration of the 75th Anniversary of Blue Note Records with sides by Lee Morgan, Grant Green, Bennie Green, John Patton, Larry Young, Lonnie Smith, Horace Silver, Lou Donaldson, and Hank Mobley.
Friday, December 14 REPEAT AFTER ME SOUNDS OF BLUE 167
Bob Putignano is playing music in Episode 167 by Gene Harris & Jack McDuff, The Three Sounds with Freddie Robinson, The Crusaders, and Gene Harris & The Three Sounds.
PURE NATURAL LOVE THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 171
Lucille DJ is on the air from the heart of Italy with a killer hour of soul & super heavy funk and a guest spot by John Sinclair with tunes by Willie Bollinger, Brenton Wood, Esther Phillips, Sugar Pie DeSanto, Aretha Franklin, Jorge Ben Jor, Ike & Tina Turner, Sylvia Striplin, Grupo Batuque, Bobby Humphrey, Balling Jack, Bongi Makeba, The New Birth, Million Dollar Orchestra, and The Temptations
Saturday, December 15 STRANGE THINGS BIG CITY BLUES CRUISE 77
Martino D’Lorenzo is playing the blues on 45s, 78s and LPs from behind the wheel of the Big City Blues Cruise bus, spinning his classic modern radio programs from the 1980s and 1990s originally aired on WEMU-FM in Ypsilanti MI and now heard every Saturday on Radio Free Amsterdam. Episode 77 features music by Red Prysock, B.B. King, Freddie King, Bobby “Blue” Bland, Fenton Robinson, Elmore James, Howling Wolf, and Jimmy Reed
BETTER BY THE POUND PARTY TRAIN 62
Linda Lexy is driving the Party Train all the way from Funky D Studios in Detroit, where she’s playing music by Tino Gross, Charles Sheffield, Dinah Washington & Brook Benton, Gino Parks, The Gems, Kool & The Gang, Curtis Mayfield, The House Guests, Funkadelic, Joe Tex, Ricky Allen, Mandrill, Gil Scott Heron, James Knight & The Butlers, Gloria Jones, Obie Jessie & Seeds of Freedom, The Stylistics, John Sinclair, and Aretha Franklin.
Sunday, December 16 COME BACK LOVE ROOTS & BRANCHES 25
Out fourth installment of Famous Coachman’s Blues & Music After Hours show on WDET-FM, Public Radio in Detroit from 1991 features music by Albert Collins, Louis Jordan, Nolan Strutt, Clarence Carter, and several unidentified artists.
HALLOWEEN JAZZ LUNATIQUE 203
David kunian is commemorating Halloween with music by Sun Ra & His Arkestra, Napalm Death, Dead Kennedys, Fela Kuti, Lounge Lizards, The Vince Guaraldi Trio, Dr. John, Martin Sheen, The Doors, and Ceramic Dog.
Monday, December 17 ATOMIC DOG JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 785
Episode 785 is my annual celebration of being released from prison on December 13, 1971, after serving 29 months of a 9-1/2 to 10-year sentence for possession of two joints. This program is packed with music by Dave McMurray, Ann Sexton, Red Gravy, and a long series of selections from a great album called Funky Foundations with cuts by Wild Cherry, Earth Wind & Fire, The O'Jays, Joe Tex, Lonnie Liston Smith, Bill Withers, Labelle, Johnnie Taylor, and George Clinton & the P-Funk All Stars.
ROACHA-CHA BLAKEBEATS FLY BY NIGHT 288
Steve Fly dips into his wax collection and constructs a hanging garden of jazz drum delights featuring Art Blakey and Max Roach. Featuring songs by Thelonious Monk, Blakey's Jazz Messangers, and Roach, the Fly spins bare back to back rhythms of the Afro-jazz bop persuasion. Special thanks to John Sinclair.
Tuesday, December 18 NERVOUS MAN NERVOUS THE BLUES SHOW 362 Bruce Pingree is playing music this week by Big Jay Mc Neely, Count Basie & His Orchestra, Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra, Wild Bill Moore, Paul Williams. Hal Singer, Plas Johnson, Anthony Gerassi, Colin James, Eric Lindell, Whitney Shea, and Shemekia Copeland.
DO THE ROMP RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 331
Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by Nick Moss Band, the Original Blues Brothers Band, the Hollywood Blue Flames, Deitra Farr, Fillmore Slim, Little Milton, Dave Thompson, John Mayall, Johnny Otis, and Frank Bey.
Wednesday, December 19 SOUL, SOUL, SOUL BLUES & ROOTS 47
Episode 47 is the first hour of a three-part White Buffalo Day special program for the year 2000 on the Blues & Roots show with selections by the Golden Eagles, John Sinclair & His Blues Scholars, the Wild Tchoupitoulas, the Wild Magnolias, and the Flaming Arrows.
LING TING TONG THE DR. DOO WOP SHOW 09
Dr. Doo Wop has risen from the ashes of the past like a rock & roll phoenix to bring some great music from the Golden Age of American Music as played on his programs from the turn of the century for Radio 100 in Amsterdam in Episode 9 with poems by Cornellius Patellus and tunes by The Darts, Ricky Nelson, The Chantels, The Imaginations, The Bankers, The Mystics, Otis Williams & The Charms, The Gallahads, Billy Joel, Richard Berry, Augusta Forster, and three artists we weren’t able to identify yet.
Thursday, December 20 MORE BREAD MOOD INDIGO 107
Leslie Keros is playing music this week by Shirley Scott & Stanley Turrentine, Paul Gonsalves, Hank Mobley, Carl Fontana, the Al Cohn/Zoot Sims Sextet, Ernestine Anderson, Chico Freeman 4-Tet, Chick Corea, Russell Malone, Gene Ammons, and Albert Dailey & Stan Getz.
BASS BLUES BEYOND THE GROOVE YARD 03
George Klein is focused on the bass in the third episode of Beyond The Groove Yard, playing selections by John Coltrane with Paul Chambers, Charlie Haden & Hank Jones, Ray Brown, John Coltrane with Reginald Workman and Art Davis, Doug Watkins on cello, Ange Smith & Don Mayberry, and Ray Brown & Milt Jackson.
Friday, December 21 LISTEN HERE SOUNDS OF BLUE 168
Bob Putignano is playing music in Episode 168 by Gene Harris & The Three Sounds, The Jazz Crusaders, Full Moon, The Crusaders, The Gene Harris Quartet, and Quincy Jones with Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
MORE SOUL THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 172
Lucille DJ is back on the air at Radio Free Amsterdam with a killer hour of soul & super heavy funk and a guest spot by John Sinclair with tunes yet to be announced.
Saturday, December 22 DIM THE LIGHTS BIG CITY BLUES CRUISE 78
Martino D’Lorenzo is playing the blues on 45s, 78s and LPs from behind the wheel of the Big City Blues Cruise bus, spinning his classic modern radio programs from the 1980s and 1990s originally aired on WEMU-FM in Ypsilanti MI and now heard every Saturday on Radio Free Amsterdam. Episode 78 features music by Red Prysock, J.B. Hutto, Junior Parker, Big Tom Collins, Ivory Joe Hunter, Lonnie Brooks, B.B. King, Jimmy Guiffre, Howling Wolf, Little Milton, Otis Rush, Muddy Waters, and James Cotton.
CRAZY MAMBO PARTY TRAIN 63
Linda Lexy is driving the Party Train all the way from Funky D Studios in Detroit, where she’s playing music by Tino Gross, Classie Ballou, Singing Sammy Ward, Fay Ross, Ray Charles, Betty Davis, The Isley Brothers, Eighty Four, Lee Dorsey, Lenny White, Bobby Rush, Leon Haywood, Graham Central Station, Don Covay & the Jefferson Lemon Blues Band, Doris Troy, Helene Smith, The Originals, and the Horse Cave Trio.
Sunday, December 23 PRECIOUS MEMORIES ROOTS & BRANCHES 26
Famous Coachman is spinning as Brother Coachman on Blues & Music After Hours with selections by a pair of unidentfied artists, Rev. James Cleveland, Rev. Martin Luther King, Rev. C.L. Franklin, and Aretha Franklin’s album Amazing Grace.
THIRD REICH & ROLL JAZZ LUNATIQUE 204
David Kunian is celebrating Election Night 2018 with music by Sun Ra & His Arkestra, Public Enemy, X, Shemekia Copeland, The Minutemen, The Bingo Show, The Residents, Julian Lage, Billy Bragg & Wilco, Woody Guthrie, John Prine, J.B. Lenoir, John Fohl, Roy Hargrove, the Sonny Clark Trio, and the Chris Speed Trio.
Monday, December 24 SANTA'S SECRET JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 786
Episode 786 is my annual Christmas program coming from the Advantage Living Center rehab faciity in Warren MI for the last time before I went home last Monday, featuring classic Xmas tunes and novelties by Charlie Parker, Thornetta Davis, B.B. King,The Moonglows, Jerry McCain, Ingrid Lucia, The Drifters, the Bill Evans Trio, Eartha Kitt, Babs Gonzales, Johnny Guaraneri, Sonny Boy Williamson, Earl King, Shakora Syeeda, Shemekia Copeland, and a brand new Christmas cut by Ted Drozdowski and his Scissormen.
SATURNALIA FLY BY NIGHT 289
Fly in 2012 sez: The last few weeks I’ve witnessed John Sinclair programming spontaneous radio shows across the table from me. John made a number of shows that knocked me off my stool so I figured it was my duty as DJ Fly Agaric to respond with a festive selection of tunes. The tracks were selected from my LP collection, recorded Wednesday 22nd December 2009 on a H4 Zoom Recorder.
Tuesday, December 25 HOMEWORK THE BLUES SHOW 363
Bruce Pingree is playing music by Otis Rush in commemoration of the great bluesman who just passed away at age 84, including his original Cobra Records 45s from the late 1950s and a series of live recordings.
BLUE XMAS RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 332
Cary Wolfson is spinning for Christmas at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by Huey “Piano” Smith & The Clowns, Angel Rissoff, Chick Willis, Dave Keyes, B.B. Coleman & Blues Boy Willie, Honey Davis, Lord Buckley, Fruteland Jackson, Ingrid Lucia, Irma Thomas, Paul Oscher, Little Esther & Mel Walker, Elvin Bishop, and Charles Brown.
Wednesday, December 26 HEART OF STEEL BLUES & ROOTS 48
Episode 48 is the White Buffalo Day edition of Blues & Roots for the year 2000 with selections from the Wild Tchoupitoulas, Harvey Arden reading from Leonard Peltier’s autiobiography My Life Is My Sun Dance with accompaniment by New Orleans Light in three installments, the Young Guardians Of The Flame, the Wild Magnolias, the Rebirth Brass Band, the Bayou Renegades, John Boutte & Cubanismo with Donald Harrison Jr., the Golden Eagles, and Wardell Quezergue’s Slamming Big Band.
TONIGHT, TONIGHT THE DR. DOO WOP SHOW 10
The legendary Bill Levy returns with some more great music from the Golden Age of Rhythm & Bues as played on his Dr. Doo Wop programs from the turn of the century for Radio 100 in Amsterdam, starting in Episode 10 with Showaddywaddy, The Amondells, The Playalongs, The Du-Teens, Art Rosch, The Marathons, The Gems, The Turks, Connie Francis, The Five Satins, Fred Parrish & The Scarlets, and an artist we haven’t been able to identify yet.
Thursday, December 27 SWING TIME MOOD INDIGO 108
Leslie Keros is marking the end of her Mood Indigo series with this replay of the first episode of the program with music by Shirley Scott & Stanley Turrentine, Lou Rawls, Melvin Sparks, David Egan, Oscar Pettiford, Lenny Marcus Trio, Dave Clark’s Blues Swingers, Elias Haslanger, Erwin Helfer & Katherine Davis, Lavelle Lacy, Terry Moore & Richard Gibbs, and Wycliffe Gordon.
AWFUL MEAN BEYOND THE GROOVE YARD 04
George Klein continues his focus on the bass in Episode 4 with selections featuring Paul Chambers, Stanton Moore with James Singleton, Ron Carter, Abdullah Ibrahim, Don Pullen, and Johnny Dyani.
Friday, December 28 HEAR MY CALL SOUNDS OF BLUE 169
Bob Putignano is playing music in Episode 169 by Sammy Cahn & Neal Hefti, Larry Carlton, Vince Guaraldi, the Scott Gwinnell Jazz Orchestra, Ron English, Pat Metheny Group, and Eric Kloss with Pat Martino.
MORE SOUL THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 173
Lucille DJ is back on the air at Radio Free Amsterdam with a killer hour of soul & super heavy funk and a guest spot by John Sinclair with tunes yet to be announced.
Saturday, December 29 FLYING SAUCER BIG CITY BLUES CRUISE 79
Martino D’Lorenzo is playing the blues on 45s, 78s and LPs from behind the wheel of the Big City Blues Cruise bus, spinning his classic modern radio programs from the 1980s and 1990s originally aired on WEMU-FM in Ypsilanti MI and now heard every Saturday on Radio Free Amsterdam. Episode 79 features music by Red Prysock, Little Walter, J.B. Hutto, Elmore James, Big Walter Horton, Eddie Taylor, Professor Longhair, Howling Wolf: Little Red Rooster, James Brown, St. Louis Jimmy, Freddie King, and B.B. King.
CAMEL WALK PARTY TRAIN 64
Linda Lexy is driving the Party Train all the way from Funky D Studios in Detroit, where she’s playing music by Tino Gross, Clarence Garlow, The Phillips Sisters, Big Mama Thornton, Sondra Mallett & The Vandellas, The Meters, Casey Jones, Bo Burrell’s Excursionists of Perception, Judy Clay, Curly Moore, The Chambers Brothers, James Brown, Sly Stone, Bettye Swann, Etta James, James & Bobby Purify, Lee Moses, Jimmy Bones, and the Howling Diablos.
Sunday, December 30 THE BLACK POPE ROOTS & BRANCHES 27
Shelley Pope was a popular R&B disc jockey and flamboyant personality throughout the South who spent a couple of stints in New Orleans. My pal Jerry Brock, co-founder of WWOZ-FM in New Orleans, turned me on to the Black Pope and circulated a tape of some of his most outrageous programs back in the 1980s that blew a lot of people’s minds. I recently found in my archives about 90 minutes of Black Pope excerpts from WNNR Radio in New Orleans and I’ve edited them down to make this final edition of Roots & Branches for 2018. I can’t identify the musical selections, but the Black Pope experience is something to behold.
FREEDOM OR DEATH JAZZ LUNATIQUE 205
David Kunian is commemorating Election Night 2018 with music by Sun Ra & His Arkestra, Max Roach, the Either/Orchestra, Stetsaphonic, Nicole Mitchell & Hadi Madhukti, Jameson Ross, The Reverend Saiku, Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, Jefferson Airplane, and Roy Hargrove.
Monday, December 31 WHAT NEXT JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 787
Episode 787 will be coming ‘live’ from the new Detroit studios of Radio Free Amsterdam in the John Sinclair Foundation Café at Dr. Bob’s Psychedelic Healing Center on Woodward & Goldengate, with music & guests not yet even contemplated, let alone selected.
CORNER MUSIC FLY BY NIGHT 290
Steve The Fly meets Miles Davis On The Corner and brings Medeski Martin Scofield & Wood and The Fugs along with him. Look out!
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