Listener comments!

Fri. 8/8/08 9:08am From: Bad Ronald

Morning - nice tunes!

Fri. 8/8/08 9:12am From: Paul Sherratt

The which games ?

Fri. 8/8/08 9:13am From: gumby

Welcome back Doug. I loved the Coltrane documentary premium. It is inspiring me to be a force for good. The best possible good I can be. My favorite part was "Coltrane was almost savage in attempting to play his horn as thoroughly as he could." I've never heard it put better.

Fri. 8/8/08 9:17am From: gumby

honkin' & bar walkin' what a great way to start a Friday.

Fri. 8/8/08 9:27am From: gumby

I think herons are territorial. That's probably why it was alone. Alone is not always lonely.

Fri. 8/8/08 9:34am From: GP

Morning Doug and Bad Ronald and everyone else. Some nice stuff playing right now.

Fri. 8/8/08 9:42am From: Moses

Peace my Brother ! Lets try and do lunch next week .
Love Mo'

Fri. 8/8/08 9:48am From: GP

Doug,
Is that Machito track on vinyl ?

Fri. 8/8/08 9:52am From: gumby

I think they should have drumming as an Olympic event.

Fri. 8/8/08 9:53am From: Doug

GP,
I have this on a 4-CD collection from Proper (the hyper-cheap Brit reissue folks).

Fri. 8/8/08 9:56am From: GP

Thanks Doug, I'll look for it.

Fri. 8/8/08 10:09am From: Paul Sherratt

GP, Look quickly. I think they're discontinuing the April 2008 release already ..

Fri. 8/8/08 10:27am From: dc pat

I've said it before, I'll say it again--go see the Ex, best live show you'll ever see and with all those Ethiopians, it's gotta be the event of the decade.

Fri. 8/8/08 10:28am From: Brian Sanders

Why is Mulatu Astatke not appearing? Ethiopiques 4 is just sublime.

Fri. 8/8/08 10:33am From: Doug

WFMU's music director, Brian Turner, deserves a monstrous heap of praise and appreciation for his hard work conceiving and pulling off all the amazing concerts in our Free Music Series this year. But the Ex/Getatchew Mekurya/Mahmoud Ahmed/Alemayu Eshete/Either-Orchestra/Extra Golden show is nothing less than one for the ages. Thank you Brian. Thank you, thank you, thank you...

Fri. 8/8/08 10:35am From: Ypsi Doug

Man I wish I could come out for these shows. Ask Ken and Brian to do a series in Ann Arbor next! :)

Fri. 8/8/08 10:45am From: Harvey

Yeah, come to Michigan!

Fri. 8/8/08 10:47am From: Matt

I just realized that I'll be on a flight to Arkansas during the concert......oh man, that sucks.

Fri. 8/8/08 10:47am From: Duncan

Who was on the John Gordon track?

Fri. 8/8/08 10:50am From: Parq

Thanks for reminding me about the Lincoln Center show. I've been trying all week to remember what the notation "Ex L.C" on my calendar means.

Fri. 8/8/08 10:50am From: Doug

Matt,
We will be broadcasting the Ex/Mekurya et al show live, so look for it in the archives!

Duncan,
Here's the lineup:
John Gordon ~ trombone
Charles Tolliver ~ trumpet
Roland Alexander ~ flute & saxes
Stanley Cowell ~ piano
Lisle Atkinson ~ bass
Andrew Cyrille ~ drums

Fri. 8/8/08 10:51am From: Duncan

Ah the usual Strata East crowd!

Fri. 8/8/08 10:54am From: Duncan

Tolliver and Cowell were in one of Max Roach's groups. there's a really nice track by that group called effie (I think) with gary Bartz.

This Joe McPhee is great !

Fri. 8/8/08 10:54am From: north guinea hills

joe mcphee, a true gentleman and beautiful musican...

Fri. 8/8/08 11:28am From: gumby

Whatever Guilherme was singing about, he was sincere about it.

Fri. 8/8/08 11:33am From: north guinea hills

lived in fla for 20 years (moved there when i was 4), and have been to white springs many a times. sadly, never went to the music fest there.

Fri. 8/8/08 11:33am From: Parq

(cornball alert) Gee, Doug, you coulda opened your show with this Jim & Jessie.

Fri. 8/8/08 11:34am From: ?

Just thought I mention that the classic John Tchicai "Afrodisiaca" has been reissued as well as Barney Wilen's "Dear Prof. Leary" on Promising Records which has taken upon itself to recycle the old MPS catalogue.

http://www.promising-music.com/

Nice Tchicai tune there by the way. Still going strong ...

Fri. 8/8/08 11:36am From: Hugo

me = ?

Fri. 8/8/08 11:45am From: GP

Dang,
That Brett Ratliff tune scared me. Cold Icy Mountain is right

Fri. 8/8/08 11:48am From: spaced profit Doyon

nugrape twins kill. thanks.

Fri. 8/8/08 11:49am From: GP

You can still get NuGrape today. It is very sugary. I think they use sugar instead of corn syrup.

Fri. 8/8/08 11:51am From: Ypsi Doug

Is this "shape singing" or is that something else?

Fri. 8/8/08 11:52am From: Paul Sherratt

I have a copy of the magnificent " Cuba " by the Alabama Sacred Harp Singers. Rescued it from a DJ's reject pile ...
Also rescued .. the stunning S Whitt Denson's " New Morning Sung "

( Hugo will understand the significance of THAT )

Fri. 8/8/08 11:53am From: ?

or " New Morning Sun "

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