Amaze yourself at the variety of programming at the KFAI schedule page.

A small sampling of music from the Balkan Region of Europe featuring 78 archival recordings, Czech polkas from Texas and contemporary artists blending the future with the ancient.

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Todays program featured jazz guitar heros. Some names still known and some not as well known now. A range of styles from groovin to mellow, but all these cats, and a few of these kittens represented here were hittin on all six.

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More from the Jazz At The Philharmonic series. JATP Part 2: I did not hear nearly enough of this amazing collection during the previous show, so I wanted to play more selections from it. This program featured sets.

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My friend John Lovold brought in his collection of Jazz At The Philharmonic recordings. JATP was the name of a series of concerts and recordings produced by Norman Granz begining in 1944 in Los Angeles. Granz produced tours starting in 1946 that featured Swing and bop musicians playing in small groups. These were among the first high-profile performances to feature racially integrated bands, and Granz cancelled some bookings rather than have the musicians perform for segregated audiences.

Jazz at the Philharmonic featured most of the era's preeminent musicians: Louie Bellson, Ray Brown, Benny Carter, Harry "Sweets" Edison, Roy Eldridge, Ella Fitzgerald, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Bill Harris, Coleman Hawkins, Illinois Jacquet, Hank Jones, Gene Krupa, Charlie Parker, Oscar Peterson, Flip Phillips, Buddy Rich, Charlie Shavers, Willie Smith, Tommy Turk, Ben Webster, and Lester Young, among others.

For this show, we featured recordings that had been previously unreleased.

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Guest DJ "Doc Rock" gives us the introductory lecture on Yodelling. Ever wonder what Julie Andrews and Tarzan have in common? Me neither, but if you wanted to know you'd find it here. Jimmie Rodgers, people Jimmie Rodgers wanted to sound like and those that sounded like him. Farm girls, minstrals, cowboys and drugstore cowboys.

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Languid guitar music with Ry Cooder, V.M. Bhatt and Ali Farkr Toure / Jam sessions / Some old New Orleans sounds

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A Charlie Parker with Strings concert, happy Birthday Bird / Kurt Weill & Bertolt Brecht sing / More Freaks, wonders, Medicine Show & Gambling songs

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New World Records was founded in 1975. I played 10 records from their catalog today. The following is from their web site:
The company was founded with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation with a mandate to produce a 100-disc anthology of American music encompassing the broadest possible spectrum of musical genres. This set of recordings, together with their extensive liner notes, provides a core curriculum in American music and American studies. In 1978 the Anthology was completed and distributed free of charge to almost 7,000 educational and cultural institutions throughout the world. An additional 2,000 Anthologies were sold at cost to other similar institutions. Through these recordings two hundred years of music and American cultural history are brought to life.
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Thanks to guest host Cindy Collins who came in with an amazing collection of "New music based on traditional genres, old-time, old country, honky-tonk, gypsy . . . and a few of their influences." But that's not all! She also brought in her expertise of local Minneapolis / Minnesota music and featured it throughout the show.

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This show presented material from Civil Defence films, News Reels and interviews about the Atomic Bomb drops by The United States on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, that occured sixty years ago on the 6th and 9th of August. Also featured were songs from Japanese 78 RPM Records of the day and the BUZZOLA CD "Like An Atom Bomb: Apocalyptic Songs From The Cold War Era".

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This show spent the most part fiddlin around Middle America with The Harry Smith Anthology VOL 4 - on clear vinyl no less, and some other great collections were featured also. The remainder of the show was spent Knitting. Music of the Knitters (who were in Minneapolis that night - and a fine show it was! Mighty fine), Billy Zoom & Dave Alvin rockabilly recordings, Exene Cervenka and John Doe solo recordings. But not the stuff I left at home and realized right before the set started.

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RHUMBAS, a cuban music that is percussion and vocal based. Three traditional types of Rhumbas exist: The YAMBU, a slow couples dance; The GUAGUANCO, a faster more contemporary couples dance and the COLUMBIA, a modern dance for guys to show off their dancing skills. We heard a variety of styles from the real deal to show biz glitz to guitar music from Zaire to New York City Doo-Wop Rhumba.

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We swing around here, we sing over there. Swing music swings out every where - at least for two hours.

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It's a Mod Mod world today on the show. Put on your high-heeled sneakers, put that wig-hat on your head. Early previously unreleased MOTOWN label and 'Blue-Eyed' and Northern Soul recordings from the U.K. circa mid 60's. A good dose of vitamin B3 helped make us all sweat more than the weather outside.

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