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January 29, 2013 Options
No words, only a feeling... For Jeanne Lee
On what would have been her 74th birthday
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Artist Selection Album    (Label / Recording date)
Theme Music:
 James Brown  		Cold Sweat (pt. 1)   Options b/w Cold Sweat (pt. 2)
(King 1967)

Jeanne Lee & Ran Blake  Lover Man   Options The Newest Sound Around
(RCA France 1961)
Marcello Melis  Before the Lights Go On   Options Free to Dance
(Black Saint 1978)
Jeanne Lee  Free Space   Options Natural Affinities
(Owl 1992)

Talkover Music:
 Skeletons  		Mulatu   Options Smile
(Impossible Ark 2010)

Jeanne Lee & Gunter Hampel  Freedom of the Universe   Options Live at the Berliner Jazzbuehne
(May 9, 1981)
Jeanne Lee  Angel Chile   Options Conspiracy
(Earthforms 1974)

Talkover Music:
 Skeletons  		Firesticks   Options Smile
(Impossible Ark 2010)

Jeanne Lee & Mal Waldron  No More Tears   Options Soul Eyes
(RCA Victor 1997)
Marion Brown  Malipieros Midnight Theatre   Options In Sommerhausen
(Calig 1969)
Archie Shepp  There is a Balm in Gilead   Options Blasé
(BYG Actuel 1969)

Closing Theme:
 Specks Williams  		We Gave the Drummer Some   Options b/w Specks' Blues
(Jax 196?)

Listener comments!

Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 5:35pm Parq:

Reading her Wikipedia page now. Oh wow, she went to Bard, my daughter's Alma!
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 5:45pm Doug Schulkind:

It'd be funny for a minute if your daughter was named Alma.
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 5:56pm Parq:

Then my wife would be Alma's mater. Enough, you've got a show to do.
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 5:56pm ndbob:

evening Doug, Parq, everyone!
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 5:58pm Doug Schulkind:

Uma meet Alma. Oprah... Oh never mind.

Welcome welcome ndbob!
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 5:59pm listener james from westwood:

good tuesday from a rainy northern nj! chili on the boil and gtdr on the think-box!
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 5:59pm Matt from Springfield:

Revenge of the Listenerds!

Hi there Doug and Tuesday-Drummers!
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 6:00pm Doug Schulkind:

Yay, LJFW! Yay, Matt from Springfield!
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 6:01pm northguineahills:

I'm more of a listenetard...

Laundry-time, will be in and out....
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 6:01pm Matt from Springfield:

@LJFW: I can only wish I had a "synesthesia box", but this is about the closest we have to one of those!
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 6:01pm ndbob:

heya james and matt!
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 6:02pm Matt from Springfield:

Hey NDBob!

@NGH: Come now, that kind of thinking will only hoist you by your own listenetard!...
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 6:05pm northguineahills:

@Matt: groan.... ;)
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 6:05pm ndbob:

hey NGH!
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 6:05pm Parq:

Ran plays Ram. (Ran Blake was a Bard grad too, it says here.)
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 6:06pm Doug Schulkind:

@NGH
You can be any kind of listener here. Wearing a tutu even.
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 6:07pm Doug Schulkind:

Good friend of my, a saxophonist, studied with Ran Blake when he was in high school. (The friend, not Mr. Blake.) He adored him. (Mr. Blake, not my friend.)
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 6:07pm Matt from Springfield:

I can wear a fore (tutu square)! Maybe even an ate (tutu cube)!
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 6:07pm Holly in NC:

Hi Doug & everyone! This will have to be an archive listening session, just wanted to check in. Adore Ms. Lee.
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 6:08pm Matt from Springfield:

Oops, correct my math...I mean just a "tu" :)
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 6:08pm Doug Schulkind:

Hi Holly!!
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 6:08pm ndbob:

heya holly!
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 6:09pm Doug Schulkind:

Jeanne is paired up with the wonderful Sheila Jordan here on vocals.
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 6:10pm Matt from Springfield:

Thanks for enlightening me on Jeanne Lee. Such a great singer.
From her Wiki page it seems she was a particularly arty jazz musician.
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 6:10pm Matt from Springfield:

See you as you circle back through time, Holly!
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 6:11pm Parq:

Re NGH's laundry activities:

tinyurl.com...
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 6:11pm Doug Schulkind:

@Matt from Springfield
I think you are absolutely spot on calling her a musician. The term "singer" doesn't cover the half of it.
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 6:12pm Holly in NC:

Love Sheila J, also, and have never heard this lp, excellent!
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 6:12pm listener james from westwood:

@matt, at least one of my twitter follows is synesthetic. makes for some uniquely inspired tweets.
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 6:14pm Matt from Springfield:

@LJFW: Too bad we can't experience those tweets the same way! Or CAN we....
**cue diabolical planning**
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 6:17pm Matt from Springfield:

@Doug: Great voice for sure, but having a skilled hand at crafting the music portion (even if you don't play any instrument) will send you into the realm of "musician" instead of just "vocalist".
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 6:17pm Doug Schulkind:

Yup.
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 6:25pm Holly in NC:

Oddly, Doug, I was just listening to a bunch of Jeanne's work w her husband Gunter Hampel.
Actually not so oddly, the Sinners & Saints blog recently posted "The 8th of July"
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 6:27pm Doug Schulkind:

I saw that, Holly. Almost grabbed it even though I already have it. Do you ever have that impulse, to download a record (or even to buy a copy) of something you already own, just because IT'S SO GOOD. I almost feel like I want to honor the art/artists by getting it again.
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 6:27pm Matt from Springfield:

"VIBRAPHONIST and composer Gunter Hampel, whom Lee eventually married."
Emphasis mine :)

She was into Fluxus as well, quite a few German influences on her.
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 6:29pm Matt from Springfield:

And what a vibraphonist! Give the VIBES Some!
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 6:29pm Doug Schulkind:

GIVE THE DRUMMER RADIO PROGRAMMING ALERT...
Immediately following GTDS on the Drummer Stream will be Jesse K. and Kaminsky Kamoutsky. You can leap from my lily pad to his, here:

bit.ly...
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 6:30pm Parq:

By the way, Doug, I've had that impulse fairly often at the Record Fair. "Oh cool! Wait, I already have this. Well, couldn't I really use more than one? You can't have too much quality ... "
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 6:33pm Holly in NC:

@Doug - Yes. Plus sometimes I forget what I have on unattached drives. Or even on my shelves ;-)
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 6:34pm Matt from Springfield:

@Parq: That record could become the future currency! You don't want to trade away your only copy for necessities, would you??
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 6:34pm Doug Schulkind:

As Woody Allen would say to the record. I don't just love you, I lurve you.

Holly, the forgetting thing is just out of hand.
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 6:35pm Matt from Springfield:

@Holly: I thought this was an Archive listen for you? Wait - are your comments going BACK IN TIME to the present present?! Wow, the Friendship Society was good before, but wow! :)
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 6:36pm Parq:

Matt, as to future currency, I think the WFMU crowd has most of the world beat on this one:

xkcd.com...
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 6:37pm Doug Schulkind:

@Matt from Springfield
Look at the second album in the last set:

wfmu.org...
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 6:38pm Matt from Springfield:

Ken truly IS the Warren Buffett of the future! We're saved!
And most of us are in the future 1% as well! May we be more just in copying pics for payments than the current cashmoney lot...
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 6:39pm Matt from Springfield:

Hells yeah, Doug!! :)
No Googlenopes for THAT comment! And how better the world is for it!
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 6:39pm Holly in NC:

I am typing but not listening, as I am also supervising children playing Minecraft...
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 6:40pm Matt from Springfield:

Angel Chile (Slight Return)

And here's the "sound poetry" mentioned--similar to bpNichol around this same period.
en.wikipedia.org...
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 6:42pm Matt from Springfield:

Look up Holly! One of them just snuck in a 2 Liter of Mountain Dew!!
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 6:44pm listener james from westwood:

wfmu marathon compilations will be tradeable for acres of radiation-free farmland in the dark post-wwiii future. a monkey brain tonic shirt will get you a cow.
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 6:45pm Parq:

That's it, call the label, I'm changing the name of the album to "A Monkey Brain Tonic Shirt Will Get You a Cow."
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 6:46pm Holly in NC:

More likely a second helping of Ovaltine with double malt, xtra chocolate syrup, chocolate chips AND the homemade marshmallows we made last week. Heh. Kids love me, parent perhaps not so much?
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 6:47pm Doug Schulkind:

@Listener James from Westwood
I am wearing my monkey brain proudly at this moment. (My favorite all-time FMU t-shirt. Billie Holiday came in second.)
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 6:47pm listener james from westwood:

holy crow, homemade marshmallows? i never imagined one could make them at home. intriguing.
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 6:48pm Matt from Springfield:

@Holly: This demonstrates precisely why we treat a "rental" car different than our own! ;)
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 6:53pm Holly in NC:

@ljfw - EASY and fun! This is basic recipe I use, there are many variations. All different flavors and what not.

www.finecooking.com...
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 6:55pm listener james from westwood:

how about that! just like sta-puft! (don't think of the sta-puft marshmallow man!)
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 6:55pm Doug Schulkind:

Hey, just think of the scratches on old vinyl as just an added percussive element!
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 6:57pm Matt from Springfield:

@Doug: That's the highest praise I've heard for surface noise! (And I've heard pretty high!) Excellent!
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 6:58pm ndbob:

excellent show Doug!
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 6:59pm Doug Schulkind:

Going about three minute over in the Jesse Kaminsky's time. He is being very gentlemanly about it.

Thanks ndbob!
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 6:59pm Parq:

Oh damn, just on the opening lines, this "Gilead" is pasting me to the wall.
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 7:00pm northguineahills:

Excellent as per usual, Doug!
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 7:01pm Matt from Springfield:

Thanks Doug, for introducing me to another beautiful Legend--those who brighten for all eternity.

Have a good night everyone!
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 7:01pm Doug Schulkind:

You too, NGH.
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 7:03pm listener james from westwood:

this show is, itself, a balm. many thanks, doug!
Avatar ♥   Tue. 1/29/13 7:09pm Doug Schulkind:

Are you saying this show is da balm, LJFW?
  Tue. 1/29/13 7:31pm chris:

Oh yay yuh
Avatar ♥   Wed. 1/30/13 7:50am Van in DC:

Late as usual. But I bring doughnuts for anyone else who happens along. Have a bear claw, Doug
Avatar ♥   Wed. 1/30/13 7:56am Van in DC:

Another beautiful legend indeed, Matt! Thanks from me as well Doug, and I'm just in the first gorgeous song!
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