Tonight on Jazz After Dark: Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong, the Charlie Parker Quintet, the John Kirby Sextet, Nat "King" Cole, Johnny Hodges and his Orchestra, Stan Kenton, Stan Getz with Gerry Mulligan, Art Pepper and Conte Candoli, Stanley Turrentine, Al Hirt, Eddie Jefferson, Ellis Marsalis, and the Fraser Macpherson Quartet.
Timothy Walker is a folk musician and singer-songwriter originally from the Atlanta area, but currently residing in Davis as he works on his PhD in English literature. He performs and writes music under the stage name Threadbare, Brother. His first full-length record, When the War is Through, was released in 2011. The album explores the themes of spiritual transformation in the midst of personal grief and uncertainty.
After a long hiatus from performing, he is working on a new set of songs that seek to portray the complexities of queer love, loss, and longing in the aftermath of religious trauma.
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Today: Heat damage (continued), cover crops, the best mulch for gardens, chrysanthemums, and more.
Brother Bill is back, fresh from the Eagle Festival -- the bird, not the band -- in far western Mongolia. Of course he managed to bring back some traditional and not-so-traditional music, including by The Hu -- not The Who -- a folk metal Mongolian band now touring the States.
Where else can you hear throat-singing metal except on The Folk Brothers?
Today, from the 1940s and 50s, we have Nat King Cole, Sonny Stitt, Herbie Nichols, Ella Fitzgerald & the Oscar Peterson Trio, and the Dave Brubeck Quartet. The selections from the 1960s are performed by Cannonball Adderley & Bill Evans, Gerry Mulligan, Earl "Fatha" Hines & Johnny Hodges, and Claude Bolling. Then we’ll hear from Pedro Iturralde with Donna Hightower, Charlie Byrd and The Washington Guitar Quintet, Milt Buckner, and Houston Person.
Young adult buyers rediscovering a sense of community as they listen to records together. Interest in long-gone bands like Led Zeppelin. High prices for LPs you couldn't give away a decade ago. People emerging from the pandemic who bring in boxes of their vinyl records because they want to get stuff out of their homes, and they don't want the records to be thrown away. Paul Wilbur, the longtime manager of Armadillo Music in downtown Davis, says the current market for LPs and CDs isn't easily explained, but love for music is a big part of it. He’s our guest today on Davisville.
Asking someone to select their top 20 songs is difficult, and picking just one is impossible. But I still asked several people to pick a song that has touched them personally / emotionally and the reason why. That's what we have today: one song from each of several people. I left the genres open.
Music is a mystery that touches us on so many levels at so many different times. It can make us happy, sad, or melancholy. Or maybe we're drawn to the music itself, or to the lyrics; or for many of us a song offers a look back that lets us relive a past moment.
Episode 2 of The Power Of Song features songs from Jeff Shaw, Billy Larkin, Jesse Deere, Neil Heaton, Tomy Edwards and Bart Van der Zeeuw.
On today's program: Kurapia, clover, and other ground covers; nematodes on tomatoes; safe plants for cats, and more.
A leading light of contemporary English folk music, composer, singer, fiddler and oboist, Paul Sartin passed away unexpectedly last week in Oxford, just before taking stage. Although he rarely performed under his own name, Sartin was a founding member of the bands Belshazzar's Feast, Faustus, and Bellowhead. He collaborated widely and was beloved throuhout the British folk community, none more so than in Hampshire, where he co-founded the Whitchurch Folk Club.
