The Tune Up plays an evolving mix of jazz which blends between classic, experimental and raw sounds. The first track, Ode To Pharoah was sampled by Navy Blue in ‘Ode2MyLove’. Pianist Cedar Walton is featured on the next two tracks: a version of ‘Naima’ by Steve Grossman and ‘Father And Son’ by Freddie Hubbard. Following up is more great hard bop. Ending the mix with a soul track as usual, I played Norris Vines and The Luvlines with ‘Give In’ – released in Canada on Smile Records in 1977.
Tracks played:
Azar Lawrence – Ode To Pharoah
Steve Grossman, Cedar Walton, David Williams, Billy Higgins – Naima
Freddie Hubbard – Father And Son
Jackie McLean – Just For Now
Duke Pearson – Fly Little Bird Fly
Shirley Scott – Shades Of Bu
Oscar Peterson – Wandering
Joni Mitchell – Black Crow (Live)
Gil Scott-Heron – Spirits
João Bosco – A Nível De…
Norris Vines and The Luvlines – Give In
The Tune Up airs here on CKMS Radio Waterloo every Friday from 6-7pm.
The Tune Up plays an evolving mix of jazz which blends between classic, experimental and raw sounds. This week starts off with a recent release I discovered from New Zealand pianist Judy Bailey – Album is Colours released in 2024. It flows into a spiritual jazz theme, including my favourtive John Coltrane track from A Love Supreme. Then two amazing Pharoah Sanders songs to keep it going.
Tracks played:
Judy Bailey Quartet – Colours of My Dream
Fitz Gore and The Talismen – Musication
John Coltrane – A Love Supreme, Pt. II – Resolution
Pharoah Sanders – Love is Here 1 (Live in Paris 1975)
Pharoah Sanders – You’ve Got To Have Freedom
Billy Robinson – Quebec On My Mind
Robert Glasper – Soundcheck One
Robert Glasper – Rm 112
Robert Glasper – Rm 112 (Flipped by Karriem Riggins)
DopeGems – Journey to The Shore
Oscar Peterson Trio – Easy Listening Blues
Antonio Carlos Jobim – Aguas De Marco
The Tune Up airs here on CKMS Radio Waterloo every Friday from 6-7pm.
The Tune Up plays an evolving mix of jazz which blends between classic, experimental and raw sounds. Stay tunned for the Pete Rock, J-Dilla themed jazz/ hip-hop second half. Happy Friday and I hope you enjoy!
Tracks played:
Jimmy Witherspoon, Ben Webster – Just a Dream
Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five – Buzz me Blues
Lord Kitchener – Kitch’s Bebop Calypso
Dizzy Gillespie – Anthropology (Take 1)
James Brown – It’s Magic
Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson – After You’re Gone
Thelonious Monk – I’m Confessin’ (That I Love You)
Sadik Hakim – London Suite
Eugene McDaniels – Lovin’ Man
Sa-ra Creative Partners – Love Czars
J-Dilla – Ahmad Impresses Me
Badbadnotgood – The World Is Yours / Brooklyn Zoo
Pete Rock – Pete’s Jazz
Roy Ayers – Sunshine (Demo)
Sammy Campbell – Suga Would Ya
The Tune Up airs here on CKMS Radio Waterloo every Friday from 6-7pm.
The Tune Up plays an evolving mix of jazz which blends between classic, experimental and raw sounds. This week’s mix starts with Autumn In New York off of the Charlie Parker With Strings album, since it’s almost fall time! The first half is themed around old-timey jazz that just sounds cozy. Then, a few cool tracks I discovered recently including a smooth cover of Al Green’s Let’s Stay Together by pianist Monty Alexander.
Tracks Played
Charlie Parker – Autumn In New York
Harry James Orchestra – On The Alamo
Maynard Ferguson – I’ll Never Forget Her Name
Wild Bill Davis – I’ve Frown Accustomed to Your Face
Lester Young, Oscar Peterson Trio – Star Dust
Jan Johansson – An Interview with a Piano
Ahmad Jamal Trio – Stolen Moments
Freddie Hubbard, Woody Shaw – The Moontrane
Norman Connors – The Creator Has a Master Plan
Monty Alexander – Let’s Stay Together
Idris Muhammad – Piece of Mind
Reggie Saddler Revue – I’ve Been Trying
The Tune Up airs here on CKMS Radio Waterloo every Friday from 6-7pm.
The Tune Up plays an evolving mix which blends between classic, experimental and raw jazz sounds. This week’s mix has an organ theme in the first half. Hear Freddie Roach, Jack McDuff, John Patton and Richard Groove Holmes on the first 4 tracks, respectively.
Tracks Played:
Freddie Roach – On Our Way Up
Grant Green – Blues In Maude’s Flat
Harold Vick – Dotty’s Dream
Richard “Groove” Holmes – Oklahoma Toad
Norman Connors, Jean Carn – Valentine Love
Average White Band – A Love of Your Own
Norman Connors – Butterfly Dreams
Doug Riley – In My Life
Kamaal Williams, Darkhouse Family – New Heights (Visions of Aisha Malik)
The Kimba Unit – Tezeta
The Tune Up airs on CKMS Radio Waterloo every Friday from 6-7pm.
Welcome to the 4th edition of the show. This week I will get right into the jazz music I’ve been enjoying. There is a wide variety of sounds in the mix, including modern blends of jazz and hip hop, Like from Astrocolor’s Stargazing – AstroJazz, Vol. 2 album from 2024, Brahja’s self-titled released in 2019, and SGJAZZ’s self-titled from 2019.
I also just got back from the Montreal Jazz Festival, so I’m playing songs from Kamasi Washington and Kokoroko, which were two great shows that I saw. I am also including Badbadnotgood with a Legend of Zelda, Ocarina of Time medley, which I think is apt since the remake of the game was recently announced.
Tracks played:
Joe Henderson – Without A Song
Mike Longo – Ocean of his might
Duval Timothy – Ghostnotes (Feat Bernard Purdie)
Brahja – Keepers
Astrocolor – Time Internal
Kamasi Washington – Final Thought
Kokoroko – Just Can’t Wait
SGJAZZ, Dr. Dundiff – Like Glue
Chet Baker – What’ll I Do
Badbadnotgood – Title Theme / Saria’s Song / Song Of Storms
Colin Stetson – Passage
The Tune Up airs on CKMS-FM every Friday from 6-7pm
Welcome to the show! This week I’m playing more of my recent favourite jazz records. This mix is saxophone-heavy again. In the second half I shift to some spiritual jazz from Ottawa by the Antlantis Jazz Ensemble, some jazz-folk from the Tara Clerkin Trio, R&B/jazz by River Tiber. To end the mix I played Private Room by RAD, which I discovered as the funky sample behind MIKE’s You’re the Only One Watching.
Welcome to the first show! I’m playing some of my favourite jazz records as of late. This mix features a lot of Hard Bop, raw sounds and fast tempos. Also playing two of my favourites from Sonny Rollins to celebrate his wonderful music.
Stick around for the last few tracks to hear some amazing modern stuff from Toronto: Archie Alleyne and Doug Richardson, BADBADNOTGOOD. Then, a recent Robert Glasper track from 2024 that flows directly from the timeless 60s-era sounds. Hope you enjoy.
Tracks Played:
Bobby Hutcherson – 8/4 Beat (1968)
Mankunku Quartet – Bessie’s Blues (1968)
Oscar Peterson Trio – Days of Wine and Roses (1964)
Sonny Rollins – Moving Out (RVG Remastered 2009) (1954)
Sonny Rollins – Striver’s Row (Live At The Village Vanguard/1957) (1958)
Yusef Lateef – Blue Rocky (1960)
Cannonball Adderley, Bill Evans – Toy (1961)
Nancy Wilson, Cannonball Adderley – Save Your Love For Me (1960)
“The nail sticking up gets hammered down.”Japanese proverb
Chunka jazz tonight. Yabby U too!
Bert sings about heroin and a death.
…a chocolate honey voice
Binge watching Pinky and the Brain
Reading Philip K Dick and Harlan Ellison
loop guru-aphrodites shoe
this mortal coil-drugs
nico-the sphinx
carlos alberto jimenez-no you didn’t (Can) (New)
king curtis-da duh dah
steve holt jazz impact quintet-impact (Can) (New)
black uhuru-mercy street
lucky dube-house of exile
marley-no more trouble
yabby u-deliver me from my enemies
dierks bentley-senor
jake buggs-seen it all
tia blake-hangman
john renbourn-can’t keep from crying
bert jansch-needle of death
persuasions-its you that i need
al green-take me to the river
clarence carter-slip away
james brown-it’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World
otis redding-i’ve been loving you
joan armatrading-love and affection
annie lennox-train in vain
love spit love-am I wrong
matt good-i’m a window (Can)
Got this promo from Thomas and he wanted the station to play it.F’n amazing for a one man band! Go and watch the video.He did it too.Raw.Reminds me of me way back then.Punk is just too mean to die… it’s about your phone
Some 40’s jazz to start.It always amazes me how talented musicians have been. Artie Shaw was one of Americas finest arrangers.400 years from now his work will be viewed as modern classical.The completely forgotten Boswell Sisters who have yet to be equaled in their stylistic approach, an early blues diva and a standard from Joe turner.
This weeks movie recommendation Wild in the Streets.A 1968 milestone dystopian vision of how the young come to power in the future.They eventually start dosing anyone over 45 with lsd.Fourteen and fight!
Some ugly songs about death and America.
Ex Airplane guitarist Jorma Kaukonen and vocal gymnastics by Ellen Macillwaine.
Poetry/music from three Canadians and some truth from the islands.
This weeks recommended site. bbc.uk.boys from the blackstuff. A gritty 5 episode tv play written by Alan Bleasdale.Life viewed from the perspective of the poor.Gripping and heartrending.Early 80’s.
No ska tonight.They’re locked up under the stairs for being upstarts with a bad attitude.
artie shaw-st james infirmary
boswell sisters-It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing
bessie smith-do your duty
j turner-st louis blues
john martyn-john wayne
nice cave-tupelo
violent femme-hallowed ground
joan osbourne-the man in the long black coat
will white-mournin doves
be good tanya-in my time of dying
johnsmith-ring that bell
tracy nelson-baby please don’t go
jorma kaukonen-another mans done gone
ellen mcillwaine-down so low
harry manx-lay down my worries
john mayall-sensitive kind
chris whitley-radar
matt good-weapon
doors-the wasp
hip-the luxury
marley-zimbabwe
ub40-1 in 10 dub
marley peter tosh bunny wailer-Downpressor Man
toots-living in the ghetto
Fundraising is starting up so go to the sites donate button to help us out.
Thanks from the crew
A tyrant pawn is in place.Welcome to the Apocalypse.It’s not my first.
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you”. Nietzsche
You know going through all that time in the sixties when you maybe got a bag that was half seeds from your local seller to now when you can light up a spliff of government approved and taxed pot is quite a big step.
Lots of people went to jail so you can sit there and enjoy some tunes.If you can, apply for a parole tomorrow. Do it. It’s your right.
Download the shows here from my dropbox account.https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/qwqeyu6i980e81efoxtaa/AAgRoQnNRX8RckBoeV_RV0Q?rlkey=41vdpfemwtd4dwyjirjfzao5g&dl=0
I hope.
This weeks recommended movie Conspiracy Theory with Mel Gibson.They don’t want you to see this.
A twisted version of a pulp song.
A sixteen year old girl that sounds old and wise.
“Great sorrows cannot speak”. John Donne
Looking for some slam poets to submit their spoken words.If you can take a minute and give wisdom I want to put it in the show.Short and sweet like a razor fight in a dark room type of thing.
This weeks recommended sitehttps://ocula.com.nice selection of modern art
All this and ska too!
gregory isaacs-night nurse
rob symeonn-chosen one
leroy sibbles-garden of life
senya-children of the ghetto
jj cale-right down here
taj mahal-she caught the katy
dr john-jump sturdy
tom waits-till the money runs out
jam-running on the spot
stranglers-toiler
william shatner and joe jackson-common people
carter usm-twenty minutes to tulse hill.
pearl jam-yellow ledbetter
hendrix-angel
stevie ray vaughan-little wing
tracy nelson-trust no man
tracy nelson-candy man
tracy nelson-rambin man
tracy nelson-jesus met the woman
tracy nelson-long old road
tracy nelson-house of the rising sun
morcheeba-never an easy way
massive attack-blue lines
burning spear-the ghost
bunch of believers-mission trip
selector-on my radio 91
bad manners-wooly bully
ska dows-yes yes yes
beat- tears of a clown live
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New stuff from Valerie June. Go get’em kid. pulled this from the huge pile of music we get each week. this is one of the good ones.
Dolly Cooper too! And more pre motown divas
Just so much fantastic music that you don’t hear anywhere else.
“Spite is the weapon of the weak.”
Movie of the week. Hotdocs collection. Pax Americana and the weaponization of space. Disects the science of world control through the use of space technology and the billions of dollars involved.
Hope to see you at the party Saturday night.Come out and support this great station.Hit the poster for more info.
valerie june-sweet things just for you (Can) (New)
duffy-mercy
dolly lyon-palm of your hand
sugar pie dos santos-soulful dress
dolly cooper-ay la bas
-big rock inn
nightstep-i’d love to change the world
hollywood mon amour-forbidden colours
dead can dance-persian love song
holger czukay-persian love song
brian auger-inner city blues
ramsey lewis-wade in the water
style council-micks up
wes montgomery-bumpin on sunset
pale tv-night toys
furs-pulse
jam-in the city
joe jackson-beat crazy
stranglers-who wants the world
real sickies-no refund (Can) (New)
jim carol-people who died
nofx-whoops I od’d
offspring-what happened to you
rancid-timebomb
dick dale-nitro
los straightjacket-bobsledding
urban surf kings-go go island
hawaii samurai-too drunk to surf
atomic mosquitoes-cool action tune
challengers-k 39
king hammond-skaville uk
skabusters
originals-play my record
yum yum yum-japanese ska
skindred-twist and crawl
my older shows are being rebroadcast tuesday nights at 9pm.free no crap!
From punky power pop to symphonic interpretations of Philip Glass all in two hours.Only here at no crap.
Glimpse of the true face of slum level poverty just next road over on Beasley St, a call out to King Selasse, proof Iggy won’t never die and complex rhythm patterns from the desert.
A mid career billy holiday and the same song done by Kelly lee Evens with a Louis Jorden for fun. From sometime in the fifties (lots of his music developed into rock and roll believe it or not).
This weeks movie.THX 1138 with Robert Duvall.The Future is Here. Learn from it. Or suffer. The choice is yours.
This weeks recommended site.https://www.azquotes.com.Wisdom in one or two sentences.A fascinating technique for increasing intelligence is by reading a quote a day.
“Your greatest weapon is your enemy’s mind”.Buddha
I’ve been creative all of my life and it feels nice being back here at the station doing creative stuff.Artists are usually more concerned with being creative than having money.
Lets go…
Bowie – look back in anger
Peaches – search and destroy
Call – turn a blind eye
X – identity
YYY – tick
Chris Spedding – hurt by love
Beat generation – highway 61
Bob Segar – nutbush city limits
Steve ray Vaughan – if the house is rockin
Colin James – breaking up the house.
David Wilcox – hot hot papa.
Jerry Lee Lewis – rock and roll
John Cooper Clarke – Beasley st.
Graham Parker – Here it comes again
Johnny Cash – won’t back down
Augustus Pablo – Chant to King Selassi
Black uhuru – dreadlock pallbearer
Heptones – cool rasta
Muslimgauze – Bhutto
Empty quarter – Black Sage
Eric Random – one mans trash.
Loop guru – Soulless
Oscar Peterson – baby ain’t I good to you
Billy Holiday – love me or leave me
Louis Jorden – is you is or is you ain’t my baby
Kelly lee evans – love me or leave me
Album leaf – outer banks
Moby – look back in
Bjork – hyper ballad
Cure – to wish impossible things
In the Nursery – Judgement of Paris
Kronos Quartet – 2 short Philip Glass pieces from Mishima
Lastly, fundraising time is coming up and as always if you can donate your cash, ides or time we would appreciate it.We’re not here without you.
You know going through all that time in the sixties when you maybe got a bag that was half seeds from your local seller to now when you can light up a spliff of government approved and taxed pot is quite a big step.
Lots of people went to jail so you can sit there and enjoy some tunes.If you can, apply for a parole tomorrow. Do it.
Download the shows here from my dropbox account.https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/qwqeyu6i980e81efoxtaa/AAgRoQnNRX8RckBoeV_RV0Q?rlkey=41vdpfemwtd4dwyjirjfzao5g&dl=0
This weeks recommended movie Conspiracy Theory with Mel Gibson.They don’t want you to see this.
A twisted version of a pulp song.
A sixteen year old girl that sounds old and wise.
“Great sorrows cannot speak”. John Donne
Looking for some slam poets to submit their spoken words.If you can take a minute and give wisdom I want to put it in the show.Short and sweet like a razor fight in a dark room type of thing.
This weeks recommended sitehttps://ocula.com.nice selection of modern art
All this and ska too!
gregory isaacs-night nurse
rob symeonn-chosen one
leroy sibbles-garden of life
senya-children of the ghetto
jj cale-right down here
taj mahal-she caught the katy
dr john-jump sturdy
tom waits-till the money runs out
jam-running on the spot
stranglers-toiler
william shatner and joe jackson-common people
carter usm-twenty minutes to tulse hill.
pearl jam-yellow ledbetter
hendrix-angel
stevie ray vaughan-little wing
tracy nelson-trust no man
tracy nelson-candy man
tracy nelson-rambin man
tracy nelson-jesus met the woman
tracy nelson-long old road
tracy nelson-house of the rising sun
morcheeba-never an easy way
massive attack-blue lines
burning spear-the ghost
bunch of believers-mission trip
selector-on my radio 91
bad manners-wooly bully
ska dows-yes yes yes
beat- tears of a clown live
You can hear my regular shows friday night at midnight.
Hey, hit the poster about the party we’ve got going for the 15th of the month.Hit another button and vote for your favourite show here.You must get involved in the station for us to be able to do what we do.Everybody here, at least on the board level, work very hard to keep all this great programming coming to you.Local and Free.Help keep it that way.
1 ska track (couldn’t help myself)
No movie this week.A book instead.The Tibetan Book of the Dead. rereading it and like every religious text it has good and bad points.Its dense content involves the event of passage after death.Nirvana of course is at the end but usually we stumble and get sent back here to learn our lessons.Frightening that it seems to describe my own genetic memory.The wheel turns.There are 49 days between death and rebirth.
From punky power pop to symphonic interpretations of Philip Glass all in two hours.Only here at no crap.
Glimpse of the true face of slum level poverty just next road over on Beasley St, a call out to King Selasse, proof Iggy won’t never die and complex rhythm patterns from the desert.
A mid career Billy Holiday and the same song done by Kelly lee Evens with a Louis Jorden for fun. From sometime in the fifties (lots of his music developed into rock and roll believe it or not).
This weeks movie.THX 1138 with Robert Duvall.The Future is Here.The methods may change but the spirit of the human can’t.We are hardwired into wanting freedom.
Coming soon.The bestest news.Yup, all internet fresh and mostly believable.Honest.
This weeks recommended site.https://www.azquotes.com.Wisdom in one or two sentences.A fascinating technique for increasing intelligence is by reading a quote a day.
“Your greatest weapon is your enemy’s mind”.Buddha
I’ve been creative all of my life and it feels nice being back here at the station doing creative stuff.Artists are usually more concerned with being creative than having money.
Lets go…
Bowie – look back in anger
Peaches – search and destroy
Call – turn a blind eye
X – identity
YYY – tick
Chris Spedding – hurt by love
Beat generation – highway 61
Bob Segar – nutbush city limits
Steve ray Vaughan – if the house is rockin
Colin James – breaking up the house.
David Wilcox – hot hot papa.
Jerry Lee Lewis – rock and roll
John Cooper Clarke – Beasley st.
Graham Parker – Here it comes again
Johnny Cash – won’t back down
Augustus Pablo – Chant to King Selassi
Black uhuru – dreadlock pallbearer
Heptones – cool rasta
Muslimgauze – Bhutto
Empty quarter – Black Sage
Eric Random – one mans trash.
Loop guru – Soulless
Oscar Peterson – baby ain’t I good to you
Billy Holiday – love me or leave me
Louis Jorden – is you is or is you ain’t my baby
Kelly lee evans – love me or leave me
Album leaf – outer banks
Moby – look back in
Bjork – hyper ballad
Cure – to wish impossible things
In the Nursery – Judgement of Paris
Kronos Quartet – 2 short Philip Glass pieces from Mishima.
Catch my regular program every friday night at midnight for lots more music you won’t hear nowhere else.
Here’s my dropbox address so you can d/l some previous shows and keep them forever!
We have a big party coming up on the 15th of march at club ouroboros.Take a look at our site for all the info.Join the programers from the station for a night of fine entertainment from some great local artists. We’re not here without you.
You can vote for your favourite show as well. Yeah, this one if you like.
“The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.”Oppenheimer
