Some vocals by Billie Holiday, Anita O’Day, and Ella Fitzgerald; some cool jazz from Miles Davis, Billy Taylor, Kenny Burrell, and Gerry Mulligan with Chet Baker. A little funk from Howard Roberts. It’s an eclectic hour of mellow jazz tonight.
Six decades of jazz!
Hey there, DIRTclods! The Golden Road will now be broadcasting live on Friday evenings from 6:30 to 8:30. We kicked off the First Friday edition on May 9th with some choice material from the Fillmore East, the Keystone Berkeley, and the Fox Theatre in Atlanta. Here's a link to the broadcast...
Check it out and we'll see you on Friday nights: http://kdrt.org/audio/golden-road-6pm-may-9th-2014
KDRT and the Davis Music Festival will copresent an all-ages preview party and fundraiser at the Sudwerk Brewing Dock Store on Thursday, May 22nd, from 4 to 9 p.m. Join us for fresh taps and live music from DMF artists The Bottom Dwellers, Owl Paws, The Lurk, and Million Dollar Giveaway...
A suggested donation of $5 will include admission plus one raffle ticket for a single-day pass to the BottleRock Music Festival in Napa, May 30-June 1. Additional raffle tickets will be available for $3 each. Also available will be tickets for this year's Davis Music Festival, which will showcase dozens of acts on multiple stages in and around downtown Davis on June 21. For more information, visit davismusicfest.com. To join and share the Fundraiser Party Facebook event, visit facebook.com/events/232028806986087/.
An hour of soul jazz and bop; featured artist Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
Jesse Deere and Joe Fike join me in the studio for a lively discussion about the benifits of vinyl vs. compact Discs. As a treat we will be playing some vintage vinyl...
By the end of the show you will be educated to the benifits of both.
In this broadcast of The Grapevine, we hit the streets with a soulful beat! In addition to some of the all-time soul sounds by artists such as James Brown, Isaac Hayes & Sly Stone, we have some brand spanking new material from the Ged Soul record label out of Nashville that nails it.
Here's the link to the April 30th broadcast:
http://kdrt.org/audio/grapevine-6pm-apr-30th-2014
And the playlist:
Theme From Shaft - Isaac Hayes
Get On The Good Foot - James Brown
Krunked Up! - Big Sam's Funky Nation
Down To The Nightclub - Tower Of Power
Slow Down, Love - Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings
Soulsville - Huey Lewis & The News
Throw A Fit - AJ & Jiggawatts
Get Yourself Together - Sky Hi
If You Want Me To Stay - Sly & The Family Stone
Superfly - Curtis Mayfield
Jack, That Cat Was Clean - Dr. Horse
Pass The Peas - The JB's
Papa Don't Take No Mess - James Brown
Same Beat, Part 1 - The JB's
Papa Don't Take No Mess - James Brown
Living For The City - Ray Charles
Back to basics tonight: ragtime, boogie woogie, and New Orleans jazz. Ella Fitzgerald * Scott Joplin * Joshua Rifkin * Ray Mckinley & Freddie Slack * Will Bradley * Eubie Blake * Claude Bolling * Charlie Byrd * Eddie Jefferson * Shorty Rogers * Louis Armstrong * New Orleans' Own The Dukes of Dixieland * Piano Connection & Marcs Boogie *
Thursday May 1st at 6 pm on the Album of the Week show, host Dug Deep will spin a masterwork by Barbara Manning from 1997 entitled "1212." The album is something of a collaboration with Joey Burns and John Convertino of Calexico... It features some of Manning's best work mixed with great covered material from Richard Thompson, the Bevis Frond, and more. Join us on Thursday May 1st, Beltane, and enjoy this fiery gem of an album.
The Big Day of Giving starts at midnight on Tuesday, May 6th. During the "Big DoG," your donation to KDRT via givelocalnow.org/davismediaaccess will be boosted thanks to a pool of matching funds. Please save the date and spread the word via social media using the hashtag #GiveBigDoG... Then any time on May 6th, visit givelocalnow.org/davismediaaccess to give where your ears are!