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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

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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.

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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, & 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, 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, , 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, , 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, , 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, , 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 .

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 & , 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, ’s Creole Jazz Band, Piron’s New Orleans Orchestra, Fletcher Henderson’s Orchestra, The Cotton Pickers, the Original Memphis Five, , 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.

LIFE BEATS THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 291

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 Nancy Wilson, Ike & Tina Turner, The Supremes, Garland Green, Os Diagonais, Ecstasy, Passion & Pain, Rose Royce, Hank Ballard & the Midnighters, Hamonica Shah, Funkadelic, Jean-Claude Petit, Afrik Bawantu, , Malone & Barnes and Spontaneous Simplicity, Papas’ Got, Intrinsic Trance, and Miami,

Sunday, April 11 OCTAVE 103 JAZZ AT DAYBREAK 119

Leslie Keros is playing music this week by Alan Broadbent, Paul Desmond, Diego Rivera, Erroll Garner, Grant Green, Ronnie Earl & the Broadcasters, Ray Charles, Leon Lee Dorsey, Kandace Springs, Art Hirahara, and Hank Mobley.

GREASY SPINE JAZZ LUNATIQUE 323

David Kunian is playing music this week In a program dedicated to his best friend Dave Kaiser who passed away from a brain tumor last July, with selections by Egg Yolk Jubilee, the Volcano Suns, John Lee Hooker, Talking Heads, Aaron Neville, the Beastie Boys, Jim Carroll, Guns & Roses, Brandy Carlisle, Huey “Piano” Smith & The Clowns, Bob Dylan, Chris Whitley, and Ray Wylie Hubbard.

Monday, April 12 HEAVY MUSIC JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 905

Episode 905 is coming from Radio Free Amsterdam headquarters in Detroit’s Cass Corridor with music from the 420 All Stars with Chris Codish, Wendell Harrison & Tribe, Bob Seger, Martha & The Vandellas, Melba Joyce Boyd, the Lyman Woodard Organization, The Stooges, Luther “Bad Man” Keith, M.L. Liebler & the Magic Poetry Band, and Mitch Ryder.

NEW SCHOOL FUNK RULE FLY BY NIGHT 409

Episode 409 of Fly By Night features a selection of snap funk licks from Fly, with a healthy dose of Mike Clark, Rebirth, New Birth Brass Band, James Brown, Eddie Jefferson, the New Orleans Nightcrawlers and Billy Martin.

Tuesday, April 13 IN THE ALLEY THE BLUES SHOW 481

Bruce Pingree with a program of blues from 2012 honoring the recent passing of West Coast bluesman Jimmy McCracklin and the birthday of the one and only Bo Diddley.

MOVE TO LOUISIANA RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 451

Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by the Groundhogs, Big Joe Williams, Catfish Keith, Andy Cohen & Joe Larose, Durham County Poets, Shawn Pittman & The Moeller Brothers, Bobby Parker, Shemekia Copeland, the Sonny Moorman Group, Earl King, Andrew “Big Voice” Odom & The Goldtops, Joe Louis Walker & Otis Grand, and Big George Jackson.

Wednesday, April 14 CHICKEN SHACK BOOGIE BLUESTIME INTERNATIONAL 86

Episode 86 of BluesTime International with Roger White of Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine has music by Magic Dick & J. Geils, Jose Ramirez, several selections from the early ‘60s by Amos Milburn on Motown Records, Mose Allison, Harpdog Brown, Rusty Zinn, Charlie Musselwhite, Eliza Neals, Joe Louis Walker, The Ally Venable Band, Ina Forsman, and Etta James.

NOTHING BUT THE BLUES BLUES EDITION 50

Leslie Keros is blowing in from Chicago with a great program of blues from Big Daddy Kinsey, Artie “Blues Boy” White, Deanna Bogart, Mary Flower, Johnny Winter, Doug Quattlebaum, James Hunter, Jeff Sarli & Joe Maher, Big Twist & the Mellow Fellows, Demetria Taylor, Jimmie Vaughan, and Magic Slim & The Teardrops.

Thursday, April 15 BLUE THREES FACE THE MUSIC 117

arwulf arwulf is holding forth at WCBN-FM, Ann Arbor with his weekly dose of great music featuring James P. Johnson, W.C. Handy’s Orchestra, the New Orleans Rhythm Kings, Isham Jones Orchestra, the Original Capitol Orchestra, Art Tatum, Joe Venuti & his Blue Five, Seven Brown Babies, The Cotton Pickers, Thomas Morris’ Past Jazz Masters, King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band, Bessie Smith, Clarence Williams Blue Five, Charlie Straight & his Orchestra, Johnny Dunn’s Original Jazz Hounds, Spanish Dreams, Jelly Roll Morton’s Orchestra, Fats Waller, and Albert Ammons & Pete Johnson.

FREEWHEELING THE GROOVE YARD 119

George Klein presents an hour of 1950s & ‘60s recordings by Joe Henderson, Terry Gibbs, the Cannonball Adderley Sextet, and Junior Mance playing blues on the harpsichord..

Friday, April 16 SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION ANCESTOR WORSHIP 23

Episode 23 from 2013 is the first of a series of programs investigating the work of Julian “Cannonball” Adderley in the 1950s, from his initial recordings for Savoy Records, his Mercury albums and his brilliant work for , usually featuring his brother Nat on cornet with support from Hank Jones, Kenny Clarke, Paul Chambers, Milt Jackson and a host of others.

BEAR MELT SOUNDS OF BLUE 288

Bob Putignano is playing music this week by Eddie Harris, Humble Pie, John McLaughlin, Jefferson Airplane, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, and the Blues Brothers.

Saturday, April 17 DOUBLE DEALING BIG CITY BLUES CRUISE 046

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 046 from 1982 featuring special guest John Sinclair and music by Red Prysock, T.V. Slim, Percy Mayfield, Little Walter, Big Walter Horton, Al Johnson, the Wild Tchoupitoulas, Professor Longhair, the Wild Magnolias, Magic Slim & The Teardrops, Jimmy Rogers, J.B. Hutto, Camille Howard, Dizzy Gillespie & Alice Roberts, Jay McShann & Priscilla Bowman, The Magnificents, The Coasters, and Son Seals.

FREE RIDE THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 292

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 Gloria Grey, Peppermint Harris, Harvey Fuqua, Billy Preston, Sarah Vaughan, Soul Brothers Inc, Pete Dunaway, C.J. & Co, Manu Dibango, Act I, Guardian Angel, MC-5, Mitch Ryder & Detroit, Dizzy Gillespie, , Leon Ware, , the Spirit of Atlanta, Vicki Anderson, and Barbara Randolph.

Sunday, April 18 STEP FORWARD JAZZ AT DAYBREAK 120

Leslie Keros is playing music this week by Emily Remler, Gregory Tardy, David Detweiler, Ray Bryant, Etta Jones, Kenny Burrell, Kenny Barron & Dave Holland, New Faces, and Artemis.

KADDISH JAZZ LUNATIQUE 324

David Kunian is playing one selection this week, the complete text of Kaddish by Allen Ginsberg, which in a very rare occurrence for our programs runs past the one-hour mark.

Monday, April 19 SUNFLOWER SUTRA JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 906

Episode 906 is coming from Radio Free Amsterdam headquarters in Detroit’s Cass Corridor with selections by the Treme Brass Band,: John Sinclair & the Planet D Nonet, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Al “Jazzbo Colllins, Allen Ginsberg, Archie Shepp, , Charles Mingus, and Charlie Parker.

BARAKA'S DREAM FLY BY NIGHT 410

Steve The Fly dedicates this episode of Fly By Night to the legendary poet Amiri Baraka who died earlier this month. The set features “Bloomdido” (dedicated to Amiri Baraka) and “An Oscar For Treadwell” by John Sinclair & Steve the Fly, plus cuts from the Matt Wilson Sextet, the Billy Harper Sextet with Amiri Baraka, the Gil Evans Orchestra, Mike Clark, Bird & Diz and Monk Himself on piano.

Tuesday, April 20 RESCUE ME THE BLUES SHOW 482

Bruce Pingree with a program of blues & gospel music this week by B.B. King, Bobby “Blue” Bland, Smokey Wilson with Jimmy McCracklin, and a tribute to the recently departed singer & pianist Fontella Bass joined by Bobby McClure, her mother Martha Bass and brother David Peaston.

BIG BLUES PARTY RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 452

Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with blues sides by Ben Waters, Rod Piazza & the Mighty Flyers, 2000 Lbs. Of Blues, Buddy Guy, Muddy Waters 100 with Gary Clark, Jr., Carl Weathersby, Lil’ Dave Thompson, Lightnin’ Guy, the Hollywood Fats Band, and B.B. King

Wednesday, April 21 MEMPHIS BOUND BLUESTIME INTERNATIONAL 87

Episode 87 of BluesTime International with Roger White of Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine has music by Magic Dick & J. Geils, and multiple cuts from Mose Allison, Victor Wainwight & The Train, and Harpdog Brown.

CHAMPAGNE & REEFER BLUES EDITION 51

Leslie Keros is spinning the good stuff tonight by Big Daddy Kinsey, Magic Slim, Lowell Fulson, B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, James Cotton, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Billy Branch, Mr. B’s Joybox Express Quartet, Ronnie Baker Brooks-Lonnie Brooks- Eddy Clearwater-Willie Kent, and Little Walter.

Thursday, April 22 DAYBREAK EXPRESS FACE THE MUSIC 118

arwulf arwulf is holding forth at WCBN-FM, Ann Arbor with his weekly dose of great music featuring Edmond Hall’s Blue Note Jazzmen, James P. Johnson, Duke Ellington & his Famous Orchestra, Cab Calloway & his Orchestra, King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band, Ollie Powers, The Syncopators, The Original Capitol Orchestra, Henry “Red” Allen, Colemsn Hawkins & their Orchestra, Joseph Robichaux & his New Orleans Rhythm Boys, James Reese Europe’s Society Orchestra, Wild Bill Davison & his Commodores, the Coleman Hawkins Quartet, and Art Tatum.

BLUES CONNOTATION THE GROOVE YARD 120

George Klein presents Ornette Coleman’s early 1960s sessions for Atlantic Records that included albums entitled This is Our Music & Ornette on Tenor. Sidemen are Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, Scott LaFaro, Jimmy Garrison, and Ed Blackwell.

Friday, April 23 THINGS ARE GETTING BETTER ANCESTOR WORSHIP 24

Episode 24 is Looking into the recordings of Julian “Cannonball” Adderley for Riverside Records in the late 1950s with his brother Nat on cornet, Milt Jackson on vibes and a host of jazz all stars.

I'M READY SOUNDS OF BLUE 289

Bob Putignano is playing music this week by Humble Pie, Jefferson Airplane, the Big Band of Brothers, and Sea Level.

Saturday, April 24 WRONG BUSINESS BIG CITY BLUES CRUISE 047

artino D’Lorenzo is playing the blues on 45s, 78s and LPs from behind the wheel of the Big City Blues Cruise bus, spinning Episode 047 from 1982 featuring music by Red Prysock, A.C. Reed with Stevie Ray Vaughn, Amos Milburn, Lowell Fulson, Marvin & Johnny, The Five Keys, Earl King & Roomful of Blues, Johnny “Guitar” Watson, Tom Waits, Steve Nardella, , Lightning Hopkins, Lazy Lester, Ozzie Ware with Duke Ellington’s Hot 5, Clarence Williams Blue 5 with Eva Taylor, and Johnny Winter.

FREE RIDE THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 293

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 Georgie Fame, Alan Parker & Alan Hawkshaw, Etta James, Alzena Powell-Fred Tucks-Janice Barnett, Eric Mercury, Freda Payne, James Brown, The Isley Brothers, Marvin Gaye, Clarence "Blowfly" Reid, Eddie Holland, Manu Dibango, Johnny “Guitar” Watson, Charly Kingson, War, Joey Newman, and Bobby Boyd. . Sunday, April 25 SEVEN STEPS TO HEAVEN JAZZ AT DAYBREAK 121

Leslie Keros is playing music this week by Donald Byrd, Reuben Wilson, Andy Bey, Bill Cunliffe-John Patitucci-Vinnie Calaiuta, Bob Mintzer Big Band, Dave Brubeck Quartet, the Classical Jazz Quartet, Diego Rivera, and Kenny Drew.

HALLOWED GROUND JAZZ LUNATIQUE 325

David Kunian is playing music this week by Egg Yolk Jubilee, Public Enemy, The Turbines, Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper, Beck, The Sex Execs, Danny Barker & the Creole Cats, Andre Williams, Fishbone, Zach de la Rocca, the Violent Femmes, Son Volt, Willie Nelson, and Uncle Tupelo.

Monday, April 26 RUNNING IN THE RED JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 907

Episode 906 is coming from Radio Free Amsterdam headquarters in Detroit’s Cass Corridor with selections by Yusef Lateef & His Men, Langston Hughes With Leonard Feather, Jack Kerouac & Steve Allen, David Amram Quintet with Lynn Sheffield, Eric Burdon, Pete Cornelius & The DeVilles, Dave Gross, Robbie Smith, Measured Chaos, The Macpodz, Del Close & John Brent, Kenneth Patchen with the Chamber Jazz Sextet, Shorty Petterstein, Lenny Bruce, and Charlie Parker.

G MAN GOT THE T MAN FLY BY NIGHT 411

DJ Fly Agaric 23 serves up a mint menu of melodic jazz weirdness featuring Sun Ra, The Fugs, Kenny Cox, Medeski Martin Scofield & Wood, The Meters, Mezz Mezzrow, Cee Pee Johnson band, the Art Quartet and John Sinclair. Best served with tea and biscuits.

Tuesday, April 27 DEEP RIVER THE BLUES SHOW 483

A program of blues & gospel music in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, with selections by.Martha & Fontella Bass, T.J. Wheeler & the Funky River Band, , SNCC Freedom Singers, Ella Jenkins & the Good Will Spiritual Choir, , Los Angeles Jubilee Singers, The Abyssinian Baptist Gospel Choir, Blind Boys of Alabama, Rev. Alex Bradford, Mahalia Jackson, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Charles Brown, Lightning Hopkins, and the Dixie Hummingbirds. . MOVE TO LOUISIANA RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 453

Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by Eilen Jewell, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Andy Cohen & Joe Larose, Houston Stackhouse & Friends, J.B. Lenoir, the Durham County Poets, the Holmes Brothers, Kenny “Blue” Ray, C.C. Adcock, Kenny Neal & Billy Branch, Elvin Bishop & Charlie Musselwhite, Melvin Taylor, Mike Bloomfield, and Derek & The Dominos.

Wednesday, April 28 DR. VELVET’ BLUESTIME INTERNATIONAL 88

Episode 88 of BluesTime International with Roger White of Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine has music by Magic Dick & J. Geils, Nick Curran & The Nightlifes, Dr. Velvet & The Players, Nick Curran & the Low Life, the Mark May Band, and Hurricane Ruth. DON’T BE CONFUSED BLUES EDITION 52

Leslie Keros has another episode of Blues Edition on tap with music by Big Daddy Kinsey, Bernard Allison, Demetria Taylor, Carey & Lurrie Bell, Gary Primich & Omar Dykes, Pinetop Perkins, Johnny B. Moore, Johnnie Bassett, Ann Rabson, Vasti Jackson, Hank Crawford, Mighty Joe Young, and Muddy Waters.

Thursday, April 29 JOOKIT JOOKIT FACE THE MUSIC 119

arwulf arwulf is holding forth at WCBN-FM, Ann Arbor with his weekly dose of great music featuring Kaplan’s Melodists, the Original Capitol Orchestra, King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band, Fletcher Henderson’s Orchestra, Dunn’s Original Jazz Hounds, Fats Waller, Alberta Hunter, Bessie Smith, Joseph Robichaux’s New Orleans Rhythm Boys, Coleman Hawkins, Henry Red Allen & their Orchestra, Wilmoth Houdini, The Jolly Jivers {Walter Roland & Sonny Scott}, Coleman Hawkins & his Orchestra, Lester Young Quartet, and Albert Ammons & Pete Johnson.

NIGHTS AT THE TURNTABLE THE GROOVE YARD 121

George Klein presents an hour of 1950s & ‘60s recordings by Zoot Sims as a sideman with Gerry Mulligan, Jimmy Raney, Pepper Adams, and with Jack Kerouac’s poetry.

Friday, April 30 BOHEMIA AFTER DARK ANCESTOR WORSHIP 25

Episode 25, our final look at Cannonball Adderley in the late 1950s, starts with some hip cuts with Milt Jackson and Nat Adderley and concludes with the great Riverside album from 1959, The Cannonball Adderley Quintet Live at the Jazz Workshop in San Francisco, played here in its entirety.

TWISTED BLUES SOUNDS OF BLUE 290

Bob Putignano is playing music this week by Sea Level, Bobby Broom & the Organi-Sation, and John McLaughlin.

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