The John Sinclair Foundation Presents
RADIO FREE AMSTERDAM 2017
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 Highway 61 Blues with Scott Barretta plus Sounds of Blue with Bob Putignano Thursdays Beyond The Groove Yard with George Klein plus Ancestor Worship with John Sinclair Fridays In The Soul Kitchen with Harry Duncan plus The Soul Lucille Show with Lucille DJ Saturdays Big City Blues Cruise with Martino D’Lorenzo plus Party Train with Linda Lexy Sundays Mood Indigo with Leslie Keros plus Jazz Lunatique with David Kunian
The long-awaited launch of the heralded new Radio Free Amsterdam website and music service of the John Sinclair Foundation at johnsinclair.us is now set for Wednesday, November 22, 2017, the anniversary of the first John Sinclair Radio Show broadcast in 2004.
The new site is now named radiofreeamsterdam.org, and the RFA Archive of all programs broadcast since 2004, formerly at radiofreeamsterdam.com, will now be located at www.johnsinclair.us as archive.radiofreeamsterdam.org
Our lineup presents great radio shows by Bruce Pingree, Cary Wolfson, Scott Barretta, George Klein, Leslie Keros, Harry Duncan, Lucille DJ, Martino D’Lorenzo, Linda Lexy, Steve The Fly, Bob Putignano, David Kunian, and our flagship program, The John Sinclair Radio Show.
You can tune in to our 24/7 stream at http://streema.com and ride the music around the clock—just like a real radio station.
NOVEMBER 2017 PROGRAM GUIDE
Wednesday, November 1 DRINKING BLUES HIGHWAY 61 BLUES 09
Scott Barretta raises a prolonged toast this week to music inspired by alcoholic spirits and the conduct resulting from serious imbibing, with a program of drinking music by Howlin’ Wolf, John Lee Hooker, Billy Gayles & the Kings of Rhythm, Billy “Red” Love, Jimmy Rogers, Big Bill Broonzy, Curly Weaver, Memphis Minnie, Merline Johnson, Washboard Sam, Al Jackson, Mr. Swing with Bobby Plater’s Orchestra, Amos Milburn, Jimmy Liggins, Milt Buckner & His Beale Street Gang, Dave Bartholomew, Tiny Grimes & His Rockin’ Highlanders, Sticks McGhee, Floyd Dixon, Big Joe Turner, and Jack McVea.
LET’S STRAIGHTEN IT OUT SOUNDS OF BLUE 113
Bob Putignano is playing music this week by the Grateful Dead, Horace Silver, Steely Dan, Otis Redding, Barbara Morrison and Latimore.
Thursday, November 2 HOTEL HAPPINESS BEYOND THE GROOVE YARD 201 George Klein presents classic Blue Note recordings by organist Jimmy Smith in the 1950s & ‘60s, accompanied by Lee Morgan, Blue Mitchell, Curtis Fuller, Ike Quebec, Stanley Turrentine, and Kenny Burrell.
FREEDOM TIME ANCESTOR WORSHIP 66
Episode 66 presents a second hour of music from the box set called Freedom, Rhythm & Sound from Soul Jazz Records with cuts from the 1960s & ’70s from Gato Barbieri & Dollar Brand, Amina Claudine Myers, The Pharaohs, Ralph Thomas, Horace Tapscott & The Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, Michael White, Roy Brooks & The Artistic Truth, Errol Parker, and Sun Ra & His Arkestra.
Friday, November 3 NERVOUS BOOGIE IN THE SOUL KITCHEN 13
This week’s episode of In The Soul Kitchen with San Francisco DJ Harry Duncan features great tunes from Junior Wells & The Aces, The Falcons, Justin Hinds & the Dominos, Tinariwen, Frankie Lee Sims, Muddy Waters, Eddie Taylor, Paul Gayten, Lee Dorsey, The Southern Sons, Ruby Johnson, Dr. Lonnie Smith, and Jeff Parker.
GREEN POWER THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 117
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 Ann Peebles, Bobby Womack, Black Ivory, Curtis Mayfield, Little Richard, Little Sister, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, the Sun Sounds Orchestra, Robert Lowe, Lloyd Parks & U Brown, Graham Central Station, Milton Wright, the Gary Bartz Ntu Troop, Mandrill, and Allen Toussaint.
Saturday, November 4 HIDEAWAY BIG CITY BLUES CRUISE 23
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 23 features an entire program of music by the great Freddie King, including performances recorded live at the 1973 Ann Arbor Blues & Jazz Festival by John Sinclair, special guest on this episode, plus three great cuts by B.B. King and Red Prysock with Martino’s opening theme.
BIG TEN INCH RECORD PARTY TRAIN 08
Detroit’s own Linda Lexy is driving the Party Train all the way from Funky D Studios in Royal Oak, where she’s playing music in Episode 8 by Tino Gross, Bull Moose Jackson & His Buffalo Bearcats, Bobby Womack, Vicki Anderson, Cedric Burnside, The Chambers Brothers, Brainstorm, Al Green, Billy Sha-Rae, Sam & Dave, Chuck Berry, Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears, Eddie Kirk, Dolly Gilmore, Booker T & The MGs, Cash McCall, Bloodstone, and Paul Stuart Davies with the original Vandellas.
Sunday, November 5 VAMPED BY A BROWNSKIN MOOD INDIGO 53
Leslie Keros is playing music this week by Ehud Asherie, the Mike Jones Trio, Rhythm Future Quartet, Chicago Jazz Philharmonic, Lenny Marcus Trio & Friends, Herlin Riley, Corey Kendrick Trio, Houston Person & Ron Carter, Tony Lustig, Gregory Porter, and Duke Ellington.
KING CHARLEMAGNE JAZZ LUNATIQUE 149
David Kunian is playing music in Episode 149 by Egg Yolk Jubilee, Clair Caffery & Carl Briselle, Shelby Lynn & Allison Moore, Joe Jackson, Steely Dan, Jim Carroll, Christian Scott, Grace Kelly, Geri Allen, the Jim Carroll Band, and the AFO Executives.
Monday, November 6 IT’S TOO FUNKY IN HERE JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 730
Episode 730 is coming from Radio Free Amsterdam headquarters in Detroit with an hour of music by James Brown digitally transferred from a cassette of my Blue Sensations 84 radio show from WDET-FM in Detroit on June 23, 1991 that featured the 4-CD box set titled Star Time, including a mix of James’s It’s Too Funky In Here with Kalamu ya Salaam’s poem “If We Don’t Make This Constant Music.”
LONELY FIRE FLY BY NIGHT 234
Steve The Fly is on fire this week with sides by Eldridge Holmes, Sly & The Family Stone, jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, the john Coltrane Quartet, and Joanna Newsome.
Tuesday, November 7 ATOMIC COCKTAIL THE BLUES SHOW 308
Bruce Pingree is playing music this week by Charles Mingus, Slim Gaillard, Toronzo Cannon, Selwyn Birchwood, Li’l Ed & The Blues Imperials, Mark Nomad, the Andy “T-Nick” Nixon Band, Larry Simon & Groove Bacteria with Eric Mingus, the Cash Box Kings, Willie King & The Liberators, the Rance Allen Group, Taj Mahal, and Keb’ Mo’.
I SMELL TROUBLE RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 277
Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by Janiva Magness, Ike & Tina Turner’s Kings Of Rhythm, Ike & Tina Turner, Bobby “Blue” Bland, Carolyn Wonderland, Killer Blues Band, Tracy Nelson, Big James & The Chicago Playboys, Jimmy Reed, Otis Taylor, Mike Bloomfield, Buddy Guy, and Bee Houston.
Wednesday, November 8 MEMPHIS BLUES AGAIN HIGHWAY 61 BLUES 10
This week Preston Lauderbach of the Stax Museum in Memphis sits in for Highway 61 host Scott Barretta with a program of stone Memphis blues from the Stax/Volt archives, including selections by Little Milton, Rufus Thomas, Gus Cannon, John Lee Hooker, Steve Cropper/Pops Staples/Albert King, Isaac Hayes, Little Sonny, Carla Thomas, Otis Redding, Mabel John, Sir Mack Rice, Deanie Parker, Johnnie Taylor, Sam & Dave, Wendy Renee, Booker T & the Mgs, and the great Albert King.
SMACK DAB IN THE MIDDLE SOUNDS OF BLUE 114
Bob Putignano is playing music in Episode 114 by The Leslie Drayton Orchestra, Barbara Morrison, Horace Silver, Danny Gatton with Joey DeFrancesco, "Papa" John DeFrancesco, and Melvin Sparks.
Thursday, November 9 ALL DAY LONG BEYOND THE GROOVE YARD 202
George Klein continues a survey of Blue Note recordings by organist Jimmy Smith, accompanied by prominent Blue Note artists such as Grant Green, Kenny Burrell, Stanley Turrentine, Lou Donaldson, and others.
NICE GUYS ANCESTOR WORSHIP 67
Music by the Art Ensemble Of Chicago this week with Paris recordings from 1969-70 issued as the film soundtrack Les Stances à Sophie and on the BYG album Nice Guys, with reedmen Joseph Jarman and Roscoe Mitchell, Lester Bowie on trumpet, Malachi Favors on bass, Don Moye at the drums, and vocalist Fontella Bass.
Friday, November 10 FUNKY WORM IN THE SOUL KITCHEN 12
This week’s episode of In The Soul Kitchen with the legendary San Francisco DJ Harry Duncan features great tunes from O.V. Wright, Jean Plum, the Ohio Players, Marva Whitney, Al Green, Andrew Hill, Greg Osby & Andrew Cyrille, Jason Moran, Courtney Pine, the Re-Birth Brass Band, Baba Mal, Alice Coltrane, and William DeVaughn.
CONCRETE RESERVATION THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 118
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 Eddie Kendricks, Leon Thomas, Syl Johnson, Charles Bradley, Little Milton, and a host of others.
Saturday, November 11 BEATNIK BEAT BIG CITY BLUES CRUISE 24
Martino D’Lorenzo is featuring guitarist Freddie King this week, recorded live at the 1973 Ann Arbor Blues & Jazz Festival by John Sinclair, special guest on this episode, and preceded by music from Red Prysock, Sil Austin with the Tiny Bradshaw Orchestra, the Cecil Young Quartet, Paul Gayten, Albert King, and Ray Charles.
INTERNATIONAL LOVER PARTY TRAIN WITH LINDA LEXY 09
Linda Lexy is driving the Party Train all the way from Funky D Studios in Royal Oak, playing music in Episode 9 by Tino Gross, Bunny Sigler, Frankie Lyman & The Teenagers, Jan Bradley, The Dramatics, Koko Taylor, the Bolton Brothers, Mary Davis, Al Wilson, People’s Choice, Lyn Collins, Bobby Rush, Ike & Tina Turner, Lillian Dupree, The Turbans, Prince, and Jimmy Bones.
Sunday, November 12 LOOKING BACK MOOD INDIGO 54
Leslie Keros is celebrating the 100th birthday of the great pianist and composer Thelonious Monk with an hour of music by Monk and tributes to the pianist by Billy Taylor, Roberta Gambellini, Eric Reed, Danilio Perez, Mulgrew Miller, and Ella Fitzgerald.
POWER OF SOUL JAZZ LUNATIQUE 150
David Kunian is playing music this week by Egg Yolk Jubilee, Public Enemy, Band of Gypsies, Husker Du, Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit, North Mississippi All Stars, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Joe Jackson, Steely Dan, Jim Carroll, Grant Hart, Carol Morgan, and Barbara Younger.
Monday, November 13 SO LONG JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 731
Episode 731 is coming from Radio Free Amsterdam headquarters in Detroit on the week after Fats Domino passed away at the age of 89 with an hour of the pianist and singer’s greatest sides for Imperial Records, produced and written with Dave Bartholomew between 1949 and 1957— 23 sides of solid New Orleans genius!
BLUE MIDNIGHT FLY BY NIGHT 235
Steve The Fly is smoking his way through a great set of music by Stevie Wonder, Funkadelic, Willie West, A Perfect Circle, The Philly Armada Orchestra, Jimi Hendrix, Betty Harris, Willie & The Sugarpoppers, Chuck Berry, Little Walter, Magic Sam, Allen Toussaint, Merry Clayton, John Coltrane, and Al Young.
Tuesday, November 14 FREEDOM HIGHWAY THE BLUES SHOW 309
Bruce Pingree is playing music in Episode 309 by Taj Mahal, Keb’ Mo’, Satan & Adam, Curtis Mayfiedl, Mighty Sam McClain, the North Mississippi All Stars, Allen Toussaint, Willie Dixon, Georgianna Creola & Aryazola Pettway, and Pharaoh Sanders.
SO MANY ROADS RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 278
Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by Sticks McGhee, Boo Boo Davis, Walter “Wolfman” Washington, Joe Louis Walker, James Brown, Otis Rush, Carolyn Wonderland, Louann Barton, Hadden Sayers, Janiva Magness, Tracy Nelson, Little Johnny Taylor, Paul Geremia, and Henry Johnson.
Wednesday, November 15 RED HOT HIGHWAY 61 BLUES 11
This week on Highway 61 Scott Barretta investigates the blues output generated by Sam Phillips at Sun Records in Memphis in the early 1950s, including classic blues and R&B recordings by Billy “The Kid” Emerson, Pat Hare, Memphis Ma Rainey, Johnny O’Neal, Earl Hooker, Sammy Lewis, Rufus Thomas, Pinetop Perkins, Roscoe Gordon, James Cotton, Little Milton, Billy Lee Riley, Little Junior Parker, Elvis Presley, Frank Frost, Willie Nix, Sleepy John Estes, Dr. Ross, and Hot Shot Love.
OUT THE GATE SOUNDS OF BLUE 115
Bob Putignano is spinning sides in Episode 115 by Papa John DeFrancesco, Keith Crossen, Tommy Castro, Danny Gatton, the Christian McBride Big Band, Larry Ridley, and If.
Thursday, November 16 DOWN THE TRACK BEYOND THE GROOVE YARD 203
George Klein presents 1950s & ‘60s recordings by The Three Sounds— Gene Harris, piano; Andrew Simpkins, bass; Bill Dowdy, drums—mostly on Blue Note Records.
ATTICA BLUES ANCESTOR WORSHIP 68
Archie Shepp is in the Ancestor Worship spotlight this week with recordings taken from the Impulse Record albums New Thing At Newport and Attica Blues, the first featuring a small band with Bobby Hutcherson on vbes and the Attica set utilizing a large ensemble with voices and a guest speaking appearance by the late great attorney William Kunstler.
Friday, November 17 COMING HOME IN THE SOUL KITCHEN 10
Harry Duncan is In The Soul Kitchen in San Francisco with tunes by the Spinners, LaBelle, the Natural Four, The Emotions, Dottie Pierson, Laura Lee, Clarence Carter, Candi Staton, Howard Tate, Paul Kelly, Tyrone Davis, Walt Weiskopf, Robbie Amin, Ornette Coleman, Alice Coltrane, and Charles Lloyd.
WARM THE POT THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 119
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 Fontella Bass, The Dramatics, O.V. Wright, Willard Burton & The Pacifiers, Leon Thomas, and plenty more.
Saturday, November 18 GIMME BACK MY WIG BIG CITY BLUES CRUISE 25
Martino D’Lorenzo is featuring music in Episode 25 by Red Prysock, Chuck Berry, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, Lonnie Mack, Jerry Lee Lewis, Magic Slim & The Teardrops, Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, Ray Sharp, Ray Smith, The Impressions, The Orchids, Johnny “Guitar” Watson, Albert Collins, Freddie King, Lou Rawls, and Buddy Guy & Junior Wells.
FUNK HAND PARTY TRAIN WITH LINDA LEXY 10
Linda Lexy is driving the Party Train all the way from Funky D Studios, where she’s playing music in Episode 10 by Tino Gross, Sugar Pie DeSanto, Andre Williams, Albert King, Betty Wright, Bettye Lavette, Black Heat, Rasputin Stash, War, Black Merda, Howling Diablos featuring Wayne Kramer, Bobo Jenkins, Bo Diddley, James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Inell Young, The Whispers, and Joe L.
Sunday, November 19 TO MONK WITH LOVE MOOD INDIGO 55
Leslie Keros is celebrating the 100th birthday of Thelonious Monk with a second hour of his music as played by Monk and as offered in dedication to the great pianist and composer by Larry Gales, Jessica Williams, Carmen MacRae, Barry Harris, and Johnny O’Neill.
WHAT’S GOING ON JAZZ LUNATIQUE 151
David Kunian is playing music this week by Egg Yolk Jubilee, Don Braden, Thelonious Monk, Bongo Joe:, Husker Du, the Patti Smith Group, Hoodoo Men, Lee Baines & The Glory Fires, and Idris Muhammad.
Monday, November 20 LET’S GO, LET’S GO, LET’S GO JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 732
Newly transferred from cassette masters, and consequently sounding a little rough, Episode 732 presents my final program of Blue Sensations on WDET-FM in Detroit on June 30, 1991 before I moved to New Orleans and took up my duties at WWOZ-FM for the next 12 years. Blue Sensations 85 is dedicated to music from Detroit and features cuts by Yusef Lateef, the Lyman Woodard Organization, Nolan Strong & The Diablos, One String Sam, Nathaniel Mayer, Singing Sammy Ward, Andre Williams, Little Willie John, John Lee Hooker, Eddie Burns, Todd Rhodes & Connie Allen, Hank Ballard & The Midnighters, Jackie Wilson, Junior Walker & The All Stars, and The Refugees From Hastings Street, plus a special guest appearance by my inspiration, mentor and successor, the great Frantic Ernie Durham, who took over my program slot at WDET the following week.
MOUNT SHASTA FLY BY NIGHT 236
Steve The Fly visits the Motor City all the way from London with this beautiful program of music by Yusef Lateef, Adam Rudolph, Marcus Belgrave, Phil Ranelin, Tribe, and John Sinclair with the Planet D Nonet.
Tuesday, November 21 YOUNGER ALL THE TIME THE BLUES SHOW 310
Bruce Pingree is playing music on his own birthday by Homeless Bob & The Living Room Gypsies, Larry Garland & Stanley Longstaff, Quintavius Willis, Taj Mahal, Watermelon Slim, Carl Martn, Rosie Mae Moore, Odetta, Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis, Tracy Nelsn, Bessie Jackson, Charlie McCoy, and Big Mama Thornton with the Muddy Waters Blues Band.
LONG TIME GONE RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 279
Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by Kilborn Alley, the Bob Margolin & Mike Sponza Band, Ruthie Foster, Harrison Kennedy/Mix&Dorp, James Cotton, Muddy Waters, the Bluesmasters with Big Al Carson, Bee Houston & His Highsteppers, Little Johnny Taylor, Elvin Bishop, and Magic Slim & The Teardrops.
Wednesday, November 22 RADIO FREE AMSTERDAM NEW WEBSITE LAUNCH JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 01
On November 22 Radio Free Amsterdam will begin broadcasting as RadioFreeAmsterdam.org with the launch of our new website at johnsinclair.us. Our first internet broadcast, The John Sinclair Radio Show 01, went out from Amsterdam on November 22, 2004, about six months before podcasting began. Radio Free Amsterdam debuted on January 1, 2005 as RadioFreeAmsterdam.com and has continued to the present through the efforts of Program Director John Sinclair and the creative and administrative contributions of Sidney Kuijer, Hank Botwinik, Steve “The Fly” Pratt, and the late Larry Hayden.
LIVING BLUES HIGHWAY 61 BLUES 12
This week on Highway 61 Scott Barretta spotlights the artists featured in the then-current issue of Living Blues magazine, published at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, playing recordings by Buddy Guy, Michael Powers, Cool John Ferguson, Cootie Stark, Little Pink Anderson, and Howard Tate.
ROCK CANDY SOUNDS OF BLUE 116
Bob Putignano is playing music in Episode 116 by If, New York Stories, Danny Gatton, and Buddy Emmons.
Thursday, November 23 THE REAL BLUES BEYOND THE GROOVE YARD 204
George Klein presents recordings by pianist Gene Harris as a leader on Concord Records with his regular band plus occasional guests
BAGS & TRANE ANCESTOR WORSHIP 69
Episode 69 begins a serial investigation of the recorded works of John Coltrane from his signing with Atlantic Records at the beginning of 1959, starting with his first Atlantic release, Bags & Trane, for which he shared billing with vibraphonist Milt Jackson accompanied by Hank Jones on piano, Percy Heath on bass, and drummer Connie Kay, recorded in New York City on January 15, 1959.
Friday, November 24 LET YOUR HAIR DOWN IN THE SOUL KITCHEN 09
This week’s episode of he award-winning In The Soul Kitchen show with the legendary San Francisco DJ Harry Duncan features great tunes by the Temptations, Chuck Carbo, James Brown, Don Covay, the Pilgrim Travelers, Bobby “Blue” Bland, Little Walter, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Richard Pryor, Robert Blair & The Violinares, Lee Dorsey, Guitar Junior, Guitar Slim, Danny Barker & the Creole Cats, Dr. John, the Fatback Band, The Spinners, and the Staple Singers.
KEEP IT UP THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 120
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 Al Green, Milton Wright, Jimmy McGriff, the Kashemere Stage Band, The Supremes, and numerous of others.
Saturday, November 25 TALK TO ME BABY BIG CITY BLUES CRUISE 26
Martino D’Lorenzo is featuring music in Episode 26 by Red Prysock, Jessie Hill, Fats Domino, Professor Longhair, Magic Slim & The Teardrops, Jimmy Rogers, Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers, Walter Brennan, Buddy Guy, Otis Rush, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elmore James, The Flamingos, Joe Williams & The Count Basie Orchestra, The Rivingtons, Little Walter, and B.B. King.
MAMA FEELGOOD PARTY TRAIN WITH LINDA LEXY 11 Linda Lexy is playing music in Episode 11 by Tino Gross, Little Emmett Sutton, Edward Hamilton & The Arabians, Johnny “Guitar” Watson, Lyn Collins, Big Ella, Lee Dorsey, Sly, Slick & Wicked, Patrice Holloway, Muddy Waters, The Bar-Kays, Prince, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Natural Bridge Bunch, The Meters, Freddie Scott, Sam Cooke, the Horse Cave Trio, and One String Sam.
Sunday, November 26 MAINSTEM MOOD INDIGO 56
Leslie Keros is mourning the passing of drummer-vocalist Grady Tate and celebrating the birth days of fellow drummers Art Blakey and Billy Higgins with tunes by Shirley Scott & Stanley Turrentine, Johnny Hodges, Jimmy Smith & Wes Montgomery, Grady Tate, Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, Carlos Vega, Lee Morgan, Dinah Washington, and Sherman Irby.
WHITE GHOST SHIVERS JAZZ LUNATIQUE 152
David Kunian is celebrating the recent birthdays of Ray Charles, Bruce Springsteen, John Coltrane, and Ani DeFranco, lamenting the recent passing of Grant Hart and Charles Bradley, and adding tunes by Egg Yolk Jubilee, Public Enemy, Living Colour, Gregory Ajib, the Shotgun Jazz Band, Clair Fieranzo & Tom McDermott, Stanton Moore & Friends, and Charlie Holleran.
Monday, November 27 BRING IT ON JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 733
Episode 733 will be coming from somewhere in the Motor City with music that will be more than appropriate to the time and place.
LET'S GO HANG OUT AT TESCO FLY BY NIGHT 237
Steve The Fly pops into the local supermarket to hear some tunes by Medeski Martin Wood & Nils Cline, Steve Noble & Alan Wilkinson, and Sun Ra & His Arkestra, capped by a few words from the late Ken Campbell.
Tuesday, November 28 BIRTHDAY BLUES THE BLUES SHOW 311
Bruce Pingree is playing blues on his own birthday by Shirley Johnson, Al Casey & Cousin Joe, Smiley Lewis, Wynonie Harris, Gatemouth Moore, Ruth Brown, Roscoe Chenier, Guitar Slim, Houston Guitar Slim, Louisiana Red with Little Victor, Hard Bargain, Paul Gayten, Roy Brown, Floyd Dixon, Lightning Slim, Alvin Robinson, Albert King, Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, and Little Walter.
GONE FOR GOOD RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 280
Here’s Cary Wolfson with a classic from the Red Rooster Lounge archives stashed at the corner of Jim & Washington Streets in a jukebox packed with records by J.B. Hutto, Guitar Shorty, Tail Dragger, Magic Sam, B.B. King, Bobby “Blue” Bland, Boz Scaggs, and Elvin Bishop.
Wednesday, November 29 EISENHOWER BLUES HIGHWAY 61 BLUES 13
Scott Barretta presents a program of idiosyncratic political blues by Andrew Tibbs, J.B. Lenoir, Memphis Slim, Homesick James, Johnny Young John Lee Hooker, Junior Wells, Cassandra Wilson, Louisiana Red, Percy Mayfield, and Willie King.
MERCY, MERCY, MERCY SOUNDS OF BLUE 117
Bob Putignano is playing music in Episode 117 by Danny Gatton, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Cannonball Adderley, Jeremy Baum, Jose Feliciano, Larry Carlton with the SWR Big Band, Hiram Bullock, Swing Out Sister, Rodney Franklin, and Charles Brown.
Thursday, November 30 OPUS DE FUNK BEYOND THE GROOVE YARD 205
George Klein presents recordings by Hammond B-3 organists Jack McDuff, Richard “Groove” Holmes, and Freddie Roach from recordings in the 1950s & ‘60s that exemplify popular soul jazz styles.
GIANT STEPS ANCESTOR WORSHIP 70
We’re continuing our investigation into the music of John Coltrane recorded for Atlantic Records during 1959-61 with a program exploring Trane’s preparations for recording his landmark Giant Steps album as documented in Disc 7 of the Atlantic Records box set The Heavyweight Champion. On April 1, 1959 Trane took Cedar Walton (piano), Paul Chambers (bass), and Lex Humphries (drums) into the Atlantic studios to work on a set of his compositions for the album, but he was evidenty dissatisfied with the results and ended up recorded the Giant Steps album with Tommy Flanagan and Arthur Taylor replacing Walton & Humphries on May 4-5, 1959. The “alternative versions” below are from April 1; the “alternate takes” are from the May sessions.
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