June 22, 2007

PLAYLIST for JUNE 27, 2007

Program Topic:

Ottawa Blues Festival: Stephen Neale guides you through the programming at the Ottawa Blues Festival, which this year runs from July 5 to 15.

Artist: Fema Kuti
Album: Shoki Shoki
Tune: Truth Don Die
Label: Barclay France / Universal

Artist: Fema Kuti
Album: Shoki Shoki
Tune: Victim of Life
Label: Barclay France / Universal

Artist: Mighty Popo
Album: Muhazi
Tune: Agasaza
Label: Tamba Music

Artist: Soul Jazz Orchestra
Album: Freedom No Go Die
Tune: Mista President
Label: Funk Mancu Records

Artist: Soul Jazz Orchestra
Album: Freedom No Go Die
Tune: The Creator Has A Master Plan
Label: Funk Mancu Records

Artist: Toronto Mass Choir
Album: Instrument of Praise
Tune: How Sweet The Name Of Jesus
Label: Micha Communications


Artist: Lucky Peterson
Album: Lifetime
Tune: Bird In The Hand
Label: Gitanes Jazz

Artist: Lucky Peterson
Album: Lucky Peterson
Tune: Tribute To Luther Allison
Label: Blue Thumb France / Universal

Artist: Ruthie Foster
Album: The Phenomenal Ruthie Foster
Tune: People Grinning In Your Face
Label: Blue Corn Music

Artist: Ruthie Foster
Album: The Phenomenal Ruthie Foster
Tune: Up Above My Head (I Hear Music In The Air)
Label: Blue Corn Music

Artist: Ndidi Onukwulu
Album: No, I Never
Tune: Horn Blower
Label: Jericho Beach Music

Artist: David Maxwell
Album: Maximum Blues Piano
Tune: Blues Don’t Bother Me
Label: Tone-Cool Records

Artist: David Maxwell
Album: Max Attack
Tune: Thank You Pinetop Perkins
Label: Dixie Frog Records

Artist: Janiva Magness
Album: Bury Him At The Crossroads
Tune: The Whale Has Swallowed Me
Label: Northern Blues

Artist: Janiva Magness
Album: Do I Move You
Tune: Bad Blood
Label: Northern Blues

Note: This listing of tracks presented here is not complete nor are they presented in order of appearance. Tracks from Buddy Guy, the Mannish Boys and possible some others still to be added. Program flow will be determined closer to air date.
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June 16, 2007

PLAYLIST for JUNE 20, 2007

Program Topic:

Strings & Things: Various stringed instruments bowed, picked, plucked and strummed.
Will include the banjo, guitar, mandolin, oud and violin.

Artist: Harry Manx & Kevin Breit
Album: In Good We Trust
Tune: Sisters
Label: Stony Plain

Artist: Harry Manx & Kevin Breit
Album: In Good We Trust
Tune: Don’t Swim, Float
Label: Stony Plain

Artist: Diane Delin
Album: Duality
Tune: I Didn’t Know What Time It Was
Label: Blujazz

Artist: Diane Delin
Album: Duality
Tune: My Melancholy Baby
Label: Blujazz

Artist: Diane Delin
Album: Offerings for a Peaceable Season
Tune: Baby It’s Cold Outside
Label: Blujazz

Artist: Dhafer Youssef
Album: Electric Sufi
Tune: Langue Muette
Label: Enja

Artist: Chris Jagger
Album: Act of Faith
Tune: On The Road
Label: Atcha!

Artist: Bobby Broom
Album: Song and Dance
Tune: Can’t Buy me love
Label: Origin

Artist: Bobby Broom
Album: Song and Dance
Tune: Blues For Modern Man
Label: Origin

Artist: Nick Moran
Album: The Messenger
Tune: Perfect Moment
Label: CAP

Artist: Nick Moran
Album: The Messenger
Tune: Sensory Awakening
Label: CAP

Artist: Cordame
Album: Cordame
Tune: Pastis a Bis
Label: Malasartes

Artist: Marie-Soliel Belanger & Normand Guilbeault
Album: Les Salines
Tune: Comme Deux Gouttes D’Eau
Label: Ambiances Magnetiques

Artist: Marie-Soliel Belanger & Normand Guilbeault
Album: Les Salines
Tune: Maree Haut
Label: Ambiances Magnetiques

Artist: Marie-Soliel Belanger & Normand Guilbeault
Album: Les Salines
Tune: Nappes Souterraines
Label: Ambiances Magnetiques

Artist: Bruce Eisenbeil
Album: Inner Constellation
Tune: Rain In the Face
Label: Nemu

Artist: Bruce Eisenbeil
Album: Inner Constellation
Tune: Cues To the Vagabond
Label: Nemu

Artist: Bruce Eisenbeil
Album: Inner Constellation
Tune: Receding Storm
Label: Nemu

Artist: Duke Robillard
Album: World Full of Blues
Tune: Slim Jenkins Joint
Label: Stony Plain

Artist: Duke Robillard
Album: World Full of Blues
Tune: Steppin’ Out
Label: Stony Plain

Artist: Duke Robillard
Album: World Full of Blues
Tune: Slam Hammer
Label: Stony Plain


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at 93.1FM in Ottawa

and around the world on the Internet at

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June 09, 2007

PLAYLIST for JUNE 13, 2007

Program Topic:

Fontella Bass: This great singer has achieved success in singing soul, jazz and gospel.
Tonight the emphasis will be on her jazz recordings.

Artist: Fontella Bass
Album: Rescued
Tune: Rescue Me
Label: Chess

Artist: Art Ensemble of Chicago
Album: Les Stances A Sophie
Tune: Theme De Yoyo
Label: Universal Sound

Artist: Art Ensemble of Chicago
Album: Les Stances A Sophie
Tune: Proverbes II
Label: Universal Sound

Artist: Art Ensemble of Chicago
Album: AEC with Fontella Bass
Tune: How Strange
Label: America

Artist: Art Ensemble of Chicago
Album: AEC with Fontella Bass
Tune: Ole Jed
Label: America

Artist: Lester Bowie
Album: The Great Pretender
Tune: The Great Pretender
Label: ECM

Artist: Lester Bowie
Album: All The Magic!
Tune: For Louie
Label: ECM

Artist: World Saxophone Quartet
Album: Breath of Life
Tune: Suffering With The Blues
Label: Elektra Nonesuch

Artist: World Saxophone Quartet
Album: Breath of Life
Tune: You Don’t Know Me
Label: Elektra Nonesuch

Artist: World Saxophone Quartet
Album: Breath of Life
Tune: Breath of Life
Label: Elektra Nonesuch

Artist: Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir
Album: I’ll Take You There
Tune: Oh La De Da
Label: Justin Time

Artist: Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir
Album: I’ll Take You There
Tune: I’ll Take You There
Label: Justin Time

Artist: Don Byron
Album: Do The Boomerang
Tune: Hewbie Steps Out
Label: Blue Note

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“In A Mellow Tone” is on CKCU every Wednesday from 9:00 to 11:00pm

at 93.1FM in Ottawa

and around the world on the Internet at

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Earlier playlists can be found at: www.inamellowtone.com

June 06, 2007

JUNE / JULY PROGRAM SCHEDULE

“IN A MELLOW TONE”


June 6 Listen Before You Buy: Ron reviews recent jazz and blues releases including Daniel Barnes, Jeri Brown, Anat Cohen, Towner Galaher, George Gee, the Komeda Project, Scott Poll, Watermelon Slim, Jane Stuart and Julian Yeo.

June 13 Fontella Bass: A tribute to this great singer who has triumphed in three worlds of music - soul, gospel and jazz. Her accompanists have included Hamiet Bluiett, Arthur Blythe, Lester Bowie, Malachi Favors, Joseph Jarman, Oliver Lake, Roscoe Mitchell, Famadou Don Moye, David Murray, Amina Claudine Myers and the Voices of St. Louis.

June 20 Strings & Things: Various stringed instruments bowed, picked, plucked and strummed by Marie-Soleil Belanger, Kevin Breit, Bobby Broom, Cordame, Diane Denlin, Bruce Eisenbeil, Harry Manx, Nick Moran and Duke Robillard.

June 27 Ottawa Blues Festival: Steven Neale guides us through the programming at the Ottawa Blues Festival, which this year runs from July 6 to 15.The schedule includes Bob Dylan, George Thorogood, George Clinton, Steve Miller, James Hunter, Bela Fleck, Janiva Magness, Ruthie Foster, Leo Kottke, Diunna Greenleaf, Randy Newman, Robert Cray, Buddy Guy, Lucky Peterson, Wartermelon Slim, Los Lobos, Sharon Jones, David Maxwell and Ndidi Onukwulu.

July 4 Listen Before You Buy: The cream of the crop of recent jazz and blues releases by Darby Dizzard, Maria Guida, Carl Ludwig Hubsch, Robin McKelle, Andre Minvielle,
Didier Petit, L’Orchestre des Pas Perdus, Alvin Queen, Paul Reddick and Tony Scott.

July 11 The Art of Sax: The art of saxophonists Mike DiRubbo, Herb Harris,
Todd Herbert, Fred Hess, Rocco John, Rob Macgregor, Fraser MacPherson, Boots Randolph
and Saco Yasuma.

July 18 Louis Armstrong in Scandinavia: We sample a four CD box on the Storyville label of Louis Armstrong recorded in Scandinavia between 1933 and 1967.

July 25 88 Date: Pianists Jacques Chanier, Alessandro D’Episcopo, Andy Emler,
Manuel Engel, Roberto Fonseca, Francois Ingold, Robert Irving, Monk’s Music Trio, Lewis Porter and Lenore Raphael.

“In A Mellow Tone” is on CKCU every Wednesday from 9:00 to 11:00pm

at 93.1FM in Ottawa, and around the world on the Internet at:

http://www.ckcufm.com/audio.html

For playlists for each program, check: http://www.inamellowtone.com

June 02, 2007

PLAYLIST for JUNE 6, 2007

Program Topic:

Listen Before You Buy: Ten very varied recent jazz and blues releases.


Artist: Julian Yeo
Album: Old New Borrowed Blue
Tune: You Took Advantage of Me
Label: Yeo

Artist: Julian Yeo
Album: Old New Borrowed Blue
Tune: Steppin’ Out with My Baby
Label: Yeo

Artist: George Gee
Album: If Dreams Come True
Tune: Sent For You Yesterday
Label: GJazz

Artist: George Gee
Album: If Dreams Come True
Tune: Gin For Xmas
Label: GJazz

Artist: Jeri Brown
Album: New Wonderland
Tune: Orange Colored Sky
Label: Justin Time

Artist: Duke Ellington
Album: Such Sweet Thunder
Tune: Sonnet For Hank Cinq
Label: Columbia

Artist: Aki Takase
Album: Plays “Fats” Waller
Tune: Your Feets Too Big
Label: Enja

Artist: Anat Cohen
Album: Poetica
Tune: The Purple Piece
Label: Anzic

Artist: Scott Poll
Album: Swingin’ In the Capital!
Tune: Stardust
Label: Pollcats

Artist: Scott Poll
Album: Swingin’ In the Capital!
Tune: Breakfast Feud
Label: Pollcats

Artist: Towner Galaher
Album: Panorama
Tune: Midtown Shuffle
Label: TGM

Artist: Daniel Barnes
Album: Classic Beauties
Tune: You and the Night Music
Label: Barnes

Artist: Jane Stuart
Album: Beginning To See the Light
Tune: Centerpiece
Label: JSM

Artist: Jane Stuart
Album: Beginning To See the Light
Tune: Four
Label: JSM

Artist: Watermelon Slim
Album: The Wheel Man
Tune: I’ve Got News
Label: Northern Blues

Artist: Watermelon Slim
Album: The Wheel Man
Tune: Jimmy Bell
Label: Northern Blues

Artist: Watermelon Slim
Album: The Wheel Man
Tune: Truck Driving Mama
Label: Northern Blues

Artist: Komeda Project
Album: Crazy Girl
Tune: Crazy Girl
Label: WM

Artist: Komeda Project
Album: Crazy Girl
Tune: Is That Your Final Answer?
Label: WM

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“In A Mellow Tone” is on CKCU every Wednesday from 9:00 to 11:00pm

at 93.1FM in Ottawa

and around the world on the Internet at

http://www.ckcufm.com/audio.html

Earlier playlists can be found at: www.inamellowtone.com