Estelle California Shares Her Music and Vision on Listening Lyrics, Friday, Sept. 11, 2020

Thu, 09/10/2020 - 5:51pm | Pieter Pastoor

Estelle California is a singer/songwriter born in France. She started playing the piano when she was 5 and went on to study saxophone. Later, she was formally trained in opera. Her current life is a far cry from her childhood in France, where she suffered physical and mental abuse, and lived in an environment where she saw many people being discriminated against.

Estelle is a passionate artist, musician, writer, and activist dedicated to shining the light of resilience and bringing forth social healing throughout the world. Her single "Black is the True Light" has garnered significant media attention and resonated with people all over the globe.

Jazz After Dark September 08 2020

Tue, 09/08/2020 - 1:55pm | Don Shor

Jazz After Dark presents a special show at 8 pm tonight featuring artists and works from the second volume of Derrick Bang’s new book: Crime and Spy Jazz on Screen. Tonight, we feature music from 1970 (ok, 1969) on.

You’ll hear performances by Shirley Bassey, Marvin Gaye, Isaac Hayes, Lalo Schifrin, Jerry Fielding, Miles Davis, Taj Mahal, Jimmy Scott, David ‘Fathead’ Newman with Geri Allen & Mark Whitfield, Kansas City Band, Christophe Beck, Louis Armstrong, and Stanley Turrentine.

Featuring selections from Trouble Man, Shaft, Magnum Force and Dirty Harry, The Gauntlet, Mission Impossible, Hot Spot, Twin Peaks, Robert Altman’s Kansas City, The Pink Panther (Steve Martin remake), and, of course: Bond … James Bond.

Link to this week's show: https://kdrt.org/audio/jazz-after-dark-800pm-sep-8th-2020

(Music shows are archived for two weeks).

For more information about the books, just visit https://www.screenactionjazz.com/

COVID-19 Community Report Episode 35: Davis AquaMonsters and Davis Arts Center Describe How Their Summer Programs Adapted - Sep 8th, 2020

Tue, 09/08/2020 - 12:40pm | Autumn Labbe-Renault

Each week on the "COVID-19 Community Report," we share local news and resources, focusing on what’s impacting Davis and nearby cities in Yolo County during the COVID-19 pandemic. Today on Episode 35, I'll interview Koren Motekaitis about her longtime role co-directing youth swim program Davis AquaMonsters. We'll discuss impacts of the pandemic on youth sports, including how it's narrowing future options for recognition and scholarships.  I'll also talk with Stacie Frerichs, executive director of the Davis Arts Center, about how they've had to pivot and change during the pandemic.

Let Us Stay Positive: Tunes for the Times on Listening Lyrics, Friday, Sept. 4, 2020

Thu, 09/03/2020 - 4:11pm | Pieter Pastoor

Covid-19, hurricanes, fires, racial unrest, a polarized country -- yes, we are living in biblical times. So take an hour and listen to the sounds musicians have been giving us to carry on.

“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Jazz After Dark September 01 2020

Tue, 09/01/2020 - 6:45pm | Don Shor

Coming up at 8 pm tonight on Jazz After Dark: old-fashioned jazz by some of the great artists of the mid-20th century. Fats Waller, Earl Hines, Benny Goodman, Eubie Blake, Coleman Hawkins, Billie Holiday, Jimmy Lunceford, Sidney Bechet, Erskine Hawkins, Ella Fitzgerald, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Gerry Mulligan, The Ray Brown Trio, Diana Krall, Charlie Haden and Hank Jones.

Broadcasts 8 pm Tuesdays on KDRT-LP 95.7 FM in Davis, CA. Replays Monday 11 pm.

Live-streaming at https://kdrt.org/page/listen-now

Show page here: https://kdrt.org/program/jazz-after-dark

Playlists, archives, and RSS Feed here: https://kdrt.org/blogs/don-shor-0

Look for us on iTunes or your favorite podcast site.

https://player.fm/featured/jazz

COVID-19 Community Report Episode 34: Speaking with Sara Gavin, Chief Behavioral Health Officer at CommuniCare Davis and Melanie Carr of Tuesday Table- Sep 1st, 2020

Tue, 09/01/2020 - 12:40pm | Autumn Labbe-Renault

This unparalleled time we're living through affects not only our physical health, but our mental health as well. Today I speak with Sara Gavin, LMFT/LPCC. She serves as Chief Behavioral Health Officer at CommuniCare Health Centers, overseeing a 100-person team of Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder services in Yolo County,  and also sits on the Board of Directors of National Alliance for NAMI-Yolo. We'll speak about current mental health challenges, and what kinds of local resources are available.  In our second interview, I chat with Melanie Carr, a Davis resident who's been offering a "Tuesday Table" through the pandemic, a "take what you need" offering in one Davis neighborhood.

Davisville, Aug. 31, 2020: Changes in Davis homelessness since a year ago

Mon, 08/31/2020 - 6:10pm | Bill Buchanan

Ryan Collins and Paul Doroshov first appeared on Davisville in July 2019 to talk about homelessness in Davis (“Many homeless people in Davis are finding homes, but more people are becoming homeless”). Today we catch up with developments since then, including the Daytime Respite Center that opened on L Street in February, and the impact of the pandemic. Ryan works directly with homeless people in Davis as the homeless outreach services coordinator for the city, and Paul is deputy police chief for Davis.

Listening Lyrics Goes Classical, with Eunghee Cho, on Friday August 28, 2020

Thu, 08/27/2020 - 3:10pm | Pieter Pastoor

Born in Davis, Korean-American cellist Eunghee Cho earned second prize and the special award for Outstanding Chinese New Piece Performance at the Alice & Eleonore Schoenfeld International String Competition in Harbin, China. He is principal cellist of the Atlantic Symphony Orchestra, artistic director of the Mellon Music Festival in Davis, and serves on the faculties of Middlesex Community College and Derby Academy.

He has been invited to perform at such international festivals as La Jolla Music Society’s Summerfest, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Piatigorsky International Cello Festival, Taos School of Music, Festival International d’Echternach, and Rencontres Franco Américaines de Musique Chambre. He is enrolled in New England Conservatory’s Doctor of Musical Arts Program under the guidance of distinguished pedagogue Laurence Lesser. (Photo by Chris Kitchen, used with permission of the Heifetz International Music Institute)

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COVID-19 Community Report Episode 33: Dr. Larissa May, Interim Yolo County Public Health Officer, on August 25, 2020

Tue, 08/25/2020 - 12:40pm | Autumn Labbe-Renault

This week's guest is Dr. Larissa May, MD, MSPH, MSHS, who began serving as Yolo County's public health officer this month. Dr. May is a professor of emergency medicine and a public health expert at UC Davis Health. She is a board-certified emergency physician, and her work often focuses on the epidemiology and management of infectious diseases, including best practices for diagnostic testing, outbreak response, and infection prevention. We'll discuss the COVID-19 pandemic at this moment in time, how we chart a course forward through school reopenings, testing, vaccine development, and more. Dr. May explains how Yolo County has increased its infrastructure for contact tracing; UC Davis is currently participating in a Phase 3 clinical vaccine trial as part of a worldwide study.

Jazz After Dark August 25 2020

Tue, 08/25/2020 - 10:02am | Don Shor

Jazz After Dark presents a special show tonight featuring artists and works from a new book: Crime and Spy Jazz on Screen, 1950 – 1970, by local author Derrick Bang.

We’ll hear performances by Henry Mancini, Alex North  and Jerry Goldsmith, Duke Ellington, The Modern Jazz Quartet, Count Basie and His Orchestra, Laurie Johnson, Mundell Lowe, John Barry, Lalo Schifrin, Quincy Jones.

Featuring selections from The Pink Panther, A Streetcar Named Desire, Peter Gunn , Anatomy of a Murder, Satan in High Heels, Goldfinger, The Cincinnati Kid, Bullitt, and more.

For some, it will be a trip down memory lane; for younger listeners it’s a glimpse into the role of jazz in contemporary culture of the mid-20th century.

For more information about the book, just visit https://www.screenactionjazz.com/

Check out Bill Buchanan’s July 6 interview with Derrick Bang on Davisville on KDRT:

https://kdrt.org/audio/davisville-july-6-2020-bang%E2%80%99s-new-books-h...

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