Posted by Todd Morman
on February 15, 2010 @ 4:47 pm | Post a comment
| Time |
Song |
Artist |
Album |
| 3pm |
Little Ole Country Boy |
Parliament |
Osmium |
| |
Take A Look In The Mirror |
Toots & the Maytals |
In the Dark |
| |
At the Cross |
Swan Silvertones |
Move Up |
| |
Love Medley |
Andy Bey & the Bey Sisters |
Andy Bey & the Bey Sisters |
| |
If You Can Beat Me Rockin' (You Can Have My Chair) |
Laura Lee |
Invictus/Hot Wax Gold Collection, vol. 2 |
| |
Bulchensko Ratchenitsa |
Ivo Papasov & His Bulgarian Wedding Band |
Orpheus Ascending |
| |
The Object is a Hungry Wolf |
Andrew Poppy |
The Beating of Wings |
| |
Stay Away From Heaven |
Yo La Tengo |
A Smattering of Outtakes and Rarities: 1986-2002 |
| |
Anthropod |
Hovercraft |
Experiment Below |
| |
You Get Nothing |
Halo of Flies |
Music for Insect Minds |
| 4pm |
A Blonde's Blonde |
Kicking Giant |
Alien I.D. |
| |
Fiya |
tUnE-yArDs |
Bird-Brains |
| |
Moonshine Heather |
Parliament |
Osmium |
| |
Mona |
NRBQ |
Peek-A-Boo: Best of NRBQ |
| |
Jackrabbit |
Elton John |
Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only the Piano Player |
| |
Zaguiero |
Jorge Ben |
Brazilian Collection: From A to Z |
| |
Chimmey Sweet |
You Dee |
Through the Tulips |
| |
Thirty Shades of Grey |
Terre's New Wuss Fusion |
Terre Thaemlitz presents...You? Again? |
| |
Ratchet (Como Se Va La Cosa) |
Mandrill |
Beast from the East |
| |
Free At Last! |
Albert Ayler |
New Grass |
| |
Dub to the Rescue |
King Tubby |
Dub Gone Crazy: The Evolution of Dub at King Tubby's 1975-1979 |
| |
Nahwat |
Baka Beyond |
Spirit of the Forest |
| |
Jersey Bounce |
Ella Fitzgerald |
Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie |
| |
Sonata no. 59 for Piano in E-flat Major: Allegro |
Joseph Haydn/Emanual Ax |
Piano Sonatas |
| |
The Silent Boatman |
Parliament |
Osmium |
Posted by Todd Morman
on February 14, 2010 @ 11:07 am | Post a comment
We start with an early-80s Steve Reich piece for flutist Ransom Wilson (Reich had originally turned Wilson down, saying he couldn’t adapt his style for a solo instrument), then hear Hindemith’s 1958 Octet and close with a spare, fascinating string quartet by modern composer David Epstein. Interspersed are short pieces from a 2-CD collection of the complete chamber works of the often-overlooked French composer Jacques Ibert, mostly so I can have time to switch records around without making you wait through silence. Hope you enjoy.
| Time |
Song |
Artist |
Album |
| 2pm |
Vermont Counterpoint |
Ransom Wilson/Steve Reich |
Reich Glass and Becker |
| |
Jeux, sonatine for flute and piano - Anime |
Jacques Ibert |
Complete Chamber Music |
| |
Octet (1957-58) |
Paul Hindemith/members of the Vienna Octet |
Vienna Octet: Britten/Hindemith |
| |
Impromptu for trumpet and piano |
Jacques Ibert |
Complete Chamber Music |
| |
String Quartet (1971) |
David Epstein/Philadelphia Quartet |
Music by David Epstein |
Posted by Todd Morman
on February 8, 2010 @ 4:44 pm | Post a comment
2nd half of this week’s playlist, just the usual twitchy mix of oddball sounds.
| Time |
Song |
Artist |
Album |
| 4pm |
Waiting for the Great Leap Forward |
Billy Bragg |
Workers Playtime |
| |
Starting Over |
Black Lips |
200 Million Thousand |
| |
P.C.A. |
Action Patrol |
On Patrol: 1993-96 |
| |
Bodies |
Tall Dwarfs |
Weeville |
| |
Squeak |
Godz |
Godz 2 |
| |
I Was A Young Man |
Martin Carthy |
Shearwater |
| |
Know |
Nick Drake |
Pink Moon |
| |
I'll Be Going to Heaven Sometime |
Flatt & Scruggs |
Foggy Mountain Breakdown |
| |
Domino Two-Step |
Nathan Abshire |
J'ai Ete Au Bal (I Went to the Dance) |
| |
Life on the Line |
Raincoats |
The Raincoats |
| |
Eccentric Ditch |
The Ruins |
Refusal Fossil |
| |
The Coveting |
Disque 9 |
des incurables |
| |
Your Body Belongs to the State |
Consolidated |
Friendly Fascism |
| |
Heart Love |
Albert Ayler/The Soul Singers |
New Grass |
| |
The sound of someone you love who's going away and it doesn't matter |
Penguin Cafe Orchestra |
Music From the Penguin Cafe |
Posted by Todd Morman
on February 8, 2010 @ 4:43 pm | Post a comment
The first hour of this week’s show is all Johnny Otis-related, from his 40s big-band/bebop through his 50s R&B to his 60s and 70s soulfunkblues - including the hilariously, incredibly raunchy “Snatch and the Poontangs” album he released in 1969 (almost certainly with his teen son Shuggie on guitar). I knew about Johnny Otis, sure, but hadn’t really explored his career until now. Motherfuckin WOW.
| Time |
Song |
Artist |
Album |
| Midnight |
The Great Stack A Lee |
Snatch and the Poontangs |
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| 3pm |
Hey Shine |
Snatch and the Poontangs |
Snatch and the Poontangs |
| |
Don't Stretch This Good Thing Too Far |
Johnny Otis Show w/Margie and Delmar Evans |
Cuttin' Up |
| |
Sadie |
Johnny Otis |
Legendary Dig Masters, vol. 1: Johnny Otis |
| |
Be Bop Baby Blues |
Johnny Otis Band w/ Joe Swift |
Be Bop Baby Blues |
| |
Walking Blues |
Big Mama Thornton |
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| |
Midnight Creeper Part One |
Johnny Otis Band |
Creepin' with the Cats: Legendary Dig Masters, vol. 1: Johnny Otis |
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Two Time Slim |
Snatch and the Poontangs |
Snatch and the Poontangs |
| |
Ice Cold Daydream |
Shuggie Otis |
Freedom Flight |
| |
Two Girls in Love (With Each Other) |
Snatch and the Poontangs |
Snatch and the Poontangs |
| |
Cold Shot |
Johnny Otis Show |
Cold Shot |
| |
Cuttin' Up |
Johnny Otis Show |
Cuttin' Up |
| |
Big John Jeeter |
Snatch and the Poontangs |
Snatch and the Poontangs |
| |
A Woman Don't Want a Good Man No More |
Johnny Otis band with Earl Jackson |
Be Bop Baby Blues |
| |
Ali Baba's Boogie |
Johnny Otis Orchestra |
Creepin' with the Cats: Legendary Dig Masters, vol. 1: Johnny Otis |
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Someone's Always Singing |
Shuggie Otis |
Freedom Flight |
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on February 7, 2010 @ 2:11 pm | Post a comment
Found a wonderful LP of modern compositions by Arthur Berger and Richard Donovan at the local used shop. It’s performed by a chamber group with Gunther Schuller conducting, sometime around 1966-67. I’ve interspersed the 4 pieces from that LP with selections from the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra’s excellent 1994 CD “A Set of Pieces: Music by Charles Ives.” Funny bit of synchronicity - pianist Gilbert Kalish appears on both recordings, which I didn’t realize until I was half-done recording this week’s show. The five Elizabethan lyrics, by the way, include great 17th-century lines like “If single love be such a curse, to marry is to make it ten times worse.” Hope you enjoy.
| Time |
Song |
Artist |
Album |
| 2pm |
3 Pieces for 2 Pianos |
Arthur Berger/Paul Jacobs & Gilbert Kalish |
W.W. Naumburg Foundation American Composition Awards: First Recordings |
| |
The See'r |
Charles Ives/Orpheus Chamber Orchestra |
A Set of Pieces: Music by Charles Ives |
| |
Chamber Music for 13 Players |
Arthur Berger/Gunther Schuller conducting the Columbia Chamber Ensemble |
W.W. Naumburg Foundation American Composition Awards: First Recordings |
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The Ruined River |
Charles Ives/Orpheus Chamber Orchestra |
A Set of Pieces: Music by Charles Ives |
| |
Music for 6 |
Richard Donovan/Gunther Schuller conducting the Columbia Chamber Ensemble |
W.W. Naumburg Foundation American Composition Awards: First Recordings |
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In the Inn |
Charles Ives/Orpheus Chamber Orchestra |
A Set of Pieces: Music by Charles Ives |
| |
5 Elizabethan Lyrics for Soprano and String Quartet |
Richard Donovan/Adele Addison with the Galimir String Quartet |
W.W. Naumburg Foundation American Composition Awards: First Recordings |
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Putnam's Camp, Redding, Connecticut |
Charles Ives/Orpheus Chamber Orchestra |
A Set of Pieces: Music by Charles Ives |
Posted by Todd Morman
on February 1, 2010 @ 4:48 pm | Post a comment
This week’s scattered, smothered and covered collection of all kinds of tunes. Hope you enjoy; I sure had fun cooking it up. Oh, and “Rock & Roll Bullshit” by Government Issue should come after the Dils’ “I Hate the Rich.” Mistakes were made.
| Time |
Song |
Artist |
Album |
| 3pm |
Memphis, Tennessee |
Sandy Bull and Billy Higgins |
Inventions for guitar, banjo, oud, electric guitar and electric bass |
| |
Alteleyeshegnem |
Alemayehu Eshete |
Ethiopiques, vol. 10: Ethiopian Blues and Ballads |
| |
Nyoka Boko II |
Sweet Honey in the Rock |
The Women Gather |
| |
The Lost Voices feat. Sly & Robbie |
DJ Krush |
Japan For Sale, vol. 3 |
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Piano Playa Hata |
Wagon Christ |
Tally Ho! |
| |
Joe Dropped the Swing |
Pimp Daddy Nash |
Selected Material: Sound in the 8th Dimension, vol. 2 |
| |
Not A Care in the World |
Peggy Lee/Benny Goodman |
Peggy Lee & Benny Goodman: The Complete Recordings 1941-1947 |
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There'll Be Some Changes Made |
Dinah Washington |
Dinah! |
| |
It's Coming |
Fay Victor Ensemble |
Cartwheels Through the Cosmos |
| |
Living in the Air Age |
Be-Bop Deluxe |
Sunburst Finish |
| |
I Hate the Rich |
The Dils |
We're Desperate: The L.A. Scene 1976-1979 |
| |
You're So Strange |
The Zippers |
We're Desperate: The L.A. Scene 1976-1979 |
| |
This Time |
One Last Wish |
20 Years of Dischord |
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Rock & Roll Bullshit |
Government Issue |
20 Years of Dischord |
| |
Knuckle Down |
XTC |
English Settlement |
| 4pm |
Sunlight |
Tune-Yards |
Bird-Brains |
| |
Tide to the Oceans |
Silver Jews |
Starlite Walker |
| |
Looks Like I'm Up Shit Creek Again |
Tom Waits |
The Early Years |
| |
New Amsterdam/You've Got to Hide Your Love Away |
Elvis Costello & Steve Nieve |
Live in Rome |
| |
Tullochgorum |
Puirt a Baroque |
Return of the Wanderer |
| |
Concertino for 12 instruments |
Igor Stravinsky/Orpheus Chamber Orchestra |
Shadow Dances: Stravinksy Miniatures |
| |
That Old Black Magic |
Clark Terry Quintet |
Serenade to a Bus Seat |
| |
My Baby Specializes |
William Bell & Judy Clay |
The Very Best of William Bell |
| |
Highway to Heaven |
The Dramatics |
Best of the Dramatics |
| |
Survival |
Bob Marley & the Wailers |
Survival |
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Beauty Secrets |
Be-Bop Delux |
Sunburst Finish |
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Straight Arrow |
Spirit |
Spirit |
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All You Little Suckers |
East River Pipe |
The Gasoline Age |
| |
Learn How |
Mission of Burma |
Mission of Burma |
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The Swinging Preacher |
Andy Bey & the Bey Sisters |
Andy Bey & the Bey Sisters |
| |
Love's Miracle |
Curtis Mayfield |
Love |
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on February 1, 2010 @ 4:46 pm | Post a comment
Brahms and the Schumanns this week. The Brahms piano trios are currently my favorite music on the planet. That’ll change soon, I’m sure, but it’s very nice right now. I have no idea if I pronounced “toccatina” correctly.
| Time |
Song |
Artist |
Album |
| 2pm |
Piano Trio in C Minor, op. 101 |
Johannes Brahms/Beaux Arts Trio |
Brahms: The Piano Trios |
| |
Theme and Variations for Piano |
Johannes Brahms/Emanuel Ax |
Brahms Sextets |
| |
Quartet for Piano, Violin, Viola and Cello: Scherzo and Finale |
Robert Schumann/Glenn Gould/members of Julliard String Quartet |
The Glenn Gould Edition |
| |
Toccatina |
Clara Schumann/Micaela Gelius |
Piano and Chamber Music |
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Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano (first movement) |
Clara Schumann/Micaela Gelius, Sreten Krstic, Stephan Haack |
Piano and Chamber Music |
Posted by Todd Morman
on January 26, 2010 @ 1:31 am | Post a comment
| Time |
Song |
Artist |
Album |
| 3pm |
Listening In |
Andrew Poppy |
The Beating of Wings |
| |
Feelings |
Plug |
Drum n' Bass for Papa |
| |
Hole In Your Pocket |
Y Society |
Travel at Your Own Pace |
| |
Drop it in the Slot |
Tower of Power |
Drop it in the Slot |
| |
Put it on the Line |
Lyn Collins |
James Brown's Funky People (Part 2) |
| |
A Really Good Time |
Roxy Music |
Country Music |
| |
Dinner Bell |
Kingsbury Manx |
Aztec Discipline |
| |
Nothing Seems To Matter |
Bonnie Raitt |
Give It Up |
| |
However Much I Booze |
The Who |
Who By Numbers |
| |
I Thought I Held You |
Wilco |
A.M. |
| |
Polongui |
Cuarteto Flores |
Lamento Borincano: Early Puerto Rican music 1916-39 |
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Sailing On |
Toots & the Maytals |
In The Dark |
| |
I've Been Searching |
O.V. Wright |
The Soul of O.V. Wright |
| 4pm |
Anomia |
Bruno Ruviaro |
541 vol. 3: Music from Stanford |
| |
... |
Sigur Ros |
( ) |
| |
The Death of Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Coretta Scott King |
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Grievin' |
Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra |
Billy Strayhorn: Passion Flower |
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As Long As I Live |
Ella Fitzgerald w/ the Marty Paich Dek-tette |
Ella Swings Lightly |
| |
I'm Tore Down |
Freddie King |
Hide Away: The Best of Freddie King |
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Jesus Remembers |
Swan Silvertones |
Move Up: 28 Gospel Classics |
| |
Bourgeois Blues |
Tav Falco's Panther Burns |
Behind the Magnolia Curtain |
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Reggae Reggae |
Real Kids |
The Real Kids |
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Sink the West Coast/A.P.B./A Was For Anarchy |
The Monorchid |
Who Put Out the Fire? |
| |
The Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch |
Brian Eno |
Here Come the Warm Jets |
Posted by Todd Morman
on January 18, 2010 @ 7:05 pm | Post a comment
| Time |
Song |
Artist |
Album |
| 3pm |
Shakey Jake |
Joe McPhee |
Nation Time |
| |
Open My Box |
Spaceheads |
Spaceheads |
| |
There Is A Number of Small Things |
Múm |
Yesterday Was Dramatic - Today Is OK |
| |
In the Rain |
Dramatics |
Best of the Dramatics |
| |
Didn't Take Your Man |
Ann Peebles |
Best of Ann Peebles: The Hi Records Years |
| |
F. U. N. K. |
Betty Davis |
Nasty Gal |
| |
Take the 'A' Train |
Ella Fitzgerald |
Ella in Hollywood |
| |
Donna Lee |
Jorge Pardo |
Las Cigarras Son Quiza Sordas |
| |
Happy |
Brick |
Brick |
| |
Real People |
Chic |
Real People |
| |
Astro Man |
Jimi Hendrix |
First Rays of the New Rising Sun |
| 4pm |
Preaching the Blues |
Gun Club |
Fire of Love |
| |
You Can't Win |
Kinks |
The Kink Kontroversy |
| |
Soulnik |
Doug Watkins/Yusef Lateef |
Soulnik |
| |
Double Concerto for Oboe, Harp and Chamber Orchestra: Marziale e grotesco |
Witold Lutoslawski |
Orchestral Works, Vol. 8 |
| |
Sonata for oboe & piano: 2nd movement, Scherzo |
Francis Poulenc |
Sonatas |
| |
Pearly Turbo |
Nels Cline, Andrea Parkins, Tom Rainey |
Ash and Tabula: Out Trios, vol. 3 |
| |
O Maria |
Beck |
Mutations |
| |
Sitting Here |
T. Rex |
Great Hits: 1972-1977 The B-Sides |
| |
See What A Love Can Do |
Grin |
The Very Best of Grin featuring Nils Lofgren |
| |
Play the Harp |
John Mayall |
Best of John Mayall |
| |
Someday |
Bobby Bland |
Best of Bobby Bland |
| |
Piano Improvisation No. 1 |
Duke Ellington |
Piano in the Foreground |
Posted by Todd Morman
on January 4, 2010 @ 4:45 pm | Post a comment
| Time |
Song |
Artist |
Album |
| 3pm |
Yawning |
Pierre Henry |
Variations for a Door and a Sigh |
| |
Strange |
Wire |
Pink Flag |
| |
Positions d'amour |
Ensemble Supermusique |
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| |
Horner's Corner |
Wild Child Butler |
Keep On Doing What You're Doing |
| |
Come On and Get a Piece |
Willie Bobo |
Live at the Watts Jazz Festival Vol. 1 |
| |
Newtons Gravitatlichkeit |
Einsturzende Neubauten |
Silence is Sexy |
| |
Burning Rubber |
Teenage Jesus & the Jerks |
Everything |
| |
I See Lights |
King Khan and the Shrines |
What Is?! |
| |
Blessed Quietness |
Swan Silvertones |
Move Up: 28 Gospel Classics |
| |
They Are Falling All Around Me |
Sweet Honey in the Rock |
Selections: 1976-1988 |
| |
Come Away With Me |
The Moments |
Look At Me |
| |
Keep it Busy, Keep it Moving |
Fay Victor |
Lazy Old Sun |
| 4pm |
Remind Me |
Hamza el Din |
Escalay: The Water Wheel |
| |
What the Majority Believes/Glory to the Male Womb |
Harry Partch |
Revelation in the Courthouse Park |
| |
Communication |
Yusef Lateef |
Autophysiopsychic |
| |
Passin' Me By |
Pharcyde |
Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde |
| |
Don't Mess With People |
Mandrill |
Composite Truth |
| |
Mos' Scocious |
Doctor John |
Definitive Pop Collection |
| |
Marilyn |
Elliott Murphy |
Aquashow |
| |
I Learned to Pray |
The Pattersonaires |
Free At Last: Gospel Quartets from Stax Records' Chalice Label |
| |
Boog-a-Boo Baby |
Moon Mullican |
I'll Sail My Ship Alone |
| |
New Rochelle Suite |
Poul Ruders/David Starobin/Daniel Druckman |
Family Album - New Music with Guitar, Volume 7 |
| |
Bagatelle for Wind Quintet |
Gyorgy Ligeti |
Chamber Music |