Jazz After Dark, May 21, 2024

Tue, 05/21/2024 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

On this episode:

  • Louis Armstrong, Basin Street Blues
  • Louis Armstrong & Billie Holiday, Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans
  • Louis Armstrong, Mahogany Hall Stomp
  • Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong, Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good to You?
  • Lee Morgan, All the Way
  • Gerry Mulligan Quartet/Chet Baker, My Funny Valentine
  • Pete Fountain, Milenberg Joys
  • Buddy Rich, Willowcrest
  • Gene Ammons & Sonny Stitt, Autumn In New York
  • Don Ellis, Image of Maria
  • Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Dorthaan's Walk

Electric Divine Compost Intervention Heap for May 17, 2024!

Fri, 05/17/2024 - 5:24pm | Dug Deep

From Compost to seed to root to bloom to seed to compost...Hey, tonight on the Electric Compost Heap on KDRT 95.7fm, Dug Deep will be joined by his timeslotmate, Jess Goddèsse, for a fundraiser-themed combined version of their respective radio shows, sort of an Electric Divine Compost Intervention Heap, if you will.  Whatever it is, they will be doing it tonight, and so please join them and consider making a donation to community radio for Davis, CA! Go to KDRT.org and click on the Support tab. The magic will unfold, we promise!

Just some tunes that entered my ear canal, on Listening Lyrics, May 17, 2024

Fri, 05/17/2024 - 5:10pm | Pieter Pastoor

There's no guest this week, due to a change of plans. So I picked some tunes that caught my attention as something new, or as something I forgot about but liked.

Included are a couple of local artists, The Philharmonik and Rumi Shimada. Check out the playlist below . Clean your ears, sit back and enjoy.

Pieter

Listening Lyrics playlist for 05/17/2024

Jazz After Dark, May 14, 2024

Tue, 05/14/2024 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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Jazz masters on this episode:

  • Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five, Ory's Creole Trombone
  • Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven, Potato Head Blues
  • Artie Shaw, At Sundown
  • Sidney Bechet, Si tu vois ma mère
  • Sidney Bechet - Martial Solal Quartet, I've Got A Right To Sing The Blues
  • Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra, I Cover the Waterfront
  • Billie Holiday & Lester Young, Fine and Mellow
  • Gerry Mulligan & Paul Desmond, Line for Lyons
  • Gerry Mulligan & Ben Webster, The Cat Walk
  • Duke Ellington with Ella Fitzgerald, Drop Me Off in Harlem
  • Ella Fitzgerald, Misty
  • Duke Ellington, Mood Indigo
  • Duke Ellington and His Orchestra & Oscar Peterson, Take the "A" Train
  • Count Basie and His Orchestra, Basie - Straight Ahead
  • Count Basie and His Orchestra, That Warm Feeling

Old time bluegrass and Americana, this week on High Country Music Radio

Tue, 05/14/2024 - 11:00am | David A. Reynolds

This week on High Country Music Radio are the Punch Brothers, Nora Brown, Late for the Train, Dom Flemons, Sister Sadie, Carling & Will, the Steep Canyon Rangers, The Honey Dewdrops, old school sounds with Ola Belle Reed, Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys, Doc Watson and John Hartford.

Davisville, May 13, 2024: Founding DJ for vanished Davis station in the ’70s, then an astronaut, now KDRT: Steve Robinson comes full circle

Mon, 05/13/2024 - 5:30pm | Bill Buchanan

Long before he flew four missions on the space shuttle, Steve Robinson was the first DJ of a now-vanished Davis commercial radio station, KYLO, in the late 1970s. Decades later, he’s a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at UC Davis, and director of its Center for Space Flight Research — and he will soon return to local radio as occasional fill-in host for Rod Moseanko, host of the station’s Silver Nine Volt Heart. (The photo shows Steve, left, and Rod in the KDRT studio May 11.)

Today on Davisville we enjoy a serious conversation about space flight, plus hear Steve’s memories of KYLO — including what happened when he told listeners he was running out of records to play  — and learn what brought him to KDRT. After he returned Davis in 2012, Robinson said, “I was looking for some good radio,” and found it with Rod’s show. “I thought, ‘this kind of radio is still alive. It was very exciting to me.’ ”

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