[JPL] PLAYLIST: "General Eclectic", WCVF-FM, 11/14/08 + Musings on All-Genre Radio

[Tom Bingham]

Pretty fair amount of listener response today, particularly for the jazz
artists featured on the show, including saxophonist Idit Shner (most calls
of the day) with a jazz interpretation of a traditional Jewish tune that
owes virtually nothing to klezmer; also, vibist Joe Locke, plus the inspired
pairing of veterans James Moody and Hank Jones. Other genres fared well with
listeners as well - including the Malaysian-based techno artist DjayPee,
hardcore bluegrass band Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice, Italian world-music
band Municipale Balcanica, autoharpist Adam Miller doing an old ragtime
song, and classical guitarist Phil Mathieu.

On a side note, while discussing the late Miriam Makeba with one of my World
Music classes at SUNY Fredonia, I happened to mention that 40 years ago,
there were entire radio stations that played genre-free radio programming
all the time, and that my show tries to keep that spirit of free-form,
"underground" radio alive. (Perhaps that's why my audience, which does
include a lot of college students, generally skews older than other shows on
WCVF? A lot of older listeners tell me they dislike block programming and
prefer free-form.) The students simply could not imagine that there was ever
a time when a radio station would play sets consisting of Jimi Hendrix,
Charles Lloyd, Miriam Makeba, Tim Hardin, Ravi Shankar, and Howlin' Wolf,
one right after the other. Ah, the golden days of my youth . . . To the
list:

Eliza Gilkyson - Great Correction - Beautiful World

Alina Brouwer - My Rumba Man - Live At Clamores

DjayPee - The King of Angkor - Lounge

Tokyo Rosenthal - Little Poetry Girl - Love Won Out

Jock Bartley - Economy - CD single

James Zitro - Happy Pretty - Zitro

Lisa Rogers - Jesus and Jesus - Music To Life 2008/2009 (various artists)

Todd Burge - Buffalo Skinned By All the King's Men - My Lost and Found

Jason Danieley and the Frontier Heroes - Ain't That A Kick In The Head -
Jason Danieley and the Frontier Heroes

Jeanette Williamns - I Will Survive - Thank You For Caring

Lisa Biales - I Like You Love - Hey There

Trout Fishing In America - Big Round World - Big Round World

Idit Shner - Ha Lachma - Tuesday's Blues

John Miller - Hey There - Stage Door Johnny

Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice - How Could I Explain - Blue Side of the Blue
Ridge

Enoch Kent - McFarlane O' the Sprots O' Burnieboosie - One More Round

Rachel Harrington - Karen Kane - City of Refuge

The James Moody and Hank Jones Quartet - Lady Bird - Our Delight

Adam Miller - Dixie Darling - The Orphan Train

Joe Locke - Ricky's Tune - Force of Four

Municipale Balcanica - Radish Lam - Road To Damascus

Elana James - Hey Beautiful - CD single

Phil Mathieu - Albeniz: Sevilla (Sevillanas) - Chamber Music With Guitar

Chico Hamilton Trio - Denise - Live @ Artpark

See you next week, by which time, WCVF-FM may be simulcasting on the web
over Live 365. Soon come, in any case. No show the day after Thanksgiving,
though.




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