Jazz After Dark, Aug. 6, 2024

On tonight’s show:

  • King Cole Trio, Baby, Baby, All the Time
  • Django Reinhardt, Manoir de mes Rêves
  • Django Reinhardt, Brazil
  • Clark Terry, Paul Gonsalves, Daylight Express
  • Sonny Clark, Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise
  • Gerry Mulligan & Ben Webster, Fajista (Master Take)
  • Gerry Mulligan & Ben Webster, Blues in B Flat
  • Vince Guaraldi, Blues for Peanuts
  • Vince Guaraldi, Jitterbug Waltz
  • Ella Fitzgerald, Sweet and Slow
  • Dianne Reeves, Who's Minding the Store?
  • Dianne Reeves, When I Fall In Love (Instrumental)
  • Diana Krall, 'Deed I Do

Join Us for Suds & Sounds – July 31!

Come on down for Suds & Sounds at Armadillo Music, 207 F St., in sunny downtown Davis on Wednesday, July 31, from 4 to 6 p.m. Meet and greet KDRT DJs, friends, and fans ... pick up a new K-DiRT shirt ... grab a sticker (or two) ... select some vinyl to spin! Beverages are available at the Bootleg Bar ... cheers!

This gathering repeats monthly on the last Wednesday of each month — mark your calendars!

Jazz After Dark, July 30, 2024

On tonight's show:

  • Bunny Berigan (Kay Little vocals), Somebody Else Is Taking My Place
  • Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers, Grandpa's Spells
  • King Cole Trio, I Don't Know Why (I Just Do)
  • Don Ewell  with Sidney Bechet, Careless Love
  • Earl Bostic, What, No Pearls
  • Duke Ellington (Ray Nance vocals), Tulip or Turnip
  • Duke Ellington with Ella Fitzgerald, Perdido
  • Sarah Vaughan, They Can't Take That Away From Me
  • Gerry Mulligan, Good Bait
  • Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra, Manteca
  • Dinah Washington, Time After Time
  • Henry Mancini, The Pink Panther Theme
  • Boots Randolph, Crazy Rhythm
  • Eddie Jefferson, Sister Sadie
  • Claude Bolling, Begin The Beguine
  • Tony Bennett, Steppin' Out With My Baby
  • Ennio Morricone, The Crave
  • The Spencer Wyatt Big Band, Blue Note Boogie

Shady Grove and other old time tunes

This week on High Country Music Radio you'll find a Shady Grove with Jerry Garcia & David Grisman. Also on the program playlist are Mandolin Orange, Dirk Powell with John Hermann and Tim O'Brien, Maybelle Carter with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Kate Wolf, Brit Taylor, Kristin Scott Benson, Nora Brown, Tony Rice, The Faux Paws, Sierra Hull and Misner & Smith.  

Davisville, July 29, 2024: Davis asks its voters to increase the city's sales tax

If you vote in Davis, this November you’ll be asked to decide Measure Q, a proposal to raise the sales tax in the city to 9.25 percent, up 1 point from now or an extra $1 for every taxable $100 you spend. The increase requires a simple majority to pass. The money would go to general city expenses, broadly defined.

On today’s Davisville, Davis City Council members Will Arnold and Donna Neville talk about the proposal, priorities, and other areas where the city is trying to boost economic development that would bring in more tax revenue.

And this is unusual — every Yolo city this fall is asking its voters to increase their sales taxes by 1 point. Winters, the smallest city in the county, would raise $1.2 million from its increase. Woodland would receive $16.5 million, West Sacramento $20 million, and Davis, the largest city, would collect $11 million. The numbers illustrate the relative sizes of the county's retail markets.

Electric Compost Heap -- July 26, 2024

Tonight at 6p pst on the Electric Compost Heap on KDRT 95.7FM , host Dug Deep features a pile of new and recently released tunes by some Compost Heap faves, including Chris Cain, Milly, and The Bug Club, who have a new single out this week and a new album on Sub Pop Records out next month, entitled, ON THE INTRICATE INNER WORKINGS OF THE SYSTEM BY MEANS OF POPULAR MUSIC OR THE CONTEMPLATION OF PRETTY FACES, TINNED BUBBLES AND STRIFE. Hope you can join us tonight on KDRT.org!

Rumi Shimada, live on Listening Lyrics, July 26, 2024

Rumi Shimada is a perfect description of a singer-songwriter. He plays his songs primarily on a guitar and keyboard, with a vocal delivery that creates a perfect package of an up-and-coming musician. He can focus on his craft and block out both the outside world and internal distractions -- a skill apparent today in today's broadcast, when technical difficulties didn't alter his delivery. Rumi's enthusiam for creating music, for helping and promoting others in their musical journey, and for life in general, is contagious.