paul secor

The Cool Sound of Albert Collins (TCF Hall)

Happy Birthday!

Gummo Zeppo Chico

Bateria Nota 10: Vol. 8 (Top Tape) Brazilian percussion

Richard Penniman Eskew Reeder Billy Wright

Happy Birthday!

Marisa Tomei Mel Torme Judge Harold T. Stone

NY Times obit: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/25/arts/anne-meara-comedian-and-actress-dies-at-85.html

I saw her at a comedy show a few years ago. Jerry Stiller was performing on the same bill with Professor Irwin Corey and Dick Gregory. Mr. Stiller was reminiscing about his beginnings in show business when a woman in the audience started heckling him. Turned out to be Anne Meara - a setup. She joined him on stage and they were hilarious together. I'm truly sorry to read of her passing. Thanks for the laughter you brought us, Ms. Meara.

Jimmy Rowles Jim Bakker John Butcher

Nicholas Cage Dyke and the Blazers Penn and Teller

Bart Campaneris Ernie Banks Banksy

Chief Bender Morechai Brown Cy Young

Thank you, Mr. Belgrave.

The Magnificent Montague The Splendid Splinter Guy Grand

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/23/sports/marques-haynes-harlem-globetrotters-star-dribbler-dies-at-89.html?ref=obituaries&_r=0 More than a basketball player, he was a part of Americana.

Jo hnny Gimble & the Texas Swing Pioneers" Still Swingin' (CMH) A group of Western swing (or Texas swing, as the record cover has it) veterans playing and singing old pop tunes, Western swing tunes, and blues that they came up playing when they were younger - good time timeless music.

Probably the most cogent comment I've ever read about Wynton.

Jim Dale Hill Green Chuck Noll

Chuck hipped me to this (credit where credit is due): Strings are thoughtfully and imaginatively arranged, and Lee Konitz is at or near the top of his game. One to seek out.

I've never heard that record, but mention of it has crossed my path twice recently. Here, and in an email a friend sent me recently. He was playing a gig and to quote him: "the pianist played Hank Jones's introduction from the album note-for-note perfect. I couldn't believe my ears, partly because I didn't know anyone else who was a fan of the LP--for a minute I thought maybe Duke had done a similar intro that Hank had lifted, but no. Joe could see the expression on my face while he was playing it, and afterwards said something to the effect of "so you know that record, too?" The sort of inside joke that can make playing an awards dinner a tolerable experience."

Pinetop Perkins Elmo Hope Charles Oakley

Knute Rockne Newton Minow Captain Ahab

J.R.'s the kind of player who will make 8 threes in one game and miss 8 the next time out. You can't count on him.

Negative from whom? Shitheads who just want to hear the fucking music, man? Which is asinine, anyone can just listen to the music, man, anytime. How many minutes/hours of Bird interviews-- i.e. Charlie Parker speaking-- and how many hours of interviews of musicians who played with and knew Bird have you (or anyone) heard on your (anyone's) happy hoss horsewhit "public" radio station? Negative from one guy who had an interesting career in radio & other forms of jazz presentation 40+ years ago? The archive of WKCR interviews alone-- jazz & classical especially but also other arts, some politics, news etc-- is astonishing in depth & breadth & ** any ** signs that such is threatened, inc. Schaap's vanishing, are worrisome. So far, save the Ben Young departure noted by Clifford above and the unprecedented interruption of a birthday broadcast for a sports (or any) talk show, all is mostly as it's been but that doesn't mean it ** has ** to stay that way. Q: how many times have you heard 3+ hour interviews with Roswell Rudd in the last few years? Karl Berger? Ras Moshe? Pheeoan Aklaff? George Lewis? Adam Rudolph? Matt Shipp? MONTHS and MONTHS of dissection of all known recordings of Cecil Taylor 1970-1974? Tons and tons of stuff I didn't hear, am forgetting etc. How long did YOUR local radio station celebrate the life of Ronald Shannon Jackson? Etc etc. WKCR's opera & contemporary classical programming-- check the latter out, JSngry, weekdays 9:30-12 and 3-6, not always because depending on show they might feature diff period or 'contemporary improv' etc-- are alone invaluable and blow any fucking 'classical' station proper (sic) in the U.S. away. I don't think anyone really wished him harm. Hey, I have nothing against Phil Schaap, but there are others here who have posted negatively about him in the past - and not just one person. That was my point. I hope he returns to the airwaves.