The Line-Up for 8-17-2012

There was too much show this week. I just had to squeeze a 13-minute Dr. Lonnie Smith song into the hour and things overflowed but I consider it a bounty of riches. Brad Mehldau - Wonderwall When Beady Eye played "Wonderwall" with the wonky vocals during the Olympics closing ceremony, did it leave a bad taste in your mouth? It did for me, so I used this week's 1 spot to fix that. Apple Juice Kid - Bitches Christian Scott - Who They Wish I Was I considered this week's show excuse to have a Jamire Williams set, which gave me another excuse to play from Christian aTunde Adjuah again. Dr. Lonnie Smith - Backtrack The Healer is a great album, period. You should get it, seriously. ERIMAJ - Conflict of a Man I wanted to play a new track from Conflict of a Man this week but I didn't get the album in time for the show. Anticipation continues to grow. Teebs - Yellow More New Steve Lehman Trio - Pure Imagination I am more than impressed with Lehman's Dialect Fluorescent. Robert Glasper Experiment - Gonna Be Alright (F.T.B.) feat. Ledisi It's hard not to sing along with this. Toro y Moi - Sweet Neal Evans - In Your Dream This song is just too cool. It's seems like it should play out like an easygoing dream but a lot of BANG. is like you're a spy who has an afro but still manages to stay inconspicuous. This song especially. BADBADNOTGOOD - UWM (feat. Leland Whitty) I was playing this song yesterday at home and had a one man dance party in my kitchen. It was kind of ridiculous. Space Ghost - Naps Aronas - Happy Song This song is here 1) because of time constraints, I needed a shorter song 2) because it's awesome. Also, I know Ottignon is hella busy but when are we getting a new Aronas album. The spice must flow.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

To Be Young, Gifted, Black, and a Jazz Enthusiast: Apparent Needle in a Haystack

About a month ago, Patrick Jarenwattananon of NPR's A Blog Supreme  put together a group of lists of recent gateway jazz albums from prominent young jazz enthusiasts and bloggers.  The Jazz Now Project was a rather brilliant idea and opened up a lot of discussion and awareness about the future of jazz and really shows what the field looks like right now.  Early on the the culmination of this project, Jarenwattananon opened the submission of suggestions not only to those he specifically asked but also to other readers of the blog and on the email list.  So it didn't take me long for me to submit my own Jazz Now list .  (And special thanks to him for linking the post on the compilation of Jazz Now submissions. I got my highest hit count yet of 29 readers because of him. I really need more readers.) When I emailed him the link to my blog for submission, Jarenwattananon thanked me for my list and mentioned that I was the only black guy to have sent anything.  He figured that this
Read more

The Line-Up and Evolve for 5 & 6 July 2024

Image
The Line-Up for 5 July 2024 Apifera, "Bazooka Zoo" off Keep the Outside Open Teebs, "Why Like" off Ardour Alex Sipiagin, "When You Weren't Looking" off Horizons Alfredo Colón, "Santo" off Blood Burden Laurent Coq, "Nawari" off Confidences dela, "Get Busy" off The Robert Glasper Beat Tape Joshua Moshier, the title track to Semiperminance feat. Marquis Hill BADBADNOTGOOD, "Setima Regra" off Mid Spiral: Order Mndsgn, "Frugality" off Yawn Zen Black Diamond, "Zoetic" off Furniture of the Mind Rearranging Nicola Caminiti, "Elliptical Biking" off Vivid Tales of a Blurry Self Portrait Mark Guiliana, "Hero Soup" off MARK Flying Lotus, "Breathe . Something​/​Stellar STar" off Los Angeles SML, "Search Bar Hi Hat" off Small Medium Large Evolve for 6 July 2024 3 o'clock hour Gabriel Genest, "Kairos" off As It Is Mndsgn, "Convert"
Read more

On my 2023-- A Year Whittled Down to Just One Story

Image
It has been my lifelong ambition to never own a pet. Pets are impediments to personal autonomy. They're tethers to an unchanging state. They're the non-thumb having maintenance of the status quo up until the moment where it's not, where they cause damage-- to your property, to themselves, to your schedule, to your finances. I've never seen the emotional benefit of owning pets. For the price of always having to deal with some new hair that invades your belongings, we receive a warm body with a face that doesn't speak your language. The spontaneity in life that comes with having pets isn't from your deciding to change plans and stay out at night later or go off on some far off trip at the spur of the moment; such zigs and zags are a result of that supposed loved one running off into the neighborhood because of a loud noise or eating something left out on a counter that has to be pumped from their stomach at an exorbitant cost. At some point in my life,
Read more