Chris Heim

Monday 5.20.13

Night Train teams up with Global Village to mark birthdays of Argentinian bandoneon player Dino Saluzzi and swinging bagpiper Rufus Harley – plus the latest from singer Kevin Mahogany and a preview of an impressive new release from Thelonious Monk Vocal Jazz Competition winner Cecile McLorin Salvant – and more May B3 music.

Crossroads features more blues and soul organ for the B3 month feature – including music from the Phantom Blues Band with Mike Finnigan and also from Charles Earland for his birthday – plus more Blues Music Awards winners, and new music from the Cash Box Kings, Robin Trower, the Dynamites featuring Charles Walker and more.

Monday May 20

Global Village marks birthdays of jazz and soul bagpiper Rufus Harley, and of Argentine bandoneon player Dino Saluzzi. Plus more music from May featured groups the Soul Brothers, and Pucho & the Latin Soul Brothers, a new reissue of an African classic from Peter King, and the latest excursion, this time to the Mediterranean, of classical ensemble L’Arpeggiata.

1. Boz Scaggs - Memphis (429 Records)
2. Big Bill Morganfield - Blules With A Mood (Black Shuck)
3. Dynamites w/ Charles Walker - Love Is Only Everything (Gemco)
4. Robin Trower - Roots and Branches (V12)
   

Throughout May, Night Train teams up with Global Village, Strange Currency, Crossroads and Straight No Chaser to celebrate B3 Month on KMUW. On the Night Train, it's music from the giants and rising stars of jazz organ.

1. Red Baraat - Shruggy Ji (Sinj)

2. Cesaria Evora - Mae Carinhosa (LusAfrica)
3. Narinkka - Suomiklezmer (Narinkka)
4. Ballake Sissoko - At Peace (Six Degrees)
5. Richard Thompson - Electric (New West)
6. Various - Pop Yeh Yeh (Sublime Frequencies)
7. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba - Jama Ko (Out Here)
8. Lorraine Klaasen - A Tribute to Miriam Makeba (Justin Time)
   

Throughout May, Crossroads teams up with Global Village, Strange Currency, Night Train and Straight No Chaser to celebrate B3 Month on KMUW. At the Crossroads, it's great players and recordings from both blues and soul that feature the instrument.

Throughout May, Global Village joins Strange Currency, Night Train and Straight No Chaser for a B3 Month celebration, highlighting two bands that prominently feature the organ in their sound.

Though at some point in his life a few years were shaved off, credible evidence (including a marriage certificate, union card, social security filings and early interviews) all point to 1913 as the year of Muddy Waters' birth. And a century since that event, he remains one of the most influential figures in the blues.