[JPL] PLAYLIST: "General Eclectic", WCVF-FM, 5/16/08

[Tom Bingham]

 I'm a week late posting this playlist, as I just wrapped up grading for the
Spring '08 semester, henceforth and ever after to be known as the Semester
>From Heck. There is no "GE" show this week, as I'm resting up before
starting summer school on Tuesday - only 6 students instead of the Semester
>From Heck's 200+!
On last Friday's show, there was a two-way tie  for most response, between
Sagapool's mix of gypsy jazz, Balkan, klezmer, and a host of etceteras, and
Jimmy Blythe's 1920's piano roll stylings, on the borderline between blues,
ragtime, and early jazz. Blythe attracted more callers, but Sagapool was the
clear favorite among parental visitors who were touring the station to see
where their graduating senior offspring had been spending their time. Other
tracks attracting positive response were Canadian singer-songwriter Dan
McKinnon, bluesman Steve Johnson, Latin-jazz violinist Pedro Alfonso, Roy
Cumming's piano-jazz trio (with Dave Leonhardt, who has been a favorite
around here since playing the Fredonia Opera House a few seasons back), the
Bo-Keys' instrumental r&b in the style of the Mar-Keys, the Arabic-style
Ensemble Al-Asdeka,  Arturo O'Farrill's ear-bending  version of the Juan
Tizol classic "Caravan", and  veteran Irish traditionalists Patrick Street.
To the list:

Dan McKinnon - The Captain and the Queen - Just Another Day

Tracy Grammer - Travis John - Book of Sparrows

Erik Balkey - She Sleeps - Deadpan Alley

Robert Hill - My Corner - My Corner

Iko-Iko - (I Never Had) An American Dream - Shine

Cindy Kallet & Grey Larsen - Playing With a Full Deck - Cross the Water

Steve Johnson - Learn To Be Nice - Leaving NY

Sagapool - Douk Tarsou - Episode Trois

Pedro Alfonso - La Comparsa - Strings To Your Heart

Jennings & Keller - The Best Hamlet - Susan's House

Jon T. Howard - Corpus Christi - Time For Something New

Roy Cumming (with Davis Leonhardt and Paul Wells) - Undertones - Edgeless

Stonecraft - Mitt Hjerte Alltid Vanker - The Call

Jimmy Blythe - Black Gal Make It Thunder - Messin' Around Blues

Firefly Soul - Saturns Moon - On the Edge and Beyond

Bo-Keys - Deuce and a Quarter - It's All Connected: Yellow Dog Records
Promotional Sampler, Vol. 3 (various artists)

Ensemble Al-Asdeka - Shashkin - Ensemble Al-Asdeka

Richard Underhill - Morse Code - Moment In Time

Dan Tyler - Watch What They're Saying - King Easy Radio Sampler, Vol. 3
(various)

Arturo O'Farrill and the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra - Caravan - Song For
Chico

Patrick Street - Air/Jig: Seanamhac Tube Station - On the Fly

Anne Mette Iversen - North (Allegro) - Best of the West & Many Places

Kim McLean - Forever and a Day - Happy Face


"General Eclectic" returns Friday, March 30.





-- 
Tom Bingham
"General Eclectic"
WCVF-FM
115 McEwen Hall
SUNY Fredonia
Fredonia, NY 14063
USA
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