Monday 8.19.19

Night Train kicks off the week featuring some jazz guitarists – including August featured artist Pat Martino (from one of his Blue Note releases and an early release as part of the John Handy Quintet), along with Dave Stryker, Larry Coryell with John Scofield and Joe Beck, Charlie Apicella, and Barney Kessell. Plus the latest from Chick Corea with his new Spanish Heart Band,  pianists Monty Alexander and Mike LeDonne, and singer Vanessa Rubin.

Tuesday 8.20.19

Night Train marks birthdays of drummer Frank Capp, trumpeter Enrico Rava, and jazz trombone pioneer Jack Teagarden (including a special about him in hour two of the show). Plus more from August featured artist Pat Martino (from an early release as a leader and a later album he did with Joey DeFrancesco) – and new music from organist Doug Carn, guitarist Corey Christiansen, and legendary drummer Jimmy Cobb.

Wednesday 8.21.19

Night Train birthday artists tonight include trumpeter Art Farmer, drummer Leon Parker, and legendary big band leader and pianist Count Basie (featured in a special in hour two of the show). We’ll also hear August featured artist Pat Martino with Willis Jackson, plus new duo sets from harmonica player Gregoire Maret and harpist Edmar Castaneda, and saxophone and clarinet player Ken Peplowski with guitarist Diego Figueiredo, and the contemporary soul jazz trio of Akiko Tsuruga, Jeff Hamilton and Graham Dechter.

Thursday 8.22.19

Night Train highlights contemporary and classic female jazz singers tonight. We’ll hear Billie Holiday, Stacey Kent, Dianne Reeves, Jazzmeia Horn, Tierney Sutton, Dinah Washington and Blossom Dearie. Plus music from pianists Takaaki Otono, Ben Paterson, Marian McPartland and Leslie Pintchik, soul jazz organ great Dr. Lonnie Smith, and the organ group B3B4.

Monday, August 19

Global Village begins the week with music from pioneering American reggae singer Johnny Nash and supergroup drummer Ginger Baker, both born on this date, and more music for the August John Renbourn 75th Birthday feature, including music he did with Pentangle. Plus the latest from Afrobeat group Monkuti, the Ska Around the World compilation, and German-born, New York-based flamenco guitarist Adreas Arnold.

Tuesday, August 20

Global Village celebrates Szent István or St. Stephen’s Day – a major holiday in Hungary that marks the founding of the country. The program highlights a wide array of Hungarian music – from regional and national traditional styles, to contemporary jazz, Balkanbeats and more. Among the artists featured: acclaimed vocalist Marta Sebestyen, award-winning saxophonist Viktor Toth, world-jazz pioneer Gabor Szabo, cimbalom master Kalman Balogh, and tambura band Sondorgo.

Wednesday, August 21

August featured artist John Renbourn’s music has been dubbed ‘folk baroque’ and this time in the Global Village we’ll explore that in some of his music as a solo artist and with Pentangle, along with some interesting and different approaches to baroque and early music from Jordi Savall, the Elizabethan Session, the Pera Ensemble, the Dufay Collective, and Trio Mediaeval. Plus the latest from the Guo Gan Trio, Rhiannon Giddens, and Tristan Driessens.

Thursday, August 22

Global Village journeys to North Africa for music from the pioneering Nubian singer and bandleader Ali Hassan Kuban, the Nile Project that brings together over a dozen artists from countries and cultures along the Nile River, Algerian great Maurice el Medioni , Mauritanian artists Malouma and Noura Mint Seymali, and Nubian group Alsarah & the Nubatones. We’ll also hear some contemporary reggae from Raging Fyah and world jazz fusion from guitarist Al DiMeola.

Friday, August 23

Global Village wraps up the week with more English folk sounds. We’ll hear August featured artist John Renbourn with Pentangle and from his last solo album, along with music from Eliza Carthy and Linda Thompson, who were both born on this date. We’ll hear the two of them together on a Linda Thompson album, along with music Carthy did with the Imagined Village and with her father, Martin Carthy; and music Linda Thompson did both as a solo artist and with former husband Richard Thompson. Plus new music from the Dhoad Gypsies of Rajasthan, Turkish psychedelic folk artist Derya Yildirim, and Canadian group Constantinople with kora player Ablaye Cissoko.

Monday, August 19

We’ll hear selections from the brand-new recording from Minneapolis, Minnesota’s Davina & The Vagabonds, Sugar Drops as well as the latest from The Bird and The Bee, Interpreting The Masters Vol. 2: A Tribute To Van Halen, which focuses on the music of that legendary California band’s initial run with vocalist David Lee Roth.

Tuesday, August 20

Singer-songwriter Eleni Mandell spent two years teaching songwriting to women who were incarcerated through the program Jail Guitar Doors. She reflects on those experiences across her 2019 album Wake Up Again. We’ll hear music from that release as well as from Inara George’s 2018 release, Dearest Everybody.

Wednesday, August 21

The Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry recently released the meditative album, Quiet River of Dust Vol. 2: That Side of the River, which features members of The Sadies, The National and Friends of Fiddlers Green, the band which Parry’s late father was a member of. Listen for music from that recording as well as from the latest by The Appleseed Cast, The Fleeting Light of Impermanence.

Thursday, August 22

When The Replacements began thinking about making a new album in 1988, the band was at something of a crossroads. The Minneapolis quartet had failed to live up to commercial expectations since signing with a major label and signs of internal frictions were beginning to show. The album that resulted, 1989’s Don’t Tell A Soul, has long been a controversial point in the group’s discography, derided, in part for overproduction and a slickness that was, for many fans, not part of the group’s raw aesthetic. The group will issue a new box set later this year, titled Dead Man’s Pop featuring different mixes and outtakes that indicate the original, intended direction for the record. (And features a guest appearance from Tom Waits on several numbers.) We’ll hear selections from Don’t Tell A Soul as it was released in 1989 as well as music from Soul Asylum’s 1988 set, Hang Time.

Friday, August 23

We’ll hear selections from Kansas native Chuck Mead’s latest release, Close To Home, as well as music from his former band BR549’s 1996 self-titled debut.

Saturday, August 24

Carpet Denim is the latest from Tijuana Panthers. Listen for selections from that as well as the latest from St. Louis-based singer-songwriter Beth Bombara's Evergreen.

August 18

Sunday on Soulsations, hear new music from R&B singer/songwriter and producer Brandon Williams. The Detroit native teams up with R&B vocalist Eric Roberson on the new single, "Don't Give Up On Love."