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Full Moon Hacksaw

Radio on the road this episode live and in the stu­dio from the south­west cor­ner of Ari­zona, KAWC Yuma and KAWP Park­er, 88.9 FM, allow­ing us to get into that cre­ative space in the hot spot of the state (hot­ter than Phoenix but not as Death Val­ley). And in mid-Feb­ru­ary the only place in Ari­zona with­out snow (even Phoenix was sur­round­ed). First up is phe­nom­e­nal singer Cyrille Aimee with her lat­est release, fol­lowed by a one-chord drone theme from blues lady Ruthie Fos­ter. From there two re-releas­es from the Koko­Mo­jo label, two very obscure artists and titles once only on dusty scratchy 45s. Bil­lie Hol­i­day lev­els us out and Stuff Smith swings like mad on jazz fid­dle. For prodi­gious piano we turn to Oscar Peter­son, for tor­rid trum­pet to Lee Mor­gan, and we have two trib­utes for recent­ly depart­ed, one with Michel Legrand. Hour two opens with the Greg Fish­man Quin­tet, the leader a mid­west­ern sax­o­phon­ist, wel­com­ing wild west (coast) sax­o­phon­ist Doug Webb. A delight­ful pianist is new to us named Miki Yamana­ka, then we hit the sal­sa streets with the Fania All-Stars, which must include Char­lie Palmieri on organ? Cal Trad­er plays marim­ba with guest Geo Duke. Our oth­er trib­ute to a recent late great is Ken Nor­dine, his head was in a strange place with Word Jazz. A pro­fes­sion­al staff announc­er, he start­ed broad­cast­ing in 38. maybe a year lat­er than Paul Har­vey, per­haps the same year as NYCs Sym­pho­ny Sid start­ed? An obit claimed Ken Nor­dine One of the few to use the medi­um (of radio) to its full poten­tial. Its very com­pat­i­ble with col­lege cam­pus radio, and much need­ed today. A cou­ple gui­tarists con­clude our live broad­cast, Jim Hall fol­lowed by Julian Lage. Sub­scribe to our YouTube chan­nel, search for Hack­saw Jazz and this weeks pro­gram 1674. Jazz broad­cast his­to­ry dis­guised as enter­tain­ment, its begin­ning to look a lot like HACKSAW.