Jazz After Dark, March 12, 2024

Tue, 03/12/2024 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

It’s mostly blues, funk, and soul jazz tonight.

  • Dave Brubeck Quintet, Alan Dawson’s drum solo from Take Five
  • Art Tatum, Blues In C
  • Lou Donaldson, Grits And Gravy
  • Benny Carter, Cotton Tail
  • Horace Silver, The Skunky Funky Blues
  • Horace Silver Quintet, The Preacher
  • James Rivers, Smokey the Funky Soprano
  • Chico O'Farrill, Guaguasi
  • Benny Golson Funky Quintet, Blues March
  • Houston Person, Please Send Me Someone to Love

Electric Compost Heap for March 8, 2024

Fri, 03/08/2024 - 5:47pm | Dug Deep

Tonight (March 8) at 6 p.m. Pacific, the Electric Compost Heap celebrates the impending green explosion we refer to as spring! We'll feature music from a slew of artists who are headed our way soon, including Lael Neale at Davis Odd Fellows Hall on March 17 (thanks Davis Live Music Collective ), Reverend Horton Heat and Dale Watson at Harlow's on March 18, and @Mike Clark and the Sugar Sounds , who will be at Sudwerk Brewing Co. on March 23! Lots of other musical compostables as well, and the official color of tonight's show is green!

March 7, 2024 -- Dug Deep interviews 'Open Country' filmmakers Jesse and Glenda Drew

Thu, 03/07/2024 - 1:39pm | Dug Deep

Local filmmakers Glenda and Jesse Drew join Dug Deep in the KDRT studio to discuss their film Open Country, a documentary about the history and politics of country music. It features interviews with Billy Bragg, Hazel Dickens, Jon Langford and Pete Seeger, to name just a few. The movie will be screened at Odd Fellows Hall, 2nd and D streets in downtown Davis, on Sunday, March 10 at 6 p.m. This screening is a benefit for KDRT with tickets available here. More information at OpenCountryFilm.com

LIsten to the interview here.

Jazz After Dark, March 5, 2024

Tue, 03/05/2024 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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On tonight’s show:

  • Erroll Garner, All of Me
  • Artie Shaw, Too Marvelous for Words
  • Earl Bostic, Always
  • Duke Ellington/Johnny Hodges, Sentimental Lady
  • Ella Fitzgerald, Sweet Georgia Brown
  • Paul Gonsalves & Enrique Villegas - i can't get started
  • Dave Brubeck and Gerry Mulligan, Unfinished Woman
  • Boogaloo Joe Jones, Jamaica Farewell
  • Dianne Reeves, I Concentrate On You
  • Jim Hall, Two's Blues
  • Charlie Byrd And The Washington Guitar Quintet, Correnteza
  • David Benoit, Charlie Brown Theme
  • Biréli Lagrène, Come Fly with Me

Davisville, March 4, 2024: DMA looks into creating a new information source for Davis and Yolo

Mon, 03/04/2024 - 5:30pm | Bill Buchanan

Finding information and news about Davis is harder than it should be. The Enterprise still prints and posts local stories, but lacks the scope and heft it had before the rise of internet technology decimated newspapers as a business. Other paid sources of news and information have also retreated, turning what used to be a town commons for communication into a series of walled gardens, with information about local events and news scattered across a variety of formats, outlets, and channels. If the information is present at all.

Autumn Labbe-Renault, the executive director of Davis Media Access (the parent of KDRT), thinks DMA could work with the community to create a new source of information and news about Davis, and eventually Yolo County. The venture has the working title of civic information hub. The idea is in its very early stages, and we talk about it today on Davisville.

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