WFMU RADIO: Give The Drummer Some 01/10/14

Listener comments!

Again I offer this invitation for you to enjoy three hours of the music/ian I love the most. (Sorry, but I couldn't pay to have it engraved.)

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8:56am duke:

Yay more Yusef. I really appreciate hearing Yusef in depth. One of my favorite things about WFMU and GTDS is this sort of attention to an artist.

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8:57am listener james from westwood:

morning, doug and all! cleaning day today, so mostly away from keys. yusef will be most welcome.

8:58am Doug Schulkind:

@duke
The great thing about having complete editorial control is having complete editorial control!

8:59am Doug Schulkind:

@LJFW
A free Swifter® with every broadcast!

9:00am ndbob:

morning Doug and everyone!

9:01am Doug Schulkind:

Hi ndbob!

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9:05am listener james from westwood:

good. i'll need the whole battalion of supplies. of course, in 36 hr the place is gonna be overrun by preschoolers, so i'm basically dusting doilies ahead of an entropy stampede.

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9:05am Brian in UK:

Hello, Doug, Doug, duke, Doug, james, ndbob & Doug. Anything special planned?

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9:07am Brian in UK:

@james I cannot imagine 'dusting doiles' ever turning up in a Richard Brautigan novel.

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9:07am duke:

entropy stampede - I'm going to steal that phrase

9:10am Doug Schulkind:

Oi oi oi, Brian in UK!

9:14am northguineahills:

RIP Amiri Baraka

9:14am glenn:

huh. what would the chuck wagon race at the entropy stampede be like?

9:15am Uncle Michael:

Good morning fiends.

9:15am Doug Schulkind:

@NGH
No doubt I would otherwise be spending time honoring Baraka today. And the great trumpeter Roy Campbell, who just died suddenly. But today, my love for Yusef stands in for all loves combined.

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9:16am Brian in UK:

Clark 'n Yusef almost twins. Talking of which our twins girls have the same birthday as Yusef. You needed to know that.

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9:17am duke:

@glenn wpmedia.blogs.calgaryherald.com...

9:17am ndbob:

I need to go out for bit - I will be back

9:18am northguineahills:

arggghh, damnit, Roy Campbell too!!!!?

9:19am glenn:

i hate to say it, duke, but the calgary herald is one of the worst newspapers in the history of newspapers.

9:19am Doug Schulkind:

Hello man from Uncle M.I.C.H.A.E.L.

9:20am Doug Schulkind:

Has there ever been a badder-ass record title than "Boss of the Soul-Stream Trombone"?

9:21am Doug Schulkind:

Yusef has switched from tenor sax to flute in order to pet the world like a purring kitten.

9:22am lucy in brooklyn:

glad it is Friday and you can take me through a morning of hard -- I do not want to do it -- work...! loving this flutie -- happy in brooklyn.

9:23am Doug Schulkind:

The dearly departed Freddie Hubbard on trumpet here. (Donald Byrd is up next.)

Hello happy Lucy!

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9:23am listener james from westwood:

glenn, if the kids do the chuck wagon thing, they're gonna run thru my cabinets, under my sink, and encounter my household toxins.

9:26am Doug Schulkind:

That composer credit mistake will be cleared up at song's end...

9:43am Doug Schulkind:

The bass player here, Ernie Farrow (Alice Coltrane's half-brother) is playing an Egyptian one-stringed instrument called a rebat (rebob). Yusef made it for him to play.

9:46am Doug Schulkind:

Cissy Houston and the Sweet Inspirations in the background here.

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9:47am duke:

Juba Juba - my favorite Yusef song off teh first jazz album I ever bought

9:48am Doug Schulkind:

@duke
You ain't kidding. This was the first Yusef record I ever bought, too. My first love. So wild and soulful.

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9:50am duke:

Buddy Lucas on harmonica?

9:50am Doug Schulkind:

This song is dedicated to/inspired by early minstrel performer William Henry Lane.

9:51am Doug Schulkind:

More about William Henry "Juba" Lane: en.wikipedia.org...

9:53am Doug Schulkind:

@duke
Yes! Buddy Lucas.

9:56am northguineahills:

Juba, South Sudan?

9:58am Doug Schulkind:

The city name Juba may have been related to William Henry Lane's nickname. (It is not a stretch to imagine that black performers in the 1840s would be "given" nicknames with African references.)

10:00am Doug Schulkind:

I am just guessing here that this is Douglas Ewart doing the circular breathing. Yusef was 85 when this was recorded. Could his lungs have handled this?!?

10:03am Doug Schulkind:

Definitely Yusef on flute here.

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10:14am duke:

@doug I also bought it as a cutout, great bargain

10:15am northguineahills:

ahh, Master Juba was covered in Nick Tosches' "Where the Dead Voices Gather".

10:18am Doug Schulkind:

The audience participation on this live record (10 Years Hence) makes it even more of a treasure. It puts you thrillingly in the time and place of the performance, which all great live recordings do. This must have been one hell of a time and place to be.

10:26am northguineahills:

This is a happy lively tune.

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10:29am βrian:

Socked in skies over the isthmus today. Halleluja, the face-spanking cold has passed. Good day, all.

10:29am Doug Schulkind:

Things will take a fascinating turn with this tune. Massively funky. Buckle up people.

Howdy βrian!

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10:31am βrian:

Strapped into my bridge chair...

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10:31am listener james from westwood:

i don't want to star "samba de amor," i want to fucking supernova it. wow.

10:32am Doug Schulkind:

βeam you up!

10:36am Doug Schulkind:

Yusef paired with a gospel chorus is next. Please don't bump your heads when you jump up.

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10:37am βrian:

When *I* star, it's always intransitive. [*sniff*]

10:38am Andrew Waterloo:

I have plenty of ceiling today, won't be hitting my head.

10:40am Uncle Michael:

It's during the potluck in the church basement you gotta watch your head.

10:40am Doug Schulkind:

Make sure you get FAA clearance, then, Andrew W!

10:45am Andrew Waterloo:

@doug, oh yea been there

10:45am northguineahills:

wait, this is '57?!

10:45am ndbob:

and I'm back

10:45am Uncle Michael:

Balloonacy!

10:46am Doug Schulkind:

Spoken like a true man of god, Uncle Michael.

10:47am earrie:

That was beautious.

10:48am Doug Schulkind:

@NGH
Ayup!

@ndbob
It's like you never left.

@earrie
Always happy when you are here!

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10:52am βrian:

Dis Yusef have an experimental polka period?

10:53am earrie:

(Er, 'beauteous'.)

And happy to be here and hearing and and.

10:56am Doug Schulkind:

@βrian
Isn't all polka experimental?!

11:01am Doug Schulkind:

Q: Doug, in 30+ years on the radio, have you ever played Don McLean before?

A: Uh, no. No I haven't.

11:01am Uncle Michael:

I'm glad to know that Don isn't persona non grata across all of WFMU.

11:03am Andrew Waterloo:

I can't imagine anyone being persona non grata on WFMU

11:04am Doug Schulkind:

Exactly, Andrew Waterloo. As soon as someone is "off limits," it only makes me wanna play it more.

Next, set, folks: ALL GRATEFUL DEAD!

11:05am Uncle Michael:

I hate to be a tease (no, actually I don't)...Mr. McLean factors into my upcoming Marathon DJ premium.

11:05am Jaro:

Thanks Doug! This is all so great. I come to you via that Fiveash fella.

11:06am Uncle Michael:

Forman is doing Carol proud.

11:06am Doug Schulkind:

Greetings Jaro! Fiveash is the finest of the fine!

11:06am northguineahills:

I've heard plenty of the Dead on WFMU.

11:07am Uncle Michael:

Plenty implies enough! Forfend.

11:08am Carmichael:

Good morning Douglas and all the ears near the speakers.

11:09am Doug Schulkind:

Carmichael and Uncle Michael. I wonder if they're related.

Morning Carm!

11:10am Doug Schulkind:

Yusef was not performing live in concert with Ms. Phillips. He and the horn section were dubbed in later.

11:13am Carmichael:

Spiritually, perhaps. And you've never seen us in the same room at the same time.

11:15am Alex In Illinois:

Hi everyone. Hi Carmichael.
How come Michael is the only archangel that gets a car? There's no Cargabriel, Carraphael or Caruriel. I have heard of a Carariel though.

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11:15am Brian in UK:

Any further comments will be dubbed on later in the public bar. My money is on this show extending to next Dec 23rd. Good work, boss.

11:15am Doug Schulkind:

Imagine Yusef standing there alone in the booth, headphones on playing Esther back in his ears, flute in hand...

@Alex in Illinois
EXCELLENT point.

11:19am still b/p:

So when we were teenagers, a guy I knew used the number of the JT version of You've Got A Friend from the youth lounge jukebox as a shorthand check-in/inquiry regarding fondness and palhood reassurance. "G12?," he'd ask, "G12....?" Not requesting or promising the song itself -- just code for "That's the deal with us, right?" He did not toss it at me, and the period in which he did this with others was mercifully short.

11:19am northguineahills:

Gotta run for a bit. Superbly awesome, Doug, thanks!

11:20am Carmichael:

BTW, nice LP autograph, Doug! Someday I'll tell you the funny story behind my autographed Taj Mahal LP Oh So Good 'n' Bluesy.

11:24am Doug Schulkind:

Here is the story of when I got Yusef's autograph: blog.wfmu.org...

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11:24am βrian:

Richard Feyman pronounces "Arista" with the accent on the first syllable. (Referring to the honor society after which the record company was named.)
www.youtube.com...

11:25am Doug Schulkind:

Well then that's ANOTHER thing that Richard Feynman and I have in common.

11:25am Boss of the Soul-Stream Metrocard:

Hi.

11:26am Doug Schulkind:

@Metrocard
Hey dude. I hear you're being phased out!

11:28am Metrocard:

Sad but true. I work much too flawlessly now to be of much use to anyone.

11:31am Uncle Michael:

I pronounce it Nick-Lowe-style.

11:32am Uncle Michael:

From now on, we shall call you EZ Pass.

11:37am Doug Schulkind:

True story: I was back in NYC eary last year (for the WFMU marathon, I think) and I was rushing to get to the station from where I was staying in Ridgewood. Well, I went down the stairs into the subway and encountered one of those "no live MTA worker" entrances with only a set of vertical turnstyles between me and the platform. Well I slide my Metrocard once, twice, a hundred damn times and it wouldn't work. I KNEW I had cash on it, and was missing trains trying to get the damn thing to engage the contact strip correctly. Enraged, I dashed up and out and over a few blocks and down another entrance to the same station. It was then that I realized, with the help of tourist signage, that I had been sliding the fucking card with the magnetic stripe on the wrong side. Fuck fuck fuck! Though this all happened essentially in private, I will never be able to remove the stain of humiliation. (Not that it would be humiliating for anyone who doesn't know. But for me, it only served to emphasize the distance I had traveled in becoming an ex-longtime New Yorker.)

11:39am Uncle Michael:

At least you can take comfort in the knowledge that the security cameras recorded your rage.

11:43am still b/p:

That's not just a strip tease, that's a strip TASE.

11:44am Doug Schulkind:

hey-OH!

11:47am Doug Schulkind:

Max Roach is also on this Randy Weston record. Happy 90th birthday to my other greatest all-time musical hero.

11:55am ndbob:

excellent show Doug!

11:55am Uncle Michael:

Whoa! Five till!

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11:55am duke:

Thanks for a wonderful show Doug

11:55am Uncle Michael:

The next room! wfmu.org...

11:56am Alex In Illinois:

Great show. I did not catch that Lateef died. It was just a few weeks ago.

11:57am Uncle Michael:

Thanks Doug!

11:57am earrie:

Yeah, Doug. ->Jan2014 v2.

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11:59am listener james from westwood:

many thanks, doug! stay warm!

12:00pm Doug Schulkind:

Thanks for hanging out with me you wonderful hanger outers! Let's all be well hung with Uncle Michael over here: wfmu.org...

12:01pm EZ:

WOOOOOOOOOO!

12:12pm EZ:

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP!

Theme Music: Sarah Webster Fabio	Jujus: Alchemy of the Blues	Jujus: Alchemy of the Blues (Folkways 1976)
ECD	In Tempo	Major Force: The Original Art-Form (Mo' Wax 1990)

Charles Mingus	Eat That Chicken	Complete Birdland Broadcasts (n/a 1961)
Clark Terry	Blue Waltz (La Valse Bleue)	Color Changes (Candid 1960)
Curtis Fuller	Flutie	Boss of the Soul-Stream Trombone (Warwick 1960)
Donald Byrd	Yusef	Byrd Jazz (Transition 1955)
Ray Brown	Two for the Blues	With the All Star Big Band (Verve 1962)

Yusef Lateef	Mahaba	Other Sounds (New Jazz 1957)
Yusef Lateef	Juba Juba	The Blue Yusef Lateef (Atlantic 1968)
Yusef Lateef, Roscoe Mitchell, Douglas Ewart, Adam Rudolph	Sound Search	Voice Prints (Meta 2008)

Yusef Lateef	Samba De Amor	10 Years Hence (Atlantic 1976)
Yusef Lateef	This Old Building	Hush 'N' Thunder (Atlantic 1972)
Yusef Lateef	Love and Humor	The Sounds of Yusef (Prestige 1957)
Yusef Lateef	One Little Indian	1984 (Impulse! 1965)

Ernestine Anderson	Mound Bayou	My Kinda Swing (Mercury 1960)
Leon Redbone	Mississippi River Blues	Double Time (Warner Bros. 1977)
Don McLean	Winter Has Me in Its Grip	Homeless Brother (United Artists 1974)
David Forman	One Fine Day	David Forman (Arista 1976)
Donny Hathaway & Roberta Flack	You've Got a Friend	Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway (Atlantic 1971)
Esther Phillips	And I Love Him	Burnin': Live at Freddie Jett's Pied Piper, L.A. (Atlantic 1970)

	January 10, 2014 To Bro. Yusef A. Lateef, in peace Program Two
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Yusef Lateef	Introduction/Number Seven	Live in London (Harkit 1965/6)
Randy Weston	Third Movement: Bantu	Uhuru Afrika (Roulette 1961)
Yusef Lateef	Lay This Body Down	Cantata (YAL 1995)

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