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Shotgun Shack Blues – 07/30/08

Posted by Kevin Spurlock on July 30, 2008 @ 11:13 am | 2 Comments

Shotgun Shack Blues 07/30/08

8pm – midnight (EDT)

Host: Kevin Spurlock

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

Musicians needed – Please!

Posted by Kevin Spurlock on July 27, 2008 @ 3:41 am | 1 Comment

At the expense of sounding like Ah-nold in one of those “Terminator” movies, I’m sounding the alarm. The machines are taking over!!

This is news?! They’ve been taking over on the music scene since before the Moog synthesizer. Yes, but even with the Moog you had to have skills to play it! (plus muscles to move it, the thing weighed 1/2 a ton!).

I guess my concern is that in man’s transition from rock to hollowed-out log to acoustic stringed to electric, the skills required to create a sound that was pleasing to the human ear remained intact. Now, with the new technologies, it’s “set it and forget it, no user-accesible parts here!”

Now does that mean that there is no interest in music among our children? Far from it. In fact, one of the most popular games available is a simulation of a rock guitar musician. For some expert insight into this game, I interview my 16-year-old:

“So, you pretend to be this musician and you try to play what he is playing?” ” Well, no the “guitar” doesn’t have any strings, it has colored buttons.”

“Okay, so the buttons make sounds and you have to match your sound to what he is playing?” “No, the “guitar” doesn’t make a sound at all, you have to match the colors on the screen to the color-coded buttons on the “guitar”.”

“Want to go see a Blues concert? It features people playing real guitars that make a sound.” “No, that’s boring.”

“What are you going to do tonight dad?” “I think I’m going to slash my color-coded wrists!”

Revoltingly,

Kevin Spurlock

Analog and More – Playlist – 07/26/08

Posted by Barry Portier on July 26, 2008 @ 5:37 pm | Post a comment

Analog and More

July 26th 2008 Playlist

Barry Portier

Rhythm & Blues revue – Ep. 7 – 07/26/08

Posted by Kevin Spurlock on July 26, 2008 @ 12:40 pm | Post a comment

Rhythm & Blues Revue Ep. 7 07/26/08

Host: Kevin Spurlock

Entertainment or Art?

Posted by Kevin Spurlock on July 24, 2008 @ 4:31 am | 3 Comments

I recently attended a concert featuring a Latin jazz piano player of some acclaim.  I entered the packed auditorium with eager anticipation of an evening filled with vibrant rhythms and foot-tapping melodies.  We were even promised (some would say guaranteed) by the emcee giving the introduction “an evening of vibrant Latin rhythms” ah-ha! confirmation!  This was going to be fun!

It quickly became clear as the artist entered the auditorium and began playing, that he was in a totally different place; a much darker place.  As he went through his repertoire of music at a funereal pace ( and not a New Orleans funeral either), the audience began to grow increasingly restless, fidgiting in their seats and the need for a cough drop vendor became more and more apparent, as mysterious ailments started popping up all around me.

As I started feeling the flowers in my gaily-patterned tropical shirt begin to wilt, I had to ask myself, “Do we have a right, as paying customers, to expect a certain performance from an artist even though the artist may not be feeling that particular emotion at the time?  Or should we, as patrons of the arts, respect the fact that the artist is in a different place and go with whatever flow he is feeling at that particular moment?”  To be perfectly honest, the performance was quite good, it just was not what the audience had been expecting. After he was done, you wanted to go out drinking but for all the wrong reasons!

Now the lawyers out there will say that purchasing a ticket is a contract.  That you are paying your money with the expectation of receiving a specific product for your purchase.  The sports fan would argue that purchasing a ticket is no guarantee of a positive outcome on the part of your team, that is a part of the risk inherent in the game.  The artist may argue that art has an ebb and flow to it, and – depending on which part of the wave you happen to catch – any performance can vary widely and that is a part of the risk inherent in that purchase.

So, does the artist have an obligation to cater to his paying audience or should he be true to his art?

Let me know what you think.

Revoltingly,

Kevin Spurlock

shotgun shack blues 07/22/08 – Ep. #7

Posted by Kevin Spurlock on July 23, 2008 @ 5:48 am | Post a comment

Shotgun Shack Blues – Tuesdays 8pm to midnight

Host: Kevin Spurlock

Analog and More – July 19th 2008 Playlist

Posted by Barry Portier on July 21, 2008 @ 7:59 am | Post a comment

Analog and More
July 19th 2008 Playlist
Barry Portier

Artist – Song – CD / LP

Hour 1
Lenny Williams – You got me Running – Spark of Love
Natalie Cole – You Cant Take That Away From Me – Stormy Weather
Stevie Nicks – At Last – Stormy Weather
Gil-Scott Heron – Pardon Our Analysis – Guerrilla
Gil-Scott Hernon – Guerrilla – Guerrilla
John Abercrombie – Wishing Bell – The 3rd Quartet
Debert McClinton – Better off With The Blues – Fortunate Few
Gwen Stefani – Almost Blue – Stormy Weather
Paula Cole – You’ve Changed – Stormy Weather

Hour 2
Paula Cole – You’ve Changed – Stormy Weather
The Temptations – Smiling Faces – Psychedelic Soul
Ben Harper – My Own Two Hands – Diamonds
Slim Gaillard – Groove Juice Symphony – Laughing In Rhythm
Erykah Babdu – Amerykahn Promise – New Ameryka
Erykah Badu – The Healer – New Ameryka
Milton Nascimento – Sometimes God Exaggerates – Pieta
Milton Nascimento – Cantaloupe Island – Pieta
Martin Bejerano – Loverman – Evolution/Revolution

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

Posted by Brian Cullman on July 21, 2008 @ 7:37 am | Post a comment

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 | Post a comment

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)