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One of the few things I miss about San Antonio: KRTU 91.7FM, Trinity University's radio station, with jazz in various forms as its primary programming. You can stream it here: https://krtu.trinity.edu/
I was listening to a jazz radio show and they played a Mark Murphy song recorded live in 2008, didn't know he was still around, (later found out died in 2015) So I looked his song up, "Be Bop Lives (Boplicity)" in 1981 it got a lot of air play on jazz radio, just a great singer and this is one of my favorite jazz vocals .
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Apr 12, 2016 - 10:57am
Proclivities wrote:
I used to listen to that station a lot when I lived there. I think it's actually broadcast out of Jersey, maybe Teaneck (oh, wait, that's WFDU) - out of Newark.
i can't do a link, but WBGO out of NYC is a great jazz radio station. I grew up on it
I used to listen to that station a lot when I lived there. I think it's actually broadcast out of Jersey, maybe Teaneck (oh, wait, that's WFDU) - ah, WBGO is out of Newark.
Thanks for the nods and links to Barney McAll and Ian Dogole and Koblas Kesecker—always good to hear new jazz being made. Never been a big Alice Coltrane fan—always found her stuff noodle-y and without the rigor and depth of her late husband's explorations—but I've always liked Pharaoh. His space jazz makes Alice C (and perhaps even Sun Ra) sound silly and pointless. (Except when Pharaoh is playing on it.)
You may enjoy UK saxophonist Alvin Davis, too. I don't care for his vocal tracks, but I like most of everything else he does. Let It Blow is a particularly stong album.
Cool! Upper & Lower Egypt is my favorite track on that album. Later in his career, Pharoah teamed up with Lonnie Liston Smith and out of that collaboration came two of my all-time favorites—Thembi and Astral Traveling.
An oldie but a goodie is Alice Coltrane's dreamy Journey In Satchidananda album (below). Pharoah plays on it, too.
Australia's Barney McAll Unit is terrific. 33 sends chills down my spine whenever I hear it (it starts about 38 seconds into the YouTube video below).
I had the opportunity to hear Ian Dogole's Hemispheres (with Oregon's Paul McCandless on woodwinds) front-row live at 142 Throckmorton Theatre in Mill Valley, CA. Orca Stroll is my favorite track, but I couldn't find a video. Here's another of their tracks, filmed at that same venue to give you a taste.
Thanks for the nods and links to Barney McAll and Ian Dogole and Koblas Kesecker—always good to hear new jazz being made. Never been a big Alice Coltrane fan—always found her stuff noodle-y and without the rigor and depth of her late husband's explorations—but I've always liked Pharaoh. His space jazz makes Alice C (and perhaps even Sun Ra) sound silly and pointless. (Except when Pharaoh is playing on it.)
