The 95bFM Jazz Show

Frances Chan celebrates NZ Music Month, Mother’s Day and the birthdays of Carla Bley, Julian Joseph and Freddie Roach, plus the latest London sounds, an Italian guitar wunderkind and a tour to the Middle East to round out the show.

Setlist:
Clear Path Ensemble – Best Life
Carla Bley – Song Sung Long
Julian Joseph – The Other Side of Town
Freddie Roach – On Our Way Up
Etta James – Something’s Got a Hold of Me (live) 
Charles Mingus – Track A – Solo Dancer
Mike Nock & Frank Gibson Jr – Phaedra’s Lullaby  
Julian Joseph – Hard Cash
Carla Bley Trio – Life Goes On: and On
Brandi Younger ft. Ravi Coltrane – Soulris
Emma-Jean Thackray – Save Me
Joe Armon-Jones – The Citadel
Matteo Mancuso – Open Fields 
Nautilus – La Ritournelle
Genevieve Artadi with the Norbotten Big Band – Life Exploder
Aziza Mustafa Zadeh – Always
Salah Ragab & The Cairo Jazz Band – Egypt Strut

The Jazz Show takes a side-step this long weekend from its usual programming, Host Blind Mango Chutney calling a Rock Jazz theme. Blind Mango invites local vinyl collector Johnny Dambuster as special guest Selector —with the Rock Jazz theme being a much talked about concept between Blind Mango & the Dambuster for quite some time. The pair have a blast taking a deep dive & a somewhat wild ride into the Rock-Jazz milieu.

First selections come from the early Rock' n' Roll period with key vocalists Big Mama Thornton & Big Maybelle. Things get a tad trippy with psychedelic selections from Hendrix, Les Paul, & Blood Sweat & Tears, unfolding later with some unlikely surprises, as Dambuster unearths some buried nuggets from Alice Cooper, Snakefinger (the Residents), & Throbbing Gristle. Plus The MC5 enter for a totally Sonic moment! - (It's all about the track's epic Drum intro, & the Saxophones mid track folks!).

Blind Mango knocks it into the End-Zone with essential tracks from King Crimson, John McLaughlin, & Larry Coryell, ending the show on a total high with Charlie Hunter's great version of Nirvana's Come as You Are — all making for an eclectic, & indeed an *electric* mix of Rock-Jazz Vibes with a busy text machine keeping the Crew busy with ppl diggin' the show's selections. (A part 2 perhaps, guys?)

DJ Sassy pops in to host the Jazz Gig Guide, & adds a refreshing beverage twist — & Miss Dom to present the Vinyl Fair Guide.

Rock on Folks! With big thanks to our show sponsors: San Ray at 118 Ponsonby Road

Jazz guru Blind Mango Chutney checks in with another ripping jazz set taking you from Ken Nordine's humour through to Billy Holiday's pathos.

Blind Mango kicks off the show with a sensational version of a seasonal standard.

Female singers & players feature highly this afternoon — with a stunning trio of pieces from Nina Simone, then the delightfulness of vocalist Annette Peacock, & then the keys of Joanne Brackeen.

A Roy Ayers's deep-dig makes an appearance courtesy of Jubt, & a bunch of short-distance, track dedications (&  long distance shout-outs) are sent out to show listeners, & Jazz Show Fam overseas.

Miss Dom pops in to host this week's Vinyl Guide, & for some extra B.V.s (lol).  The pair get excited ahead of visiting Navajo trumpeter Delbert Anderson — playing later that arvo in the Spiegeltent with his Quartet as part of the Auckland Arts Festival Indigenous Music Series.