WFMU: The Laughing Clock with DJ Peter: Playlist from April 10, 2025

The Laughing Clock with DJ Peter: Playlist from April 10, 2025

Obscure musical gems, avant experimentation, and classics worth rehearing. A conurbation of Leslie speakers, timbales, plungers, arch-tops, tablas, and squeaky reeds. Black ties, pork pies, Cuban boots, Nudie suits, bobbysocks, turtlenecks, and high-heeled sneakers. Jazz is the north star but it’s a wide universe, so says The Laughing Clock.

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April 10, 2025: Spotlight: Mel Powell

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Artist	Track	Album	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
M Squad	M Squad Theme "M Squad Theme" by "M Squad"		1959	from season 2, episode 5	0:00:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Red Garland	M Squad Theme "M Squad Theme" by "Red Garland"	Red In Bluesville	1969	4/17/1959: Red Garland (p) Sam Jones (b) Art Taylor (d)	0:00:23 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Benny Goodman And His Orchestra	The Earl	Classic Columbia and Okeh Benny Goodman Orchestra Sessions (1939-1958)	2008	9/25/1941: Powell (p,comp,arr) Clint Neagley or possibly Skim Martin (as) Tom Morgan (g) John Simmons (b) NOBODY (d)	0:06:38 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mel Powell and His Orchestra	Mood at Twilight	The Complete Commodore Recordings, Volume I	1988	2/4/1942: Billy Butterfield (tp) Lou McGarity (tb) Benny Goodman (cl) [as "Shoeless" John Jackson cl ] George Berg (ts) Mel Powell (p) Al Morgan (b) Kansas Fields (d)	0:09:10 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Benny Goodman	Hi'Ya Sophia "Hi'Ya Sophia" by "Benny Goodman"	The Complete Capitol Small Group Recordings of Benny Goodman 1944-1955	1993	8/11/1947: Benny Goodman (cl) Red Norvo (vib) Mel Powell (p) Al Hendrickson (g,vcl) Harry Babasin (b) Louie Bellson (d)	0:12:04 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mel Powell Trio	There's A Small Hotel	Classic Capitol Jazz Sessions	1997	12/10/1947: Mel Powell (p) Red Callender (b) Lee Young (d)	0:15:10 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jory Vinokour	Mel Powell: Recitative and Toccata Percossa (1951)	Toccatas: Modern American Music for Harpsichord	2013		0:18:02 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mel Powell Trio	Bouquet "Bouquet" by "Mel Powell Trio"	Classic Vanguard Jazz Piano Sessions	2025	8/24/1954: Ruby Braff (tp) Mel Powell (p) Bobby Donaldson (d)	0:25:43 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mel Powell	Second Electronic Setting (1962)	Music for Electronic & Older Instruments	1968		0:30:36 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mel Powell	Duplicates: A Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra (1987): II. 3 Interludes: Madrigal / Immobile / Mobile			1/26/1990: world premiere (live) with Alan Feinberg, Robert Taub, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by David Alan Miller	0:35:17 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Mary Lou Williams	Medi I "Medi I" by "Mary Lou Williams"	Zoning		1/17/1974, with Bob Cranshaw (bass guitar). DJP edit.	0:41:45 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Benny Goodman and His Orchestra	Why Don't You Do Right?	Giants of Jazz	1980	7/27/1942: Peggy Lee (vcl) Jimmy Maxwell (tp obligato) Mel Powell (p,arr) Dave Barbour (g) Cliff Hill (b) Hud Davies (d)	0:46:53 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Benny Goodman And His Orchestra	Mission To Moscow	Classic Columbia and Okeh Benny Goodman Orchestra Sessions (1939-1958)	2008	Powell (p,comp,arr) Dave Barbour (g) Cliff Hill (b) Hud Davies (d)	0:50:01 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Benny Goodman Sextet	Shirley Steps Out	The Complete Capitol Small Group Recordings of Benny Goodman 1944-1955	1993	12/2/1947: Benny Goodman (cl) Red Norvo (vib) Mel Powell (p,comp) Al Hendrickson (g) Artie Shapiro (b) Tommy Romersa (d)	0:52:37 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mel Powell Quintet	Cookin' One Up	Classic Capitol Jazz Sessions	1997	12/31/1947: Frank Beach (tp) Bumps Myers (ts) Chuck Gentry (bar) Mel Powell (p) Red Callender (b) Lee Young (d)	0:55:45 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Susie Ibarra Trio	Dreams (Alternate Take)	Radiance	1999	7/18/1999: Cooper-Moore (p,harp,diddley-bo) Charles Burnham (vln) Susie Ibarra (d,perc)	0:57:46 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mel Powell	Sonatina for Piano: Vivace	Classic Vanguard Jazz Piano Sessions	2025	12/30/1957.	1:01:52 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mel Powell	Sonatina for Piano: Chorale Variations	Classic Vanguard Jazz Piano Sessions	2025		1:05:27 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mel Powell	Sonatina for Piano: Largo assai - Allegro	Classic Vanguard Jazz Piano Sessions	2025		1:09:25 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mel Powell Trio	Borderline "Borderline" by "Mel Powell Trio"	Classic Vanguard Jazz Piano Sessions	2025	8/17/1954: Paul Quinichette (ts) Mel Powell (p) Bobby Donaldson (d)	1:13:06 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mel Powell	The Best Thing for You	Classic Vanguard Jazz Piano Sessions	2025	10/19/1955: Ruby Braff (tp) Mel Powell (p) Skeeter Best (g) Oscar Pettiford (b) Bobby Donaldson (d)	1:16:34 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Herbie Hancock	Mimosa (alternate take)	Inventions & Dimensions		8/30/1963: Herbie Hancock (p) Paul Chambers (b) Willie Bobo (d) Osvaldo "Chihuahua" Martinez (bongos, finger cymbal)	1:19:15 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Julliard Wind Ensemble conducted by Mark Gould	Mel Powell: Capriccio for Band (1950)	Shadowcatcher	2001	January 2000 (SUNY Purchase).	1:21:33 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mel Powell	Divertimento for Five Winds: I. Allegro cantabile	Chamber Music	1958	Fairfield Wind Ensemble with Murray Karpilovsky (tp) Thomas Parshley (fl) David Weber (cl) Harry Shulman (ob) Elias Carmen (bsn)	1:27:50 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mel Powell	Divertimento for Five Winds: II. Presto	Chamber Music	1958		1:30:28 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mel Powell	Divertimento for Five Winds: III. Largo	Chamber Music	1958		1:32:44 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mel Powell	Divertimento for Five Winds: IV. Vivo	Chamber Music	1958		1:35:22 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mel Powell	Events for Tape Recorder (1963)	Music for Electronic & Older Instruments	1968	text drawn from "Legend" by Hart Crane	1:38:22 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mel Powell & California EAR Unit	AmyAbilities (1988)	Settings	2003	Amy Knowles (percussion)	1:45:12 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mel Powell & California EAR Unit	Sextet (1996): First Movement	Settings	2003	California EAR Unit: Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick, cello; Robin Lorentz, violin; Dorothy Stone, flute; Vicki Ray, piano; Marty Walker, clarinet; Amy Knoles, percussion; Stephen L. Mosko, conductor	1:50:02 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Joe Chambers Moving Picture Orchestra	M Squad Theme	Live at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola	2012	September 2011. Craig Handy (tenor sax), David Weiss (trumpet), Xavier Davis (piano), Dwayne Burno (bass), Joe Chambers (drums, vibes, arranger), Steve Berrios (percussion), et al.	1:58:18 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

Listener comments!
	♥ 10:00pm tom tom the pipers son: hey there, peter… everybody...
	10:01pm Listener Gregory: It’s so late, this should be the Q Squad. Evening, nighthawks.
	10:01pm Flash Strap: Hey DJP - take it away!
	🕰 ♥ 10:02pm pot8o: hi everyone!
	10:07pm Flash Strap: love this, great sound from the group
	🕰 ♥ 10:08pm DJ Peter: Thanks for a great show, Flash Strap! I haven't had a human DJ lead-in for a while! tom tom, Gregory, pot8o, thanks for staying up with me!
	🕰 ♥ 10:08pm DJ Peter: ↳ Flash Strap @10:07 and the Columbia engineers knew what they were doing
	10:08pm Listener Gregory: I’m only here until 11, because if I miss my local news I won’t know about the barn burning down in Athens or the two-car collision on Rt 2 outside of Marshfield. One person was air-lifted to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center! Obviously, I would be totally in the dark on the important issues of the day.
	🕰 ♥ 10:09pm DJ Peter: ↳ Listener Gregory @10:08 heard
	🕰 ♥ 10:09pm DJ Peter: get ready for some art tatum chops
	10:10pm Flash Strap: ↳ DJ Peter @10:09 god i love him, can't wait
	♥ 10:11pm melinda: ↳ Listener Gregory @10:08 You're in Vermont?
	🕰 ♥ 10:12pm DJ Peter: I was misleading, sorry! I meant Powell has equal dexterity to Tatum! (I don't think he has Tatum's imagination to be clear?)
	🕰 ♥ 10:12pm WR: Hello Peter and folks.
	10:12pm Flash Strap: ↳ DJ Peter @10:12 ah gotcha, makes complete sense
	🕰 ♥ 10:13pm DJ Peter: ↳ melinda @10:11 oh no, melinda, don't get listener gregory started! jk, glad you're here!
	10:15pm Listener Gregory: @melinda, yes.
	10:16pm Listener Gregory: Tatum chops??? Boy, that is something to live up to.
	🕰 ♥ 10:17pm DJ Peter: ↳ WR @10:12 L-O 2 U W-R!
	♥ 10:17pm tom tom the pipers son: have not heard of “kansas fields” before...
	10:17pm Flash Strap: ↳ Song: "There's A Small Hotel" by "Mel Powell Trio" gorgeous
	🕰 ♥ 10:18pm pot8o: ↳ Song: "There's A Small Hotel" by "Mel Powell Trio" quintet with only 3 players?
	♥ 10:19pm tom tom the pipers son: whether it’s the recording quality or due to the playing …sounds very fresh and clean...
	🕰 ♥ 10:19pm DJ Peter: ↳ pot8o @10:18 good catch, thanks!
	10:20pm Flash Strap: hate to do it but I gotta run! thanks for these beauties DJP
	🕰 ♥ 10:24pm Listener Gregory: I don’t normally like the sound of harpsichord, but this is recorded pretty vibrantly.
	🕰 ♥ 10:25pm Listener Gregory: DJP, is the photo of the NY statehouse?
	🕰 ♥ 10:27pm DJ Peter: ↳ Listener Gregory @10:24 agreed! I guess they placed the mics well? Up top there that's William Penn... the photo is Philadelphia.
	🕰 ♥ 10:30pm Listener Gregory: Ah yes, William Penn. I see the strong jaw and blue eyes now.
	🕰 ♥ 10:33pm pot8o: never would expect someone who was doing swing in the 40s with benny goodman to be doing musique concrete 20 years later
	10:34pm rw: Good evening!
	🕰 ♥ 10:34pm DJ Peter: ↳ rw @10:34 top o' the evening! how are you?
	🕰 ♥ 10:35pm DJ Peter: ↳ pot8o @10:33 yeah, that's several left turns over the years!
	10:35pm rw: Hey DJ Peter! I’m good thanks! Working on taxes, but I can’t remember exactly why.
	10:36pm rw: Enjoying the heck out of this fill in though.
	🕰 ♥ 10:37pm DJ Peter: ↳ rw @10:35 you don't need to know why, you just need to do it. meanwhile I'll be doing this and hoping it helps!
	10:38pm ChristinaInCanada: Relaying from my kid that he's liking the experimental music. Good evening.
	🕰 ♥ 10:39pm DJ Peter: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @10:38 clearly you are doing a good job, mom! glad you're hear!
	♥ 10:48pm chresti: ↳ Song: "Second Electronic Setting (1962)" by "Mel Powell" Veddy nice!
	🕰 ♥ 10:49pm DJ Peter: ↳ chresti @10:48 hi chresti, good to "see" you!
	🕰 ♥ 10:50pm newton: the clock is mocking me. I may have to wind its spring too tight!
	🕰 ♥ 10:52pm DJ Peter: ↳ newton @10:50 the clock laughs at all! but sometimes laconically and sometimes maniacally!
	♥ 10:53pm chresti: ↳ newton @10:50 the clock is unwinding me
	🕰 ♥ 10:59pm Listener Gregory: Both Powell and the beboppers became impatient with the limitations of swing music. Both were influenced by early 20th-century composers (esp Stravinsky). But Powell became a “classical” composer, while the beboppers created a new form of jazz. Maybe a reflection of racial and cultural differences?
	♥ 11:04pm coelacanth∅: Greetings Peter and clockcleaners
	🕰 ♥ 11:05pm DJ Peter: ↳ Listener Gregory @10:59 Yeah I think you're on to something there. Of course there were some Jewish beboppers (Red Rodney). But there are also Black jazz musicians who have turned to composition (James Newton, who in fact was a colleague of Powell's at Cal Arts).
	11:05pm ChristinaInCanada: ↳ Song: "Mission To Moscow" by "Benny Goodman And His Orch... Someone gave me a VHS cassette of "Mission to Moscow," based on the book, a propaganda film directed by Michael Curtiz at the request of FDR. A curio, to be sure.
	🕰 ♥ 11:05pm DJ Peter: ↳ coelacanth∅ @11:04 hello! that's a gorgeous 'vette!
	♥ 11:07pm coelacanth∅: '63, may fave!
	🕰 ♥ 11:07pm DJ Peter: ↳ coelacanth∅ @11:07 It's very... Italianate?
	♥ 11:10pm coelacanth∅: ↳ DJ Peter @11:07 never thought about that but yeah i think you're right! they were probably watching the italian designers from day 1, for the 'vette
	🕰 ♥ 11:15pm Listener Gregory: The sonatina was just solo Powell? That was some significant piano work.
	🕰 ♥ 11:16pm DJ Peter: ↳ Listener Gregory @11:15 indeed! i don't know if any other pianist has recorded it.
	♥ 11:20pm tom tom the pipers son: needed a catnap….just back re: powell….powell played ragtime? not really a bewildering jump to serialism…right
	🕰 ♥ 11:22pm Listener Gregory: This has been interesting, Peter. I’m going to bug out now, but I’ll catch the last set over the weekend. Thanks! My opinion of Powell is shifting.
	🕰 ♥ 11:24pm DJ Peter: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @11:20 that's funny. i'll have to think about that. Powell played quote-dixieland-unquote as a teenager. don't know about rags.
	♥ 11:29pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Mel Powell: Capriccio for Band (1950)" by "Jullia... approaching ivesian brassiness without the collisions of metier….
	♥ 11:31pm tom tom the pipers son: metier…? just collisions
	🕰 ♥ 11:34pm DJ Peter: collisions of a different kind coming up in the piece to follow!
	♥ 11:35pm tom tom the pipers son: oh….!
	♥ 11:42pm tom tom the pipers son: liked that wave of noise seeping through
	🕰 ♥ 11:55pm WR: Hi Peter. I have been listening but I was also listening to family post dinner discussion. Will be revisiting this great survey of the music of Mel Powell.
	🕰 ♥ 11:57pm DJ Peter: ↳ WR @11:55 I will always support actual human contact over mediated and pre-recorded human contact!
	🕰 ♥ 11:58pm pot8o: thanks dj peter! have a great week everyone!
	♥ 11:59pm tom tom the pipers son: i liked the segue from the electronics to the orchestra thought it was same opiece….thx peter
	11:59pm ChristinaInCanada: Thanks, DJ Peter. Everyone have a good weekend.
	12:00am rw: Thank you thank you DJ Peter! Excellent.
	♥ 12:17am coelacanth∅: Thanks Peter!
	🕰 ♥ 5:55pm Listener Gregory: I did come back to hear the last set. Also interesting! The earlier band/woodwind pieces sounded pretty good to me. The ones that sound typically "serial" do not. This reminds me that I have an LP (if I can find it) of his non-tonal classical music, which I will have to dig up and report on. Not that anyone needs my report! Thanks again, Peter.

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Artist	Track	Album	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
M Squad	M Squad Theme "M Squad Theme" by "M Squad"		1959	from season 2, episode 5	0:00:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Red Garland	M Squad Theme "M Squad Theme" by "Red Garland"	Red In Bluesville	1969	4/17/1959: Red Garland (p) Sam Jones (b) Art Taylor (d)	0:00:23 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Benny Goodman And His Orchestra	The Earl	Classic Columbia and Okeh Benny Goodman Orchestra Sessions (1939-1958)	2008	9/25/1941: Powell (p,comp,arr) Clint Neagley or possibly Skim Martin (as) Tom Morgan (g) John Simmons (b) NOBODY (d)	0:06:38 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mel Powell and His Orchestra	Mood at Twilight	The Complete Commodore Recordings, Volume I	1988	2/4/1942: Billy Butterfield (tp) Lou McGarity (tb) Benny Goodman (cl) [as "Shoeless" John Jackson cl ] George Berg (ts) Mel Powell (p) Al Morgan (b) Kansas Fields (d)	0:09:10 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Benny Goodman	Hi'Ya Sophia "Hi'Ya Sophia" by "Benny Goodman"	The Complete Capitol Small Group Recordings of Benny Goodman 1944-1955	1993	8/11/1947: Benny Goodman (cl) Red Norvo (vib) Mel Powell (p) Al Hendrickson (g,vcl) Harry Babasin (b) Louie Bellson (d)	0:12:04 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mel Powell Trio	There's A Small Hotel	Classic Capitol Jazz Sessions	1997	12/10/1947: Mel Powell (p) Red Callender (b) Lee Young (d)	0:15:10 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jory Vinokour	Mel Powell: Recitative and Toccata Percossa (1951)	Toccatas: Modern American Music for Harpsichord	2013		0:18:02 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mel Powell Trio	Bouquet "Bouquet" by "Mel Powell Trio"	Classic Vanguard Jazz Piano Sessions	2025	8/24/1954: Ruby Braff (tp) Mel Powell (p) Bobby Donaldson (d)	0:25:43 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mel Powell	Second Electronic Setting (1962)	Music for Electronic & Older Instruments	1968		0:30:36 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mel Powell	Duplicates: A Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra (1987): II. 3 Interludes: Madrigal / Immobile / Mobile			1/26/1990: world premiere (live) with Alan Feinberg, Robert Taub, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by David Alan Miller	0:35:17 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Mary Lou Williams	Medi I "Medi I" by "Mary Lou Williams"	Zoning		1/17/1974, with Bob Cranshaw (bass guitar). DJP edit.	0:41:45 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Benny Goodman and His Orchestra	Why Don't You Do Right?	Giants of Jazz	1980	7/27/1942: Peggy Lee (vcl) Jimmy Maxwell (tp obligato) Mel Powell (p,arr) Dave Barbour (g) Cliff Hill (b) Hud Davies (d)	0:46:53 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Benny Goodman And His Orchestra	Mission To Moscow	Classic Columbia and Okeh Benny Goodman Orchestra Sessions (1939-1958)	2008	Powell (p,comp,arr) Dave Barbour (g) Cliff Hill (b) Hud Davies (d)	0:50:01 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Benny Goodman Sextet	Shirley Steps Out	The Complete Capitol Small Group Recordings of Benny Goodman 1944-1955	1993	12/2/1947: Benny Goodman (cl) Red Norvo (vib) Mel Powell (p,comp) Al Hendrickson (g) Artie Shapiro (b) Tommy Romersa (d)	0:52:37 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mel Powell Quintet	Cookin' One Up	Classic Capitol Jazz Sessions	1997	12/31/1947: Frank Beach (tp) Bumps Myers (ts) Chuck Gentry (bar) Mel Powell (p) Red Callender (b) Lee Young (d)	0:55:45 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Susie Ibarra Trio	Dreams (Alternate Take)	Radiance	1999	7/18/1999: Cooper-Moore (p,harp,diddley-bo) Charles Burnham (vln) Susie Ibarra (d,perc)	0:57:46 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mel Powell	Sonatina for Piano: Vivace	Classic Vanguard Jazz Piano Sessions	2025	12/30/1957.	1:01:52 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mel Powell	Sonatina for Piano: Chorale Variations	Classic Vanguard Jazz Piano Sessions	2025		1:05:27 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mel Powell	Sonatina for Piano: Largo assai - Allegro	Classic Vanguard Jazz Piano Sessions	2025		1:09:25 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mel Powell Trio	Borderline "Borderline" by "Mel Powell Trio"	Classic Vanguard Jazz Piano Sessions	2025	8/17/1954: Paul Quinichette (ts) Mel Powell (p) Bobby Donaldson (d)	1:13:06 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mel Powell	The Best Thing for You	Classic Vanguard Jazz Piano Sessions	2025	10/19/1955: Ruby Braff (tp) Mel Powell (p) Skeeter Best (g) Oscar Pettiford (b) Bobby Donaldson (d)	1:16:34 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Herbie Hancock	Mimosa (alternate take)	Inventions & Dimensions		8/30/1963: Herbie Hancock (p) Paul Chambers (b) Willie Bobo (d) Osvaldo "Chihuahua" Martinez (bongos, finger cymbal)	1:19:15 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Julliard Wind Ensemble conducted by Mark Gould	Mel Powell: Capriccio for Band (1950)	Shadowcatcher	2001	January 2000 (SUNY Purchase).	1:21:33 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mel Powell	Divertimento for Five Winds: I. Allegro cantabile	Chamber Music	1958	Fairfield Wind Ensemble with Murray Karpilovsky (tp) Thomas Parshley (fl) David Weber (cl) Harry Shulman (ob) Elias Carmen (bsn)	1:27:50 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mel Powell	Divertimento for Five Winds: II. Presto	Chamber Music	1958		1:30:28 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mel Powell	Divertimento for Five Winds: III. Largo	Chamber Music	1958		1:32:44 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mel Powell	Divertimento for Five Winds: IV. Vivo	Chamber Music	1958		1:35:22 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mel Powell	Events for Tape Recorder (1963)	Music for Electronic & Older Instruments	1968	text drawn from "Legend" by Hart Crane	1:38:22 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mel Powell & California EAR Unit	AmyAbilities (1988)	Settings	2003	Amy Knowles (percussion)	1:45:12 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mel Powell & California EAR Unit	Sextet (1996): First Movement	Settings	2003	California EAR Unit: Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick, cello; Robin Lorentz, violin; Dorothy Stone, flute; Vicki Ray, piano; Marty Walker, clarinet; Amy Knoles, percussion; Stephen L. Mosko, conductor	1:50:02 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Joe Chambers Moving Picture Orchestra	M Squad Theme	Live at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola	2012	September 2011. Craig Handy (tenor sax), David Weiss (trumpet), Xavier Davis (piano), Dwayne Burno (bass), Joe Chambers (drums, vibes, arranger), Steve Berrios (percussion), et al.	1:58:18 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	♥ 10:00pm tom tom the pipers son: hey there, peter… everybody...
	10:01pm Listener Gregory: It’s so late, this should be the Q Squad. Evening, nighthawks.
	10:01pm Flash Strap: Hey DJP - take it away!
	🕰 ♥ 10:02pm pot8o: hi everyone!
	10:07pm Flash Strap: love this, great sound from the group
	🕰 ♥ 10:08pm DJ Peter: Thanks for a great show, Flash Strap! I haven't had a human DJ lead-in for a while! tom tom, Gregory, pot8o, thanks for staying up with me!
	🕰 ♥ 10:08pm DJ Peter: ↳ Flash Strap @10:07 and the Columbia engineers knew what they were doing
	10:08pm Listener Gregory: I’m only here until 11, because if I miss my local news I won’t know about the barn burning down in Athens or the two-car collision on Rt 2 outside of Marshfield. One person was air-lifted to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center! Obviously, I would be totally in the dark on the important issues of the day.
	🕰 ♥ 10:09pm DJ Peter: ↳ Listener Gregory @10:08 heard
	🕰 ♥ 10:09pm DJ Peter: get ready for some art tatum chops
	10:10pm Flash Strap: ↳ DJ Peter @10:09 god i love him, can't wait
	♥ 10:11pm melinda: ↳ Listener Gregory @10:08 You're in Vermont?
	🕰 ♥ 10:12pm DJ Peter: I was misleading, sorry! I meant Powell has equal dexterity to Tatum! (I don't think he has Tatum's imagination to be clear?)
	🕰 ♥ 10:12pm WR: Hello Peter and folks.
	10:12pm Flash Strap: ↳ DJ Peter @10:12 ah gotcha, makes complete sense
	🕰 ♥ 10:13pm DJ Peter: ↳ melinda @10:11 oh no, melinda, don't get listener gregory started! jk, glad you're here!
	10:15pm Listener Gregory: @melinda, yes.
	10:16pm Listener Gregory: Tatum chops??? Boy, that is something to live up to.
	🕰 ♥ 10:17pm DJ Peter: ↳ WR @10:12 L-O 2 U W-R!
	♥ 10:17pm tom tom the pipers son: have not heard of “kansas fields” before...
	10:17pm Flash Strap: ↳ Song: "There's A Small Hotel" by "Mel Powell Trio" gorgeous
	🕰 ♥ 10:18pm pot8o: ↳ Song: "There's A Small Hotel" by "Mel Powell Trio" quintet with only 3 players?
	♥ 10:19pm tom tom the pipers son: whether it’s the recording quality or due to the playing …sounds very fresh and clean...
	🕰 ♥ 10:19pm DJ Peter: ↳ pot8o @10:18 good catch, thanks!
	10:20pm Flash Strap: hate to do it but I gotta run! thanks for these beauties DJP
	🕰 ♥ 10:24pm Listener Gregory: I don’t normally like the sound of harpsichord, but this is recorded pretty vibrantly.
	🕰 ♥ 10:25pm Listener Gregory: DJP, is the photo of the NY statehouse?
	🕰 ♥ 10:27pm DJ Peter: ↳ Listener Gregory @10:24 agreed! I guess they placed the mics well? Up top there that's William Penn... the photo is Philadelphia.
	🕰 ♥ 10:30pm Listener Gregory: Ah yes, William Penn. I see the strong jaw and blue eyes now.
	🕰 ♥ 10:33pm pot8o: never would expect someone who was doing swing in the 40s with benny goodman to be doing musique concrete 20 years later
	10:34pm rw: Good evening!
	🕰 ♥ 10:34pm DJ Peter: ↳ rw @10:34 top o' the evening! how are you?
	🕰 ♥ 10:35pm DJ Peter: ↳ pot8o @10:33 yeah, that's several left turns over the years!
	10:35pm rw: Hey DJ Peter! I’m good thanks! Working on taxes, but I can’t remember exactly why.
	10:36pm rw: Enjoying the heck out of this fill in though.
	🕰 ♥ 10:37pm DJ Peter: ↳ rw @10:35 you don't need to know why, you just need to do it. meanwhile I'll be doing this and hoping it helps!
	10:38pm ChristinaInCanada: Relaying from my kid that he's liking the experimental music. Good evening.
	🕰 ♥ 10:39pm DJ Peter: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @10:38 clearly you are doing a good job, mom! glad you're hear!
	♥ 10:48pm chresti: ↳ Song: "Second Electronic Setting (1962)" by "Mel Powell" Veddy nice!
	🕰 ♥ 10:49pm DJ Peter: ↳ chresti @10:48 hi chresti, good to "see" you!
	🕰 ♥ 10:50pm newton: the clock is mocking me. I may have to wind its spring too tight!
	🕰 ♥ 10:52pm DJ Peter: ↳ newton @10:50 the clock laughs at all! but sometimes laconically and sometimes maniacally!
	♥ 10:53pm chresti: ↳ newton @10:50 the clock is unwinding me
	🕰 ♥ 10:59pm Listener Gregory: Both Powell and the beboppers became impatient with the limitations of swing music. Both were influenced by early 20th-century composers (esp Stravinsky). But Powell became a “classical” composer, while the beboppers created a new form of jazz. Maybe a reflection of racial and cultural differences?
	♥ 11:04pm coelacanth∅: Greetings Peter and clockcleaners
	🕰 ♥ 11:05pm DJ Peter: ↳ Listener Gregory @10:59 Yeah I think you're on to something there. Of course there were some Jewish beboppers (Red Rodney). But there are also Black jazz musicians who have turned to composition (James Newton, who in fact was a colleague of Powell's at Cal Arts).
	11:05pm ChristinaInCanada: ↳ Song: "Mission To Moscow" by "Benny Goodman And His Orch... Someone gave me a VHS cassette of "Mission to Moscow," based on the book, a propaganda film directed by Michael Curtiz at the request of FDR. A curio, to be sure.
	🕰 ♥ 11:05pm DJ Peter: ↳ coelacanth∅ @11:04 hello! that's a gorgeous 'vette!
	♥ 11:07pm coelacanth∅: '63, may fave!
	🕰 ♥ 11:07pm DJ Peter: ↳ coelacanth∅ @11:07 It's very... Italianate?
	♥ 11:10pm coelacanth∅: ↳ DJ Peter @11:07 never thought about that but yeah i think you're right! they were probably watching the italian designers from day 1, for the 'vette
	🕰 ♥ 11:15pm Listener Gregory: The sonatina was just solo Powell? That was some significant piano work.
	🕰 ♥ 11:16pm DJ Peter: ↳ Listener Gregory @11:15 indeed! i don't know if any other pianist has recorded it.
	♥ 11:20pm tom tom the pipers son: needed a catnap….just back re: powell….powell played ragtime? not really a bewildering jump to serialism…right
	🕰 ♥ 11:22pm Listener Gregory: This has been interesting, Peter. I’m going to bug out now, but I’ll catch the last set over the weekend. Thanks! My opinion of Powell is shifting.
	🕰 ♥ 11:24pm DJ Peter: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @11:20 that's funny. i'll have to think about that. Powell played quote-dixieland-unquote as a teenager. don't know about rags.
	♥ 11:29pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Mel Powell: Capriccio for Band (1950)" by "Jullia... approaching ivesian brassiness without the collisions of metier….
	♥ 11:31pm tom tom the pipers son: metier…? just collisions
	🕰 ♥ 11:34pm DJ Peter: collisions of a different kind coming up in the piece to follow!
	♥ 11:35pm tom tom the pipers son: oh….!
	♥ 11:42pm tom tom the pipers son: liked that wave of noise seeping through
	🕰 ♥ 11:55pm WR: Hi Peter. I have been listening but I was also listening to family post dinner discussion. Will be revisiting this great survey of the music of Mel Powell.
	🕰 ♥ 11:57pm DJ Peter: ↳ WR @11:55 I will always support actual human contact over mediated and pre-recorded human contact!
	🕰 ♥ 11:58pm pot8o: thanks dj peter! have a great week everyone!
	♥ 11:59pm tom tom the pipers son: i liked the segue from the electronics to the orchestra thought it was same opiece….thx peter
	11:59pm ChristinaInCanada: Thanks, DJ Peter. Everyone have a good weekend.
	12:00am rw: Thank you thank you DJ Peter! Excellent.
	♥ 12:17am coelacanth∅: Thanks Peter!
	🕰 ♥ 5:55pm Listener Gregory: I did come back to hear the last set. Also interesting! The earlier band/woodwind pieces sounded pretty good to me. The ones that sound typically "serial" do not. This reminds me that I have an LP (if I can find it) of his non-tonal classical music, which I will have to dig up and report on. Not that anyone needs my report! Thanks again, Peter.

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