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Listener response?

Posted by Rafi Zabor on July 30, 2008 @ 2:39 am | 3 Comments

I just sent in a typically miscellaneous show in which I managed to call Claudio Monteverdi Giueseppe Monteverdi instead, and mistranslated a French album title. Oh well.

But I do wonder, assuming anyone out there is listening at all, what sort of listener response there might be to the largely jazz/classical music mix I’ve been putting together. That mix reflects my own tastes as a listener—as does the lesser admixture of world music, which would be larger if I were more knowledgeable—but it also reflects the contents of most of the conversations I’ve had with jazz musicians in the last few years. Most often, when I ask someone what they’re listening to—I won’t name names, but you’d know them if I did—I’m more likely to hear about classical music than jazz. Any jazz or just taintradio listeners having the same experience, or at least the same predilections?

In the course of my clarinet show, Updoc #5, I mentioned getting seriously into classical music in response to reading Robert Stone’s novel A Hall of Mirrors back when it came out and I was 21 years old: I thought that if anyone as hip as Stone was into Mozart to the degree he was, there must be something to it, so I set out from the nearer shores of Bartok and Stravinsky to try to understand the whole tradition, even if where I lived had more to do with Trane and other jazz giants of that time.

My yen for classical music was redoubled when, working as a jazz critic in the late seventies, I had a pressing need to listen to music of which I was not professionally required to come up with an opinion, and even occasionally a judgment—although I wrote mostly as an enthusiast, and seldom even reviewed albums I disliked, and only then when the musicians were financially secure enough not to be adversely affected, if that might be possible. These days I listen to at least as much classical music as jazz, and for reasons of pure pleasure, though as it happens, listening to the jazz programming on taintradio, which has been pretty terrific, has got me swinging back the other way.

So anyway: I’d be grateful for listener response to what I’ve been putting on the e-air, and shucks, I’ll be sad if no one writes.
Best regards::::::::::Rafi Zabor

Songs on Toast #8 (The French show) – 7-18-08

Posted by Brian Cullman on July 21, 2008 @ 7:37 am | Comments Off on Songs on Toast #8 (The French show) – 7-18-08

1. Quel Temps Fait-Il À Paris (Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot») – 2:14 – Alain Romans – Tati
2. Ah, France – 2:50 – Martin Mull & His Fabulous Furniture – In Your Living Room
3. I’ll Kill Her – 3:52 – Soko – Soko Not Sokute
4. Histoire A Suivre – 3:06 – The Honeymoon Killers Les Tueurs De La Lune De Miel
5. Je Fuckin T’Aime – 3:08 – The Saints – Imperious Delirium
6. Aéroplane – 3:53 – Keren Ann – La biographie de Luka Philipsen
7. Dans La Nuit – 1:14 – Louis Sclavis – Dans La Nuit
8. Le Tourbillon – 2:43 – Helena – Fraise Vanille
9. Aux Sombres Heros de l’Amer – 2:58 – Noir Desir – Noir Desir
10. Elle Se Promene – 2:10 – Gabriel Yacoub
11. Song From Moulin Rouge – 1:48 – Alan Dunn – French Cafe Accordion Music
12. White & Black Blues – 3:01 – Joelle Ursull – Planet Zouk –
13. Unity – 4:46 – JND – Le Style Nouveau
14. La Vie Artis Red – 4:11 – Kali – Roots –
15. Tous Les Garcons Et Les Filles – 3:09 – Françoise Hardy – The Vogue Years
16. Le Cercle Rouge – 5:06 – Amina – Yalil
17. Intreau version longue – 3:16 – MC Solaar – Chapitre 7
18. Volutes Gitanes – 0:33 – Casse Pipe – La Part Des Anges
19. French Lessons – 4:29 – Mark Bingham – I Passed For Human
20. Aux Armes Et Cetera – 3:12 – Serge Gainsbourg – Aux Armes Et Cetera
21. Ne M’en Voulez Pas – 4:57 – Khaled – Khaled
22. Poussee par le Vent – 3:19 – Atlantique – Cd single
23. It’s You Sort Of – 2:19 – Lizzy Mercier Descloux Mambo Nassau –
24. Paris – 0:29 – Luis Bravo – The Impostors-
25. J’Attends – 2:59 – Brian Cullman – All Fires The Fire
26. Cherif M’baw – 2:42 – Kolere – French Essentials
27. Quelqu’un M’a Dit – 2:47 – Carla Bruni – Quelqu’un m’a dit
28. Le Fiacre (The Cab) – 2:46 – Jean Sablon w/Django Reinhardt – J’Attendrai –
29. Comme Eux – 4:42 – Francis Cabrel Hors-Saison –
30. Soleil d’Ete’ – 2:58 – Gabriela Arnon Studio St Amand Sessions
31. Lady Marmalade (Album Version) – 3:58 – Labelle – – The Best Of Labelle
32. Mauvais Reve – 1:41 – Louis Sclavis – Dans La Nuit – –
33. Paris Autrefois (du Film «Play Time») – 1:31 – Francis Lemarque – Extrait Des Bandes Originales Des Films De Jacques Tati
34. Livin’ In The Sunlight – 2:49 – Maurice Chevalier – Early Movie Hits
35. Quand il pleut (Stormy Weather) – 3:16 – Comedian Harmonists The Comedian Harmonists
36. Votre Fille A Vingt Ans – 3:01 – Georges Moustaki – Georges Moustaki Greatest Hits
37. Surement Mon Bonheur – 3:09 – Gilles Sala – Antillaisement Vôtre

Updoc Playlist – Show # 4 (July 19, 2008)

Posted by Rafi Zabor on July 20, 2008 @ 9:52 am | Comments Off on Updoc Playlist – Show # 4 (July 19, 2008)

UPDOC # 4 PLAYLIST

Opening theme: Art Ensemble of Chicago, Nice Guys, Nice Guys: ECM

1.     Duke Ellington, The Bluebird of Delhi, The Far East Suite (RCA/Bluebird)
2.     Duke Ellington. Sonnet in Search of a Moor, Such Sweet Thunder (Sony)
3.     Magnus Lindberg/Kari Karikku, Clarinet Concerto (Ondine)
4.     Art Pepper, Blues in the Night, Winter Moon (Fantasy)
5.     Mustafa Kanderalı, Neva Usak Taksım; Çiftetelli, Mustafa Kanderalı (Uzelli Kaset San/The Orchard)
6.     Erköse Ensemble, Taksım on Clarinet; Hamandalı Zeybek, Tzigane (Times Square/IODA)
7.     Eric Dolphy, God Bless the Child, Here and There (Fantasy/Prestige)
8.     Evan Ziporyn, Pengrangrang Gede, This is Not a Clarinet (Canteloupe Music)
9.     Duke Ellington, Ad Lib on Nippon, The Far East Suite (RCA/Bluebird)
10.     Robert Stone, A Hall of Mirrors (a reading) (Vintage/Houghton Mifflin)
11.     Mozart/Marriner, Clarinet Concerto in A Minor, Anniversary Album (Pentatone/IODA)

The New Edge – Playlist – 07/15/08

Posted by Ken Field on July 16, 2008 @ 2:31 am | 1 Comment

The New Edge

Host: Ken Field

Updoc Playlist – Show # 3 (July 11, 2008)

Posted by Rafi Zabor on July 14, 2008 @ 3:21 pm | Comments Off on Updoc Playlist – Show # 3 (July 11, 2008)

Opening theme: Art Ensemble of Chicago, Nice Guys, Nice Guys: ECM

1. Miles Davis, Country Son, Miles in the Sky: Sony
2. Keith Jarrett, Four, My Foolish Heart: ECM
3. Sicilian Folk Music, Voci: ECM
4. Luciano Berio, Voci, Voci: ECM
5. Nels Cline/Nels Cline Singers, Confection, Draw Breath: Cryptogramophone
6. Heiner Goebbels/Jocelyn B. Smith, The Horatian (Three Songs), Surrogate Cities: ECM
7. Keith Jarrett, My Foolish Heart, My Foolish Heart: ECM

Out theme: Art Ensemble of Chicago, Strawberry Mango, Jamaica Farewell: Warner/Atlantic

Spherical: It’s a jazz planet 07/10/08

Posted by J. Michael Harrison on July 10, 2008 @ 5:45 am | Comments Off on Spherical: It’s a jazz planet 07/10/08

Host: J. Michael Harrison

Updoc Playlist – Show # 2 (July 4, 2008)

Posted by Rafi Zabor on July 5, 2008 @ 1:21 pm | Comments Off on Updoc Playlist – Show # 2 (July 4, 2008)

Opening theme: Art Ensemble of Chicago, Nice Guys, Nice Guys: ECM

1. Maceo Parker, To Be Or Not To Be, Roots and Grooves: WDR
2. Roy Harris/Leonard Bernstein/NY Phil: Third Symphony: The Bernstein Century: Sony
3. Arthur Honegger/Herbert von Karajan/Berlin Phil: Third Symphony “The Liturgique”: DGG
4. Dmitri Shostakovich/Bernard Haitink/Concertgebouw Orch: Sixth Symphony: London/Decca
5. Miguel Zenon, Penta: Awake: Marsalis Music
6. Lionel Loueke, Seven Teens, Karibu: Blue Note
7. Keith Jarrett, Oleo, My Foolish Heart: ECM

Out theme: Art Ensemble of Chicago, Strawberry Mango, Jamaica Farewell: Warner/Atlantic