What did you hear on the radio today?

[GA Russell]

Wednesday I heard Where is the Love? from the new Bobby Broom CD.

Tonight I heard The Four Freshmen doing Easy Street.

[GA Russell]

I'm listening now to Fresh Air, which is a program heard on public stations. They are conducting a lengthy interview with Joe Boyd, who is promoting his new book White Bicycles.

Boyd was a record producer and concert promoter in the 60s. He was a honcho when Dylan went electric at the Newport Folk Festival. He was the owner of the UFO club in London. He produced Pink Floyd's first single Arnold Layne.

Might be a book I'll want to read.

[BruceH]

I heard Joseph Cirinione on Fresh Air talk about the Bush administrations many missteps in dealing with the threat of nuclear proliferation. Very scary.

[alocispepraluger102]

I heard Joseph Cirinione on Fresh Air talk about the Bush administrations many missteps in dealing with the threat of nuclear proliferation. Very scary.

i also heard a show on wkcr with drummer jim black hosting a show of his favorite recordings, remarkable beautifully wrought sensitive and profound pieces one will never hear anywhere else, that i would not expect to be drummers favorites. jim has a keen appreciation of beautiful vocal works, and appears to be self-effacing.

i hope to hear more of jim black and his music very soon.

[sal]

My local public radio station played "Take Five" this morning on my way to work. A beautiful way to start the day.

[alocispepraluger102]

beautiful gloria lynne set on kcr

[Alexander]

This may sound odd, but I haven't listened to the radio in years. I have a CD player in my car, and I always have a disc playing. If I don't, I drive in silence. I'd rather listen to nothing than music picked by somebody that isn't me. I'm weird, I know...

[(BB)]

If I listen to radio at all it usually just the news on npr. But this morning I needed to take my wife's car and the radio was set on the anything goes community radio station. I was pleasantly surprised to hear Abbey Lincoln singing "Driva Man" with Coleman sounding very nice as well. The next song was an electronic/noise thing that sounded like a bunch of crickets with ADD. so I tossed in a CD and went on my merry way.

Edited March 23, 2007 by (BB)

[Chuck Nessa]

No radio today. I spent a large portion of the day loading the Nano with tunes for a long road trip beginning in the morning.

[GA Russell]

Tonight in the car I was listening to AM740 Toronto, an adult pop station, and they played Chet Baker singing There is No Greater Love.

Last month I heard an interview with Booker T. Jones of Booker T. and the MGs on Fresh Air. He made some interesting points:

His middle name is Taliaferro.

He played piano on a number of Stax songs, including Otis Redding's Dock of the Bay.

The MGs really were named after the car. The name was suggested by one of the guys in the studio who owned one. I have often read that they were not named for the car, but that MG stood for Memphis Group. I suspect that this was an effort by the record company to avoid paying the car company for the use of the name.

[GA Russell]

Today (Sunday) was the 70th anniversary of the Hindenburg crash. This morning I heard on NPR (I think the show was Weekend Edition) the tape of Herb Morrison announcing the event.

All these years, the playback of the Morrison tape has been too fast (and therefore too high). It was pitch-corrected for today's show, and Morrison sounded like a professional radio announcer, not like a geeky accountant.

[GA Russell]

This morning Weekend Edition closed with a feature on Michael Brecker's album Pilgrimage. They interviewed Herbie Hancock and another fellow whose name I didn't catch, except that I had never heard of him before.

Instead of talking about the music, they mostly talked about Michael's health, and how sad it is that he is now gone.

[alocispepraluger102]

about an hour ago i heard lennie tristano playing his own composition, elegy.

Edited May 29, 2007 by alocispepraluger102

[Bill Nelson]

In Georgia, radio noise is likely Clear Channel programmed, or Right-wing Talk Tyranny, or the trained parrots of NPR collegiate dilettantes. As I'm not into masochism, I never listen to radio.

[Kalo]

Fats Waller and Winston Churchill (not together, unfortunately) on Harvard's WHRB.

Dion singing Hank Williams on Fresh Air.

[BruceH]

Dion singing Hank Williams on Fresh Air.

I heard that too!

[alocispepraluger102]

DARVAS, GÁBOR

REMINISZCENCIÁK (1979)

(Reminiszenzen)

für Tonband

Manuskript

Autograph: Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Musiksammlung, Wien

Schallplatte: Hungaroton-SLPX-12365 (1982) [12'56"]

one of the most powerful and moving pieces of music aloc has heard.

[BruceH]

Just heard a report about the latest Cannes film festival. Apparently it was the best Cannes in quite a few years. Interesting.

[Kalo]

Just heard a report about the latest Cannes film festival. Apparently it was the best Cannes in quite a few years. Interesting.

I heard that too!

We've got to stop meeting like this.

[BruceH]

Just heard a report about the latest Cannes film festival. Apparently it was the best Cannes in quite a few years. Interesting.

I heard that too!

We've got to stop meeting like this.

Okay.

[alocispepraluger102]

henri duparc

to the stars

(about as beautiful as music can be)

not jazz, but, what the hell!