Jazz After Dark, March 26, 2024

Tonight we’ll hear:

  • Billie Holiday, Good Morning Heartache
  • Benny Goodman, Oh! Baby
  • Ella Fitzgerald, My Funny Valentine (Live)
  • Django Reinhardt, Nuages
  • Chet Baker, How Long Has This Been Going On
  • Ahmad Jamal, Poinciana (Live)
  • Cannonball Adderley, Straight No Chaser
  • Yusef Lateef, Kongsberg
  • Ramsey Lewis Trio, You Don't Know Me
  • Gerry Mulligan, Walk On The Water
  • Ahmad Jamal & Yusef Lateef, Trouble In Mind (Live)
  • Charlie Byrd and the Washington Guitar Quintet, Correnteza

Ballads and high lonesome sounds, on High Country Music Radio, March 26, 2024

A square neck resonator, mandolins, banjos, fiddles and more are featured on this week's High Country Music. Tune into New Grass Revival, Andy Hall, The Crooked Jades, Tony Trishka, Mr. Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys, Lindsay Lou, The Travelin' McCoury's, Earl Scruggs, bluegrass band Barefoot, The Infamous Stringdusters, Otis Taylor, Rachel Harrington and John Hartford. 

Live Tuesday 11 a.m. to noon, with replays Monday 8-9 p.m. and Saturday 6-7 p.m.

Jacob Johnson & Henry Humphrey of Cowboys After Dark, on Listening Lyrics, March 22, 2024

Jacob Johnson and Henry Humphrey of Cowboys After Dark share their thoughts on how music is a language that is universally understood. These two gifted musicians can also articulate what they mean using the common language we know as English.

Jacob and Henry treated us by playing a couple of songs live on the air. Jacob allowed Listening Lyrics to debut "Fungus Funk," an original song from an upcoming rap/funk album aimed at communicating science (especially ecology) to middle- and high-school students and the general public.

Jazz After Dark, March 19, 2024

On tonight’s show:

  • Nat King Cole Trio, Honeysuckle Rose
  • Thelonious Monk, It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
  • Gerry Mulligan, The Preacher
  • Miles Davis,  Will O' the Wisp
  • Sergio Mendes, On Green Dolphin Street
  • Herbie Mann & The Bill Evans Trio, Nirvana
  • Ed Thigpen, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Rosa & Tommy Flanagan, Old Devil Moon
  • Don Ellis, Quiet Longing
  • Milcho Leviev & Multiple Personalities, Invincible
  • Ramsey Lewis, Do What You Wanna
  • Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Echoes of Primitive Ohio and Chili Dogs
  • Count Basie, (We Ain't Got) No Special Thing
  • The Crusaders, Stomp and Buck Dance

Bluegrass and Front Porch Blues

Bluegrass and country blues are on the turntable this week, featuring Alison Brown with Steve Martin, Sierra Hull, Kaia Kater, Mississippi John Hurt, New Grass Revival, the Carolina Chocolate Drops, David Grier, The Slocan Ramblers, Doc Watson with David Holt, Etta Baker with Taj Mahal, Sister Sadie and AJ Lee & Blue Summit. 

Live Tuesday 11am-12pm. Replays Monday 8-9pm, Saturday 6-7pm

Davisville, March 18, 2024: Secret Spot creates a new home for the creatively weird in Davis

Today’s Davisville is a story about the new — and about getting started in Davis, as well as art, life after the pandemic, ambition, and the weird. We talk with Toni Rizzo and Harry Greer, who along with Stephanie Peel have started the Secret Spot, an arts gallery and music lounge business that opened this month in a former house at 117 D St. downtown. #ConstructiveDiscomfort #RookieRoom #ArtMania! #LockdownArt #DavisSound #ArtAsTherapy #PsychicScream #HelpingOthers The photo shows, from left, Toni, Harry and Stephanie

Max Van Dyke & Julian Dean talk and sing music, on Listening Lyrics, March 15, 2024

The Big Poppies keep transitioning themselves into an extremely talented and tight band. Members Max Van Dyke and Julian Dean, who occasionally perform as a duo, talk about both the band and themselves as a duo in this episode of Listening Lyrics. During the show they share a cut from an upcoming album. I was blown away by it.

Listen for a glimpse into the sound of the Big Poppies.