On Hiatus

It's been a wonderful ten years of on and off reading, listening, learning, talking, and sharing here at the Passing Notes blog.  I am grateful as always to WDNA for the original chance way back at the end of 2005 -- particularly to Joe Cassara, Michael Valentine, Frank Consola, Howard Duperly, Maggie Pelleya, and the late Charlie Kaufman all for teaching me so much about radio.  Many thanks as well to Mitch Kaplan of Books and Books and to Lisa Palley of the Miami Book Fair for the opportunity to interview so many great writers over the years.  A supreme thanks to the legendary Bruce Campbell for being my first interview, and I am will always be grateful to the writers, musicians, filmmakers, artists, critics, and the like whom I was able to get to know over the years.  Passing Notes may return -- who knows in what form and who knows when.  In the meantime, feel free to look through ten years of stuff.  I hope you find something you like and I hope you pay very close attention.  Remember, hardening of the categories leads to art disease.

Playlist - Sunday Time Warp 1/10/16

Song, Artist, Album

“The Outsider,” Lack of Afro, Press On

“Smoke,” Medeski Martin and Wood, Uninvisible

“Redback,” Cookin' On 3 Burners, Baked Boiled and Fried

“Paper Bass,” Medeski Martin and Wood, Friday Afternoon In The Universe

“Get Your Money Ready,” Fred Wesley, Coulda Woulda Shoulda

“The Dropper,” Medeski Martin and Wood, The Dropper

“Slow Down Blues,” Joe Satriani, Joe Satriani

“I'm A King Bee,” Slim Harpo, Essential Blues Anthology

“You Shook Me,” Joe Bonamassa, audio from live performance

“Carmel Blues,” Pinetop Perkins and Marcia Ball, Piano Blues: Martin Scorcese Presents The Blues

“Country Blues, Part One,” Muddy Waters, Martin Scorcese Presents The Blues

“The Intro and The Outro,” Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, Gorilla

“Rough Times,” The High End Sound, Urban Lounge Supreme

“Waco Loco,” Lionel Loueke, Gaia

“Dance Lesson #2,” Karl Denson, Dance Lesson #2

“West of the West,” Christian Scott, Stretch Music

“As Light Through Leaves,” Jeff Coffin with the Caleb Chapman Crescent Superband

“The Rhythm Changes,” Kamasi Washington, The Epic

“Suite For The Blue Planet,” Jesse Fischer, Day Dreamer

“Trip Mode,” Joey DeFrancesco, Trip Mode

Playlist - Sunday Time Warp 1/3/16

Song, Artist, Album

“Please Use This Song,” Jon Lajoie, video

“Sunday,” DJ Day, Brazilectro

“Funky,” DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist, SB2

“Spoonful,” Howlin' Wolf, ElectricMick Electro-Blues Remix

“Jim Lee Blues,” Samantha Fish, video

“Black Cat Bone,” Sad Sam Blues Jam, video

“Misunderstood,” Tedeschi-Trucks Band, video

“Theme from Jessica Jones,” Sean Calley, video

“Nicotine and Gravy,” Beck, Midnight Vultures

“Agony of Defeet,” Parliament, Trombipulation

“Blue in Green,” Screaming Headless Torsos, 1995

“The Gator's Back,” The Darol Anger/Mike Marshall Band, Jam

“Sangree,” Jesse Fischer featuring Zach Brock, Day Dreamer

“The Radio Tower Has A Beating Heart,” The Bad Plus, Never Stop

“Finlayson,” Kneebody, Low Electrical Worker

“Moment's Notice,” Turtle Island Quartet, A Love Supreme

A Very Zappa X-Mas - Playlist 12/27/15

Song, Artist, Album

Peaches En Regalia, Ed Palermo, Ed Palermo Big Band Plays The Music of Frank Zappa

Tijuana Surf, Frank Zappa, The Cucamonga Years: The Early Works of Frank Zappa

Big Swifty, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, live audio from August 1973\- Helsinki

Frankie and Shuggie, Frank Zappa and Shuggie Otis, live audio from The Johnny Otis Show 1970

I Am The Walrus, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, live audio from May 1988 – Barcelona

Mr Green Genes Medley, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, live audio from October 1973 – Texas

Occam's Razor, Frank Zappa, One Shot Deal

Toads of the Short Forest, Ed Palermo, Ed Palermo Big Band Plays The Music of Frank Zappa

RDNZL, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, You Can't Do That On Stage Any More -Volume 2

Don't Eat The Yellow Snow, Frank Zappa, Apostrophe

Nanook Rubs It, Frank Zappa, Apostrophe

St. Alphonso's Pancake Breakfast, Frank Zappa, Apostrophe

Father O'Blivion, Frank Zappa, Apostrophe

Another Way To Look At It, George Duke, Face the Music
Watermelon in Easter Hay, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, live audio from May 1988 – Barcelona

Playlist - Sunday Time Warp 7/19/15

Song, Artist, Album

Gray's Ferry, Orrin Evans, Freedom

Gallop's Gallop, Tim Warfield, Spherical

Gold Prisms Incorporated, The Bad Plus, Inevitable Western

Flip & Dip, Jeff "Tain" Watts, Blue - Vol. 1

Elephant Talk, Wave Mechanics Union, Second Season

Matte Kudasai, Kurt Elling, The Gate

Reckoner, Robert Glasper, Covers

Smells Like Teen Spirit, Richard Cheese, Viva La Vodka

Unpack Your Adjectives, Sarah Gazarek, Blossom and Bee

All About That Bass, The Postmodern Jukebox, audio rip from video

Chitlins Con Carne, Kenny Burrell, Midnight Blue

The Hustle Is On, T-Bone Walker, The Very Best Of

T-Bone Shuffle, Buddy Guy, The Very Best Of

Crosscut Saw, Albert King, The Very Best Of

Little Wing, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, The Sky Is Crying

Third Stone From The Sun, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Are You Experienced?

Looking Up, Throttle Elevator Music, Area J

Sugar Doosie, Galactic, Into The Deep

Homenagen, Jared Gold, Metropolitan Rhythm

Reader's Notes - The Electric Highway

Here's a feature from the past week about my music history lecture at WDNA's Jazz Gallery.  It went very well, but my attempts to record audio on the scene did not, so I have only the slideshow materials but not my largely improvised (but informational) talk.

"Hop on the Electric Highway with WDNA"

Playlist - Sunday Time Warp - 5/2/15

Song, Artist, Album

Cars Trucks Buses, Phish, Billy Breathes

Shofukan, Snarky Puppy, We Like It Here

Born Ugly, Brand X, Unorthodox Behavior

Dark Prince, Trio of Doom, Trio of Doom

Hejira, Joni Mitchell, Hejira

Joy, Wayne Shorter, Odyssey of Iska

Spank-A-Lee, Herbie Hancock, Thrust

Tomorrow Night, BB King, Reflections

The Thrill Is Gone, BB King, Martin Scorcese Presents The Blues

Saturday Night Fish Fry, BB King, Let The Good Times Roll

Little by Little, Susan Tedeschi, Just Won't Burn

Honey Bop, Wanda Jackson, Rockin' With Wanda

Don't Take Everybody To Be Your Friend, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Up Above My Head

Blue Prelude, Jorma Kaukonen and Tom Hobson, Quah

Dr Beauchef Penguin Dentist, Kneebody, Low Electrical Worker

Rhinocerize, The Apples, Fly On It

Goo Goo Wah Wah, Wah Wah Watson, Elementary

Vendetta, Calibro 35, Traditori di Tutti

Playlist - Sunday Time Warp - 3/15/15

Song, Artist, Album

Black Satin, Miles Davis, On The Corner

Swiss Cheese D, Ben Allison, The Stars Look Very Different Today

Super Nova, Wayne Shorter, Super Nova

Johnny Utah, The Kandinsky Effect, Synesthesia

Surucucu, Weather Report, Live in Tokoyo

Blood Count, Vijay Iyer Trio, Break Stuff

Light Work, Reggie Quinerly, Invictus

You Can't Stop Us Now, Marc Cary, Rhodes Ahead, Vol 2

November, Jackie Terrasson, Take This

Mo Onions, Booker T and the MGs, The Very Best Of

Next Door To The Blues, Etta James, Her Best

Let's Have A Little Talk, Luther Allison, Luther's Blues

Green Onions, Booker T and the MG's, The Very Best Of

The Feeling That Music Brings, Susan Tedeschi, Wait For Me

It's A New Day, Skull Snaps, Skull Snaps

Some Skunk Funk, Billy Cobham, A Funky Thide of Sings

Hap'nin’, Bernard Purdie, Lialeh: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

What Is Hip?, Tower of Power, Tower of Power

PN 256 - The Hayes Changes

On the heels of the 'Blurred Lines' ruling, I'm coming to conquer the musical universe.

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Playlist - Sunday Time Warp - 3/8/15

Song, Album, Artist

Little Wing, Lew Soloff, Little Wing

Captain Jon, Ingrid Jensen, At Sea

Decisive Steps, Tia Fuller, Decisive Steps

Next Time Forever, Cindy Blackman, Code Red

Glass Bead Games, Jeremy Pelt, Tales Musings and Other Reveries

Take Five (Take One), Jacky Terrasson, Take This

Count Chockulus, DRKWAV, The Purge

Hello San Francisco, Buddy Guy, The Very Best Of

Sweet Home Chicago, Magic Sam Blues Band, West Side Soul

Can't Hold Out Much Longer, Little Walter, His Best

Diamonds At Your Feet, Muddy Waters, His Best - 1956 to 1964

Stormy Monday Blues, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Greatest Hits Volume One - The Duke Recordings

Built For Comfort, Howling Wolf, His Best

Xtraordinary, Marcus Miller, Afrodeezia

Old School Jam, Kevin Eubanks & Stanley Jordan, Duets

Big Foot (With Intro), Eric Johnson and Mike Stern, Eclectic

Playlist - Sunday Time Warp - 3/1/15

Song, Album, Artist

Sco-Mule, Gov't Mule and John Scofield, Sco-Mule

Revelation, Cyrus Chestnut Trio, Revelation

Happiness, Eric Reed, Happiness

Searching For The Blues, Marcus Roberts Trio, From Rags To Rhythm

Dapper Dan, Dr. Lonnie Smith, The Healer

Coconut Boogaloo, Medeski Martin and Wood, Combustication

Watermelon Man, Herbie Hancock, Head Hunters

Scars, DRKWAV, The Purge

My Blues Is Funky, Charles Earland, If Only For One Night

Blues Two Views, Ira Sullivan & Stu Katz, A Family Affair

Blue Juice, Jimmy McGriff, Greatest Hits (Blue Note)

Blues After All, Jimmy Smith, Blue Note Jazz Profile No. 14

End Of A Sun, Shaolin Astronauts, Quest Under Capricorn

Dorthaan's Walk, Rashaan Roland Kirk, Boogie Woogie String Along For Real

We Free Kings, Rashaan Roland Kirk , We Free Kings

And Shadow Saw The Gods, Club d'Elf, Now I Understand

Playlist - Sunday Time Warp - 2/22/15

Song, Album, Artist

John McLaughlin, Miles Davis, Bitches Brew

Gazzeloni, DRKWAV, The Purge

Country and Eastern Music, Jan Hammer and Jerry Goodman, Like Children

Lowell, Kneebody, The Line

Paper Money, Corduroy, Very Yeah

Chase Me, Hexstatic, Master-View

Canteloupe Island, Hugh Masekela, The Lasting Impression of Ooga Booga

Shemeeans Kuti, DRKWAV, The Purge

Ball and Chain, Janis Joplin and Big Brother and the Holding Company, Live at the Carousel Ballroom

Back Home Blues, Ira Sullivan and the Chicago Jazz Quintet, Bird Lives!

Mumbles, Oscar Peterson Trio with Clark Terry, Oscar Peterson Trio + One

Greazy Blues, Clark Terry, Shades of Blues

Stormy Weather, The Dorsey Brothers with Ethel Waters, Harlem Lullabyes

Autumn Leaves, Bob Dylan, Shadows in the Night

Some Enchanted Evening, Frank Sinatra, The Best of the Columbia Years

Some Enchanted Evening, Bob Dylan, Shadows in the Night

Frank Sinatra, Cake, Fashion Nugget

Also Sprach Zarathrusta, Phish, Recorded Live in Miami - 1/2/2015

Video Jukebox - Carmen Lundy

For this weekend's upcoming Third Anniversary show on the Sunday Time Warp, our featured artist on Segment3 (2:06 to 2:30 pm) will be composer and singer Carmen Lundy, who'll be talking about her latest release, Soul to Soul.  While you wait -- and while I edit -- enjoy this collection of Lundy's great work from over the years, as well as the electronic press kit for Soul to Soul.

Carmen Lundy

Russell Banks - Authors@Google

On this Friday's Passing Notes, we'll catch up with the eminent author Russell Banks and talk about his latest collection of stories, A Permanent Member of the Family.  In the meantime, here's an excellent hour of video with Banks from his talk at Google headquarters, this time around about his novel The Lost Memory of Skin.

Sunday Time Warp - Third Anniversary Show

This weekend will mark (more or less) my third full year programming music for the Sunday Time Warp program on WDNA in Miami.  I feel pretty good about the mix of music on the show -- not just jazz, blues, and funk, but the hip hop and EDM that occasionally makes its way into the general flow, as well as the artist feature "Segment 3," which has been on hiatus for the winter.  It all returns in full this Sunday, with lots of new music.  So far so good, and if we can make it to five years, Henshaw has agreed to start planning a concert with as many friends of the show as we can manage!  For now, tune in this weekend for new Rudresh Mahanthappa, DRKWAV, and Bob Dylan singing his best Frank Sinatra.

Playlist - Sunday Time Warp - 2/15/15

Song, Artist, Album

Take Five (Take 1), Jacky Terrasson, Take This

Take Flight, Vijay Iyer Trio, Break Stuff

Smile, Avishai Cohen Trio. From Darkness

Old Soul, Avishai Cohen's Triveni, Dark Nights

Extraction, Howe/Chambers/Wooten, Extraction

Heck of a Job, John Scofield, This Meets That

Wet Bones, Club D'Elf, Now I Understand

Blues for Jack, Stephen McQuarry Trio, Azure

Hawaiian Boogie, Elmore James, The Sky Is Crying: The History of Elmore James

Country Boy, Otis Spann, Otis Spann Is The Blues

Three Times A Fool, Otis Rush, The Essential Otis Rush

Blue Stroll, Ira Sullivan with Johnny Griffin, Blue Stroll

Oleo, Gnappy, Unloaded

Paladin, Garaj Mahal, Blueberry Cave
All For You, Rjd2, Magnificent City Instrumentals

PN 255 - A Riot Is The Language Of The Unheard

A meditation on Ferguson.


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Southern Poverty Law Center

PN 254 - Box Brown - 'Andre the Giant'

The legendary professional wrestler (and occasional movie star) Andre Roussimoff gets his own comics biography by the award-winning comics creator Box Brown.  Brown will be one of hundred of authors appearing this weekend at the Miami Book Fair.

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Box Brown
Miami Book Fair

PN 253 - Touching My Inner Griswold

From Halloween through Christmas, the question persists: How many lights?  The answer: Never enough.

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Playlist - Sunday Time Warp 10/5/14

Song, Artist, Album

In A Silent Way/Waterfall, Weather Report, Live and Unreleased

Wayne's Way, John McLaughlin, Industrial Zen

Teddy Ruxpin, Kneebody, audio rip from live performance

Steps, Rudy Rotta & Brian Auger, Caputred Live

Parks N' Wreck, Wil Blades, Field Notes

Addis, Wil Blades, Field Notes

(I Can't Stand) The Whole Lott of You, Wil Blades, Field Notes

Leo's Cat, Will Bernard, Party Hats

Dirty Water, The Sugarman 3, What The World Needs Now

Red House, Buddy Guy, Stone Free: A Tribute To Jimi Hendrix

Hall of Shame, Chris Cain, Hall of Shame

Hey Bartender, Koko Taylor, Deluxe Edition

I Ain't Drunk, Albert Collins, Cold Snap

Taking Care of No Business, Jimi Hendrix, The Jimi Hendrix Experience (MCA Box)

Bad Bad Whiskey, Amos Milburn, audio rip from video archive

Gimme A Pigfoot and a Bottle Of Beer, Bessie Smith, The Collection

Rikki Don't Lose That Number, Hospitality, audio rip from The Onion's AV Club

M-B, Machine and the Synergetic Nuts, Leap Second Neutral

Battle of Bongo Hill, The Herbalizer, Something Wicked This Way Comes

Freedom Jazz Dance, Alex Berdashky, audio rip from live performance