The title to this track really announces the hipness to be found within its grooves. With Lee Morgan on trumpet, Curtis Fuller on trombone, McCoy Tyner on piano, Bob Cranshaw on bass and Billy Higgins on the drums, this soulful strut wears its sense of sublime grooviness on its sleeve. While Coltrane had the propensity […]
Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “Golden Gate Gospel Train” by Golden Gate Quartet
What we have here is some prehistoric Doo Wop for you Sunday morning revelers. The Golden Gate Quartet consisted of Orlandus Wilson, Willie Johnson, Henry Owens and Clyde Riddick and started out as a Barbershop Quartet in Virginia back in the early 1930s. The group began performing for audiences and soon migrated to North Carolina […]
3D Rides Fourth
I ‘m everybody’s Uncle Marty, as we go back to our Summer Seconds Series, at least in the Northern hemisphere, as we unearth more standards and choice cuts that we haven’t played for you before on our first three installments with our musical featured favorites. After takeoff, as we approach cruising altitude, libations will be […]
Song Of The Day – “St. James Infirmary” by Anat Cohen
Whatever happened to the prominence of the clarinet in Jazz? Sure, the clarinet is still the front-and-center instrument in Klezmer music, but over the years the clarinet’s prominence in Jazz has shrunken to the point of non-existence, only to be replaced by the soprano or alto saxophone. There was a time when the clarinet was […]
The RadioActivity’s Most BestEst
I’m your Uncle Marty as The 3D RadioActivity reaches number 488, where we’ll drill down into the most superlative music for the third time. Martha Stewart might say, “it’s a good thing”, we’re going beyond those tangibles that are far more than superior, they’re The BEST. Get your helmet ready for next time as we take the RadioActivity […]
Song Of The Day – “Streamline” by Artie Shaw
“Benny Goodman played clarinet, I played music.” Such was the animosity between the two main clarinet-playing band leaders during the height of the big band era. While both musicians were exemplary, Artie Shaw was far more inventive in his soloing, composition style, use of instrumentation and crucially, in the arena of arrangements. Shaw held a […]
3D Goes Gooder
I’m Uncle Marty on The 3D RadioActivity as we go back to play more GOOD music, part two of of one that we did 446 episodes ago on chapter 40 back in late April of twenty ten. We hope you’re ready to Let The Good Times Roll all over again! This get together with you […]
Memorial 3Day 19 Pt II
I’m Uncle Marty on the 485th gathering of The 3D RadioActivity where we continue with Part II of our musical Memorial Day Rememberance. It’s been quite a busy year for departures from the earthly plane into the afterlife, as we continue to pay respects to them with examples of their timeless works. We’ve been “Remembering” some of […]
Song Of The Day – “Who Wants Ice Cream” by Ravi Coltrane
In 1965, while John Coltrane was giving birth to his masterpiece “A Love Supreme,” his wife Alice was giving birth to their son Ravi. Sure, it’s in the blood…and it can’t be easy being a Jazz saxophonist whose father was a legend, but throughout the years, Ravi Coltrane has steadily carved out his own space […]
Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “Salt Peanuts” by Dizzy Gillespie and his Orchestra
Like the Rock and Roll that sprang from its loins, this new form of off-the-chart Jazz called Be Bop from the mid-1940s captured the imagination of the youth of America and positively terrified its parents. Not only was the music primarily an African American form, but hep cats known as “Bird” (Charlie Parker) and “Diz” […]
