Archive for October, 2005
JAZZ SELECTA - OCTOBER 25, 2005
Hey guys! Thanks for tuning in (assuming you are..heh heh) Well Jezza is feeling kinda under the weather right now so I’m behind the panels (dun dun dun) and also by the computer - that means I can give you live updates.
PLAYLIST
9:10 - 9:45
1. Sax-a-go-go - Candy Dulfer
2. High Life - Gruv Avenue
3. Breezin - George Benson
4. Cool Breeze - Keiles/Thirkell from the Best of Latin Jazz CD
5. Delilah - Ellis and Branford Marsalis
6. Tallulah - Jamiroquai
10:03 - 11:00
7. So What - Ronnie Jordan
8. Grown Man - John Scofield
9. Freetime - Spyro Gyra
10. Nothing Like You Has Ever Been Seen Before - Hod O’Brien Quartet (and no it’s not a gramatical error - it’s the actual title of the song!)
11. Did we really ever try - Incognito
12. Song for my father - Horace Silver
13. Island to Island - Greg Lyons
14. Trashman - Norman Brown
(refresh page for updates)
11:10 - Midnight
15. Mick’s Blessings - The Style Council
16. Is You is or Is you Ain’t My Baby - Renee Olstead
17. Message Pt. 1/Coincide - Ravi Coltrane
18. In your dreams - Justo Almario
19. Magic in your Eyes - Earl Klugh (from the album Magic in Your Eyes)
20. Dr. Macumba - Earl Klugh (from the album Finger Painting)
21. Wishful Thinking - Earl Klugh (from the album Wishful Thinking)
22. Fragile - Marilyn Keller (doing a Sting cover)
23. Second Pair of Intelligent Glasses - Alexandra Mashin
Remember our artist feature tonight is on EARL KLUGH… he leans toward “POP JAZZ” so stay tuned if you’re a fan.
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9:51 p.m. - Jezza went to ‘rest’ next door in the producer booth. He’s not feeling very good 
You might hear more music than talk this evening. C’mon guys, let’s put all our positive energy and send them to Jez. 
10:42 p.m. - PAPA JAZZ TRYING HIS LEVEL BEST NOT TO PASS OUT
11:03 p.m. I’m obsessed. I keep updating this thing. The news is on right now and I’m all alone in the studio. Jez is out searching for pain killers in his car - poor guy. Last week it was me with those headaches. Anyway, hope everyone is enjoying the show and the music - LOTS of music. Hope he’s okay when we do our artist feature this evening….
11:41 p.m. - in case you’re wondering what Jezza meant by Earl Klugh solely depending on his “talents” - err..this is what he looks like:
Okay whaaaaaaaaat…. might want to think about using oil control film … ehhh
11:55 closing minutes - just received this message from one of our regular Traxx listeners Laura, she said:
3 commentsdont think earl klugh should be categorized as a jazz player… more like stanley clarke..
Not here, not there, but somewhere in the middle
Maya says…
I heard the the morning guys reveal Jazz Selecta’s URL this morning. Quite odd seeing how we haven’t ‘officially’ launched this site yet. It’s kinda in its “Pasar Malam” stage right now. It’s officially up and running though with updates here and there. If you’d like to link us to your site this is the URL for our banner: http://jazzselecta.alldatjazz.com/wp-content/jazzselectasmallbanner.jpg and don’t forget the URL for this page is http://jazzselecta.alldatjazz.com (I wonder if people will find this page if they type www.jazzselecta.alldatjazz.com cause I believe that’s what Greenman said this morning. Anywho…. I don’t have much to say about last week’s interview with Gruv Avenue. I was at home with a massive headache. Hit the pillow around 10 p.m. till 10 a.m. the next morning! Will get the updates from Jezza soon. In the mean time, I was listening to this song by the Magnetic Fields (they’re not really jazz ) and they have a song called “Love is Like Jazz”. And like what jazz is - formless - raw - so is the song. It sounds like something the beatniks would recite in some poetry reading. Anyway, I was quite fond of the lyrics:
Love is like jazz You make it up as you go along and you act as if you really know the song but you don’t and you never will so you flaunt your mistakes and you make them until they were you. Love is like jazz the same song a million times in different ways “Strange Fruit” with and without wind chimes. It’s divine. It’s asinine. It’s depressing and it’s almost entirely window dressing but it’ll do
Well that’s it for my rambling this afternoon.
Malaysia’s ONLY jazz show on-air.
The first “official” post for your favorite Jazz show on-air!
Jezza says…
Firstly thanx to Eugene (Patron Saint of Jazz)for all the help. We are all well aware that the jazz scene in our lovely tropical country is growing but what triggered it is beyond me. As I write, I’m praying that all jazz musicians in the country will take the oppurtunity by using Traxx fms Jazz Selecta as a platform to promote their respective music, coutesy of rtm . To all restaurateurs, promoting jazz, please lets not try to make it an up market, cigar puffing, expensive car driving, Kenny G loving, musician exploiting thing.Let us remember that jazz is also for the hardworking middleclass and not so well to do, basically its for everyone. Apparently theres a saying that goes like THE LONGER THE BAMBOO THE LOWER IT SHOULD BEND, WHICH MEANS THE BETTER YOU GET AT SOMETHING, THE HUMBLER YOU BECOME, So if youre a good jazz musician, I shall refrain from saying more. Whatever happens, I hope you enjoy the site and the only free to air Jazz Show in the country.
Maya says…
Well look at us..aren’t we trendy now that we have a “blog”? Of course none of this would have been possible if it wasn’t for Eugene at alldatjazz.com! Since this is our first ‘official’ post and all I have to say is Bonjour, Guten Tag, Hola, DobrĂ½ den and HELLO! Consider this blog a place you can read up on TRAXX FM’s JAZZ SELECTA show. Read about what HAPPENED on our show and what WILL happen. We’re talking about guests, artist features, contests yadda yadda. And thanks to modern day technology, much like 3-in-1 coffee, we will also be posting pictures thanks to my phone cum camera. Maybe one day Jezza decides to come to work wearing a long curly wig carrying a soprano sax with a ’shoot me’ t-shirt on, who knows, but whatever it is will be captured and posted. Remember, we aren’t Jazz pros who know everything about Jazz. We do know that we want to make Jazz accessible to all and not only to the “up market, cigar puffing, expensive car driving, Kenny G loving, musician exploiting thing” (Thanks Jezza! You’re a man of words did I ever tell you that?) And to quote another great man, Louis Armstrong,
“If you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know.”
Stay tuned for updates…
Cheers!
