PLAYLISTS THE CRYSTAL EGG 8:00 A.M.-9:00A.M SATURDAYS KUCI 88.9
12/10/2010
Artist Song Album
1. Tower of Power (re-mix) "What is Hip" What is Hip Remix Project
2. Betty Carter "What Is This Tune" Betty Carter: Feel The Fire
3. Charles Lloyd "Tales Of Rumi" Canto
4. Azadeh Adi and Holmes Ives "Bedonah Palimani" Arabian Travelers 2
5. Idan Raichel Project "Ayal Ayale" Idan Raichel Project
6. Congo Field Recording "Thin Legs" Konono # 1
7. Natacha Atlas "It's A Man's World" The Best Of Natacha Atlas
8. Piki Riara "E Kukuti" Shrewd: A Compilation of Women's Music from New Zealand
9. Gilnanta String Band "Taruvurvur" Songs Of The Volcano (New Guinea)
12/3/10
Artist Song Album
1. Henry Threadgill "Like It Feels" Making A Move
2. Carla Bley "All Fall Down" The Very Big Carla Bley Band
3. Alice Coltrane "Ptah, The El Daoud" Ptah, The El Daoud
(Featuring Pharoh Sanders, Joe Henderson, Ron Carter, and Ben Riley)
4. Virginia Rodrigues "Cantu Por Exu" Nos (From Brazil)
5. Virginia Rodrigues "Uma Historia De Ita" Nos
6. Jeanette Wraite "Laitsen Mankesika" Northern Lights
11/27/10
Artist Song Album
1. Bruce Cockburn "Beautiful Creatures" Life Short Call Now
2. Seth Bernard "Gandhi Ghati" Constellations
3. Chapin Sisters "Secret Life" Two
(New Release: Lake Bottom Records)
4. Cibelle "London London" Twenty Ways To float Through Walls
(Featuring Devendra Banhart)
5. Caetano Veloso "Tirado Ni Voce" Zii e Zie
6. Olof Arnalds "Surrender" Innundir Skinni (Iceland)
7. Garifuna Women's Project "Afagayadina" Umalali
8. Farka Toure "Fala" Vieux Farka Toure
9. Mabuza Quartet "Little Old Man" Next Stop Soweto
(South African Jazz from the'60's re-issue)
10. Mulgrew Miller "Dreamland" The Sequel
11. Duke Ellington "Harlem Airshaft" Duke Ellington Symphonic Suites
11/20/10
Artist Song Album
1. Peter Case "Walking Bum" Peter Case Sings Like Hell
2. Hank Williams III "Getting Drunk and Getting Down" Rebel Within
3. Hank Williams "We Live In Two Separate Worlds" Alone With His Guitar
4. Hank Williams III "Karmageddon" Rebel Within
5. Guy Clark "Fool In The Mirror" Craftsman
6. Les Frere Michot "La Roue Qui Pend" La Roue Qui Pend
7. Helene Boudreaux "Allons A Lafayette" Truck Driving Cajun Mama
8. Los Jardineros "Vigorosso" Best Of Los Jardineros
(Puerto Rican Ragtime Jazz 1920's-1930's)
9. Mountain Men "Buffalo" Made The Harbor (Partisan Records)
(Newish Release)
10. Bill Miller "Home" Chants, Dances, And The Remembered Earth
11. Primus/Tom Waits "On The Road" On The Road
(All lyrics by Jack Kerouac)
12. Jane Ira Bloom "Art And Aviation" (soprano sax) Art And Aviation
(The Crystal Egg will often feature new and unfairly neglected women Jazz instrumentalists)
13. Rebecca Coupe Frank (trumpet) "Thanks" Suit Of Armor
14. Jolie Holland "Goodbye California" Escondido
15. Cassandra Wilson "Shelter From The Storm" Belly Of The Sun
11/13/10
Artist Song Album
1. Tensnake "Mugwump" In The House (New)
2. Abelada Carbono "Quiero A Mi Gente" Palenque Palenque
3. Villa Lobos "Alma Brasileira" Par Lui Meme (French Import)
4. Baba Maal "Dakar Moon" Television (2009)
5. Holy Sisters of the Gaga Dada "Paranoid" Radio Talking Tapes vol. 4 -Women
6. Queen Ida/Al Rapone "Toussaint Shuffle" Back On The Bayou
7. Allen Toussaint "Winin Boy Blues" The Bright Mississippi (New)-(Nonesuch)
8. Dirty Dozen Brass Band "Kidd Jordan's Second Line" The New Orleans Album
9. Sonny Sharrock "As We Used To Sing" Into Another Light
10. De Funk Professionals "Ate Afo Yen Bio" Ghana Special
11. Opando Magoye "Obahoambo Otiero" Secret Museum of Mankind
(Music of East Africa 1925-1948)
12. Microscopic Septet "Off Minor" Friday The 13th (New) (Cunieform)
13. Joe Lovano "Chelsea Bridge" Lush Life: The Music of Billy Strayhorn
11/6/10
Artist Song Album
1. Peter Case "Deja Blues" Six Pack Of Love
2. Field Recording "Chant Avec Cithare" Traditional Music Of Burundi
3. Taraf De Haidouks "Indiaca" Taraf De Haidouks (Romanian Gypsy Music)
4. Sex Mob "You only Live Twice" Sex Mob Meets Medeski
5. Debashish Bhattacharya "Aanandam" (Joy) Calcutta Slide Guitar
6. Karsh Kida "New Born Star" Broken English
7. Lucinda Williams "Side Of The Road" Lucinda Williams (Reis)
8. Brix E. Smith "Hurdy Gurdy Man" Hurdy Gurdy Man
(Featuring Violinist Nigel Kennedy)
9. Kurt Elling "Blame It On My Youth" Flirting With Twilight
10. Oliver Lake "Masai Moves" Oliver Lake String Project
11. Itzak Perlman "Nigun (Baal Shem #2)" Itzak Perlman Rare Recordings
10/31/10
Artist Song Album
1. Mayo Thompson "Fortune" Corky's Debt To His Father
2. Richard Thompson "I Can't Wake Up To Save My Life" Mirror Blue
3. Richard Thompson "Now That I'm Dead" I Misunderstood
4. Bill Noertiker "Galetea Of The Spheres" Sketches Of Catalan
5. Yusef Lateef "Have You Seen your Hands in a Dream" Meditations
6. Masanka Sankayi "La Laboreur" Congotronics Vol. 1
7. Stephen Sondheim "They Ask Me Why I Believe In You" Color and Light
Herbie Hancock
8. Townes Van Zandt "The Rake" Delta Momma Blues
9. Kronos Quartet "Quatrtet #8" Black Angel
(George Crumb Composer)
10/24/10
10/17/10
Artist Song Album
1. Yo Yo Ma "Salvador" Obrigado Brasil
2. Don Cherry "Teo-Teo Can" Mu
3. Jingo "Fever" Afro Rock (1970's Compilation)
4. J.J. Grey and Mofro "Diyo Dayo" Georgia Warhorse (New Release)
5. Pink Anderson "You Don't Know My Mind" Carolina Blues (Compilation)
6. Ella Fitzgerald "Tain't What You Do..." 20 Great Tracks
7. Cannonball Adderly "Autumn Leaves" Something Else
(W/ Miles Davis, Hank Jones)
8. Ilhan Ersahin "Freedom" Istanbul Sessions
9. Sambaguru "Menina Do Mar" Tribo
(Brazil)
10. Mia Doi Todd "Korkoro" La Nina Amor & Other Dreams of Mozambique
11. Bonnie Prince Billy "God'd Small Song" God's Small Song (E.P.)
12. David Wax Museum "Let Me Rest" David Wax Museum (New Release)
This blog is a companion to the Crystal Egg radio show airing every Saturday @ 8:00 A.M to 9:00 A.M. P.D.T. on KUCI 88.9, Irvine, Ca. It will feature playlists and assorted commentary. Oh yeah, maybe a poem or two.
