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Two hour program covering different shades of boogie woogie.

Swing Plus #89
12/8/09 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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1- Pinetop’s Boogie Woogie – Clarence Pinetop Smith
2- Lux’s Boogie – Meade Lux Lewis
3- Slow & Easy Blues – Jimmy Yancey
4- Boogie Woogie live – Pete Johnson & Albert Ammons
5- Celeste Boogie – Freddie Slack
6- Boogie Woogie Boogie – Erroll Garner
7- Boogie Woogie Cocktail live – Kenny Kersey
8- Boogie Woogie Came to Town – Louis Jordan
9- Cow Cow Boogie (Cuma-Ti-Yi-Ay) – Ella Fitzgerald & Mills Brothers
10- I Boogied When I Should Have Woogied – Will Bradley
11- Drum Boogie – California Swing Cats
12- The Boogie & the Blues – Camille Howard
13- Hamp’s Boogie Woogie live – Lionel Hampton
14- Cuban Boogie Woogie – Jack Jenney
15- Boogie Woogie pt 1 & pt 2 – Django Reinhardt
16- Brazilian Boogie – Lena Horne
17- Buryat Boogie – Roswell Rudd
18- Boogie Bop Blues – Duke Ellington
19- Yodel Boogie – Rosalie Allen
20- Sax-o-Boogie – Sam Donahue
21- Artistry in Boogie – Stan Kenton
22- Improvisaciones Sobre Boogie Woogie – Oscar Aleman
23- Roll the Boogie – Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers
24- The Dirty Boogie – Brian Setzer
25- Thanks for the Boogie Ride – Gene Krupa & Anita O’Day

Two hours of swing musicians adapting compositions from the classical repertoire.

Swing Plus #88
12/1/09 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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1- Beethoven Wrote It, But It Swings! – Dolly Dawn & Her Dawn Patrol
2- Bach Goes to Town – Benny Goodman
3- Bach to Swing – Claude Bolling
4- Bach to Boogie – Larry Clinton
5- Song of India – Tommy Dorsey
6- Mozart Jam – The Frank & Joe Show
7- Farandole – Xavier Cugat
8- Beethoven Riffs On – John Kirby
9- Schubert’s Serenade – John Kirby
10- Mr. Haydn Gets Hep – John Kirby
11- Ebony Rhapsody Rehearsal – Duke Ellington
12- Anitra’s Dance – Duke Ellington
13- Fugue In C Major – Charles Brown
14- Flight of the Bumblebee – Harry James
15- Full Moon & Empty Arms – Erroll Garner
16- Arabian Dance – Claude Thornhill
17- Anvil Chorus – Glenn Miller AAF Orchestra
18- Prelude (Rachmaninoff Op 3 No 2) – Eddie Lang
19- Prelude in C Sharp Minor – Hazel Scott
20- In the Hall of the Mountain King – Will Bradley
21- Bolero – Benny Goodman
22- Barcarolle – Charlie Barnet
23- William Tell Overture – Spike Jones
24- Boyd Meets Stravinsky – Boyd Raeburn
25- Ride of the Valkeries – Stan Kenton
26- Fugue on Bop Themes – Dave Brubeck
27- Peter & the Wolf – Benny Goodman

Special fund-drive broadcast featuring vocals about money.

Swing Plus #87
11/28/09 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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1- Have You Got Any Money? – Buck Clayton & Taps Miller
2- Got a Penny, Jenny? – live Stan Kenton
3- Brown Penny – Duke Ellington
4- Pennies From Heaven – Joe Carroll
5- Nickel In the Slot – Wingy Manone
6- My Pop Gave Me a Nickel – Harlan Leonard
7- Nickel Serenade – Glenn Miller
8- Give Me Twenty Nickels – Nat King Cole
9- Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? – Bing Crosby
10- Dreams Are a Dime a Dozen – Gene Krupa
11- Funny Funny Funny What a Dime Can Do – Mary Osborne
12- Last Dollar – Blanche Calloway
13- If I Had a Million Dollars – Boswell Sisters
14- You Can’t Make Money Dreamin’ – Johnny Mercer & Nat King Cole
15- Million Dollar Smile – Lionel Hampton
16- I’ve Got Five Dollars – Lee Wiley
17- Get The Gold – Three Peppers
18- Money’s Getting Cheaper – Charles Brown
19- It’s Only Money – Frank Sinatra & Groucho Marx
20- Everybody’s Making Money But Tchaikovsky – Les Brown
21- With Plenty of Money & You – Tony Bennett
22- If You’re So Smart, How Come You Ain’t Rich – Louis Jordan
23- Money Blues – Camille Howard
24- The Gold Digger’s Song (We’re In the Money) – Ginger Rogers
25- Money In My Pockets – Mills Brothers
26- Cash For Your Trash – Fats Waller
27- Oh Babe, Has Your Money Come? – Harlem Hamfats

Two hour program focused on compositions of Billy Strayhorn.

Swing Plus #86
11/24/09 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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1- Take the A Train – Billy Strayhorn
2- Dirge – live Duke Ellington
3- Stomp – live Duke Ellington
4- Interview – Lena Horne & Billy Strayhorn
5- Passion Flower – live Duke Ellington
6- Interview – Billy Strayhorn & Duke Ellington
7- The Intimacy of the Blues – Duke Ellington
8- Upper Manhattan Medical Group – Dizzy Gillespie
9- Lush Life – Billy Strayhorn
10- After All – Ike Carpenter
11- Lotus Blossom – Julia Lee
12- Rain Check – Fred Hersch
13- Day Dream – Jo Stafford
14- Le Sacre Supreme – Dutch Jazz Orchestra
15- Blue Heart – Dutch Jazz Orchestra
16- Pretty Little Girl – Johnny Hodges
17- Something to Live For – Betty Roche
18- My Little Brown Book – John Coltrane & Duke Ellington
19- Three & Six – Johnny Hodges & Billy Strayhorn
20- Your Love Has Faded – Billy Strayhorn & Ozzie Bailey
21- Chelsea Bridge – Gerry Mulligan & Ben Webster
22- Multi-Colored Blue – Billy Strayhorn & Ozzie Bailey

1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that’s playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
6. Don’t lie and try to pretend you’re cool - first songs only
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Opening Credits:
Miguel Bosé - Si Tu No Vuelves (Dueto 2007)

Waking Up:
Dry Cell - Body Crumbles

First Day at School:
Slim Thug - Like A Boss

Falling in Love:
Los Dandys - El Teléfono

Fight Song:
Radioactivo 98.5 - El Tipico Mexicano

Breaking Up:
Melissa Manchester - Theme from the Ice castles

Prom:
Moby - We Are All Made Of Stars (Timo Maas Vocal Remix)

Life is Good:
El Sueño de Morfeo - Un túnel entre tu y yo

Mental Breakdown:
Klaxons - Two Receivers

Driving:
Duke Ellington - Crosstown

Flashback:
Metallica - The Call of Ktulu

Getting Back Together:
HIM - Buried Alive by Love

Wedding:
Avril Lavigne - My Happy Ending

Paying the Dues:
Nirvana - Sliver

The Night Before The War:
Radiohead - The Tourist

Final Battle:
MUCC - Isho

Moment of Triumph:
Nirvana - You Know You're Right

Death Scene:
Kalimba - sin darle amor

Funeral Song:
Sharam - Party all the time

First Kiss:
Aira Mitsuki - BARBiE BARBiE

First Night With A Lady:
東方神起 - Stay With Me Tonight

End Credits:
Boyz II Men - Money (That's What I Want)

Two hours of swinging V-Disc recordings.

Swing Plus #84
11/10/09 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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1- Bouncin’ On a V Disc – Fats Waller
2- Beyond the Blue Horizon – Martha Tilton & Her V Disc Playfellows
3- Main Stem – Duke Ellington
4- The Hot Canary – Paul Nero
5- Jack Armstrong Blues (Take B) – Jack Teagarden
6- St Louis Blues March – Capt Glenn Miller
7- How High the Moon – Les Paul
8- She’s Funny That Way – Art Tatum
9- High Tide (I Ain’t Mad At You) – Count Basie
10- I Can’t Give You Anything But Love – Lena Horne with Charlie Spivak
11- Just You, Just Me – Eddie Heywood Sextet
12- I’m Goin’ to Tell God All My Troubles – Paul Robeson
13- Jammin’ On a V Disc – New York Stars
14- Twilight Time – The Three Suns
15- Something for the Boys Intro – Carol Bruce
16- Something for the Boys – Red Norvo & Carol Bruce
17- Brotherly Jump – Dorsey Brother’s Combined Orchestras
18- I Understand – Bob Eberly & the 344th ASF Band
19- Pee Wee Speaks – Muggsy Spanier & Pee Wee Russell
20- Take Me Out To the Ball Game – Loumell Morgan Trio
21- Screamin’ Boogie – Lionel Hampton
22- It’s Easy to Remember – Marie Green & Her V Disc Merry Men with Joe Dosh
23- That’s Rich – Buddy Rich & His Speed Demons with Ella Fitzgerald
24- Dancing In the Dawn – Woody Herman
25- V Disc Blues (Bugle Call Rag/Ole Miss Rag) – Sidney Bechet
26- Billy-A-Dick – Hoagy Carmichael
27- Till Then – The Mills Brothers

Actually, 2009 hasn't been a bad year at all for new releases. Having initially thought it was one of the most dreadful years on record for new music [which is what I tend to think every year] there were some good new discoveries and great older releases to unearth.

We're still a few weeks away from the mid-December Rubicon, but in what is becoming a mini early-November tradition, here are my personal thoughts on the best so far this year.

Halo Manash - Am Kha Astrie:



Halo Manash's previous albums were a little too droney and self-indulgent for my liking, a lot of the time sounding like 60 minutes of a football rattle in a wind tunnel. Am Kha Astrie, along with The Language of Red Goats , is a much more ambient and mature effort. Split across seven tracks with numbers ranging from disquieting to demonic, it's possibly the most composite and rounded album the band have yet produced.

Atrium Carceri - Souyan:



AC gets a lot of flack from the dark ambient crowd, mainly because they've been around longer and are one of the most popular bands. Previous albums were way too oversampled but this time round AC have really reigned in the atmosphere, dropped the sampling to its lowest since Cellblock and come up with an album of perfect dark ambient combinations.

Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition:



This would be higher up the list if it weren't for the first three minutes of the album, Mariusz's crooning of "I hope my sell-by date didn't expire yesterday" being horribly cringeworthy. After this though, things rapidly improve and with ADHD Riverside have put out their best work since Second Life Syndrome. After the rather lost and directionless Rapid Eye Movement, ADHD is a far more realised work with the band actually making an effort to write decent music rather than coasting for 70 minutes of wankery.

Tome / Seven Morgues - Deep in Marble:



This split album is the combination of two projects from the same artist, Israel's Oren Ben Yosef. Most of the time just using pure vocal combinations, Tome and Seven Morgues build up an atmosphere of disenchanted, dark and demonic rituals. The use of clean vocals, hums and tortured, hissing cries is a devastating and disturbing combination, and as a result Deep In Marble comes across as one of the most difficult listens in ambient music I can remember. I recall a time when Enemite and even raison d’être seemed difficult to get through, but there's always another album to eventually take things to the next level - which Deep in Marble has done effortlessly and admirably.

Katatonia - Night is the New Day:



The almost perfect successor to the almost perfect In The Great Cold Distance, NITND develops the maturity and focus of its predecessor but gives it a heavier coating. Even though the atmosphere and colour of the album are exactly in the same class as I've come to expect from Katatonia, there is a slight feeling that they're going through the motions and letting the ball roll of its own accord rather than influencing its direction anymore. Nevertheless, it's a high quality album and one of the classiest 'metal' releases this year.

Keelhaul - Keelhaul's Triumphant Return to Obscurity:



Having previously played a kind of progressive metal/metalcore fusion, the band's 2009 album sees them more or less veer straight into technical metal. The album is largely instrumental with beefy, solid production, catchy riffs and the odd passage which is so confounding it keeps you coming back out of pure intrigue. This is one of the few metal albums I have to sit down and pay attention to to digest, a musical Rubik's cube which needs time and focus to appreciate. Along with its humorous - and intentionally mocking - song titles, it's a highly interesting and captivating piece of work.

Redemption - Snowfall on Judgment Day:



After the slightly disappointing Origins of Ruin, Redemption have returned with a much surer trajectory - hardly surprising given Nick's physical condition. This time round the feeling is very different in the Redemption camp. Gone is the nebulous "I can take it or leave it" feel of OOR, this time everything is sharpened: guitar solos, vocals, riffs, drumming. Everything is expertly - and emotionally - done, with Ray Alder delivering some fine vocal melodies conveyed through intensely personal lyrics.

Album of the year candidate(s):

This was very difficult indeed given the two at the top, both highly commendable for their own reasons. A very close second goes to:

Black Math Horseman - Wyllt:



In a time when most female-fronted metal has been defenestrated and decried by the large majority of fans, BMH have come out with something entirely different and welcome. OK, it may not be metal in the standard definition of the term, edging more towards post-rock/metal and ambient, but it's one of the freshest 2009 releases. Largely instrumental with only the odd smattering of echoey, pained female vocals, Wyltt is a lonely voice in the world of metal - vox clamantis in deserto - ringing out to be noticed and understood. This won't appeal to those looking for metal in its more standard forms, but for those needing something new and innovative. Each passage, each bar and each note has its own individuality and feeling, made even better by their simplicity. In the end it's the stark, bare-bones feel of the music which makes it even more powerful, effective and unnerving. A fantastic debut.

Leaving the primary spot to:

The Mars Volta - Octahedron:



TMV had already threatened to make a pop record after several albums of post-ten minute songs, indecipherable lyrics, dissonant guitar solos and frenetic tempo changes. It's easy to see why the band are both revered and reviled, but they're one of the most original, talented and inventive ensembles around. Octahedron is a sea-change from the loud and frenzied The Bedlam in Goliath and sees the band put out a more 'acoustic' and mellow album. Some of it may be a little too mellow in places, and it's a shock to the system that they can put something like this after the relentless, spasmodic Bedlam. Maybe this was exactly the point, and to be able to carry off both styles with convincing aplomb is a hugely impressive feat, especially when so many bands have failed to do so.

Pending albums of interest:

Kauan - Aava tuulen maa
raison d’être - The Stains of the Embodied Sacrifice
The Morningside - Moving Crosscurrent of Time

Discoveries not released this year worth mentioning:

Arcana - Le Serpent Rouge
Armin van Buuren - Imagine
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Cloudkicker - The Discovery
Coroner - Mental Vortex
Dieter Müh / Mnem - Atomyriades
Duke Ellington - Money Jungle
Fates Warning - No Exit
Fates Warning - Parallels
Fates Warning - Perfect Symmetry
Forgotten Silence - Kro Ni Ka
Herbst9 - The Gods are Small Birds but I am the Falcon
Katatonia - Dance of December Souls
Katatonia - Brave Murder Day
Katatonia - In the Great Cold Distance
Love Spirals Downwards - Flux
Lull - Like a Slow River
Maeror Tri - Myein
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Moonsorrow - Verisäkeet
Moonsorrow - V: Hävitetty
Niyaz - Nine Heavens
Savatage - In the Hall of the Mountain King
The Mars Volta - Amputechture
The Mars Volta - The Bedlam in Goliath
Watchtower - Energetic Disassembly

Two hours of Halloween related swinging.

Swing Plus #82
10/27/09 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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1- Halloween Spooks – Lambert, Hendricks & Ross
2- The Walls Keep Talking – Gene Krupa
3- Witchin’ Hour Blues – Tampa Red
4- Haunting Blues – Eddie Lang
5- Haunted House - Lonnie Johnson
6- Spooks Holiday – Swing Session
7- Halloween – Bing Crosby, Victor Moore, Boris Karloff
8- Satan Takes a Holiday – John Cali & Tony Gattuso
9- Mr Ghost Goes to Town – Louis Prima
10- White Ghost Shivers – Fess Williams
11- Ghost Riders In the Sky – Scatman Crothers
12- Blue Ghost – Stan Kenton
13- The Ghost of Smokey Joe – Cab Calloway
14- The Ghost of the St Louis Blues – Emmett Miller
15- Ghost Soldier – Hot Revival Stompers
16- Black Cat Stomp – Antigua Jazz Band
17- Witches, Fair And Foul – Cleo Laine
18- Skeleton in the Closet – Artie Shaw
19- A Call For All Demons – Sun Ra
20- Monsters of the Id – Mose Allison
21- The Goblin Band – Casa Loma Orchestra
22- Death Letter Blues – Jimmy Yancey
23- Phantomesque – Coleman Hawkins
24- Ghost Wanted – Carl Stalling
25- Great Pumpkin Waltz – Vince Guaraldi
26- Jumpin’ Pumpkins – Duke Ellington
27- The Ghost of Dinah – Bob Howard
28- Trick or Treat – Lionel Hampton
29- Ghost of the Freaks – Luis Russell
30- Little Boy, Don’t Get Scared – King Pleasure