Since the pandemic has eased, the jazz radio station has returned to live DJs. That's good news and bad news. They've changed their line up. Some of my favorite shows are gone, some are at different hours. There's now a show on every night for three hours with the unfortunate name "Bohemia After Dark". The thought is nice but it's so corny it's almost funny. The DJ for that show refers to herself as "jazz kitty". Also a bit corny. She plays word jazz at some point just about every night. Corny? This is up in the air. While word jazz can be corny, when are you ever going to hear it on an FM radio station? This leads to my point. There are a few corny things about this show but the amount of good, oddball, interesting, wild and varied music that she plays far outweighs any amount of associated corn. Enough so that I have to fess up to a DJ crush. It would be a cool record party. This leads to Mingus. Something she might play. I'm in a crazy ass jazz mood anyway.
Listen:
Charles Mingus - Lock 'em Up mp3 at London Jazz Collector This thing goes off. Check the yell at 4:16
Charles Mingus - All the Things You Could Be Right Now If Sigmund Freud's Wife Was Your Mother mp3 at African American Literary Theory
Visit:
Bohemia After Dark at Jazz 88
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