Episode 897 is coming from Radio Free Amsterdam headquarters in the Cass Corridor of Detroit with music frcholars at the detroit Jazz Festival in 2006om a couple of compilations called Power to the Motown People (Marvin Gaye, The Undisputed Truth, Martha & The Vadellas, and Stevie Wonder) and Rack of Blues (Sherman Robertson, the Chicago Blues Angels, Theresa & TC Blue, and Rich DelGrosso), plus a cut by me with Dr. Dorothy Goodman & the Blues Sscholars at the Detroit Jazz Festival in 2006.
Episode 896 is coming from Radio Free Amsterdam headquarters in the Cass Corridor of Detroit with a wide-ranging hour of music by Yusef Lateef, Little Wiilie John, Little Sonny, Jay McShann with Lamonte Hamilton, Larry McCray, Walter Noons, John Sinclair & His Blues Scholars, Robin Eichele, ML Liebler & the Magic Poetry Band, Martha & the Vandellas, Laith al-Saadi, Laura Rain & The Caesars, and Charlie Parker with strings with our closing theme.
The John Sinclair Foundation Presents
LIVE WIRE
JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 896
Cass Corridor, Detroit, January 19, 2021 [21077]
Yusef Lateef: Happyology
Little Wiilie John: All Around The World
Little Sonny: Blues Medley
Jay McShann with Lamonte Hamilton: Hard Working Man’s Blues
Larry McCray: Strong Companion
Walter Noons: Funky Soulstice
John Sinclair & His Blues Scholars: monk suite
Robin Eichele: Journal Entries—October 2020
M.L. Liebler & the Magic Poetry Band: I Ain’t Never Gonna See Bobby Rush No More
Martha & the Vandellas: Live Wire
Laith al-Saadi: No One Left To Blame
Laura Rain & The Caesars: Bus Stop
Charlie Parker: They Can’t Take That Away From Me
A JOINT PRODUCTION
Hosted by John Sinclair for Radio Free Amsterdam
Program produced, edited, assembled & annotated by John Sinclair
Lucille DJ is back on the air from the heart of Italy with a killer hour of soul & super heavy funk including a guest spot by John Sinclair, with tunes by The Temptations, The Detroit Emeralds, The Artistics, Solomon Burke, Gil Scott-Heron, Mandrill, Barbara Mason, Blue Magic, The Commodores, George Clinton, The Fabulous Peps, The Dramatics, Shirley Brown, Vernon Garrett, Leroy Hutson, Mike James Kirkland, Ann Sexton, anbarra, and Erma Franklin.
Martino D’Lorenzo is playing the blues on 45s, 78s and LPs from behind the wheel of the Big City Blues Cruise bus, spinning his classic modern radio programs from the 1980s and 1990s originally aired on WEMU-FM in Ypsilanti MI and now heard every Saturday on Radio Free Amsterdam. Episode 108 features music by Red Prysock, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Cleanhead Vinson, Robert Lockwood Jr., B.B. King, Freddie King, Lonnie Brooks, Professor Longhair, Roy Brown, Buster Brown, Sonny Boy Williamson, Ronnie Earl & Friends, and Gene Vincent & The Blue Caps.
Bob Putignano is playing music this week by John Sinclair, Little Milton, Susan Tedeschi, Peter Wolf, Delbert McClinton, Freddie King, David K. Matthews, Steve Miller, Ray Charles, Milt Jackson, Lou Rawls, Irene Reid, and Charles Earland.
Episode 15 from 2012 offers another thrilling installment of classic jazz from 1956 mined from the seven-disc set called The Complete Prestige Recordings of Sonny Rollins, featuring the Clifford-Brown-Max Roach Quintet and selections from the album accurately titled Saxophone Colossus.
George Klein presents an hour of 1950s & ‘60s recordings by Freddie Hubbard, Milt Jackson, Dizzy Gillespie, plus a mid-50s leaderless jam session on Prestige featuring John Coltrane, Bobby Jaspar, Idrees Suleiman, and Webster Young.
arwulf arwulf is holding forth at WCBN-FM, Ann Arbor in 2016 with his weekly dose of great music featuring Joe “Tricky Sam” Nanton with Duke Ellington & his Orchestra, Banjo Joe, Josie Miles & the Choo Choo Jazzers, Joe “King” Oliver & his Orchestra, Joe Haymes & his Orchestra, Joe Howard with Gene Kardos & his Orchestra, Jones’ Chicago Cosmopolitans, Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra, Barbecue Joe & his Hot Dogs, Joseph Robichaux & his New Orleans Rhythm Boys, Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe, Joe McCoy & the Palooka Washboard Band, Big Joe Williams, Big Joe Turner, and Jimmy Yancey.
Leslie Keros is playing the blues in 2013 with tunes from Big Daddy Kinsey, Howard & the White Boys, Lester Davenport, Ronnie Earl, Eric Bibb with Rory Block, Lowell Fulson, Lucky Peterson, Etta James, Roosevelt Sykes, Little Hatch, Carey & Lurrie Bell, T-Bone Walker, Johnny B. Moore, and Johnny “Guitar” Watson.
Episode 76 of BluesTime International with Roger White of Big City Rhythm& Blues magazine has music by Magic Dick & J. Geils, Elvis Costello, Rev. Shawn Amos & The Brotherhood, Ben Rice & R.B. Stone, Eliza Neals, Annika Chambers, Annika Chambers, Liz Mandeville, Whitney Shay, the Casey Hensly Band, and Thornetta Davis.
