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 Nancy Wilson, Ike & Tina Turner, The Supremes, Garland Green, Os Diagonais, Ecstasy, Passion & Pain, Rose Royce, Hank Ballard & the Midnighters, Hamonica Shah, Funkadelic, Jean-Claude Petit, Afrik Bawantu, The Isley Brothers, Malone & Barnes and Spontaneous Simplicity, Papas’ Got, Intrinsic Trance, and. Miami.

Martino D’Lorenzo is playing the blues on 45s, 78s and LPs from behind the wheel of the Big City Blues Cruise bus, spinning Episode 045 from 1982 featuring music by Red Prysock, Al Johnson, the Wild Tchoupitoulas, Professor Longhair, the Wild Magnolias, Magic Slim & The Teardrops, Jimmy Rogers, J.B. Hutto, Camille Howard, Dizzy Gillespie with Alice Roberts, Priscilla Bowman with Jay McShann, Son Seals, Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers, and Muddy Waters.

Episode 22 is examining the music of Charlie Parker and his quintet with Red Rodney on trumpet and Roy Haynes at the drums recorded live at a dance at St. Nicholas Arena in Harlem sometime in 1948 or ’49, plus Bird with Jazz at the Philharmonic in 1946 playing the brilliant solo later set to words and sung by EddIe Jefferson, and a final cut by Bird live in Washington DC in the early ’50s.

Bob Putignano is playing music this week by Jerry Garcia & Merl Saunders, Little Richard, Lou Donaldson, Illinois Jacquet, and Boogaloo Joe Jones.

               George Klein presents Ornette Coleman’s first two releases on Atlantic Records in 1959, The Shape of Jazz to Come and Change of the Century, with Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, and Billy Higgins.

arwulf arwulf is holding forth at WCBN-FM, Ann Arbor with his weekly dose of great music featuring Richard M. Jones, Clarence Williams’ Blue Five, Thomas Morris Past Jazz Masters, King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band, Piron’s New Orleans Orchestra, Fletcher Henderson’s Orchestra, The Cotton Pickers, the Original Memphis Five, Bessie Smith, Jelly Roll Morton, the New Orleans Rhythm Kings, Rosa Henderson with Fletcher Henderson & Coleman Hawkins, and the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra.

Leslie Keros is playing the blues in Chicago with cuts by Big Daddy Kinsey, the Andy T-Nick Nixon Band, Ray Charles, Bonnie Raitt, Big George Brock, Michael Coleman, Mary Bridget Davies, Bob Stroger, Memphis Slim & Roosevelt Sykes, Big Joe Turner, Joe Williams, Reverend Raven & Madison Slim, John Lee Williamson, and Larry Carlton & Robben Ford.

Episode 82 of BluesTime International with Roger White of Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine has music by Magic Dick & J. Geils, Casey Hensley, Whitney Shea, Dianna Rain, The Moonshine Society, Liz Mandeville, Crystal Schwanda, the Chris Canas Band featuring Angie Cottingham, the Mary Jo Curry Band, the Betty Fox Band, Ryan Perry, Rev. Shaun Amos, Harpdog Brown, Taz Crewe, and Dallas Hodge.