On tonight’s show: Sidney Bechet, Louis Armstrong, Edmond Hall, Lee Morgan, Ella Fitzgerald, Ben Tucker & Freddie Gambrell, Frank Strozier, Johnny Hodges & Wild Bill Davis, Frank Sinatra with Count Basie & The Orchestra, Harold Mabern.
On this edition of Timeout Radio, explore how a 5,300-acre university came to exist in the little farm town that was Davisville, Calif. Davis was designated as a University of California campus in 1959 and is now the largest campus in the UC system. Find out how its mascot Gunrock got his name and why the campus has red London double-deck buses. UC Davis Chancellor Gary May tells us about his path to engineering, his humongous comic book collection, and his favorite Star Trek character.
Then visit London, where Big Ben's clock is still adjusted with an old penny, and where half the London Underground is actually above the ground.
This week's guest is Paul Simon via his latest musical release, Seven Psalms. By sculpting his lyrics into his music, he explains his thoughts on mortality and his observations on life. This album has no majestic orchestrations as in Bridge Over Troubled Water, or snappy happy dance tunes, as so many of his songs do. Mr. Simon shares his thoughts and asks you to listen.
I imagined myself listening under a canopy of stars. He brings up reflections of his life we all see and feel in our own lives, and he admits we all interpret in our own way. His version is facinating.
Today Silver Nine Volt Heart presents its annual salute to our nation's Independence Day, with plenty of summertime music and words to celebrate the 4th of July with your families, friends and neighbors.
This week: How to plant a tree, plus a discussion about fertilizers, drip irrigation terminology and issues, current pest problems, and more.
Host Nick Saloman says he has received some feedback for this new show, Implosion. “I’ve had an email saying that, you know, they like it, but it’s a bit obscure. But then, you know, you don’t want to hear the same old stuff all the time, do you?”
We certainly don’t! KDRT exists partly so that we don’t have to hear the same old stuff. And we're not alone.
“We’re going to start, as is my want, with an instrumental," he says at the top of this week's program. "This is by the Syd Dale Orchestra. They did a lot of stuff for TV, and soundtrack stuff in the ‘60s, and Syd Dale was bandleader from York. This is a bit of a stormer for a TV show called The Hell Raisers, which came out in 1966 on the Decca record label.”
To continue this escapade, listen to this week’s Implosion.
Meraki Radio turns 5 years old this month. This KDRT program, hosted by Alison B, airs each Tuesday at 12:30 p.m., with repeats broadcast on Fridays at 8 a.m. Or you can listen online! Meraki (may-rah-kee) refers to doing something with soul, creativity, or love, and recent episodes display the variety of subjects Meraki Radio typically presents -- check 'em out, or go deeper into the vaults:
• Gun violence in the context of suicide
• Men's health, focusing on prostate cancer, part 1 and part 2
• Debra McCarthy, on living with HIV since 1986
• Kate returns, and we talk gardening and crafting
• The Women Infants Children supplemental nutrition program, a discussion with professionals and participants
Tonight’s show: Horace Henderson, Benny Carter with Cootie Williams, Bob Gordon & Jack Montrose, The Jimmy Giuffre 3, Bill Evans with Scott LaFaro & Paul Motian, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Ben Webster, Jimmy McGriff, Count Basie, Jack Sheldon, Gerry Mulligan with Dave Brubeck, Larry McKenna, and Birelli Lagrene.
If you’ve enjoyed a performance at the Mondavi — maybe the Beethoven “Sonatathon,” Bo Diddley concert or the Maria Callas hologram with the Sacramento Philharmonic — today’s guest had something to do with that. This August, after 17 years, Don Roth is retiring as executive director of the Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts at UC Davis. Today on Davisville we talk about choosing performers, the influence of tech, how the Mondavi spent the pandemic, and why pianist Stewart Goodyear’s “Sonatathon” was among Roth's favorite moments.
You're on your own for the first time when you turn 18 and transition from foster homes to the adult world. This nonprofit stands to help. Executive Director Cathi Schmidt explains how:
Make It Happen for Yolo County provides underserved youth in Yolo County who are transitioning into independent living situations with furniture, household goods and resources to furnish their first apartment or home. We also offer them support and advocacy.
This broadcast is also available as a podcast on Spotify under Imagining Yolo Davis or on Apple Podcasts.
