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.