“Conference of the Birds” is my weekly radio program on WNUR-FM. It airs on Tuesdays from 5-7:30 am Chicago time (UTC-5). And, of course, when technology cooperates, you can just come here for the archives. You can subscribe to the podcast with this URL. You can also see one jumbo list of my past playlists (back to 9/2008 when WNUR started online playlists), for easier searching.
This week’s show, broadcast during the great windstorm of 2010, was a little truncated. The stream cut off midway, leading to some of the program being omitted. (The signal fades down at the end of “Oooo Las Vegas,” and doesn’t resume again until “Docta King,” meaning that the entire “Monkey Man/Monkey Woman” gimmick got lost. You’ll have to imagine that for yourselves.)
Listen:
download program (106 MB, 1 hrs 56 min)
Artist: “Track” – Album (Label)
Kippie Moeketsi & the Marabi Kings: “Clarinet Kwela” – Township Jazz ‘n Jive (Music Club)
Bobby Hutcherson: “Prints Tie” – San Francisco (Blue Note)
Mark Helias: “Beau Regard” – Attack the Future (Enja)
Sound in Action Trio: “Peace” – Design in Time (Delmark)
Ornette Coleman: “P.S. Unless One Has (Blues Connotation)” – Beauty Is A Rare Thing: The Complete Atlantic Recordings (Rhino)
Memphis Horns: “Soul Bowl” – What It Is! Funky Soul And Rare Grooves (1967-1977) (Rhino)
Watts 103rd St. Rhythm Band: “Spreadin’ Honey” – What It Is! Funky Soul And Rare Grooves (1967-1977) (Rhino)
Lee Dorsey: “Who’s Gonna Help a Brother Get Further” – New Orleans Funk (Soul Jazz)
Nomo: “Patterns” – Invisible Cities (Ubiquity)
Purna das Baul: “Agun Pani” – The Bauls of Bengal (Cramworld)
Asha Bhosle: “Aye Naujawan Hai Sab Kuchch Yahan” – Indiavision Hindi Film Songs & Instrumentals 1966-84 (Buda Musique)
Jorge Ben: “Xica da Silva” – Africa Brasil (Philips)
Gram Parsons: “Oooo Las Vegas” – Grievous Angel (Reprise)
Guitar Ray: “Patty Cake Shake” – Wardell Quezergue: Sixty Smokin’ Soul Senders (Funky Delicacies)
Dorsey Brockington/Raw Soul: “Leave My Beat Alone” – Ol’ Virginia Soul: Encore 1965-1975 (Arcania International)
Toots & the Maytals: “Monkey Man” – Sweet and Dandy (Jetset Records)
The Rolling Stones: “Monkey Man” – Let It Bleed (ABKCO Records.)
Brantley & Williams with Their Versatile 4: “When God Made Me He Didn’t Make a Monkey Man” – The Gospel Tradition: Roots & Branches, Vol. 1 (Legacy)
Sean Bergin: “Monkey Woman” – Kids Mysteries (Nimbus West)
Linton Kwesi Johnson: “It noh funny” – Independant Intavenshan: The Island Anthology (Island)
Nancy Dupree: “Docta King” – Ghetto Reality (Smithsonian Folkways)
Cheb Kader: “M’Hainek Ya Galbi” – The Rough Guide to the Music of North Africa (Rough Guides)
Oriental Brothers: “Ihe Chinyenre” – Heavy on the Highlife (Original Music)
Emmanuel Mulemena: “Imbote (Bemba)” – Zambush Vol. 2: Zambian Hits from the 60s and 70s (Sharp Wood Records)
John Mwale: “Wandugu Mnisaidie” – Before Benga, Vol. 2: The Nairobi Sound (Original Music)
The Bogard Brothers: “She Keeps on Knocking” – African Serenades, v. 14: African Twist and Rock and Roll (Matsuli Music)
Lloyd Green: “Skillet Lickin’” – Master of the Steel Strings (Koch)
Amina Claudine Myers: “November Cotton Flower” – Poes for Piano: The Piano Music of Marion Brown (Sweet Earth)
Fred Anderson Trio: “The Strut Time” – Black Horn Long Gone (Delmark)
Jeff Chan’s Horns of Plenty: “Licorice Stick Licorice Stick and Nice Like” – Jeff Chan’s Horns of Plenty (Asian Improv Records)
Esther Phillips: “I’m Getting ‘Long Alright” – The Best of Esther Philips 1962-1970 (Rhino)
