Station Archive

Some soul jazz, bebop, hard bop, a bit of pop, and some bossa nova!

·             Ivie Anderson with Duke Ellington

·             Duke Ellington and His Orchestra

·             Duke Ellington with Mahalia Jackson

·             Lou Levy

·             Hideo Shiraki

·             Joe Morello

·             Kenny Burrell

·             Cannonball Adderley

·             Roland Kirk

This show is all about Ireland and Rocket's recent month-long trip there with 23 California college students and his family. Over the course of the film-making summer abroad class, the group travelled from Dublin to Belfast to Derry to Galway to Cork and back to Dublin. The class learned about Irish history and culture from pubs to geology and by the end of the trip each student had made a film. Rocket acted in one student's film, "The Protester", which is available on Youtube. Rocket talks about events from the trip including visting the Giant's Causeway and the Dublin Pride festival. On the trip, one student told an obnoxious shaggy dog story which Rocket repeats about a little boy named Jimmy and his good friend Tom who witness a horrific accident that ruins Jimmy's life. This show also features a couple Irish jams: The Irish Rover and Dirty Old Town by The Pogues.