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  Jim Haas invited me to guest DJ on Jim Haas’s Al Compas Del Mundo 1-hr Internet Radio Show , and I did. How can I call this out? Let’s call it Baroque and Hungry! My hit list is included: List Al compás del mundo 241, 7-9-26 - guest DJ Jack Vaughan   01 Pete Seeger - Living in the Country (USA) 02 Afrocubism - Mali-Cuba (Mali, Cuba)   03 Jordi Savall - The Lancashire Pipes-Pigges of Rumsey-Kate of Bardie (España) 04 Chatham Baroque – Fandango (USA)   05 The Staple Singers - Uncloudy Day (USA) 06 Leroy Carr - (In the Evening) When the Sun Goes Down (USA)   07 The Supremes - Love Is Like an Itching in My Heart (USA) 08 Xavier Cugat - Night Must Fall (Mexico)  09 Miriam Makeba - Pata Pata (Sudafrica) 10 Keith Jarrett - No Moon at All (USA)   11 James Brown - Night Train (USA) 12 The Lilly Brothers - Little Annie (USA)   13 Charlie Parker - A Night ...

Misposted this on Moon Traveler...But I Embrace the Random! For the music of your life and more visit Sister Site:  https://alcompasdelmundo.blogspot.com/ Any program that starts and ends with Little Walter has got something going on right. And in this version of Mexican radio’s Al compas del mundo (radioactivaTX.org – in Tequisquiapan, Queretaro) I can do no wrong. Though I kind of, sort of, do a chronology of the harmonica in American blues, I had to start off this playlist with Little Walter Jacobs for reasons obvious to me and, I’m certain, many others. Followed by an all-time favorite – Rollin’ and Tumblin’, with Walter again, Muddy Waters, Baby Face Leroy Foster and an unnamed participant or two. It is a given that the blues developed in the United States brought by an enslaved population that introduced African characteristics from many different roots and regions. This lyric-less version of Rollin’ and Tumblin’ is played, moaned and wailed to create a mood that – to these e...

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 Al compas del mundo – programa #58, 12-22-22 Blues and bluesy jazz - USA 01 Sonny Stitt - Blues Ahead 02 Lowell Fulson - Trouble, Trouble 03 Eddie 'Lockjaw' Davis - Untitled Blues 04 Jimmy Rogers - Goin' Away Baby 05 Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson - When My Baby Left Me 06 Mercy Dee - Red Light 07 Charlie Ventura - O.H. Blues 08 Buddy Guy - Money (That’s What I Want) 09 Jaki Byard - Shine on Me 10 James Cotton - Somethin' You Got 11 Clark Terry - Swahili 12 Arthur Gunter – Don’t Leave Me Now 13 Dave Bailey Quintet - Comin' Home Baby 14 Magic Sam - All Night Long 15 John Handy - Blues in The Vernacular Just sitting here rockin’, with a heatpad over the lumbar region. Guess I rocked till my back didn’t have no bone. I should be so lucky to avoid true, deep-down blues. Never went (seriously) hungry. Always had a pallet on the floor, or something better. My baby done left me (not) after 46 years together. Can you feel me? We’re talking middle class, Midwestern, Catho...

Music of the Arab world, First Broadcast 12-15-22 Just chewing the qat Runlist 01 Boudjemaa El Ankis - Rah Yendem Men Han Hbibou (Algeria) 02 Fairouz - Saluni an-nas فيروز سالوني الناس (Lebanon) 03 Fatma Eid - Hassanen wa Mohamaden (Egypt) فاطمه عيد - حسانين و محمدين 04 Talal al-Madah - Hobbak Sabani (Saudi Arabia) 05 Trio Fahmi Riahi & Sabry Mosbah - صالح الفرزي  إرضى علينا (Tunisia) 06 Founon Shaabyia - Ya zareef at-tul (Palestine) 07 Kamal Turbas – title unknown (Sudan) 08 Kawkabani Brothers - You Said that You Would Forget Me (Yemen) 09 Children of Abraham - Spiritual Union in Song (Iraq) 10 Jalsah Iraqia - Zalel al'af (Iraq) 11 Sheikh 'Abdu an-Naby az-Zaman – title unknown (Egypt) 12 Fedwa Abid - (Syria-USA) دعاء مولاى كن لى وحدى 13 Mehdi Nassouli, Boganga and Sandia – Ammar 808 (Morocco) Music of the Arab world spans a sizable area from Mauritania in the West, across northern Africa, down to Sudan and Somalia and across the Red Sea to the Middle East: Iraq, Palestine,...

Al compas del mundo – programa #56, 12-8-22 La música guapachosa – Cuba, Puerto Rico, Republica  Dominicana, Nueva York 01 Pucho and His Latin Soul Brothers - Heat! 02 Eddie Palmieri and Cal Tjader – Bamboléate 03 Grupo Folklorico y Experimental Nuevayorquino - Canto Ebioso 04 Willie Colón - La Murga 05 Luis Vargas – Tranquila 06 Fania All-stars - Quitate Tú (Live At The Cheetah) 07 Frankie Negron - Qué Tengo Que Hacer 08 Cachao - Spoon Lips (Descarga-Jam Session) 09 Eddie Palmieri – Café 10 Willie Colon y Ruben Blades - Pablo Pueblo 11 Joe Cuba Sextet - Salsa y bembé Immigration and transnational communications being what they are, it gets harder to place borders on the practitioners of “la musica guapachosa” (dance music) in Latin America and the USA. Ruben Blades, for example, was born in Panama, but I decided to forego listing that in my mix title. Comes a point where they all fermented in New York, San Juan or Havana, so musically what’s the difference? Salsa is universally ha...

  Moon Traveller is honored to host the archival list of old buddy Jim Haas's Mexican Radio Show . Get right with Instant Karma and Learn more about AL COMPAS DEL MUNDO . Bluegrass, Newgrass, and Folk USA Spare change?! Lace up your cloggers, folks. This week we’re checking out old-timey music as performed by (mostly) new-timey musicians, along with some new wrinkles. And you needn’t be born in the Appalachians to fit in with this crowd. Up-and-comer Billy Strings hails from Michigan, for example, that haven for moonshiners and out-of-work automotive industry peons. Maybe that’s the appeal: a folkish (i.e. mostly acoustic) musical tradition that roots for the underlings, the underdog, and the under-represented. I’m in! And so is Sierra Ferrell with a voice for the ages and soul to boot that sounds genuine to me. And then there’s Josh O’Keefe. Bob Dylan has had plenty of imitators over the years, particularly early on when a raspy voice, unplugged guitar and bleating harmonica st...

The international wave – rock ‘n roll 1960-80 The List 01 Enrique Guzmán - La Plaga (with Los Teen Tops) (Mexico) 02 Mohammed Rafi - O Meri Baby Doll (India) 03 Pan Ron - Monkey Dancing Monkey (Cambodia) 04 Mehrpouya   دخترشب - Dokhtar Shab (Iran) 05 Edoardo Vianello - Tremarella (Italy) 06 Elvis Phuong - Loan Mắt Nhung (Vietnam) 07 Los LLopis - Estremécete (Mexico) 08 Sandro - En Linea (Down The Line) (Argentina) 09 Payom Moogda - Tamai Dern Sae (Why Do You Walk Like a Drunkard) (Thailand) 10 Yol Aularong - Yuvajon Kouge Jet (Broken Hearted Man) (Cambodia) 11 Los Loving Darks - Complicado (Bolivia) 12 Witch - Like a Chicken (Zambia) 13 Los Speakers - Si la guerra es buen negocio invierte a tus hijos (If war is good business, invest your sons) (Colombia) 14 Barry McGuire - Eve Of Destruction (USA) 15 Breakout (with Mira Kubasińska) - Gdybyś kochał hej (Poland) 16 Los Mirlos - Sonido Amazonico (Peru) 17 Ofo The Black Company - Allah Wäkbarr (Nigeria) 18 Os Mut...

Just Jazz List 01 Jerry Gonzales and the Fort Apache Band – Intro  02 Will Bernard – Boomtown  03 McCoy Tyner - Blues On the Corner  04 Mal Waldron and Eric Dolphy – Thirteen  05 Art Ensemble of Chicago, with Fontella Bass - Theme de Yoyo  06 Clifford Jordan Big Band - Highest Mountain  07 Marion Brown – Spooks  08 Wynton Marsalis - Uptempo Posthude  09 Duke Ellington - Blues for New Orleans  10 World Saxophone Quartet, with Fontella Bass -  Breath of Life Jazz jumps jamming Jerry jaundiced joyous jubilant Jordan jaunty jingle journey just jerkin’ Jingoistic justice jail joint jolly Jersey juicy jive join us…that’s jazz - Jim and Jack  Note: Fontella Bass recorded "Rescue Me" which shot up the charts in the fall and winter of 1965. [I remember going crazy listening and jumping to it while probably shirking chores or actually swabbing down floor in the Wisconsin basement. - Editor] It gave Chess its first million-selling single sin...

We’re heading east this week. Not to the Far East, not the Middle East, but the Near East (no, not Boston). Plenty to dance about with accordions, balalaikas, flutes and drums. Also a lovely polyphony of voices, particularly notable the unique Georgian choruses. Islamic Sufi music is provided by the Aznash Ensemble of Chechnya, with the goal of mystic trance through the repetition of God’s name and attributes – ever faster, ever more intense. Similar to the Gnaoua music of Morocco, the Whirling Dervishes of Turkey, and the voudoun chants of Dahomey (inherited by Cuba and Haiti). God is great, or so they tell me. Oh, and Ukraine and Russia can coexist, separate but equal, as long as it’s on my program. My rules. -J.H. Put another dime in the juke box, Jimmy! - J.V. Aznash Ramblers Music of Eastern Europe  01 ხასანბეგურა (ჩონგურით) - Khasanbegura (con Chonguri) (Georgia) 02 anonymous – title unknown (Circassia) 03 Dakhabrakha y Port Mone - Dyado (Ukraine) 04 Vellezerit Aliu - Keq ...

On the 1st Anniversary of Al Compas Del Mundo Broadcasting -What’s there to say about my adopted country, Mexico? It’s the land of “please” and “thank you” - still. It’s a place where folks’ first impression upon meeting you is “it’s a pleasure” - really. Old traditions die hard: sitting for a (typically delicious) restaurant meal, perfect strangers leaving a nearby table will wish you “provecho”, i.e. “have a good meal” - I’m not kidding. Passers by more often than not will utter a “buenos días” or “buenas tardes” - it sounds genuine though you’ll never cross paths again. And then there’s the music. I’ll let it speak for itself in this mix, but as is evident herein, and as President AMLO (as he has come to be known) states emphatically “Mexico es un mosaico cultural. No somos una sola cultura. Somos muchas culturas.” (“Mexico is a cultural mosaic. We are not a single culture. We are many cultures.”) Listen with an open mind. The music is mostly indigenous, in a variety of tongues. ...

Al compas del mundo – programa #51, 10-27-22 potpourri   A traipsing we will go, exploring the very nature of potpourri. Judging by his album covers, Little Willie John never let the “Little” get in his way when it came to sidling up to foxy ladies. And Lavern Baker (notice it isn’t “Little” Lavern Baker”) lets you know she won’t take no guff and we’re going to do things her way. Amen! And then there’s Walter Horton – bless his heart.  La Cucaracha is going to have our entire corner of Mexico smiling as Big Walter trips the harmonica light fantastic.  And what’s up with Benin? Back in the 60’s and 70’s pop groups from this West African nation carried their weight disproportionately compared to their neighbors – hit after hit and a sound that never wears thin. Cotonou must have been a jumping place! And give the San Francisco Bay Area a little credit: Ritmo y Candela along with stalwart Santana swing in that particular Latin way. Followed by some moody, out-there stuff fr...

Moon Traveller is honored to host the archival list of old buddy Jim Haas's Mexican Radio Show . Get right with Instant Karma and Learn more about AL COMPAS DEL MUNDO . Contemporary music from Mali Mali is one of those diverse cultures where in a thorough review of its music rarely is found a discouraging sound. It’s not that they don’t have their troubles to sing about, and I’ll need to make exceptions in my theory for Tuareg music and that of some of the smaller minority groups. But in the mainstream music that dominates the urban areas and has come to influence world music aesthetics, the creative musical impulses from a wide range of singers and musicians fill our ears with sweetness and light. Similar to Irish and Andean music, you don’t ever hear much in minor modes…no sour notes…no flatted fifths. Is it due to the use of the pentatonic scale? I’m too uneducated in music theory to say with certainty, but even when singing of drought and disaster, the music apart – to my...

  I have always been smitten with the Bolivian “cholitas” (campesina) fashion of bowler hats. Who started this, trend, how, and why? I can just imagine some itinerant hat vendor, recently having made the buy of a lifetime (!), treking from village to village through the Andes and spreading rumors that in the next town over these new bulbous hats are all the rage. Or not. Investigation is called for. Meanwhile, elsewhere in Latin America folks adapted, evolved and invented right up to the present day – where torn jeans, NBA logo hats, and hiphop sounds are the new bee’s knees. Let’s go back, shall we, to an earlier time when Chileans danced the cueca, accordions ruled Colombia, and Puerto Ricans sang of the harvests instead of worrying about when the electricity might come back. Welcome to the transitory, world of Al compas del mundo, programa #49! - J.H. Check out the runlist for the latest show ... Oct 13, 2022 ... Folklore of Latin America! 01 Conjunto Alma Jar...

Moon Traveller is honored to host the archival list of old buddy Jim Haas's Mexican Radio Show. Get right with Instant Karma and Learn more about AL COMPAS DEL MUNDO .  And check out the runlist for the latest show... Hey, Potpurrí! 01 Betsayda Machado con Parranda el Clavo - Oh, Santa Rosa (Venezuela) 02 Barbatuques - Você Chegou (Brazil) 03 Sergio Mendes - Magalenha (Brazil) 04 L'Orchestre Kanaga de Mopti - Gambari (Signifie l’herbe verte) (Mali) 05 Bela Fleck, Haruna Walisimbi, Okiror and Ronald Mabandha - Spirit Song (Uganda and USA) 06 Tulear, Majunga, Mananjary - Morombe (Madagascar) 07 Jonah Sithole and The Black Unlimited – Mupurwa (Zimbabwe) 08 Anonymous – title unknown (Somalia) 09 Koma Mazluman - Eman Dilo (Turkey) 10 Joseph Spence - Coming In On A Wing And A Prayer (Bahamas) 11 Bob Dylan - Tombstone Blues (USA) 12 Jim Kweskin Jug Band - Rag Mama (USA) 13 The Dead South - In Hell I'll Be In Good Company (USA) 14 Landy McNeil - Move It (Move On) (USA) 15 Merced Bl...

Al compas del mundo  Vintage jazz, vital jazz 01 Noble Sissle's Swingsters with Sidney Bechet - Characteristic Blues 02 Fats Waller - The Panic Is On 03 Fletcher Henderson - Jackass Blues 04 Benny Goodman - Sweet Georgia Brown 05 Billie Holiday - My Man 06 Buck Clayton - Good Morning Blues 07 Bud Powell - Tempus Fugit 08 Charlie Parker - Moose the Mooche 09 Chet Baker – Halema 10 Sarah Vaughan - Shulie-A-Bop 11 Johnny Hodges - Cool Your Motor 12 Duke Ellington - Black and Tan Fantasy 13 Kansas City Six with Lester Young - Pagin' The Devil 14 Dexter Gordon - Blue 'n Boogie 15 Don Byas – Summertime 16 Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit 17 Coleman Hawkins, Abbey Lincoln, Max Roach - Driva Man I saw a website listing the top all-time greatest jazz clarinetists. It proclaimed Benny Goodman as #1, though I beg to differ. Get back in line, Mr. Goodman. Sidney Bechet built that car, detailed that car, and drove that car before you ever polished your commendable licks. Goodman’s gr...

Moon Traveller is honored to host the archival list of old buddy Jim Haas's Mexican Radio Show. Get right with Instant Karma and Learn more about AL COMPAS DEL MUNDO .  And check out the runlist for the latest show... Al compas del mundo – programa #45, 9-17-22 Ethiopia and Sudan 01 Bewketu Sewmehon - Meneshaye  መነሻዬ (Ethiopia) 02 Mulatu Astatke - Emnete (Ethiopia) 03 Alemayehu Eschete - Ayalqem tedengo (Ethiopia) 04 Ayalew Mesfin - Hasabe (Ethiopia) 05 Netsanet Sultan ft. Sami Go - Abaya  አባያ (Ethiopia) 06 Seyfu Johannes  - Tezeta (Ethiopia) 07 Tadele Beqele - Antchi Qondjo (Ethiopia) 08 Ahmed al-Gabri - واعم ـ للسر قدور (Sudan) 09 Abdel Gader Salim - Bassama (Sudan) 10 al-Bilabil - Habeto ma habani (Sudan) 11 Kamal Tarbas - Aotane (Sudan) 12 Mohammed al-Nasry -  هدى عربي - (Sudan) 13 Mohammed al-Amin - Ana w habibaa (Sudan) 14 Osama - السمحة بت بلدي عمر حدربي - اغاني سودانية (Sudan) If you want to check out the strength and spectacle of Ethiopian saxophonis...

Moon Traveller is honored to host the archival list of old buddy Jim Haas's Mexican Radio Show. Blues – urban and rural (USA) Broadcast Sept 8, 2022 When in doubt, you can always go back to the blues. A music programmer’s lush paradise of choices. In retrospect it’s a historic shame, shame, shame that the artists largely weren’t able to see it through the same lens. Recently attended a poetry night here in Tequisquiapan and the principal talent asked if anyone else wanted to get up and recite. I secretly plotted my chance for next time: a translation of some plaintive blues lyrics into Español, followed by a little wailing harmonica till I got the crowd clapping along, but…nah, too much like Koerner, Ray and Glover. - J.H. [Ed. Note: Blow your teeth out, baby!] 01 Howling Wolf - Moanin' at Midnight 02 Baby Face Leroy Foster - Locked Out Boogie 03 Robert Johnson - Cross Road Blues 04 Juke Boy Bonner - Running Shoes 05 Johnny Young – Tighten Up on It 06 John Lee Hooker - Burning ...

 Moon Traveller is honored to host the archival list of old buddy Jim Haas's Mexican Radio Show. Here are  runlists for some shows in August Al compas del mundo – programa #40, 8-11-22 Film music and jazz 01 Ennio Morricone - The Result (Italy) 02 Leonard Bernstein - The Magnificent Seven - Main Titles and Calvera's Visit- (USA) 03 Henry Mancini - Peter Gunn Theme (USA) 04 David Rose - The Stripper (USA) 05 Johnny Otis Band - Harlem Nocturne (USA) 06 Duke Ellington - Anatomy Of A Murder - Main Theme (USA) 07 James Carter - Queer Notions (USA) 08 Gato Barbieri - Return (La Vuelta) (Argentina) 09 Astor Piazzolla and Gerry Mulligan - Años de soledad (Argentina and USA) 10 Terence Blanchard - Dark Room (USA) 11 Ornette Coleman - Lonely Woman (USA) 12 Charles Lloyd - How Can I Tell You (USA) 13 McCoy Tyner and Lee Morgan - Lee Plus Three (USA) Do millennials and those younger even recognize “The Stripper”, a hallmark of long ago and far away? Was there ever a cooler hand than that...