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Monday, August 15, 2005
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    Vaults: Live Horns and Guitars

    From a New Sounds Live concert at Town Hall first broadcast in 1992, hear music from Bach to rock, with stops at jazz, surf music in between, as well as some serious funk horn-playing on this From the Vaults edition of the show. First off, Saturday Night Live band member and Tower of Power horn section headmaster Lenny Pickett leads the Borneo Horns, laying down some sweet funk-a-licious groove. The second half of the show contains none other than the California Guitar Trio, as introduced by the venerable leader of the Guitar Craft school and rock guitarist Robert Fripp.

PROGRAM #797, From New Sounds Live (First aired on 2/27/92)

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Lenny Pickett and The Borneo Horns

live

"#24"{5:30}
"23"{5:00}
"Radio Mystery Blues"{5:00}
“Alex Foster" {5:30}

Lenny Pickett's CD, "With The Borneo Horns," is Hannibal #7001. Out of print, but try Amazon.com*

The California Guitar Trio

live

Lams: Wendy'sTune" {1:30}
Moriya:"Melrose Avenue"{2:00}
Bach:"Ricercar" {5:00}
Spickard-Carmen:"Pipeline"{2:00}
Bach:"Corrente" {1:30}
Richards:"Blockhead" {2:00}
Fripp:"The Moving Force"{2:30}
Bach:"Fugue in Dm"{4:30}
Rollins:"Tenor Madness"{1:30}

California Guitar Trio’s site is www.cgtrio.com

Guitar Craft site : www.guitarcraft.com

Most recordings available at www.disciplineglobalmobile.com

*, ** - Find the recordings you've heard - go to the New Sounds Recordings Information page

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  • [1] spike from Heidelberg Germany December 01, 2007 - 09:43AM

    Thankyou, I'm so grateful to you for making this program freely available, regards - spike

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Nico Muhly (www.myspace.com/muhly)

Twitchy Renaissance-Infused Minimalism

New Sounds

From the New Sounds Live concerts at Merkin Hall, Nico Muhly presents a series of new electroacoustic ensemble works, combining “twitchy Minimalism” and Renaissance polyphony. Hear brand-new works from "Mothertongue," along with other works, recorded live.

Robert Moran

In Robert Moran's Kitchen

New Sounds

From October 30, 1989, the infamous "cooking show" with composer/raconteur Robert Moran. Recorded while cooking an Indian dinner in John Schaefer's kitchen, for reasons still not entirely clear. Along the way, we hear an "acoustic" version of Cage's 0:00 - for amplification of chopping vegetables and blender. And don't miss the teary conversation as onions are chopped. View the the recipes.

Michael Hedges and Michael Manring

New Sounds

The incredibly gifted and astonishingly original guitarist Michael Hedges left the planet much too soon in 1997. Avant-folk and ever-entertaining, Hedges made brilliant music with alternate tunings, harmonics and was known for striking the guitar’s body and strings with his fingers, palms and knuckles. His close friend and sometime collaborator, electric bass virtuoso Michael Manring, was a genre-bender, before music writers ever discovered that hyphenated term. He started out in the New Age bins, but moved all over with various projects, including the very first New Age-death-metal-jazz-funk-fusion record, among other things, with his “hyperbass”, (a fretless instrument which makes re-tuning mid-piece a little easier). On this October 10, 1987 edition of New Sounds, the two artists visited and played at the WNYC performance studios.

Duke Ellington - www.dukeellington.com

Caravan Variations

New Sounds

Like camels slogging through the sand, the exotic strains of “Caravan,” by Duke Ellington and his sometime trombonist Juan Tizol (with rarely heard lyrics by Irving Mills), have been played loose, fast, swinging, and/or slow by just about everyone. For this New Sounds program, it’s another of the occasional series of programs of Theme and Variations, where the premise is simple: take a single piece of music and explore what a number of musicians have done with it, through arrangements, deconstructions, and revisions of the original theme. This time around, it’s Duke Ellington’s “Caravan.” Listen to arrangements by Romania’s Fanfare Ciocarlia, Hungary’s Kalman Balogh & The Gipsy Cimbalom Band, the California Guitar Trio, the ska group Hepcat, banjoman Bela Fleck, Lebanese composer Rabih Abou-Khalil, and trumpeter/composer Jon Hassell, among others.