The John Sinclair Foundation Presents

RADIO FREE AMSTERDAM 2018

BLUES, & REEFER—KEEPING THE MUSIC ALIVE

Mondays The John Sinclair Radio Show plus Fly By Night with Steve The Fly Tuesdays The Show with Bruce Pingree plus Blues From the Red Rooster Lounge with Cary Wolfson Wednesdays Highway 61 Blues with Scott Barretta plus Blues & Roots with John Sinclair Thursdays Beyond The Groove Yard with George Klein plus Mood Indigo with Leslie Keros 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 Ancestor Worship with John Sinclair plus Jazz Lunatique with David Kunian

Sorry for the delay with this Program Guide for May, but I’ve been seriously under the weather for several weeks including the entire last week of the past month when normally my administrative work for Radio Free Amsterdam is done—editing each of 60 or 62 programs for the next month, mastering, annotating, uploading, and posting in appropriate order to our WordPress site so you can hear them in proper sequence.

I may be a week behind with this particular Program Guide but our internet broadcasting has continued uninterrupted with classic blues radio shows by Bruce Pingree, Cary Wolfson, Scott Barretta, and John Sinclair; jazz shows by George Klein, Leslie Keros, and John Sinclair; awesome soul and rhythm & blues from Bob Putignano, Lucille DJ, Martino D’Lorenzo, and Linda Lexy; and freeform radio programs from Steve The Fly, David Kunian, and our flagship program, The John Sinclair Radio Show. MAY 2018 PROGRAM GUIDE

Tuesday, May 1 BALL AND CHAIN THE BLUES SHOW 333

Bruce Pingree is playing a tribute this week to blues singers Denise LaSalle and Janis Joplin with cuts by Denise, Z.Z. Hill, Big Brother & The Holding Company, Garnett Mims & The Enchanters, Erma Franklin, Howard Tate, , and Leadbelly.

YIELD NOT TO TEMPTATION RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 302

Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by John Hammond, Jimmy Reed, Eddie Taylor, Freddie King, B.B. King, Esther Phillips, Margie Evans, Kenny Parker, Andrew “Big Voice” Odom , Bobby “Blue” Bland, Curtis Salgado & Alan Hagar, and the Gregor Hilden Organ Trio.

Wednesday, May 2 BRING IT ON HOME TO ME HIGHWAY 61 BLUES 37

Scott Barretta takes a good long look at the bluesier side of the great Clarksdale singer and producer Sam Cooke on this week’s episode of Highway 61 with a series of “live” recordings featuring Sam in full action.

SHOUT BROTHER SHOUT BLUES & ROOTS 18

Episode 18 features Trumpet Records artists Willie Love & His Three Aces, the St. Andrews Gospelaires, the Argo Singers & the Southern Sons, the Blue Jay Gospel Singers, Brother Hugh Dent, the Carolina Kings of Harmony, and Sonny Boy Williamson, plus cuts by Wally Mercer, Walter “Wolfman” Washington & The Roadmasters, James Andrews, Danny & Blue Lu Barker, Henry Butler, , Lafayette “Thing” Thomas, J.B. Lenoir, Joe Hill Louis, and Little Walter.

Thursday, May 3 DON’T MESS WITH MR. T BEYOND THE GROOVE YARD 227

George Klein presents tenor saxophonist Stanley Turrentine with Hammond B-3 organist . Stanley & Shirley were married and recorded together frequently in the 1960s. Stanley is also heard here on various Blue Note as a leader and as a sideman with Horace Parlan.

SWING TIME MOOD INDIGO 79

Leslie Keros is featured in a rebroadcast of her first episode of Mood Indigo with music by Shirley Scott & Stanley Turrentine, Lou Rawls, Melvin Sparks, , 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.

Friday, May 4 TIME AFTER TIME SOUNDS OF BLUE 139

Bob Putignano is playing music in Episode 139 by Michael Bloomfield & Al Kooper, Chicago Transit Authority, Johnnie Taylor, Joe Sample & David T. Walker, Al Kooper with Shuggie Otis, and Kimberly "KC" Allison.

SUGAR PLUM THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 143

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 Johnnie Taylor & Carla Thomas, Ernie Hines, Funk Inc., Herbie Hancock, Milton Wright, Yusef Lateef, Idris Muhammad, Wynonie Harris, Eddie Burns, Sir Mack Rice, Butterball, Billy Hawks, and The Sweet Inspirations.

Saturday, May 5 MR. HIGHWAY MAN BIG CITY BLUES CRUISE 49

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 49 features music by Red Prysock, Link Wray, Z.Z. Top, Howlin’ Wolf, Slim Harpo, B.B. King, , James Brown, Clifton Chenier, Charlie Musselwhite, and one unidentified artist in the middle.

SUPER COOL PARTY TRAIN 34

Linda Lexy is driving the Party Train all the way from Funky D Studios in , where she’s playing music in Episode 34 by Tino Gross, , The Impressions, Lee Rogers, James Brown& The JB’s, Beginning Of The End, Mark Holder & The Positives, Carrie Riley & The Fascinations, Brotherhood, Richi Corbin Trio featuring Barbara Trent, The Sisters Love, the Soul Merchants, Don Hollinger, Warren Lee, Martha & The Vandellas, Prince Charles, John Sinclair, and Howlin’ Wolf.

Sunday, May 6 BETWEEN TWO WORLDS ANCESTOR WORSHIP 92

Our celebration of the centennial continues with this program of selections from a series of albums recorded in Chicago between 1956-59, including Angels and Demons at Play (Saturn LP 407, 1956), (Saturn LP 205, 1958), and The Nubians of Plutonia (Saturn LP 406, 1958-59).

SPIRIT VESSELS JAZZ LUNATIQUE 175

David Kunian is hosting the great poet Dennis Formento reading from his new book Spirit Vessels and featuring sides by The Honeydrippers, Carlos Santana & The Isley Brothers, Orgone, Tom Waits, Aerosmith, Charlie Parker, George Lewis, and Allen Toussaint.

Monday, May 7 HEALING CHANT JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 756

Episode 756 is coming from the Radio Free Amsterdam studios in Detroit’s Cass Corridor, where I’m recovering this week from cataract surgery and paying homage to my friend, saxophonist, poet and composer Charles Neville of New Orleans’ Neville Brothers, or “Charlie the horn man” as his brother Aaron always called him, who passed away last week at the age of 79. We’ll hear music recorded with his band Diversity at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in the early 1990s, a new poem in his honor composed and recited by Don Paul, music by Roger Lewis with Kirk Joseph from a recent Charles Neville memorial at Sweet Lorraine’s in New Orleans, selections by Charles with the Harvey Diamond Quartet and the Workingman's Jazz Band, my recording of his poem “History 101” with Wayne Kramer and the Blues Scholars, and three cuts by the Neville Brothers from their Live On Planet Earth..

QUADRANGLE FLY BY NIGHT 260

Steve The Fly is playing sides this week by Jackie McLean, Fenton Robinson, , Clifford Brown, Yusef Lateef, Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie, John Zorn, Sun Ra & His Arkestra, King Tubby, Jackie Wilson, and John Lennon.

Tuesday, May 8 MORNING TRAIN THE BLUES SHOW 334

Bruce Pingree is playing music this week in honor of the long departed bluesmen Leadbelly and Blind Willie Johnson, plus cuts by Curtis Salgado & Alan Hager, Tinsley Ellis, Catfish Keith, and Afrissippi.

TEENAGE BEAT RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 303

Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by Kim Wilson, the Original Blues Brothers Band, Sean Costello, Taj Mahal, Hollywood Blue Flames, Jimmy Reed , Z.Z. Hill, Preston Shannon, Kenny Parker, Mud Morganfield, Otis Grand, Mr. Sipp, and Kenny “Blue” Ray.

Wednesday, May 9 LIGHTNING STOMP HIGHWAY 61 BLUES 38

Highway 61 takes us to this week with a program of music and commentary by the great Lightning Hopkins including an interview segment with Sam Charters and songs by Lightning Hopkins, Lightning & Thunder, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, and Big Joe Williams.

POISON IVY BLUES & ROOTS 19

Out of the Vintage Radio Vaults at Radio Free Amsterdam comes this special episode of Blues & Roots with John Sinclair from WWOZ-FM in New Orleans on January 16, 2000 with music by B.B. King, T-Bone Walker, Amos Milburn, Little Esther & the Orchestra, Willie Mabon, Ruth Brown, Clyde McPhatter & the Drifters, , Ray Charles, Johnny “Guitar” Watson, , Buddy Guy, , Jimmy Reed, and Little Walter.

Thursday, May 10 STOLEN SWEETS BEYOND THE GROOVE YARD 228

George Klein continues a focus on husband-and-wife team Shirley Scott and Stanley Turrentine, with an emphasis on several albums on Prestige under Shirley’s name. She is also heard with guitarist and vibraphonist Lem Winchester.

GOOD GROOVE MOOD INDIGO 80

Leslie Keros is back with a rebroadcast of her second episode in this series featuring John Pizzarelli, Richard “Groove” Holmes, Johnnie Bassett, Ben Sidran, Arthur Migliazza, Dr. John & Donald Harrison, Davell Crawford, LaVern Baker, Baby Face Willette, Scott Hamilton, and Roy Hargrove.

Friday, May 11 SWEET REVIVAL SOUNDS OF BLUE 140

Bob Putignano is playing more music in Episode 140 by The Crusaders, Johnnie Taylor, Al Kooper & Shuggie Otis, Chicago Transit Authority, and Jefferson Airplane.

ANTS IN MY PANTS THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 144

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 James Brown, Kitty White, Ike & Tina Turner, Stevie Wonder, The Ohio Players, and a host of others.

Saturday, May 12 WALK ON GILDED SPLINTERS BIG CITY BLUES CRUISE 50

Martino D’Lorenzo features a long interview with Dr. John in Episode 50, interspersed with selections by the Doctor, Robert Parker, and The Party Boys.

CALL THE SHERIFF PARTY TRAIN 35

Linda Lexy is driving the Party Train all the way from Funky D Studios in Detroit, where she’s playing music in Episode 35 by Tino Gross, Dyke & The Blazers, Senator Jones, Rosie Lopez, The Jewels, Billy Larkin & The Delegates, The Mighty Dogcatchers, Sam Baker, Betty Harris, Curtis Mayfield, Pamoja, Wally Coco, The Dominoes, Barbara Mason, Sam & Dave, Ortheia Barnes, Sunny & The Sunglows, the Royal Blackbirds, and the Howling Diablos.

Sunday, May 13 PLUTONIAN NIGHTS ANCESTOR WORSHIP 93

Our third installment of the early works of Sun Ra (1956-1965) in celebration of the composer’s 100th birthday in 2015 features music from the albums The Nubians of Plutonia (Saturn LP 406, 1958-59), (Saturn LP 203, 1960), The Futuristic Sounds Of Sun Ra (Savoy, 1961), Bad & Beautiful (Saturn LP, 1961), and (Saturn LP 206, 1964).

PETITION TO ELEGUA JAZZ LUNATIQUE 176

David Kunian is entertaining the great New Orleans poet and cultural activist Jose Torres Tama and his Taco Truck Theater and playing sides by Allen Toussaint, Melody Gardeaux, plus an observation of the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with music by & his ensemble and a closing number from .

Monday, May 14 GIVE IT UP JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 757

Episode 757 will be coming from the Radio Free Amsterdam studios in Detroit’s Cass Corridor while I’m in between eye surgeries with music yet to be selected.

CIRCUMAMBULATION FLY BY NIGHT 261

Steve The Fly is playing sides this week by Jackie McLean, Ella Fitzgerald, Charles Mingus, Elmore James, , Roland Kirk, Lalo Schifrin, Medeski, Martin & Wood with Nels Cline, John Zorn featuring Bill Frissell, and Charlie Parker.

Tuesday, May 15 LIVE AND LET LIVE THE BLUES SHOW 335

Bruce Pingree is playing music this week in tribute to the recently departed Terry Evans by Evans alone, with , and with & .

FUNNY STUFF RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 304

Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by Marcia Ball, Frankie Lee, Larry Davis, Gary Clark Jr., Eddie Cotton, Kim Wilson, Sherman Robertson, John-Alex Mason, Johnny Winter, Chris English Band, Billy Price, and Kenny “Blue” Ray.

Wednesday, May 16 ROCKET 88 HIGHWAY 61 BLUES 39

Episode 39 of Highway 61 with Scott Barretta investigates the music of Mississippi native Ike Turner & his Kings of Rhythm, featuring vocalists Jackie Brenston, Johnny O’Neal, Billy “The Kid” Emerson, Dennis Binder, Lonnie “The Cat” Cation, Billy Gales, The Gardenias, Clayton Love, Tommy Hodges, Betty Everett, and the great Otis Rush on a thrilling series of 78s and 45s from Sun, Modern, King, Federal, and Cobra Records.

JAM UP BLUES & ROOTS 20

Episode 20 was recorded at WWOZ-FM, New Orleans on August 29, 1999 on John Sinclair’s Blues & Roots show with music from the great New Orleans drummer, composer & producer Earl Palmer playing with Shirley & Lee, Amos Milburn, Lee Allen, Smiley Lewis, Roy Montrell, and Tommy Ridgley, plus a birthday salute to Charlie Parker, born this day in 1920, with recordings featuring Bird by the Jay McShann Orchestra, Slim Gaillard, and Tiny Grimes, with Eddie Jefferson closing the show with his immortal lyrics to “Parker’s Mood.”

Thursday, May 17 QUE PASA BEYOND THE GROOVE YARD 229

George Klein presents a survey of Latin & Afro-Caribbean jazz recorded on the Blue Note label from the 1940s through the ‘60s, including bands led by Tadd Dameron, James Moody, Horace Silver, Kenny Dorham, Sabu Martinez, , Ike Quebec, Lee Morgan, Grant Green, and Jackie McLean.

GROOVE BLUES MOOD INDIGO 81

Leslie Keros is spinning some soulful jazz by Sonny Stitt, Steve Heckman Quintet, Andre Previn, Tina Brooks, Martin Sasse Trio, Don Stille, Bud Shank & Bill Mays, and Louie Bellson's Magic 7, plus a salute to B.B. King in this rebroadcast of her third Mood Indigo episode.

Friday, May 18 COME AND GET IT SOUNDS OF BLUE 141

Bob Putignano is commemorating the birthdays of John Handy, Al Kooper, Tina Turner, Bobby “Blue” Bland, and Irma Thomas this week.

TAKE CARE OF BUSINESS THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 145

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 Nina Simone, Arthur Alexander, James “Big Sambo” Young, Timmy Thomas, Marlena Shaw, and a host of others. Saturday, May 19 LONG DISTANCE LOVE BIG CITY BLUES CRUISE 51

Martino D’Lorenzo is playing the blues from behind the wheel of the Big City Blues Cruise bus, spinning one of his classic modern radio programs from the 1980s originally aired on WEMU-FM in Ypsilanti MI featuring the first album by the Butler Twins on Blues Factory Records and several conversations with Clarence & Curtis Butler and Blues Factory head Steve Sanchez plus cuts from the album and a live performance by the Twins in the WEMU studios.

SMELL THE FUNK PARTY TRAIN 36

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 by Tino Gross, The Fabulous Peps, The Sherrys, Priscilla Page, The Main Ingredient, Carolyn Franklin, Bobby Dee, Jo Armstead, The Inner Drive, Jeanette Willliams, The Energetics, Marvin Holmes & The Uptights, the Dee Felice Trio, , Marvin Gaye, Yvonne Fair, , Jimmie Bones, and Andre Williams.

Sunday, May 20 HELIOCENTRIC ANCESTOR WORSHIP 94

This week’s episode of music from Sun Ra & His Arkestra in celebration of the composer’s 100th birthday presents the elongated title track of the album Other Planes of There (Saturn LP 206, 1964) and music from Ra’s breakthrough album with the public, The Heliocentric Worlds Of Sun Ra, Volume 1 (ESP-Disk 1014, 1965).

WITH (EXIT) JAZZ LUNATIQUE 177 David Kunian is paying homage to the recently departed pianist and composer with an hour of his music from the 1950s and ‘60s in the company of Jimmy Lyons, , Sunny Murray & others.

Monday, May 21 COMING RIGHT UP JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 758

Episode 758 will be coming from the Radio Free Amsterdam studios in Detroit’s Cass Corridor with a program of music yet to be determined.

FLIGHT TO MARS FLY BY NIGHT 262

Steve The Fly is playing sides this week by John Lee Hooker, Clifford Brown, Milt Jackson & John Coltrane, Sonny Boy Williamson, Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus, , King Tubby, Sun Ra & His Arkestra, and the Matt Wilson Quartet.

Tuesday, May 22 MIDNIGHT IN MEMPHIS THE BLUES SHOW 336

Bruce Pingree is playing music this week in honor of the recently departed Memphis bluesman Preston Shannon, plus cuts by Hans Theesink, Ry Cooder & the Chicken Skin Band, , and Lloyd Fair.

FIRE AND BRIMSTONE RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 305

Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by Link Wray, O.V. Wright, Tab Benoit with Chubby Carrier, Marcia Ball, James Harman, Jimi Hendrix, Sue Foley with Jimmie Vaughan, Dave Thompson, Homesick James, Kim Wilson, Mollie O’Brien, Koko Taylor, and Kenny “Blue” Ray.

Wednesday, May 23 SHAKE ’EM ON DOWN HIGHWAY 61 BLUES 40

Scott Barretta is featuring music this week from North Mississippi Hill Country blues artists, with Mississippi Fred McDowell, R.L. Burnside, Junior Kimbrough & the Soul Blues Boys, David Kimbrough, Duane Burnside, Sharde Thomas & the Rising Star Fife & Drum Band, Afrissippi, T-Model Ford, Robert “Wolfman” Balfour, Kenny Brown, Alvin “Youngblood” Hart, and Bobby Rush—much of it recorded at the North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic at Potts Camp outside of Oxford, Mississippi.

TRA LA LA BLUES & ROOTS 21

Episode 21 was recorded at WWOZ-FM, New Orleans on August 29, 1999 on John Sinclair’s Blues & Roots show and augmented with selections added in Amsterdam in 2010, with music from Tommy Ridgley, , Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, Church Street, Huey “Piano” Smith & The Clowns, Bobby Marchan, Earl King, Joe & Ann, and Alvin “Red” Tyler.

Thursday, May 24 RECORDA ME BEYOND THE GROOVE YARD 230

George Klein continues a survey of Latin & Afro-Caribbean jazz recorded on the Blue Note label from the 1960s to more recent examples, including bands led by Walter Davis Jr., Horace Parlan, Jackie McLean, Chucho Valdes, Charles Lloyd, Jane Bunnett & the Spirits of Havana, and Herbie Hancock with Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson, Bobby Hutcherson, & Tony Williams.

MESSY BUT GOOD MOOD INDIGO 82

Leslie Keros is rebroadcasting Episode 4 of this series with another hour of soulful jazz by Rhoda Scott, Louis Smith, Stanley Cowell, Poncho Sanchez, David Torkanowsky, Brother Jack McDuff, George Cables, and Bobby Broom, plus a second hour of her birthday salute to B.B. King.

Friday, May 25 DON’T FIGHT IT SOUNDS OF BLUE 142

Bob Putignano is playing music in Episode 142 by Irma Thomas, Ike & Tina Turner, , Gary Wright with King Curtis, and Gary Wright with George Harrison.

MORE AND MORE THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 146

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 Kool & The Gang, The Impressions, Mike James Kirkland, Doris Troy, Odetta, , and a host of others.

Saturday, May 26 GOOFING OFF BIG CITY BLUES CRUISE 52

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 52 features Ann Arbor harmonica star Steve Nardella as guest deejay and music by Red Prysock, Lightning Hopkins, John Lee Hooker, T-Bone Walker, Illinois Jacquet, the Gene Krupa Orchestra with Anita O’Day, Count Basie & His Orchestra with Jimmy Rushing, the Maxwell Davis Orchestra, Van “Piano Man” Walls, , Buddy & Ella Johnson, James Brown, and John Nicholas & the Rhythm Rockers.

PUSH AND SHOVE PARTY TRAIN 37

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 by Tino Gross, the Li’l Soul Brothers, The Poets, Ted Taylor, Dave Hamilton Band, Little Beaver, Cherry Fog, Cheryl Dorsey, Eddie Bo & Inez Cheatham, The Commodores, James Harris & The Flaming Hearts of Rhythm, Willie Wiley, Black Nasty, Rosie Lopez, Bobby Moore & The Rhythm Aces, Brenda & The Tabulations, SueAnn Jones, and John Sinclair & His Blues Scholars.

Sunday, May 27 THE MAGIC CITY ANCESTOR WORSHIP 95

This week’s episode of Ancestor Worship presents your host’s most favorite Arkestra creations, from the ESP-Disk Heliocentric Worlds Of Sun Ra, Volume 2 and the Saturn Records release The Maic City, both from 1966. These recordings represent the Arkestra at its first full peak and it gives me great pleasure to offer them here.

SILENT TONGUES JAZZ LUNATIQUE 178

David Kunian is honoring the life & music of the great Cecil Taylor with another hour of his genius recordings including selections from Unit Structures and Silent Tongues.

Monday, May 28 FEELING FREAKY JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 759

Episode 759 is coming once again from the Radio Free Amsterdam studios in Detroit’s Cass Corridor with more music yet to be selected from the vast archives of the producer.

I SEE WITH MY THIRD EYE FLY BY NIGHT 263

Steve The Fly is playing sides in Episode 263 by Clifford Brown, Sonny Rollins, Medeski, Martin & Wood with Nels Cline, King Tubby, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Elle Fitzgerald, Jackie McLean, and John Sinclair with & Steve Fly.

Tuesday, May 29 HELL IN A HANDBASKET THE BLUES SHOW 337

Bruce Pingree is playing in Episode 337 by Joiners Five Trumpets, Walter Trout, Curtis Salgado & Alan Hager, Tinsley Ellis, Tommy Castro & The Pain Killers, Cash Box Kings, Preston Shannon, Barry Goldberg & Harvey Mandel, Catfish Keith, Afrissippi, and Ali Farka Toure.

BLUES WITH A FEELING RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 306

Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by B.B. King, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Mike Bloomfield, Al Kooper, the Ford Blues Band, T-Bone Walker, plus an interview with Mike Bloomfield.

Wednesday, May 30 BOOGIE CHILLEN HIGHWAY 61 BLUES 41

Highway 61 takes us to Clarksdale, Mississippi, Detroit, Michigan and Oakland, California in Episode 41 to investigate the works of the great John Lee Hooker from the late 1940s to the 1990s with commentary by Scott Barretta.

FESTIVAL BLUES BLUES & ROOTS 22

Episode 22 is featuring recordings from his personal archives produced by John Sinclair at the Ann Arbor Blues & Jazz Festival and other Detroit- area venues, including cuts by , The Rockets, Mister Bo, , Roosevelt Sykes, Victoria Spivey, Eddie Taylor, Mojo Boogie Band, John Sinclair & His Blues Scholars, , Eddie Burns, and the Charles Mingus Jazz Workshop with George Adams and Don Pullen.

Thursday, May 31 AFRO-BOSSA BEYOND THE GROOVE YARD 231

George Klein presents music showing that while jazz began in the U.S.A., it has flourished around the world. Selections include tunes by Gabor Szabo, Duke Ellington, Andy Narell, Dave Brubeck, Art Ensemble of Chicago, the Joe Harriott-John Mayer Double Quartet, Cal Tjader, Steve Turre, and Chris Collins.

IF YOU LIVE MOOD INDIGO 83

Leslie Keros is remembering bassist Bob Cranshaw and pianists & vocalists Mose Allison and Leon Russell with music from their recordings with Sonny Rollins, Sonny Red, Sonny Criss, Horace Silver, Stanley Turrentine, and those headed by Mose Allison.

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