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Jazz Collective #1

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Jazz Collective #1
10/9/15

This was my first time hosting the Jazz Collective, a long-running show hosted by an ever-evolving platoon of KFJC DJs. From a programming perspective, you are expected to choose from the Jazz library or new Jazz releases. You don’t have to play 35% current releases, which is usually the case when you are programming at KFJC. This made it easier to program. It was my first daytime shift. It was during fundraiser. There were more breaks than I’d taken before and more work in the booth, faster record juggling, and more on-mic presentations. It was kind of stressful.

Hour 1: Starts at 1:55 so you get a few minutes of Sally Goodin. I started out with a Charlie Parker album, and moved through Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, and Gerry Mulligan, featuring saxes throughout the hour.

Hour 2: Clifford Brown, Ben Webster, and then more modern with Steve Lehman, Yoni Kretzmer, and Lisa Mezzacappa.

Hour 3: Lisa Mezzacappa skipped as soon as I went to the bathroom! Then I explored a more Eastern take on jazz.

Hour 4: Further and further afield.

Here’s the playlist.

Each mp3 is 70 minutes long and starts a few minutes before the hour, and ends a few minutes after.
Streams will be available until October 2.

Streams via kfjc.org.

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Stone Cold Lampin #13

Stone Cold Lampin’ #13
9/26/15

This show marks a milestone. I’ve completed 13 graveyard shifts, and I can move on to daytime shifts. I’ve had a good time working the graveyard shifts and I will miss it. My family won’t. I’d go to bed around 7 PM the night before, wake up by alarm at 12:20 AM, and head in to the studio. Nami left me a banana, some granola, and a pot of coffee in a thermos. It worked pretty well. I didn’t get tired and I was often able to get calm enough to really contemplate the sound. I played some spaced-out music. I told my friend that I felt like a man holding a torch next to a vast ocean, surrounded by the dark night. I let the sound ring out into the darkness. Embers fell from my torch. When I got home, I napped for an hour or two right after breakfast.
For my last shift, I tried to find out something about contemporary composers. I played music of stringed instruments. I took a trip around the world.

Hour 1: Starts at 1:55 so you get a few minutes of Goodwrench. After a short stop at Norcal Noisefest 2000, the hour is bookended by Ligeti, older and younger. In between, traditional sounds from Korea, North America, Japan, Morocco, and Mexico.

Hour 2: Twentieth- and twenty-first-century sounds, the results of an inquiry into contemporary western classical music.

Hour 3: Sun Ra and Voicehandler set the tone for the second hour of inquiry about a contemporary.

Hour 4: I just had to figure it out, “What does classical music sound like now?” No conclusion.

Here’s the playlist.

Each mp3 is 70 minutes long and starts a few minutes before the hour, and ends a few minutes after.
Streams will be available until October 2.

Streams via kfjc.org.