That’s what a radio show looks like a little after 12-midnight when I had the pleasure of hosting last Saturday night the Psychedelic Radio Head Shoppe —- photo by MW October 13 (14 if you want to get technical) 2o19 —— Here’s what I posted at FaceBook regarding the show:
LOOKING BACK
I always say the Sixties are not over until the last hippie has died. Hitchhiked out of here, to Nirvana. Those of us who survived, and what a whirlwind it was, not only were we young, still taking things on board, still learning, all in the midst of a tsunami of social change. Some of us joined the counter culture, some of us infiltrated the system and helped turn things around toward a gentler kinder way of life, some of us went to mystic India, and some of us went to jail, some of us went back to the land, went off the grid, and some of us fell down the rabbit hole of drugs and never managed to negotiate with the Minotaur and get out of that Labyrinth. Meanwhile, the Sixties have persisted and here we are all these years later clearing the dust off our memories. We’ve seen the Sixties from several different angles.
I grew up in the massive suburbs of Los Angeles.
I had a rocking chair and with savings from my paper route I bought a Panasonic stereo system (from University Stereo! That advertised on KPPC and operated out of a garage in Pasadena, by a bunch of enterprising hippie college students). The stereo dial glowed aqua-green in the dark as I sat and rocked with my headphones all through the night listening to the radio. Stations like KPPC and later KMET had immeasurable influence on the young me. (I was the psychologists call a “rocker”) I’d slowly rock in the dark and absorb these transmissions from this other world coming over the secret airwaves of FM radio, so different from the Top 40 stations I had grown up with. This was a salvation of a sort. Probably reinforced a dangerous idealism. I sometimes cry to think how innocent we all were. The world was waiting to pounce on us and do all it could to disavow us of our hopes and dreams. Meanwhile, we still have the music. I am looking forward to spinning some of these world-changing sounds from the Psychedelic Sixties. This Saturday night on KUNM Albuquerque at 10pm for 3 hours of Sixties flashbacks on the Psychedelic Radio Head Shoppe. Thanks to Scott MacNicholl the Doctor for trading places (he’s doing my jazz show this Thursday and I’m doing his Psychedelic show this Saturday.
October 3, 2o19 Jazz @ Noon every Thursday (starts at 12:07 after the satellite news) Host MARK WEBER KUNM Albuquerque, USA 89.9 FM (Mountain Standard Time) also streaming on the web KUNM.org Current time zone offset: UTC*/GMT -6 hours (*Coordinated Universal Time)/Greenwich Mean Time)
STUFF
We’re living in the aftermath of an accumulative age, an era when we all crowded our homes with stuff (as George Carlin has it). Years ago, my dear friend Ric would move his belongings to new digs by selecting a few books from his small library and grab a modest change of clothes and promise to come back and get the rest later, which never happen’d. It’s going to be interesting to see how our culture deals with all this stuff, gawd, what a pile. I’m afraid much of the sorting an reapportioning falls to the living, will there be an upsurge in yard sales and flea markets? That depends on whether anybody wants all this stuff. A lot of it only means something to the original accumulator. Our own home is stuffed to the gills, mostly with books and records, it’s embarrassing, sort of, but . . . but . . . but . . . I like my stuff! There’s nothing more pleasurable than to walk across the room and pull a book off a shelf and find that Rachel Carson quote that has been on your mind lately, or to flip through the Ellington albums and pull out the monumental AFRO-EURASIAN ECLIPSE suite (1971) that Bobby Bradford reminded me the other day to re-visit. I specifically remember when I was a child the week I spent walking around proud that I had reached the age that I had things to put in my pockets.
Echo cornet (1895, Paris) —- Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC —- the placard says: “The second bell on this cornet takes the form of a bicone-shaped chamber, which functions as a built-in mute. This enabled players to switch rapidly between open and muted passages and was ideal for producing the echo effects that often featured in virtuoso cornet solos in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.” —- photo by MW September 30, 2o19
Geoff Muldaur —- With just a guitar and a coffee cup and a chair this guy makes it all real —- On his bi-annual swing through Albuquerque at Outpost Performance Space, October 5, 2o19 – photo by Mark Weber
Ali Ryerson plays so much flute it’s scary, what a total jazzwoman, she’s all about lyric balance and trapeze —- at Outpost Performance Space —- October 10, 2o19 —- (we have the same birthday, she calls me her “younger twin” and I call her Kokopelli Ali) —- photo by Mark Weber
The Jenny Scheinman – Allison Miller Quartet who call themselves Parlour Game —- What a knockout show at the Outpost Performance Space, Albuquerque, October 6, 2o19 —- Allison(drums), Jenny(violin), Carmen Staff(piano), Tony Scherr(bass) —- photo by Mark Weber, a total fan of this group, wow
The Charley Krachy – Kazzrie Jaxen Quintet at Howland Cultural Center, Beacon, New York —- Gary Levy (alto) and Charley (tenor) and Kazzrie (piano) —- September 29, 2o19 —- photo by Mark Weber —– Beacon is on the Hudson River north of the city about an hour
Kazzrie Jaxen, clairvoyant —- September 29, 2o19 New York —- photo by Mark Weber
Carol Liebowitz, pianist, improviser, artist —- September 30, 2o19 NYC —- photo by Mark Weber
Spirit of Beacon Parade —- September 29, 2o19 —- in background is the Howland Cultural Center where the Kazzrie Jaxen – Charley Krachy Quintet is setting up for their afternoon performance —- photo by Mark Weber
Hudson Highlander Pipe Band —- September 29, 2o19 Beacon NY —- photo by Mark Weber
They marched in the Spirit of Beacon Parade —- September 29, 2o19 New York —- photo by Mark Weber
Sharon Markwardt —- her work is represented by Manitou Gallery, Santa Fe —- We got to talking about how expensive tube paints have become, she joked “That’s why I paint so thin!” —- photo by MW October 11, 2o19 on the sidewalk outside Manitou on East Palace Avenue
From my on-going series of Blue Windows —- photo by MW October 11, Santa Fe
That’s me in my camo outfit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art snapped by Carol Liebowitz September 30, 2o19 —- My guess is: that wall design is by Victor Vasarely (1906-1997), if not, it’s certainly influenced by his amazing op art of which I am a giant fan
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PSYCHEDELIC RADIO HEAD SHOPPE
KUNM Albuquerque 10pm – 1
October 12, 2o19
Host MARK WEBER aka The Cosmic Poet
1. “Strange Brew” Cream from DISRAELI GEARS (1967) R.I.P. Ginger Baker (d. Oct. 6)
2. “On the Road Again” album BOOGIE WITH CANNED HEAT (1968)
3. “Raga Pahadi” (1967) album CALL OF THE VALLEY *an album George Harrison listen’d to closely
4. “White Rabbit” Great Society w/Grace Slick (1966)
5. “White Rabbit” Patti Smith (2007) cd TWELVE
6. Patti Smith “Changing of the Guards”(Dylan) cd TWELVE
7. Hot Tuna “Angel of Darkness” (Jorma Kaukonen, 2o11) cd STEADY AS SHE GOES
8. Captain Beefheart “Safe as Milk” (1967)
9. Joni Mitchell “Woodstock” Joni’s 3rd album LADIES OF THE CANYON (1970)
10. The Grassroots “Live for Today” (1967) *a song I wish Patti Smith would have recorded for TWELVE, she could have really got into this one
11. Eric Burdon “Sky Pilot” (1967 – released in U.S. May 1968 —- we all had this on a 2-sided 45rpm)(on deck I had “San Franciscan Nights,” “We got to get out of here,” and “Down in Monterey” picked out as well as “Sky Pilot” but when a listener called to request “Sky Pilot” that settled it for me ———– I was endeavoring to use only one track per band)
12. Beau Brummels “Laugh Laugh” (1965) **San Francisco band, and now that I think about it, this would have been interesting in Patti Smith’s voice
13. Dylan “Like a Rolling Stone” (1965) w/ Michael Bloomfield(guitar), Al Kooper(organ)
14. Grateful Dead “Prelude (aka Space)/Morning Dew” album EUROPE ‘72
15. Allman Brothers “Trouble No More”(Muddy Waters) March 12, 1971 album FILLMORE EAST LIVE
16. “Crazy Mixed Up World” Little Walter (1959)w/ Robert Jr Lockwood & Luther Tucker(guitars), Frew Below(drums), Willie Dixon(bass), Walter(harp)
17. Joan Osborne “One of Us” (1995) cd RELISH
18. Pink Floyd “Interstellar Overdrive” ** I sed > Boomie Richards wants to hear some Interstellar Overdrive (tho, I think I flubbed and sed Interstellar Space)
19. Eliza Gilkyson “Beauty Way” (2000) cd HARD TIMES IN BABYLON
20. Maria Muldaur “Back by Fall” Lp SWEET HARMONY (1976) w/ alto sax solo by Vi Redd
21. Fred Neil “Farethewell” – 1966
22. John Fahey “Requiem for John Hurt” (1967) album REQUIA
23. Fairport Convention “Farewell, Farewell” album LIEGE & LIEF (1969)
24. Ginger Baker “Toad” from Cream’s first album FRESH CREAM (1966)
25. Jefferson Airplane “In Time” (1968) album CROWN OF CREATION
26. Judy Collins “Who Knows Where the Time Goes”(Sandy Denny) album WHO KNOWS WHERE THE TIME GOES (1968) *I actually saw Judy at the time this album came out and she played this song – Bridges Auditorium, Claremont Colleges, California
27. Neil Young “Everybody Knows This is Nowhere” WITH CRAZY HORSE (1969)
28. Buffy Sainte Marie “Codine” Buffy wrote this song that was especially enamored by San Francisco bands: Quicksilver, Janis, Charlatans all recorded it — from her first album IT’S MY WAY (1964)
29. Lucinda Williams “Metal Firecracker” (1998) cd CAR WHEELS ON A GRAVEL ROAD
30. Joan Osborne w/ the Funk Brothers “What Becomes of the Broken Hearted”(Jimmy Ruffin’s song) from soundtrack STANDING IN THE SHADOWS (2002)
31. Cream “Crossroads” (2005) soundtrack to LIVE AT ROYAL ALBERT HALL
32. Allman Brothers “Blue Sky” for the soaring guitars of Dickie Betts & Duane Allman and vocals by brother Greg – album EAT A PEACH (1972)
**You would think that in a 3 hour radio show one could more or less paint a definitive picture of the Sixties and its music but with such a huge grand body of work it is next near to impossible to define that era ———– Maybe in a ten hour show? —- There was so much more I wanted to play: Country Joe & the Fish, Doors, Dylan “Visions of Johanna,” Yardbirds “Happenings Ten Years Ago,” Dr John the Night Tripper, Jeff Beck’s first album TRUTH, Hendrix “All Along the Watchtower,” Stones “Ruby Tuesday,” Mothers of Invention, Buffalo Springfield “Expecting to Fly” sound collage, Aretha, Chocolate Watch Band ?” doing one of the most savage and ferocious songs ever recorded “Are You Gonna Be There, at the Love In?” and JOAN BAEZ fergawdsakes . . . .
***In those late hours a lot of phone calls. I mostly usually answer, unless I’m busy, generally speaking a radio engineer/host is very busy. There’s a lot to do. Over the years you learn to stay calm. It’s a radio maxim that yr going to get crank calls, it’s the nature of the game, or, at these late hours, folks who have partied themselves over the edge. The PRHS always gets a lot of telephone calls, much more than the noon jazz show. This night I spoke with, but mostly listened to, a lot of intelligent, thoughtful, respectful people —- In no way would I characterize these callers as lonely who call up late-night disk jockeys —- They just wanted to make gentle requests and relate their own Sixties stories —- This music sparks memories —- And it occurred to me that that was part of the job: To listen, within reason, to these good people, as one human to another. I let them talk. (I told this to Carol Liebowitz and she said You’re like a bartender, then.) One caller lived in Haight Ashbury in the mid-60s “One of the best times of my life, and then I went away to that war.” Another had a band in Boston and worked Club 47 and knew that Cambridge crowd of Jim Kweskin Jug Band. Another called to request Pentangle, Donovan, and Tim Buckley, which amazed me, I didn’t know anybody knew Tim Buckley’s music and I had to tell her I actually had his album (Lp) GOODBYE AND HELLO in my hands just before I left the house, and decided that no one would relate to it’s deep introspection. Apparently, I was wrong.
Mark, what a brilliant playlist! I’m teaching The History of Rock n’ Roll at UCCS and have to go through that agonizing reduction of choices each week, and despair that I leave out so much that’s great and important. I re-write the syllabus each semester so I don’t go crazy. Thanks for always delivering, and with such love and respect for the music.
I love that Tim Buckley album. Just about played it till the grooves disappeared. Haven’t heard it in decades, and now I’ll need to crawl into the back of the closet, retrieve the correct box of LPs (god, it could take an hour or two to locate it and wrangle it out of there), and extract the Buckley. Thanks for the memories.
On the Psychedelic Playlist (above) Klaus has set it up so that if you click the song titles you can hear the song. I just watched the Beau Brummels sing “Laugh Laugh” (lip synching on a TV show) and the drummer is killer —– ALSO a great photo of the band on the beach with the Golden Gate in the fog behind them .
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The Early Autumn Jazz Radio Show
October 17, 2o19
KUNM Albuquerque USA
Host MARK WEBER
1. Pat Senatore Trio “Miyako”(Wayne Shorter) –2016 cd INSPIRATIONS (Fresh Sound) w/ Tom Ranier(piano), Pat(bass), Christian Euman(drums)
2. Allison Miller – Jenny Scheinman Quartet Lp PARLOUR GAME “113th & Congress” w/ Tony Scherr(bass), Jenny(violin), Carmen Staaf(piano), Allison(drums) *Recording date not listed
3. Duke Ellington Orchestra “Gong” rec. Feb. 17, 1971 album AFRO-EURASIAN ECLIPSE (Fantasy)
4. Sal Salvador A TRIBUTE TO GERRY MULLIGAN (Stash) 1982 w/ Nick Brignola(tenor), Don Friedman(piano), Gary Mazzaroppi(bass), Butch Miles(drums), Sal(guitar)
5. Lighthouse All Stars w/guest Barney Kessel “Round Midnight”(arr. by Kessel) June 20, 1955 cd AT LAGUNA (Contemporary)
6. Frank Sinatra “Autumn Leaves” album WHERE ARE YOU? (Capitol) w/ arrangements by Gordon Jenkins – 1957
7. Tomas Janzon Trio “Beatrice”(Sam Rivers) rec. 20dec2o18 cd 130th & LENOX
8. George Carlin “A Place for my Stuff”
9. John Scofield Quartet “I’m so lonesome I could cry” 2o18 cd COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (Impulse)
10. Lou Donaldson Quintet “Avalon” Lp GRAVY TRAIN (Blue Note) – April 27, 1961
11. Ali Ryerson “Sometime Ago” 1996 cd IN HER OWN SWEET WAY (Concord)
12. Kurt Elling title track from cd NIGHT MOVES – 2007
13. Ben Monder Trio “Just Like a Woman”(Bob Dylan) Oct 2o18 w/ Matt Brewer(bass), Ben(acoustic guitar), Ted Poor(drums) cd DAY AFTER DAY
14. Mark Murphy “Sunday in New York” —Lp BRIDGING THE GAP (Muse) 1972
15. Brad Mehldau Trio “Anything Goes” — Oct. 2002 cd ANYTHING GOES
THANKS! Mark for TOMAS JANZON’s spin. Greatly Appreciated – Kate.
Beautiful writings and photos Mark. I like your interweaving of stories, nostalgia, and our ever present “stuff”! Poignant. Lenny and I have between us 4 generations of stuff in our attic.
I adore the photo of Kazz, Charley and Gary. And my dear sweet friend Carol L. – the one and only. And the photo of you that Carol took is great! Great expression!
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The Halloween Jazz Radio Show
Thursday October 31, 2o19 —————-KUNM Albuquerque
Host MARK WEBER
1. David Parlato & Michael Anthony aka Woody & Boomer, bass & guitar duet “St James Infirmary” – 7aug1997 Live on the Thursday jazz show — appears on compilation cd ALBUZERXQUE Vol. 8 (Zerx Records 038) *Today is David Parlato’s birthday
2. Burton Green solo piano “Off Minor” – April 1992 cd SHADES OF GREENE (Cadence Jazz Records)
3. Sheila Jordan “Autumn in New York” – June 2002 cd LITTLE SONG (High Notes) w/ Tom Harrell(flugel)
4. Gil Evans & Ten “Nobody’s Heart” –27sept57
5. Pat Martino Trio “Hipsippy Blues” augmented by Adam Niewood(tenor) and Alex Norris(flugelhorn) –cd FORMIDABLE (High Note) – 2o17
6. Catherine Russell title track from cd ALONE TOGETHER (Dot Time) –Aug.2o18 –Octet w/ solos by John Allred(trombone), Evan Artzen(tenor) *We’ll be having a telephone conversation with Catherine very soon
7. Miles “Pharoah’s Dance” from BITCHES BREW with bass clarinet feature by Bennie Maupin who will be appearing at Outpost this night
8. Daryl Sherman “Twilight World” w/ Marian McPartland(piano), Daryl(vocal) cd JOHNNY MERCER CENTENNIAL (Arbors)—– Daryl played this for us at Plaza Athenee Hotel last Saturday in NYC!
9. Scott Robinson “And I Love Her”(McCartney-Lennon) 2018 cd TENORMORE (Arbors)
10. Sun Ra & His Solar Myth Arkestra “Two Tones” – 1956 feature baritone saxophones of Charles Davis & Pat Patrick – cd SUN RA VISITS PLANET EARTH (Evidence)
11. “El Viktor” as previous
12. Duke Ellington Orchestra “Pie Eye’s Blues” 2dec59 cd BLUES IN ORBIT
13. Curtis Counce Quintet “Nica’s Dream” –29aug57 Los Angeles w/ Harold Land(tenor), Jack Sheldon(trpt), Frank Butler(d), Carl Perkins(p), CC(bass)
The dark days of November jazz radio show
November 7, 2o19 ———-KUNM Albuquerque
Host MARK WEBER
1. Carol Liebowitz – Adam Lane Duo – piano & contrabass —- untitled improvisation #1 – Live at I-Beam 25oct2o19 Brooklyn NY
*The dark gloomy moody skies today remind me of weather in Northern mythology, which in turn makes me think of Sweden and all the great jazz from Sweden
2. Lars Gullin Quartet “Danny’s Dream” – 25march1954 Stockholm
3. Jan Johansson & Arne Domnerus Quartet “Sometimes I’m Happy” — 21nov59 Stockholm – cd YOUNGER THAN SPRINGTIME 1959-1961 (Dragon)
4. Monica Zutterlund w/ Lars Gullin – 9june1960 Stockholm – “Don’t dream of anybody but me” aka “Lil’ Darlin’”(Neal Hefti; lyrics by Bart Howard) we first heard this tune on ATOMIC BASIE (rec. 21oct1957) and Mel Torme and Bobby Darin had big hits with it, subsequently 368 recorded versions of this song listed at Tom Lord Jazz Discography – I have always loved Gerald Wilson’s version
5. Rolf Billberg Quintet “Moonlight in Vermont” – 7sept57 cd A SWEDISH JAZZ LEGEND IN COPENHAGEN(Storyville)
6. Ove Lind(clarinet) – Gunnar Almstedt(bass) Trio “Come Rain or Come Shine” – 16april 1957 Stockholm – cd SWINGIN’ THE BLUES (Dragon) —— swingin!
7. George Russell Sextet “Lydiot” – 8may61 NYC w/ Eric Dolphy(b-cl.), Don Ellis(trpt), George(p), Dave Baker(trombone), Joe Hunt(d), Steve Swallow(b) cd EZZ-THETICS (Riverside)
8. Cheryl Richards “A Sailboat in the Moonlight” – Jan.2o15 Brooklyn w/ Adam Caine(guitar) & NICK LYONS(alto) today being Nick’s birthday – cd IF NOT FOR YOU (New Artists)
9. Nick Lyons – Colin Deuble – Cal Haines Trio, alto, bass, drumset at Studio 725 “Bird’s Word”(Connie Crothers line on You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To) engineered by Steve Schmidt – May 31, 2o13 Albuquerque – Cal on his new DW traps ————— smokin! Must be those burritos I made
10. Bobby Shew w/ KUG Jazz Orchestra = Kunst Universitat Graz —- 3 or 4 May 2017 Graz, Austria – cd BOBBY SHEW LIVE (Kunst uni graz) “Tea for Two”(Arr. Michael Abene) —- Bobby’s solo: Fleet!
11. Jeff Pearring Trio “Through Step” – Sept.2o18 cd NOTHING BUT TIME (Pearring Sound) w/ Adam Lane(elec-bass guitar), Tim Ford(drums), Jeff(alto & echo) What a great Cd! Wow
12. Doug Webb Quartet “Soul Eyes”(Mal Waldron’s great tune, that was a life-long favorite of Hal McKusick) cd SWING SHIFT, 2o11 Los Angeles **Bobby Shew turned me on to this samba version, really knocks me out, so noir, sounds like old movies
**On the transition to AfternoonFreeForm show, host Brandon Kennedy had me read my new poem Running Out Of Time
Running Out of Time . . . .
Curious thing: Time
Sometimes it stands still
or
Goes double-time
Half time
Time out of mind
Time in a crunch
time zones
Doing time
Stopping time
Dream time
Stopped in time
Frozen
Stretched
Time for lunch
Old timey music
Timing gear
Egg timer
Time ticking
Time dither
Crack in time
Time bomb
Which brings us back to: Running out of time
. . . . the last sad grains of sand trickling through
interstices between one hour and the next