WFMU: Acid Jazz Hands with Bronwyn Bishop: Playlist from March 3, 2023

Listener comments!
	🎭 6:59pm WR: eye roll, now what...
	7:02pm Bronwyn Bishop: lol what are you rolling your eyes at?
	7:04pm Webhamster Henry: Hey There Acid Jazz Time!
	7:06pm doctorjazz: Hey, all!
	🎭 7:08pm WR: woo hoo for the DDR co-host. I will probably be able to listen.
	🎭 7:09pm WR: greatly enjoyed your hoof and mouth song last year, look forward to what you do this year.
	🎭 7:12pm WR: ↳ Bronwyn Bishop @7:02 Christian JukeBox Musical. If you are not joking, then you need to explain because that is fairly vague concept, maybe you know what you mean but I can imagine many interpretations on what it would actually consist of.
	7:14pm Webhamster Henry: American In Paris is kind of fun!
	🎭 7:19pm Listener Gregory: Sorry I'm late. I was helping the disadvantaged cross the street. OK, I was drinking beer!!! Sue me!
	🎭 7:24pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "A Couple of Song and Dance Men" by "Fred Astaire ... These imitations are uncanny!
	7:26pm Bronwyn Bishop: hi everyone!!!
	7:26pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ WR @7:12 I will be using various kinds of cool/interesting/weird/funny Christian music to tell a sordid Texas true crime tale involving a so-called good Christian man!
	7:28pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Bronwyn Bishop @7:26 Christians are always good for a laugh!
	7:28pm doctorjazz: Cool set (listening while cooking). Ella and Louis Armstrong do a GREAT Let's Call the Whoe Thing Off, BTW!
	7:29pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ Webhamster Henry @7:28 I hope to laugh both at and with Christians with this show
	7:29pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ doctorjazz @7:28 ooo sounds great!
	7:32pm doctorjazz: My Younger Daughter, Hebrew School from young grades (which she hated), had/has a thing for the Christian Rock Band Skillet, loves them (I've seen them twice with her, they're a pretty good band, if you're into the message). Christian Rock is quite a big selling genre!
	🎭 7:36pm Listener Gregory: "Being nominated is pretty good, especially if you're in a horse story starring Pat Boone." Words to live by, really.
	7:41pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Buttons and Bows" by "Bob Hope & the Clark Sisters" Wouldn't have guessed Bob Hope could sing, never saw him seriously sing on his TV comedy shows, entertainment for the US Servicemen, etc
	🎭 7:45pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now" by "Emile Ford & ... Low-rent bachelor pad music.
	🎭 8:00pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "Crossroads" by "Ry Cooder" If I'd made a deal with the devil, I would have made it to the show on time.
	8:01pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Crossroads" by "Ry Cooder" Love Ry Cooder! (I guess Ahmad Jamal is taking musical credit for changing Robert Johnson's original, which was just guitar and voice).
	🎭 8:01pm Listener Gregory: Ms. BB, I don't believe that Ahmad Jamal wrote any of Crossroads, which was probably recorded before he was born. He is a very good jazz musician, though.
	8:01pm doctorjazz: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:01 I was wondering as well, maybe not the same Ahmad Jamal...
	8:02pm doctorjazz: There's Cooder, sliding his gutrat...
	🎭 8:05pm Listener Gregory: Weird. Wikipedia gives Jamal credit on the song, but he doesn't seem to be listed on Discogs... He also isn't listed as having anything to do with the film. I think this is a stray Internet fart.
	8:07pm doctorjazz: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:05 The Jazz Jamal likely had nothing to do with the show...
	8:09pm Bronwyn Bishop: Wow weird...yes I did take that credit from Wikipedia and thought it was weird but figured maybe Jamal did a rewrite for the film for whatever reason. Fixed...
	8:10pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "I Am Disco One" by "Nahid Akhtar" Disco returns...
	8:10pm doctorjazz: The album says music by Ry Cooder, that makes more sense (he did some movie soundtrack's, would've been in his ballpark).
	8:10pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ Webhamster Henry @8:10 DISCO LIVES!
	8:10pm Bronwyn Bishop: The dream of 1979 is alive on Acid Jazz Hands
	8:11pm doctorjazz: Subcontinental Disco!
	8:11pm Webhamster Henry: Diggin this Christian music.
	8:14pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Fans Gayil Dhas Gayil Ras Gayil Ho" by "Kalpana" That was cool
	🎭 8:14pm WR: Ahmad Jamal is not credited for the Crossroads song either on discogs or on Wikipedia film entry which has detailed listing of the music soundtrack but as you note, he is listed on the Wikipedia entry for the sound track album. Now wondering if I have the energy to go through protocol to get it corrected. Semi related aside, either didn't know or didn't remember that Steve Vai played one of the guitar parts in duel at the Crossroads scene.
	8:16pm doctorjazz: ↳ WR @8:14 Didn't remember that either (think I saw that movie ages ago, but don't remember any of it.)
	8:17pm doctorjazz: ↳ doctorjazz @8:16 Probably worth checkingout the guitar duel...
	🎭 8:20pm Listener Gregory: ↳ WR @8:14 What idiot would try to replace Ry Cooder? (Rhetorical question; we actually know the idiot in q.).
	🎭 8:21pm Listener Gregory: Speaking of Crossroads, I tried to sell my soul to the devil once, but when I crunched the numbers, I still couldn't afford an apartment in Manhattan. So it fell apart.
	🎭 8:22pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "That Old Feeling" by "Eliane Elias" This is much, much faster than the usual performance of this song.
	8:25pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Why Do I Love You - Alternate Take 6" by "Charlie... BIRD!!!!
	8:32pm Listener Gregory: I remember the novel Ragtime as very good. Doctorow is a great novelist. The musical frightened me with its enormous sets.
	🎭 8:33pm WR: ↳ Song: "Gettin' Ready Rag" by "Brian Stokes Mitchell & Ra... I was a volunteer usher at a benefit performance of Ragtime in 98. I was disappointed that I hardly got to see any of the show.
	8:38pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "Chorus Four" by "Harry Partch" I remember when this was produced - but I didn't go for some reason.
	8:41pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:32 The enormous sets also frightened Ben Brantley
	🎭 8:41pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "Chorus Four" by "Harry Partch" Tomato had more good and prescient classical music than any other label of its time, and therefore became defunct. They put out the original Einstein on the Beach.
	🎭 8:42pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Bronwyn Bishop @8:41 Musical theater needs more shows for the very timid. People can just stand on the stage—but not too close to the edge!—and sing in a moderate volume.
	8:43pm Dean: A review from the Los Angeles Times, June 25, 1987, by Don Heckman of an appearance by Jamal at Catalina Bar & Grill (what a venue!): "A Jamal original, "Crossroads," started in 6 / 8 and built up layers of complex overlapping meters-in Jamal's two-handed rhythms as well as in the passionate conga drum playing of Iraj Lashkary. And guest drummer Steve Smith, pushed to his creative boundaries by Jamal's gentle, but insistent urging, delivered playing that far exceeded anything he ever did with Journey."
	8:44pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "Honeysuckle and the Bee" by "Patricia Hammond & R... nice segue!
	8:52pm doctorjazz: ↳ Dean @8:43 There's an Ahmad Jamal in Journey???
	🎭 8:57pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Dean @8:43 Good catch, Dean! So, the attribution to Jamal in the Wikipedia soundtrack listing is probably just a coincidence of the titles of two different songs being the same. As Johnson's Crossroads was recorded in 1936 and Jamal born in 1930, he likely didn't help write the song. Nor would he be a candidate for helping on a musical about the country blues.
	8:57pm doctorjazz: ↳ Dean @8:43 Gets more and more confusing...
	🎭 8:57pm Listener Gregory: ↳ doctorjazz @8:52 Don't you remember his version of "Don't Stop Believing" in Live at the Pershing??
	8:58pm doctorjazz: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:57 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
	🎭 8:59pm WR: ↳ Dean @8:43 the guest drummer Steve Smith is credited as having been in Journey. So, according to that review there is a different composition named Crossroads, but have yet to find that Jamal recorded it.
	8:59pm Dean: I'm not in any position to evaluate this, but is it possible that Jamal adapted the Johnson recordings in a way that legitimates his credit, and then Cooder worked with both works?
	🎭 8:59pm Listener Gregory: Great show, Bronwyn. It almost makes me wish I hadn't spent the first 17 minutes drinking beer!
	9:00pm doctorjazz: Jamal clearly didn't write Crossroads, settled. Thanks Bronwyn, fun show. Great weekend, all (maybe go to WKCR, listen to the Wayn Shorter tribute, or maybe the other streams, or maybe something I have here, decisions, decisions). Great Weekend All!!!
	🎭 9:01pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Dean @8:59 It's possible, but there's nothing in Jamal's career to make a producer think of him as the adapter of the song, unlike Cooder, who is perfect for the job.
	9:01pm Dean: I'm not suggesting Jamal wrote that "Crossroads," but he might have written another way based on Johnson's.
	🎭 9:02pm WR: Did find a Jamal recording with Crossroads. I'm sure that it is a different composition but will report back once have definite details. www.discogs.com...
	9:02pm Webhamster Henry: Pope Lee!
	9:03pm Dean: The movie Crossroads appeared in 1986. We have a recording of Jamal doing a "Crossroads" in 1987. Yes, exactly, WR. That's what we need!
	🎭 9:03pm Listener Gregory: Since no one has asked, and it's not at all relevant, please allow me to announce that I have heard the new Ahmad Jamal historical release Emerald City Nights (from 1963-4), and it is tremendous. Anyone who knows and likes the early Jamal will find this a wonderful surprise. A bit more percussive and active than his reputation would suggest. Live sound is superb. IMHO
	9:04pm doctorjazz: ↳ Listener Gregory @9:03 On Bandcamp, by any chance?
	🎭 9:05pm Listener Gregory: ↳ doctorjazz @9:04 Not sure. It's on the Jazz Detective label, which specializes in historical releases. You probably have some of their records.
	🎭 9:06pm WR: Thank you! Bronwyn! Wish you safe and warm travel home tonight.
	🎭 9:06pm Listener Gregory: ↳ doctorjazz @9:04 Voila! elementalmusicrecords.bandcamp.com...

Acid Jazz Hands with Bronwyn Bishop: Playlist from March 3, 2023

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Musical theater from off the beaten path. Obscure and unusual show tunes from within the canon and without, flops, failures, and the newest works from up-and-coming artists—plus tried-and-true hits. Also, occasional appearances from songs that are not show tunes (but only if they go really well with show tunes).

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March 3, 2023: GUYS I STARTED WRITING A CHRISTIAN JUKEBOX MUSICAL

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
Steve Ross	Hey There, Good Times "Hey There, Good Times" by "Steve Ross"	The Debut Album	Music Manager	1979	Music: Cy Coleman Lyrics: Michael Stewart	0:00:00 (Pop-up)

Shirley Temple	Curly Top "Curly Top" by "Shirley Temple"	Little Miss Shirley Temple	Pickwick	1957	Music: Ray Henderson Lyrics: Ted Koehler	0:12:52 (Pop-up)
Gene Kelly & Oscar Levant	Tra-La-La	An American in Paris (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)	Turner Classic Movies	1996	Music: George Gershwin Lyrics: Ira Gershwin	0:14:42 (Pop-up)
Marguerita Padula	Dancing the Devil Away	The Cuckoos	No Label	1930	Music: Harry Ruby Lyrics: Otto Harbach & Bert Kalmar	0:16:33 (Pop-up)
Fred Astaire & Bing Crosby	A Couple of Song and Dance Men	Blue Skies	No Label	1946	Music & Lyrics: Irving Berlin	0:19:07 (Pop-up)
Fred Astaire	Let's Call the Whole Thing Off	Let's Call the Whole Thing Off/Shall We Dance	Brunswick	1937	Music: George Gershwin Lyrics: Ira Gershwin	0:23:09 (Pop-up)
Ella Fitzgerald	You're the Top "You're the Top" by "Ella Fitzgerald"	Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook	Verve Records	1956	Music & Lyrics: Cole Porter	0:25:09 (Pop-up)

Pat Boone	April Love "April Love" by "Pat Boone"	April Love	Dot	1957	Music: Sammy Fain Lyrics: Paul Francis Webster	0:36:25 (Pop-up)
Bob Hope & the Clark Sisters	Buttons and Bows	Buttons and Bows/That's Not the Not	Capitol Records	1948	Music: Jay Livingston Lyrics: Ray Evans	0:39:09 (Pop-up)
Ray Price & the Port Jackson Jazz Band	Alexander's Ragtime Band	Pixieland Party	Pix	1961	Music & Lyrics: Irving Berlin	0:41:47 (Pop-up)
Emile Ford & The Checkmates	I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now	I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now	Piccadilly	1962	Music: Harold Orlob Lyrics: Will M. Hough & Frank R. Adams	0:44:02 (Pop-up)
Anita O'Day	To Keep My Love Alive	Anita O'Day and Billy May Swing Rodgers and Hart	The Verve Music Group	1959	Music: Richard Rodgers Lyrics: Lorenz Hart	0:46:06 (Pop-up)

Neil Byrne & Celtic Thunder	When You Wish Upon a Star	It's Entertainment!	Decca Records	2010	Music: Leigh Harline Lyrics: Ned Washington	0:54:38 (Pop-up)
Sakura Fujiwara	Summertime "Summertime" by "Sakura Fujiwara"	Soup	Victor Entertainment	2016	Music: George Gershwin Lyrics: DuBose Heyward & Ira Gershwin	0:56:49 (Pop-up)
Ry Cooder	Crossroads "Crossroads" by "Ry Cooder"	Crossroads	Warner Bros. Records	1986	Music & Lyrics: Robert Johnson	0:58:50 (Pop-up)
Nahid Akhtar	I Am Disco One "I Am Disco One" by "Nahid Akhtar"	Naseeb/Biwiyan Hae Biwiyan	EMI (Pakistan)	2013	Music & Lyrics: Unknown	1:02:13 (Pop-up)
Kalpana	Fans Gayil Dhas Gayil Ras Gayil Ho	Jab Pyar Kiya Toh Darna Kya (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)	Worldwide Records	2015	Music & Lyrics: Unknown	1:08:39 (Pop-up)

Eliane Elias	That Old Feeling "That Old Feeling" by "Eliane Elias"	I Thought About You (A Tribute to Chet Baker)	Concord Jazz	2013	Music: Sammy Fain Lyrics: Lew Brown	1:19:21 (Pop-up)
Pete Johnson	Honeysuckle Rose "Honeysuckle Rose" by "Pete Johnson"	St. Louis Parties of July 20 & August 1, 1954	Document	1999	Music: Fats Waller	1:21:43 (Pop-up)
Charlie Parker and His Orchestra	Why Do I Love You - Alternate Take 6	Fiesta: The Genius of Charlie Parker #6	Verve	1957	Music: Jerome Kern	1:24:19 (Pop-up)
Brian Stokes Mitchell & Ragtime Ensemble	Gettin' Ready Rag	Ragtime: The Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording)	BMG Entertainment	1998	Music: Stephen Flaherty Lyrics: Lynn Ahrens	1:26:29 (Pop-up)
Brian Stokes Mitchell, Larry Daggett & Ragtime Ensemble	Henry Ford	Ragtime: The Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording)	BMG Entertainment	1998	Music: Stephen Flaherty Lyrics: Lynn Ahrens	1:27:23 (Pop-up)

Brian Anderson, Caroline Worra & Glimmerglass Opera Orchestra	Good Morning, My Doves	Bennett: The Mines of Sulphur	Chandos	2005	Music: Richard Rodney Bennett Lyrics: Beverley Cross	1:34:47 (Pop-up)
Harry Partch	Chorus Four "Chorus Four" by "Harry Partch"	Revelation in the Courthouse Park	Tomato	1989	Music & Lyrics: Harry Partch	1:36:47 (Pop-up)
Patricia Hammond & Ragtime Parlour	Honeysuckle and the Bee	Live in Notting Hill	No Label	2012	Music: Walter Slaughter Lyrics: Aubrey Hopwood & Charles H. Taylor	1:43:00 (Pop-up)
George Wilton Ballard & Frederick Wheeler	Waltz of the Season	Waltz of the Season	Edison Blue Amberol	1915	Music: Sigmund Romberg & Edmund Eysler Lyrics: Herbert Reynolds	1:46:07 (Pop-up)
Hope Holiday	Teenie Weenie Genie "Teenie Weenie Genie" by "Hope Holiday"	Arabian Nights (Original Cast Recording)	Sepia Records	2008	Music & Lyrics: Carmen Lombardo & John Jacob Loeb	1:51:38 (Pop-up)
Rebecca Luker & Greg MacKellan	Slightly Perfect	Keep Your Undershirt On	Rialto	1990	Music: Harry Revel Lyrics: Arnold B. Horwitt	1:53:50 (Pop-up)
Jacques Renard & Frank Munn	Cuban Love Song	Cuban Love Song	Brunswick	1931	Music & Lyrics: Herbert Stothart, Jimmy McHugh & Dorothy Fields	1:56:54 (Pop-up)

Liberace	I'll Be Seeing You "I'll Be Seeing You" by "Liberace"	I'll Be Seeing You	Ember Records	1972	Music: Sammy Fain Lyrics: Irving Kahal	2:04:06 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🎭 6:59pm WR: eye roll, now what...
	7:02pm Bronwyn Bishop: lol what are you rolling your eyes at?
	7:04pm Webhamster Henry: Hey There Acid Jazz Time!
	7:06pm doctorjazz: Hey, all!
	🎭 7:08pm WR: woo hoo for the DDR co-host. I will probably be able to listen.
	🎭 7:09pm WR: greatly enjoyed your hoof and mouth song last year, look forward to what you do this year.
	🎭 7:12pm WR: ↳ Bronwyn Bishop @7:02 Christian JukeBox Musical. If you are not joking, then you need to explain because that is fairly vague concept, maybe you know what you mean but I can imagine many interpretations on what it would actually consist of.
	7:14pm Webhamster Henry: American In Paris is kind of fun!
	🎭 7:19pm Listener Gregory: Sorry I'm late. I was helping the disadvantaged cross the street. OK, I was drinking beer!!! Sue me!
	🎭 7:24pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "A Couple of Song and Dance Men" by "Fred Astaire ... These imitations are uncanny!
	7:26pm Bronwyn Bishop: hi everyone!!!
	7:26pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ WR @7:12 I will be using various kinds of cool/interesting/weird/funny Christian music to tell a sordid Texas true crime tale involving a so-called good Christian man!
	7:28pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Bronwyn Bishop @7:26 Christians are always good for a laugh!
	7:28pm doctorjazz: Cool set (listening while cooking). Ella and Louis Armstrong do a GREAT Let's Call the Whoe Thing Off, BTW!
	7:29pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ Webhamster Henry @7:28 I hope to laugh both at and with Christians with this show
	7:29pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ doctorjazz @7:28 ooo sounds great!
	7:32pm doctorjazz: My Younger Daughter, Hebrew School from young grades (which she hated), had/has a thing for the Christian Rock Band Skillet, loves them (I've seen them twice with her, they're a pretty good band, if you're into the message). Christian Rock is quite a big selling genre!
	🎭 7:36pm Listener Gregory: "Being nominated is pretty good, especially if you're in a horse story starring Pat Boone." Words to live by, really.
	7:41pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Buttons and Bows" by "Bob Hope & the Clark Sisters" Wouldn't have guessed Bob Hope could sing, never saw him seriously sing on his TV comedy shows, entertainment for the US Servicemen, etc
	🎭 7:45pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now" by "Emile Ford & ... Low-rent bachelor pad music.
	🎭 8:00pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "Crossroads" by "Ry Cooder" If I'd made a deal with the devil, I would have made it to the show on time.
	8:01pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Crossroads" by "Ry Cooder" Love Ry Cooder! (I guess Ahmad Jamal is taking musical credit for changing Robert Johnson's original, which was just guitar and voice).
	🎭 8:01pm Listener Gregory: Ms. BB, I don't believe that Ahmad Jamal wrote any of Crossroads, which was probably recorded before he was born. He is a very good jazz musician, though.
	8:01pm doctorjazz: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:01 I was wondering as well, maybe not the same Ahmad Jamal...
	8:02pm doctorjazz: There's Cooder, sliding his gutrat...
	🎭 8:05pm Listener Gregory: Weird. Wikipedia gives Jamal credit on the song, but he doesn't seem to be listed on Discogs... He also isn't listed as having anything to do with the film. I think this is a stray Internet fart.
	8:07pm doctorjazz: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:05 The Jazz Jamal likely had nothing to do with the show...
	8:09pm Bronwyn Bishop: Wow weird...yes I did take that credit from Wikipedia and thought it was weird but figured maybe Jamal did a rewrite for the film for whatever reason. Fixed...
	8:10pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "I Am Disco One" by "Nahid Akhtar" Disco returns...
	8:10pm doctorjazz: The album says music by Ry Cooder, that makes more sense (he did some movie soundtrack's, would've been in his ballpark).
	8:10pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ Webhamster Henry @8:10 DISCO LIVES!
	8:10pm Bronwyn Bishop: The dream of 1979 is alive on Acid Jazz Hands
	8:11pm doctorjazz: Subcontinental Disco!
	8:11pm Webhamster Henry: Diggin this Christian music.
	8:14pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Fans Gayil Dhas Gayil Ras Gayil Ho" by "Kalpana" That was cool
	🎭 8:14pm WR: Ahmad Jamal is not credited for the Crossroads song either on discogs or on Wikipedia film entry which has detailed listing of the music soundtrack but as you note, he is listed on the Wikipedia entry for the sound track album. Now wondering if I have the energy to go through protocol to get it corrected. Semi related aside, either didn't know or didn't remember that Steve Vai played one of the guitar parts in duel at the Crossroads scene.
	8:16pm doctorjazz: ↳ WR @8:14 Didn't remember that either (think I saw that movie ages ago, but don't remember any of it.)
	8:17pm doctorjazz: ↳ doctorjazz @8:16 Probably worth checkingout the guitar duel...
	🎭 8:20pm Listener Gregory: ↳ WR @8:14 What idiot would try to replace Ry Cooder? (Rhetorical question; we actually know the idiot in q.).
	🎭 8:21pm Listener Gregory: Speaking of Crossroads, I tried to sell my soul to the devil once, but when I crunched the numbers, I still couldn't afford an apartment in Manhattan. So it fell apart.
	🎭 8:22pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "That Old Feeling" by "Eliane Elias" This is much, much faster than the usual performance of this song.
	8:25pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Why Do I Love You - Alternate Take 6" by "Charlie... BIRD!!!!
	8:32pm Listener Gregory: I remember the novel Ragtime as very good. Doctorow is a great novelist. The musical frightened me with its enormous sets.
	🎭 8:33pm WR: ↳ Song: "Gettin' Ready Rag" by "Brian Stokes Mitchell & Ra... I was a volunteer usher at a benefit performance of Ragtime in 98. I was disappointed that I hardly got to see any of the show.
	8:38pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "Chorus Four" by "Harry Partch" I remember when this was produced - but I didn't go for some reason.
	8:41pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:32 The enormous sets also frightened Ben Brantley
	🎭 8:41pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "Chorus Four" by "Harry Partch" Tomato had more good and prescient classical music than any other label of its time, and therefore became defunct. They put out the original Einstein on the Beach.
	🎭 8:42pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Bronwyn Bishop @8:41 Musical theater needs more shows for the very timid. People can just stand on the stage—but not too close to the edge!—and sing in a moderate volume.
	8:43pm Dean: A review from the Los Angeles Times, June 25, 1987, by Don Heckman of an appearance by Jamal at Catalina Bar & Grill (what a venue!): "A Jamal original, "Crossroads," started in 6 / 8 and built up layers of complex overlapping meters-in Jamal's two-handed rhythms as well as in the passionate conga drum playing of Iraj Lashkary. And guest drummer Steve Smith, pushed to his creative boundaries by Jamal's gentle, but insistent urging, delivered playing that far exceeded anything he ever did with Journey."
	8:44pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "Honeysuckle and the Bee" by "Patricia Hammond & R... nice segue!
	8:52pm doctorjazz: ↳ Dean @8:43 There's an Ahmad Jamal in Journey???
	🎭 8:57pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Dean @8:43 Good catch, Dean! So, the attribution to Jamal in the Wikipedia soundtrack listing is probably just a coincidence of the titles of two different songs being the same. As Johnson's Crossroads was recorded in 1936 and Jamal born in 1930, he likely didn't help write the song. Nor would he be a candidate for helping on a musical about the country blues.
	8:57pm doctorjazz: ↳ Dean @8:43 Gets more and more confusing...
	🎭 8:57pm Listener Gregory: ↳ doctorjazz @8:52 Don't you remember his version of "Don't Stop Believing" in Live at the Pershing??
	8:58pm doctorjazz: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:57 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
	🎭 8:59pm WR: ↳ Dean @8:43 the guest drummer Steve Smith is credited as having been in Journey. So, according to that review there is a different composition named Crossroads, but have yet to find that Jamal recorded it.
	8:59pm Dean: I'm not in any position to evaluate this, but is it possible that Jamal adapted the Johnson recordings in a way that legitimates his credit, and then Cooder worked with both works?
	🎭 8:59pm Listener Gregory: Great show, Bronwyn. It almost makes me wish I hadn't spent the first 17 minutes drinking beer!
	9:00pm doctorjazz: Jamal clearly didn't write Crossroads, settled. Thanks Bronwyn, fun show. Great weekend, all (maybe go to WKCR, listen to the Wayn Shorter tribute, or maybe the other streams, or maybe something I have here, decisions, decisions). Great Weekend All!!!
	🎭 9:01pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Dean @8:59 It's possible, but there's nothing in Jamal's career to make a producer think of him as the adapter of the song, unlike Cooder, who is perfect for the job.
	9:01pm Dean: I'm not suggesting Jamal wrote that "Crossroads," but he might have written another way based on Johnson's.
	🎭 9:02pm WR: Did find a Jamal recording with Crossroads. I'm sure that it is a different composition but will report back once have definite details. www.discogs.com...
	9:02pm Webhamster Henry: Pope Lee!
	9:03pm Dean: The movie Crossroads appeared in 1986. We have a recording of Jamal doing a "Crossroads" in 1987. Yes, exactly, WR. That's what we need!
	🎭 9:03pm Listener Gregory: Since no one has asked, and it's not at all relevant, please allow me to announce that I have heard the new Ahmad Jamal historical release Emerald City Nights (from 1963-4), and it is tremendous. Anyone who knows and likes the early Jamal will find this a wonderful surprise. A bit more percussive and active than his reputation would suggest. Live sound is superb. IMHO
	9:04pm doctorjazz: ↳ Listener Gregory @9:03 On Bandcamp, by any chance?
	🎭 9:05pm Listener Gregory: ↳ doctorjazz @9:04 Not sure. It's on the Jazz Detective label, which specializes in historical releases. You probably have some of their records.
	🎭 9:06pm WR: Thank you! Bronwyn! Wish you safe and warm travel home tonight.
	🎭 9:06pm Listener Gregory: ↳ doctorjazz @9:04 Voila! elementalmusicrecords.bandcamp.com...

Acid Jazz Hands with Bronwyn Bishop: Playlist from March 3, 2023

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