Blues Jazz Reefer
Steve The Fly is holding forth from Amsterdam with an hour of music by B.B King, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix, Elmore James, Snooks Eaglin, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Alice Coltrane, Sun Ra, Shuggie Otis, and Michael McClure.
Continue reading “FLY BY NIGHT 412 – WALKIN’ THE SPACEWAYS”Steve The Fly is playing music this week by The Heliocentrics, Jimmy Smith & Kenny Burrell, B.B King, Snooks Eaglin, Dr. John, Ramsey Lewis, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Pat Metheny, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, and Yusef Lateef.
Continue reading “FLY BY NIGHT 405 – WOODWARD AVENUE”
Steve The Fly is playing music this week by Yusef Leteef, The Meters, Dave Serano, Dizzy Gillespie, Lalo Schifrin, James Brown, Camile Bob, The Visioneers, Eddie Henderson, Tribe, Lee Michaels, Fat Larry’s Band, and Parliament.
Continue reading “FLY BY NIGHT 403 – MR. WRIGGLES”
Steve The Fly is playing music this week by Rahsaan Roland Kirk, the Ebony Rhythm Band, Society, The Meters, Black Ivory, Earl King, Sly & The Family Stone, Chris Jones, James Brown, Julius Jones, Chet Ivy, Salon Butler & The New Breed, and Herbie Hancock.
Continue reading “FLY BY NIGHT 402 – FREAKS FOR THE FESTIVAL”
While on his wayward adventures in America, Steve Fly Agaric 23 hooked up with drummer Alan Hertz and his band, together with Eric Levy who was also playing with Garaj Mahal, bassist and good friend Liam Hanrahan and Jason Conception sitting in for Tal Morris on guitar. In 2003 the band recorded a spectacular album in Berkeley; the selections made here are from the California leg of a short tour the same year, after which they travelled to Los Angeles and then back to San Francisco Bay Area where the band resides: Alan Hertz, drums; Eric Levy, keys; DJ Fly Agaric 23, sounds, turntables; Liam Hanarhan, bass; and Jason Conception, guitar, recorded live at Moe’s Alley in Santa Cruz, CA on September 18, 2003.
Continue reading “FLY BY NIGHT 399 – TONGUE”Steve The Fly is back with further investigations into music & spoken word with performances by Ella Fitzgerald, Gil Evans, Alan Moore, Texas News, Apple & Three Oranges, John Heartsman & Circles, Howard Zinn, California Gold Notes, Eddie Bo, Ray Frazier, Richard “Groove” Holmes, William Butler Yeats, W.H Auden, Enrique Olivarez, Aleister Crowley, and Billy Larkin.
Continue reading “FLY BY NIGHT 397 – YEATS & CROWLEY FUNK”Steve The Fly is following up in 2013 on the Amiri Baraka treatise comparing the work of Charles Olson & Sun Ra with this episode featuring recordings by the principals plus selections by Robert Creeley, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Archie Shepp, Langston Hughes, Jack Kerouac, and William Butler Yeats.
Continue reading “FLY BY NIGHT 396 – MAYAN MAXIMUS ARKESTRA”Steve The Fly spotlights some of America’s great Beat literary legacy in 2013 with performances by Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and their forebear Ezra Pound, with a musical interlude from Medeski, Martin & Wood.
Continue reading “FLY BY NIGHT 395 – BEAT AMERICA”