2021—07 July 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 * You can listen to a continuous flow of music on the 24/7 stream on our website just like a real radio station. My method is to use the Safari ISP, tune to RadioFreeAmsterdam.org and punch the 24/7 stream button. That’s all you have to do—the music will keep playing until the computer shuts down. Program milestones this month include Bob Putignano’s 300th episode of Sounds of Blue; Roger White’s 100th BluesTime International episode; and Bruce Pingree’s The Blues Show is headed for program No. 500 next month as well. The John Sinclair Radio Show logs Episode No. 920 this month. 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 sixteen years since the formation of Radio Free Amsterdam on January 1, 2005. * JULY 2021 PROGRAM GUIDE Thursday, July 1 FINGER BUSTER FACE THE MUSIC 128 arwulf arwulf is holding forth at WCBN-FM, Ann Arbor in 2016 with his weekly dose of great music featuring Luckey Roberts, James P. Johnson, Fats Waller, Willie “The Lion” Smith, The Original Memphis Five, Johnny Dodds’ Black Bottom Stompers, Fats Waller & His Rhythm, The Blue Note Jazzmen, and The Carnival Three. BORN TO BE BLUE THE GROOVE YARD 130 George Klein presents pianist Bobby Timmons as leader of several 1960s small group sessions for Riverside & Prestige, including appearances by Blue Mitchell and Wayne Shorter and by Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers. Friday, July 2 SOUL JAZZ ANCESTOR WORSHIP 34 Episode 34 is constructed from musical materials advanced to Radio Free Amsterdam by Soul Lucille of controradio-fm in Florence, Italy and my friends Wesley Race of Dallas, Texas and Dave Ranney of Kansas City, who transferred a batch of soul jazz and organ combo recordings into the digital realm for our listening and dancing pleasure on this date in 2013. DIMPLES SOUNDS OF BLUE 299 Bob Putignano is playing the Sounds of Blue this week with tunes by Donovan Leitch, The Animals, and the Allman Brothers Band. Saturday, July 3 LEARNING THE BLUES BIG CITY BLUES CRUISE 057 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 057 featuring music by Red Prysock, Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Choker Campbell, The Clovers, Faye Adams with the Joe Morris Orchestra, Jimmy Johnson, Carmen Taylor, The Coasters, The Cardinals, Eddie Taylor, The Isley Brothers, Billy Ward & The Dominos, Clyde McPhatter & Ruth Brown, and The Drifters. LOVE VIBRATION THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 302 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 Lorraine Ellison, Willie Mitchell, The Isley Brothers, Hector Rivera, The Impressions, Ashta PuthlI, The Meters, Miami, Inez Andrews, Jasper St. Company, Tommy McCoy, Grady Tate, Dennis Coffey, Joe Simon, Thelma Houston, Uniao Black, Mandrill, and The Ad Libs. Sunday, July 4 BLUES FOR TOMORROW JAZZ AT DAYBREAK 130 Leslie Keros is playing music from 2019 on Jazz at Daybreak with tunes by the Sweet Basil Trio, the Miles Davis Quintet, Horace Silver Quintet, Herlin Riley, Rebirth Brass Band, Charlie Sepulveda & the Turnaround, Greg Abate, and the East Coast All Stars. THE LAST JOURNEY OF A JAZZMAN JAZZ LUNATIQUE 335 David Kunian is paying homage to the musical greats and our personal friends who have left us this year and in years past by presenting the complete documentary recording of the funeral of legendary New Orleans pianist Lester Santiago featuring the music of Paul Barbarin & the Onward Brass Band and commentary throughout by A. Grayson Clark. This hour contains the first 3 sides of the two-disc LP released in 1965 by Nobility Records. Monday, July 5 GIMME SHELTER JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 917 Episode 917 is coming from the Cass Corridor headquarters of Radio Free Amsterdam in Detroit with a special program containing excerpts of actual radio programs of Detroit deejays Bob Rudnick, Larry Monroe, Jerry Goodwin, Dan Carlisle, Jerry Lubin, and Russ Gibb plus actualities, ads & announcements in the 1960s and ‘70s, an interview with Gary Grimshaw, plus cuts by Leonard King playing Lyman Woodard, the MC-5, Mitch Ryder & Detroit, The Rationals, and Sun Ra & His Arkestra at the Ann Arbor Blues & Jazz Festival. CIRCUMAMBULATION FLY BY NIGHT 421 Steve The Fly presents an hour of music this week by Jon Hopkins, Ian O’ Brien, Medeski, Martin & Wood, John Zorn featuring Bill Frisell, Shipibo Shamans, The Return, Alan Moore, DJ Shadow, Massive Attack, The Congoes, Blo, and Dr. John. Tuesday, July 6 UNCLOUDY DAY THE BLUES SHOW 493 Bruce Pingree is paying tribute in 2013 to the recently departed blues giant Magic Slim, Cleotha Staples of the Staple Singers, and pianist Ann Rabson. TURN THE HEAT UP RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 463 Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by Howlin’ Wolf, Shemekia Copeland, Ken Saydak, Barbara Lewis, Sherman Robertson, John Campbelljohn, Jimmy Dawkins, Johnnie B. Sanders, King Curtis, Phillip Walker & Otis Grand, Tia Carroll, and Kirk Fletcher Wednesday, July 7 GOLDEN RULE BLUESTIME INTERNATIONAL 98 Roger White is playing music this week on CJAM-FM in Windsor, Ontario by Magic Dick & J. Geils, Harpdog Brown, Annika Chambers, Chris Canas, Mary Jo Curry, Victor Wainwright & The Train, Kat Riggins, Ryan Perry, and Crystal Schwanda. DON'T YOU KNOW BLUES EDITION 62 Leslie Keros is cooking in Chicago in 2011 with great blues sides by Big Daddy Kinsey, Willie Buck, Bonnie Raitt, Ray Charles, Stephanie Trick, Eddie Harris, Rick Estrin & the Nightcats, Jimmy Smith, Joanna Connor, Deanna Bogart, Cafe R&B, Janiva Magness, Lightnin' Slim, and Johnnie Bassett. Thursday, July 8 WHY? FACE THE MUSIC 129 arwulf arwulf is holding forth at WCBN-FM, Ann Arbor in 2016 with his weekly dose of great music featuring Leon Redbone, Fats Waller, Lester Young, Johnny Guarnieri, Teddy Wilson, Eddie Lang, James P. Johnson, Pops Foster, Omer Simeon, Art Tatum, Lennie Tristano, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Roland Kirk, Johnny Dodds & Tiny Parham. HODGE PODGE THE GROOVE YARD 131 George Klein presents an hour of 1950s & ‘60s recordings by Donald Byrd & John Jenkins, Milt Buckner, Dizzy Gillespie, Sal Salvador, and Johnny Hodges with Wild Bill Davis. Friday, July 9 CHANGE OF THE CENTURY ANCESTOR WORSHIP 35 Episode 35 finds us beginning our investigation into the Ornette Coleman box set called Beauty Is A Rare Thing: The Complete Atlantic Recordings with sides cut in 1959 with Don Cherry, Charlie Haden and Billy Higgins, and originally issued in part on the album called Change Of The Century. DIMPLES SOUNDS OF BLUE 300 Bob Putignano is playing the Sounds of Blue this week with tunes by Donovan Leitch with the Jeff Beck Group, the Gil Evans Orchestra, Eric Burdon with the Brian Auger Band, The Animals, Dave Mason, and Jim Kreuger. Saturday, July 10 LET’S WORK TOGETHER BIG CITY BLUES CRUISE 058 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 058 featuring music by Red Prysock, Wilbert Harrison, B.B. King, Lightning Hopkins, T-Bone Walker, Mac Rebennack, The Crows, James Cotton, The Cadillacs, and Lowell Fulson. COMPARED TO WHAT THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 303 Lucille DJ is on the air from controradio-fm in the heart of Italy with a killer hour of soul & super heavy funk from 2016 including a guest spot by John Sinclair, with tunes by Bobby Blue Bland, Bottom & Company, Smash, Chet Baker, Roberta Flack, Funk Factory, Jamal Trice, The Bar Kays, Li’l Rascals Brass Band, James Andrews, Irma Thomas, Exit 9, Charles Earland, Sammy Ambrose, and Ray Charles & Milt Jackson. Sunday, July 11 PLUM STREET JAZZ AT DAYBREAK 131 Leslie Keros is playing music on Jazz at Daybreak with tunes by the East Coast All Stars, Chick Corea, the Roy Haynes Trio, Nat Adderley, The Scott Whitfield Jazz Orchestra East, Reuben Wilson, the Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio, Marques Carroll, Pat Martino, Eddie Vinson, and the Hampton Hawes Quartet. THE FUNERAL OF LESTER SANTIAGO (PART TWO) JAZZ LUNATIQUE 336 David Kunian is paying homage to the musical greats and our personal friends who have left us this year and in years past by presenting the complete documentary recording of the 1965 funeral of pianist Lester Santiago featuring the music of Paul Barbarin & the Onward Brass Band and commentary throughout by A. Grayson Clark. This hour contains the fourth side of the two- disc LP released in 1965 by Nobility Records, plus recordings by Cab Calloway with Chu Berry, Professor Longhair & Alfred “Uganda” Roberts, Orchestra Tipicas, Charlie Halloran & the Tropicales, Alvin “Red” Tyler, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Roy Montrell, and the Eric Dolphy Quintet. Monday, July 12 SPIRIT OF MYMYMY JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 918 Episode 918 is coming from the Cass Corridor headquarters of Radio Free Amsterdam in Detroit with the brand-new album by my guitar player from Paris, Gilles Riberolles, and an ensemble that includes New Orleans stalwarts Tom Worrell and Marc Stone.