Playlist, January 31, 2010

Set One
Marco Benevento; The Weathermen; Live at Tonic (2007 Ropeadope)
KJ Denhert; What's My Name; Lucky 7 (2007 Motema)
Steve Colson; Parallel Universe; The Untarnished Dream (2009 Silver Sphinx)
[mic break 10:46 a.m.]

Set Two
Dan Dean; 'S Wonderful; 251 (2010 Origin)
Matt Vashlishan; Sailing; No Such Thing (2010 Origin)
Jimmy Herring; Only When It's Light; Lifeboat (2008 Abstract Logix)
Amanda Carr & the Kenny Hadley Big Band; There's a Small Hotel; Common Thread (2009 OMS)
Lady K & the Kings of Swing; Luck Be a Lady; Live at Blackhawk (2010 Kayjazz)
Q'd Up' Llévame ya al Mundo de las Maravillas; Quintessence (2009 Jazz Hang)
[mic break 11:23 a.m.]

Set Three
Saltman Knowles; They Don't Really Care for Us; Yesterday's Man (2010 Pacific Coast Jazz)
Monica Ramey; Tenderly; Make Someone Happy (2010 Cognito)
U.O. Project; N'Awlins Greens; It's Time for U (2010 usojazzy.com)
Susie Meissner; I'm Old Fashioned; I'll Remember April (2009 Lydian Jazz)
Keith Price; Confucius Corner; Breakfast of Champions (2010 keithprice.ca)
Out To Lunch; Dr. Dre's Bar Mitzva > Skip; Melvin's Rockpile (2009 Accurate)
The David Leonhardt Trio; Simple Gifts; Bach to the Blues (2009 Big Bang)
Ben Sidran; Blowin' in the Wind; Dylan Different (2009 Bonsai)
RG Royal Sound Orchestra; That's the Way; Impact (2009 RG)
[mic break 12:23 p.m.]

Set Four
Charlie Hunter; You Look Good in Orange; Gentlemen, I Neglected To Inform You You Will Not Be Getting Paid (2010 Spire Artist Media)
Grateful Dead; Weather Report Suite; 1974-02-23 Winterland

[1:00 p.m.]
Michaela Mussolino; Live From Where? 2005-10-19
[2:00 p.m.]


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Pee-Wee Gets an iPad!

Pee-wee Gets An iPad! from Pee-wee Herman

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Playlist, January 24, 2010

Set One
Dan Dean; It's On; 251 (2010 Origin)
Jacques Schwarz-Bart; Pan Ga To; Abyss (2009 ObliqSound)
McCoy Tyner; Understanding; Dimensions (1984 Elektra)
[mic break 10:25 a.m.]

Set Two
Steve Colson; Maybe; The Untarnished Dream (2009 Silver Sphinx)
The Jazz Conceptions Orchestra; Parisian Thoroughfare; The Jazz Conceptions Orchestra (2009 151)
Dan Dean; In Walked Bud; 251 (2010 Origin)
Joey DeFrancesco; Down the Hatch; Organic Vibes (2006 Concord)
Papa Grows Funk; Walkin' in Our Own Shoes; Mr. Patterson's Hat (2007 Funky Krewe)
Medeski, Martin & Wood; Everyday People; Combustication (1998 Blue Note)
Medeski, Martin & Wood; Mami Gato; End of the World Party
[mic break 11:09 a.m.]

Set Three
Vince Norman/Joe McCarthy Big Band; Super Grover; Bright Future (2010 OA2)
Waverly Seven; Call Me Irresponsible; Yo! Bobby (2007 Anzic)
Cedar Walton; Over the Rainbow; Voices Deep Within (2009 HighNote)
Miles Davis; It's Only a Paper Moon; Harold Arlen 100 (2005 Concord)
Keith Price; Breakfast of Champions; Breakfast of Champions (2009 KeithPrice.ca)
The Afro-Semitic Experience; A Crooked Path; The Road that Heals the Splintered Soul (2009 Reckless DC Music)
[mic break 11:49 a.m.]

Set Four
Lawson Rollins; Moonlight Samba; Espirito (2009 Infinita)
The Jay D'Amico Trio; Prelude in C Minor; Nocturne (2009 CAP)
Steps Ahead; Radio Active; Modern Times (1984 Elektra)
Weather Report; Black Market; Live and Unreleased (2002 Sony)
Phish; Bathtub Gin; Hampton Comes Alive (1999 Elektra)
Mike Stern; Bird Blue; Big Neighborhood (2009 Heads Up)
[mic break 12:39 p.m.]

Set Five
Al DiMeola; Mata Hari; Scenario (1984 Columbia)
Soulfege; Beans N Rice; Take Back the Mic (2008 ASAFO Media)
Swamp Cabbage; New Voodoo Boogaloo; Squeal (2008 ZOHO)

1:00 p.m. Sunday Brunch Concert: Sushi Grade Panda



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The NY Times visits WBAI

The reporter seems no worse for the wear. You have to experience the Times article through the fever swamps of NYC Indymedia to get the full effect. Here's a taste:

When the treasurer acknowledged a typographic error in a number in a financial report, Mimi Rosenberg, an on-air host and a housing lawyer, erupted.

“You’ve got a C.F.O. who doesn’t proofread?” she yelled. “You are a backward, reactionary fraud!”

WBAI employs two hulking, tattooed bouncers to keep order, although neither man was so foolish as to give in to incessant demands to evict this member or that. As the yelling reached a particular keening cacophony, the more hulking of the two whistled and demanded a cease-fire: “You should call a time out and every one of you should go to the bathroom and chill out.”

For a moment, the room fell into something like decorum. Then the revolutionary ruckus swelled anew.

It's things like this that make WPKN – unfortunately well on its way to becoming WBAI, Jr. – appear somewhat sane.

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Concert for Haiti

Saturday, Jan. 30th, 7:30 p.m.
FTC on Stage One
70 Sanford St., Fairfield, CT

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Playlist, January 17, 2010

Archive audio: (the whole show)


Set One
Arturo Sandoval; Flight to Freedom; Flight to Freedom (1991 GRP)
Dave Siebels; I Wish; With Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band (2008 PBGI)
Mike Stern; Big Neighborhood; Big Neighborhood (2009 Heads Up)
The Bobs; Purple Haze; Sing the Songs of... (1991 Kaleidoscope)
Ben Sidran; Tangled Up in Blue; Dylan Different (2009 Bonsai)
Vernon Neilly & Friends; I Wish; A Tribute to Stevie Wonder (2009 Boosweet)
[mic break 10:30 a.m.]

Interview with Jerry Vigorito of Band Together about the Concert for Haiti on Jan. 30th.

Set Two
Wayne Escoffery; Cross Bronx; Uptown;
Phish; Boogie On Reggae Woman; 6/5/09 Wantagh NY
Cedar Walton; Another Star; Voices Deep Within (2009 HighNote)
Mads Tolling; The Chicken; The Playmaker (2009 City Hall)
Hadley Caliman; Cigar Eddie; Straight Ahead (2010 Origin)
Vince Norman/Joe McCarthy Big Band; Katelyn; Bright Future (2010 OA2)
James Spaulding; Warm Valley; Duke of Elegant: Gems from the Duke Ellington Songbook (2009 HighNote)
The Afro-Semetic Experience; Obatala; The Road that Heals the Splintered Soul (2009 Reckless DC Music)
Horace Silver; I'll Know; Silver's Blue (1989 CBS)
[mic break 11:48 a.m.]

Set Three
Stan Bock Ensemble; Ain't Nothin' New; Your Check's in the Mail (2007 OA2)
Dan Dean; Georgia on My Mind; 251 (2010 Origin)
Mark Murphy; All Blues; Kind of Blue Revisited: The Miles Davis Songbook (2009 HighNote)
Joey DeFrancesco; Dig; Joey D! (2008 HighNote)
[mic break 12:23 p.m.]

Sunday Brunch Concert: Organic Soul LIVE in our studio

1:30 p.m. Mark Naftalin LIVE from the Pequot Library

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Playlist, January 10, 2010

Archive audio: (the whole show)


Set One
Miles from India; Spanish Key; Miles from India (2008 Four Quarters)
[mic break 10:28 a.m.]

Set Two
Saltman Knowles; Theme in Search of a Movie; Yesterday's Man (2010 Pacific Coast Jazz)
Bill Evans Trio; Peace Piece; Everybody Digs Bill Evans (1987 Fantasy)
Marco Benevento; Teardrop Tea; Live at Tonic (2008 Rope
Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band; Manteca; I'm BeBoppin' Too (2009 Half Note)
Roy Hargrove Big Band; My Funny Valentine; Emergence (2009 Groovin' High)
Edward Ratliff; Movin' On Over; Those Moments Before (2009 Strudelmedia)
Dave Siebels; The Coupe; With Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band (2008 PBGL)
Dave Siebels; Not That There's Anything Wrong with That; With Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band (2008 PBGL)
Joey DeFrancesco; Whichole; Snap Shot (2009 HighNote)
[mic break 11:24 a.m.]

Set Three
The Oscar Peterson Trio; Happy-Go-Lucky Local; Night Train (1997 PolyGram)
The Oscar Peterson Trio; C-Jam Blues; Night Train (1997 PolyGram)
Mike Longo Trio; Love For Sale; Sting Like a Bee (2009 CAP)
Houston Person; Too Late Now; Mellow (2009 HighNote)
The Heath Brothers; Ballad From Leadership Suits; Endurance (2009 Jazz Legacy)
Wayne Escoffery; Maya's Waltz; Uptown (2009 Posi-Tone)
The Oscar Peterson Trio; Now's the Time; Night Train (1997 PolyGram)
[mic break 12:14 p.m.]

Set Four
Frank Zappa; Dog Meat; You Can't Do That On Stage Any More Volume 2 (1988 Rykodisc)
Organissimo; Señor Buffet; Groovadelphia (2008 Big O)
Cecil Brooks III; Penn Relays; Hot Dog (2009 Savant)
[mic break 12:35 p.m.]

Set Five
One O'Clock Lab Band; Dark Matters; Lab 2009 (2009 North Texas Jazz)
RG Royal Sound Orchestra; New York New York; Impact (2009 RG)
Quartette Indigo; So What?; Kind of Blue Revisited: The Miles Davis Songbook (2009 HighNote)
Steely Dan; Everything Must Go; Everything Must Go (2003 Reprise)

1:00 p.m.  Sunday Brunch Concert: Le Nozze di Carlo (recorded 3/15/06)

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Playlist, January 3, 2010

Archive audio: (the whole show)


Set One
The Beatles; Magical Mystery Tour; Magical Mystery Tour (1967 EMI)
Wayne Wallace; Going Up!; Bien Bien! (2009 Patois)
Wayne Escoffery; You Know I Care; Uptown (2009 Positone)
Coleman Hawkins; La Mer; The Hawk in Paris (1956 RCA)
Don Braden; Three of a Kind; The Time is Now (1991 Criss Cross)
Eric Alexander; You Must Believe in Spring; Revival of the Fittest (2009 HighNote)
[mic break 10:38 a.m.]

Set Two
Joey DeFrancesco; Fly Me to the Moon; Snap Shot (2009 HighNote)
Don Patterson; Theme from Love Story; The Genius of the B-3 (1973 Muse)
[mic break 11:00 a.m.]

Set Three
Charlie Parker; Cheryl; The Complete Royal Roost Performances Vol. 3 (Savoy)
Charlie Parker; Slow Boat to China; The Complete Royal Roost Performances Vol. 3 (Savoy)
Charlie Parker; Chasin' the Bird; The Complete Royal Roost Performances Vol. 3 (Savoy)
[mic break 11:17 a.m.]

Set Four
Red Garland; If I Were a Bell; Red Garland's Piano (2006 Concord)
The Bill Evans Trio; If You Could See Me Now; Moonbeams (1962 Riverside)
The Ray Brown Trio; Milestones; Bass Face (1993 Telarc)
Cedar Walton; Over the Rainbow; Voices Deep Within (2009 HighNote)
The Mike Longo Trio; Dance Cadaverous; Sting Like a Bee (2009 CAP)
McCoy Tyner Trio; Naima; Live at Sweet Basil (1995 Evidence)
McCoy Tyner Trio; Will You Still Be Mine?; Live at Sweet Basil (1995 Evidence)
[mic break 12:05 p.m.]

Set Five
Cedar Walton; On Green Dolphin Street; Underground Memoirs (2005 HighNote)
Roy Hargrove; Re-Evaluation; Of Kindred Souls (1993 RCA/Novus)
David "Fathead" Newman; Goldfinger; Cityscape (2006 HighNote)
Max Roach Double Quartet; Hi-Fly; Bright Moments (1987 Soul Note)
RG Royal Sound Orchestra; Hotel California; Impact (2009 RG)
Paquito D'Rivera; Wapango; Celebration (1988 Columbia)
Edward Ratliff; Well-Dressed and Elegant; Those Moments Before (2009 Strudelmedia)
Pamela Luss; Don'cha Go Away Mad; Sweet and Saxy (2009 Savant)
[mic break 12:53 p.m.]

Sunday Brunch Concert
The Point 2/3/08 Part 2
Kim & Eddy Lawrence 3/1/09
[2:00 p.m.]

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