PN 240 - Rob Palmer - Mr PC: The Life and Music of Paul Chambers

This week we speak with Rob Palmer, the author of Mr PC: The Life and Music of Paul Chambers. For those who might not know, Chambers was a gifted bassist who played on many essential jazz recordings of the late 50s and early 60s -- including (to name but a few) Kind of Blue, Blue Train, Brilliant Corners, and The Blues and the Abstract Truth.  As a bonus today, we've got three videos of Chambers -- two of his playing with John Coltrane as part of the Wynton Kelly Trio, and another with Miles Davis as part of the musical world of Kind of Blue.

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Kickstarter Note - Ear Buds: The Podcasting Documentary

The last time I mentioned a Kickstarter campaign here on Passing Notes, it was to help fund a memorial to the great Harvey Pekar at one of the Cleveland Public Libraries.  We even got to talk to Pekar's widow, Joyce Brabner, to help raise awareness for that one.  This time around, it's a project even more near and dear to my heart, a documentary on podcasting, Ear Buds, produced in association with Comedy Film Nerds.  One of the interviewees on Ear Buds will be Marc Maron, a podcasting pioneer whose been kind enough to appear on Passing Notes.


Donations can be as low as $1 through Kickstarter, so visit the Ear Buds fundraising site now!




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Video Jukebox - John Medeski

Medeski, Martin, and Wood have been making great music for two decades now, and of late, although MMW hasn't broken up by any means, the musicians in the band have found more time for their own and collaborative side projects.  The Wood Brothers' groove-blues-Americana is well-loved, and Billy Martin's Wicked Knee made folks sit up and take notice.  John Medeski's also been a busy collaborator -- as shown in the selections for this week's Video Jukebox -- appearing as he does with John Zorn, Dave Fiuczynski and Rudresh Mahanthappa, Skerik, Todd Clouser, and many more.  Medeski will be speaking with me on this upcoming Sunday's Segment3 feature on the Time Warp about his recent solo project, A Different Time.



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Road Notes - The Mississippi Blues Trail

I've been on the road for the week taking care of family business, which often means that my little family is piled in the van and rambling over one or another Mississippi country road.  With cotton fields and country churches passing by, I always think about the places I need to visit on The Mississippi Blues Trail.  I've been through West Point (Howlin' Wolf country) many times, done my visit to Clarksdale and other places, yesterday our business took me through Winona -- where Pops Staples of the Staples Singers was born.  I liked that, as I think was in need of some gospel music yesterday.

Visit the website for The Mississippi Blues Trail.

And here's the Staples Singers from 1956 with "Uncloudy Day."



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Sunday Time Warp - Playlist 1/19/14

Song, Artist, Album

Freedom Jazz Dance, Eddie Harris, recording of live performance Denmark 1986

I’m Hip, Blossom Dearie, Live At Ronnie Scott’s

Won’t You Please B Nice, Nellie McKay, Get Away From Me

Elevator Ride, Alan Hampton, Whim

Blue in Green, Miles Davis, Kind of Blue

Juju, Wayne Shorter, Juju

Footprints, Wayne Shorter, Adam’s Apple

A Woman Or The Blues, Curtis Salgado, Soul Shot

Middle Aged Blues Boogie, Saffire – The Uppity Blues Women, The Uppity Blues Women

Senior Blues, Horace Silver, Six Pieces of Silver

Juju, Gretchen Parlato, Live in NYC

Butterfly, Gretchen Parlato, Live in NYC

All That I Can Say, Live In NYC

Butterfly, Herbie Hancock, Thrust

Tin Min, Gilfema, audio rip from video

Giant Steps, Joe Pass, Virtuoso 2

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Segment3 - Gretchen Parlato

Vocalist Gretchen Parlato documents where she's at after a decade of work with her first live recording, Live in NYC.

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