PN 238 - 'The Trials of Muhammad Ali'

A new documentary about the audacious boxing champ and cultural icon explores the more controversial years of Ali's career during the 1960s.  One of the film's producer's, Rachel Pikelny, talks about the making of the movie.



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PN 237 - Terry Teachout - 'Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington'

An authoritative new biography of the jazz master sheds new light on the man and methods behind the mask of the entertainer.

Author Terry Teachout will be appearing on Sunday at this year's Miami Book Fair.


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Sunday Time Warp - Playlist 11/17/13

Song, Artist, Album

Bahian B Boys, Dynamic Syncopation, Dynamism

Lydiot, George Russell Sextet, Ezz-thetics
Epistrophy, Kenny Barron Gerry Gibbs Ron Carter, Gerry Gibbs Thrasher Dream Trio
Little Hand, Will Bernard, Just Like Downtown
The Impaler, Jeff "Tain" Watts, Citizen Tain

After the Cosmic Rain, Corea Clarke & White, Forever
Hotel, Garaj Mahal, w00t

Little Wing, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, The Sky Is Crying
Let's Have A Natural Ball, Albert King, The Very Best Of
Double Trouble, Otis Rush, The Essential Otis Rush - Cobra 56-58
Basehead, Corey Harris, Greens From The Garden
These Hands (Small But Mighty), Bobby Blue Bland, Greatest Hits - Vol One
Reconsider Me, Johnny Adams, A Tan Nightengale
I'm Ready (To Fall in Love), Texas Pete Mayes, Lowdown Feeling
Cleo's Mood, Junior Walker and the All-Stars, Shotgun

Soul Junction, The Backyard Heavies, Funkaphonix: Volume 6
The Ballad of the Black Gold, Tailib Kweli and DJ Hi-Tek, Reflection Eternal
Homebrew, The Sound Stylistics, Play Deep Funk
Scratch Marchin, Kormac, Electro Swing
Mr Chombee Has The Flaw, The Herbalizer, Blow Your Headphones
Freedom Jazz Dance, Nils Lundgren Funk Unit, Fonk Da World


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Sunday Time Warp - Playlist 11/10/13

Song, Artist, Album

Black Satin, Miles Davis, On The Corner
In 3s, Beastie Boys, Check Your Head
Slugbug, Mark Lettieri, Futurefun
Bop Gun (Endangered Species), Parliament, Funkentelechy versus The Placebo Syndrome
Apostrophe, Frank Zappa, Apostophe - Overnight Sensation

The Queen's Fancy, Modern Jazz Quartet, Django
The Kicker, Horace Silver Quintet, Song for My Father
Criss Cross, Thelonious Monk, Monk's Blues
Well You Needn't, Kronos Quartet, Kronos Quartet Plays The Music of Thelonious Monk
Soundtrack to trailer for 'Forbidden Planet,' video rip

Every Night and Every Day, Magic Sam Blues Band, West Side Soul
The Bottle, Gil Scott-Heron, Winter in America
Life By The Drop, Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Sky Is Crying
Hip Hug-Her, Booker T and the MGs, The Very Best Of
Mean Husband Blues, Guitar Shorty, Topsy Turvy
Driving Wheel, Luther Allison, Luther's Blues

Blackbyrds Theme, The Blackbyrds, Flying StartBuy The Blackbyrds Flying Start
Dapper Dan, Lonnie Smith, The HealerBuy Lonnie Smith The Healer
Soul Drive Sixth Avenue, Money Mark, unreleased track
Coconut Boogaloo, Medeski Martin and Wood, Combustication
Freedom Jazz Dance, Taylor Eigsti, Lucky To Be Me

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Sunday Time Warp - Playlist 9/29/13

Song, Album, Artist

Freedom Jazz Dance, Taylor Eigsti, Lucky To Be Me

All That I Can Say, Gretchen Parlato, Live In NYC

Toy For A Boy, Club D’Elf, Now I Understand

’53 Maserati, Bobby Previte and Bump, Just Add Water

Home In Your Heart, Solomon Burke, Blue and Soulful

Gonna Send You Back to Georgia, Gov’t Mule, Hound Dog Taylor: A Tribute

Hijack, James Blood Ulmer, Out of Nowhere: Live at the Blue Note

Bellbottoms, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Orange

In The Midst Of A Thrill, Gorge Trio, Dead Chicken Fear No Knife

Heavyfoot, Jazz Punks, Smashups

High Noon, Kneebody, You Can Have Your Moment

High Noon/Doctor Beauchef Penguin Dentist, Kneebody, Live Volume Three – Paris

The Line, Kneebody, The Line

Work Hard Play Hard Towel Hard, Kneebody, The Line

Binky, Snarky Puppy, groundUP DVD

Galaxy 32 Star 4, Chick Corea, The Vigil

6/4 Jam, Jaco Pastorius, Jaco Pastorius

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Segment3 - Kneebody - The Line

It's always a group effort when Kneebody keeps defying categories -- even as they're moving on up with their latest album, 'The Line.'  We speak with keyboardist Adam Benjamin and trumpeter Shane Endsley and listen to several tracks from the new album.

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Reader's Notes - Karen Russell named MacArthur Fellow

Who says that Passing Notes doesn't have excellent taste in guests?  Well, nobody, really.  But we're very happy for Karen Russell, a Miami-raised writer, who was named a 2013 MacArthur Fellow.  If you'd like to listen to the podcast version of my interview with Karen about her novel Swamplandia!, follow this link!






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Jazz History Lecture Series at WDNA

Starting tomorrow night and running once a month all the way to May, WDNA's Jazz Gallery is hosting a jazz history lecture series, curated by pianist and New World School of the Arts faculty member Jim Gaisor.  Tomorrow night, September 24, Gaisor will deliver the first lecture, "The Roots of Jazz," an exploration of the 18th and 19th century music that gave birth to what we have come to call jazz.   Among lecturers in the future will be Chuck Bergeron, Rodolfo Zuniga, Shelly Berg, and Ed Calle.  Admission is free and events are hosted at WDNA building at 2921 Coral Way in Miami.  For more information and a complete listing, please visit the WDNA website.

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Sunday Time Warp - Playlist 9/22/13

Song, Album Artist

Like It Feels, Henry Threadgill, Makin' A Move
Cucumber Slumber, Weather Report, Mysterious Traveler
Birds of Fire, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Birds of Fire
John McLaughlin, Miles Davis, Bitches Brew
Portals To Forever, Chick Corea, The Vigil
Lowell, Kneebody, The Line
Red House, Buddy Guy, Stone Free: A Tribute To Jimi Hendrix
Don't Start Me To Talkin, Sonny Boy Williamson II, Martin Scorcese Presents The Blues
Just Won't Burn, Susan Tedeschi, Martin Scorcese Presents The Blues
Next Door To The Blues, Etta James, Her Best
Grape Jelly, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Back to Bugalusa
Skinny Woman, RL Burnside, Acoustic Stories
Bring It To Jerome, Smokehouse, Swamp Jive
Jungle Swing, Johnny Copeland, Jungle Swing
White Fang, Bill Frisell, Unspeakable
Sportscaster, Greyboy Allstars, A Town Called Earth
Bra, Cymande, Cymande
Freedom Jazz Dance, Beigels Daisy Toasts, Omnibus

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Sunday Time Warp - Playlist 8/25/13

Song, Artist, Album

Father of Spectralism, Leo Genovese, Seeds
Carboniferous, The Dave Robbins Electric Band, Zap!
Go To Orange, B'Snorkestra, Go To Orange
What's New Pussycat?, Fred Fried and Core, Core Bacharach
Highway 1, Bill Frisell, Big Sur
Jack Johnson/Black Satin, Trilok Gurtu, Spellbound
Waiting Is Forbdden, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Gamak
Beat-Up Team, Otis Spann and Robert Lockwood, Jr., Otis Spann Is The Blues
A Place I Once Knew, The neyBuzz, MG's Funk Workshop
Roller Coaster, Little Walter, His Best
Zonin', Rick Estrin and the Nightcats, One Wrong Turn
I Love The Life I Live, I Live The Life I Love, Muddy Waters, His Best - 1956 to 1964
BBQ, Tony Adamo, Miles of Blu
The Watcher, Prism, Prism
The Line, Kneebody, The Line
End of the World Party,Medeski Martin and Wood, Note Bleu
Freedom Jazz Dance, Brian Auguer's Oblivion Express, Second Wind

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PN 236 - Above the Spokes

Peak Oil? The End of Suburbia? Just plain fat?  It's time to get on my bike and pedal these problems away.

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Segment3 - Todd Clouser

Guitarist and songwriter Todd Clouser talks about the musical influences and the hard work that went into his album, 'The Naked Beat.'


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Sunday Time Warp - Playlist 8/4/13

Song, Artist, Album

Free, Ornette Coleman, Change of the Century
Waka-Jawaka, The Ed Palermo Big Band, Plays The Music of Frank Zappa
Blue Bolivar Blues (Take 2), Thelonious Monk Quartet, Monk's Dream
I've Got A Right To Sing The Blues, Louis Armstrong, Let's Do It: The Best Of The Verve Years
Musicawi Silt, The Daktaris, Soul Explosion



Too Late To Turn Back, El Michaels Affair, Sounding Out The City
Party People (Cut Chemist Suite), Ozomatli, Aggronation
Mad World, Todd Clauser, The Naked Beat
War Pigs, Todd Clauser, The Naked Beat
The Naked Beat, Todd Clauser, The Naked Beat
300 Pounds of Joy, Howlin Wolf, His Best
Ain't No Sunshine, Rashaan Roland Kirk, Blacknuss
Bold As Love, Phish, 2011 live performance
Up From The Skies, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Axis: Bold As Love
TV Blues, James Blood Ulmer, Are You Glad To Be In America?
Aqua Boogie (single),Parliament Funkadelic, Motor Booty Affiar
Twin Stars of Thence, Sun Ra, Lanquidity
Flight of the Ancients, Shaolin Astronauts, Flight of the Ancients
Freedom Jazz Dance, James Moody, Never Again!

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Sunday Time Warp - Playlist 6/23/13 (Half Zappa)

Song, Album, Artist

Stolen Moments, Oliver Nelson, The Blues and the Abstract Truth
Montana, Frank Zappa, Apostrope*/Overnight Sensation
Florentine Pogen, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, One Size Fits All
Inca Roads, Frank Zappa, audio rip live in Stockholm 1988
Toads of the Short Forest, Frank Zappa, Weasels Ripped My Flesh
Swordfishtrombone, Wave Mechanics Union, Further To Fly
Elephant Talk, Wave Mechanics Union, Second Season
Wondrous Stories, Wave Mechanics Union, Further To Fly
Going To Chicago Blues, Count Basie Orchestra with Jimmie Rushing, Martin Scorcese Presents The Blues
Things That I Used To Do, Guitar Slim, Martin Scorcese Presents The Blues
Stone Free, Eric Clapton, Stone Free: A Tribute To Jimi Hendrix
I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby, Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band, audio rip from video footage
Justice Blues, Clarence Gatemouth Brown, Essential Blues
How Many More Years, Howlin' Wolf, Moanin' in the Moonlight
Space Guitar, Johnny Guitar Watson, The Essential Early Masters
I'm The Slime, Frank Zappa, Apostrope*/Overnight Sensation
King Kong, Jean Luc Ponty, Jean Luc Ponty Plays the Music of Frank Zappa
Peaches En Regalia, Frank Zappa, Hot Rats
Freedom Jazz Dance, Jimmy Carl Black, Freedom Jazz Dance

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Segment3 - Wave Mechanics Union

Wave Mechanics Union specializes in big band and small ensemble arrangements of progressive and classic rock tunes.  Arranger and band member Ryan Fraley explains the process,  and we listen to versions of "Swordfishtrombone" by Tom Waits, "Elephant Talk" by King Crimson and "Wondrous Stories" by Yes.

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PN 235 - Welcome to the Land of Diehards

Haters beware, two titles in a row is something special for the Miami Heat and all of South Florida.




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Sunday Time Warp - Playlist 6/16/13

Song, Artist, Album

Freedom Jazz Dance, Cornell Dupree, Bop n' Blues
Crazyhorse Mongoose, Galactic, Crazyhorse Mongoose
No, Wax Tailor, Dusty Rainbow From The Dark
Real Deal, The Dynamites featuring Charles Walker, Burn It Down
Elation, Mulgrew Miller and Wingspan, The Sequel
Groove Elation, John Scofield Quartet featuring Mulgrew Miller, live at Jazz in Marciac 2011
One Good Man, Janis Joplin with The Kozmic Blues Band, I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!
I'm In The Mood, John Lee Hooker and Bonnie Raitt, Martin Scorcese Presents The Blues
Blues March, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, live at Mt Fuji Jazz Festival 1989
I Want A Tall Skinny Poppa, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, The Gospel of the Blues
Loose Blues, Pamela Hines, 3.2.1
B Minor Waltz, Pamela Hines, 3.2.1
Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most, Pamela Hines, 3.2.1
Grounded, Third Rail featuring Bill Laswell, South Delta Space Age
Take 5 Dub, King Tubby, Father of Dub
Root Cellar, Stanton Moore Trio, live studio performance
Caravan, Dr. Lonnie Smith, The Turbanator
Manteca, Dizzy Gillespie, Night in Tunisia: The Very Best of Dizzy Gillespie

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Segment3 - Pamela Hines

Pianist and arranger Pamela Hines talks about her new album, 3.2.1., and the necessary balance between abstract complexity and a melody than can connect with listeners.



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Sunday Time Warp - Playlist 6/2/13

Combustible, Wallace Roney, Understanding
Etcetera, Will Calhoun, Life In This World
Space Cowboy, Jamiroquai, Deeper Underground
The Shark, Bonobo, One Off Remixes and B-Sides
Last of the Spiddyocks, Digable Planets, Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space)
Don't You (Forget About Me), Molly Ringwald, Except Sometimes
Sooner or Later, Molly Ringwald, Except Sometimes
I Get Along Without You Very Well, Molly Ringwald, Except Sometimes
Ditty Wah Ditty, Ry Cooder, Paradise and Lunch

P.Y.T., The Wood Brothers, The Onion AV Club - Undercover
Sing A Simple Song/Take You Higher, Tedeschi Trucks, audio from performance at 2011 Vibes Music Festival
Banjo Boogie Blues, Otis Taylor, Otis Taylor's Contraband
Shoofly Pie, The Wood Brothers, Smoke Ring Halo
Hound Dog, Big Mama Thornton, Martin Scorcese Presents The Blues
Red River Valley, Cassandra Wilson, Thunderbird
Shoo Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy, Dinah Shore, Sentimental Journey - Capitol's Great Ladies of Song, Vol. 2
Rhode Island Is Famous For You, Blossom Dearie, Manhattan
Twisted, Lambert Hendricks and Ross, Annie Ross Sings
Freedom Jazz Dance, Brian Auger's Oblivion Express, Second Wind

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Segment3 - Molly Ringwald

Molly Ringwald returns to singing -- and singing jazz -- with her album of standards, 'Except Sometimes.'



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