Blues & Beyond #178: Otis Taylor's "Pentatonic Wars & Love Songs" (yikes!) & Christian McBride's "Kind Of Brown", & Alice and Chico too.

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Blues & Beyond #178: Otis Taylor's "Pentatonic Wars & Love Songs" (yikes!) & Christian McBride's "Kind Of Brown", & Alice and Chico too.

Series: Blues & Beyond
From: WXPN
Length: 00:59:04

Otis Taylor's "Pentatonic Wars & Love Songs" (huh?), and Christian McBride's "Kind Of Brown" Read the full description.

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Piece Description

In this hour of The Blues & Beyond, we'll feature Otis Taylor's album "Pentatonic Wars & Love Songs" and the new album from Christian McBride "Kind Of Brown." Otis Taylor always provides musically challenging and thought-provoking albums. He's certainly one of the very few people who could be called an "avant garde blues musician." His surrealistic songs contain haunting imagery and borrow from the techniques of minimalist composers to produce what has sometimes been called "trance blues." Pianist Jason Moran helps Taylor create the trance state.

We'll also hear music from bassist Christian McBride's album "Kind Of Brown" an obvious nod to Miles Davis's "Kind Of Blue." McBride's band is called Inside Straight, a name given by fans who won a contest to name the band. We'll also visit "Kind of Blue" as well .... and we have music from Alice Coltrane and Chico Hamilton.

promo included: promo-178

Broadcast History

WXPN-FM Philadelphia 11-29-2009 and 11-30-2009

Transcript

opening theme:
Start: Duration: 0:59
Bert Jansch and John Renbourn "No Exit"
Wooded Hill Recordings: Bert And John
© 1996 Wooded Hill Records/Transatlantic Records Ltd
HILLCD8

Start: 01:13 Duration: 4:47
Eddie C. Campbell "Easy Baby"
Delmark: Tear This World Up
© 2009 Delmark Records
DE 799

Start: 06:50 Duration: 4:40
Otis Taylor "Talking About It Blues"
Telarc: Pentatonic Wars And Love Songs
© 2009 Telarc International, division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
CD-83690

Start: 11:30 Duration: 4:48
Otis Taylor "Mama's Best Friend"
Telarc: Pentatonic Wars And Love Songs
© 2009 Telarc International, division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
CD-83690

Start: 17:12 Duration: 6:21
Alice Coltrane "Jaya Jaya Rama"
Impulse: Alice Coltrane: The Impulse Story
© 2006 Verve Music Group, division of UMG Recordings
B0006562-02

Start: 23:33 Duration:...
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Timing and Cues

00:00 Billboard: Show opens, opening theme, "This is The Blues & Beyond. I'm Jonny Meister."

00:59 Billboard ends.. "... in this hour of The Blues & Beyond."

01:00 "option" song: "Starting out, this is..."

05:59 "option" song fades

06:00 show re-intro: "This is The Blues & Beyond. I'm Jonny Meister....."

28:53 end of part 1:

"... after the break, here on The Blues & Beyond."

59-second bed plays

29:52 bed fades

29:53 part 2: show re-intro: "This is The Blues & Beyond. I'm Jonny Meister."

58:37 voice out on part 2 "... thanks for listening to this hour of The Blues & Beyond."

58:59 theme fades end of part 2

Musical Works

Title	Artist	Album	Label	Year	Length
No Exit (opening theme)	Bert Jansch and John Renbourn	Bert And John.	Wooded Hill Records/Transatlantic Records	1996	00:59
Easy Baby	Eddie C. Campbell	Tear This World Up.	Delmark	2009	04:47
Talking About It Blues	Otis Taylor	Pentatonic Wars And Love Songs.	Telarc	2009	04:40
Mama's Best Friend	Otis Taylor	Pentatonic Wars And Love Songs.	Telarc	2009	04:48
Jaya Jaya Rama	Alice Coltrane	Alice Coltrane: The Impulse Story.	Impulse	2006	06:21
Country Boy, Girl	Otis Taylor	Pentatonic Wars And Love Songs.	Telarc	2009	04:45
I'm Not Mysterious (clip)	Otis Taylor	Pentatonic Wars And Love Songs.	Telatc	2009	00:59
Brother Mister	Christian McBride & Inside Straight	Kind Of Brown.	Mack Avenue	2009	04:49
The Shade Of The Cedar Tree	Christian McBride & Inside Straight	Kind Of Brown.	Mack Avenue	2009	05:19
All Blues	Miles Davis	Kind Of Blue (Legacy Edition).	Columbia/Legacy	2009	11:32
Siete-Cuatro	Chico Hamilton Quintet	Three Classic Albums.	Avid Entertainment	2008	04:47
Forty-Eight	John Renbourn	Sir John A Lot.	Shanachie	1992	00:50

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