I spent some time this week digging around the libraries of the other shows at WNUR. I came across a nice new Folkways issue of solo guitar by Luis Bonfa which sent me down a bit of a Brazilian vein. I also turned up a new album on Cuneiform by Fast ‘n Bulbous, a group [...]
Through the Wire
"Hey, I'm just happy to be here…"
March 27th, 2005
GeoURL made Easy (for readers)
A couple of years ago, I fudged together a “bookmarklet” which would extract embedded latitude/longitude coordinates from a page and open a MapQuest map in a pop-up window. Well, that little hack has been trumped, and that’s not a worry to me. I learned from the recently relaunched GeoURL.org that someone has put together a [...]
March 23rd, 2005
WNUR Jazz Show, 17 March 2005
Everyone take note that Jim Baker’s first solo album is out on Delmark, and it’s well worth checking out. Plus he wrote his own liner notes, which is a nice extra bit of insight into one of the more soft-spoken of Chicago’s improvisors. Artist Track Album Label FME Part 1 (for Joe McPhee) Underground Okkadisk [...]
March 16th, 2005
WNUR Jazz Show, 10 March 2005
Henry Grimes and Marshall Allen paid a visit to WNUR later the night of this show, so I played a track from Don Cherry’s “Symphony for Improvisers” in honor. I have also been pretty excited recently about this Bill Ware album, “Sir Duke,” which pairs his vibraphone with Marc Ribot on electric guitar playing Duke [...]
March 16th, 2005
WNUR Jazz Show, 3 March 2005
Today’s show was fun, and fairly random. I got a kick out of the Billy Taylor Trio’s take on the music of “My Fair Lady” and Baby Face Willette’s organ take on “Whatever Lola Wants” (from “Damn Yankees”). Swinging to the other side of things, today’s show got a bit freer than they have been [...]
March 2nd, 2005
WNUR Jazz Show, 24 February 2005
This weeks show was quite relaxed compared to the heavy “pitching” of last week’s “phone-a-thon” edition. I was pretty impressed by Roscoe Mitchell’s “Song for my Sister,” which is a couple of years old now, but which I hadn’t heard yet. It’s a really nice spread from free to tighter compositions, including the funky “Count [...]
March 2nd, 2005
WNUR Jazz Show, 17 February 2005
Well, slackness is truly prevailing when it comes to posting these playlists; still, before I disabled my comments because of the tedious flood of comment spam, I got a few remarks from actual musicians I’ve played on the show, so I feel like there’s some value to this. It’s also handy for me as a [...]