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…as played by Kronos Quartet.
This one just seemed to fit this moment of this day.

Flugufrelsarinn by Sigur Ros, played by Kronos Quartet. Video credit thanks to mead2000!

Wayne “Frosty Freeze” Frost, a hip-hop pioneer whose acrobatic performance with the legendary Rock Steady Crew in the 1983 movie “Flashdance” helped set off a worldwide breakdancing craze, has died. He was 44. Breakdancing emerged from the Bronx and Harlem in the early 1970s, part of the hip-hop culture that also included graffiti, MCing or rapping, and disc jockeys scratching and mixing vinyl records on turntables. Frost was known for many things including his energetic style, intricate choreography and fearless moves including back flips & head spins. One was even dubbed the “Suicide.” Frost got his start back in 1978 with the Bronx-based Rock City Crew. In 1981, he became part of the Rock Steady Crew, joining such acclaimed breakdancers as Ken Swift and Lil Crazy Legs. Frost toured the world with the Rock Steady Crew and other hip-hop artists, including Fab 5 Freddy, Futura 2000 and Kool Lady Blue. Graffiti artist and close friend Zulu King Slone, who knew Frost for 15 years, said he was “like a walking hip-hop culture encyclopedia.”

Young Stephen and Ziggy from the Reggae Sunsplash, 1981 - A Tribute To Bob Marley!

Be Blessed.

Cuban bassist & composer Israel “Cachao” Lopez, who is credited with pioneering the mambo style of music, died Saturday. He was 89. Known simply as Cachao, the Grammy-winning musician left communist Cuba and came to the United States in the early 1960s. He continued to perform into his late 80s, including a performance after the death of trombonist Generoso Jimenez in September 2007. Cachao was born in Havana in 1918 to a family of musicians. A classically trained bassist, he began performing with the Havana symphony orchestra as a teenager, working under the baton of visiting guest conductors, such as Herbert von Karajan, Igor Stravinsky and Heitor Villa-Lobos, during his nearly 30-year career with the orchestra. He also wrote hundreds of songs in Cuba for bands & orchestras, many based on the classic Cuban music style known as son. He and his late brother, multi-instrumentalist Orestes Lopez, created the mambo in the late 1930s. The mambo emerged from their improvisational work with the danzon, an elegant musical style that lends itself to slow dancing. The mambo was embraced early on and Cuban composers & jazz musicians have tweaked it over the years. It also influenced the development of salsa music. In the 1950s, Cachao and his friends began popularizing the descarga (”discharge” in Spanish), a raucous jam session incorporating elements of jazz & Afro-Cuban musical approaches. Cachao left Cuba in 1962, relocating first to Spain and soon afterward to New York, where he was hired to perform at the Palladium nightclub with the leading Latin bands. In the United States, he collaborated with such Latin music stars as Tito Puente, Tito Rodrigues, Machito, Chico O’Farrill, Eddie Palmieri and Gloria Estefan. In 2006, Cachao was honored at two Jazz at Lincoln Center concerts with the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra paying tribute to the Latin bass tradition. Cachao also led a mambo all-star band at a JVC Jazz Festival program at Carnegie Hall that year.

so much new music so little time. I thought about a music share, just letting your eyes see what my ears are taking in and I certainly hope to get as much of these artists and these albums on the airwaves as soon as possible. From my sandbox to yours:

Huong Thanh & Nguyen Le- Fragile Beauty
Marcus Miller- Marcus
Four Finger Five
Putumayo presents Euro Groove
the Sparkiovoggel- sample platter
Phil Anastasia- the Outfit Movement Vol.1
Matana Roberts- the Chicago Project
Dengue Fever- Venus on Earth
Uri Caine- the Classical Variations
Ethiopiques= #23
Lee “Scratch” Perry- Chicken Scratch
Rob Fried- Wind Song
Sol Creech Band- Freedom
Brothers of the Baladi- Just do What’s Right
Elliott Sharps’s Terraplane- Forgery
In the Name of Love- Africa Celebrates U2
Eric Sardinas & Big Motor
Bob Brozman Orchestra- Lumiere
Chet Atkins & Les Paul- Chester & Lester
Quartet San Francisco- Whirled Chamber Music
Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad- Slow Down
RAQ- Live
Travis Sullivan’s Bjorkestra- Enjoy!
I’m not There- Original Soundtrack
Out to Lunch- Excuse me While I do the Boogaloo
Edgar Gabriel’s Stringfusion- Not Radio Material

Canadian rocker Jeff Healy, who played his guitar flat on his lap, has passed away. Healy, 41, died in a Toronto hospital of a rare cancer - retino blastoma - that he had fought since birth and which claimed his eyesight at the age of one. “Visually, Jeff was an intriguing player to watch, because he played guitar - by any conventional standard - all wrong, with it flat across his lap,” his publicist Richard Flohil told broadcaster CTV. “But he was a remarkable, a virtuoso player.” Don’t forget folks, he was also blind. The Jeff Healy Band’s 1988 Grammy-nominated album See the Light, which included the hit “Angel Eyes”, sold more than 1 million copies in the United States. He worked with blues legends BB King and Stevie Ray Vaughn, and recorded with George Harrison, Mark Knopfler and Jimmy Rogers. Also unfortunate, at the time of his death, he was about to release his first rock-blues album in eight years - Mess of Blues.

Norman Jeff Healy March 25, 1966 – March 2, 2008

I have been invited to do a fill-in show on WORT-FM for the programThe Big Beat Tuesday 2–5pmCST, which features hard bop with the usual host Mr. Michael Kwas. It is also a chance for you to pleade your support to community radio. Wheter you are in the local Madison area or not, the rare gem of a WORT is getting more and more difficult to uncover. Please take a few moments to check thru the WORT-FM website and if you are reading this, I tend to believe this IS YOUR kind of station. But don’t take my word for it……I hope to hear from some of you tomorrow with possible pledges of any amount and we do have some really cool premiums available for you to remember how cool you were and are to pledge to listener sponsored community radio. General Phone: (608) 256-2001 or Toll Free: (866) 899-WORT (9678)

Thank you!!

this is NOT a greenarrowradio show, this is a misterG fill in.

Music video for that Funky Homosapien Del’s single “Workin It” from new his new album 11th Hour, released March 11th on Definitive Jux Records

Friend of the program Moist Paula Henderson makes the Bari Sax do magical tricks in this rendition of Love Buzz by Shocking Blue recorded at the 4th Annual Valentine’s Day LoveFest @ Sputnik in Brooklyn, New York; Shawn Banks on percussion…. Enjoy, G

Befriend Paula and tell her misterG sent you along.

Buddy Miles, the rock and R&B drummer, singer and songwriter whose eclectic career included stints playing with Jimi Hendrix and as the lead voice of the California Raisins, the animated clay figures that became an advertising phenomenon in the late 1980s, has died. He was 60. A massive man with a distinctive, sculpted afro, Miles hit his peak of popularity when he joined Hendrix and bassist Billy Cox to form Hendrix’s Band of Gypsys, which the New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll called “the first black rock group.” Miles had played with Hendrix on the guitarist’s influential “Electric Ladyland” album released in 1968. The Band of Gypsys made just one album, a live set recorded on New Year’s Eve in 1969-70, and two of Miles’ songs, “Them Changes” and “We Got to Live Together,” were included on the album. He gave the recording a memorable drum riff on one of Hendrix’s signature songs, “Machine Gun.” But, according to Miles, the Band of Gypsys association was brief and stormy. He told The Times in 1988 that Hendrix’s management, not the guitarist himself, fired him within a month of the concert. He thought Hendrix’s managers were leery of continuing with an all-black group. “It had to be a racial thing,” Miles told The Times. “I think it had to scare them because of the political aspect at the time.” Miles was born Sept. 5, 1947, in Omaha. He developed an interest in drums at an early age and by 12 was playing in his father’s jazz combo. Within a couple of years he was in demand as a session player and a sideman, working with top-name R&B groups, including Ruby and the Romantics and the Delfonics. According to the Rolling Stone encyclopedia, he played on the session that produced the Jaynetts‘ 1963 hit “Sally Go Round the Roses.” While playing with Wilson Pickett in 1967, he was approached by guitarist Mike Bloomfield, who asked him to join the blues, rock and soul group Electric Flag. Miles played on three of the band’s albums before forming his own group, the Buddy Miles Express, in 1968. Next came his association with Hendrix. Over the years, Miles recorded two albums with Carlos Santana, one of which went platinum, and worked with other leading music figures, including Muddy Waters and John McLaughlin. He re-formed the Buddy Miles Express in the mid-1970s and had a hit with his song “Them Changes.” While there is always more to a persons story, the fact is that Buddy Miles was a great drummer and it is no surprise to me that he was always affiliated with some great musicians.

Buddy Miles RIP 1947-2008

The New York Philharmonic brought musical diplomacy to the heart of communist North Korea in a historic concert Tuesday before the communist nation’s elite, playing a program highlighting American music in the nuclear-armed country that considers the United States its mortal enemy. The Philharmonic is the first major American cultural group to perform in the country and the largest delegation from the United States to visit its longtime foe. The visit grew out of a period of warming relations between the nations that remain locked in negotiations over Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons programs. The Philharmonic began the concert with “Patriotic Song” — North Korea’s national anthem — followed by the U.S. anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner.” The audience stood for both songs and applauded after. North Korean leader Kim Jong Il did not appear to be in attendance at the 2,500-seat East Pyongyang Grand Theater. The U.S. and North Korean flags were both on display at opposite ends of the stage. Following the brief prelude to Act 3 of Richard Wagner’s “Lohengrin,” the orchestra moved on to pieces that aimed to show the ensemble’s importance in American music. That included two pieces that premiered with the Philharmonic: Antonin Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9 — popularly known as the “New World Symphony,” written while the Czech composer lived in the United States and inspired by native American themes — and George Gershwin’s “An American in Paris.”

Music director Lorin Maazel directs the New York Philharmonic’s performance

The Greyboy Allstars music video for the song “Still Waiting” from the release from the 2007 release, “What Happened to Television?” Set in a juke joint populated entirely by puppets, the video (directed by Josh Hassin and Matt Goldman) features puppetry by the Philadelphia-based collective Monkeyboys, including artists from Jim Henson Studios, Crank-Yankers, Sesame Street, and Avenue Q! Produced By Akjak Moving Pictures.

Don’t miss the 4th annual Wanee Festival at the Spirit of Suwannee Music Park!

Live Oak,Florida is kickin in the springtime!!

The Allman Brothers Band
Gov’t Mule
Bob Weir & RatDog
moe.
Oteil & the Peacemakers
Levon Helm
JJ Grey & Mofro
Larry McCray Band
Scrapomatic
Bonobos Convergence
Little Brown Peach
The Frequency
Inca Maya