RoCM Playlist: 07 Dec 2024
So today – Dec 7th – is the 75th birthday of Tom Waits. If you’ve tuned into the RoCM for any length of time – you can probably guess that I am a bit of a fan of his music. We end the first hour with a couple of tunes from his 1976 appearance on Vin Scelsa‘s “Idiot’s Delight“, recorded a week after Waits’ 27th birthday.
Incidentally, Vin Scelsa had a 47 year run on the airwaves of NYC until he retired in 2015.
As far as the playlist for this week, there a track from Billy Higgins, who has appeared on at least a dozen tracks featured on RoCM but this is his first track as a bandleader. There is an unintentionally rare from Yusef Lateef, as well as some standards from the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Jeanne Lee, and Muhal Richard Abrams. The track by the Frank Lowe – Billy Bang Quartet is also very much worth your time.
That track by Norman Howard – a rare track that was only available on cassette when it was released – is also amazing
Don’t forget that you can listen to the RoCM online at KCSB-FM’s website and there’s an online archive available for two weeks after the show airs.
| Time | Artist | Song | Release | Song note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4:00:16 PM | The Blackbyrds | Supernatural Feeling | Walking in Rhythm: The Essential Selection 1973 -1980 | |
| 4:09:29 PM | Adele Sebastian | Man From Tanganyika | Desert Fairy Princess | Roberto Miranda – Bass |
| 4:17:43 PM | Nat Adderley | Don’t Look Back | Don’t Look Back | Nat Adderley – cornet |
| 4:27:12 PM | Norman Howard | Soul Resurrection | Signals | Joe Phillips – Alto Saxophone |
| 4:35:13 PM | Muhal Richard Abrams | Ja Do Thu | Lifea Blinec | Muhal Richard Abrams – piano, percussion, conductor |
| 4:45:24 PM | Tom Waits | The Piano Has Been Drinking | Nighthawks At The Radio (WNEW Vin Scelsa’s Idiots Delight) | |
| 4:50:36 PM | Tom Waits | I Can’t Wait To Get Off Work | Nighthawks At The Radio (WNEW Vin Scelsa’s Idiots Delight) | |
| 5:00:10 PM | Abbey Lincoln | Long as You’re Living (Recorded Live at the Keystone Korner, 1980) | Sophisticated Abbey (Recorded Live at the Keystone Korner, 1980) | Abbey Lincoln – vocals |
| 5:06:51 PM | Billy Higgins | Soweto (feat. Cedar Walton, Bob Berg, Tony Dumas) | Soweto | Billy Higgins – drums, guitar, vocals |
| 5:16:22 PM | Art Ensemble of Chicago | Rock Out | Message to Our Folks | Lester Bowie – trumpet, percussion instruments |
| 5:27:17 PM | Yusef Lateef | Last Night Blues | Live at Ronnie Scott’s: 15th January 1966 | Yusef Lateef – flute, shenai, xun, tenor saxophone |
| 5:37:19 PM | Billy Bang – Frank Lowe Quartet | Know your ennemy | One For Jazz | Ed Schuller – Bass |
| 5:47:23 PM | Jeanne Lee | Angel Chile | Conspiracy | Jeanne Lee – vocals |
| 5:55:22 PM | Tom Lehrer | The Old Dope Peddler (Live) | An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer |
