Favoriting Ridgewood Radio with David Weinstein: Playlist from December 1, 2021 Favoriting

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Ridgewood Radio features concert recordings by adventurous bands and experimental musicians and restored archival tapes from private and institutional collections captured at venues large and small across the five boroughs of New York. It is produced by David Weinstein and Outpost Artists Resources operating out of the Ridgewood section of Queens, NY, where you'll find more yellow bricks than on the road to Oz and the cemetery of your choice is never more than a few blocks from home.

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Favoriting December 1, 2021: Guitar Circles

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A potpourri of great stylists from King Sunny Ade to
James "Blood" Ulmer to Paco Peña and beyond.
Image: Luthier in Paracho, Mexico 2014.

Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Approx. start time
Andrya Ambro/Gold Dime  ABC Wendy   Favoriting My House  Fire Talk  2019  The composer/drummer/vocalist's band with Ian Douglas-Moore on bass and J.R. Bohannon on guitar.   
 
James "Blood" Ulmer  Are You Glad to Be in America?   Favoriting Are You Glad to Be in America?  Rough Trade  1980  Composer Ulmer, guitar, vocals; Amin Ali, electric Bass; Ronald Shannon Jackson and G. Calvin Weston, drums; David Murray, tenor sax; Oliver Lake, alto sax; Olu Dara, trumpet.  0:08:17 (Pop-up)
Taj Mahal  Done Changed My Way of Living   Favoriting The Natch'l Blues  Columbia  1968  From the electric blues singer/songwriter's album with guitarist Jesse Ed Davis, Earl Palmer on drums, Gary Gilmore on bass, and Al Kooper, keys.  0:12:35 (Pop-up)
John McLaughlin  Goodbye Pork-Pie Hat   Favoriting My Goal's Beyond  Douglas  1971  The guitarist's rendition of a Charles Mingus tune.  0:19:38 (Pop-up)
Django Reinhardt  Nuages   Favoriting The Very Best Of Django Reinhardt  Disconforme SL  2007  Guitarist Reinhardt wrote and recorded “Nuages” (French for “clouds”) in wartime France (1939) and reworked it many times over the years after.  0:22:52 (Pop-up)
King Sunny Adé and His African Beats  Synchro System   Favoriting The Best Of The Classic Years  Shanachie  2003  From a compilation of material recorded between 1969 and 1974 for the Nigerian market, before his Island Records contract and the release of a shorter version.  0:26:15 (Pop-up)
Mamadou Diabate  Mande   Favoriting Tunga  Alula Records  2000  A virtuosic kora player with a griot's pedigree who honors both tradition and invention.  0:39:10 (Pop-up)
 
Romantic Guitar Master  Mexican Classical Guitar   Favoriting Best of Mexico: Instrumental Music  YouTube  2014  From an anonymous post of a mysterious and arguably cheesy collection.  0:48:23 (Pop-up)
The Cuban All Star Band  Chan Chan   Favoriting Putumayo Presents: Café Cubano  Putumayo World Music  2021  This classic tune was used in the TV series called Dexter.  0:52:20 (Pop-up)
Cumbias Chichadélicas  La Danza De Los Mirlos   Favoriting Peruvian Psychedelic Chicha  Pharaway Sounds  2015  Psychedelic Peruvian cumbia and chicha from the archives of the legendary Infopesa label, 1968-1982.  0:56:35 (Pop-up)
Paco Peña  Granadinas   Favoriting The Incredible Paco Peña  Fontana  1968  Peña is a Spanish composer and guitarist, regarded as one of the world's foremost traditional (roots) flamenco players.  0:59:23 (Pop-up)
 
Adam Rudolph  GO: Organic Guitar Orchestra (concert excerpts)   Favoriting Roulette Archive  Roulette Intermedium  23 Nov 2015  Composed and conducted by Rudolph with improvising guitarists Nels Cline, David Gilmore, Miles Okazaki, Damon Banks, Marco Cappelli, Liberty Ellman, Joel Harrison, Jerome Harris, Brandon Ross, Kenny Wessel.  1:10:06 (Pop-up)
Gaspar Sanz  Suite Española   Favoriting Live in Córdoba  Genteflow  2015  Guitarist Arturo Zeballos performing at a festival in 2014 in Córdoba, Argentina. Gaspar Sanz (1640-1710) was a Spanish composer, guitarist, and priest born to a wealthy family in Calanda, Bajo Aragón, Spain.  1:50:06 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

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listener james from westwood:

Evening, David, Ruth, and all!
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david w:

Hello, james!
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ranjit:

Good evening! At first I thought I was hearing Shelly Hirsch singing with Big Blood....
  5:04pm
Hank:

Hello DW, Ruth, and the Ridgewoodian community !
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Schell:

Howdy everyone. Too bad about Alvin Lucier.
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david w:

Welcome ranjit and Hank!
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coelacanth∅:

greetings david and ridgies
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Schell:

I remember his gig at Roulette in 1989. I believe he did the triangle piece there. Was that his only appearance at Roulette?
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david w:

Ohhh, Schell. I had not heard.
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david w:

And hello to coelacanth∅!
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Schell:

Yes, passed away this morning, aged 90.
  5:11pm
Jan:

Love this!
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david w:

Jan, hi!
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doctorjazz:

Nice to hear Blood Ulmer, love his playing!
Hi Ridgewoodnicks!
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doctorjazz:

And Taj!!!!! This is an amazing track!
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david w:

Sir djazz, so welcome.
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doctorjazz:

Wonderful guitar, nottin fancy, but just right.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 5:16pm
david w:

The whole band, the whole feel...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:18pm
doctorjazz:

And the growl with the guitar, ahhh!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:19pm
doctorjazz:

Jesse Ed Davis, no?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 5:19pm
david w:

Yes!
  5:20pm
Jan:

You can tell Taj and the band loved the sounds of the guitar. Great picture there--a guitar lovers dream
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doctorjazz:

Oh, you listed personnel (I have to change screens on my phone to see the song list)
Another great track, terrific version of this Mingus (one of my earliest jazz record purchases)
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david w:

Thanks, Jan. I went on a little Mexico jag this week.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:24pm
doctorjazz:

Just hitting those clicky starts...
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david w:

Sugar.
  5:28pm
ruth:

Wow I never heard this version! Thanks David!
  5:28pm
Hank:

Love King Sunny - so good for the back !
  5:29pm
Jan:

Here it comes--I sense an impending guitar deluge
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 5:31pm
david w:

Actually, it is incredibly restrained throughout.
  5:33pm
Jan:

Oh, well, incredible it is as it is. I heard what sounded like an intrusive outburst for a second and thought that presaged a deluge...
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david w:

They do tease.
  5:36pm
Jan:

This is SO good
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doctorjazz:

Heading out, well listen in the car... Fun collection of artists!
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david w:

Thank you doctor always.
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Listening Out There:

Hello...am listening to RR for the first time just now. Soundin' pretty okay... :)
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david w:

I'm all yours, Listening Out There!
  5:53pm
Hank:

Nice eclecticism !
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david w:

Sometimes I confuse myself just for a giggle.
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chresti:

Hi david and ruth and ridgewoodland!
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WR:

connecting for the last hour

hello David and Ruth
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david w:

Hey there, chresti!
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david w:

and...WR, yay!
  6:08pm
Filip Pagowski:

Are you glad to be in America... came out sometime in the fall of 1980 around the same time I landed, freshly minted immigrant, in NYC on a flight from Europe... Was I glad!? Oh yeah! I miss those days... Somehow, few weeks later I stumbled upon JBU's album... and coincidently WFMU! I've a listener ever since...
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david w:

Filip! Great story, glad to have your ears!
  6:37pm
Filip Pagowski:

My pleasure! Entirely. Back from Europe :-)
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doctorjazz:

Loved the guitar Orchestra (listening on the drive), now gotta go, great show, thanks David and Ruth!
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david w:

Thanks again, djazz!
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david w:

And... after this show:
Bodega Pop with Gary Sullivan 7-10pm EST: Baligh Cafe, drawing in part from CDs found on a recent trip to Paterson, NJ, Gary salutes this (very real) cafe's titular composer with a second three-hour tribute.The first is from 2016.
wfmu.org...
If You Lose Your Horse with Sam Segal 10-midnite
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Webhamster Henry:

Hi folks - long phone call! Note: I actually bought a pork-pie hat this week, so , Hello, Pork-Pie Hat!
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david w:

I've been tempted, Henry. Not sure what hat is right for me.
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Webhamster Henry:

It's a look!
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Webhamster Henry:

So this is GO and Guitars, but not playing Lois V. Vierk's Go Guitars.
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spodiodi:

thank for the music, David!
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spodiodi:

thanks*
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david w:

spodi!
  6:53pm
Filip Pagowski:

Thank you!!!
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david w:

Thanks, everybody for following along my zigzag of styles and cultures today.
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WR:

Thank you David! Onward.
  6:56pm
Hank:

Thanks DW !
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listener james from westwood:

Always a lovely blend; thanks y'all!
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Gary:

Lovely track
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david w:

Gary! Hi!
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Ike:

Good stuff, thanks!
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