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  This artifact from my bedroom bureau shows how lively the Chicago Blues Scene was in 1978. Every night in July, boffo!  What a line-up! Sunnyland Slim, Otis Rush, Magic Slim, Detroit Jr. Son Seals, Erwin Helfer and Mama Yancey - it just goes on and on. I got to a couple of these nights - hot but it was great to be there. This happened while I worked with Sunnyland on the Prose Poem "Sunnyland Blues." Most of that was Sunnyland conversation - and what testimonies they were. Here below instead I include some excerpts from the book that touch on my impressions of Chicago. These and some verbatims by other musicians weren't particularly received well by the critics. I get it, they were jarring, and might have worked well in a longer more rambling presentation.      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FROM CHICAGO AND ACROSS KING DRIVE - Distended lights of the northwestern trestle. Buses this burden their scores. Ice chests in the gas stations wait for Sat...

 Al compas del mundo – programa #33, 6/23/22 Learn more about AL COMPAS DEL MUNDO .   Or visit the Archive directly! Jazz - Mellow and Lively Run List 01 Charlie Ventura & Kai Winding - East of Suez 02 Laurence Mason - Golden Brown (Loop Extended Mix) 03 Jimmy Giuffre -The Green Country (New England Mood) 04 Sonny Criss - Black Coffee 05 Teddy Charles Tentet - The Quiet Time 06 John Coltrane – Alabama 07 Courtney Pine - I've Known Rivers 08 Charles Lloyd - Forest Flower – Sunrise 09 Eric Dolphy - Warm Canto 10 Erik Jekabson – Silence 11 Gary Bartz Ntu Troop-Celestial Blues 12 Eddie Harris - Listen Here

Lately I've heard Elmore James anew. He could fix on a single note, but make it ring. Shame he died at 45, his heart exploded, with little mention. But he was in approach to music acutely aware somehow of a universal harmonics, a chord Elysium. And no one had it better. One extended chord that came up from Afrik to Greece by way of Hawaii and Mississippi. Circled the globe, Jack. No one dug more into the musical values of electric signals though they still be trying. Always felt: ''It was Elmore James invented musical electricity.'' But the one-note-ness of Elmore I'd kind of come to take for granted as a limitation. The note bloomed, expanded, of late. Who knows why? There is a ringing wood chime at my neighbors where I park my car, and all of music can be spawned from it essential sound. Dust my Blues too is inevitable. Read the rest of the story: The King of the Chicago Feedback , 2005

           Al compas del mundo – programa #32, 6-16-22 Folk music from Eastern Europe  Learn more about AL COMPAS DEL MUNDO .   Listen to the latest archived Episode . The List. 01 Goran Bregović - So nevo si (Bosnia y Herzegovina) 02 Klezmorim - Baym Rebns Sude (Yididsh) 03 Belo Platno - Udade se Zivka Sirinicka (Kosovo) 04 Карађорђе - Седам сати удара  (Serbia) 05 Palya Bea - Hoppá (Hungary) 06 Iren Lovasz and Teagrass - Nem Egyszer (Hungary) 07 Ethnic folk group Trag - Врбице, врбо зелена (Serbia) 08 Goran Bregović - Tale I (Grave disperato) (Bosnia y Herzegovina) 09 Kitka - Moma Bega Prez Livade (Bulgaria and USA) 10 Klezmorim - Papirosn (Yiddish) 11 Kolinda - Somogyi ugros (Hungary) 12 Ivana and Isadora Cantrach - Жали Заре (Macedonia) 13 anonimous - folklore (Albania) 14 Klezmorim - Mayn Rue Plats (Yiddish) 15 Vellezerit Aliu - Keq Kur Tkam (Albania) 16 Goran Bregović - Te kuravle (Bosnia y Herze...

  Nobelist Ben RoyMottelson , writ at the time of his death Ben Roy Mottelson was born in Chicago in 19 and 26. Single particle motion was his life-long quest. He died in the State of Denmark, Friday, May the 13th, 2022. He found that the shape of the nuclei of atoms was fluid, not set. Instead, protons and neutrons in motion could distort the marble at the middle. But when he came up with this theory people said it was a myth. See, people thought the nucleus to be like a circle around the Sun. A little ball marble round which electrons orbit. Purdue, Harvard, the Institute for Theoretical Atomic Physics in Copenhagen. He studied. He really became a Dane. Dr Mottelson worked with Dr. Jr. Bohr, and they share 1975 Nobel in Physics with Dr. Rainwater.  Said the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences: They discovered connection between collective motion and particle motion in atomic nuclei and they developed the theory around that. A reading of the Britannica rather suggests i...

This is adapted from a Selection from Our Vault. Writ on the passing of Wilson Pickett in 2006.  Wilson Picket was the first soul singer I heard, and the most direct, and the guy who got me into the thing. Wilson Pickett. I died in front of 40 people 0nce trying to replicate Mustang Sally. It isnt possible.  His is irreproducible art. Midnight Hour was an oldie. But it was totally different than any other. Tried and failed to replicate that as well.  The thing is that the time and the place become one with the feel. I'd listen to those records waiting for the Marlin ride to the Gritty. Wilson Pickett Poem My room in the house on North Bay Drive Waiting for Bob La France to pick me up in the Long Red AMC Marlin All anticipation in the night of Nitty Gritty Playing Wilson Pickett's Greatest Hits in the anticipation Eyeballing a zit in the truth-telling mirror Getting psyched When Everybody Needs Somebody shook the radio Entering the long dark dusty archive - Soulville - to ...

  Spent a morning at Boston Public Library going through old issues of Mission Hill Good News on microfilm when an old poem appeared. This is late 1970s.

 Al compas del mundo – programa 31 Women of the Americas Learn more about AL COMPAS DEL MUNDO .   Guide us, oh leader in the sky, creator of corpuscles and laissez faire limbo-leaners, dancers and otherwise groovin’ earth-dwellers (thanks for the hotties!) We are in sore need of guideposts on the pathway to musical transcendence or, at least, a tasty burrito. Is the answer to be found in the bluesy grit and no bullshit of this country’s finest or might we cast our nets southwards to embrace an aesthetic no less forceful though gentler (perhaps) in its approach? Listen in. I face for your answer. – Jim Haas Here is THE RUN LIST FOR THIS WEEK'S SHOW >>>> 01 Janis Joplin - Turtle Blues (USA) 02 Mother Earth - Down So Low (USA) 03 Alabama Shakes - Hold on (USA) 04 Our Native Daughters - Black Myself (USA) 05 Linda Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir - Little Johnny Brown (USA) 06 Nina Simone – Ain’t Got No, I Got Life (USA) 07 Maria Muldaur - Guide Me O Great ...

Al compas del mundo – program #30, 6-2-22 Rhythm and blues – blues – blues and rhythm From Jimmy Rogers to Bobby Moore, Jim Haas lays down the unfiltered blues and rhythm for the Radioactiva Army.  Here is link to more about AL COMPAS DEL MUNDO.   THEN THE RUN LIST FOR THIS WEEK'S SHOW >>>> 01 Jimmy Rogers - Sloppy Drunk 02 Jimmy Liggins and His Drops of Joy – Drunk 03 Crown Prince Waterford - Hard Driving Woman 04 BB King - Bad Luck 05 T-Bone Walker - T-Bone Boogie 06 Muddy Waters - I Feel Like Going Home 07 Robert Lockwood Jr. - Aw Aw Baby 08 Junior Wells - Checking on My Baby 09 Little Walter – Juke 10 Baby Face Leroy - My Head Can't Rest Anymore 11 J.B. Lenoir - Mama Talk to Your Daughter 12 Sunnyland Slim - Fly Right, Little Girl 13 Otis Rush - So Many Roads, So Many Trains 14 Howling Wolf - Forty Four 15 Professor Longhair - Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand 16 Irma Thomas - Ruler of My Heart 17 James Brown - Maybe the Last Time 18 Solomon Burke - Home in Your ...