Welcome to the club. We’ve got some cool sounds from the jazz lounges and clubs blended with some beat generation salutations for you this morning. Beatniks, boppers, lounge chanteuse performances, saxophones, and some cool fifties sounds. Tune in for Patsy Raye and The Beatniks, Earl Bostic, Mose Allison, Charlie Parker’s Quintet, and a BeBop blend of out-of-this-world swing and percussion. From the Gaslight Café to Slim Gallaird’s Yep Roc sounds…we’ll have your foot tappin’ and your fingers snappin’ on a magical blend of cool ultra-lounge and café sounds from mid-century. Tune in on the web or grab our free app out on the Apple Store or Google Play. You can find them by searching for KOWS.
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Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra
Salt Peanuts
Ken Burns Jazz [Disc 3]
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Gerry Mulligan Quartet
Swinghouse
The Beat Generation, Vol 3
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Charles Kuralt
The Greenwich Village Poets
The Beat Generation, Vol 3
5
King Pleasure
Don't Get Scared
The BeBop Singers
6
Mose Allison
Your Mind Is On Vacation
Allison Wonderland Anthology [Disc 1]
7
Earl Bostic
Up There In The Orbit
Sputnik! The Launch of the Space Race – 65 Years First Sputnik in Space
8
J. J. Johnson Beboppers
Coppin' The Bop
J. J. Johnson: Bone-O-Logy (Proper Introduction)
9
Peggy Lee
The Boy from Ipanema
Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 15: Wild Cool & Swingin' Too
10
Richard Marino & His Orchestra
Fever
Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 6: Rhapsodesia
11
Martin Denny
Cool
Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 16: Mondo Hollywood
12
Patsy Raye And The Beatniks
Beatnik's Wish
The Beat Generation, Vol 3
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Carl Sandburg
On Beatniks
The Beat Generation, Vol 3
14
Three Bips, A Bop
Professor Bop
The Beat Generation, Vol 3
15
Charlie Parker Quartet
Cosmic Rays
The Beat Generation [Disc 2]
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Charlie Parker Quintet
Scrapple From The Apple
Ken Burns Jazz [Disc 3]
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Charlie Ventura & His Orchestra
Ha
The Beat Generation [Disc 2]
18
Kenny Clarke & His 52nd Street Boys
Oop-Bop Sh-Bam
The Beat Generation, Vol 3
19
Elmer Bernstein
Like Having Fun
The Beat Generation, Vol 3
20
Del Close & John Brent
Cool
The Beat Generation, Vol 3
21
Slim Gaillard, The Middle Europeans
Yip Roc Heresy
The Beat Generation [Disc 2]
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Oscar Brown Jr.
But I Was Cool
The Beat Generation, Vol 3
23
The Playboys
Charge It
Destination Lust – The World Of Love, Sex And Violence
It’s one of the novelty topics but that’s only whistling in the graveyard now, isn’t it? An episode of vipers and wild nights backstage, a reflection of the party atmosphere and the debauchery that would often take place after long nights of performing and jiving. We’ll also touch on the devil’s weed, as it was once known before the recognition of Victorian sensibilities was ejected in favor of common sense. The music will include primarily blues and jazz but we’ll also dip into some later novelty sounds to keep us all honest with the topics of coke, opium, marijuana, and pills on the agenda. Sweet bath house sounds from Bette Midler, wistful sounds from Phil Lawrence and Dan Hicks take center stage alongside the music of The Cats & The Fiddle, Fats Waller, Barney Bigard, and Cab Calloway. Quite a lineup and quite a topic surrounded by junkies, reefers, hadacol concoctions, and mellow stuff…so we hope you’ll drop by on a Friday morning in Sonoma County.
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Willie Mabon
Got To Have Some
I'm The Fixer : The Best Of The USA Records Sessions
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The Ink Spots
That Cat Is High
Cocaine Blues
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The Cats & The Fiddle
Killin' Jive
The Very Best Of
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The Spirits of Rhythm
Junk Man
Cocaine Blues
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Cleo Brown
The Stuff Is Here And It's Mellow
The Legendary Cleo Brown
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Champion Jack Dupree
Junker's Blues
ABC Of The Blues Vol 6
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Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five
Junco Partner
Louis Jordan: Let the Good Times Roll – The Anthology 1938-1953
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Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks
Long Comma Viper
The Blue Thumb Years 1971-1973
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Phil Lawrence
Viper's Dream
Mandolin Heaven
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Stuff Smith & His Onyx Club Boys
You're a Viper
Vintage Songs of Sex, Drugs & Cigarettes
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Louis Armstrong
Song Of The Vipers [Album Version]
Louis Armstrong: Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man 1923-1934
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Lalo Guerrero
Marihuana Boogie
Jumpin' Like Mad: Cool Cats & Hip Chicks Non-Stop Dancin' [Disc 1]
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Bette Midler
Marahuana
Songs For The New Depression
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Julia Lee
Marijuana
Kansas City Star [Disc 4]
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Fats Waller
The Reefer Song
Last Testament His Final Recor
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Barney Bigard Sextet
Sweet Marihuana Brown
The Ultimate 30's & 40's Reefer Songs
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Larry Adler
Smoking Reefers
The Ultimate 30's & 40's Reefer Songs
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Johnny Price
Marijuana, The Devil Flower
Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974)
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Johnny Cash
Leave That Junk Alone
The Man In Black 1954-1958 [Disc 2]
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Hot Lips Page
Feelin' High And Happy
Bob Dylan – Radio Radio – Theme Time Radio Hour Volume Four [Disc 3]
Cool November sounds from the catalog of cool itself. This week’s Deeper Roots looks for some relaxed sounds; reminders of what it’s like to sit in a smokey lounge below street level in the Village and listen to solos, breakouts, and instrumental wizardry. Join us as we dig the swinging backbeat and improvisations that exemplify an urban sound from some of the greats. We’ve got Dave Brubeck, Ornette Coleman, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Illinois Jacquet, and a host of others taking us into the Friday morning club here on Sonoma County Community radio.
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Charlie Haden
Blue Pearl
Now Is The Hour
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Roland Kirk
Three for The Festival
Mercury 1962
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Buddy Rich
Love For Sale
The Best Of Buddy Rich: The Pacific Jazz Years
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Ben Webster
The Jeep's Jumping
The Original Jazz Masters Series, Vol. 2 [Disc 3]
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Illinois Jacquet
Harlem Nocturne
Swing's the Thing + Illinois Jacquet and His Orchestra (Bonus Track Version)
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Illinois Jacquet
Las Vegas Blues
Swing's the Thing + Illinois Jacquet and His Orchestra (Bonus Track Version)
Well, it might be a bit of a stretch, and it might have been a bit of a fad, but it also flavored the beverage. Mambo. A lively mix born of a Latin dance of Cuban descent in the 30s and introduced by Perez Prado to an American audience in the 40s. It found it’s way into the popular music culture from big band to jazz and R&B. This week’s show samples some of the performances that were totally infected by its rhythm. We’ll hear from Mickey Baker, Wynonie Harris, and Tiny Grimes on the R&B side as well as the bandleaders who brassed it up including Perez Prado, Desi Arnaz, and Xavier Cugat.
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Wynonie Harris
All She Wants to do is Mambo
Lovin' Machine
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Perez Prado
Mambo #5
Cocktail Hour : Mambo Jambo
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The Andrews Sisters
The Mambo Man
Golden Age of the Andrews Sisters [Disc 4]
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Tito Puente
Cuban Pete
Mambo Kings
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Tiny Grimes
Showboat Mambo
Rumba Gone Mambo
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Xavier Cugat
Besame Mucho (Kiss Me Much)
The Original Mambo King [Disc 2]
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Desi Arnaz
Holiday In Havana
The Best of Desi Arnaz: The Mambo King
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Desi Arnaz;Amanda Lane
Cuban Pete
The Best of Desi Arnaz: The Mambo King
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J.J. Jones
After Hours Mambo
Rumba Gone Mambo
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Mickey Baker
Guitar Mambo
Rumba Gone Mambo
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Ruth Brown
Mambo Baby
Miss Rhythm Greatest Hits And More Disc 2
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Joe Liggins & His Orchestra
They Were Doing the Mambo
Mercury R&B Story '45-'55 – [Disc 6] West Coast Blues V2
It’s a topical theme…it’s a medicinal thing…it’s a blend of sounds celebrating vipers and jives from the past century. There is no shortage of material to pull from the well of Americana…whether that be from the 1920s or from the 2010s. We’ll hear mellow sounds from Trixie Smith, Charlie Burse & His Memphis Mudcats, winsome themes from Fountains of Wayne, snark from The Harlem Hamfats, and recent relevance from The Devil Makes Three. While April 20th has passed, the topic is a lively one here in California these days and we’re mostly on friendly terms with the weed…even for those that don’t imbibe. The fact is, we have the freedom to do so if we so choose, right?
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Fountains Of Wayne
Planet Of Weed
Traffic And Weather
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Willie Nelson/Snoop Dogg/Kris Kristofferson/Jamey Johnson
Roll Me Up (Album version)
Heroes
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Hugh Laurie
The Weed Smoker's Dream
Didn't It Rain (Deluxe)
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Bea Foote
Weed
The Ultimate 30's & 40's Reefer Songs
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Andy Kirk And His Twelve Clouds Of Joy
All The Jive Is Gone
The Ultimate 30's & 40's Reefer Songs
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Buck Washington
Save The Roach For Me
The Ultimate 30's & 40's Reefer Songs
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Don Redman & His Orchestra
Chant of the Weed
When Hemp Was Hip
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Buster Bennett
Reefer Head Woman
Chronological Buster Bennett (1945-1947)
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Charlie Burse & His Memphis Mudcats
Weed Smoking Mama
Memphis Highway Stomp
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The Toyes
Smoke Two Joints
Dr. Demento 30th Anniversary Collection: Dementia 2000: Disc 2
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Harlan Pepper
Reefer
The Alternate Root 420 Sampler
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Neil Young
Roll Another Number (For The Road)
Tonight's The Night
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Trixie Smith
Jack I'm Mellow
The Ultimate 30's & 40's Reefer Songs
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Ray Charles
Let's Go Get Stoned
Genius – The Ultimate Ray Charles Collection
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Barney Bigard Sextet
Sweet Marihuana Brown
The Ultimate 30's & 40's Reefer Songs
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The Cats & The Fiddle
Killin' Jive
The Ultimate 30's & 40's Reefer Songs
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Fats Waller
The Reefer Song
Last Testament His Final Recor
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Cab Calloway
Reefer Man
The Ultimate 30's & 40's Reefer Songs
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Tampa Red & The Chicago Five
I'm Gonna Get High
The Ultimate 30's & 40's Reefer Songs
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The Harlem Hamfats
Weed Smokers' Dream
The Ultimate 30's & 40's Reefer Songs
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Julia Lee
Marijuana
Kansas City Star [Disc 4]
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Larry Adler
Smoking Reefers
The Ultimate 30's & 40's Reefer Songs
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Ella Fitzgerald With Chick Webb & His Orchestra
Wacky Dust
The Ultimate 30's & 40's Reefer Songs
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The Devil Makes Three
Champagne And Reefer
Redemption & Ruin
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Bob Dylan & The Band
Rainy Day Women #12 & #35 [Live]
The Complete, Historic "Isle Of Wight" Concert, 1969 (Remixed and Remastered 2013)
Mellow R&B from a broad spectrum of performers who made a mark in the decade or so that preceded rock ‘n roll’s infancy. Indeed, they participated in the birth of the form with a sound that included the vocal quartet, jump and swing, and an incessant beat that could not be ignored. We’ll hear from the ‘feisty females’ of the day: Varetta Dillard, Blue Lu Barker, Big Maybelle, and Bernice Gooden right alongside Buddy Johnson’s Orchestra, the Three Bits of Rhythm, The Cats & the Fiddle, and Luke Jones and the Orchestra. Deeper Roots digs into a collection of tracks, some familiar, some from so deep in the archives that the dust is part of the sound, on another Friday evening of American roots sounds for Sonoma County community radio.
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Wild Bill Moore (vocal: Scatman)
Rock 'N' Roll
Hot R&B and Cool Blues 1946-52
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Luke Jones and His Orchestra
Rompin' the Boogie
More Mellow Cats & Kittens
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Butch Stone & His Orchestra
Ooh, Look A There Ain't She Pretty
Hot R&B and Cool Blues 1946-52
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Three Bits of Rhythm
Root Beer Sizzle Sazzle Sizzle
Hot R&B and Cool Blues 1946-52
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Bebopper Lulu and Her Orchestra
Mellow Scat
More Mellow Cats & Kittens
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Slim Gaillard
Rhythm Mad
Laughing in Rhythm: Groove Juice Special [Disc 2]
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Three Bits Of Rhythm
The Man That Comes To My House
Further Mellow Cats'n'Kittens – Hot R&B And Cool Blues 1946-1951
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Coleman Brothers
Raise A Rukus Tonight
Hot Harmony Groups 1941-1949: Vol 3: When the Old Gang
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Austin McCoy
Happy Pay Day Part 1
More Mellow Cats & Kittens
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Nappy Brown
Pitter Patter
The R&B Years 1955 – Vol 2
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Teddy Bunn With The Hootie McShann Trio
In The Oven
Further Mellow Cats'n'Kittens – Hot R&B And Cool Blues 1946-1951
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The Herb Fisher Trio
Don't Want Nobody Else
More Mellow Cats & Kittens
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Luke Jones & His Orchestra
Jump Me Some Boogie
Further Mellow Cats'n'Kittens – Hot R&B And Cool Blues 1946-1951
Just ahead of World War II, a sound began to bubble up through the floorboards. There was the new, brash, swinging sound of big bands, country swing had surfaced, and jazz was alive and well as an evident inspiration to both. But there was a raw, bluesy, expressive, jump sound coming from the barrooms and halls of the urban expanses of Chicago, Kansas City, New York City, and beyond; something that would become known as R&B and would later be the bedrock of rock and roll. Deeper Roots explores the sounds of Big Joe Turner, Wynonie Harris, Buddy Johnson and a host of others, including the ladies: Effie Smith, Nellie Lutcher, Julia Lee, and Viola Wells. This episode has them all and more…
Fat Tuesday or, translated to French, Mardi Gras, comes but once a year and signals the penitential season of Lent. It also provides us with an outlet for the many things that we do as part of our celebration. One of them involves the backdrop of music. We’ll visit the sounds introduced by the Second Line of “Sugar Boy” Crawford, Fats Domino, and Stop, Inc. We’ll follow with The Meters, Bo Dollis and The Wild Magnolias, Louis Armstrong, and many others in a show that separates our locales by almost 2000 miles. Join Dave Stroud for the big beat coming from the French Quarter, Bourbon Street, and the Mississippi waterfront in our newest episode, another produced exclusively for KWTF, 88.1 FM, member-supported community radio for Bodega Bay, Sonoma County, California.
In this episode of Deeper Roots Dave Stroud digs into the sounds of Harlem in the 1930s. From the Lafayette Theater to the Savoy Ballroom to the Cotton Club… experience the music of the Harlem Renaissance where jazz clubs gave many a place to let loose and celebrate in the face of the Depression’s impact in the streets outside. We’ll hear the energetic sounds of Chick Webb, Ethel Waters, Buster Bailey and a host of others.
