Song of Dinosaurs 19
Fri, 01/13/2023 - 8:00pm | Professor AA tribute to Jeff Beck this week on Song of Dinosaurs
A tribute to Jeff Beck this week on Song of Dinosaurs
Today, we were so honored to interview the one and only Henry Kapono. What a treasure he has been and continues to be to not only Hawaiian music but Hawaiian culture and the world. We also pay tribute to two folks we lost in the last 10 days: Danny Kaleikini, the Ambassador of Aloha, and Milan Bertosa, an engineer of the highest grade and someone who contributed to an incredible catalog of Hawaiian recordings.
On today's program: January calendar of flowers, plus conversation about roses, weather and garden centers and house plants, and more.
Ian Tyson passed away at his cattle ranch on Dec. 29. Long after folk stardom with Syliva Fricker in the 1960s, Tyson had a long career as a singer-songwriter who almost single-handedly revived Western (aka "cowboy") music. Blaze Foley (pictured) died by gunshot in 1989. But Brother Bill watched Ethan Hawkes' biofilm Blaze over the holiday, and was inspired to present music from that soundtrack. And more.
All live performances tonight: Frank Sinatra with Count Basie & The Orchestra, Ben Webster, Ella Fitzgerald, Roy Eldridge, Chet Baker & Gerry Mulligan, Billy Taylor & Gerry Mulligan, George Benson, The Dave Brubeck Quartet, and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra featuring Wynton Marsalis.
On this episode of Meraki Radio, we meet Nita Thoreson / Acharaya by way of Michael Gangitano. Nita is an educator in Woodland but has recently started investing in her music career and is recording songs in Nepal -- here's one of the videos. Learn more by tuning in!
In the nearly 106 years that Davis has been a city, the City Council has had fewer than 100 members total. Not a big number for a city that now numbers 67,000 people.
Today we talk with Dan Carson, who became the newest former member of the council after losing his seat to Bapu Vaitla last November. We talk a little about Measure H and his lawsuit challenging the ballot statement opposing the measure, a criticized tactic that Carson later regretted. We spend more time on what he learned about the city from being on the council, how he thinks Davis is doing, and what he does and does not miss now that he no longer has the job.
Unitrans is replacing its buses with electric ones to help lower the amount of carbon emissions from public transit. Also, what playing a sport can teach you mentally. Pakages by Max Davis-Housefield and Lucas Lui.
The Davis Senior High School's Blue Devil Hub produces this weekly show for the Davis community.
On today's program: Weather, wind, trees; rotation for soil pests, and more.
Jazz classics tonight: