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 Our internet radio station called RadioFreeAmsterdam.org airs two hours of original programming every day and offers a continuous flow of music on the 24/7 stream on our website, where you can hear hour after hour of our programming on end, just like a real radio station. This month Steve The Fly passes No. 400 in his Fly By Night series and the John Sinclair Radio Show is edging up to episode no. 900 since its inception on November 22, 2004. Episode 898 is another.hour of reefer tunes donated to RFA by our listener Paul Paul last year. 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. * FEBRUARY 2021 PROGRAM GUIDE Monday, February 1 PICK UP THE PIECES JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 895 Episode 895 is coming from Radio Free Amsterdam headquarters in the Cass Corridor of Detroit with the third of three programs with music contributed by my old friend Jules Bauduc of Louiaiana, known in musical circles as The Maestro, who sent me 4 CDs worth of rare music on 45 rpm discs, including most of this week’s program of tunes by the Duke Elllington Orchestra, Ray Bauduc, Pete Fountain, The Viscounts, The Champs, Bill Doggett, Link Wray, Eddie Harris, Cozy Cole, Dave “Baby” Cortez, Preston Epps, Santo & Johnny, Al Hirt, and the Average White Band, preceded by an opening set by Michel van Dijk & the LONE Project, Abbie Hoffman on Phil Ochs, Robin Eichele reading from his recent Journals, John Sinclair & Planet D Nonet from our new album Monk’s Dream, and Charlie Parker with our closing theme. IN HIS OWN WORDS FLY BY NIGHT 398 Steve The Fly brings us the musings of John Lennon on his literary and song-writing career with a pair of tunes and a homage in verse by John Sinclair with the Beatnik Youth Orchestra. Tuesday, February 2 PAINT MY MAILBOX BLUE THE BLUES SHOW 471 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 The Bo-Keys, The Markeys, Booker T & The MGs, Albert King, Sam & Dave, Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Freddie King, and several selections in a 70th birthday salute to Taj Mahal. BEFORE YOU ACCUSE ME RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 441 Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by Son Seals, Ray Charles, Dennis Jones, Byther Smith, the Gene Taylor Blues Band, Dr. Helander & Third Ward, John Campbell, Otis Rush, and Savoy Brown. Wednesday, February 3 CADILLAC ASSEMBLY LINE BLUESTIME INTERNATIONAL 75 Episode 75 of BluesTime International with Roger White of Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine has music by Magic Dick & J. Geils, Albert King, the Spencer Davis Group, The Serfs, Chicago, Jimi Hendrix, and Rockin’ Johnny Burgin. NATURAL BORN BELIEVER BLUES EDITION 39 Leslie Keros is playing the blues from 2012 this week by Big Daddy Kinsey, Johnny Copeland, Freddie King, Jimmy Johnson, James Cotton, Mighty Joe Young, Fenton Robinson, Robert Lockwood Jr, Aron Burton, Joe Louis Walker, Roxanne Potvin, Otis Rush, Albert King, R.L. Burnside, and Jimmy Witherspoon. Thursday, February 4 BLACK GAL MAKE IT THUNDER FACE THE MUSIC 107 arwulf arwulf is holding forth at WCBN-FM, Ann Arbor in 2014 with his weekly dose of great music featuring Jimmy Blythe, Richard M. Jones, Lonnie Johnson & Eddie Lang, the Charles Pierce Orchestra, the Washboard Serenaders, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five, Fats Waller, Bunny Berigan & Tommy Dorsey, Sidney Bechet, the Original Memphis Five, the Mound City Blue Blowers, Cannon’s Jug Stompers, Memphis Minnie with the Memphis Jug Band, Little Brother Montgomery Quintet, Little Brother Montgomery, the Kansas City Six, and Mose Allison. ONE FLIGHT DOWN THE GROOVE YARD 109 George Klein presents an hour of 1950s & ‘60s recordings by Horace Silver, Ella Fitzgerald, Curtis Counce, Jimmy McGriff, and Clifford Jordan. Friday, February 5 CHANCE IT ANCESTOR WORSHIP 13 Episode 13 features a previously unreleased live concert by the classic Miles Davis Quintet recorded at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in 1956 with John Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers & Philly Joe Jones and recently released by Sony as the second disc in a new reissue of Round About Midnight, plus the two cuts recorded by Miles & Trane in May 1961 for the Columbia album Someday My Prince Will Come. BUZZARD FEATHERS SOUNDS OF BLUE 278 Bob Putignano is playing music this week by Quicksilver Messenger Service, the Grateful Dead, Roland Prince, and Compost. Saturday, February 6 LOOSE LIPS BIG CITY BLUES CRUISE 036 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 036 featuring music by Red Prysock, Otis Rush, Sunnyland Slim, Muddy Waters, Jimmy Reed, Percy Mayfield, John Greer & The Houserockers, Little Junior Parker, Little Walter, Roy Gaines, Big Walter Horton & the Chicago All Stars, Willie Dixon, T-Bone Walker, Elmore James, and Howling Wolf. SUGAR LUMP THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 282 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 100 Proof Aged In Soul, the Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose, The Spinners, Louise McCord, The New Birth, the Average White Band, Emmanuel Young with Howard Glazer & the EL-34s, Donald Byrd, Duke Williams & The Extremes, Brother Soul, The Dells, André Marie Tala, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Alvin Cash, and The Equals. Sunday, February 7 1,000 RAINBOWS JAZZ AT DAYBREAK 110 Leslie Keros is playing music this week by the Joe Policastro Trio, Charles Ruggiero, the Contemporary Piano Ensemble, Doug Webb, the Joe Locke-David Hazeltine Quartet, Isaiah J. Thompson, Ronnie Cuber, Aretha Franklin, and Don Braden. FUNK IS IN THE HOUSE JAZZ LUNATIQUE 314 David Kunian is playing music this week by Egg Yolk Jubilee, Public Enemy, Rebirth Brass Band with Big Chief Black Feather, Frank Zappa, Walter “Wolfman” Washington, Rebellum, Timothea, Dave Bartholomew, The Meters, Professor Longhair, and Kermit Ruffins. Monday, February 8 LIVE WIRE JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 896 Episode 896 is coming from Radio Free Amsterdam headquarters in the Cass Corridor of Detroit with a wide-ranging hour of music by Yusef Lateef, Little Wiilie John, Little Sonny, Jay McShann with Lamonte Hamilton, Larry McCray, Walter Noons, John Sinclair & His Blues Scholars, Robin Eichele, ML Liebler & the Magic Poetry Band, Martha & the Vandellas, Laith al-Saadi, Laura Rain & The Caesars, and Charlie Parker with strings with our closing theme. TONGUE FLY BY NIGHT 399 While on his wayward adventures in America, Steve Fly Agaric 23 hooked up with drummer Alan Hertz and his band, together with Eric Levy who was also playing with Garaj Mahal, bassist and good friend Liam Hanrahan and Jason Conception sitting in for Tal Morris on guitar. In 2003 the band recorded a spectacular album in Berkeley; the selections made here are from the California leg of a short tour the same year, after which they travelled to Los Angeles and then back to San Francisco Bay Area where the band resides: Alan Hertz, drums; Eric Levy, keys; DJ Fly Agaric 23, sounds, turntables; Liam Hanarhan, bass; and Jason Conception, guitar, recorded live at Moe's Alley in Santa Cruz, CA on September 18, 2003. Tuesday, February 9 TAKE A GIANT STEP THE BLUES SHOW 472 Bruce Pingree is coming all the way from WUNH-FM in New Hampshire in 2012 with a 70h birthday tribute to Taj Mahal featuring blues & gospel music by Taj with several of his splendid eclectic ensembles including the Rising Sons, Howard Johnson & Gravity, and the New Orleans Social Club, plus a cut by Taj’s major influence: Etta Baker. LUNCHBUCKET BLUES RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 442 Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by Luther “Houserocker” Johnson, Tarheel Slim, Brewer Phillips, Magic Slim & The Teardrops, Tampa Red with the Jimmy Eager Trio, Malcolm Mims Orchestra, Tino Gonzalez, Zora Young, Jimmie Vaughan, Blue Coast All-Stars, Bonny Lee, and Enrico Crivellaro. Wednesday, February 10 OUT OF THE FRYING PAN BLUESTIME INTERNATIONAL 76 Episode 76 of BluesTime International with Roger White of Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine has music by Magic Dick & J. Geils, Johnny Burgin, Sugar Brown, Danielle Nicole, Thornetta Davis with Paul Carey, Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters, the Casey Hensley Band, the Mary Jo Curry Band, Crystal Shawanda, and the Back Talk Blues Band. NO SPECIAL RIDER BLUES EDITION 40 Leslie Keros is playing blues recordings in 2012 by Big Daddy Kinsey, Karrin Allyson, Andrew "Jr. Boy" Jones, Lil' Ed & Dave Weld, Byther Smith, Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson & The Magic Rockers, Magic Sam, Lightnin' Hopkins, Chico Banks, Charles "Cow Cow" Davenport, Blind John Davis, Little Brother Montgomery, Old Friends, Barrelhouse Chuck Goering, and Erwin Helfer.