Setlist 12/22/11 - Better Late Than Never!

Definitely one of the stranger setlists I've ever done... You're welcome!!!

9:53 PM	Joe Henderson feat. Chaka Khan	Summertime	Porgy & Bess
9:50 PM	Naked City	Krazy Kat
9:41 PM	Sun Ra	Whistle While You Work	Second Star to the Right
9:36 PM		Mr Hanky Theme Song	South Park
9:32 PM	Django Bates	New York, New York	Winter Truce (and Homes Blaze)

9:24 PM	Heems	Womyn
9:21 PM	Ornette Coleman and the Prime Time	Singing in the Shower	Virgin Beauty
9:15 PM	Caroliner	Fanged Hymen Flee in Terror	The Sabre Waving Saracen Wall
9:12 PM	Balam Acab	Apart	Wander/Wonder
9:09 PM	The Bad Plus with Wendy Lewis	Barracuda	For All I Care
9:05 PM	Gorillaz	Starshine	Gorillaz
8:59 PM	Bootsy Collins feat. Snoop Dogg	Happy Holidaze	Christmas is 4 Ever
8:53 PM	The Books	Take Time	The Lemon of Pink
8:52 PM	Roscoe Mitchell	The Little Suite	Sound
8:48 PM	Can	Spoon	Ege Bamyast
8:44 PM	Funki Porcini	Bright Little Things	On
8:42 PM	Captain Beefhart & His Magic Band	Diddy Wah Diddy
8:40 PM	Leroy Holmes	Mah-Na, Mah-Na	Ultra-Lounge: Bottoms-Up!
8:35 PM	War	The World is a Ghetto	Soul Train
8:31 PM	Avi Buffalo	One Last	Avi Buffalo
8:26 PM	Blac Roc	Ain't Nothing Like You	Blacroc
8:26 PM		You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch
8:25 PM	Joe Henderson feat. Sting	It Ain't Necessarily So	Porgy & Bess
8:11 PM	Belle & Sebastian	White Collar Boy	The Life Pursuit
8:06 PM	RH Factor	I'll Stay	Hard Groove

Setlist 12/15/11

Hello radio folk!

Thursday was another successful show. A lot of jazz to be had and celebrated all around, of all shapes and sounds! Unfortunately, no one seems to want to post any of those tunes on Youtube... But you are encouraged to check them out, especially the late and great Paul Motian and Happy Apple. Also Blur. Because Blur is the best (except for Gorillaz, of course, but the two are intimately related).

ALSO, I will be doing SO MUCH RADIO this week: I will be on Wednesday noon-3 and 4-5:30 pm, Jazz Til Noon on Thursday from 9-noon, this show, AND a VERY SPECIAL Thursday night/Friday morning 3-6am in which I will be doing a dramatic reading of the "Sirens" chapter of Ulysses (a wacky, crazy, awesome chapter) over Ornette Coleman Double Quartet's Free Jazz album. Two different quartets on each left/right speaker, one blasting voice of Ulysses. LISTEN UP, KIDS!

9:55 PM	Gil Scott-Heron	New York Is Killing Me	I'm New Here
9:49 PM	The Dandy Warhols	Mohammed	Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia
9:45 PM	Jason Moran	Pas de Deux - Lines Ballet	Ten
9:43 PM	Fanfare Savale	Ciocarlia	Speed Brass of the Gypsies
9:39 PM	Radiohead	The Daily Mail	The Daily Mail EP

9:35 PM	Ralph Towner	Piscean Dance	Solstice
9:32 PM	Sam & Dave	Soul Man
9:25 PM	Sufjan Stevens	Jupiter Winter
9:21 PM	Caroliner	Child Heart O' Dirt Rump	Rise of the Common Woodpile
9:17 PM	Chris Speed Trio	CooCoo	Iffy
9:13 PM	The Beatles	Blue Jay Way	Magical Mystery Tour
9:07 PM	Ivo Papasov	Tziganska Ballada
9:02 PM	Jonsi	Go Do	Go
8:57 PM	Nazia Hassan	Aap Jaise Koi	The Rough Guide to Bollywood
8:52 PM	Happy Apple	Starchild Cranium	The Peace Between Our Companies
8:49 PM	Howlin' Wolf	Smokestack Lightnin'
8:43 PM	Beach House	10 Mile Stereo	Teen Dream
8:43 PM	Otis Redding	I Don't Miss My Water
8:35 PM	Blur	Beetlebum	Blur
8:26 PM	Bio Ritmo	Dina's Mambo	La Verdad
8:23 PM	Paul Motian	White Magic	Psalm
8:23 PM	Earth, Wind, & Fire	Shining Star
8:12 PM	Bjork	Crystalline	Biophilia

12/8/11

A bit belated, but here ya go! A swell setlist for a swell time of year! And a swell inside joke that probably no one else got, unless any English nerds were listening out there. At least you all got to witness me cracking up for no apparent reason though. It was fun for all, sure!

Also, I entreat you all to watch Stephen Colbert's attempt to play free jazz and hip hop.

9:56 PM	Taraf de Haidouks	Ostinato & Romanian Dance	Maskarada
9:52 PM	What Laura Says	Illustrated Manual	Thinks and Feels
9:48 PM	RUN-DMC	It's Like That
9:44 PM	Flight of the Conchords	Inner City Pressure	Flight of the Conchords
9:34 PM	Tim Berne	Hard Cell	Hard Cell
9:25 PM	Cold War Kids	We Used to Vacation	Robbers & Cowards
9:20 PM	Tabla Beat Science	Talvin Singh	Tala Matrix
9:14 PM	The Wedding Present	Box Elder
9:04 PM	Sigur Ros	Svefn-g-englar	Agaetis Byrjun
9:01 PM	Charlie Parker	Dewey Square	The Complete Savoy and Dial Studio Recordings
8:56 PM	thenewno2	Another John Doe
8:50 PM	Dr. John	Right Place Wrong Time
8:44 PM	Outkast	Hey Ya!	The Love Below
8:41 PM	Blazes Boylan	Seaside Girls
8:34 PM	The Rolling Stones	Sympathy for the Devil	Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!
8:24 PM	Steve Wonder	Sir Duke	Songs in the Key of Life
8:20 PM	A Tribe Called Quest	Footprints	People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
8:17 PM	James Brown	Night Train	Live at the Apollo
8:13 PM	Christian McBride	A Taste of Honey	The Good Feeling
8:05 PM	Funkadelic	Groovallegiance	One Nation Under a Groove
8:04 PM	Sufjan Stevens	Heirloom	All Delighted People EP

WHAT IT IS - Setlist 12/2/11

Last night I triumphantly returned to WCBN's residential soul-funk show with a set featuring more soul-type songs and more jazz-turned-funk-turned-Bernard Purdie-showoffathon type songs, all culminating in the unannounced special surprise of Bootsy Collins's "Happy Holidaze" from Christmas is 4 Ever. And so it was that Snoop Dogg said it was so.

9:57 PM	Bootsy Collins feat. Snoop Dogg	Happy Holidaze	Christmas is 4 Ever
9:46 PM	Funkadelic	One Nation Under a Groove	One Nation Under a Groove
9:38 PM	Stephen Ferrone	Freedom Jazz Dance	Steve Ferrone's Farm Fur. More Head
9:36 PM	Bernard Purdie	Caravan
9:32 PM	Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens	What Have You Done?
9:28 PM	The Meters	The Handclapping Song	Struttin
9:21 PM	Wah Wah Watson	Goo Goo Wah Wah	Elementary
9:11 PM	James Brown	People Get Up and Drive Your Funky Soul	Motherlode
9:07 PM	Booker T & the MGs	Melting Pot
9:04 PM	Fitz & the Tantrums	Don't Gotta Work it out	Pickin' Up the Pieces

8:52 PM	War	Galaxy	Galaxy
8:42 PM	Lizzy Mercier Descloux	Funky Stuff
8:32 PM	John Scofield	Hottentot	A Go Go
8:27 PM	Tower of Power	You Got to Funkafize
8:22 PM	The Isley Brothers	Fight the Power (Parts 1 & 2)
8:17 PM	Sam Cooke	Bring It on Home to Me
8:14 PM	Them Two	Am I a Good Man
8:10 PM	Sugarman Three & Co.	Funky So-and-So
8:08 PM	Lowell Fulsom	Tramp
8:01 PM	Tower of Power	What Is Hip

WHAT IT IS - Setlist 11/18/11

Well hello there.

Since I did What It Is, WCBN's Funk Show and my brain-soul child (as I often now like to brag), I thought I might as well post the setlist here. But really I'm posting because I wanted an excuse to share this wondrous commercial with you, featuring Bootsy Collins.

9:54 PM James Brown Since You've Been Gone Motherlode 9:46 PM Herbie Hancock Hang Up Your Hang Ups 9:40 PM Monomono Get Yourself Together The Dawn of Awareness 9:35 PM Medeski, Martin, and Wood Shubb Stub 9:30 PM Bootsy Collins feat. Al Sharpton JB - Still the Man The Funk Capital of the World 9:21 PM Ravi Harris & the Prophets Thunderbird (Parts 1 & 2) Spike's Choice: The Desco's Funk 45' Collection 9:14 PM Robert Hurst Comes You Comes Love Bob Ya Head 9:10 PM The Mighty Hannibal Get in the Groove Get in the Groove

9:07 PM The Temptations Ain't Too Proud To Beg 8:58 PM Isaac Hayes Groove-A-Thon Groove-A-Thon 8:47 PM The Final Solution No Place to Run Brotherman 8:42 PM Lonnie Smith Voodoo Woman 8:38 PM Q-Tip Manwomanboogie The Renaissance 8:34 PM Funkadelic Standing on the Verge of Getting It On Standing on the Verge of Getting it On 8:32 PM The Dirtbombs Livin' for the City Ultraslide 8:27 PM Soul President Get It Right Silva 8:21 PM Curtis Mayfield Freddie's Dead Superfly 8:09 PM Fela Kuti Suffering and Smiling The Best of the Black President 8:04 PM Spank Cajun Acidfunkgroovejazz 8:02 PM Calypso King & the Soul Investigators Compin' & Smokin' Grazing in the Trash Vol. 1

11/17/11 - A Damn Good Set, If I Do Say So Myself

And I do indeed say so.  Check it, fool, with some links to some random songs.  Also make sure to check out my other baby (as far as radio show babies go), the WCBN funk show WHAT IT IS Fridays (tonight!) 8-10 pm. I will more than likely be hosting tonight!

9:53 PM	Battles	Rainbow	Mirrored
9:51 PM	Jerry Lee Lewis	Down the Road a Piece	Young Blood
9:47 PM	Tinariwen	Tassili + 10:1	Imidiwan Ma Tenam
9:44 PM	Ahmad Jamal	Don't Ask My Neighbors	Ear Candy (Compilation)
9:41 PM	Edith Pilaf	Le Vie En Rose	The Voice of the Sparrow
9:38 PM	Gorillaz	5/4	Gorillaz
9:34 PM	Yesterday's New Quintet	Papa	Angles Without Edges
9:27 PM	Van Shipley	Jan Pachechan Ho	Bollywood Steel Guitar
9:26 PM	James Chance and the Contortions	Bedroom Athlete	Buy
9:20 PM	George Harrison	Run of the Mill	All Things Must Pass
9:13 PM	Andrew Hill	Dedication	Point of Departure
9:07 PM	The Heptones	Sea of Love	Sea of Love
9:02 PM	Steely & Clevie	Streetsweeper	Invasion of the Mysteron Killer Sounds
8:57 PM	Mayer Hawthorne	A Long Time	How Do You Do
8:49 PM	Os Mutantes	A Minha Menina	Mutantes
8:42 PM	Roots Manuva	In the Throes of It	4everevolution
8:37 PM	Paris Combo	Baguee	Motifs
8:33 PM	Talking Heads	Psycho Killer	Stop Making Sense
8:28 PM	Antibalas	War Hero	Security
8:19 PM	Tim Berne	Chang
8:16 PM	Messer Chups	How To Become a Vampire	Surf/Electro/Exotica Behind the Iron Curtain
8:13 PM	Booker T & the MGs	Green Onions

8:09 PM	Oneohtrix Point Never	Replica	Replica
8:02 PM	LCD Soundsystem	New York I Love You But...	Sound of Silver

11/3/11 - CAO Infiltrates CBN

Last night on Party O'Clock, U-M's Creative Arts Orchestra took over WCBN, setting up three groups (one in the FM, one in Prod A, and one in the rock and world CD section). It was quite awesome (if I do say so myself). Fortunately for you lucky internet dogs and jazz cats, plenty of videos were taken. Let's call it "website exclusive content" to make this blog seem important.
CAO is a group dedicated to improvising music on the spot, some of it serious, some of it silly, some of it from outer space, some of it funky as hell. The ensemble is directed by Mark Kirschenmann. We are playing next Thursday, November 10, at Rackam Auditorium. (Which means no Party O'Clock for Kirsten.) You should come. Seriously. Do it.
Here are some videos of CAO:

Here's the playlist for the show (with links to the tunes on YouTube... a dubious moral practice I'm not sure I'll continue):

8:57 PM	Creative Arts Orchestra	LIVE ON WCBN	(currently untitled)
8:32 PM	Biosphere	Fujiko	N-Plants
8:29 PM	Lavern Baker	Batman to the Rescue
8:23 PM	Bjork	Moon	Biophilia
8:20 PM	Brent Holmes & Bernie the Bear	The Peanut Butter Bears	Bear Tunes for Kids
8:17 PM	Girls	Die	Father, Son, Holy Ghost
8:09 PM		Blue In Green	Kind of Bloop
8:04 PM	George Harrison	The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll)	All Things Must Pass
8:04 PM	Gorillaz	November Has Come	Demon Days

WELCOME TO THE PARTY O'BLOG

Hello comrades and comradettes!

Welcome to the Party O'Clock Party O'Blog. Party O'Clock is a vigorously freeform radio show on WCBN FM Ann Arbor from 8-10 pm on Thursdays. What is this magical station? Find out at www.wcbn.org.

WHICH MEANS IT'S ON TONIGHT! WOW! AND THE U-M CREATIVE ARTS ORCHESTRA WILL BE THERE! WOW!


For a sampling of a regular freeform show, see this setlist from 10/13/11:

9:54

PM

Iron and Wine

God Made the Automobile

Around the Well

9:50 PM	Com Truise	VHS Sex	Galactic Melt
9:45 PM	Chicago Underground Quartet	Wo Ist Der Kuchen, Meine Frau	Chicago Underground Quartet
9:42 PM	The Earthquakers	Soul Samba	Jazz Toys
9:36 PM	Bjork	Isobel
9:23 PM	Paul Chambers Sextet	Omicron	Whims of Chambers
9:19 PM	Sufjan Stevens	Too Much	Age of Adz
9:12 PM	Professor Longhair	I've Got My Mojo Working	Big Chief
9:09 PM	Ornette Coleman	What Reason Could I Give	Science Fiction
9:06 PM	Mekons	Cowboy Boots	I Have Been to Heaven and Back
9:04 PM	Lizzy Mercier Descloux	Room Mate	Mambo Nassau
8:57 PM	Peter Tosh	Wanted Dead or Alive
8:50 PM	Steely Dan	I Got the News	Aja
8:42 PM	Chris Lightcap Quartet	Blues for Carlos	Bigmouth
8:37 PM	Headhunters	D-Funk	Platinum
8:27 PM	Baal	Chronicle Lovesong	Sensorama
8:26 PM	The Exciting Trio	Bow:M	In Chicago There Is Willy
8:19 PM	Fishtank Ensemble	Pena Andaluz	Woman in Sin
8:15 PM	Department of Eagles	No One Does It Like You	In Ear Park
8:11 PM	Siouxsie & the Banshees	Cities in Dust
8:08 PM	Matthew Dear	Innh Dahhh	Slowdance EP
8:05 PM	Syd Barrett	Octopus	The Madcap Laughs