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CC Booker III featuring Will Scruggs Sunday, April 11th, 2010 at Marsh Woodwinds

Posted by Dave Tilley on March 26, 2010 @ 1:16 am | Post a comment

CC Booker III, a collaborative project between musicians from NYC and Atlanta, is a Hammond B3 driven SoulJazz tribute to Ray Charles, King Curtis, and Booker T and the MG’s. Their new full-length CD, CC Booker III feat. Will Scruggs, is slated to be released in July 2010, but pre-release copies will be available at this special show at Marsh Woodwinds. Fronting the band is Raleigh native Will Scruggs, a product of the Enloe Magnet Arts Program. He is an accomplished saxophonist, vocalist, and band leader who, at the age of 29, has already shared the stage with Dave Brubeck, recorded commercially with Cee-Lo, and toured and recorded with 8-time Grammy winner Natalie Cole. Keepin’ it green, CC Booker III tours in a diesel Ford van that runs on 100% recycled vegetable oil….”swingin’ hard and saving the planet.”

CD Release Party and Concert — Sunday April 11, 2010 at Marsh Woodwinds  707 N. Person St.     Shows at  7 and 9 pm —   TIX: $15

Hurray for the Riff-Raff in concert Sat Feb 27 at Marsh Woodwinds

Posted by Dave Tilley on February 8, 2010 @ 3:08 am | Post a comment

taintradio.org is bringing those purveyors of melodramatic popular song, Hurray for the Riff-Raff to Raleigh for a show at Marsh Woodwinds on Sat Feb 27th at 8pm.   This trio hails from New Orleans and their music is a blend of  blues, thrash and string-band music.

Instrumentation includes banjo, bass, accordion, guitar and autoharp.  Daytrotter described them as follows:  ”Hurray For The Riff Raff makes an odd combination of darkened folk music that contains full-bodied crooning, fascinating elements of the macabre and the kind of Americana flourishes that show up in music by contemporaries such as Dark Dark Dark, The Handsome Family and North Carolina’s The Bowerbirds. They aren’t songs of gleefulness, but they can be.”

You can check out Hurray for the Riff-Raff at their websites:

http://www.hurrayfortheriffraff.com
http://www.myspace.com/hurrayfortheriffraff

They have several videos you can watch to get an idea of what they’re like.

The show will take place at Marsh Woodwinds in Raleigh, NC on Sat Feb 27 at 8pm.  Tickets are $10 and will be available at the door.

For more info, email dave@taintradio.org or call (919)-834-8667.

The Jazz Loft Project - book/website launch

Posted by Dave Tilley on December 5, 2009 @ 8:24 pm | Post a comment

Our friend in Durham at the Center For Documentary Studies, Sam Stephenson, has spent the last 13 years studying a collection of photographs and audio recordings made by the late W. Eugene Smith. These photos and recordings documented the goings on inside a building he owned in NYC at 821 Sixth Avenue from 1957 to 1965. Smith had placed pianos and other instruments in the building, outfitted it with cameras, a darkroom, and had wired the building from top to bottom with microphones so that he could record the proceedings. He opened his building up to jazz musicians and recorded Thelonious Monk, Zoot Sims, Paul Bley, Roy Haynes, Roland Kirk, Chick Corea, and hundreds of others in jam sessions, rehearsals, and casual conversations. He recorded Martin Luther King and President Kennedy giving speeches on radio and TV, Jason Robards reading F. Scott Fitzgerald’s essay “The Crack-Up,” and late-night callers to Long John Nebel’s radio show who claimed to have seen UFOs and been abducted by aliens. Smith also kept the tapes rolling when not much was happening. He recorded mysterious voices, people hiking up and down the stairs, taxis honking, and the Sixth Avenue bus chugging by every fifteen minutes.

During this time, Smtih shot over 1000 rolls of film (40,000 images) and recorded 1704 reels of tape. Sam Stephenson and his colleagues have been studying these recordings and photos for the last 13 years, tracking down who was on them, interviewing the musicians and onlookers present at the time in an attempt to fully catalog all of Smith’s photos and recordings.  With over 2/3 of this work now cataloged, it is incredibly exciting to see the launch of a book, website and radio series on The Jazz Loft Project. In early 2010, a traveling exhibition of photographs will go on display, beginning with a show at Lincoln Center - traveling around the country.

This week in Durham, the launch of the book and website was celebrated in a party at The West End Wine Bar, featuring a speech by Sam and music by former Jazz Loft resident Ronnie Free and his trio.  You can now purchase this lovely book at your local bookstore or order it online. It is an astounding collection of images and stories.  The website is simply amazing as well - you can view untold images and listen to recordings that few have even been aware of. Check it out: jazzloftproject.org Absolutely unreal.

Hats off to Sam and his colleagues. We’ve been waiting a long time for this moment.

Bruce Mack is a Master Selector

Posted by Dave Tilley on November 26, 2009 @ 2:58 am | Post a comment

DJ Dorrumi Naidoo aka our very own Bruce Mack (host of Free World Network Radio X) will be spinning the tunes in Orange, NJ next week — so, all you NY and NJ people get out and give him a listen and shake your moneymaker. Yah man!

Thurs. Night Prayer Meeting - 09/17/2009

Posted by Dave Tilley on September 17, 2009 @ 10:00 pm | Post a comment

The Bear Comes Home

Posted by Dave Tilley on August 21, 2009 @ 1:38 am | Post a comment

NPR just ran a story Thursday evening on some good books about music “that don’t have to be boring”. The tag line was amusing and caught my attention - it turns out that the books they picked included two of my favorites - Lester Bang’s “Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung” and Rafi Zabor’s “The Bear Comes Home”.

www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105898803

When Rafi is not busy turning out books about a saxophone-playing bear, he can be found here on taintradio, putting together exquisite shows of new music during his weekly show “Updoc”, which airs Friday nights at 8pm and Tues at noon. “The Bear Comes Home” is a very unusual book from a very unusual guy — our own Rafi Zabor — give him some love and check out his book sometime if you haven’t already. Highly recommended.

Music in my soul: the legacy and the lyrics - African American quilting group

Posted by Dave Tilley on August 17, 2009 @ 2:24 pm | Post a comment

There is a wonderful exhibit of quilts at the Hayti Heritage Center in Durham, called “Music in my soul: the legacy and they lyrics”. This exhibit features a collection of quilts created by a local group of African-American quilters. This particular group was co-founded by our very own Jereann King, co-host of Ungerground Railroad Love. So, stop by if you’re in the area and check out these fantastic quilts.

www.hayti.org/music-in-my-soul-the-legacy-and-the-lyrics/

Thurs. Night Prayer Meeting - 08/13/2009

Posted by Dave Tilley on August 13, 2009 @ 12:00 am | Post a comment

Thurs. Night Prayer Meeting - 07/30/2009

Posted by Dave Tilley on July 30, 2009 @ 12:00 am | Post a comment

You can now follow taintradio on Twitter

Posted by Dave Tilley on July 10, 2009 @ 12:57 am | Post a comment

You can now follow taintradio on Twitter.com — we’ll post occasional messages mentioning what is new and grabbing us at the moment or about what we’re hearing on-air that’s just knocking us out. Check it out @taintradio or simply click here: