This week’s show was kind of all over the place. I played a lot of things which were pretty new to me, but nothing really stood out. I had some other stuff I had to do while I was on the air, so I was kind of distracted, unfortunately. Still, I managed [...]
Through the Wire
"Hey, I'm just happy to be here…"
January 26th, 2005
WNUR Jazz Show, 13 January 2005
After finding those gems in the vinyl last week, I wanted to see what else I could find. I was excited to find Cecil McBee’s “Compassion,” which I didn’t know anything about, but which happened to have a version of a Chico Freeman song I’ve loved for years, “Pepe’s Samba” (labeled “Pepi’s” on this [...]
January 12th, 2005
WNUR Jazz Show, 6 January 2005
This week technical problems at the station required me to alternate tracks between CD and vinyl, which provided a pretty exciting raft of discoveries in the record shelves. When I started at WNUR, the CD library was still pretty small and we played a lot of records, but almost everything new (for jazz, at [...]
January 5th, 2005
WNUR Jazz Show, 30 December 2004
Whoops! Posted this with no comments at first. This week’s show featured a fair bit of personal new music; I went on a Jazz Record Mart spree with my father-in-law right after Christmas.
(I’d like to point out that it’s a cool father-in-law who likes the idea of a JRM shopping spree), and I got [...]