WFMU RADIO: Give The Drummer Some 01/31/14

Listener comments!

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8:50am Brian in UK:

So what are we waiting for? Let's get rotavating.

8:51am Doug Schulkind:

I just put on some nice funky gulingtangan music to ease us into the proceedings.

8:52am glenn:

i figured you were still out getting your hezza happy meal.

8:55am Doug Schulkind:

Good morning Mayor Glenn!

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8:58am listener james from westwood:

good friday, all!! i'm in for a spin!

8:59am ndbob:

morning Doug and everyone!

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8:59am Brian in UK:

Hello glenn. Are they sending your mayor to Siberia to try that twelve steppe programme? He could join Boris there.

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9:00am duke:

Good morning drummer and drummer folks. Looking forward to mire Yusef

9:01am Doug Schulkind:

Hello Listener James, ndbob & duke!

9:02am Uncle Michael:

Good morning!

9:03am Doug Schulkind:

Uncle! Michael!

9:04am Uncle Michael:

I'm here thawing out the Shabbat pork for the Shabbat cochinita pibil.

9:04am glenn:

personally, i think my mayor's a drooling psychopath.

9:05am glenn:

adult cat finder. adultcatfinder.com

9:09am SeanG:

Hello Folks!,---grimes's tumblr has that adult cat finder in the corner

9:10am Doug Schulkind:

Hiya SeanG!

9:17am Doug Schulkind:

Coming up next is ANOTHER symphonic piece by Yusef. Recorded 24 years earlier with THE SAME orchestra, the Kölner Radiofunkorchester (Cologne Radio Orchestra).

9:19am Jeff Golick:

RADIOFUNK!

9:19am Doug Schulkind:

Funk time, in Germany!

9:20am Doug Schulkind:

That whistle sound always makes me think of Captain Von Trapp in the Sound of Music.

9:28am paula pc:

Program FIVE? Hooray and keep 'em coming Doug!!!!

9:29am Doug Schulkind:

Hooray to you, paula pc! You can bet I will be doing a Yusef birthday show on or around 9 October.

9:30am Gary:

Buried at work, but tuned in

9:32am Doug Schulkind:

Gary, if you are really buried, you need to spit to see which way is "down," then dig "up" in the opposite direction! We'll send the dogs!

9:32am Doug Schulkind:

The "University of the Piano," the great Barry Harris at the keys here.

9:37am Gary:

If I spit again, it will remain on my permanent record, I'm afraid.

9:38am Doug Schulkind:

If your permanent record is below you, then dig UP, man!

9:38am Gary:

Good advice. :)

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9:39am Artie:

If you're buried in a underwater cave, just follow the bubbles.

9:40am Uncle Michael:

I'm going crate digging for permanent records.

9:41am Doug Schulkind:

Good point, Artie!

9:42am Jeff Golick:

Great post on the African-American Epic Suite here: neverenoughrhodes.blogspot.com... -- including a few pages of YL's scores.

9:47am Gary:

Cool, thanks for that, Jeff!

9:47am earrie:

Maybe YL themed shows could occasionally flower on your show beyond the single annualar bday? And/or in sets?

9:48am Uncle Michael:

Words evolve. "Jazz" hasn't connoted the male seed for many generations. I get it...but I'm not going to worry too much about it.

9:48am earrie:

Er, 'annular'.

9:48am Doug Schulkind:

It's a deal, earrie!

9:48am Webhamster Henry:

Thanks for the Lateef - no reason not to go back to this material from time to time. Of course, there are many , many others deserving of attention and airplay, which is the whole point of GTDS.

9:51am Doug Schulkind:

Howdy Webham Hen!

More Yusef on oboe. Maybe his greatest oboe performance ever on record.

9:53am Doug Schulkind:

The truth is, aside from annual specials and such, I still have played more Yusef that any other artist in my 30+ years on the air. That won't stop now.

9:55am still b/p:

Hiya.
I really liked the Lazy Afternoon this morning. I'm an oboe liker, too, right now.

9:56am Doug Schulkind:

Coming up soon in this set, Yusef performing my all-time favorite song, "Lover Man." Also, a tiny snippet from the soundtrack to the 1963 film "The Cool World." The music is by Mal Waldron and the band performing it includes Yusef Lateef with Dizzy Gillespie.

9:57am glenn:

sweet, sweet oboe likker.

9:57am Doug Schulkind:

Greetings still b/p! Glad you dig the oboe. So hard to keep in tune on improvisations like this.

9:58am Doug Schulkind:

@earrrie
I like annualar more better.

9:59am Doug Schulkind:

Yusef on tenor here behind Bill H. More tenor coming next on "Lover Man." Much tenor.

10:00am Jeff Golick:

This Moanin' was probably cut pretty close to the original Timmons version?

10:02am Doug Schulkind:

@Jeff Golick
Maybe a year later? Did Timmons debut it with Blakey in '58?

10:02am earrie:

And perennials, too.

10:03am Doug Schulkind:

Next up is just a short section I recorded from the Shirley Clarke's amazing 1963 film, The Cool World. Just a taste.

10:04am Doug Schulkind:

ONE SIGN THAT SPRING IS COMING:
Just received a call from the Pittsburgh Pirates sales office offering season ticket packages.

10:05am Doug Schulkind:

With Yusef here:
Wilbur Harden ~ trumpet
Hugh Lawson ~ piano
Ernie Farrow* ~ bass
Oliver Jackson ~ drums

*Half-brother of Alice Coltrane

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10:06am listener james from westwood:

i don't even have words for how amazing that first hour was.

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10:07am Artie:

Bravo!

10:07am Webhamster Henry:

You could really have a Give The Orchestra Some podcast. If you had any time at all!

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10:09am listener james from westwood:

RIP also to pittsburgh police dog rocco, killed in the line of duty: www.post-gazette.com...

10:10am Doug Schulkind:

@Listener James from Westwood
Flags are flying at half-staff today in Pittsburgh for Rocco. I just told my dog all about it before beginning the show. She looked sad.

10:13am Doug Schulkind:

Yusef back on tenor sax here in Slide Hampton's crew. Such a warm, loving tone. Always in "blues" mode. Waves of love washing over you is how Yusef's tenor sax sound feels to me. Toward the end of the show today I will play my all-time favorite bravura performance on tenor. From a live session. Get ready to rock.

10:13am holland oats:

mornin' drumma & peoples - respect yusef!

10:14am Doug Schulkind:

Hey-O, H.O.!

10:15am Doug Schulkind:

The next set is going to CHURCH.

10:16am Uncle Michael:

These shows have all been just lovely, Doug.

10:20am still b/p:

Wait, I'll get a good hat for church. Like Pharrell's at the Grammys.

10:21am Jeff Golick:

Those Best of collections had the most un-enticing covers. Doug: you could see beyond the wrapper!

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10:22am listener james from westwood:

a lighter link from the same source as the rocco story: apparently there are some good options for chinese food in the squirrel hill district of pittsburgh: www.post-gazette.com...

10:23am Doug Schulkind:

Yusef welcomes the Mt. Nebo Baptist Church Choir on this track.

10:25am Doug Schulkind:

@Listener James
Don't believe the hype about the Asian food in Pittsburgh. We live in Squirrel Hill (which, aside from being the city's Jewish neighborhood, has tons of Asain restaurants) and the food ain't all that.

10:25am Lewis:

here w/ eyes only for a while yet as this morning called for an extensive Moondog session - prompted by homesickness and a need to hear his ode to New Amsterdam on Sax Pax...

10:27am Doug Schulkind:

That's such a brilliant record, Lewis!

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10:29am listener james from westwood:

roger that. must be a tough comparison vs. the asian options in the nyc area.

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10:30am listener james from westwood:

i remember my first orders from the chinese joints around boston college. they were lacking.

10:31am Doug Schulkind:

@LJFW
EXACT-ly. Trying to compare to NYC is still, even almost four years after moving (boo-hoo!) still depressing.

10:31am Jeff Golick:

I would like a choir to follow me around chanting my name.

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10:36am listener james from westwood:

fortunately boston did have a chinatown (not sure if it's still the same size what with gentrification; it was near the combat zone iirc), plus some stellar sit-down chinese places like chef chang's house (RIP) that were above the ones that catered to students. but your local delivery options were basically desperation measures.

10:36am Doug Schulkind:

Joining Yusef here are the J.C. White singers, with Al White at the organ.

10:36am Uncle Michael:

We do, Jeff...just very quietly.

10:44am Doug Schulkind:

Yup, more Sweet Inspirations on this cut.

10:48am Uncle Michael:

Jeff, today we're softly chanting "long live Destination:Out."

10:50am Jeff Golick:

Ach, yeah. Thanks, Uncle Michael.

10:53am Doug Schulkind:

Don't let Uncle Michael read this story: www.dailykos.com...

10:56am Uncle Michael:

Welcome to my world.

10:58am Doug Schulkind:

Avery Sharpe on bass, Kamal Sabir on drums with YL here.

11:00am still b/p:

Still a distinct Chinatown in Boston with plenty of restaurants. That don' t mean I et anything in 'em...just that they're there. Last full Chinatown meal I had was probably at Bob Lee's Islander, with its classically cheesy thatched booths and gaudy little pools, in the early 70s. My intro to Chinese food. My friends and I were in a "hungry" state - know wh' I'm sayin? -- and a Pu-pu platter was a revelation.

11:01am Doug Schulkind:

My mother just emailed me. She's pissed that I'm not doing a Pete Seeger special.

11:01am Zhz:

I was in Detroit the other month, partly to buy some records. Found 4 or 5 from Yusef, but for the life of me, could not find this one.

11:01am Jeff Golick:

WTF is up in Kansas...this time.

11:07am Artie:

We did pretty well at the downtown Nicky's Thai Kitchen just a few weeks ago. (in Pitt for extended family Xmas gathering).

11:07am Doug Schulkind:

@Zhz
Which one?

11:10am Doug Schulkind:

Richard Williams ~ trumpet
Hugh Lawson ~ piano
Ernie Farrow ~ bass
Lex Humphries ~ drums

with Yusef

11:15am Lewis:

the moondog -> yusef segue has been implemented smoothly...

11:15am Doug Schulkind:

@Artie
Nicky's Thai Kitchen is pretty good. Not, unfortunately, in my neighb.

11:15am Doug Schulkind:

Yusef would approve, Lewis.

11:20am Doug Schulkind:

The opening audio of the next set is

Not. To. Be. Missed.

11:30am Doug Schulkind:

Yusef, speaking there deflecting the comment about himself to interpret the man's words as an example of the love inherent in his Ahmadiyya Muslim faith.

11:32am Doug Schulkind:

Yusef is in duet here with his long-time collaborator, percussionist Adam Rudolph (who I would have given three arms to have been).

11:36am Doug Schulkind:

This is six months before Yusef's 93rd birthday; 8 months before his passing.

11:40am Doug Schulkind:

If Yusef Lateef had a "signature" number, it was "Yusef's Mood," a showpiece for the great molten engine of love behind all his music: his tenor saxophone and the blues.

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11:41am Dead Mime Walking:

Got to sit all of about two feet from Adam Rudolph at the Stone a few months ago...he was a very high vibrating fellow. No wonder Yusef collaborated with him so much.

11:43am Doug Schulkind:

@Dead Mime Walking
I've never met Rudolph, but he want to high school with my wife.

11:44am Doug Schulkind:

On Yusef's Mood:

Kenny Barron ~ piano
Bob Cunningham ~ bass
Albert "Tootie" "Kuumba' Heath ~ drums

and Yusef Lateef ~ tenor saxophone

11:47am Doug Schulkind:

Brother Yusef...speaks

11:48am Uncle Michael:

I hope many of you have made plans to join me in the next room. www.wfmu.org...

11:49am ndbob:

excellent show Doug!

11:49am Doug Schulkind:

Ooh, glad you remembered, Uncle Michael. I am in "a (forgetting) zone."

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11:50am Dead Mime Walking:

@doug
Cool! He was truly one of the most sensitive musicians I've ever seen perform live.

11:50am Uncle Michael:

You're flying Trans-Yusef Airways.

11:51am Doug Schulkind:

@Dead Mime Walking
I think being Yusef Lateef's steady musical companion for 25 years will do that to you.

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11:53am Brian in UK:

REE-LENT-LESS

11:55am Doug Schulkind:

His solo presents the entire history of the saxophone in the space of about 10 minutes.

11:55am northguineahills:

Thanks for the Yusef, Doug!

11:56am Uncle Michael:

Thanks for a great January of Fridays, Doug.

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11:56am duke:

wonderful show Doug

11:57am Doug Schulkind:

It has been my pleasure, northguineahills.

11:58am Doug Schulkind:

Wonderful subject, indeed, duke.

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11:58am listener james from westwood:

fitting cut to cap this wonderful celebration. thanks, doug. yusef has a friend in you.

11:59am Hugo:

Lovely show (as were the previous four)!

11:59am Jeff Golick:

***bowing in your general direction***

12:00pm earrie:

Wonderful! Doug!
Thanks so much for this.
Yusef Lateef was giant.

12:00pm jk:

Excellent month Doug,thanks for all the Yusef

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12:02pm duke:

Thanks for the whole month of shows. I always like Yusef's music, but now I have a whole new respect for him as an artist and a human.

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12:02pm Artie:

Loverly!

12:04pm Doug Schulkind:

Thank you thank you thank you everyone. Thank you for indulging me.

4:36pm Holly in NC:

Looking forward to listening this evening, Doug. Thank you, as always.

4:54pm Doug Schulkind:

Listen in good health, Holly in NC!

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)

Yusef Lateef	Fourth Movement: Freedom	The African-American Epic Suite (Act 1994)
Yusef Lateef	Symphonic Blues Suite: First Movement - Folia Second Movement - Minuet (Hybrid, Atonal) Third Movement - Blues (Twelve Measure Form) & Variational Interlude Fourth Movement - Passacaglia Fifth Movement - Chorale & Sixth Movement - Blues (Extended Form) Seventh Movement - Coda	Suite 16 (Atlantic 1970)

Ernestine Anderson	Lazy Afternoon	My Kinda Swing (Mercury 1960)
Yusef Lateef	In the Evening	The Complete Yusef Lateef (Atlantic 1967)
Bill Henderson	Moanin'	Bill Henderson Sings (Vee Jay 1959)
Yusef Lateef	Lover Man	Prayer to the East (Savoy 1957)
Yusef Lateef, Dizzy Gillespie, et al.	Excerpt	The Cool World (n/a 1963)
Slide Hampton	Drum Suite (Parts I-V)	Drum Suite (Epic 1962)

Yusef Lateef	Vision 7	Heart Vision (YAL 1992)
Yusef Lateef	A Long TIme Ago	The Diverse Yusef Lateef (Atlantic 1969)
Yusef Lateef	His Eye Is on the Sparrow	Hush 'n' Thunder (Atlantic 1972)

Yusef Lateef	The Snow Is Green	Cry! - Tender (New Jazz 1959)
Yusef Lateef	Back Home	The Blue Yusef Lateef (Atlantic 1968)
Yusef Lateef	Metamorphosis	Metamorphosis ∞ (YAL 1993)
Yusef Lateef	Bishop School	Yusef Lateef's Detroit (Atlantic 1969)

	January 31, 2014 To Bro. Yusef A. Lateef, in peace: Program Five
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Yusef Lateef	Sounds of Nature	Jazz and the Sounds of Nature (Savoy 1957)
Yusef Lateef	Utopia	Jazz 'Round the World (Impulse! 1963)
Yusef Lateef	Ringo Oiwake	Jazz 'Round the World (Impulse! 1963)
Yusef Lateef	India	Jazz 'Round the World (Impulse! 1963)

Yusef Lateef	If I could take my heart out and show it to you, you would know how much I love you
Yusef Lateef	Encore	Live at Roulette (April 6 2013)
Yusef Lateef	Yusef's Mood	10 Years Hence (Atlantic 1974)
Yusef Lateef	Interior Monologue	Roots Run Deep (Rogue Art 2004)

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