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Playlist for October 13, 2009 from 12:00AM - 3:00AM

Current New Orleans Time: Fri, 5:39pm

Playlist Date & Time: 10/13/2009 12:00AM - 3:00AM

Program: Contemporary Jazz with Mockingbird

Today is Pharoah Sanders' birfday, as well as the 100th anniversary of Art Tatum's birth.  ...Auspicious, ain't it?  We've got a little extra Sun Ra in here as well, since he's the man what christened Sanders "Pharoah."

Playlist Tracks

Pharoah Sanders
"Black Unity"
Black Unity
1971
Art Tatum
"Tatum Pole Boogie"
Piano Starts Here: Live at the Shrine
Grandtruther
"Warsaw Radio Mast"
Altitude, disc one
2007
Charlie Hunter, Bobby Previte, and John Medeski. Part of Grandtruther's "Latitude, Longitude, Altitude" series. Neat.O.
Pharoah Sanders
"Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt"
The Impulse Story
The song was recorded in 1966; "The Impulse Story" CD was released in 2006.
Sun Ra & his Myth Science Arkestra
"Adventure Equation"
Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy/Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow
1963
Mo'Rockin Project
"Muhal"
Tajine
2009
Sun Ra & his Arkestra
"Deep Purple"
Deep Purple
This track features Stuff Smith on that eerily beautiful violin. Recorded at Sun Ra's house in 1953 (note the telephone ringing in the background), it wasn't released until 1973.
Dirty Three
"I Remember A Time When Once You Used to Love Me"
Horse Stories
Gutbucket
"More More Bigger Better Faster With Cheese"
A Modest Proposal
2009
Otra
"Candela"
Todo Pa'La Gente
Go see these folks perform in New Orleans; they're wonderful!
Pharoah Sanders
"Mas in Brooklyn"
Shukuru
Medeski, Scofield, Martin & Wood
"Tequila and Chocolate"
Out Louder
Skerik's Syncopated Taint Septet
"Taming the Shrew"
Husky
Fast 'N' Bulbous
"Ice Rose"
Waxed Oop
2009
Stefon Harris & Blackout
"Shake It For Me"
Urbanus
2009
Skerik's Syncopated Taint Septet
"Fry His Ass"
Husky
Pharoah Sanders
"The Bird Song"
Welcome to Love
Grandtruther
"Mariana Trench"
Altitude, disc two
Pharoah Sanders
"Japan"
Tauhid
Sun Ra
"El Is a Sound of Joy"
Sound of Joy
1957