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It's been a wonderful ten years of on and off reading, listening, learning, talking, and sharing here at the Passing Notes blog. I am grateful as always to WDNA for the original chance way back at the end of 2005 -- particularly to Joe Cassara, Michael Valentine, Frank Consola, Howard Duperly, Maggie Pelleya, and the late Charlie Kaufman all for teaching me so much about radio. Many thanks as well to Mitch Kaplan of Books and Books and to Lisa Palley of the Miami Book Fair for the opportunity to interview so many great writers over the years. A supreme thanks to the legendary Bruce Campbell for being my first interview, and I am will always be grateful to the writers, musicians, filmmakers, artists, critics, and the like whom I was able to get to know over the years. Passing Notes may return -- who knows in what form and who knows when. In the meantime, feel free to look through ten years of stuff. I hope you find something you like and I hope you pay very close attention. Remember, hardening of the categories leads to art disease.
Song, Artist, Album“The Outsider,” Lack of Afro, Press On“Smoke,” Medeski Martin and Wood, Uninvisible“Redback,” Cookin' On 3 Burners, Baked Boiled and Fried“Paper Bass,” Medeski Martin and Wood, Friday Afternoon In The Universe“Get Your Money Ready,” Fred Wesley, Coulda Woulda Shoulda“The Dropper,” Medeski Martin and Wood, The Dropper“Slow Down Blues,” Joe Satriani, Joe Satriani“I'm A King Bee,” Slim Harpo, Essential Blues Anthology“You Shook Me,” Joe Bonamassa, audio from live performance“Carmel Blues,” Pinetop Perkins and Marcia Ball, Piano Blues: Martin Scorcese Presents The Blues“Country Blues, Part One,” Muddy Waters, Martin Scorcese Presents The Blues“The Intro and The Outro,” Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, Gorilla“Rough Times,” The High End Sound, Urban Lounge Supreme“Waco Loco,” Lionel Loueke, Gaia“Dance Lesson #2,” Karl Denson, Dance Lesson #2“West of the West,” Christian Scott, Stretch Music“As Light Through Leaves,” Jeff Coffin with the Caleb Chapman Crescent Superband“The Rhythm Changes,” Kamasi Washington, The Epic“Suite For The Blue Planet,” Jesse Fischer, Day Dreamer“Trip Mode,” Joey DeFrancesco, Trip Mode
Song, Artist, Album“Please Use This Song,” Jon Lajoie, video“Sunday,” DJ Day, Brazilectro“Funky,” DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist, SB2“Spoonful,” Howlin' Wolf, ElectricMick Electro-Blues Remix“Jim Lee Blues,” Samantha Fish, video“Black Cat Bone,” Sad Sam Blues Jam, video“Misunderstood,” Tedeschi-Trucks Band, video“Theme from Jessica Jones,” Sean Calley, video“Nicotine and Gravy,” Beck, Midnight Vultures“Agony of Defeet,” Parliament, Trombipulation“Blue in Green,” Screaming Headless Torsos, 1995“The Gator's Back,” The Darol Anger/Mike Marshall Band, Jam“Sangree,” Jesse Fischer featuring Zach Brock, Day Dreamer“The Radio Tower Has A Beating Heart,” The Bad Plus, Never Stop“Finlayson,” Kneebody, Low Electrical Worker“Moment's Notice,” Turtle Island Quartet, A Love Supreme
Song, Artist, AlbumPeaches En Regalia, Ed Palermo, Ed Palermo Big Band Plays The Music of Frank ZappaTijuana Surf, Frank Zappa, The Cucamonga Years: The Early Works of Frank ZappaBig Swifty, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, live audio from August 1973- HelsinkiFrankie and Shuggie, Frank Zappa and Shuggie Otis, live audio from The Johnny Otis Show 1970I Am The Walrus, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, live audio from May 1988 – BarcelonaMr Green Genes Medley, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, live audio from October 1973 – TexasOccam's Razor, Frank Zappa, One Shot DealToads of the Short Forest, Ed Palermo, Ed Palermo Big Band Plays The Music of Frank ZappaRDNZL, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, You Can't Do That On Stage Any More -Volume 2Don't Eat The Yellow Snow, Frank Zappa, ApostropheNanook Rubs It, Frank Zappa, ApostropheSt. Alphonso's Pancake Breakfast, Frank Zappa, ApostropheFather O'Blivion, Frank Zappa, ApostropheAnother Way To Look At It, George Duke, Face the Music
Watermelon in Easter Hay, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, live audio from May 1988 – Barcelona
Song, Artist, AlbumGray's Ferry, Orrin Evans, FreedomGallop's Gallop, Tim Warfield, SphericalGold Prisms Incorporated, The Bad Plus, Inevitable WesternFlip & Dip, Jeff "Tain" Watts, Blue - Vol. 1Elephant Talk, Wave Mechanics Union, Second SeasonMatte Kudasai, Kurt Elling, The GateReckoner, Robert Glasper, CoversSmells Like Teen Spirit, Richard Cheese, Viva La VodkaUnpack Your Adjectives, Sarah Gazarek, Blossom and BeeAll About That Bass, The Postmodern Jukebox, audio rip from videoChitlins Con Carne, Kenny Burrell, Midnight BlueThe Hustle Is On, T-Bone Walker, The Very Best OfT-Bone Shuffle, Buddy Guy, The Very Best OfCrosscut Saw, Albert King, The Very Best OfLittle Wing, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, The Sky Is CryingThird Stone From The Sun, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Are You Experienced?Looking Up, Throttle Elevator Music, Area JSugar Doosie, Galactic, Into The DeepHomenagen, Jared Gold, Metropolitan Rhythm
Here's a feature from the past week about my music history lecture at WDNA's Jazz Gallery. It went very well, but my attempts to record audio on the scene did not, so I have only the slideshow materials but not my largely improvised (but informational) talk.
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Song, Artist, Album
Cars Trucks Buses, Phish, Billy BreathesShofukan, Snarky Puppy, We Like It HereBorn Ugly, Brand X, Unorthodox BehaviorDark Prince, Trio of Doom, Trio of DoomHejira, Joni Mitchell, HejiraJoy, Wayne Shorter, Odyssey of IskaSpank-A-Lee, Herbie Hancock, ThrustTomorrow Night, BB King, ReflectionsThe Thrill Is Gone, BB King, Martin Scorcese Presents The BluesSaturday Night Fish Fry, BB King, Let The Good Times RollLittle by Little, Susan Tedeschi, Just Won't BurnHoney Bop, Wanda Jackson, Rockin' With WandaDon't Take Everybody To Be Your Friend, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Up Above My HeadBlue Prelude, Jorma Kaukonen and Tom Hobson, QuahDr Beauchef Penguin Dentist, Kneebody, Low Electrical WorkerRhinocerize, The Apples, Fly On ItGoo Goo Wah Wah, Wah Wah Watson, ElementaryVendetta, Calibro 35, Traditori di Tutti
Song, Artist, AlbumBlack Satin, Miles Davis, On The CornerSwiss Cheese D, Ben Allison, The Stars Look Very Different TodaySuper Nova, Wayne Shorter, Super NovaJohnny Utah, The Kandinsky Effect, SynesthesiaSurucucu, Weather Report, Live in TokoyoBlood Count, Vijay Iyer Trio, Break StuffLight Work, Reggie Quinerly, InvictusYou Can't Stop Us Now, Marc Cary, Rhodes Ahead, Vol 2November, Jackie Terrasson, Take ThisMo Onions, Booker T and the MGs, The Very Best OfNext Door To The Blues, Etta James, Her BestLet's Have A Little Talk, Luther Allison, Luther's BluesGreen Onions, Booker T and the MG's, The Very Best OfThe Feeling That Music Brings, Susan Tedeschi, Wait For MeIt's A New Day, Skull Snaps, Skull SnapsSome Skunk Funk, Billy Cobham, A Funky Thide of SingsHap'nin’, Bernard Purdie, Lialeh: The Original Motion Picture SoundtrackWhat Is Hip?, Tower of Power, Tower of Power
On the heels of the 'Blurred Lines' ruling, I'm coming to conquer the musical universe.
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Song, Album, Artist
Little Wing, Lew Soloff, Little WingCaptain Jon, Ingrid Jensen, At SeaDecisive Steps, Tia Fuller, Decisive StepsNext Time Forever, Cindy Blackman, Code RedGlass Bead Games, Jeremy Pelt, Tales Musings and Other ReveriesTake Five (Take One), Jacky Terrasson, Take ThisCount Chockulus, DRKWAV, The PurgeHello San Francisco, Buddy Guy, The Very Best OfSweet Home Chicago, Magic Sam Blues Band, West Side SoulCan't Hold Out Much Longer, Little Walter, His BestDiamonds At Your Feet, Muddy Waters, His Best - 1956 to 1964Stormy Monday Blues, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Greatest Hits Volume One - The Duke RecordingsBuilt For Comfort, Howling Wolf, His BestXtraordinary, Marcus Miller, AfrodeeziaOld School Jam, Kevin Eubanks & Stanley Jordan, DuetsBig Foot (With Intro), Eric Johnson and Mike Stern, Eclectic
Song, Album, Artist
Sco-Mule, Gov't Mule and John Scofield, Sco-MuleRevelation, Cyrus Chestnut Trio, RevelationHappiness, Eric Reed, HappinessSearching For The Blues, Marcus Roberts Trio, From Rags To RhythmDapper Dan, Dr. Lonnie Smith, The HealerCoconut Boogaloo, Medeski Martin and Wood, CombusticationWatermelon Man, Herbie Hancock, Head HuntersScars, DRKWAV, The PurgeMy Blues Is Funky, Charles Earland, If Only For One NightBlues Two Views, Ira Sullivan & Stu Katz, A Family AffairBlue Juice, Jimmy McGriff, Greatest Hits (Blue Note)Blues After All, Jimmy Smith, Blue Note Jazz Profile No. 14End Of A Sun, Shaolin Astronauts, Quest Under CapricornDorthaan's Walk, Rashaan Roland Kirk, Boogie Woogie String Along For RealWe Free Kings, Rashaan Roland Kirk , We Free KingsAnd Shadow Saw The Gods, Club d'Elf, Now I Understand
Song, Album, ArtistJohn McLaughlin, Miles Davis, Bitches BrewGazzeloni, DRKWAV, The PurgeCountry and Eastern Music, Jan Hammer and Jerry Goodman, Like ChildrenLowell, Kneebody, The LinePaper Money, Corduroy, Very YeahChase Me, Hexstatic, Master-ViewCanteloupe Island, Hugh Masekela, The Lasting Impression of Ooga BoogaShemeeans Kuti, DRKWAV, The PurgeBall and Chain, Janis Joplin and Big Brother and the Holding Company, Live at the Carousel BallroomBack Home Blues, Ira Sullivan and the Chicago Jazz Quintet, Bird Lives!Mumbles, Oscar Peterson Trio with Clark Terry, Oscar Peterson Trio + OneGreazy Blues, Clark Terry, Shades of BluesStormy Weather, The Dorsey Brothers with Ethel Waters, Harlem LullabyesAutumn Leaves, Bob Dylan, Shadows in the NightSome Enchanted Evening, Frank Sinatra, The Best of the Columbia YearsSome Enchanted Evening, Bob Dylan, Shadows in the NightFrank Sinatra, Cake, Fashion Nugget
Also Sprach Zarathrusta, Phish, Recorded Live in Miami - 1/2/2015
For this weekend's upcoming Third Anniversary show on the Sunday Time Warp, our featured artist on Segment3 (2:06 to 2:30 pm) will be composer and singer Carmen Lundy, who'll be talking about her latest release, Soul to Soul. While you wait -- and while I edit -- enjoy this collection of Lundy's great work from over the years, as well as the electronic press kit for Soul to Soul.
Carmen Lundy
On this Friday's Passing Notes, we'll catch up with the eminent author Russell Banks and talk about his latest collection of stories, A Permanent Member of the Family. In the meantime, here's an excellent hour of video with Banks from his talk at Google headquarters, this time around about his novel The Lost Memory of Skin.
This weekend will mark (more or less) my third full year programming music for the Sunday Time Warp program on WDNA in Miami. I feel pretty good about the mix of music on the show -- not just jazz, blues, and funk, but the hip hop and EDM that occasionally makes its way into the general flow, as well as the artist feature "Segment 3," which has been on hiatus for the winter. It all returns in full this Sunday, with lots of new music. So far so good, and if we can make it to five years, Henshaw has agreed to start planning a concert with as many friends of the show as we can manage! For now, tune in this weekend for new Rudresh Mahanthappa, DRKWAV, and Bob Dylan singing his best Frank Sinatra.
Song, Artist, Album
Take Five (Take 1), Jacky Terrasson, Take ThisTake Flight, Vijay Iyer Trio, Break StuffSmile, Avishai Cohen Trio. From DarknessOld Soul, Avishai Cohen's Triveni, Dark Nights
Extraction, Howe/Chambers/Wooten, ExtractionHeck of a Job, John Scofield, This Meets ThatWet Bones, Club D'Elf, Now I Understand
Blues for Jack, Stephen McQuarry Trio, AzureHawaiian Boogie, Elmore James, The Sky Is Crying: The History of Elmore JamesCountry Boy, Otis Spann, Otis Spann Is The BluesThree Times A Fool, Otis Rush, The Essential Otis RushBlue Stroll, Ira Sullivan with Johnny Griffin, Blue Stroll
Oleo, Gnappy, UnloadedPaladin, Garaj Mahal, Blueberry Cave
All For You, Rjd2, Magnificent City Instrumentals
A meditation on Ferguson.
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Southern Poverty Law Center
The legendary professional wrestler (and occasional movie star) Andre Roussimoff gets his own comics biography by the award-winning comics creator Box Brown. Brown will be one of hundred of authors appearing this weekend at the Miami Book Fair.
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Box Brown
Miami Book Fair
From Halloween through Christmas, the question persists: How many lights? The answer: Never enough.
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Song, Artist, AlbumIn A Silent Way/Waterfall, Weather Report, Live and UnreleasedWayne's Way, John McLaughlin, Industrial ZenTeddy Ruxpin, Kneebody, audio rip from live performanceSteps, Rudy Rotta & Brian Auger, Caputred LiveParks N' Wreck, Wil Blades, Field NotesAddis, Wil Blades, Field Notes(I Can't Stand) The Whole Lott of You, Wil Blades, Field NotesLeo's Cat, Will Bernard, Party HatsDirty Water, The Sugarman 3, What The World Needs NowRed House, Buddy Guy, Stone Free: A Tribute To Jimi HendrixHall of Shame, Chris Cain, Hall of ShameHey Bartender, Koko Taylor, Deluxe EditionI Ain't Drunk, Albert Collins, Cold SnapTaking Care of No Business, Jimi Hendrix, The Jimi Hendrix Experience (MCA Box)Bad Bad Whiskey, Amos Milburn, audio rip from video archiveGimme A Pigfoot and a Bottle Of Beer, Bessie Smith, The CollectionRikki Don't Lose That Number, Hospitality, audio rip from The Onion's AV ClubM-B, Machine and the Synergetic Nuts, Leap Second NeutralBattle of Bongo Hill, The Herbalizer, Something Wicked This Way ComesFreedom Jazz Dance, Alex Berdashky, audio rip from live performance
Hammond B3 Wil Blades player talks about how he came to the instrument, getting to know Dr. Lonnie Smith, and the musical freedom he's found on his latest album, 'Field Notes.'
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Song, Artist, AlbumYou're Still The One, Otis Brown III featuring Gretchen Parlato, The Thought Of YouYou've Got A Friend, Jesse Fischer featuring Gretchen Parlato, HomebrewBlues for Yna Yna, Richard "Groove" Holmes, Living SoulKalas, Butti 49, White MartiniDoomed, Galactic, RuckusBody and Soul, Charlie Haden & Jim Hall, Charlie Haden & Jim HallGold Prism Incorporated, The Bad Plus, Inevitable WesternKindred Spirits, Carmen Lundy, Soul To SoulThe More I Find Out The Less I Want To Know, Delta Generators, Get On The HorseDown The Road, C2C, singleChange in Speak, De la Soul, 3 Feet High and RisingBra, Cymande, CymandeNo Strings Attatched, The Mad Lads, The Best of the Mad LadsGroovin' in New Orleans, Melvin Taylor and the Slack Band, Melvin Taylor and the Slack BandThe Long Man, Dennis Binder, The Roots of Hip-HopBarrytown Ben Folds, The Best Imitation of Myself - A RestrospectiveThe Star Spangled Banner, Jon Batiste and Stay Human, Social MusicTom Sawyer, The Alex Skolnik Trio, Last Day In Paradise
Freedom Jazz Dance, D Tr3o featuring Martin Shaw, audio rip from live performance
Our newest video jukebox features organist Wil Blades playing with his own trio and in the company of musicians like Billy Martin, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Stanton Moore, Will Bernard, Donald Harrison, Rez Abbasi, and more. Wil Blades will be a featured guest on this weekend's Sunday Time Warp, and he'll be talking about his latest album, Field Notes.
Wil Blades
In a recently unearthed and reconstructed interview, writer Frank Deford talks about his 2010 novel, Bliss, Remembered, Leni Riefenstahl, the various pleasures of writing, and the general state of sports.
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Bliss, Remembered
Deford's page at NPR
Deford's page at Sports Illustrated
Song, Artist, Album
Kidney Stone, The Apples, Attention!Last Beat, Nomo, Ghost Rock!Everybody Boogaloo, Big Boss Man, WinnerMolar Melancholia, Chris Greene Quartet, Music AppreciationThe Moose Is Loose!, Chris Greene Quartet, Music AppreciationFuture Emperor of Evanston, Chris Greene Quartet, A Group EffortBack Home Blues, Charles Mingus, Mingus ThreeI Feel So Good (I Wanna Boogie), Magic Sam, West Side SoulShips On The Ocean, Junior Wells and Buddy Guy, Hoodoo Man BluesBig Boss Man, Jimmy Reed, Martin Scorcese Presents The BluesRed House, Jimi Hendrix, Martin Scorcese Presents The BluesJust Won't Burn, Susan Tedeschi, Martin Scorcese Presents The BluesI Want To Feel Good Pt 2, The Bad Plus, Made PossibleNobody Cares About The Railroads Anymore, Harry Nilsson, HarryBig Girls Don't Cry, Omaha Diner, Omaha DinerHeart of the Sunrise, Wave Mechanics Union, Second SeasonFreedom Jazz Dance, Brian Bromberg, Wood