Tonight on Jazz After Dark: Duke Ellington with Ivie Anderson on vocals, Benny Carter, Arnett Cobb , Erroll Garner, Ella Fitzgerald, Sonny Stitt, Wes Montgomery, Vince Guaraldi Trio, Don Ellis, Zoot Sims with Bob Brookmeyer, Claude Bolling Big Band, and Benny Carter and the American Jazz Orchestra.
There are songs about every state in the USA . This week we listen to some about California, in several genres.
Today we talk about:
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The Folk Brothers love ballads, especially ones which have crossed the "pond" more than once. "The Golden Willow Tree," on Jake Xerxes Fussell's new album Good and Green Away, is a prime example. Originally penned in the early 1600s as "Walter Raleigh In The Lowlands," the warship and the title have been variously called "The Golden Vanity," "The Sweet Trinity," and "The Turkish Revelry."
This morning we also played Hannah Sander and Ben Savages' version of "(Rovin' On) A Winter's Night." They learned their version from Doc Watson, but the ballad undoubtedy originated in England before travelling to Appalachia (and then back again to the UK!).
Tonight on Jazz After Dark: Quintetto Ritmico di Milano (1940s Italian jazz), Ella Fitzgerald, Chet Baker Quartet, Billy Taylor Trio and Quartet, and Yusef Lateef, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Al Hibbler, and Archie Shepp with Horace Parlan.
You might remember this story from all the attention it got in spring 2021: Research at UC Davis says that adding small amounts of a certain seaweed to cows’ diets reduces the methane they produce by up to 82 percent. This change in diet could do a lot to help the climate, because cattle and other ruminants produce about 5 percent of greenhouse gases in the United States.
The University of California says this work was one of its 10 best UC research stories for 2021. Today we update the story with UC Davis Animal Science Prof. Ermias Kebreab, who explains the research, its value in feeding people and reducing climate change, and how far along they are in bringing their work to market.
This is a show for the books. By "the books," I mean the novel called The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce. We follow the story in music, and yes, I will be comparing Aretha Franklin and Beethoven.
On today's program:
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It's Mackenzie Crook. After The Office, Crook wrote, directed and starred in The Detectorists, the hit BBC4 series featuring a theme song by Johnny Flynn. Most recently, Crook (pictured) has revived "Worzel Gummidge" -- the scarecrow from Barbara Euphian Todd's children's books -- with music from The Unthanks.
Also on today's show, find out how Iona Fyfe rewrote Richard Thompson's "Poor Ditching Boy" in Scots Dorian, and why Jason Isbell made an album of covers by Georgian songwriters. And much more!
Tonight on Jazz After Dark: first we’ll hear from Ethel Ennis, Sonny Stitt, Etta Jones, John Coltrane, and Wes Montgomery.
Then a set with Benny Carter: with Ben Webster and Barney Bigard in 1962, from a live performance in 1977, and with the American Jazz Orchestra in 1987. We’ll take it out with Zoot Sims, and Jimmy Scott.
