WFMU RADIO: Give The Drummer Some 09/23/16

Listener comments!

7:10am Brian in the Dark Peak:

Quick hello whilst I have a sigernal. Oh such beautiful weather. Seizure later.

7:57am Doug Schulkind:

Fine gratings, Dark Peak Brian!

8:13am ndbob:

Heya Doug - a quick question - is this going to be an all jazz show or the usual mix?

8:14am Doug Schulkind:

Mostly all jazz, ndbob.

8:15am ndbob:

ah ok Doug

8:19am Jeff Golick:

Hi, Doug. Wishing you and yours and all present a Happy Coltrane's birthday.

8:21am Doug Schulkind:

Feel free to take this one off, ndbob. Or stick around for as long as you like.

@Jeff Golick
And we shall celebrate. Together.

8:23am ndbob:

I'll stick around for a while - maybe not the entire show

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8:26am doctorjazz:

Busy board already, cool.
Lotsa' jazz works for me (though the usual mix does too)
HAPPY FRIDAY, Doug and drumma's!

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8:28am doctorjazz:

And, a very Happy Coltrane Birthday!

8:31am Doug Schulkind:

@ndbob
I understand. Take the pleasure as you find it!

Happy Friday and happy John William Coltrane Day, doctorjazz!

8:32am ndbob:

I mean I know Coltrane is great -totally agree - but with the more freeform material he tends to be a guilty non-pleasure for me - but I will certainly give it a try:)

8:42am Gary:

I've got a series of phone meetings I need to be on this morning and part of this afternoon, but am looking forward to listening to this in the archives. THANK YOU DOUG FOR DOING THIS

8:42am glenn:

jazzy. www.atlasobscura.com...

8:43am Doug Schulkind:

@ndbob
I won't be playing a single Coltrane piece today. Actually.

8:45am Dave in Vermont:

morning

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8:45am doctorjazz:

@ndbob, I love the description, "guilty non-pleasure". Sort of like eating your spinach...

8:46am Doug Schulkind:

@Gary
Spolier alert: It was fabulous!

Good welcome, glenn of the northlands and Dave in Vermont!

8:47am glenn:

hey, i'm pretty sure vermont's a lot further north than toronto.

8:49am glenn:

and this. news.nationalpost.com...

8:50am ndbob:

@doctor - with great benefits:)

8:50am Doug Schulkind:

The northlands of our mind, glenn.

8:52am ndbob:

@glenn somehow I'm not surrprised

8:54am glenn:

satan's just itching to get into the white house.

8:58am Doug Schulkind:

Peter Wehner has written some powerful op-eds in the New York Times calling out the hypocrisy of the evangelical support for Trump. Begin with these:

www.nytimes.com...

www.nytimes.com...

9:00am annie:

good morning everyone!!ready for da drummah!

9:00am glenn:

it's pretty astonishing, since about the only thing trump's got going for him is his obvious disbelief in the big dude in the sky.

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9:01am doctorjazz:

Bix/Tram on the stream to set up the show, pretty cool!

9:01am ndbob:

Hi Annie!

9:01am Doug Schulkind:

Bix/Tram is perfection. And speaking of perfection...

annie's here, y'all!

9:03am Mr C:

Hit me band! And the give the drummer some.

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9:03am listener james from westwood:

Doug! Drummer crew! Happy Friday and happy autumn or spring as the case may be!

9:03am ndbob:

@glenn I don't think it's so much disbelief, as indifference

9:03am annie:

just finishing breakfast! i'll use the drummer for sewing-machine-repair musical support.

9:03am annie:

hey ndbob!!

9:09am ndbob:

Heya James!

9:10am jill:

good morning kids!

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9:11am listener james from westwood:

How do, ndbob and all! annie, I'm adding the clicking of my keyboard to the symphony of sewing machine repair today!

9:11am mauri:

I can just sit back and watch a red maple throwing leaves to the wind.

9:11am annie:

lovely!

9:11am Doug Schulkind:

The magnificent Mr C!

The superlative Listener James!

The mighty and merciful jill!

I bow down to you.

9:14am Doug Schulkind:

mauri the poet is throwing and glowing his knowing seed-sowing

9:22am coelacanth:

good morning Doug and participants

9:23am Doug Schulkind:

coeltrane!

9:24am coelacanth:

ha! i'll take it!

9:25am Doug Schulkind:

I may be mistaken, but I believe everyone BUT Dizzy Reece on this record played with John Coltrane. Or at least recorded with John Coltrane:

Dizzy Reece ~ trumpet, flugelhorn
Clifford Jordan ~ tenor sax
Charlies Davis ~ tenor sax
Albert Dailey ~ piano
Art Davis ~ bass
Roy Haynes ~ drums

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9:26am listener james from westwood:

Thanks for giving Dizzy the spins!

9:26am Doug Schulkind:

Pianist Albert Dailey also appears on Archie Shepp's LP "Ballads for Trane."

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9:26am listener james from westwood:

(And as an occasional benign positional vertigo patient, I know from the spins.)

9:28am Doug Schulkind:

You should visit Dr. Hitchcock for that vertigo, James.

9:33am coelacanth:

james, i got my meniere's syndrome to a manageable point by making several changes; but the one thing that made a huge, immediate difference was one good acupuncture treatment.
...but maybe it was just coincidence.

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9:33am doctorjazz:

Interesting, naming yourself "The J.F.K Quartet". Such optimism. Can you imagine a group naming itself after our next president?

9:33am Doug Schulkind:

@doctorjazz
And this record is from... 1962.

9:38am glenn:

is warmed up green curry chicken acceptable breakfast food? it had better be.

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9:39am duke:

Good morning Drummer and Drummers

9:41am Doug Schulkind:

Only when you share it, glenn

Hiya duke!

9:42am Andrew Waterloo:

only if you have it with tandoori waffles.

9:43am coelacanth:

'sounds good to me...except for the chicken part.

9:43am Doug Schulkind:

This tune "Coltrane" was composed by Spike Lee's father, Bill.

Hallloooo, Andrew "Waffles" Waterloo!

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9:43am Artie Haywire:

Ahhh, good morning all. This photo makes me immediately calm and happy - the music even more so.

9:43am KimSorise:

My jams! My jams! Good Morning Drum Major Doug!

9:45am glenn:

tandoori waffles? part of oktoberfest?

9:52am Doug Schulkind:

Still heartbreaking to have lost the two frontliners here, Raphé Mailik (at 58) and Glenn Spearman (at 51).

9:56am Lore:

Have you seen this heavy Spearman footage, Doug? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti59wzEXyZk

9:58am Doug Schulkind:

Kim Sorise! The vinyl beast from east Louisville! (Is there an east Louisville?)

Brother Lore! I will watch after the show, otherwise it will become the show (not that there's anything wrong with that). Thank you.

9:59am Doug Schulkind:

Annnnnnnd, good morning to you, Artie H!

9:59am El Thatchmo:

"Trane still blows, and the oppression still grows, and junkies still OD in ghetto halls" - Last Poets

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10:00am listener james from westwood:

This album is fictional, but I still believe Tony Coulter has it somewhere in his hyperdimensional vaults: twitter.com...

10:01am Doug Schulkind:

El Thatchmo, dropping knowledge bombs on the tombs of our wombs.

10:03am Doug Schulkind:

LOVE that, Listener James. It reminds me of the LP I have called "Madness in Opera." It is a compilation of "freak-out" arias from famous operas put out by the psychopharmacology company Lederle Laboratories.

And it is nonfictional.

10:03am Scott:

Oh what a great idea for a Coltrane tribute. Hi Doug!

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10:05am βrian:

That sounds right, Doug.

10:06am KimSorise:

There is an east Louisville, but I certainly can't afford to live there!

10:07am glenn:

best fictional album ever, except it's a real album. www.strangeandbeautiful.com...

10:08am chromaphone:

Just looked up Bob Thiele on the net. That is funny that he was a producer (I assumed he was a flautist) because I was noticing how excellent the reverb was on that flute.

10:13am Doug Schulkind:

Long may you rally, Scott!

Is it better to be right or sound right, βrian?

@chromaphone
Fun fact: Bob Thiele was married to the pop/jazz singer Teresa Brewer.

10:14am Doug Schulkind:

Kim Sorise, the sonic shaman of west Louisville! (Is there a west Louisville?)

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10:15am Artie Haywire:

"Although, approached by other labels, Marvin refused to record for anyone unless the owner of the label came to his home in Slidell, LA and mowed his lawn. "

10:17am Doug Schulkind:

"Gonna go to Slidell and look for my joy." — Lucinda Williams

10:19am holland oats:

drumma! peoples! a stream supreme!

10:21am glenn:

i wanted to send lucinda a copy of "joy of cooking". i hope she'd get the joke.

10:25am KimSorise:

Yes, Doug there is a west Louisville that is primarily African American and a south Louisville which is working class and immigrants. I live in central Louisville which is near downtown and in an historic working class neighborhood called Schnitzelburg where nearly all the houses are shotguns style.

10:25am Listener Gregory:

That Albert Ayler sounded much like Arthur Blythe to me, Doug. Is there a connection there?

10:27am Doug Schulkind:

@Listener Gregory
Other than the Great Brotherhood of the Vibrato, I know of no known connection.

Like in a dream, holland oats, like in a dream.

10:30am Listener Gregory:

Ah, the GBoV. I applied once, but they said they lost my application. I got the message.

10:33am Lore:

I love Arthur Blythe's story about the origin of his nickname, from Steven Isoardi's book "The Dark Tree": "I had been reading...about musicians at the turn of the century. There was one particular musician, Jim Europe, and I was amazed at what he was doing with all those instruments. We were drinking a little bit, and I was expressing my newfound understanding or newfound validation of black people's efforts. I said, 'Yeah, that's really valid!' I was just talking and talking, and they were saying, 'Okay, okay, we believe you.' I just kept on...Then Linda Hill said, 'Please, Black Arthur, will you shut up!' And it stuck. I didn't mind. I was glad. The image was a little recognition from my peers...So I chose, 'Yeah, this is who I am. I'm Black Arthur.'"

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10:33am listener james from westwood:

Good good Gil here!

10:35am Doug Schulkind:

@Lore
I have always pretended to myself that when Columbia signed Arthur Blythe, they made him leave of the "Black: from his name. Probably not true, but I still blame Columbia.

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10:35am Artie Haywire:

Yes! Love this!!

10:35am Doug Schulkind:

The narrator here is the poet Michael S. Harper. We will hear from Mr. Harper later in today's program.

10:36am Doug Schulkind:

That is Max Roach speaking just now.

10:36am Doug Schulkind:

"He fed the whole world like that."

10:42am Raissa:

What a set! i've heard that alabama line in a david s. ware piece i think, need to go digging for that. so great

10:47am Doug Schulkind:

So so so great, Raissa.

10:49am Stanley:

Sorry, the Coltrane was late

10:54am Mike East:

exactly what I want to hear right now. Thanks, Doug!

10:54am Doug Schulkind:

Coltrane means never having to say you're sorry, Stanley!

Mike East is here!

10:54am Doug Schulkind:

Hampton Hawes on piano here with Nathan Davis.

11:00am Doug Schulkind:

Rufus Harley on tenor here. The bagpipes are resting on a chair and enjoying this immensely.

11:01am still b/p:

Morning. I see a mention of opera back in the chat-stack here. That's as good an excuse as any to tell you, Diamond Doug, if you haven't heard, that something I mentioned here quite a while back, the opera about Josh Gibson, composed by a local acquaintance, is a comin' to where for a full production?...Pittsburgh Opera! ...in the spring.

11:02am Doug Schulkind:

@still b/p
Forgot all about what you told me (no surprise, because I forget everything these days #iamanoldfuck). But I will go with delirious pleasure to see that opera. Thanks for the reminder! (And the next reminder.)

11:14am Jeff Golick:

Speaking of Michael S. Harper, above, he's another one to have left the terrestrial plane this year.

11:15am Jeff Golick:

(Perhaps you mentioned that in a break, @Doug, I had a @#$#$%$ meeting this morning and missed a good chunk of the show.)

11:15am coelacanth:

this is exactly my cuppa ...catharticism .

11:16am coelacanth:

(i'm coining that word here and now.)

11:17am Doug Schulkind:

@Jeff Golick
I mentioned that we will be hearing from the late, beloved Mr. Harper later in the show. Pretty soon now, actually.

11:19am coelacanth:

has anyone her any experience with tree sculpting? (specifically grafting together 2 shoots of a tamarack...when to do it?)

11:22am Doug Schulkind:

Sonny Rollins just tweeted a remembrance of Coltrane. It links to a Youtube video of Jimmy Heath speaking on "John Coltrane's Work Ethic."

11:26am ndbob:

I hada great Rufus Harley LP

11:28am Doug Schulkind:

The stellar drummer here with Joe Lee is George Avaloz.

11:28am Dean:

Had your comment @11:22, Doug, been posted in early 2006, we would have taken "Sonny Rollins just tweeted" to mean something very different than what you intended, and even now it's hard to imagine Rollins tweeting without a reed.

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11:30am Artie Haywire:

Nuke-ing the Twitterverse!

11:30am Doug Schulkind:

You're speaking truth to power, Dean.

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11:30am Artie Haywire:

Rather, Newk-ing...

11:31am Doug Schulkind:

Ha-ha, Artie!

11:34am Uncle Michael:

GOOD MORNING!

11:35am Uncle Michael:

Join me at the top of the hour for my trivial followup to this magnificent aural edifice?

www.wfmu.org...

11:36am Jeff Golick:

I'd listen to Jayne say anything.

11:37am Doug Schulkind:

I'm gonna run over about 3 minutes, Uncle M. My apologies.

11:39am Dean:

Sequentia! Oberlinians of and about another era.

11:41am Uncle Michael:

hey, me too!

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11:44am doctorjazz:

Great show (raised some eyebrows in my office, but, hey, that's not that unusual).
Thanks Doug!

11:46am Doug Schulkind:

GIVE THE DRUMMER RADIO PROGRAMMING ALERT...
Uncle Michael will open his magnificent oral edifice and commence Hinky Dinky Time, in about 18 minutes.

The joy happens here: wfmu.org...

Then Jason Elbogen will take over at 3pm (ET) for three more hours of freeformity:

More joy hapenning: wfmu.org...

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11:49am duke:

Gotta run. Damn fine show Doug!!

11:52am Doug Schulkind:

Watch your language, duke.

11:53am Santos L Halper:

Thanks for the terriff Trane trib, Doug.

11:53am mauri:

what? is there more radio?

11:54am ndbob:

excellent show Doug!

11:54am Doug Schulkind:

Winston Mankunku recorded this song aching from the death of his hero and inspiration John Coltrane. The phrase "Yakhal' Inkomo" refers to the sound a cow makes at the butchery when her calves are being slaughtered.

11:55am Stanley:

God this is good

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11:57am doctorjazz:

Love this Mankinku Quartet track!

11:57am Doug Schulkind:

OK, now it looks like I'll run four minutes over into Uncle Michael's time. I blabbed to damn much. (Watch your language, Doug.)

Sorry and thanks, Michael.

11:59am Jeff Golick:

Sweet stuff, @Doug. (You can expect an email in about five minutes.)

12:00pm God:

Sure is, Stanley.

12:02pm Doug Schulkind:

I just got a tweet from the Library of Congress saying Happy Birthday to..... Mel Tormé

12:02pm Uncle Michael:

A Fog Supreme.

12:03pm Uncle Michael:

Thanks for the Trane train, Doug.

See you all in the next machine.

12:04pm God:

The Velvet Smog

12:05pm Dean:

A "duh" moment: I only just now realize that it's called Velveeta to make the association with velvet. God, I'm dumb.

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12:06pm listener james from westwood:

What a great show. Many thanks, Doug!

12:06pm Dave in Vermont:

upload.wikimedia.org...

12:06pm Jeff Golick:

THANK YOU, DOUG. And thanks and birthday greetings to John Coltrane.

12:06pm Doug Schulkind:

I did it out of love.

12:08pm DOug Schulkind:

God says you're not dumb, Dean. He hates Velveeta, too. (But he has a weakness for Kraft Mac 'n' Cheese.)

12:08pm Michael:

Wonderful show Doug.

12:09pm DOug Schulkind:

Thank you, Michael!

12:10pm Doug Schulkind:

@Dave in Vermont
Let us pray.

1:06pm coelacanth:

belated Thank you Doug.
reiterated rest in peace John Coltrane.

1:10pm Doug Schulkind:

'Twas my pleasure, coelacanth!

Theme Music: Sarah Webster Fabio	Jujus: Alchemy of the Blues	Jujus: Alchemy of the Blues (Folkways 1976)
ECD	In Tempo	Major Force: The Original Art-Form (Mo' Wax 1990)

Tete Mbambisa	Trane Ride	Did You Tell Your Mother (As-Shams 1979)
Dizzy Reece	One for Trane	Manhattan Project (Beehive 1978)
The J.F.K. Quintet	Coltrane Lane	Young Ideas (Argo 1962)

The Descendants of Mike and Phoebe	Coltrane	A Spirit Speaks (Strata-East 1974)
Raphé Malik w/George Langford, Glenn Spearman and Dennis Warren	Civilization After Coltrane	The Short Form (Eremite 1996)
Bob Thiele Emergency	Lament for John Coltrane	Head Start (Impulse! 1969)

Albert Ayler	For John Coltrane	Live in Greenwich Village (Impulse! 1967)
Ken Hyder's Talisker	Pibroch in Three Parts b) For John Coltrane	Land of Stone (Japo 1977)
Gil Scott-Heron	Lady Day and John Coltrane	Pieces of a Man (Flying Dutchman 1971)
John Coltrane and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.	Alabama	from Steve Rowland's documentary "Tell Me How Long Trane's Been Gone" (Artist Owned/Steve Rowland )

The Blue Notes	Take the Coltrane	Township Bop (Proper 1964)
Trevor Watts String Ensemble	Tribute to 'Trane	Cynosure (Ogun 1976)
Nathan Davis	Blues for Trane	Rules of Freedom (Polydor 1967)
Rufus Harley	About Trane	A Tribute to Courage (Atlantic 1968)

Black Unity Trio	John's Vision	Al-Fatihah (Salaam 1971)
Joe Lee Wilson & the Bond Street + 1	Mode for Trane	Shout for Trane (Trio 1976)
Jayne Cortez	How Long Has Trane Been Gone	Celebrations and Solitudes (Strata-East 1974)

Children of the Sun (Black Artists Group)	Trane Songs	OFAMFA (Universal Justice 1970)
Michael S. Harper & Abdul Wadud	Dear John Dear Coltrane	From "History Is Your Own Heartbeat" and other poems (University of Illinois 1971)
Mankunku Quartet	Yakhal' Inkomo	Yakhal' Inkomo (Atlantic City 1968)
Byard Lancaster feat. Professeur Inlassable	Saint John Coltrane	Compilation #1 (Heavenly Sweetness 2008)

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