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Rafi Zabor’s Updoc. Fri 11/29 & Tues 12/3

Posted by Rafi Zabor on November 28, 2013 @ 4:19 am | Comments Off on Rafi Zabor’s Updoc. Fri 11/29 & Tues 12/3

Updoc—Friday at 8PM, noon next Tuesday—usually shows up late for anniversaries, and this year’s no exception. Last week’s show fell on November 22 and could have celebrated Benjamin Britten’s centenary or remembered JFK’s fifty-year-old death, the day my country began to crash and burn, with for instance Booker Ervin’s great lament A Day to Mourn. Instead there was Bach on mandolin, new releases, and the always apt Thelonious Monk. A day after that, the 50th anniversary edition of a well-loved British telly show was overwrought, over-effectsy, overblown, and in typical Time Lord fashion, unexpectedly moving by the end. So this week Updoc indulges in its own bit of time travel, all the way back a week, to visit Great Britten, including shades of requiem and illumination and, for a finish, a last dash of the melodic monumental opera in which Peter Grimes sinks his boat and self while the seaside people sing about themselves and choose to see nothing, as the world’s two most quietly devastating drum thumps nail the ending down. Britten makes some people anxious and equivocal: was he one of the great 20th century composers or not? Updoc has stopped asking, and has also found its two hours’ airtime insufficient for due tribute. Britten’s music is Tardic: bigger on the inside than the outside. Jammy dodgers, jelly babies or fish fingers and custard: bring what you have and come on in.

Songs on Toast – 11/23/2013

Posted by Brian Cullman on November 25, 2013 @ 6:44 pm | Comments Off on Songs on Toast – 11/23/2013

Encarnacoes Em Kodya 3:53 Tiganá Santana The Invention Of Colour
It Never Entered My Mind 4:42 Chet Baker Chet
Willow Weep for Me 9:37 Red Garland Groovy
Black Woman 4:00 Tiganá Santana The Invention Of Colour
Tender Wheels 3:10 Brian Cullman 11/19/13
When I Was A Young Girl 6:04 Nina Simone Nina Simone At Carnegie Hall
Wrong Things 1:34 Nick Holmes Duel Worlds
Two Lovers 3:47 D Forman Live at JPs
That’s How Strong My Love Is 3:41 Steve Young Rock Salt And Nails
Eye On the Road 4:01 Bob Neuwirth Back to the Front
Secret Someones (demo ) 4:16 Laura Veirs Songs for Shelter
Tennessee Time 3:16 Valerie June Pushin’ Against A Stone
Cry To Me 2:35 Solomon Burke The Very Best Of Solomon Burke
I’ve Been All Around This World 3:50 Wayne Horvitz & Robin Holcomb Songs for Shelter
O Som Dos Sapatos 3:04 João Afonso Zanzibar
Trocintro 1:03 King Coya Cumbias de Villa Donde
Lusuki 4:25 Tiganá Santana The Invention Of Colour
Beads Of Rain 4:00 Yeahwon Shin Lua Ya
Bayaty 3:54 The Gurdjieff Folk Instruments Ensemble gurdjieff folk instruments ens.
Back In The Crowd 2:49 Tom Waits Bad As Me
The Lions Breath 2:14 Lord Buckley The Tales of Lord Buckley
Goodbye Booze 2:53 Loudon Wainwright III High Wide & Handsome
Tsakve 1:32 Abdullah Ibrahim Africa: Tears And Laughter (
N’Taki 4:26 Idrissa Soumaoro Köte
Sehenon Men 3:56 Mamadou Kelly Adibar
Mi Scusi 3:57 Teho Teardo & Blixa Bargeld Still Smiling
Baby Simone 4:48 Louisa Mark Breakout
Beautiful Girl 3:39 Vybz Kartel Kingston Story
Perfumed Forest Wet With Rain 4:00 Abdullah Ibrahim Africa: Tears And Laughter
I Just Can’t See For Lookin’ 3:06 Nat King Cole Trio The Complete Capitol Recordings
Love Is The Drug 3:14 The Bryan Ferry Orchestra The Jazz Age

Men With Big Feet

Posted by Howling Dick on November 24, 2013 @ 6:00 am | Comments Off on Men With Big Feet

Theres an outbreak of sincere flattery on Howling’s domain this week – or could it be  purloining? No point in looking to Dick for the answers –   he’s more interested in playing stuff even HE doesn’t know about and getting dangerous. Welcome back by friends for another hour in the company of the strange and wonderful cats that are on the porch this week playing the finest blues ‘n roots ya ever heard!

You can download the podcast either here or subscribe at iTunes and not only are there links to the artists on this page but also to some great videos – check ‘em out.

And don’t forget to let Dick know how ya liked it at howlingdick@gmail.com – he’ll thank you!

Charles Mingus – now we can get dangerous

Rafi Zabor’s Updoc, Fri Nov 22 & Tues Nov 26

Posted by Rafi Zabor on November 22, 2013 @ 3:11 am | Comments Off on Rafi Zabor’s Updoc, Fri Nov 22 & Tues Nov 26

Free picture of a Trans-Dniestrian 50 ruble note to anyone who can puzzle out the thematic continuity of this week’s Updoc show of mostly new releases—Friday at 8PM and noon next Tuesday, Hudson River Time. Chris Thile plays Bach on a mandolin that sounds like an instrument Bach might have played himself; we remember John Tavener via a setting of William Blake and play a few pieces from Matthew Shipp’s stunning new solo album Piano Sutras; Anne-Sofie von Otter sings French songs awfully well for a non-French otter while Gretchen Parlato sings Herbie Hancock, and even I can’t figure out how and if it fits together. Thelonious Monk probably supplies the best advice, in three installments: Abide With Me, Well You Needn’t, and Don’t Blame Me.

Tone Science – 11/17/2013

Posted by David Menestres on November 17, 2013 @ 8:00 pm | Comments Off on Tone Science – 11/17/2013

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In A Manly Way

Posted by Howling Dick on November 17, 2013 @ 6:00 am | Comments Off on In A Manly Way

This week Howling’s handing out advice on matrimonial status and warnings on  recreational drugs as well as declaring love and how Robert Johnson he is. Boy, Dick’s real busy on the porch this week with a bunch of hooligans and heroes dishing out an hour of the finest blues ‘n roots.

North Mississippi Allstars – It would be rude not to play ’em

Rafi Zabor’s Updoc, Nov. 15 & 19

Posted by Rafi Zabor on November 14, 2013 @ 12:26 pm | Comments Off on Rafi Zabor’s Updoc, Nov. 15 & 19

I remember going to the Top of the Gate one Sunday or Monday night in the ‘70s and waiting for the band to come in. When they did, Billy Higgins found that all the club was providing in the way of a drumset was a bass drum with no pedal, a 12×8 hanging tom-tom, and one cymbal stand. Fortunately Higgins had brought a cymbal. The band was a quintet or a sextet, and without apparent special effort, Billy Higgins provided it with a wealth of buoyant, ebullient swing throughout the two sets I stayed for. Nothing was missing. I don’t think he even kicked the bass drum for punctuation. I don’t want to give you the wrong idea that this week’s Updoc—Friday at 8PM and noon next Tuesday, Village Gate time—is a Billy Higgins show, because I’m mostly indulging, as a chill infests the air with winter, in what may be the last of my autumnal Brahms obsession, but you’ll probably enjoy hearing Higgins play a series of duets with Charles Lloyd. Nasheet Waits posted a piece listing ten favorite Higgins cuts on Mosaic Records’ website and you’ll probably enjoy that too. Smiling Billy, Mr. Joy. I used to see you most often with Lee Morgan and Jackie McLean’s band, and when, at the age of fifteen, I ran into you sitting in at a tiny Village joint, you were friendly to the kid who gushed about how wonderful your playing was. My feeling and appreciation of what you had and gave freely have only deepened since.

Tone Science – 11/10/2013

Posted by David Menestres on November 10, 2013 @ 8:00 pm | Comments Off on Tone Science – 11/10/2013

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The Dark Lord Of Algebra

Posted by Howling Dick on November 10, 2013 @ 6:00 am | 1 Comment

This week Howling is singing along to Disney, hanging out on the porch with wide boys, dumb blondes and belly dancers and still finds time to play the most racist song ever written (allegedly!). Yup folks, once again its time to park your butt on Howlings porch and revel in some fine blues, roots and loads of other stuff!

 Big Maybelle – Raunchier than Jerry Lee Lewis?

Oh and don’t forget to check out my good friend   Martin Ruby

Songs on Toast – 11/08/2013

Posted by Brian Cullman on November 9, 2013 @ 9:29 am | Comments Off on Songs on Toast – 11/08/2013

Turning Time Around 4:24 Lou Reed Ecstasy
The Get Go 3:52 Alex McMurray I Will Never Be Alone In This Land
Talk Talk Talk Talk Talk 3:44 T-Bone Burnett Truth Decay
Easy Baby 2:46 Magic Sam Definitive Chicago Blues
Stone Crazy 3:00 Buddy Guy The Very Best Of Buddy Guy
Isi Agboncha 5:31 The Semi Colon Ndia Egbuo Ndia (Afro Jigida)
O Convidado 2:56 João Afonso Zanzibar
Each To His Own 4:16 Nick Holmes Sonar
Ndigal 8:42 Karantamba Ndigal (Sangomar, Thiès 1984)
Uthui Ti Sifa 7:12 Kathekani Boyz, John Mutunga Kioko Uthui Ti Sifa
Go On Fool 2:06 Smiley Lewis Rocks 1950-1958
Vicksburg Blues ’51 2:27 Little Brother Montgomery Definitive Chicago Blues
Mari Je Nyare 8:24 Zoumana Tereta Soku Fola
Goombay Bump 7:46 Jay Mitchell Cult Cargo: Grand Bahama Goombay
Guajida 3:14 Jesus Acosta & The Professionals Cult Cargo: Belize City Boil Up
All the World 4:11 Tama Waipara Triumph of Time
Oh Gin (Previously Unreleased) Velvet Underground Loaded
Bidon II 8:23 Alla Tanakoul
Everybody’s Goin’ for the Money Spider John Koerner Music Is Just a Bunch of Notes
Heaven’s Radio 2:45 The Carter Family Lonesome Valley
Brother Where Are You 4:15 Shelby Lynne Sweet Relief III: Pennies From Heaven
Little Rain 4:07 Eric Bibb, Rory Block & Maria Muldaur Sisters & Brothers
Blues Walk 6:43 Lou Donaldson Blues Walk
Addis Ababa 2:56 James Newton Axum
Ecrovid 2:50 Zsófia Boros En Otra Parte
El Hechicero (The Wizard) 3:06 Finis Africae El Secreto de las 12 (The Secret Of 12 O’Clock)