The John Sinclair Foundation Presents RADIO FREE AMSTERDAM 2021 BLUES, JAZZ & REEFER—KEEPING THE MUSIC ALIVE Monday​s The John Sinclair Radio Show plus​ Fly By Night ​with Steve The Fly Tuesday​s 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 Happy New Year! Radio Free Amsterdam 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. This month the John Sinclair Radio Show​ ​features two hours of poetry and conversation with New Orleans poet Don Paul and an investigation of his new album ​Meld #1​ with a variety of musical ensembles. The next two hours of the John Sinclair Radio Show are taken up with selections from the 4 hours of CDs of New Orleans classics and obscurities provided to RFA by the Maestro, Jules Bauduc from his personal collection. 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. * JANUARY 2021 PROGRAM GUIDE Friday, January 1 SCRAPPLE FROM THE APPLE ANCESTOR WORSHIP 08 Episode 8 features music in concert by Charlie Parker and his quintets from three different venues in the early 1950s: St. Nicholas Arena in Harlem, Storyville in Boston and Massey Hall in Toronto, playing music for dancing and listening drawn from Bird’s standard repertoire of original compositions, blues & “ballads,” or standard tunes. YOU GOT WHAT IT TAKES SOUNDS OF BLUE 273 Bob Putignano is playing music this week by ​Bill Frissell, Alice Coltrane, Dinah Washington, Brook Benton, Pat Martino, Full Moon, and Ben Sidran. Saturday, January 2 KEEP A KNOCKING BIG CITY BLUES CRUISE 032 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 032 from 1982 featuring music by Red Prysock, Sonny Boy Williamson, Howling Wolf, B.B. King, Otis Rush, Bo Diddley, Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, Elmore James, The Jacks, James Brown, Ruth Brown, Little Richard, and Koko Taylor.. HIGHER GROUND THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 277 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 Sam Cooke, Marlena Shaw, Hattie Littles, Ike & Tina Turner,:Manu Dibango, The Spinners, Labi Siffre, Duke Williams & The Extremes, Vivan Reed, The New Birth, The Funk Brothers, Earl Van Dyke, John Lee Hooker, Jackie Wilson, Ronnie Laws, Alex Rodriguez, Maze, and Booker T. & The MG’s. Sunday, ​January 3 GIANT STEPS JAZZ AT DAYBREAK 106 Leslie Keros is playing music this week by Joey Alexander, John Coltrane, Conrad Herwig, Jimmy Heath, Larry Willis, Sarah Vaughan, Ray Charles, and Milt Jackson. NEW DAY RISING JAZZ LUNATIQUE 309 David Kunian is playing music this week in observation of Election Day with selections from Egg Yolk Jubilee, Public Enemy, Husker Du, The Anti-Ballas Afro-Beat Orchestra, The Shake-’Em-Up Jazz Band, Hooray For The Riff Raff, Trixie Whitley, Cecile McLauren Salvant, Sly & The Family Stone, The Meters, and The Last Poets Monday, January 4 LOVE IS THE MAIN FLAME JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 891 Episode 891 is coming from Radio Free Amsterdam headquarters in the Cass Corridor of Detroit with our first program of 2021, a full investigation into the new compilation album by Don Paul and his several ensembles titled Meld #1​, interspersed with segments of a long conversation between Don Paul and myself that continues into the next episode. GILUMINATI TOP FLY BY NIGHT 394 Steve The Fly presents a Gil Evans spectacular from 2013 with additional material by the Wild Magnolias, Edwards Generation, Gil Scott Heron, Breakestra, and Ken Campbell. Tuesday, January 5 LIGHTNING BOOGIE THE BLUES SHOW 467 Bruce Pingree concludes his three-part 2012 salute to Lightning Hopkins on the bluesman’s 100​th ​birthday this week by playing another hour of his classic recordings for a wide variety of record labels over the years. STRANGE FEELING RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 437 Cary Wolfson is spinning at the​ Red Rooster Lounge​ with great blues sides by Little Joe Blue, Ron Thompson, Albert King, Howard Tate, Jimmy Warren Band, aniva Magness, Chanpion Jack Dupree, Freddie King, Dave Specter & Steve Freund, Sonny Boy Williamson, Bonnie Lee, Long John Hunter, Johnny Winter, and Kenny “Blue” Ray. Wednesday, January 6 BLUES POWER BLUESTIME INTERNATIONAL 72 Episode 72 of ​BluesTime International​ with Roger White of ​Big City Rhythm​ ​& Blues​ magazine has music by Magic Dick & J. Geils, Albert King, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Freddy King, Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, Danny Gatton, Crystal Shawanda, Ryan Perry, and B.B. King. BE CAREFUL HOW YOU VOTE BLUES EDITION 36 Leslie Keros is spinning Edition 36 of ​Blues Edition ​from 2012 with selections by Big Daddy Kinsey, Debbie Davies, Deanna Bogart, Steve Freund, Phillip Walker, Liz Mandeville, Janiva Magness, Jimmy Thackery, Buddy Guy, R.J. Mischo, Guitar Shorty, Zora Young, Louis Jordan, Percy Mayfield, Leroy Carr, and Brother Tyrone & The Mindbenders. Thursday, January 7 SAVE A LITTLE BIT FOR ME FACE THE MUSIC 103 arwulf arwulf is holding forth at WCBN-FM, Ann Arbor in 2012 with his weekly dose of great music featuring ​Isham Jones & his Orchestra, Charlie Straight & his Orchestra, Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra, Louis Dumaine’s Jazzola Eight, Cecil Scott & his Bright Boys, Clarence Williams & his Orchestra, Gus Cannon’s Jug Stompers, Bessie Smith with Henderson’s Hot Six, Casey Bill Weldon with Arnett Nelson’s Hot Four, Johnny Dodds & the Dixieland Jug Blowers, Memphis Jug Band, Coot Grant & Wesley Wilson, Ma Rainey & her Georgia Band, Elder Richard Bryant’s Sanctified Singers, Fats Waller, Art Tatum, Jimmy Yancey, and Big Maceo Merriweather. SHANGRI-LA THE GROOVE YARD 105 George Klein presents an hour of modern jazz by Donald Byrd & Pepper Adams, Hampton Hawes & Harold Land, Benny Golson, Barney Kessel, and Sonny Rollins. Friday, January 8 AIREGIN ANCESTOR WORSHIP 09 Episode 9 looks into the recorded music of Sonny Rollins and Miles Davis on Prestige Records circa 1954-56, and a rare session with alto saxophonist Davy Schildkraut and pianist Horace Silver. FREE IN AMERICA SOUNDS OF BLUE 274 Bob Putignano is playing music this week by ​Ben Sidran, Full Moon, Bill Frissell, Isaac Hayes, ​The Allman Brothers Band, and Curt Cress. Saturday, January 9 TALK TO ME BABY BIG CITY BLUES CRUISE 033 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 031 from 1982 featuring music by Red Prysock, The Dells, The Five Keys, The "5" Royales, Elmore James, The Ravens, Marvin & Johnny, and B.B. King. BUMP ME SLOW THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 278 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 and tunes by The Coasters, Pat Lundy, Billy Jones, Andre Williams, Ben Vereen, Ella Fitzgerald, Steven Toll, Alberta Adams, The Bobby Murray Band, Eddie Burns, Dennis Coffey, Rose Royce, The Kay Gees, The Twinkle Stars, Sly & The Family Stone, the Chairmen Of The Board, The Counts and Eddie Bo. Sunday, January 10 CONDITION BLUE JAZZ AT DAYBREAK 107 Leslie Keros is playing music this week by Bobby Watson, Larry Fuller, the John Coltrane Quartet, Chicago Yestet, Red Rodney & Ira Sullivan, Frank Catalano with Ira Sullivan, and Ray Charles. GHOSTS JAZZ LUNATIQUE 310 David Kunian is playing music this week in honor of the 50​th ​anniversary of the passing of tenor saxophone giant Albert Ayler in 1970, with selections from albums recorded between 1964 and 1967. Monday, January 11 JUST ONE BIG HEART JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 892 Episode 892 is coming from Radio Free Amsterdam headquarters in the Cass Corridor of Detroit with our second program of 2021, finishing up the new compilation album by Dn Paul and his ensembles called ​Meld #1​, interspersed with segments of a long conversation between Don Paul and myself that continues from the preceding episode, and then following with Don Paul reading several of my own poems alternating with recorded examples of same. BEAT AMERICA FLY BY NIGHT 395 Steve The Fly spotlights some of America’s great Beat literary legacy in 2013 with performances by Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and their forebear Ezra Pound, with a musical interlude from Medeski, Martin & Wood. Tuesday, Januar 12 PREACHING BLUES THE BLUES SHOW 468 Bruce Pingree with a birthday celebration in 2012 of the late Sister Rosetta Tharpe and a 110​th ​anniversary salute to of the birth of Son House on ​The Blues Show​ from WUNH-FM, Durham NH. SHORT RIBS RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 438 Cary Wolfson is spinning at the​ Red Rooster Lounge​ with great blues sides by Katie Webster, Shawn Pittman, Sugar Ray & The Bluetones, Eddie Clay, Lynn August, Mighty Joe Young, Peter Veteska & Blues Train, Candye Kane, Magic Slim & The Teardrops, Jimmy Thackery & Tab Benoit, Fantastic Negrito, and Jimmy Johnson & Luther Johnson Jr.