This month's KDRT Live from 2nd Friday ArtAbout features Davis' own Spangler, performing live from the Armadillo Music stage. Singer/songwriters Helen and Tim Spangler front the band of five musicians, which also includes Scott Katzman and Adam Estell on dueling guitars and Christopher Reilly on drums. Most recently nominated for a SAMMIE (Sacramento Area Music Award) in the folk-rock category, Spangler's songs tell stories of passion and need, triumph and defeat, and the grounded realization that timing is everything. After releasing their second album We're All Fine Here Now, Spangler was featured in the Sacramento News and Review and performed on the headliner's stage at Sacramento Music Festival 2015, opening for Sean Mullins, Eve 6, and Everclear.
Music and movies and how they compliment and affect each other. Who better to have someone talk about this than Andre. Andre Martinez started his film career at age 9 with simple LEGO animations he shot in his room. He began doing more serious film work in high school, and has been committed to film production as a career path ever since. He has produced/directed several short films and webisodes, as well as produced/directed a 30-minute feature (Second of Ypres) and a 60-minute feature (Unforgotten). He has two YouTube channels: StealthyNinjaMedia and S Ninja. He is currently a freshman at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles studying film. We will be playing some great movie scores. All Listening Lyric shows are live on Fridays from 4:00PM to 5:00PM.(PST) on KDRT 95.7FM. For those outside the listening area, the show will stream live online at KDRT.org.
New Orleans and swing tonight! 1920s to the 1950s. Louis Armstrong & Earl Hines * Sidney Bechet * Sidney Bechet - Martial Solal Quartet * Harry Roy & His Orchestra * Glenn Miller Orchestra * Earl Hines * Louis Armstrong & Billie Holiday * Oscar Aleman * Earl Bostic * New Orleans' Own The Dukes of Dixieland * Percy Humphrey's Crescent City Joymakers * Pete Fountain * Ella Fitzgerald * Boots Randolph * Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
The “comments” section on the Davis Vanguard has evolved into a pretty good online discussion zone on various big issues affecting Davis. The opinions often go way beyond the couched language that sometimes passes for official discourse in town. Lately, the term “Vanguard 10” has emerged as a shorthand description of the most frequent commenters on the site … raising the question of whether they’re just a random handful of people who enjoy using the site, or instead represent the busiest end of what's emerging as one of the best online civic forums in town. Today we talk with two of the 10, Tia Will and Jeff Boone.
Jesse and Pieter will give you two hours of "party" music on 12/31/15. The playlist is done, we are checking it twice and then blast of into 2016.
Trombonist, composer, and B.A.C. Endorsing Artist Jon Hatamiya is one of the most promising trombonists to come out of the Sacramento area and is rapidly making a name for himself on both the New York and California music scenes. He was recognized in the August 1st, 2011 edition of Jet Magazine as the only trombonist on Wynton Marsalis’s list of “Who’s Got Next”, which highlighted the next generation of emerging jazz artists. Jon also received a 2015 Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Award from ASCAP for his merits as a composer and arranger.
Still early in his career, Jon has already performed with a variety of artists reflecting his wide musical interests, including Dianne Reeves, James Moody, Taylor Eigsti, Stefon Harris, Dave Matthews Band, and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, among others, and at venues such as Yoshi’s San Francisco and Oakland, the Jazz Standard in New York, the Blue Whale in Los, Angeles, the Monterey and Montreal Jazz Festivals, Rose Hall and Dizzy's Club Coca Cola at Jazz at Lincoln Center, and the Staples Center.
Featuring the music of Porgy & Bess tonight! An encore presentation. George Gershwin’s great jazz/folk opera was a commercial failure at the time, but it lived on and became an American classic spawning several jazz standards, including I Got Plenty of Nothin’, It Ain’t Necessarily So, and Summertime. Tonight we feature those and more, by: Budd Johnson, Bill Pemberton, Oliver Jackson & Earl "Fatha" Hines * Aretha Franklin * Billie Holiday * Ray Charles * Mundell Lowe And His All Stars * Ella Fitzgerald & Russell Garcia * Richard Twardzik & Russ Freeman * Bernt Rosengren * Peggy Lee * Ahmad Jamal * Louis Armstrong & Russell Garcia * Rahsaan Roland Kirk * Jim Hall & Pat Metheny
This program first aired in March 2015, but we always knew we'd broadcast it at Christmas, too.
Fifty years ago David Willat, who was 11, was one of the half-dozen children who sang in the chorus on Vince Guaraldi’s classic "A Charlie Brown Christmas." Willat also sang in the choir on another of Guaraldi’s big projects that year, the Grace Cathedral Jazz Mass. On today’s program Willat talks about both experiences with host Bill Buchanan and Peanuts/Guaraldi expert Derrick Bang, Davis author of the 2012 book Vince Guaraldi at the Piano.
That's correct: For our last show of 2015, it's all about bagpipes as local bagpipe celebrity Cameron Scott brings his talent to the studio. As a young lad, Cameron took up the bagpipes and even spent some time with a bagpipe band in Scotland. That band won third position in the world during the yearly championships. On top of that, Cameron is an awesome person with a great radio voice. I have been looking forward to this all year. Join us for another great hour!
All Listening Lyric shows are live on Fridays from 4:00PM to 5:00PM.(PST) on KDRT 95.7FM. For those outside the listening area, the show streams live online at KDRT.org . It will also be available for replays in the show archives or as an podcast on iTunes under LISTENING LYRICS.
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