ATG's Summertime Webcast: Funk and Fusion

Webcast Title: ATG 30, "Funk and Fusion"
Webcast Date: beginning August 2, 2009
Webcast Time: daily at 9-1 AM and 7-11:00 PM (MST)

The latest edition of Ain't That a Groove has been posted to live365.com.

On this Funk and Fusion edition of ATG we’ll:

• put a back-beat to the Babylonian creation myth


• discover the ghost of Miles Davis past in the Indian music of the present


• hit the gravity-free dance floor with a couple bottles of
  home-brewed anti-matter


• and give a shout out to the millions of freedom fighters in Iran who are opposing the militaristic theocrats who rule their country with a murderous zeal

This summer's webcast is the 30th installment of our periodic program, Odds and Sods, featuring recordings old and new of pressing interest to drummers and other connoisseurs of high art and the fundamental wisdom of the big beat. The webcast has a running time of approximately three and one half hours and includes 24 recordings and 32 drummers who done found the stroke. Of particular importance are sets of music that feature the high order math of funk by the numbers, sets of the phat and the fusionary that share a world view, seventies fusion that’s new and improved, and contemporary fusion bands so prescient…they’re bringing back news from the future.

Also kindly note that this new webcast is only available on the 64kb edition of ATG, which is freely available to all listeners. The 32kb, 'FM' edition of ATG contains archival editions of ATG from our first three years (2005-2008), but no webcasts for 2009. Live365.com owns the rights to the FM edition of ATG for the next year, and has chosen to offer the show as a VIP edition available only to paid subscribers. Because I've stopped paying to webcast the FM edition of ATG, I have no control over it whatsoever.

As always, I do all of the research and production for the webcast, and pay all of the fees, but derive no income or perks of any kind from the endeavor. It's just for kicks.

--Flamdaddy

ATG's Spring 2009 Webcast

Webcast Title: ATG 29, The Jazz Edition

Webcast Date: beginning February 2009

Webcast Time: daily at 9-1 AM and 7-11:00 PM (MST)

The latest edition of Ain't That a Groove has just been posted at live365.com.

On this jazz edition of ATG, we'll:

• shake our hula hips with the Copa Cat Band


• sample a rare treat from England, known to locals as Ginger Sheep


• determine once and for all if Phish can walk, at least in tie-dyed bell bottom


• witness the miraculous-makeover of a jazz classic long thought dead

This is the 29th edition of our periodic program, Odds and Sods,featuring recordings old and new of pressing interest to drummers and other connoisseurs of high art and the fundamental wisdom of the big beat.

The show was first webcast the first week of February 2009, and has a running time of approximately two hours. Other highlights of the webcast include:

• a set of fusionary magic from Bobby Previte and Charlie hunter


• a heaping helping of thinking man's funk from David Sanchez's long awaited CD


• a memorable track from Art Blakey's Big Band featuring an up-and-comer named John Coltrane


• the bruising treatment of a Burt Bacharach classic by a gang of rhythm thugs known as The Bad Plus
  

Also kindly note that this new webcast is only available on the 64kb,'CD' quality edition of ATG, which is freely available to all listeners. The 32kb, 'FM' edition of ATG contains archival editions of ATG from our first three years (2005-2008), but no new webcasts. Live365.com owns the rights to the FM edition of ATG for the next year, and has chosen to offer the show as a VIP edition available only to paid subscribers. Because I've stopped paying to webcast the FM edition of ATG, I have no control over it whatsoever.

As always, I do all of the research and production for the webcast,and pay all of the fees, but derive no income or perks of any kind from the endeavor.

--Flamdaddy