2021—04 April Program Guide
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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 with Steve The Fly Tuesdays The Blues Show with Bruce Pingree plus Blues From the Red Rooster Lounge with Cary Wolfson Wednesdays BluesTime International with Roger White plus Blues Edition with Leslie Keros Thursdays Face The Music with arwulf arwulf plus The Groove Yard with George Klein Fridays Ancestor Worship with John Sinclair plus Sounds of Blue with Bob Putignano Saturdays Big City Blues Cruise with Martino D’Lorenzo plus The Soul Lucille Show with Lucille DJ Sundays Jazz at Daybreak with Leslie Keros plus Jazz Lunatique with David Kunian Our internet radio station airs two hours of original programming every day and offers a continuous flow of music on the 24/7 stream on our website, just like a real radio station. This month Face The Music with arwulf arwulf is featuring recordings cut in 1903, 1913, 1923, 1933 and 1943 to mark the end of his 2013 program year. Roger White is spotlighting a lot of new blues talent on BluessTime International this month, including Casey Hensley, Whitney Shea, Dianna Rain, Liz Mandeville, Crystal Schwanda, the Mary Jo Curry Band, and the Betty Fox Band, plus my old pal from Detroit 50 years ago, guitarist Dallas Hodge. 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. * APRIL 2021 PROGRAM GUIDE Thursday, April 1 THREES—OPENING TROPES FACE THE MUSIC 115 arwulf arwulf is holding forth at WCBN-FM, Ann Arbor with his weekly dose of great music featuring Bob Milne, the Hoosier Hot Shots, Miff Mole & his World Jam Session Band, Katherine Handy Lewis with James P. Johnson, Will Halley, Fats Waller & his Rhythm, Jonathan Edwards, the New Orleans Rhythm Kings, the Isham Jones Orchestra, Alex Belhaj’s Crescent City Quartet, the Bunk Johnson Trio, Cannon’s Jug Stompers, James P. Johnson’s Orchestra, Wilbur DeParis, Wild Bill Davison & his Commodores, the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra, and Paul Trueblood and Rita Segree. LULLABY OF BIRDLAND THE GROOVE YARD 117 George Klein presents an hour of 1950s & ‘60s recordings by Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers and the Gil Evans Orchestra, plus musicians who passed in 1990: Art Blakey, Sarah Vaughan, and Dexter Gordon. Friday, April 2 NOSTALGIA IN TIMES SQUARE ANCESTOR WORSHIP 21 Episode 21 starts with selections by the Charles Mingus Jazz Workshop from the Atlantic Records album Blues & Roots recorded in February 1959 with Jackie McLean, Booker Ervin, Pepper Adams, Jimmy Knepper, Horace Parlan, Mingus and Dannie Richmond and finishes with the Charles Mingus Quintet at the Nonagon Art Gallery later in 1959 from an album originally issued by United Artists Records as Nostalgia in Times Square (also titled at various times Jazz Portraits and Mingus In Wonderland) with John Handy on alto saxophone, Booker Ervin on tenor, Richard Wyands at the piano, Charles Mingus on bass, and Dannie Richmond on drums. ALLIGATOR BOOGALOO SOUNDS OF BLUE 286 Bob Putignano is playing music this week by Jerry Garcia & Merl Saunders, Don Byron, Lou Donaldson, Raphael Wressnig & Alex Schultz, Boogaloo Joe Jones, Little Richard, and Illinois Jacquet. Saturday, April 3 DUST MY BROOM BIG CITY BLUES CRUISE 044 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 044 from 1982 featuring music by Red Prysock, Ray Charles, James Brown, Jimmy Reed, Buddy Guy & Junior Wells, the Johnny Otis Show with Delmar Evans, James Cotton, The Coasters, Bobby Darin, Clyde McPhatter, Elmore James, Koko Taylor, Esther Phillips, Etta James, and a pair of unidentified female artists. THICKER THAN WATER THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 290 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 The Casualeers, Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, William DeVaughn, Sly & The Family Stone, Father’s Children, Kiki Gyan, The Dramatics, Marvin Gaye, The Miracles, Graham Central Station, Joe Bataan, The Poets of Rhythm, and the Gerson King Combo. Sunday, April 4 ME AND MY GIN JAZZ AT DAYBREAK 118 Leslie Keros is playing music this week by James Clay & David Fathead Newman, Valery Ponomarev Big Band, P.J. Perry & Bill Mays, Alison Ruble, Akiko Tsuruga, Jack Wilson, Dinah Washington, and Sabertooth. I PITY THE FOOL JAZZ LUNATIQUE 322 David Kunian is playing music this week by Egg Yolk Jubilee, Bobby “Blue” Bland, DJ Davis, Professor Longhair, Iggy Pop, David Kunian reads Hunter S. Thompson, the Morning 40 Federation, the Old 97s, Ellis Marsalis, and the Art Ensemble of Chicago. Monday, April 5 SHADOWS OF SOCIETY JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 904 Episode 904 is coming from Radio Free Amsterdam headquarters in Detroit’s Cass Corridor with an opening set from the double-CD Power to the Motown People, selections from Robin Eichele and John Sinclair & His Motor City Blues Scholars (from the Detroit Jazz Festival 2006), and another set of reefer music from the 1960s, courtesy of our listener Paul Paul who sent me a USB drive last year containing 5000 dope songs, including this selection of numbers by Toots and the Maytals, Kenneth Williams, Jefferson Airplane, Trio Matamoros, Los Tigres Del Norte, Nick Drake, Neil Diamond, and Mel Tillis. HOMAGE TO CHET HELMS FLY BY NIGHT 408 DJ Steve Fly Agaric 23 joins Garaj Mahal and their other special guests on July 3, 2005 at the Tulsa E. Scott Building in Quincy, CA for this show at 10,000 feet atop the High Sierra mountains at an early morning Pyjama party at the High Sierra Music Festival dedicated to the life and contributions to the scene made by Chet Helms, who had passed away the week of the show. Reggie Watts joins the band on the tune 'No Spect' adding his vocal percussive ad-libs to the band’s own brand of indian-jazz-jam-pickle with Alan Hertz on drums, Kai Eckhardt on bass, Fareed Haque on guitar, Eric Levy at the keys, and Steve Fly Agaric 23 on the turntables, plus special guests Jessica Lurie on sax and Reggie Watts on vocals. Tuesday, April 6 GOT MY MOJO WORKING THE BLUES SHOW 480 Bruce Pingree is coming with a program this week celebrating the birthday of harmonicist Jerry Portnoy with music by Portney with Muddy Waters, the Streamliners, Duke Robillard, the Legendary Blues Band, and on his own. FLY TOMORROW RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 450 Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by King Perry & His Orchestra, John Mayall with Eric Clapton, John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, Sugarcane Harris, Bennie Smith, Sonny Terry with Johnny Winter & Willie Dixon, Nick Gravenites & Animal Mind, and Magic Sam. Wednesday, April 7 BAD TROUBLE BLUESTIME INTERNATIONAL 85 Episode 82 of BluesTime International with Roger White of Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine has music by Magic Dick & J. Geils, Casey Hensley, Whitney Shea, Dianna Rain, The Moonshine Society, Liz Mandeville, Crystal Schwanda, the Chris Canas Band featuring Angie Cottingham, the Mary Jo Curry Band, the Betty Fox Band, Ryan Perry, Rev. Shaun Amos, Harpdog Brown, Taz Crewe, and Dallas Hodge. CONFESSION BLUES BLUES EDITION 49 Leslie Keros is playing the blues in Chicago with cuts by Big Daddy Kinsey, the Andy T-Nick Nixon Band, Ray Charles, Bonnie Raitt, Big George Brock, Michael Coleman, Mary Bridget Davies, Bob Stroger, Memphis Slim & Roosevelt Sykes, Big Joe Turner, Joe Williams, Reverend Raven & Madison Slim, John Lee Williamson, and Larry Carlton & Robben Ford. Thursday, April 8 CHOICE CUTS FROM 1923 FACE THE MUSIC 116 arwulf arwulf is holding forth at WCBN-FM, Ann Arbor with his weekly dose of great music featuring Richard M. Jones, Clarence Williams’ Blue Five, Thomas Morris Past Jazz Masters, King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band, Piron’s New Orleans Orchestra, Fletcher Henderson’s Orchestra, The Cotton Pickers, the Original Memphis Five, Bessie Smith, Jelly Roll Morton, the New Orleans Rhythm Kings, Rosa Henderson with Fletcher Henderson & Coleman Hawkins, and the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra. BIRD FOOD THE GROOVE YARD 118 George Klein presents Ornette Coleman’s first two releases on Atlantic Records in 1959, The Shape of Jazz to Come and Change of the Century, with Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, and Billy Higgins. Friday, April 9 BIRD AT ST. NICK’S ANCESTOR WORSHIP 22 Episode 22 is examining the music of Charlie Parker and his quintet with Red Rodney on trumpet and Roy Haynes at the drums recorded live at a dance at St. Nicholas Arena in Harlem sometime in 1948 or ’49, plus Bird with Jazz at the Philharmonic in 1946 playing the brilliant solo later set to words and sung by EddIe Jefferson, and a final cut by Bird live in Washington DC in the early ’50s. SOUL EXPLOSION SOUNDS OF BLUE 287 Bob Putignano is playing music this week by Jerry Garcia & Merl Saunders, Little Richard, Lou Donaldson, Illinois Jacquet, and Boogaloo Joe Jones. Saturday, April 10 LONG DISTANCE CALL BIG CITY BLUES CRUISE 045 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 045 from 1982 featuring music by Red Prysock, Al Johnson, the Wild Tchoupitoulas, Professor Longhair, the Wild Magnolias, Magic Slim & The Teardrops, Jimmy Rogers, J.B. Hutto, Camille Howard, Dizzy Gillespie with Alice Roberts, Priscilla Bowman with Jay McShann, Son Seals, Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers, and Muddy Waters.