PN Unscripted - Campbell McGrath

Poet Campbell McGrath talks about his latest collection, In the Kingdom of the Sea Monkeys, as well as music, teaching, and the sometimes insular world of the poetry biz.




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PN 224 - Charles Burns - 'The Hive'

Comics creator Charles Burns talks about his latest graphic novel, The Hive, the Tintin comics as inspiration and influence, and the new frontiers of working in color.





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Reader's Notes - Bye Bye Brubeck

I imagine that, as it was for many people, Time Out by the Dave Brubeck Quartet was the first jazz album they ever listened to.  I was ten at the time I discovered Time Out, and I found the old LP in with my parents' record collection along with some Beatles albums and Scheherazade -- the last with a super-sexy sleeve.  From the first hook of "Blue Rondo A La Turk" -- a 9/8 time signature, that's crazy! -- I was hooked, and I must have listened to that album a million times trying to figure out what made the music sound so different from anything I'd ever heard.  At ten, growing up in rural Maine, I didn't yet know any people who could explain what I was hearing, so I just listened, sitting there in an upstairs bedroom before the old hi-fi, reading those liner notes over and over again, as if they would somehow help unravel the mystery of "Kathy's Waltz."  From those first weeks and months of listening, the figuring out has been the best part.

Of all the words I've read today about Dave Brubeck, a few of the music programmers I hear from now and again seemed to say it best:  Brubeck, who passed away just before his 92nd birthday, had been around for so long it seemed like he would always be around.  If you have any of his many excellent albums, get them out and listen to them.  I'm looking at my shelves as I write this: Jazz Goes To College, Time Out, Time Further Out, The Real Ambassadors, Tritonis, Paper Moon.  That's a whole lot of music from a guy who almost didn't make it out of Europe during the Battle of the Bulge.

I've collected a few of the tributes to Dave Brubeck from around the web.  Good bye, Dave.  Thanks for starting me off, and I hope the piano's always in tune wherever you may be.

The Brubeck Institute at the University of the Pacific
Brubeck's artist page at National Public Radio
Obituary from All Things Considered
Obituary in the New York Times
Remembrance from Popular Science
Obituary in the Wall Street Journal
Obituary from the Washington Post
Larry Applebaum talking with Brubeck

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Video Jukebox - Chris Cortez

Guitarist Chris Cortez has a new album, 'Aunt Nasty,' out on his Blue Bamboo label.  Here's three performances of Chris and his band, along with a couple of videos from other artists on Blue Bamboo -- Glen Ackerman and Woody Witt.








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Reader's Notes - Staying Safe on Facebook

As the day approaches where every person on the planet has some sort of social media account, the volume of junk e-mail, Internet hoaxes and scams, and sheer prankdom is sure to explode.  Within the past week, Facebook had an outbreak of n008 panic with the "copyright your life before it's sold by the Internet" postings on people's profile page, prompting Cracked to create "Five More Facebook Chain Letters That Will Keep You Safe." More useful and less snarky is the website Hoax-Slayer, which indexes and updates the world of Internet (and other) hoaxes, so we may all be safe from each other.  It's also good for some LOLs -- Lucifer Our Lords, that is.

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PN Unscripted - Marjorie M. Liu

X-Men, Wolverine, urban fantasy, and paranormal romance writer Marjorie M. Liu talks about writing for the X-Verse, her path to becoming a comics creator, and the role of women in the comics industry.  Astonishing X-Men #51, where Northstar gets engaged to his boyfriend -- yeah, that was Liu.  Badass.



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Segment3 - Jacqui Sutton and the Frontier Jazz Orchestra

Singer Jacqui Sutton describes how she and her band developed their own fusion of bluegrass, jazz, folk, classical, and popular music




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Sunday Time Warp - Playlist 12/2/12

Radio Song, Esperanza Spalding, Radio Music Society
Smells Like Teen Spirit, Robert Glasper Experiment, Black Radio
Actions Speak, Vijay Iyer Trio, Accelerando
Hummingbird/Blue Rondo A La Turk, Jacqui Sutton and the Frontier Jazz Orchestra, Notes From the Frontier
Those Memories Of You, Jacqui Sutton and the Frontier Jazz Orchestra, Billie and Dolly
Summertime, Jacqui Sutton and the Frontier Jazz Orchestra, Notes From the Frontier
Birdland, Bruce Kaphan Quartet, Quartet


Tangled Up In Blue, Louis Durra, The Best of All Possible Worlds
Blu-Bop, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Flight of the Cosmic Hippo
Hungarian Dance No. 5, The Frank and Joe Show, 66 2/3
Country Boy, Otis Spann, Is The Blues
Cross Cut Saw, Albert King, The Very Best Of
New New Orleans (King Adjuah Stomp), Christian Scott, Christian aTunde Adjuah
Jean and Renata, Frame, Ben Wendel
I Want To Feel Good - Pt 2, The Bad Plus, Made Possible
Freedom Jazz Dance, Beigels Daisy Toasts, Omnibus


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