The John Sinclair Foundation Presents RADIO FREE AMSTERDAM 2020 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
Radio Free Amsterdam airs two hours of original programming every day and offers a continuous flow of music at the 24/7 stream on our website, so I advise you to do as I do and tune in to the stream where you can hear hour after hour of our unique programming on end.
This month the John Sinclair Radio Show features two more tributes to Charlie “Yardbird” Parker in celebration of his 100th birthday, plus a special program featuring Robert Jr. Whitall & Sugar Mae Owens of Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine talking with guitarist Elvin Bishop and playing music from his new 100 Years of Blues album with Charlie Musselwhite.
And please join me in congratulating and thanking deejays Leslie Keros and George Klein for contributing their 100th episode of Jazz At Daybreak and The Groove Yard, respectively, to Radio Free Amsterdam. You should be reminded at this juncture that all of our programmers and production staff contribute all their work to this important project of the John Sinclair Foundation, offered free to the public throughout the universe for the past fifteen years.
NOVEMBER 2020 PROGRAM GUIDE
Sunday, November 1 AFTER THE RAIN JAZZ AT DAYBREAK 97
Leslie Keros is playing music this week by Ray Charles, Christian McBride Big Band, J.R. Monterose, John Coltrane, Harold Danko, Markus Rutz, Posi-tone Swingtet, Lou Rawls with Les McCann, Les McCann & Eddie Harris, Ray Charles, and Jimmy Smith.
SWINGMATISM JAZZ LUNATIQUE 301
David Kunian is playing music in tribute to the great Charlie Parker and in celebration of Bird’s 100th birthday, from his early recordings with the Jay McShann Orchestra, his early small group dates with Dizzy Gillespie, and his first session as a leader for Savoy Records in 1945.
Monday, November 2 RAWER THAN RAW JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 883
Episode 883 is coming once more from Radio Free Amsterdam’s Detroit headquarters in the Cass Corridor where I’m featuring the music and wisdom of the great bluesman Bobby Rush, playing sides from his new album Rawer Than Raw interspersed with segments of his substantial conversation with Robert Jr. Whitall & Sugar Mae Owens of Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine.
EASY LIVING FLY BY NIGHT 386
Steve The Fly is on the cool and deadly side of classic jazz cuts from the dusty archives, mixed and selected on the fly for a rainy day. This is music to relax and think to—slices from giants John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Sonny Rollins, Eddie Jefferson, Sun Ra, The Meters, Kenny Burrell, Yusef Lateef, Salah Ragab, and The Modern Jazz Quartet. All cuts from vinyl.
Tuesday, November 3 WALK RIGHT IN THE BLUES SHOW 459
Bruce Pingree is coming all the way from WUNH-FM in New Hampshire in 2012 with a program of blues & gospel music this week by Nathan Frazier & Frank Patterson, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Gus Cannon, Cannon’s Jug Stompers, Joe Thomson, Mississippi Sheiks, The Georgia Cotton Pickers, Lonnie Young, Robert Johnson, Sunnyland Slim, and Bobby King & Terry Evans.
YOU SHOOK ME RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 429
Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by Howlin’ Wolf, Little Walter, Otis Rush, Buster Brown, Muddy Waters, Erma Franklin, Little Willie John, Otis Redding, Freddie King, Charles Brown, Irma Thomas, and T-Bone Walker.
Wednesday, November 4 TIMES IS HARD BLUESTIME INTERNATIONAL 63
Episode 63 of BluesTime International with Roger White of Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine has music by Magic Dick & J. Geils, Link Wray & His Raymen, Robert Gordon, Doug Deming & The Jeweltones, Deak Harp, James Cotton, and the BackTrack Blues Band.
SOUL OF A MAN BLUES EDITION 27
Leslie Keros with a program of great blues from 2012 by Big Daddy Kinsey, Etta Jones, Bobby Jones featuring the Mannish Boys, Eddie Taylor, Deanna Bogart. Jimmy Burns Band, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Mel Brown, B.B. King, Duke Robillard, Jimmy Witherspoon, Billy C. Wirtz, Sunnyland Slim, Robert Lockwood, Jimmy Anderson, and Lazy Lester.
Thursday, November 5 CAMPAIGNS, CALUMNIES & NATIONAL ELECTIONS FACE THE MUSIC 95
arwulf arwulf is holding forth at WCBN-FM, Ann Arbor with his weekly dose of great music featuring a special free-form style program centered on campaigns, calumnies & national elections, with selections from Martin Mull, Lord Buckley, Fats Waller, Leadbelly, Sunnyland Slim, John Lee Hooker, Bessie Smith, Eric Burdon & War, Abbey Lincoln & Max Roach, the John Coltrane Quartet, Jayne Cortez & the Firespitters, John Wayne, William S. Burroughs, Eric Salzman, the Andre Previn Trio, and the Duke Ellington-Charles Mingus-Max Roach trio.
“This land is no man’s land. This land you walk on is no man’s land. And you know it’s only your buryin’ ground. And this world don’t belong to no one man. You’re living on borrowed time. You may have money and everything, you may own land, but you got to leave it all behind. This land you walk on—you’re walkin’ on your buryin’ ground. We all are. Everybody fightin’ over this land—all over the world—this land is your buryin’ ground. You oughta be ashamed to be fightin’ over your buryin’ ground. This land is no man’s land.”
TOW-AWAY ZONE THE GROOVE YARD 97
George Klein presents an hour of 1950s & ‘60s recordings by Grant Green with Yusef Lateef & Jack McDuff, Phineas Newborn Jr, the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra, Frank Morgan, and John Gilmore with Clifford Jordan.
Friday, November 6 CONFIRMATION ANCESTOR WORSHIP 01
The initial episode of Ancestor Worship from 2012 examines the recordings of Charlie Parker recorded by Norman Granz for the Norgran, Clef, Mercury and Verve labels in the first half of the 1950s, featuring Bird with Miles Davis, Kenny Dorham, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Jazz at the Philharmonic and a host of modern jazz pioneers. Ancestor Worship revives a program title introduced by John Sinclair at WCBN-FM in Ann Arbor in 1976.
CUP FULL OF DREAMS SOUNDS OF BLUE 266
Bob Putignano is playing music this week by the Jeff Beck Group, Stanley Clarke & Friends, Sugar Cane Harris, David K. Mathews & Alex Ligertwood, Eumir Deodato, and Lee Morgan
Saturday, November 7 START YOUR BUICKS BIG CITY BLUES CRUISE 023
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 023 from 1982 featuring music by Red Prysock, Billy Gayles, Freddie King, Buddy Guy, Big Jay McNeely, The Turbans, The Silhouettes, The Cadets, Chuck Berry, John Lee Hooker, Sonny Boy Williamson, Elmore James, Andre Williams, The Blues Brothers, and Albert King.
RIDE, SALLY, RIDE THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 270
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 Flirtations, The Moments, Faith, Hope & Charity, Vivian Reed, Joe Simon, First Choice, Mike James Kirkland, Smokey Robinson, Dennis Coffey, The Brothers Groove, Candy Johnson, Otis Spann, Mel Brown, Rose Royce, C.J. & Co, James Brown, Soul Angels, and Black Heat.
Sunday, November 8 THE HUNT IS ON JAZZ AT DAYBREAK 98
Leslie Keros is playing music this week by Frank Catalano, Tardo Hammer, Conte Candoli, Eddie Harris, Ellis Marsalis, the Chicago Soul Jazz Collective, Percy Mayfield, McCoy Tyner, the Bob Mintzer Big Band, and Isaiah J. Thompson.
PRESSURE DROP JAZZ LUNATIQUE 302
David Kunian is playing music this week by Egg Yolk Jubilee, Public Enemy, Sonny Rollins, Justin Townes Earle, Big Star, Sly & The Family Stone, Toots & The Maytals, The Pixies, Husker Du, Joel Ross with Emmanuel Wilkins, Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis & Johnny Griffin, and Charlie Parker.
Monday, November 9 K.C. BLUES JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 884
Episode 884 is coming from the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts where I’m featuring a fourth hour of music from Charlie Parker in honor of the 100th anniversary of his birth on August 29, 1920 in Kansas City. This hour features music Bird recorded for Norman Granz releases on the Norgran, Mercury & Verve labels in the early 1950s prior to Bird’s passing at the age of 34 on March 12, 1955.
SUN RA ON WAX FLY BY NIGHT 387
Steve The Fly is taking a deep dive into the outer limits of Sun Ra and his various ensembles. Mixed on the fly from a selection of vinyl records released on Art Yard and Strutt. Special thanks to Peter Dennet and John Sinclair for hooking up some of these beauties. Apologies for the pops, crackles and skips. Sun Ra “on the other side of time” plus UNKLE: The Time Has Come.
Tuesday, November 10 DANGER ZONE THE BLUES SHOW 460
Bruce Pingree is coming from WUNH-FM in New Hampshire in 2012 with a program of blues & gospel music this week by Freddie King, Little Milton & John Sinclair, Johnny Adams, Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, Charles Brown, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Earl Hooker, Professor Longhair, Dr. John, Snooks Eaglin, Fats Domino, Paul Geremia, and 101 Runners with Big Chief Monk Boudreaux.
SURE AS SIN RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 430
Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by John Lee Hooker, Ron Thompson, Deitra Farr, Ray Charles, Little Charlie & The Nightcats, Mary Lane, Larry Garner, Laura Lee, Eddie Vaan Shaw, Eric Clapton, Kerri Powers, and the Modern Jazz Quartet.
Wednesday, November 11 BLUE LIGHT BOOGIE BLUESTIME INTERNATIONAL 64
Episode 64 of BluesTime International with Roger White of Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine has music by Magic Dick & J. Geils, John Sinclair, Thornetta Davis, Pat Smilie, Tosha Owens, Kenny Parker, Eliza Neals, Doenchild Blues Band, Harpdog Brown, the Backtrack Blues Band, J.W. Jones, Crystal Shawanda, Sugar Brown, and Little Walter.
THE MAN YOU NEED BLUES EDITION 28
Leslie Keros spinning from 2013 honors the memory of the recently departed Magic Slim with an hour of music by the great Mississippi guitarist and his band, The Teardrops, including a series of cuts from the multi-disc collection recorded “live” at the Zoo Bar in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Thursday, November 12 BOOTIN' AND SWINGIN’ FACE THE MUSIC 96
arwulf arwulf is holding forth at WCBN-FM, Ann Arbor with his weekly dose of great music featuring Sidney Bechet & his New Orleans Feetwarmers, Sam Morgan’s Jazz Band, Frankie Trumbauer & his Orchestra, the Bud Freeman Trio, Coleman Hawkins & his All Star Jam Band, the Alix Combelle Trio, Johnny Hodges & his Orchestra, Gene “Honeybear” Sedric & his Orchestra, Leon “Chu” Berry with Teddy Wilson & his Orchestra, Lester Young, Herschel Evans with Count Basie & his Orchestra, Ben Webster with Duke Ellington & his Orchestra, Lester Young Septet, Charlie Parker with Sir Charles Thompson’s All Stars, the Ike Quebec All-Stars, Don Byas with Dizzy Gillespie’s Sextet, Gene Ammons with Albert Ammons, and Leo Parker with Illinois Jacquet.
COOKIN’ THE BLUES THE GROOVE YARD 98
George Klein presents the 1950s Verve recordings of clarinetist Buddy DeFramco with pianist Sonny Clark present throughout and guitarist Tal Farlow joining in on the last two tracks.
Friday, November 13 SERPENT'S TOOTH ANCESTOR WORSHIP 02
The second edition of the Ancestor Worship program from 2012 features early recordings by Miles Davis for Blue Note and Prestige Records in the early 1950s, including sides with Jimmy Heath, a very young Jackie McLean, Sonny Rollins, and Charlie Parker on tenor saxophone.
JOIN THE BAND SOUNDS OF BLUE 267
Bob Putignano is playing music this week by Eumir Deodato, Chico Hamilton, Little Feat, and Lisa Mills.
Saturday, November 14 THE BEAT PATCH BIG CITY BLUES CRUISE 024
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 024 from 1982 and 1985 featuring music by Red Prysock, the Todd Rhodes Orchestra, John Lee Hooker, the Richard Brothers with Boogie Woogie Red, Peter Debree & The Wanderers, Andre Williams, Eddie “Guitar” Burns, Jackie Wilson, John Lee Hooker, Howling Wolf, Little Milton, Elmore James, The Ventures, Eric Clapton with the John Mayall & the Blues Breakers, George Thorogood, and an unidentified artist. TRIGGER HAPPY PEOPLE THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 271
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 Ben Aiken, Norma Jenkins, Billy Preston, Stevie Wonder, The Dramatics, The 5th Dimension, Band Black Rio, Ecstasy, Passion & Pain, War, Barbara Mason, Dave McMurray, The Contours, Brenda Holloway, Caesar Frazier, The Futures, The 3 Pieces, and Syl Johnson.
Sunday, November 15 RED HOT PEPPER JAZZ AT DAYBREAK 99
Leslie Keros is playing music this week by Isaiah J. Thompson, Peter Bernstein, Jelly Roll Morton, Wynton Marsalis, Les McCann, Eddie Harris Trio, Jackie McLean, Paul Chambers, and Dexter Gordon. . ATOMIC DOG JAZZ LUNATIQUE 303
David Kunian is playing music this week by Egg Yolk Jubilee, David McMurray, The BeeGees, Teddy Pendergrass, Perez Prado, Soul Coughing, The B-52s, Clarence Carter, Prince, Yvonne Ellman, Trixie Whitley, Nth To The Power, James Booker, Fela, and Albert Ayler.
Monday, November 16 HOT HOUSE JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 885
Episode 885 is coming once again from the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts where I’m featuring a fifth and final hour of music from Charlie Parker in honor of the 100th aniversary of his birth in Kansas City on August 29, 1920. This hour features music Bird recorded for Norman Granz releases on the Norgran, Mercury & Verve labels in the first half of the 1950s, and several cuts from what’s called “The Greatest Jazz Concert of All Time” at Massey Hall in Toronto with Bird, Dizzy, Bud Powell, Mingus & Max Roach on May 15, 1953. Bird passed away at the age of 34 just two years later, on March 12, 1955. Bird lives!
NIGHT TIME IS THE RIGHT TIME BLUES EDITION 29
Leslie Keros is playing music this week from 2012 with selections by Dave Specter & the Bluebirds, Ray Charles, Jimmy Reed, Muddy Waters, Albert King, Leadbelly, Otis Spann, Sonny Boy Williamson, John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, Koko Taylor, Howlin' Wolf, Barrelhouse Chuck, Marcia Ball, and Ella Fitzgerald & Joe Pass.
GIL WEED FLY BY NIGHT 388
Steve The Fly is out at night again in 2013 with this program of selections by Billy Larkin, Gil Evans, Mississippi John Hurt, Julia Lee, MC-5, Garaj Mahal, Robert Anton Wilson, Shipibo Ceremony, Sun Ra, Mezz Mezzrow, Leon Gardner, Buddy Rich, Charlie Parker Quintet, Cab Calloway & His Orchestra, and Kenny Dorham.
Tuesday, November 17 PROMISED LAND THE BLUES SHOW 461
Bruce Pingree celebrates the birthday of two great Americans— Chuck Berry and Rev. Martin Luther King—with a choice selection of Chuck Berry classics, a song by the Staples Singers and a speech by Dr. King.
BIG FINE DADDY RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 431
Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by Sonny Boy Williamson, Otis Rush, Duke Robillard, Jimmy Wilson, GA-20, Ann Peebles, Michael Burks, Little Charlie & The Nightcats, Snooky Pryor, Gary Moore, Keef Hartley Band, Savoy Brown, Lloyd Jones, Lavay Smith, and Chuck Berry.
Wednesday, November 18 DAYS OF OLD BLUESTIME INTERNATIONAL 65
Episode 65 of BluesTime International with Roger White of Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine has music by Magic Dick & J. Geils, Dawn Tyler Watson, Chris Canas, Downriver Dan, Harmonica Shah, Jack DeKeyzer, Laura Rain & the Caesars, Willie Mabon, Henry Gray & Morris Pejoe, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Sonny Boy Williamson, Little Walter, Magic Slim & The Teardrops, Luther Allison, and B.B. King.
Thursday, November 19 TWO LEFT FEET FACE THE MUSIC 97
arwulf arwulf is holding forth at WCBN-FM, Ann Arbor with his weekly dose of great music featuring Frankie Trumbauer with the Mound City Blue Blowers, Jack Washington with Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra, the Coleman Hawkins Trio, the Bud Freeman Trio, Chu Berry’s Little Jazz Ensemble, Julian Dash with Erskine Hawkins & his Orchestra, Sidney Bechet’s New Orleans Feetwarmers, Charlie Parker with Jay McShann’s Orchestra, the Lester Young Quartet, Earl Bostic, Don Byas, Ike Quebec & Ben Webster with Hot Lips Page & his Band, Coleman Hawkins & his Sax Ensemble, the Ben Webster Quartet, the Carl Wolfe Band, Vince Giordano with Dick Hyman & Tom Pletcher, Bill Miles with Wild Bill Davison & his Commodores, Gene Ammons with Albert Ammons’ Rhythm Kings, Buddy Tate, and Illinois Jacquet.
TEMPUS FUGIT THE GROOVE YARD 99
George Klein presents a memorial tribute to the recently departed drummer and bandleader Art Blakey with an hour of music by Art performing with Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, and Horace Silver and his own quintet with Horace Silver, Clifford Brown and Lou Donaldson.
Friday, November 20 DIG ANCESTOR WORSHIP 03
John Sinclair visits two important Miles Davis recording sessions for Prestige Records from the early 1950s: a sextet date on October 5, 1951 with the youngsters Sonny Rollins on tenor saxophone and Jackie McLean on alto, and The Musings of Miles session from the spring of 1955 with Red Garland on piano, Oscar Pettiford on bass and Philly Joe Jones on drums
YEAH YEAH SOUNDS OF BLUE 268
Bob Putignano is playing music this week by Dr. Lonnie Smith, Maceo Parker, Aretha Franklin, The Derek Trucks Band, and Chuck Rainey.
Saturday, November 21 ALL AROUND THE WORLD BIG CITY BLUES CRUISE 025
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 025 from 1982 featuring music by Red Prysock, Chick Willis, Billy Boy Arnold, Little Milton, Amos Milburn, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Otis Rush, John Green, Slim Harpo, Aaron Neville, B.B. King, Fats Domino, Andre Williams, John Greer & The Rhythm Rockers, John Lee Hooker, Jimmy Reed, and Fats Domino.
THE GOLDEN TOUCH THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 272
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 Marvin Gaye, Mary Wells, Jack McDuff, The Temprees, The Supremes, Maze, Dennis Coffey, The Contours, Aquarian Dream, Fat Larry's Band, Mandrill, C.J. & Co, Andre Williams, and Clarence Reid.
Sunday, November 22 FREEDOM JAZZ DANCE JAZZ AT DAYBREAK 100
Leslie Keros is playing music this week by Miles Davis, Three More Sounds, Ernestine Anderson, Javon Jackson, Charlie Sepulveda & the Turnaround, John Scofield, Charlie Apicella & Iron City, Stan Getz & Albert Dailey, Wallace Roney, and Ella Fitzgerald.
EVERYTHING’S GREAT JAZZ LUNATIQUE 304
David Kunian is playing music this week to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution with music by Artemis, Patty Smith, Nina Simone, Aretha Franklin, Little Eva, Lucinda Williams, Dolly Parton, X, Debbie Davis & Josh Paxton, Liz Phair, Annie Lenox, Betty LaVette, Alberta Adams, and the Detroit Cobras.
Monday, November 23 100 YEARS OF BLUES JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 886
Episode 886 is coming again from the Center for the Study of World Religions at the Harvard University Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts where I’ve been in residence for the month of October, and tonight I’m featuring a program of music from the brand new album by Elvin Bishop & Charlie Musselwhite called 100 Years of Blues, interspersed with segments of a long conversation between Elvin Bishop and Robert Jr. Whitall & Sugar Mae Owens of Big City Rhythm & Blues.
FINNGERS FABLES FLY BY NIGHT 389
Steve The Fly is winging through the night in 2013 with this progam of extreme mental patience featuring selections by Steve Fly & Leslie Lopez, Charles Mingus, Lalo Schifrin, Ken Campbell & Chris Fairbank, Gil Evans, Water Colour, Arthur Monday, and Allan Moore & Gary Lloyd.
Tuesday, November 24 SOLDIERS OF THE CROSS THE BLUES SHOW 462
Bruce Pingree is Blues & gospel music this week in 2012 in honor of the birthdays of Dr. Martin Luther King and Allen Toussaint, with music by Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters, Pops Staples, the Swan Silvertones, Johnny Lewis, Rev. Charlie Jackson, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Mahalia Jackson, Joe Louis Walker, the Campbell Brothers, the Holmes Brothers, Rev. Lonnie Farris, and the great Allen Toussaint.
GONE FOR GOOD RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 432
Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by Mississippi Heat, Terry Evans & Ry Cooder, Booba Barnes, Reverend Raven & The Chain Smokin’ Altar Boys, Janiva Magness, Candi Staton, James Morgan, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Arthur Adams, Joe Jonas, Ann Rabson with Bob Margolin, David Egan, Marcia Ball, and Deanna Bogart.
Wednesday, November 25 PAWN SHOP BLUES BLUESTIME INTERNATIONAL 66
Episode 66 of BluesTime International with Roger White of Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine is playing music in honor of International Women’s Day with selections by Thornetta Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Anita O’Day with the Gene Krupa Orchestra, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Hadda Brooks, Alberta Adams, Brenda Holloway, Tasha Owens, Laura Rain & the Caesars, Eliza Neals, Niecie, Zoom, Big Maybelle, Big Mama Thornton, Etta James, the Alexis P. Suter Band, and Nikki James.
DIP MY DIPPER BLUES EDITION 30
Leslie Keros is playing blues today by Big Daddy Kinsey, Ella Fitzgerald & Joe Pass, Muddy Waters, Luther Allison, Cicero Blake, Ronnie Baker Brooks, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Charley Patton, Saffire—The Uppity Blues Women, David Honeyboy Edwards, Jimmy Rogers, Muddy Waters & Johnny Winter, Albert King, Albert Collins, B.B. King, and Magic Slim & The Teardrops.
Thursday, November 26 STONED FACE THE MUSIC 98
arwulf arwulf is holding forth at WCBN-FM, Ann Arbor with his weekly dose of great music featuring The Mound City Blue Blowers, The Goofus Five, Jack Purvis & his Orchestra, Joe Venuti’s Blue Four with Adrian Rollini, Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra, Larry Adler, Bud Freeman Trio, Sidney Bechet’s New Orleans Feetwarmers, Jay McShann’s Jazzmen, the Helen Humes Band Willie Smith, Maxwell Davis & Lester Young, Kenny Clarke & his 52nd Street Boys, Illinois Jacquet Band, Ike Quebec Swing Seven, the Dizzy Gillespie Sextet with Charlie Parker, the Wardell Gray Quartet, Coleman Hawkins & his Orchestra, the Art Pepper Quartet, and Miles Davis.
REFLECTIONS OF BUHAINA THE GROOVE YARD 100
George Klein concludes his tribute to departed drummer, bandleader & mentor Art Blakey with a focus on 1950s & ‘60s Jazz Messengers recordings featuring band members Lee Morgan, Bill Hardman, Freddie Hubbard, Jackie McLean, Wayne Shorter, Benny Golson, Bobby Timmons, and Cedar Walton.
Friday, November 27 NEWK'S FADEAWAY
Episode 4 of the Ancestor Worship show from 2012 investigates the early recordings of Sonny Rollins for Prestige Records, including dates with J.J. Johnson's Boppers (May 26, 1949), the Miles Davis Sextet (January 17, 1951 and October 5, 1951), the Sonny Rollins Quartet (December 17, 1951} and the Modern Jazz Quartet (October 7, 1953).
TIME HAS COME TODAY SOUNDS OF BLUE 269
Bob Putignano is playing sides this week by Alexander Courage, Isaac Hayes, The Electric Flag, The Chambers Brothers, Mike Bloomfield-Al Kooper-Steve Stills, and Luther Allison
Saturday, November 28 HAPPY FEET BIG CITY BLUES CRUISE 026
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 026 from 1982 featuring music by Red Prysock, Joe Turner, Sonny Terry, Otis Rush, Wilson Pickett, The Dandeliers, Little Richard, Magic Sam, Little Walter, Harold Burrage, Big Jay McNeeley, Elmore James, Hank Ballard & The Midnighters, Dr. Ross, Eddie Burns, Chick Willis, Jimmy Reed, The Cadillacs, and The Coasters.
COME TOGETHER THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 273
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, Erma Franklin, Ernie Hines, The Meters, Ronnie Dyson, Impact, Osibisa, The Dynamic Superiors, Thornetta Davis, Detroit Junior, Jeannie Reynolds, Margie Joseph, Eddie Kendricks. Benny Golson, The Brothers Johnson, The Trammps, and The Dynamics.
Sunday, November 29 STEP FORWARD JAZZ AT DAYBREAK 101
Leslie Keros is playing music this week by Ella Fitzgerald, Jeff Rupert & George Garzone, Artemis, Michael Wolff, Sharel Cassity, Ray Bryant, Lou Rawls, Eddie Harris, and Carmell Jones.
HEAVEN KNOWS JAZZ LUNATIQUE 305
David Kunian is playing music this week in honor of the 100th anniversary of the passage of Amendment 19 to the U.S. Constitution giving women the right to vote, with contributions from Erika Badu. Grace Jones, Donna Summer, Nancy Wilson & Cannonball Adderley, Ella Fitzgerald with the Duke Ellington Orchestra, Sarah Vaughan, Rickie Lee Jones, Leila McCalla, Ani DiFranco, Shemekia Copeland, and Jackie Ivory.
Monday, November 30 AND THEN THEY DANCED JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 887
Episode 887 is coming again from the Center for the Study of World Religions at the Harvard University Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts where I’m in residence until the enf of October, and tonight I’m presenting a program of musical highlights and rarities by the Young Guardians of the Flame, John Boutte, journal entries by Robin Eichele, tunes by Woody Guthrie, Marshall Allen & the Sun Ra Arkestra, and Marion Brown, and a pair of closing numbers from the new album by Bob Dylan including his tribute to the great Jimmy Reed and his treatment of the John F. Kennedy assassination called “Murder Most Foul.”
GLOBALIZATION FLY BY NIGHT 390
Steve The Fly has his wings on in 2013 with this thrilling program of selections from Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gilespie, John Lee Hooker, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Memphis Minnie, Willie Mabon, Delores Ealy, L.A Bare Faxx, 4th Comig, Lee Dorsey, Winter, Gil Evans, Mr Clean, J.G.D and the New Breed, Chuky Thurman, King Solomon, Steve Fly & Leslie Lopez, Ray Charles, Louis Armstrong, and Robert Anton Wilson.
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