What are you listening to?

[Kenny]

Olympia Theater, Paris, June 4, 1972

[Kenny]

Monday, May 9, 1977 War Memorial, Buffalo, NY

[alisonian]

Chris Potter- "Gratitude"
Jonatha Brooke and the Story-"Plumb"
D'angelo- "Voo Doo"

[Kenny]

Band/Artist: Grateful Dead
Date: January 14th, 1967
Venue: Polo Field, Golden Gate Park
Location: San Francisco, CA
(Live at a "be in" - I love the internet)

Band/Artist: Grateful Dead
Date: March 3rd, 1968
Venue: Haight Street
Location: San Francisco, CA
(The "Flatbed Truck show" - complete manic, bedlam!)

Larry, an eye witness writes: "i remember getting off the bus on haight street That spring day, pushing my way through the crowds to see what all the excitement was about (i didn't know- did anyone? -that the dead were parking a flat bed truck across haight street to play a free gig!) ...completely by accident, i got there (well, within a few hundred feet) just as they fired up the music...the bus came by and i was splattered like a bug on the windshield!!! .....the version of "dancing in the streets" (which, unfortunately, isn't on the tape) was not the "disco" version they came up with later, but a much stronger r&b/rocking tune....i never forgot that set....and, though mickey had been with the band for a while, it was news to me, since this was my first time seeing them (only one drummer on that first, imo, great album!"

Also: "According to the Taping Compendium this tape was made by a forward thinking hippie named Steve Brown. He used an old Uher with a cheap mike he stuck up over the crowd. He thought it was important to document history and we should be glad he did. This gig is famous for the illegal shutting down of Haight St., the pictures, and this tape. The Dead thought it was a nice sunny day so they drove a flatbead truck into the middle of the street to play an impromto free show. How many bands have even thought about doing something like this? There are 2 famous pictures one is from behind the band where you can see the whole street covered with people and the one of Garcia walking through the assembled crowd as if he is just a normal guy going to play his guitar. As far as the tape, well taking into consideration the other 2 aspects I mentioned it's nice to have a document of this event. It's mono and it's not great sonically but you get what it was like to be there this important day.

[Kenny]

Band/Artist: Grateful Dead
Date: June 8th, 1977
Venue: Winterland Arena
Location: San Francisco, CA

Backstage pass and Columbia grass - sweetness.

[Kenny]

Hmmm, back to that jazz stuff ...

The Bill Holman Band - Live.

Hell's bells this just makes me wanna jump and leap and go completely nuts, it's that good.

One of many platters that is going to get a hammering when The Pearls returns to the air at 1pm this coming Tuesday.

[Vic Kiiiii]

Paul Anka

Rock Swings - I kid you not, it is great - he does tunes by REM, Nirvana, the Cure etc and it is a great recording, great arrangements. He sounds pretty cool still too. Sounds a bit like Nelson Riddle was involved - the arranger must be a big fan as this is a recent recording.

[Kenny]

Vicki, please inform us when you find yo' marbles.

[Kenny]

GD - Hundred Year Hall. Yeoww! Frankfurt, 1972.

[happy]

pbsfm - allsorts, including steve robertson's show this morning. Sometimes I really enjoy Steve's show, sometimes it's not quite to my taste, with a heavy emphasis on standards played in a timeworn manner. Today he played a great Carmen Lundy track with Mark Shim (?) on tenor, and that EST band coing out for Wang. very, very nice.

airto moriera - life after that (fantastic!)

gerry koster filling in on abcfm jazztrack - great show, gerry!

plenty of frank sinatra. The really late stuff where he doesn't really have a voice anymore, but his presence is still massive

a bit of early bob marley after stumbling across a great doco on SBS about the history of Jamaican music (mostly pre Marley - ska and rocksteady)

Hey kenny, i'd be careful about casting aspersions on anyone's marbles after your diet of Grateful Dead in the last fortnight!!!!
(mind you, I'm forced to agree, although I can't say I've heard the record in question, PAUL ANKA?#!@@?!@)

[Kenny]

Yeehah - Many Happy Tax Returns And Buy A Mosaic Box Set Day!

The Complete Okeh And Brunswick Bix Beiderbecke, Frank Trumbauer and Jack Teagarden 1924-36

[Vicki H BBB]

Kenny Weir

I do have all my marbles. It is a great recording. I am particularly fond of his version of Eye of the Tiger.

[Kenny]

Dick's Picks Volume 4: Three discs from Fillmore East, February, 1970

Steppin' Out - Four discs from England, 1972. Pretty funny seeing pics of the band all rugged up and playing to a dour, pasty-faced looking bunch of Poms. California to Newcastle - what a long, strange trip ...

Billy Bang - Vietnam: Reflections. I've never been a big fan of fiddle jazz (now bluegrass or western swing, that's anutha matter entirely). But I gots this in the mail and really like it. Guess what - he's a total rip-off of Way Out West.

[mim]

This week's additions to ipod:

Nnenna Freelon, Maiden Voyage
René Marie, Serene Renegade
René Marie, How Can I Keep From Singing
Sonny Rollins, Night At The Village Vanguard
Modern Jazz Quartet, In A Crowd
Ernestine Anderson, I Love Being Here With You
Dave Holland Quintet, Prime Directive
Cassandra Wilson & Jacky Terrasson, Rendezvous
Chet Baker Sings
Miles Davis, Complete Concert 1964
Bobby Hutcherson, Dialogue
McCoy Tyner, The Real McCoy
Freddie Hubbard, Ready For Freddie
Ahmad Jamal, The Essence

So, when to listen to them all? Argh! So far I'm really digging MJQ, Nnenna Freelon & Sonny Rollins. Anyone got an opinion on what should come next? Fairly eclectic within the wider genre I suppose...

[No parochial]

There is some great Australian music around if you're interested.