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The John Sinclair Foundation Presents RADIO FREE AMSTERDAM 2021 BLUES, JAZZ & REEFER—KEEPING THE MUSIC ALIVE

Mondays The John Sinclair Radio Show plus Fly By Night w ith Steve The Fly Tuesdays The Blues Show with Bruce Pingree plus Blues From the Red Rooster Lounge w ith Cary Wolfson Wednesdays BluesTime International with Roger White plus B lues Edition w ith Leslie Keros Thursdays Face The Music with arwulf arwulf plus The Groove Yard w ith George Klein Fridays Ancestor Worship with John Sinclair plus S ounds of Blue with Bob Putignano Saturdays Big City Blues Cruise w ith Martino D’Lorenzo plus T he Soul Lucille Show w ith Lucille DJ Sundays Jazz at Daybreak with Leslie Keros plus Jazz Lunatique w ith David Kunian

Happy New Year! Radio Free Amsterdam airs two hours of original programming every day and offers a continuous flow of music on the 24/7 stream on our website, where you can hear hour after hour of our programming on end.

This month the John Sinclair Radio Show features two hours of poetry and conversation with New Orleans poet Don Paul and an investigation of his new album M eld #1 with a variety of musical ensembles. The next two hours of the John Sinclair Radio Show are taken up with selections from the 4 hours of CDs of New Orleans classics and obscurities provided to RFA by the Maestro, Jules Bauduc from his personal collection.

All of our programmers and production staff contribute their work to this important project of the John Sinclair Foundation, offered free to the public throughout the universe for the past fifteen years, since the formation of Radio Free Amsterdam on January 1, 2005.

JANUARY 2021 PROGRAM GUIDE

Friday, January 1 SCRAPPLE FROM THE APPLE ANCESTOR WORSHIP 08

Episode 8 features music in concert by Charlie Parker and his quintets from three different venues in the early 1950s: St. Nicholas Arena in Harlem, Storyville in Boston and Massey Hall in Toronto, playing music for dancing and listening drawn from Bird’s standard repertoire of original compositions, blues & “ballads,” or standard tunes.

YOU GOT WHAT IT TAKES SOUNDS OF BLUE 273

Bob Putignano is playing music this week by B ill Frissell, Alice Coltrane, Dinah Washington, Brook Benton, Pat Martino, Full Moon, and Ben Sidran.

Saturday, January 2 KEEP A KNOCKING BIG CITY BLUES CRUISE 032

Martino D’Lorenzo is playing the blues on 45s, 78s and LPs from behind the wheel of the Big City Blues Cruise bus, spinning Episode 032 from 1982 featuring music by Red Prysock, Sonny Boy Williamson, Howling Wolf, B.B. King, Otis Rush, Bo Diddley, Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, Elmore James, The Jacks, James Brown, Ruth Brown, Little Richard, and Koko Taylor..

HIGHER GROUND THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 277

Lucille DJ is back on the air from the heart of Italy with a killer hour of soul & super heavy funk including a guest spot by John Sinclair, with tunes by Sam Cooke, Marlena Shaw, Hattie Littles, Ike & Tina Turner,:Manu Dibango, The Spinners, Labi Siffre, Duke Williams & The Extremes, Vivan Reed, The New Birth, The Funk Brothers, Earl Van Dyke, John Lee Hooker, Jackie Wilson, Ronnie Laws, Alex Rodriguez, Maze, and Booker T. & The MG’s.

Sunday, January 3 GIANT STEPS JAZZ AT DAYBREAK 106

Leslie Keros is playing music this week by Joey Alexander, John Coltrane, Conrad Herwig, Jimmy Heath, Larry Willis, Sarah Vaughan, Ray Charles, and Milt Jackson.

NEW DAY RISING JAZZ LUNATIQUE 309

David Kunian is playing music this week in observation of Election Day with selections from Egg Yolk Jubilee, Public Enemy, Husker Du, The Anti-Ballas Afro-Beat Orchestra, The Shake-’Em-Up Jazz Band, Hooray For The Riff Raff, Trixie Whitley, Cecile McLauren Salvant, Sly & The Family Stone, The Meters, and The Last Poets

Monday, January 4 LOVE IS THE MAIN FLAME JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 891

Episode 891 is coming from Radio Free Amsterdam headquarters in the Cass Corridor of Detroit with our first program of 2021, a full investigation into the new compilation album by Don Paul and his several ensembles titled Meld #1, interspersed with segments of a long conversation between Don Paul and myself that continues into the next episode.

GILUMINATI TOP FLY BY NIGHT 394

Steve The Fly presents a Gil Evans spectacular from 2013 with additional material by the Wild Magnolias, Edwards Generation, Gil Scott Heron, Breakestra, and Ken Campbell.

Tuesday, January 5 LIGHTNING BOOGIE THE BLUES SHOW 467

Bruce Pingree concludes his three-part 2012 salute to Lightning Hopkins on the bluesman’s 100th birthday this week by playing another hour of his classic recordings for a wide variety of record labels over the years.

STRANGE FEELING RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 437

Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by Little Joe Blue, Ron Thompson, Albert King, Howard Tate, Jimmy Warren Band, aniva Magness, Chanpion Jack Dupree, Freddie King, Dave Specter & Steve Freund, Sonny Boy Williamson, Bonnie Lee, Long John Hunter, Johnny Winter, and Kenny “Blue” Ray.

Wednesday, January 6 BLUES POWER BLUESTIME INTERNATIONAL 72

Episode 72 of B luesTime International with Roger White of B ig City Rhythm & Blues magazine has music by Magic Dick & J. Geils, Albert King, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Freddy King, Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, Danny Gatton, Crystal Shawanda, Ryan Perry, and B.B. King.

BE CAREFUL HOW YOU VOTE BLUES EDITION 36

Leslie Keros is spinning Edition 36 of B lues Edition from 2012 with selections by Big Daddy Kinsey, Debbie Davies, Deanna Bogart, Steve Freund, Phillip Walker, Liz Mandeville, Janiva Magness, Jimmy Thackery, Buddy Guy, R.J. Mischo, Guitar Shorty, Zora Young, Louis Jordan, Percy Mayfield, Leroy Carr, and Brother Tyrone & The Mindbenders.

Thursday, January 7 SAVE A LITTLE BIT FOR ME FACE THE MUSIC 103

arwulf arwulf is holding forth at WCBN-FM, Ann Arbor in 2012 with his weekly dose of great music featuring Isham Jones & his Orchestra, Charlie Straight & his Orchestra, Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra, Louis Dumaine’s Jazzola Eight, Cecil Scott & his Bright Boys, Clarence Williams & his Orchestra, Gus Cannon’s Jug Stompers, Bessie Smith with Henderson’s Hot Six, Casey Bill Weldon with Arnett Nelson’s Hot Four, Johnny Dodds & the Dixieland Jug Blowers, Memphis Jug Band, Coot Grant & Wesley Wilson, Ma Rainey & her Georgia Band, Elder Richard Bryant’s Sanctified Singers, Fats Waller, Art Tatum, Jimmy Yancey, and Big Maceo Merriweather. SHANGRI-LA THE GROOVE YARD 105

George Klein presents an hour of modern jazz by Donald Byrd & Pepper Adams, Hampton Hawes & Harold Land, Benny Golson, Barney Kessel, and Sonny Rollins.

Friday, January 8 AIREGIN ANCESTOR WORSHIP 09

Episode 9 looks into the recorded music of Sonny Rollins and Miles Davis on Prestige Records circa 1954-56, and a rare session with alto saxophonist Davy Schildkraut and pianist Horace Silver.

FREE IN AMERICA SOUNDS OF BLUE 274

Bob Putignano is playing music this week by B en Sidran, Full Moon, Bill Frissell, Isaac Hayes, The Allman Brothers Band, and Curt Cress.

Saturday, January 9 TALK TO ME BABY BIG CITY BLUES CRUISE 033

Martino D’Lorenzo is playing the blues on 45s, 78s and LPs from behind the wheel of the B ig City Blues Cruise bus, spinning Episode 031 from 1982 featuring music by Red Prysock, The Dells, The Five Keys, The "5" Royales, Elmore James, The Ravens, Marvin & Johnny, and B.B. King.

BUMP ME SLOW THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 278

Lucille DJ is back on the air from the heart of Italy with a killer hour of soul & super heavy funk including a guest spot by John Sinclair and tunes by The Coasters, Pat Lundy, Billy Jones, Andre Williams, Ben Vereen, Ella Fitzgerald, Steven Toll, Alberta Adams, The Bobby Murray Band, Eddie Burns, Dennis Coffey, Rose Royce, The Kay Gees, The Twinkle Stars, Sly & The Family Stone, the Chairmen Of The Board, The Counts and Eddie Bo.

Sunday, January 10 CONDITION BLUE JAZZ AT DAYBREAK 107

Leslie Keros is playing music this week by Bobby Watson, Larry Fuller, the John Coltrane Quartet, Chicago Yestet, Red Rodney & Ira Sullivan, Frank Catalano with Ira Sullivan, and Ray Charles. . GHOSTS JAZZ LUNATIQUE 310

David Kunian is playing music this week in honor of the 50th anniversary of the passing of tenor saxophone giant Albert Ayler in 1970, with selections from albums recorded between 1964 and 1967.

Monday, January 11 JUST ONE BIG HEART JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 892

Episode 892 is coming from Radio Free Amsterdam headquarters in the Cass Corridor of Detroit with our second program of 2021, finishing up the new compilation album by Dn Paul and his ensembles called M eld #1, interspersed with segments of a long conversation between Don Paul and myself that continues from the preceding episode, and then following with Don Paul reading several of my own poems alternating with recorded examples of same.

BEAT AMERICA FLY BY NIGHT 395

Steve The Fly spotlights some of America’s great Beat literary legacy in 2013 with performances by Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and their forebear Ezra Pound, with a musical interlude from Medeski, Martin & Wood.

Tuesday, Januar 12 PREACHING BLUES THE BLUES SHOW 468

Bruce Pingree with a birthday celebration in 2012 of the late Sister Rosetta Tharpe and a 110th anniversary salute to of the birth of Son House on The Blues Show from WUNH-FM, Durham NH.

SHORT RIBS RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 438

Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by Katie Webster, Shawn Pittman, Sugar Ray & The Bluetones, Eddie Clay, Lynn August, Mighty Joe Young, Peter Veteska & Blues Train, Candye Kane, Magic Slim & The Teardrops, Jimmy Thackery & Tab Benoit, Fantastic Negrito, and Jimmy Johnson & Luther Johnson Jr.

Wednesday, January 13 BLUES POWER BLUESTIME INTERNATIONAL 72

BE CAREFUL HOW YOU VOTE BLUES EDITION 36

January 14 FASCINATING RHYTHM FACE THE MUSIC 104 arwulf arwulf is holding forth at WCBN-FM, Ann Arbor with his weekly dose of great music featuring Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra, the Ross DeLuxe Syncopators, Frankie Trumbauer & his Orchestra, Paul Tremaine & his Aristocrats, Duke Ellington & his Orchestra, Fats Waller & his Rhythm, Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra, Lil Hardin Armstrong & her Orchestra, Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra, Lionel Hampton & his Orchestra, J.W. Jones & Ephram Carter, Slim & Slam: Buck Dance Rhythm the Red Feather Trio, Lester Young with Dickie Wells, Buddy Tate with Count Basie’s Orchestra, Roy Eldridge, Dick Hyman, Tom Pletcher & their Gang, and the Bud Powell Trio. BROWNIE SPEAKS THE GROOVE YARD 106

George Klein presents an hour of recordings from 1953-54 by the trumpet great Clifford Brown with Lou Donaldson, Elmo Hope, Percy Heath, Philly Joe jones, Gigi Gryce, Charlie Rouse, John Lewis, Art Blakey, Zoot Sims, Russ Freeman, and Shelly Manne.

Friday, January 15 SOLID ANCESTOR WORSHIP 10

Sonny Rollins is in the Ancestor Worship s potlight again this week with classic recordings from 1954 & 1955 on Prestige Records.

WALKING WITH THE BLUES SOUNDS OF BLUE 275

Bob Putignano is playing music this week by Maceo Parker, Isaac Hayes, Ben Sidran, The Electric Flag, and Barry Goldberg.

Saturday, January 16 ROCKING AFTER MIDNIGHT BIG CITY BLUES CRUISE 033

Martino D’Lorenzo is playing the blues on 45s, 78s and LPs from behind the wheel of the Big City Blues Cruise bus, spinning Episode 89 from 1982 featuring music by Red Prysock, Dr. Ross, T-Bone Walker, Gene Vincent & the Blue Caps, Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters, Taj Mahal, Junior Wells, Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers, LaVerne Baker, The Coasters, Fats Domino, Elmore James, Freddie King, Buddy Guy, and B.B. KIng.

SLIPPERY WHEN WET THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 279

Lucille DJ is back on the air from the heart of Italy with a killer hour of soul & super heavy funk including a guest spot by John Sinclair, with tunes by Jackie Moore, Muddy Waters, The Main Ingredient, Sisters Love, Margo Thunder, Evinha, King Errisson, Commodores, Bob Baldori & Bob Seeley, Andre Williams, Billy Davis Rhythm Machine, Graham Central Station, New Birth, The J.B.’s, Leo’s Sunshipp, and Brother Soul.

Sunday, January 17 IN WALKED BUD JAZZ AT DAYBREAK 108

Leslie Keros is playing music this week by Lou Donaldson, Joey Calderazzo, Conrad Herwig, Matt Haviland, Bud Shank, Teodross Avery, and the Christian McBride Big Band.

SPIRITS REJOICE JAZZ LUNATIQUE 311

David Kunian is playing music this week in observation of the 50th anniversity of the passing of saxophonist Albert Ayler.

Monday, January 18 JUST BECAUSE JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 893

Episode 893 is coming from Radio Free Amsterdam headquarters in the Cass Corridor of Detroit with the first of two programs with music contributed by my old friend Jules Bauduc of Louiaiana, known in musical circles as The Maestro, who sent me 4 CDs worth of rare music from the Crescent City and environs, including an entire CD’s worth of popular instrumentals from the 1950s and ’60s that we’ll feature at a later date. Tonight’s show has music from Lee Allen with my theme song when I was a high school deejay in the ‘50s, a cut by Jules’ well-known uncle Ray Bauduc, plus sides by Aaron Neville, Allen Toussaint, Bobby Charles, Bobby Mitchell, Danny White, Dave Bartholomew, Eddie Bo, Frankie Ford, Jerry Byrne, Irma Thomas, Johnny Adams, Joe Jones, Larry Williams, Prince LaLa, Lloyd Price, Rollee McGill, Roy Brown, and Smokey Johnson.

MAYAN MAXIMUS ARKESTRA FLY BY NIGHT 396

Steve The Fly is following up in 2013 on the amiri Baraka treatise comparing the work of Charles Olson & Sun Ra with this episode featuring recordings by the principals plus selections by Robert Creeley, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Archie Shepp, Langston Hughes, Jack Kerouac, and William Butler Yeats.

Tuesday, January 19 PREACHING BLUES THE BLUES SHOW 469

Bruce Pingree from 2012 with a birthday celebration of the late Sister Rosetta Tharpe and a 110th anniversary salute to of the birth of Son House on The Blues Show from WUNH-FM, Durham NH..

RAMBLIN’ ON MY MIND RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 439

Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by John Lee Hooker, Robert Johnson, Blind Blake, Albert Collins, Big Mama Thornton, Howlin’ Wolf, B.B. King, Albert King, Freddie King, Bo Diddley, Big Maybelle, Guitar Slim, Elmore James, Bobby “Blue” Bland, Otis Rush, Charles Brown, Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, and Charlie Musselwhite.

Wednesday, January 20 DRINKING AND THINKING BLUESTIME INTERNATIONAL 73

Rhythm & Blues magazine has music by Magic Dick & J. Geils, Elvin Bishop with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Amos Milburn, Roy Buchanan, Fleetwood Mac, Casey Hensley, Crystal Shawanda, and Little Walter.

MY HEART IS HANGIN' HEAVY BLUES EDITION 37

Leslie Keros with great blues from The Butler Twins, Johnny Adams, Jimmie Lee Robinson, Jimmie Vaughan, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Lurrie Bell, Kenny Neal, Eden Brent, Hank Crawford. George "Mojo" Buford, Big Joe Maher, Carlos Johnson, T-Bone Walker, and Booker T & The MGs.

Thursday, January 21 CRAZY RHYTHM FACE THE MUSIC 105 arwulf arwulf is holding forth at WCBN-FM, Ann Arbor with his weekly dose of great music featuring D ick Hyman & Tom Pletcher, Cliff Jackson, Roger Wolfe Kahn & his Orchestra, Bud Freeman & his Chicago Five, Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra, Horace Henderson & his Orchestra, Coleman Hawkins' All Star Jam Band, Johnny Hodges & his Orchestra, Billie Holiday, Tampa Red, Slim & Slam, Lionel Hampton & his Orchestra, Bud Freeman Trio, Lester Young with Earl Warren's Orchestra, Lionel Hampton & his Orchestra, and Django Reinhardt.

GET THEM GRITS THE GROOVE YARD 107

George Klein presents an hour of recordings by tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon, pianist Les McCann, the Kenny Dorham Septet featuring Cannonball Adderley, and the Gary Burton Quartet.:

Friday, January 22 AH-LEU-CHA ANCESTOR WORSHIP 11

John Sinclair is playing in 2012 Miles Davis and his quintet with John Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers And Philly Joe Jones in their first recordings for Columbia Records in 1955-56, including the entire 'Round Midnight album, and one cut from the Miles Davis Sextet adding Cannonball Adderley, replacing Philly Joe with Jimmy Cobb and Red Garland with Bill Evans, to close the show.

WALKING WITH THE BLUES SOUNDS OF BLUE 276

Bob Putignano is playing music this week by Maceo Parker, Isaac Hayes, Ben Sidran, The Electric Flag, and Barry Goldberg.

Saturday, January 23 HIGH HEAD BLUES BIG CITY BLUES CRUISE 034

Martino D’Lorenzo is playing the blues on 45s, 78s and LPs from behind the wheel of the Big City Blues Cruise bus, spinning Episode 034 from 1982 featuring music by Red Prysock, Little Walter, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Sonny Boy Williamson, Sammy Myers, Frankie Lee Sims, Lightning Slim, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Lightning Hopkins, Big Joe Turner, Jessie Hill, Nolan Strong & The Diablos, Willie Mabon, and Sweet Sammy J.

EVERLASTING LOVE THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 280

Lucille DJ is back on the air from the heart of Italy with a killer hour of soul & super heavy funk including a guest spot by John Sinclair, with tunes by Diana Ross & the Supremes, Stevie Wonder, Act I, The Manhattans, Solomon Burke, G.C. Cameron, Willie D. Warren, The Flying Crowbars, Detroit Junior, Brenda Jones with Groove Holmes, Leno Phillips, Don Downing, Joe Savage & The Soul People, The Detroit Emeralds, Herman Kelly & Life, André Marie Tala, and Hank Crawford

Sunday, January 24 CHASIN’ THE BIRD JAZZ AT DAYBREAK 109

Leslie Keros is playing music this week by Jimmy Smith, Uptown Jazz Tentet, Don Brad & Mark Rapp, Alan Broadbent Trio, Andy Brown, Eric Reed, Kevin Mahogany, Charlie Parker, and Nicki Parrott.

CLASSIFIED JAZZ LUNATIQUE 312

David Kunian is celebrating the birthday of his idol James Booker in 2014 with an hour of the pianist’s classics abd rarities provided by Booker film documentarian Lily Keeber, including the rare album by the Lloyd Price Orchestra featuring Booker on organ and a single by Gerri Hall written for her by James Booker.

Monday, January 25 THE LITTLE BITTY THINGS JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 894

Episode 894 is coming from Radio Free Amsterdam headquarters in the Cass Corridor of Detroit with the first of two programs with music contributed by my old friend Jules Bauduc of Louiaiana, known in musical circles as The Maestro, who sent me 4 CDs worth of rare music from the Crescent City and environs, including this week’s program of tunes by Lloyd Price, Roland Stone, Tommy Ridgley, Bobby Mitchell, Chuck Como, Patti Verasco & the Milestones, Eddie Bo, Danny White, Eddie Powers, Elton Anderson, Milson Luce, Allen Collay, Joe & Ann, Chuck Cavet & The Contours, Mike Ancone, Jimmy Clanton, Wardell Quezergue & Donald Harrison Jr, and The Stokes.

YEATS & CROWLEY FUNK FLY BY NIGHT 397

Steve The Fly is back with furter investigations into music & spoken word with performances by Ella Fitzgerald, Gil Evans, Alan Moore, Texas News, Apple & Three Oranges, John Heartsman & Cirles, Howard Zinn, California Gold Notes, Eddie Bo, Ray Frazier, Richard “Groove” Holmes, William Butler Yeats, W.H Auden, Enrique Olivarez, Aleister Crowley, and Billy Larkin

Tuesday, January 26 SHAKE IT AND BREAK IT THE BLUES SHOW 470

Bruce Pingree continues his 110th birthday celebration of Son House with more music by the master himself and several disciples like John Mooney and Roll & Tumble, plus a salute to Levon Helms with Ronnie Hawkins & The Hawks, the RSO All Stars, Levon & The Hawks, and Paul Butterfield’s Better Days.

DARK WAS THE NIGHT RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 440

Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson, J.B. Lenoir, Jimmy Reed, Koko Taylor, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Skip James, Blind Willie Johnson, Son House, Robert Nighthawk, T-Bone Walker, Fenton Robinson, Etta James, Magic Sam, Slim Harpo, and Buddy Guy.

Wednesday, January 27 GOING BACK TO SOULSVILLE BLUESTIME INTERNATIONAL 74

Episode 74 of BluesTime International with Roger White of B ig City Rhythm & Blues magazine has music by Magic Dick & J. Geils, Ryan Perry, Thorbjorn Risager, Scott Morgan & The Solution, Crystal Shawanda, Mary Jo Curry, and Muddy Waters.

SIT BACK DOWN BLUES EDITION 38

Leslie Keros is spinning in 2012 with tunes by Esther Phillips, Magic Slim & the Teardrops, Taj Mahal, Roy Roberts, Sonny Boy Williamson, B.B. King, Brewer Phillips, Canned Heat, Lucky Peterson, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, E. G. Kight, Roy Gaines, Katherine Davis & Joe Johnson, Willie Buck, and T-Bone Walker. Thursday, January COSMICS FACE THE MUSIC 106 arwulf arwulf is holding forth at WCBN-FM, Ann Arbor with his weekly dose of great music featuring H oagy Carmichael, Bix Beiderbecke & the Wolverines, Red Nichols & his Five Pennies, Joe Venuti & his Orchestra, Billie Holiday, Bechet-Spanier Big Four, H ot Lips Page, Fats Waller, Jimmie Lunceford’s Orchestra, Dicky Wells et son Orchestre avec Django Reinhardt, Jim Kweskin Jug Band, the Bud Freeman- Jess Stacy Duo, the Lester Young-Teddy Wilson Quartet, the Lester Young Quartet, and the Coleman Hawkins Quintet. For Richard Whiting {1891-1938} & Hoagy Carmichael {1899-1981}

STUDY IN BROWN THE GROOVE YARD 108

George Klein presents an hour of recordings by trumpet giant Clifford Brown and the quintet he co-led with drummer Max Roach, including Harold Land or Sonny Rollins on tenor saxophone, Richie Powell on piano, and George Morrow on bass.

Friday, January 29 STRAIGHT NO CHASER ANCESTOR WORSHIP 12

Continuing our investigation in 2012 into the classic music of Miles Davis from the 1950s, here’s the stellar Miles Davis Sextet recording for Columbia Records in 1958—in the studio, live at the Plaza Hotel in New York City and onstage at the Newport Jazz Festival.

WALKING WITH THE BLUES SOUNDS OF BLUE 277

Bob Putignano is playing music this week by the Grateful Dead, John Lee Hooker, T-Bone Walker, John Klemmer, Michael White, Dizzy Gillespie, Luther Tucker, and David T. Walker.

Saturday, January 30 DOUBLE TROUBLE BIG CITY BLUES CRUISE 035

Martino D’Lorenzo is playing the blues on 45s, 78s and LPs from behind the wheel of the Big City Blues Cruise bus, spinning Episode 035 from 1982 featuring music by Red Prysock, Little Walter, Otis Rush, Walter Hamilton, Ivory Joe Hunter, Albert King, Champion Jack Dupree, Smiley Lewis, Clifton Chenier, Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, Lloyd Price, Professor Longhair, and Fats Domino.

FUNKTOWN THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 281

Lucille DJ is back on the air from the heart of Italy with a killer hour of soul & super heavy funk including a guest spot by John Sinclair, with tunes by Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, The 5th Dimension, Thelma Houston, Snoopy Dean, Melba Moore, Blue Magic, Ballads, Buari, Mr. Bo, Bob Baldori & Bob Seeley, Harmonica Shah, Marva Whitney, Nate Calhoun, Roy Ayers, The Temptations, and Eldridge Holmes.

Sunday, January 31 1,000 RAINBOWS JAZZ AT DAYBREAK 110

Charles Ruggiero, the Contemporary Piano Ensemble, Doug Webb, the Joe Locke-David Hazeltine Quartet, Isaiah J. Thompson, Ronnie Cuber, Aretha Franklin, and Don Braden.

GONZO JAZZ LUNATIQUE 313

David Kunian is contnuing his annual celebration of the birth of James Carroll Booker III in 2014 with filmmaker Lily Keeber, director of the recent James Booker documentary, using Duke Ellington’s Nutcracker Suite as background music in honor of the holidays, and playing recordings by James Booker in solo performance, with his own bands, and backing up Lars Edegran, Little Richard, Art Neville, and Huey “Piano” Smith & The Clowns with Mack Rebennack, and a live BBC recording of “Gonzo.”

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