Blues & Beyond #292: Funky Frank Russell, Corea-Gomez-Motian, and Bobby McFerrin with Jack DeJohnette

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Series: Blues & Beyond
Length: 59:00

Featuring funky bassist Frank Russell, a new album "Circle Without End" Read the full description.

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Frussell_small In this hour of The Blues & Beyond, a new album called "Circle Without End" from funky bassist Frank Russell. We'll hear something you don't often hear, funk in 5-4 time, and also Russell's tribute to Ladysmith Black Mambazo. We'll also hear Ladysmith Black Mambazo themselves, signing in their inimitable way from their album "Songs From A Zulu Farm" isuued last year. We have new music from singers Amy Cervini and Liz Childs. Cervini's album is a tribute to the late Blossom Dearie. Also the new release from pianist Sunnie Paxson, and concert recordings of pianist Chick Corea, bassist Eddie Gomez, and the late drummer Paul Motian, recorded in New York last May, from the album "Further Explorations." Bobby McFerrin will join Jack DeJohnette on the new DeJohnette album "Sound Travels" with some other-wordly singing. DeJohnette, a drummer, pianist, and composer recently won a Jazz Masters lifetime achievement award from the National Endowment For The Arts.

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Piece Description

In this hour of The Blues & Beyond, a new album called "Circle Without End" from funky bassist Frank Russell. We'll hear something you don't often hear, funk in 5-4 time, and also Russell's tribute to Ladysmith Black Mambazo. We'll also hear Ladysmith Black Mambazo themselves, signing in their inimitable way from their album "Songs From A Zulu Farm" isuued last year. We have new music from singers Amy Cervini and Liz Childs. Cervini's album is a tribute to the late Blossom Dearie. Also the new release from pianist Sunnie Paxson, and concert recordings of pianist Chick Corea, bassist Eddie Gomez, and the late drummer Paul Motian, recorded in New York last May, from the album "Further Explorations." Bobby McFerrin will join Jack DeJohnette on the new DeJohnette album "Sound Travels" with some other-wordly singing. DeJohnette, a drummer, pianist, and composer recently won a Jazz Masters lifetime achievement award from the National Endowment For The Arts.

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Broadcast History

WXPN-FM Philadelphia 2-5-2012

Transcript

opening theme:
Start: 0:00 Duration: 0:59
Bert Jansch and John Renbourn "No Exit"
Wooded Hill Recordings: Bert And John
© 1996 Wooded Hill Records/Transatlantic Records Ltd

Start: 1:13 Duration: 4:46
Joe Louis Walker "Hellfire"
Alligator: Hellfire
© 2012 Alligator Records & Artist Mgmt., Inc.

Start: 7:02 Duration: 6:18
Frank Russell "Noble Street Five"
Frank Russell: Circle Without End
© 2011 Frank Russell

Start: 13:14 Duration: 2:48
Frank Russell "Ladysmith (Black Mambazo)"
Frank Russell: Circle Without End
© 2011 Frank Russell

Start: 15:59 Duration: 3:01
Ladysmith Black Mambazo "Zulu Laduma"
Listen2 Entertainment: Songs From A Zulu Farm
© 2011 Ladysmith Black Mambazo

Start: 19:44 Duration: 3:15
Amy Cervini "My Attorney Bernie"
Anzic: Digging Me Digging You
© 2012 Anzic Records

Start: 23:01 Duration: 3:05
Sleepy John Estes "Lawyer Clark Blues"
JS...
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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....."

34:01 end of part 1:

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

59-second bed plays

35:00 bed fades

35:01 part 2: show re-intro: "This is The Blues & Beyond. I'm Jonny Meister."

58:26 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	Bert Jansch and John Renbourn	Bert And John.	Wooded Hill Recordings	1996	00:59
Hellfire	Joe Louis Walker	Hellfire.	Alligator	2012	04:46
Noble Street Five	Frank Russell	Circle Without End.	Frank Russell	2011	06:18
Ladysmith (Black Mambazo)	Frank Russell	Circle Without End.	Frank Russell	2011	02:48
Zulu Laduma	Ladysmith Black Mambazo	Songs From A Zulu Farm.	Listen2 Entertainment	2011	03:01
My Attorney Bernie	Amy Cervini	Digging Me Digging You.	Anzic	2012	03:15
Lawyer Clark Blues	Sleepy John Estes	Sleepy John Estes: Legendary Country Blues Artists.	JSP	2006	03:05
Something For Nothing	Sunnie Paxson	Bohemian Sun.	Roxboro Entertainment Group	2011	07:15
Bohemian Sun (Prelude)	Sunnie Paxson	Bohemian Sun.	Roxboro Entertainment Group	2011	00:59
Another Tango	Chick Corea, Eddie Gomez, Paul Motian	Further Explorations.	ConcordJazz	2012	06:46
Hot House	Chick Corea, Eddie Gomez, Paul Motian	Further Explorations.	ConcordJazz	2012	05:28
Just One Of Those Things	Liz Childs Quartet	Take Flight.	Liz Childs	2011	03:10
Oneness	Jack DeJohnette	Sound Travels.	EOne	2011	05:55
Forty-Eight	John Renbourn	Sir John A Lot.	Shanachie	1992	00:56

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