Now I don’t have any specific details at this time about how the shows will be archived but I promise to find a way to make them available here for download like I have in the past.
And as for what I’ll be playing, I’m not sure yet. I’ve got a Freddie Hubbard Tribute in the works but have also been compiling a Coleman Hawkins broadcast or maybe I’ll just wing it in my joy to be back!
Barney Wilen (tenor sax); Philip Catherine (guitar); Palle Danielsson (bass)
As far as I’m aware, this album was never released in the United States. Great playing by Wilen, whose only major US exposure was recordings with Miles Davis and Art Blakey in the late 50’s.
Speaking of which…
Art Blakey et les Jazz Messengers – No Hay Problema (1960)
Barney Wilen (ts); Lee Morgan (tp); Bobby Timmons (p); Jymie Merritt (b); Art Blakey (d); Willie Rodriguez (perc)
Seun Kuti and Fela’s Egypt 80 – Many Things ( 2008 )
Here at Bop and Beyond, the beyond can be anything from Alice Coltrane to electric Miles to Afrobeat — a tradition that dates back to the earliest days of my radio program. Afrobeat, with its mix of hard funk, Afro-Cuban jazz, and traditional Yoruba music, is an incendiary musical and political force embodied by the spirit and image of its main creator: Fela Kuti, a man whose legacy has been continued by people like his eldest son Femi Kuti, Tony Allen, Antibalas, Akoya, Afrodizz and many others. Adding his name of that growing list is one Fela’s youngest sons, Seun Kuti.
Seun Kuti – Fire Dance ( 2008 )
Seun’s album Many Things is the best Afrobeat album I’ve heard in awhile and his performances are already legendary. If you dig Afrobeat or hard funk or Afro-Cuban jazz or the music of Randy Weston and Don Cherry, you owe it to yourself to check him out.
Seun Kuti – Live in Dakar with Tony Allen & Manu Dibango (2005)
Respected saxophonist who worked with Ray Charles, B.B. King, Aretha Franklin, Stanley Turrentine, Cannonball Adderley, and more…
