Got some blues for ya, some great local tunes off the system and handful from the 95bFM vinyl library. Very pleased with how the 'no power to the laptop' situation was handled and discovered perhaps the worst thing joe strummer ever did. you be the judge.
Another week's end, another show from Lucia. She plays some old favourites including a hark back to her first ever Morning Glory show, a Courtney Barnett version of Chastity Belt's Different Now, as well as some brand-new vinyl including Nina Simone's beautiful live album You've Got To Learn recorded at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1966. Big Sur joins to play some folk songs carrying stories of Aotearoa's history complete with a banjo, clarinet, and double bass for Fancy New Band thanks to NZ on Air Music !
Dr. Mark gets his Latin-on, & brings the feel-good vibes - Then digs-out a quirky version of Thriller. Miss Dom goes Record Store Day, Jazz-vinyl-nerding - playing selections from RSD2024, Jazz, releases, & reissues. DJ Sassy, hosts the Jazz Gig Guide, & shakes-up - the arvo - with tasty beverages - compliments of Elta Ego. Later, the crew, are joined by studio guest - Auckland Saxophinst Thabani Gapara - ahead of Thabanis album release show at the Tunning Fork on May 2nd.
Podcast Only Feature - Additional RSD2024 Jazz Selections by:
Gil Scott Heron & Brian Jackson - Winter In America
Sun Ra - Forest Of No Return
Dave Pike - The Doors Of Perception
Sonny Rollins - I want to be happy.
Featuring What's Up with MP Steve Abel of the Green Party, the Aural Emporium and a kōrero with Paddy Free on the production and instrumentation techniques on the newest Moana and The Tribe album ONO. Plus, Jonny announces that 95bFM are pleased to be presenting MJ Lendermannext year on the 1st of April at Double Whammy.
Featuring What's Up with Leader of the Opposition Chris Hipkins, a chat with Dan Weetman of The Black Seeds about the first-time-pressing of their seminal album On The Sun on vinyl, an interview with Lucola and The Aural Emporium. Whakarongo mai nei!
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Oozing a grateful ora, massaging the creative mind.
Sof's covering i tēnei ata ! Dr Kirsten Zemke talks international shoegaze for Travelling Tunes, Litia recommends Materialists (2025) for Viewmaster, and Cam recommends us his vinyl of the week for From the Crate, thanks to Southbound Records!
The 95bFm Jazz Show takes a different turn this week with Soundtrack Jazz, Real & Imagined.
Chris Forster (Silent Buffalo) and Peter Cresswell (Duke of P) come out of the vinyl archives to present jazz old and new as it appeared (or should have appeared) on film. Everything from every decade, from Coppola to Count Basie, and from David Lynch to Duke Ellington and Goldsmith Baynes.
Thanks to show sponsor San Ray restaurant in Ponsonby Rd.
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