“Conference of the Birds” is my weekly radio program on WNUR-FM. It airs on Tuesdays from 5-7:30 am Chicago time (UTC-). And, of course, when technology cooperates, you can just come here for the archives. You can subscribe to the podcast with this URL (click here to subscribe in iTunes).

I had a lot of fun with this week’s show. It helped to have not one, not two, but three folks call because they were interested in music they heard. It really makes this all much more fun when you learn that people are excited about the music.

I also surprised myself with a rare (for the show) house track, in this case from Derrick Carter, but it felt like it fit in pretty well, and in general, I’ve been worried about the show being stale, so it’s good to go out on a limb here and there.

I stayed quite a bit late since Stephen couldn’t make his show. The home archiver cuts off at about 7:40, but since one of the callers was interested in “Attica Blues,” which was off the end of the normal recording, I extended the automatic archive with an untruncated version of the Art Ensemble of Chicago’s “Funky Aeco” and four more songs after which felt like they really fit the way the show went. The Ivo Perelman track is one I don’t own, so I couldn’t add that to the show, and after that is also where I started to shift into “I’ve been on the air a long time, so pick mostly familiar and longer tracks” mode. So after Andrew Hill, you have to use your imagination (or the internet…)

Enjoy!

Listen:

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Artist: “Track” – Album (Label)
James Brown: “Top of the Stack” – Soul Pride: the Instrumentals (Polydor)
Jeff Parker: “Days Fly By” – Like-Coping (Delmark)
Tortoise: “Gigantes” – Beacons of Ancestorship (Thrill Jockey)
Derrick Carter: “Do You Believe” – Mo Pschidt (Classic)
Dr. Octagon: “Earth People” – Dr. Octagon (Mo Wax)
Brand New Heavies with Black Sheep: “State of Yo” – Heavy Rhyme Experience, Vol. 1 (Delicious Vinyl)
Kurtis Blow: “The Breaks (Part 1)” – Say It Loud! A Celebration of Black Music in America (Rhino)
KRS-One: “Sound of Da Police” – Hip Hop Sessions: Classics from Hip Hop’s Holy Grail (Sessions)
Augustus Pablo/King Tubby: “Barbwire Disaster” – Essential Dub: Ruff Cuts & Hard Riddims from the Mixmaster (Metro)
Powerhouse Sound: “Coxsonne (for Coxsonne Dodd) (Oslo Version)” – Oslo / Chicago : Breaks (Atavistic)
Lucky 7s: “Flyswatter” – Live at the Hungry Brain (Lakefront Digital)
Jorge Ben: “Ponta de Lança Africano (Umbabarauma)” – África Brasil (Philips)
Caetano Veloso: “Eles” – Caetano Veloso (1968) (Phillips)
El Kinto: “Esa Tristeza” – El Kinto (Lion Productions)
Belita Palma: “Manazinha” – Angola 70′s (Vol. 2: 1974-1978) (Buda Musique)
Lucho Bermudez y su Orquesta Sabanera: “Arroz con Coco” – Cartagena! Curro Fuentes & The Big Band Cumbia and Descarga Sound Of Colombia 1962 – 72 (Soundway)
Simon Hlatshwayo: “Ama Crazy Crackers” – Rock Jive Vol 1 (Flat International / Electric Jive)
The Five Blind Boys of Alabama: “In the Wilderness” – Good News, Vol. 4: Glory, Glory Hallelujah (Proper)
The Bosstones: “Mope-itty Mope” – The Doo Wop Box (Rhino)
Art Neville: “Oooh-Whee Baby” – His Specialty Recordings 1956 – 58 (Specialty)
Cyril Neville: “Gossip” – Funky Soul and Rare Grooves (1967-1977) (Rhino)
Johnny Dyani: “Kalahari Lives” – Afrika (Steeplechase)
Nomo: “Discontinued” – Nomo (Ypsilanti Records)
Laurie Anderson: “Sharkey’s Night” – Home of the Brave (Warner Bros. Records)
Criolo: “Não Existe Amor Em SP” – The New Brazilian Music, vol. 4 (BMA)
Carlinhos Brown: “Kissangá” – Candombless (Tratore)
DKV Trio: “Chicago: December 29, 2010: Part 2A” – Past Present (Not Two)
John Coltrane: “Part 2: Resolution (live version)” – A Love Supreme: Deluxe Edition (Impulse)
Anthony Braxton: “No. 40B” – Willisau (Quartet) (hat ART)
Art Ensemble of Chicago: “Funky Aeco” – New Thing! (Soul Jazz)
Archie Shepp: “Attica Blues” – Attica Blues (Impulse)
Carla Bley: “Ad Infinitum” – Dinner Music (Watt/ECM)
Arthur Blythe: “Slidin’ Through” – Lenox Avenue Breakdown (Koch Jazz)
Andrew Hill: “Hey Hey” – Lift Every Voice (Blue Note)
Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp/William Parker: “De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum” – Book of Sound (Leo)
Paul Bley/Evan Parker/Barre Phillips: “Marsh Tides” – Time Will Tell (ECM)
Digital Primitives: “Ol’ Blue” – Soul Searchin’ (Hopscotch)
Sao Paulo Underground: “Taking Back the Sea is No Easy Task” – Beija Flors Velho E Sujo (Cuneiform Records)
Ernest Dawkins New Horizons Ensemble: “Maghostut” – South Side Street Songs (Silkheart)
Nicole Mitchell’s Black Earth Ensemble: “Phases of Subduction” – Intergalactic Beings (FPE)
Eight Bold Souls: “Brown Town” – Last Option (Thrill Jockey)
Klang: “Memories of You” – Other Doors (AllosDocuments)

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About an hour of today’s show is in memory of the great Charlie Haden, who passed a few days before. Otherwise, besides an opening array of African and Afro-Haitian music, it’s a jazzy kind of show.

Enjoy!

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Artist: “Track” – Album (Label)
Orchestra Baobab: “Ndongoy Daara” – Specialist In All Styles (Nonesuch)
Docteur Nico & African Fiesta: “Nico Alekaki” – 1967: Merveilles du Passe (Adageo )
Orchestre Webert Sicot: “Ambiance Cadence” – Haiti Direct: Big Band, Mini Jazz & Twoubadou Sounds, 1960-1978 (Strut)
Asaase Ase: “Obiani Sua Efir” – Ghana Special: Modern Highlife, Afro Sounds & Ghanaian Blues 1968 – 1981 (Soundway)
Charlie Haden & Hank Jones: “Wade in the Water” – Steal Away – Spirituals, Hymns And Folk Songs (Verve Records)
Charlie Haden & Ornette Coleman: “O.C.” – Closeness – Duets (Horizon)
Ornette Coleman: “The Face of the Bass” – Change of the Century (Atlantic)
Charlie Haden & the Liberation Music Orchestra: “Nkosi Sikelel’i Afrika” – Dreamkeeper (Blue Note)
Charlie Haden Quartet West: “Palo Alto” – Now Is The Hour (Verve)
Old and New Dreams: “Chairman Mao” – Old and New Dreams (Black Saint)
Charlie Haden / Don Cherry / Edward Blackwell: “Law Years” – The Montreal Tapes (Verve)
Yusef Lateef: “Lunceford Prance” – Part of the Search (Atlantic)
Ohio Penitentiary 511 Ensemble: “Java Man” – Hard Luck Soul (Jazzman)
Ernest Dawkins’ New Horizons Ensemble: “Monk’s Temptation” – Chicago Now – Thirty Years Of Great Black Music Vol.2 (Silkheart)
Steven Hashimoto’s Mothra: “Farewell to Manzanar” – Tradewind (Chicago Sessions)
Sun Ra: “Sky Blues” – The Singles (Evidence)
Fred Anderson / Marilyn Crispell / Hamid Drake: “Destiny 4” – Destiny (Okka Disk)
Hamiet Bluiett / Don Pullen / Fred Hopkins / Don Moye: “Oasis / The Well” – Im/possible To Keep (India Navigation)

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I didn’t have much opportunity to prepare for this week’s show, so I used some longer jazz tracks to buy time to find more music to play. Along the way, I belatedly learned of the April passing of baritone saxophonist, composer and activist Fred Ho. (I also promised to share a picture of him in all his green-ness, in this photo, which is used on the cover of his “Celestial Green Monster” album.)

All in all, I think this show turned out pretty well, but it’s not for you punk kids who like your songs resolutely under 2 minutes long!

Enjoy!

Listen:

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Artist: “Track” – Album (Label)
Steve Lacy: “Lush Life” – Avignon and After 2 (Emanem)
Charles Mingus: “Trio and Group Dancers/Single Solos and Group Dance/Group and Solo Dance” – The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (Impulse)
Fred Ho and the Green Monster Big Band: “Float like a Butterfly, Sting Like an Afro Asian Bumblebee!” – The Sweet Science Suite: a Scientific Soul Music Honoring of Muhammad Ali (Big Red Media)
Fred Ho and the Afro-Asian Music Ensemble: “Caravan” – The Underground Railroad to my Heart (Soul Note)
Fred Ho and the Green Monster Big Band: “Spiderman Theme” – Celestial Green Monster (Big Red Media)
The Fully Celebrated: “Moose and Grizzly Bear’s Ville” – Drunk on the Blood of the Holy Ones (AUM Fidelity)
Dave Holland Big Band: “Triple Dance” – What Goes Around (ECM)
Johnny Hodges: “Junior Hop” – Passion Flower: 1940-46 (Bluebird)
Audio One: “The Hard Blues / Skin 1” – The Midwest School (Audiophonic)
Max Roach: “Little Folks” – Jazz in 3/4 Time (Impulse)
Max Roach and Anthony Braxton: “Birth” – Birth and Rebirth (Black Saint)
Andrew Cyrille/Mark Dresser/Marty Ehrlich: “A Simple Melody” – C/D/E (Jazz Magnet)
Mark Dresser/Gerry Hemingway/Assif Tsahar: “Deceptive Responses” – Code Re(a)d (Hopscotch Records)
The Claudia Quintet: “Adowa (for gra)” – I, Claudia (Cuneiform)
Will Holshouser Trio: “Blue Light Special” – Reed Song (Clean Feed)
Keefe Jackson’s Likely So: “There is no language without deceit” – A Round Goal (Delmark)
Robert Marcel Lepage: “Le Ketchak américain” – Le Lait Maternal (Ambiances Magnetiques)
Robert Marcel Lepage: “Le Robert bougalou” – Le Lait Maternal (Ambiances Magnetiques)
Miles Davis: “Miles Runs the Voodoo Down” – Bitches Brew (Legacy)
Steve Lacy: “Moms” – Avignon and After 2 (Emanem)

WNUR Conference of the Birds, 2014-07-08 [ 2:38:28 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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This week we commemorate the passing of two soul greats: Bobby Womack and Teenie Hodges. Also a big set of African music at the beginning, a latin set, and the usual smattering of other stuff.

Enjoy!

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Artist: “Track” – Album (Label)
Rail Band: “Mali Tebaga Mogoma” – Belle Epoque Vol. 1: Soundiata (Stern’s Africa)
African Brothers Band International of Ghana: “Owuo Aye Me Bi” – Owuo Aye Me Bi (Makossa)
Orchestra Baobab: “Doomou Baaye” – Bamba (Stern’s)
Thu Zahina: “Mea Culpa Tshama Pepe” – Coup de Chapeau (Retroafric)
Tabu Ley Rochereau: “N’daya paradis” – The Voice of Lightness (Stern’s)
Oinsou Corneille & Black Santiagos: “Vinon So Minsou” – African Scream Contest – Raw & Psychedelic Afro Sounds from Benin & Togo 70s (Analog Africa)
Pivi et ses Balladins: “Samba” – Discothèque 72 – Guinée (Syliphone)
Bobby Womack & Peace: “Across 110th Street” – Pimps, Players & Private Eyes (Sire)
Bobby Womack: “A Woman’s Gotta Have It” – Windy City Soul (Cosm Roks)
Bobby Womack: “Arkansas State Prison” – In Prison (Afroamerican Prison Music From Blues To Hiphop) (Trikont)
Bobby Womack: “I’m a Midnight Mover” – Fly Me to the Moon (Minit)
Wilson Pickett: “I’m in Love” – A Man and a Half (Atlantic)
The Valentinos: “It’s All Over Now” – SAR Records Story (ABKCO)
Al Green: “Love and Happiness” – The Immortal Soul of Al Green (EMI)
Cat Power: “Islands” – The Greatest (Matador)
SNCC Freedom Singers led by Marshall Jones: “In the Mississippi River” – Voices of the Civil Rights Movement (Smithsonian Folkways)
William Parker Organ Quartet: “Jacques’ Groove” – Uncle Joe’s Spirit House (AUM Fidelity)
Coleman Hawkins: “Pedalin’” – Night Hawk (Swingville)
Kermit Ruffins: “Leshianne” – The Big Butter & Egg Man (Justice Records)
Soul Rebels: “Roll Rebel Roll” – No Place Like Home (self released)
Rodolfo Aicardi con Los Bestiales: “Añito Viejo” – Exitos de Rodolfo Con Los Bestiales (Discos Fuentes)
Grupo Folklorico y Experimental Nuevoyorquino: “Canto Asoyin” – Concepts in Unity (Salsoul)
Orquesta Aragón: “Pregúntame” – Carnaval en Cuba (Smithsonian Folkways)
Xavier Cugat Orchestra with Alfredo Valdés: “Bruca Maniguá” – Bim Bam Bum: 1935-1940 (Harlequin)
Estrellas de Chocolate: “La Brocha” – Cuban Gold, Vol. 3: El Mambo Me Priva (Qbadisc)
Victor Boa y Su Musica: “Soy Solo Para Ti” – Panama: Latin, Calypso and Funk on the Isthmus 1965-75 (Soundway)
Quarteto Original: “5 pro 4” – The New Brazilian Music, Vol. 4 (BMA)
Assif Tsahar/Cooper Moore/Hamid Drake: “Confessions” – Lost Brother (Hopscotch Records)
Ray Anderson: “La Vie en Rose” – It Just So Happens (Enja Records)
Satlah: “Nevalah” – Voices in the Wilderness (Tzadik)
John Kirby: “Undecided” – The Classics Sampler (Chronological Classics)
Robert Marcel Lepage: “Rainettes à la brunante” – Canard Branchu (Ambiances Magnétiques)
Nicole Mitchell’s Black Earth Ensemble: “The Ooli Moves” – Intergalactic Beings (FPE Records)
Digital Primitives: “Grassblade” – Soul Searchin’ (Hopscotch Records)
Kahil El’ Zabar’s Ritual Trio: “Follow the Sun” – Follow the Sun (Delmark)

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I waited so long to post this show, I can’t remember if there was a theme! Anyway, there’s a lot of good music. Just check it out!

Enjoy!

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Artist: “Track” – Album (Label)
Bembeya Jazz National: “Mami Wata” – Hommage À Demba Carrere (Syliphone / Sylla)
Amadou Ballake & 5 Consuls: “Sukura Moussa” – Ouaga Affair: Hard Won Sound of the Upper Volta 1974-1978 (Savannaphone)
Airto Moreira: “Aquí Se Puede” – Subway Salsa: The Montuno Records Story (Vampi Soul)
Golden Gate Quartet: “No Restricted Signs” – Swing Down, Chariot (Columbia/Legacy)
Black Beats: “Meda Ho Mawo” – Telephone Lobi (Original Music)
E.K.’s Band: “Kaa Bi Reba” – QP280 – 78rpm (Queenophone)
Lulama Legola: “My Boy Friend” – Sophie Thapedi & Lulama Legola (Soul Soul)
The Grasshoppers: “I Am There” – Next Stop… Soweto Vol. 2: Soul, Funk & Organ Grooves From The Townships 1969-1976 (Strut)
Poets of Rhythm: “Fondle Rock” – Discern / Define (Quannum Projects)
Willie & Allen: “I Don’t Need No One” – Get Low Down!: The Soul of New Orleans, ‘65-’67 (Sundazed)
Soul Angels: “It’s All In Your Mind” – What It Is! Funky Soul And Rare Grooves (1967-1977) (Rhino)
Hattie Littles: “My Black Belt” – Finders Keepers: Motown Girls 1961-67 (Ace)
Bettye Lavette: “Only Time Will Tell Me” – I’ve Got my Own Hell to Raise (ANTI-)
Hot Chocolate: “So Dam Funky” – Hot Chocolate (Numero Group)
King Tubby: “Dubbing My Way” – Shining Dub (Esoldun)
Linton Kwesi Johnson: “Historic Dub” – Independant Intavenshan (Island)
The Vandermark Quartet: “Leadfoot” – Solid Action (Platypus Records)
Public Enemy: “Bring the Noise” – It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (Def Jam)
Indians of the Nation: “Indian Story -> Calliope” – United We Stand, Divided We Fall (Ch Ching)
Champion Jack Dupree: “Way Down” – Doctors, Professors, Kings & Queens (Shout Factory)
McVay and Johnson: “Ain’t Gonna Lay My Armor Down” – Goodbye, Babylon (Dust-to-Digital)
Hank Williams: “Pan American” – The Wonderful World Of Hank Williams – 24 Greatest Hits (Remember)
Patsy Cline: “Too Many Secrets” – Country Great! (Universal )
Wanda Jackson: “This Should Go On Forever” – Vintage Collections (Capitol Nashville)
Loretta Lynn: “Fist City” – Honky Tonk Girl: the Loretta Lynn Collection (MCA Nashville)
Judy Henske: “I Know You Rider” – Judy Henske (Elektra)
Orchestre Veve: “Venus” – Cazumbi – African Sixties Garage Vol-1 (Nosmoke Records)
The Raves: “Don’t Chop Down My Tree” – Springtime Crossover! (DJ ByLamplight)
The Calvaes: “Lonely Lonely Village” – Hong Kong Mississippi (New Kind of Mambo v. 48) (Johnny Q)
Hesitations: “Stay in My Corner” – Solid Gold (Kapp)
Terry Callier: “Can’t Catch the Trane” – First Light Chicago: 1969-1971 (Premonition )
Dave Burrell & Leena Conquest: “Black Robert” – Rome, December 4, 2008 (Inconstant Sol)
William Parker Quartet: “Corn Meal Dance” – Wood Flute Songs: Anthology/Live 2006-1012 (AUM Fidelity)
Curtis Hasselbring: “White Sauce Hot Sauce Boss?” – The New Mellow Edwards (Skirl)
The Tiptons: “SnoDog” – Drive (Spoot/Zipa Publishing)

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A little of this, a little of that…

Enjoy!

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Artist: “Track” – Album (Label)
Tim Maia: “Amores” – Tim Maia (1973) (Polydor)
Astrud Gilberto: “Voce Ja Foi a Bahia” – Look to the Rainbow (Verve)
International Orchestra Safari Sound: “Homa Imenizidia” – Zanzibara 7: Sikinde Vs Ndekule (Buda Musique)
L’Orchestre Negro-Jazz de Cotonou: “Vi Gninou” – Mathias Malaya (Sonores du Benin)
Kenny Burrell: “Terrace Theme (Alternate take 2)” – Guitar Forms (Verve)
David Thekwane and the Brothers: “Springbok Dance” – Reggae Special (Soul Soul)
Ernie K-Doe: “Hotcha Mama” – Sansu 1016 – 7″ (Sansu)
Dojo Cuts with Roxie Ray: “Something Going On” – Dojo Cuts (Record Kicks)
Jackie Mittoo: “Stereo Freeze” – 100% Dynamite (Soul Jazz)
Les Animateurs: “Ti Machine” – Haiti Direct: Big Band, Mini Jazz & Twoubadou Sounds, 1960-1978 (Strut)
L’Ensemble Abricot: “Chonga” – Tumbélé! Biguine, Afro & Latin Sounds From The French Caribbean, 1963-74 (Soundway)
Quim Manuel: “Senhor Doutor” – Angola Soundtrack 2 – Hypnosis, Distortions & Other Sonic Innovations 1969-1978 (Analog Africa)
Zaiko Langa Langa: “Astrida” – Tout Choc Anti Choc (Prozal)
Mwanga Paul and Jazz Venus: “Putulukesu Zengele Ndombe” – Ngoma Super 45 #66 (Ngoma)
Orquestra Contemporânea de Olinda: “Tá Falado” – Orquestra Contemporânea de Olinda ()
Ry Cooder & Manuel Galban: “Los Twangueros” – Mambo Sinuendo (Nonesuch)
Evolution: “I’m Walkin’ High” – Sensacional Soul, Vol. 2 (Vampi Soul)
The Chosen Few: “Shaft” – Tighten Up, Vol. 1-6: Trojan Reggae Classics 1968-1974 (Trojan)
The James Cotton Band: “I Got a Feelin’” – High Energy (Sequel)
Carolina Chocolate Drops: “West End Blues” – Leaving Eden (Nonesuch)
Memphis Jug Band: “Sometimes I Think I Love You” – Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 1 (1927-1928) (Document)
Little Brother Montgomery: “St. Louis Blues” – Farro Street Jive (Folkways)
Rev. Gary Davis: “Samson & Delilah” – Gospel, Blues And Street Songs (Smithsonian Folkways)
Orchestre Vijana Jazz: “Bujumbura” – featuring Mary Maria (Ahadi)
Tamikrest: “Adounia tabarat” – Chatma (Glitterbeat)
Radio I-Ching: “Let My People Go” – Last Kind Words (Resonatmusic)
Sun Ra: “Outer Spaceways Incorporated” – Space is the Place (soundtrack) (Impulse)
Spaceways Incorporated: “We Travel the Spaceways” – Thirteen Cosmic Standards by Sun Ra & Funkadelic (Atavistic)
Nicole Mitchell’s Sonic Projections: “Bright City” – The Secret Escapades of Velvet Anderson (Rogueart)
Chris McGregor: “Umsengi Mabele Lo” – Piano Song, Vol. 2 (Musica)
Steve Coleman: “Fortitude and Chaos” – Genesis / The Opening Of The Way (RCA)

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Today was all over the place. I’ll admit I haven’t been super inspired about the show lately. Feel free to let me know what is sounding good, either on the show or that you think I need to hear…

Enjoy!

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Artist: “Track” – Album (Label)
Audio One: “The Floor (for Julius Hemphill)” – An International Report (Audiographic)
Kashmere Stage Band: “All Praises/Zero Point (Reprise) (Live)” – Texas Thunder Soul 1968-74 (Now-Again)
Hypnotic Brass Ensemble: “Gibbous” – Hypnotic Brass Ensemble (Honest Jon’s Records)
Muyei Power: “Yamba Sowe” – Sierra Leone In 1970s USA (Soundway)
Thomas Phale: “Dragon Special” – The Kings and Queens of Township Jive (Earthworks)
Club 8: “Western hospitality” – The People’s Record (Labrador)
Talking Heads: “Houses in Motion” – Heatwave Festival 8/23/1980 (Concert Vault)
Jamose: “The Rhythmologist” – Hip Hop Forever (BBE)
Dead Prez: “Be Healthy” – Let’s Get Free (Loud Records)
Parlet: “Misunderstanding” – The Best of Parlet (Casablanca Records)
Blind Blake: “Spirit Rum” – Goombay (Ling Music Group)
Vincent Martin and his Bahamians: “Stone Cold Dead in the Market” – Bahamas Goombay 1951-59 (Frémeaux & Associés)
Bobby Benson & his Jam Session Orchestra: “Calypso Minor One” – Marvellous Boy: Calypso from West Africa (Honest Jon’s)
Justin Hines: “The Higher the Monkey Climbs” – Intensified: Original Ska 1962-66 (Island)
Northwoods Improvisers: “Caverns” – Branches (Entropy Stereo)
Joshua Abrams: “Dolphin Cave Dancing” – Natural Information (Eremite Records)
The Heliocentrics: “Eastern Begena” – 13 Degrees of Reality (Now-Again Records)
The Blue Notes: “Now” – The Blue Notes Legacy – Live in South Afrika 1964 (Ogun)
Muhal Richard Abrams: “Finditnow” – The Hearinga Suite (Black Saint)
Fred Anderson / Steve McCall: “Within” – Vintage Duets (Okka Disk)

WNUR Conference of the Birds, 2014-06-03 [ 2:17:32 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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May 13th is Stevie Wonder’s birthday, and that was clearly cause for celebration. The first hour of this show is mostly Stevie, with a couple of covers and a Syreeta tune. After that, just a somewhat random sampling of things…

Enjoy!

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Artist: “Track” – Album (Label)
Stevie Wonder: “I Wish” – Songs in the Key of Life (Motown)
Stevie Wonder: “Be Cool Be Calm (and Keep Yourself Together)” – Down to Earth (Motown)
Stevie Wonder: “I Was Made to Love Her” – Beg, Scream & Shout: the Big Ol’ Box of 60′s Soul (Rhino)
Stevie Wonder: “Jesus Children of America” – Innervisions (Motown)
Stevie Wonder: “I Gotta Have a Song” – Signed, Sealed & Delivered (Motown)
Stevie Wonder: “Love Having You Around” – Music of my Mind (Motown)
Syreeta: “Come and Get this Stuff” – Stevie Wonder Presents: Syreeta (Motown)
Stevie Wonder: “You Are the Sunshine of my Life” – Talking Book (Motown)
Stevie Wonder: “Anything You Want Me to Do” – Signed, Sealed & Delivered (Motown)
Stevie Wonder: “Sixteen Tons” – Down to Earth (Motown)
Soul Rebels: “Living for the City” – Unlock Your Mind (Rounder)
Stevie Wonder: “He’s Misstra Know It All” – Innervisions (Motown)
Alton Ellis: “It’s a Shame” – Darker than Blue: Soul from Jamdown Productions (Blood and Fire)
Blue Scholars: “Burnt Offering” – Blue Scholars (Not On Label)
The Dining Rooms: “You” – Tre (Guidance)
Sun Ra: “Where Pathways Meet” – Lanquidity (Evidence)
Abdoulaye Cisse: “Kodjougou” – Bambara Mystic Soul: The Raw Sound of Burkina Faso 1974-1979 (Analog Africa)
Bernard Woma: “Gori Foto” – Live at the Pito Bar (Avant)
Joshua Abrams: “A Lucky Stone” – Natural Information (Eremite)
Souvernir Nam Adjosa: “Koudédé” – Music from Saharan Cell Phones, Vol. 2 (Sahel Sounds)
Minzoto Ya Zaïre: “Koni Vuka” – Zaïre Folk-Pop (Arcade)
Trevor Watts’ Moire Music Drum Orchestra: “Brekete Takai” – A Wider Embrace (ECM)
Johnny Jenkins: “Spunky” – The Complete Stax/Volt Singles, Vol. 1 (Stax)
Mary Wells: “Bye Bye Baby” – Beg, Scream & Shout: the Big Ol’ Box of 60′s Soul (Rhino)
Horace Family: “God Will Dry My Weeping Eyes” – Eccentric Soul: Good God! A Gospel Funk Hymnal (Numero Group)
Nara Leão: “Um Chorinho” – Nara ’67 (El Records)
The Melody Aces: “Suru Lo Dara” – Ignace De Souza: The Great Unknowns (Original Music)
Susie Ibarra: “Anitos” – Folkloriko (Tzadik)
Tin Hat Trio: “Laren’s Lullaby” – Book Of Silk (Artemis)
Joyce: “Bloco do eu sozinho” – Joyce (Philips)
Donald Byrd: “On the Trail” – Mustang (Blue Note)
The Vandermark Five: “Full Deck (for Jack Montrose)” – Simpatico (Atavistic)

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