WFMU: Irene Trudel: Playlist from October 23, 2023

Listener comments!
	11:57am Dean: I heard Alan Broadbent with Harvie S. last night at a piano store in Oakland. Fantastic. He played a gorgeous Fazioli grand. When Charlie Haden's LMO performed at Yoshi's a billion years ago, Broadbent took Carla Bley's place.
	12:00pm doctorjazz: ↳ Dean @11:57 Glad you caught them-will try to catch them again at the next NYC area gig, dug them the last time I did see them. Saw Fred Hersch at the Village Vanguard last week, with Miguel Zenon on alto sax, fine set! And Hi Irene, Peter!
	12:00pm listener james from westwood: Morning, Irene and all!
	🥁 12:00pm Summer and Michael and Sylvia: Good morning-ish, Irene!
	12:01pm Dean: Hersch is due to appear at the same venue, as is Denny Zeitlin. Might have to make it to both of those.
	🥁 12:01pm David (in London): Afternoon Irene and all bespangled Trudelians here gathered: Dean, Doc, James, S&M&S, those yet to Irene.
	🥁 12:01pm WR: Always more good byes to say. Hello Irene and drummer streamers.
	12:02pm Sylvia: Hello Irene and fellow listeners
	12:03pm WM: Yesterday I suggested to Jeff of Destination Out that he dedicate his show to Carla Bley. He referred me to you, so here I am.
	🥁 12:03pm Summer and Michael and Sylvia: Hi, David!
	12:03pm Dean: Broadbent and Harvie S. played as a trio in OC the night before, darn it. Kendall Kay, a drummer with whom AB has worked, sat in for Billy Mintz. Wish I'd known!
	12:04pm Irene Trudel: Welcome Dean, doctorjazz, james, S&M&S, David, WR, Sylvia and all listening in today to our little Carla Bley tribute. Peter and I are also hoping to add to our Hellraiser total to support all we do here on GTDR.
	12:04pm alanr: Excited for today's show and your own musical take on Carla!! saludos from further south.
	12:05pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Spangled Banner Minor and Other Patriotic Songs" ... I thought that issue was on my end (streaming at the office isn't optimal).
	12:06pm doctorjazz: ↳ David (in London) @12:01 Hello DiL!
	12:07pm Irene Trudel: ↳ Dean @11:57 Sounds like a wonderful night, Dean!
	12:08pm doctorjazz: Always loved Carla Bley's music, nice to catch the tribute today!
	12:09pm alanr: One would hope that the film made about her recording of Escalator Over The Hill would be available again. I saw it once too many years ago at Anthology Film Archives. Great fun to watch.
	🥁 12:10pm WR: Bley's website is fun and there is a lot there for the persistent. www.wattxtrawatt.com...
	12:14pm Irene Trudel: ↳ alanr @12:09 Hi alanr! I haven't seen it, but maybe with Carla's passing it will become available again.
	12:15pm headcleaner: Afternoon, peoples. Got to see Carla live my first and only time at the Jazz Standard, shortly before the pandemic. Wasn't familiar with her work, but as soon as she starts, you know it's on a completely different level.
	12:17pm WM: I was very lucky to hear the Carla Bley Band at the Bottom Line in NYC sometime in the early 1980s (I think). The band included Don Cherry, Roswell Rudd, Andrew Cyrille and Terry Adams. I only wish I had heard her live many times more.
	12:19pm Andrew in Toronto: Good afternoon Irene and all other listeners!
	12:19pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ David (in London) @12:01 Afternoon David!
	12:20pm doctorjazz: I never caught Bley in her own set, do believe I saw her with Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra (but that was a while ago, could be remembering incorrectly).
	12:21pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ doctorjazz @12:20 Hiya doc!
	12:21pm doctorjazz: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @12:21 Hi Andrew!
	🥁 12:22pm David (in London): ↳ Andrew in Toronto @12:19 Hey Andrew!
	12:23pm alanr: but look what I just found (you will find "escalator" excerpts: www.youtube.com...
	12:24pm alanr: www.facebook.com...
	12:24pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Musique Mecanique III" by "The Carla Bley Band" Love this, especially the skip, LP's rule!
	12:25pm doctorjazz: ↳ doctorjazz @12:24 (There's nothing wrong with the record-it was recorded that way, if you were wondering). Bley's humor.
	🥁 12:25pm Sean in Bristol UK: Good afternoon Irene, Hello one and all
	12:25pm Listener Bryan (the Professor): ↳ headcleaner @12:15 Hey, Headcleaner. a) that sounds amazing b) I'm still reeling from your performance at karaoke last Friday.
	12:26pm Irene Trudel: Hey headcleaner, WM and Andrew! Glad I got to see Carla play a couple of times, including at the 2005 Newport Jazz Festival (where today's picture came from). Peter, I'm sure has seen her many more times than I have. All memorable, I would think!
	12:26pm Marshland: Only got to see Carla play once, with Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra, at the Royal Festival back in 2009, was a great evening. Robert Wyatt made a guess appearance too.
	12:28pm Irene Trudel: Greetings Sean, Bryan and Marshland!
	12:28pm Listener Robert: On WFMU I never know whether this is intentional.
	12:28pm Irene Trudel: ↳ Marshland @12:26 Cool that you got to see a show with Robert Wyatt guesting!
	12:29pm Peter K.: Every time I saw Carla Bley live was memorable. To say the least.
	🥁 12:31pm WR: ↳ Song: "Musique Mecanique III" by "The Carla Bley Band" Those "skip" repeats were amazing. And the solos were hot too. Great great great.
	12:32pm Dean: Bley was born in Oakland, yes? I wonder if she visited Piedmont Piano Co.
	12:32pm Listener Bryan (the Professor): ↳ Marshland @12:26 wowza.
	12:33pm Marshland: Shades of "I'm a Mineralist" with those skip repeats...
	12:35pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ Sean in Bristol UK @12:25 Good afternoon Sean!
	🥁 12:35pm Michael 98145: Hello, Friends. RIP, Carla
	12:35pm doctorjazz: Bley mostly disparaged her piano playing in early interviews, but more recently she'd say she had a style all her own.
	12:36pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Ida Lupino" by "Carla Bley" A funkier take on this than the earlier recordings of it I know of.
	12:37pm doctorjazz: ↳ doctorjazz @12:36 (Paul Bley would play it almost as a dirge)
	12:39pm WM: My introduction to Carla Bley was hearing Ida Lupino on the first NRBQ record that came out in 1969.
	12:39pm Irene Trudel: Hi Robert and Michael!
	12:41pm doctorjazz: Some Carla Bley interviews: www.newyorker.com... ethaniverson.com...
	12:42pm Peter K.: ↳ WM @12:39 Keep listening!
	12:42pm Stork: Phew! Made it in time for Ida Lupino! Hi all! So sweet to hear Carla's beautiful music!!
	12:42pm Irene Trudel: ↳ WM @12:39 You mean this track, WM??
	12:43pm WM: Yes!
	12:44pm judy from croton: Oh oh oh Making so many connections, with your help, zirene and Peter
	12:44pm WM: I wonder who wrote the lyrics?
	12:44pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ doctorjazz @12:41 Could you please cut &paste the Carla interview and send it to my email?
	12:47pm Irene Trudel: ↳ judy from croton @12:44 Hey judy! Nice to hear from you.
	12:48pm Stork: I played this in a passing tribute to Carla yesterday - but i played a different track - the only one on the album without Robert Wyatt, actually. This record is under Mason's name, but he really only played drums - Carla put it all together.
	12:48pm WM: I should mention that after searching online for a long time I finally found the libretto to Escalator Over The Hill at the following website: https://www.mattendahl.com/jco/eoth_libretto.txt
	12:49pm Peter K.: ↳ WM @12:44 If you mean the lyrics to "Ida," the answer is Terry Adams.
	12:49pm zzz: thanks for doing the Carla Bley Tribute, DJ IT, and hello to you and all. RIP to Carla Bley, incredible talent. nice to hear Musique Mechanique. I got that record some time in college and it blew me away and i was obsessed with it never heard anything like that.
	12:49pm headcleaner: ↳ Song: "I'm a Mineralist" by "Nick Mason (Robert Wyatt, v... Never knew about the Mason-Wyatt-Bley collaboration -- so much more interesting than what certain other members of Mason's band were doing at the time
	12:50pm zzz: NRBQ Ida was a treat, never heard that version before
	12:52pm judy from croton: I did 'cut and paste' at a typesetter's for New Music Distribution Service on my arrival in NY. My intro to Carla Bley
	12:52pm Irene Trudel: ↳ Stork @12:48 Hey Stork! If I'm remembering correctly, "Can't Get My Motor to Start" was somewhat of a hit on FM radio when it came out.
	12:52pm WM: Amy C. Beal published a biography of CB in 2011. I've only read part of it, but it seems very good. You can find the whole text @ archive.org.
	12:53pm Irene Trudel: ↳ judy from croton @12:52 Wow, that's really cool, judy!
	12:54pm Irene Trudel: ↳ zzz @12:49 Happy to oblige, zzz! We're big fans in this household.
	12:55pm doctorjazz: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @12:44 Done!
	12:56pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ doctorjazz @12:55 Thanks a bunch!
	12:57pm zzz: very possible i learned out it from this very radio program, but CB has/had the coolest website ever: www.wattxtrawatt.com
	12:58pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ zzz @12:57 She sure did!
	12:59pm Stork: ↳ Irene Trudel @12:52 I can believe it. What a hoot!
	1:00pm Stork: ↳ Song: "Rawalpindi Blues" by "Carla Bley / Paul Haines" ❤️❤️❤️
	1:06pm zzz: unmistakable Don Cherry on that escalator over the hill track. Tony Williams Lifetime is so intense!
	🥁 1:06pm Mxter Baba: greetings, Irene and WFMU folx in the stream!
	1:06pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ Mxter Baba @1:06 Hiya Baba!
	🥁 1:07pm Sean in Bristol UK: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @1:06 Hey Andrew
	🥁 1:08pm Sean in Bristol UK: ↳ Mxter Baba @1:06 Salutations, Baba
	1:09pm WM: Wait… Vashkar was written by CB? I bought Emergency when it first came out in 1970. It was - and still is - one of my favorite records, but I never realized one of the best songs on the record was written by CB.
	🥁 1:09pm David (in London): ↳ Mxter Baba @1:06 Mx Beekins!
	🥁 1:11pm Mxter Baba: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @1:06 hey there, A in T! S in B! D (in L)!
	1:12pm Stork: Be a leader - listen to Irene and Peter!
	1:12pm Stork: ↳ Stork @1:12 ugh - who wrote that?
	1:13pm alanr: Paul Haines was around the NYC scene, friends with Michael Snow, Roswell Rudd, and others in NYC in the early 60s. He helped do recordings on his reel to reel, including the NY Art Quartet. So, this put him into the mix of the new music scene at the time
	🥁 1:14pm David (in London): Ida was a good south London girl.
	1:14pm Irene Trudel: ↳ Mxter Baba @1:11 Hi Mxter Baba!
	1:15pm alanr: His poetry to very open and sometimes odd, which was reflected in a conversation we once had about remembering those days. He was too obtuse (I was recording on video) to use in my NY Art Quartet doc. A sweet, friendly, but obtuse guy.
	1:15pm WM: Recently I discovered on YouTube video of Tony Williams Lifetime on the Beat Club in 1970. And the band includes Jack Bruce! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNfy3Urhtsc
	1:15pm WM: Recently I discovered on YouTube video of Tony Williams Lifetime on the Beat Club in 1970. And the band includes Jack Bruce! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNfy3Urhtsc
	1:16pm alanr: Yes, Escalator was simply a document of the making of the recording. Fun to see a lot of familiar musicians in their much younger days and a hilarious retake and retake and retake (audio) of Jack Bruce in a sound booth
	1:17pm Dean: Haines recorded Albert Ayler's Ghosts, per wikipedia!
	1:17pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ WM @1:15 Thanks for the link WM.
	1:18pm Peter K.: ↳ WM @1:15 Jack Bruce was actually a member of the Tony Williams Lifetime for a minute. He's on at least a few tracks of the band's second album. The group disbanded after that, and later incarnations never quite captured the magic of the original.
	🥁 1:18pm Mxter Baba: Most def gotta go back to the archives and listen to this entire program from the start!
	🥁 1:20pm David (in London): I like to imagine that back in the 60s and 70s, if Nino Rota was commissioned to do a high profile score, Ennio Morricone would stomp about the house swearing and breaking things. And vice versa.
	1:20pm zzz: the Hal Willner tribute records are so wonderful
	🥁 1:20pm WR: A well written article I found in the playlist comments of Rich in Washington's most recent Friday Drummer stream show that has some interesting details about Escalator Over the Hill as well as overview of Carla's life and career: thequietus.com...
	🥁 1:24pm Mxter Baba: ↳ David (in London) @1:20 that sparks my imagination to play each other's soundtracks to the movies that used the other one!!!
	1:25pm Irene Trudel: ↳ WR @1:20 Thanks for pointing that out, WR!
	🥁 1:25pm Michael 98145: This is great
	🥁 1:27pm David (in London): ↳ Mxter Baba @1:24 Good call! Worth trying I reckon. Hmm, watching The Godfather with the soundtrack of The Thing playing - that could prove interesting...
	1:27pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ WR @1:20 Thanks for the link WR.
	🥁 1:27pm Mxter Baba: ↳ WR @1:20 oooh, coool! thanks WRkins!
	1:28pm WM: In 2007 Bill Laswell put out an expanded and remastered version of TWL Turn It Over on which Jack Bruce can be heard more prominently than the original release. You can find it on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUYUAtox95Y
	🥁 1:28pm Mxter Baba: ↳ David (in London) @1:27 right?!??!?!
	1:31pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Misterioso (Monk)" by "The Carla Bley Band" This is a great compilation, Hal Wilner empresario!
	1:36pm Soule: Good morning, Irene Trudel and other fellow admirers of Carla!
	1:36pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ WM @1:28 Thanks WM.
	1:36pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ Soule @1:36 Hi there Soule!
	1:37pm WM: The connections continue for me… As a kid I saw the movie The Trouble with Angels (1966). Its features Hailey Mills as a rebellious student at a Catholic Girls’ School and Rosalind Russelll as Mother Superior. I liked it as a kid and still think it’s a pretty good film. As it turns out it was directed by Ida Lupino. I wonder if IL ever heard CB’s composition.
	1:40pm Soule: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @1:36 Hi, Andrew! Good to see ya.
	1:41pm Irene Trudel: Good day to you, Soule!
	1:43pm Dean: Just sent you an interview with Carla from a 2012 issue of Musician, Irene.
	1:43pm Irene Trudel: ↳ WM @1:37 Amazing how many connections there are!
	1:43pm Soule: ↳ WM @1:37 My wife and I have watched "The Trouble With Angels" many times. "Scathingly brilliant idea" is a phrase we use often. Ida Lupino directed 3 episodes of "Gilligan's Island."
	1:44pm Irene Trudel: ↳ Dean @1:43 Thanks Dean!
	1:44pm WM: Tangential to CB’s career, I’d like to mention No Answer - music by Michael Mantler with words taken from Samuel Beckett’s novel How It Is.CB plays piano with Jack Bruce on bass & vocals and Don Cherry on trumpet. For many years I couldn’t find it online but then recently it turned up. Well worth a listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWOekc5aNA0
	1:45pm Dean: Geez, D. Sharpe played in one of her big bands. You know, later day Modern Lovers drummer.
	1:45pm Soule: ↳ WM @1:44 I agree, Michael Mantler's "No Answer" is great.
	1:48pm Irene Trudel: ↳ WM @1:44 Another great link to check out! I think Peter and I will be spending the evening watching You Tube.
	1:49pm alanr: wow.... that was quite Monkish, baby, baby!
	1:52pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Sing Me Softly of the Blues" by "Carla Bley / Ste... Swallow is the guitar-iest bass player ever!
	1:53pm Dean: Swallow's work with Giuffre is similar.
	🥁 1:54pm Michael 98145: This is going to be an excellent archive show ...
	1:57pm WM: Both Ida Lupino and Carla Bley produced accomplished works long before the term Feminism was ever whispered. I don’t think they ever put themselves in a special category of Women Artists, they just instinctively produced first rate works with out stopping to classify themselves. (This is meant not as a criticism of anyone but only as to a compliment to artists beyond classification.)
	2:00pm Soule: ↳ doctorjazz @1:52 There's a Jazz Weekly interview where Swallow talks about being attracted to the guitar-ish aspect of the instrument, but continues, "On the other hand, I have also kind of insisted whenever anybody asks over the years, that it is a bass, that even though it doesn't look like an acoustic bass and sound like an acoustic bass, it is there to perform the same functions." www.jazzweekly.com...
	2:01pm WM: I that last comment does not seem too cranky or argumentative... now that I think of it...
	2:03pm Dean: Marian McPartland wasn't an important composer?
	2:05pm Dean: "Feminism" as politics/ideology was first uttered before the end of the 19th C.
	2:05pm WM: First like should read "I hope that..."
	2:06pm Stork: ↳ Michael 98145 @1:54 I concur.
	2:06pm WM: @Dean: I stand corrected.
	2:06pm Peter K.: ↳ Dean @2:03 She was a great pianist and a pretty good composer but not, in my opinion, an important one.
	2:06pm joe mulligan: it seems that Carla influenced "Chilly" Gonzales
	2:09pm Dean: Fair enough, Peter K.
	2:10pm Dean: Then how about Nina Simone?
	2:13pm doctorjazz: ↳ Soule @2:00 Thanks for the link, Soule (he can definitely comp like a bassist, but when he's soloing on the upper register, he sounds like a guitar player; you can tell it's not, but it's pretty close).
	2:13pm Stork: ↳ Song: "Dance Class (Live)" by "George Russell Sextet" Great track!!
	2:15pm Soule: ↳ doctorjazz @2:13 Yes - to me it often sounds like the low end of Larry Coryell's guitar in particular.
	2:15pm Irene Trudel: ↳ Dean @2:10 I think Nina is up there too, but different. She was focused more on songs and Carla on instrumental music.
	2:17pm Stork: ↳ Dean @2:10 I think Nina was transcendent on so many levels - I'm not sure she can be fairly compared to Marian McPartland
	2:17pm Dean: Also fair.
	2:19pm Dean: That @2:17 was meant for Irene, but applies as well to Stork. I agree that Nina transcends so many musicians in so many ways. I also recognize that Mary Lou Williams and Carla Bley delivered more in the way of long-form work.
	2:20pm Stork: ↳ Dean @2:19 Just to clarify: I love Marian M's music, her pianism, and her radio show!!
	2:20pm Dean: Last night Alan Broadbent performed two works he introduced explicitly as composed by women, "Struttin' With Some Barbecue," and "Lullaby of the Leaves."
	2:22pm WM: To continue my personal process of association... The first NRBQ record also contained a version of Sun Ra's Rocket Number 9. I at least knew about Sun Ra by then but that version of R#9 was probably the first Sun Ra composition I ever heard. I went on to become a huge Sun Ra fan. I first heard the Arkestra live in 1973 and the performance was eventually released on CD as Concert for the Comet Kohoutek. So I can honestly brag that I have been listening to both Sun Ra and Carla Bley for the last 50 years.
	2:22pm Dean: I'm partial to this oldie but goodie: https://www.discogs.com/release/5479575-Marian-McPartland-At-The-Hickory-House
	2:23pm Stork: ↳ Song: "The Opening; Interlude (Shovels); The Survivors; ... I was waiting with baited breath for this rekkid!!
	🥁 2:25pm BLCKDGRD: Checking in late, thanks for this, will listen to the first 140 minutes once they're archived!
	2:26pm Irene Trudel: I love Marian's "Ambiance" album. When I briefly worked for NPR's NY bureau, I recorded an interview at her house.
	2:26pm Soule: ↳ Stork @2:23 Yes! Hurray for Genuine Tong Funeral!
	2:27pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ Soule @2:26 Agreed!
	2:29pm Dean: So cool, interviewing Marian! All this talk of female artists puts me in mind of Jessica Williams, whom we lost last year. Saw her live only once, in SF. Or did I see her a second time at Piedmont Piano?
	2:34pm Soule: ↳ Stork @2:20 AND there's a great episode of Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz with Carla and Steve!: www.npr.org...
	2:35pm Stork: ↳ Dean @2:29 I'm also a fan of Jessica Williams. She was a double threat as a classical and jazz player. Love the album Birks Works
	2:36pm Stork: Whadda show!! Whadda duo!! Thanks, Irene & Peter. This is just pure joy!!
	2:37pm doctorjazz: ↳ Stork @2:35 Also dig Jessica Williams, discovered her not long ago.
	2:42pm Peter K.: ↳ Stork @2:36 Thanks for the kind words, Stork. We love Carla Bley and were happy to have the chance to show it!
	2:42pm Irene Trudel: ↳ Stork @2:36 Aww, shucks! It was really fun spreading our love for Carla.
	2:43pm doctorjazz: Almost the end, so glad you could do a tribute to Carla Bley, I also love her music (been missing any WFMU tributes that may have happened). Thanks, Irene and Peter!
	2:47pm Irene Trudel: Thanks for all the kind words everybody! We could go another three hours I'm sure, but we must make way for Wendy. I'll be back next Monday at noon with some Halloween foolishness. Stay streaming for Wreck Your Own Adventure, up next! wfmu.org...
	2:47pm Andrew in Toronto: What a classic episode! Thanks Irene and Peter!
	2:47pm WM: Great show! Thank you and WFMU for allowing me to ramble, rant, reminisce and make recommendations. I'll make a point of listening to your show from now on.
	2:48pm Irene Trudel: ↳ WM @2:47 Thanks so much, WM!
	2:49pm Stork: ↳ WM @2:47 ramble, rant, reminisce and make recommendations. - Those are just 4 of the traits one must have as a DJ.
	2:49pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "America The Beautiful (Medley)" by "Charlie Haden... Lovely, Lovely, Lovely!
	2:49pm Irene Trudel: ↳ Stork @2:49 You got that right, Stork!
	🥁 2:50pm Mxter Baba: ah, thank you, Irene—what a glorious tribute this has been. Thanks, everyone who supports WFMU!
	2:52pm Peter K.: ↳ Stork @2:49 Rambling, ranting, reminiscing and making recommendations: These are a few of my favorite things!
	2:53pm Peter K.: Thanks for listening, everyone. Thanks to Irene for allowing me to share the airwaves with her. And thanks to Carla Bley for being Carla Bley.
	2:53pm WM: Thanks to everyone for your indulgence.
	2:54pm Soule: ↳ Peter K. @2:53 Thank you, Irene and Peter, for this show. A lovely tribute.
	2:54pm doctorjazz: ↳ WM @2:47 What else is a chat board for?
	2:55pm erik-O-vert: Super Duper extra thanks to ALL who participated today sharing and delving (as always) with all the Link-y delights and discoveries! Y’all are the best community.
	2:57pm Listener Robert: Yay!
	2:57pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Reactionary Tango" by "Carla Bley" One of my favorite Bley tunes, was on constant repeat mode on my turntable when I first got it.
	🥁 2:57pm WR: Many thanks, Irene and Peter for this loving tribute. Onward.
	2:59pm alanr: FANTASTIC SHOW!!!!!! THANK YOU PETER & IRENE!!!!!
	🥁 2:59pm David (in London): Thanks for a great show today, Irene.
	2:59pm Listener Bryan (the Professor): Thanks, Irene!
	2:59pm Stork: THANKS U TWO!

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October 23, 2023: Carla Bley has taken the escalator over the hill.

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The amazing Composer /Pianist /Bandleader Carla Bley has taken her final ride. Irene and husband Peter Keepnews pay tribute to Bley through her hugely entertaining and influential music.

Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
The Carla Bley Band	Spangled Banner Minor and Other Patriotic Songs	European Tour 1977	WATT/ECM
Music behind DJ: Carla Bley & Steve Swallow	Romantic Notions #3	Duets	WATT/ECM	0:07:32 (Pop-up)
The Very Big Carla Bley Band	Strange Arrangement	The Very Big Carla Bley Band	WATT/ECM	0:09:20 (Pop-up)
Bley / Sheppard / Swallow / Drummond	Blind Mice: 1) 3 Blind Mice	The Lost Chords	Watt	0:17:02 (Pop-up)
The Carla Bley Band	Musique Mecanique III	Musique Mecanique	WATT/ECM	0:22:45 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Carla Bley & Steve Swallow	Romantic Notions #3	Duets	WATT/ECM	0:29:14 (Pop-up)
Carla Bley	Ida Lupino "Ida Lupino" by "Carla Bley"	Dinner Music	WATT/ECM	0:34:35 (Pop-up)
NRBQ	Ida "Ida" by "NRBQ"	NRBQ	Omnivore Recordings	0:44:23 (Pop-up)
Nick Mason (Robert Wyatt, vocals)	I'm a Mineralist	Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports		0:44:24 (Pop-up)
Carla Bley / Paul Haines	Rawalpindi Blues	Escalator Over The Hill	JCOA Records	0:50:33 (Pop-up)
Tony Williams Lifetime	Vashkar "Vashkar" by "Tony Williams Lifetime"	Emergency!	Verve	1:03:18 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Carla Bley & Steve Swallow	Romantic Notions #3	Duets	WATT/ECM	1:08:17 (Pop-up)
The Carla Bley Band	8 1/2 "8 1/2" by "The Carla Bley Band"	Amarcord Nino Rota (I Remember Nino Rota)	Hannibal Records	1:17:01 (Pop-up)
The Carla Bley Band	Misterioso (Monk)	That's The Way I Feel Now: A Tribute to Thelonious Monk	A&M Records	1:28:47 (Pop-up)
Carla Bley / Steve Swallow	Lost in the Stars	Are We There Yet?	WATT/ECM	1:37:22 (Pop-up)
Carla Bley, Steve Swallow	Baby Baby	Duets	WATT/ECM	1:42:37 (Pop-up)
Carla Bley / Steve Swallow	Sing Me Softly of the Blues	Go Together	WATT/ECM	1:49:05 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Carla Bley & Steve Swallow	Romantic Notions #3	Duets	WATT/ECM	1:55:01 (Pop-up)
Paul Bley	Ojos De Gato (Carla Bley)	Alone, Again: solo piano	Improvising Artists Inc.	2:03:50 (Pop-up)
George Russell Sextet	Dance Class (Live)	at the Five Spot	Verve	2:08:26 (Pop-up)
Gary Burton	Syndrome "Syndrome" by "Gary Burton"	Generations	Concord Jazz	2:14:42 (Pop-up)
Gary Burton	The Opening; Interlude (Shovels); The Survivors; Grave Train	A Genuine Tong Funeral	One Way Records/BMG	2:19:58 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Carla Bley & Steve Swallow	Romantic Notions #3	Duets	WATT/ECM	2:26:37 (Pop-up)
The Carla Bley Big Band	Old MacDonald Had a Farm	Looking For America	WATT/ECM	2:33:10 (Pop-up)
Charlie Haden, Liberation Music Orchestra	America The Beautiful (Medley)	Not in Our Name	Verve	2:39:27 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Carla Bley	Reactionary Tango "Reactionary Tango" by "Carla Bley"	Social Studies	WATT/ECM	2:56:26 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	11:57am Dean: I heard Alan Broadbent with Harvie S. last night at a piano store in Oakland. Fantastic. He played a gorgeous Fazioli grand. When Charlie Haden's LMO performed at Yoshi's a billion years ago, Broadbent took Carla Bley's place.
	12:00pm doctorjazz: ↳ Dean @11:57 Glad you caught them-will try to catch them again at the next NYC area gig, dug them the last time I did see them. Saw Fred Hersch at the Village Vanguard last week, with Miguel Zenon on alto sax, fine set! And Hi Irene, Peter!
	12:00pm listener james from westwood: Morning, Irene and all!
	🥁 12:00pm Summer and Michael and Sylvia: Good morning-ish, Irene!
	12:01pm Dean: Hersch is due to appear at the same venue, as is Denny Zeitlin. Might have to make it to both of those.
	🥁 12:01pm David (in London): Afternoon Irene and all bespangled Trudelians here gathered: Dean, Doc, James, S&M&S, those yet to Irene.
	🥁 12:01pm WR: Always more good byes to say. Hello Irene and drummer streamers.
	12:02pm Sylvia: Hello Irene and fellow listeners
	12:03pm WM: Yesterday I suggested to Jeff of Destination Out that he dedicate his show to Carla Bley. He referred me to you, so here I am.
	🥁 12:03pm Summer and Michael and Sylvia: Hi, David!
	12:03pm Dean: Broadbent and Harvie S. played as a trio in OC the night before, darn it. Kendall Kay, a drummer with whom AB has worked, sat in for Billy Mintz. Wish I'd known!
	12:04pm Irene Trudel: Welcome Dean, doctorjazz, james, S&M&S, David, WR, Sylvia and all listening in today to our little Carla Bley tribute. Peter and I are also hoping to add to our Hellraiser total to support all we do here on GTDR.
	12:04pm alanr: Excited for today's show and your own musical take on Carla!! saludos from further south.
	12:05pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Spangled Banner Minor and Other Patriotic Songs" ... I thought that issue was on my end (streaming at the office isn't optimal).
	12:06pm doctorjazz: ↳ David (in London) @12:01 Hello DiL!
	12:07pm Irene Trudel: ↳ Dean @11:57 Sounds like a wonderful night, Dean!
	12:08pm doctorjazz: Always loved Carla Bley's music, nice to catch the tribute today!
	12:09pm alanr: One would hope that the film made about her recording of Escalator Over The Hill would be available again. I saw it once too many years ago at Anthology Film Archives. Great fun to watch.
	🥁 12:10pm WR: Bley's website is fun and there is a lot there for the persistent. www.wattxtrawatt.com...
	12:14pm Irene Trudel: ↳ alanr @12:09 Hi alanr! I haven't seen it, but maybe with Carla's passing it will become available again.
	12:15pm headcleaner: Afternoon, peoples. Got to see Carla live my first and only time at the Jazz Standard, shortly before the pandemic. Wasn't familiar with her work, but as soon as she starts, you know it's on a completely different level.
	12:17pm WM: I was very lucky to hear the Carla Bley Band at the Bottom Line in NYC sometime in the early 1980s (I think). The band included Don Cherry, Roswell Rudd, Andrew Cyrille and Terry Adams. I only wish I had heard her live many times more.
	12:19pm Andrew in Toronto: Good afternoon Irene and all other listeners!
	12:19pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ David (in London) @12:01 Afternoon David!
	12:20pm doctorjazz: I never caught Bley in her own set, do believe I saw her with Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra (but that was a while ago, could be remembering incorrectly).
	12:21pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ doctorjazz @12:20 Hiya doc!
	12:21pm doctorjazz: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @12:21 Hi Andrew!
	🥁 12:22pm David (in London): ↳ Andrew in Toronto @12:19 Hey Andrew!
	12:23pm alanr: but look what I just found (you will find "escalator" excerpts: www.youtube.com...
	12:24pm alanr: www.facebook.com...
	12:24pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Musique Mecanique III" by "The Carla Bley Band" Love this, especially the skip, LP's rule!
	12:25pm doctorjazz: ↳ doctorjazz @12:24 (There's nothing wrong with the record-it was recorded that way, if you were wondering). Bley's humor.
	🥁 12:25pm Sean in Bristol UK: Good afternoon Irene, Hello one and all
	12:25pm Listener Bryan (the Professor): ↳ headcleaner @12:15 Hey, Headcleaner. a) that sounds amazing b) I'm still reeling from your performance at karaoke last Friday.
	12:26pm Irene Trudel: Hey headcleaner, WM and Andrew! Glad I got to see Carla play a couple of times, including at the 2005 Newport Jazz Festival (where today's picture came from). Peter, I'm sure has seen her many more times than I have. All memorable, I would think!
	12:26pm Marshland: Only got to see Carla play once, with Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra, at the Royal Festival back in 2009, was a great evening. Robert Wyatt made a guess appearance too.
	12:28pm Irene Trudel: Greetings Sean, Bryan and Marshland!
	12:28pm Listener Robert: On WFMU I never know whether this is intentional.
	12:28pm Irene Trudel: ↳ Marshland @12:26 Cool that you got to see a show with Robert Wyatt guesting!
	12:29pm Peter K.: Every time I saw Carla Bley live was memorable. To say the least.
	🥁 12:31pm WR: ↳ Song: "Musique Mecanique III" by "The Carla Bley Band" Those "skip" repeats were amazing. And the solos were hot too. Great great great.
	12:32pm Dean: Bley was born in Oakland, yes? I wonder if she visited Piedmont Piano Co.
	12:32pm Listener Bryan (the Professor): ↳ Marshland @12:26 wowza.
	12:33pm Marshland: Shades of "I'm a Mineralist" with those skip repeats...
	12:35pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ Sean in Bristol UK @12:25 Good afternoon Sean!
	🥁 12:35pm Michael 98145: Hello, Friends. RIP, Carla
	12:35pm doctorjazz: Bley mostly disparaged her piano playing in early interviews, but more recently she'd say she had a style all her own.
	12:36pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Ida Lupino" by "Carla Bley" A funkier take on this than the earlier recordings of it I know of.
	12:37pm doctorjazz: ↳ doctorjazz @12:36 (Paul Bley would play it almost as a dirge)
	12:39pm WM: My introduction to Carla Bley was hearing Ida Lupino on the first NRBQ record that came out in 1969.
	12:39pm Irene Trudel: Hi Robert and Michael!
	12:41pm doctorjazz: Some Carla Bley interviews: www.newyorker.com... ethaniverson.com...
	12:42pm Peter K.: ↳ WM @12:39 Keep listening!
	12:42pm Stork: Phew! Made it in time for Ida Lupino! Hi all! So sweet to hear Carla's beautiful music!!
	12:42pm Irene Trudel: ↳ WM @12:39 You mean this track, WM??
	12:43pm WM: Yes!
	12:44pm judy from croton: Oh oh oh Making so many connections, with your help, zirene and Peter
	12:44pm WM: I wonder who wrote the lyrics?
	12:44pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ doctorjazz @12:41 Could you please cut &paste the Carla interview and send it to my email?
	12:47pm Irene Trudel: ↳ judy from croton @12:44 Hey judy! Nice to hear from you.
	12:48pm Stork: I played this in a passing tribute to Carla yesterday - but i played a different track - the only one on the album without Robert Wyatt, actually. This record is under Mason's name, but he really only played drums - Carla put it all together.
	12:48pm WM: I should mention that after searching online for a long time I finally found the libretto to Escalator Over The Hill at the following website: https://www.mattendahl.com/jco/eoth_libretto.txt
	12:49pm Peter K.: ↳ WM @12:44 If you mean the lyrics to "Ida," the answer is Terry Adams.
	12:49pm zzz: thanks for doing the Carla Bley Tribute, DJ IT, and hello to you and all. RIP to Carla Bley, incredible talent. nice to hear Musique Mechanique. I got that record some time in college and it blew me away and i was obsessed with it never heard anything like that.
	12:49pm headcleaner: ↳ Song: "I'm a Mineralist" by "Nick Mason (Robert Wyatt, v... Never knew about the Mason-Wyatt-Bley collaboration -- so much more interesting than what certain other members of Mason's band were doing at the time
	12:50pm zzz: NRBQ Ida was a treat, never heard that version before
	12:52pm judy from croton: I did 'cut and paste' at a typesetter's for New Music Distribution Service on my arrival in NY. My intro to Carla Bley
	12:52pm Irene Trudel: ↳ Stork @12:48 Hey Stork! If I'm remembering correctly, "Can't Get My Motor to Start" was somewhat of a hit on FM radio when it came out.
	12:52pm WM: Amy C. Beal published a biography of CB in 2011. I've only read part of it, but it seems very good. You can find the whole text @ archive.org.
	12:53pm Irene Trudel: ↳ judy from croton @12:52 Wow, that's really cool, judy!
	12:54pm Irene Trudel: ↳ zzz @12:49 Happy to oblige, zzz! We're big fans in this household.
	12:55pm doctorjazz: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @12:44 Done!
	12:56pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ doctorjazz @12:55 Thanks a bunch!
	12:57pm zzz: very possible i learned out it from this very radio program, but CB has/had the coolest website ever: www.wattxtrawatt.com
	12:58pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ zzz @12:57 She sure did!
	12:59pm Stork: ↳ Irene Trudel @12:52 I can believe it. What a hoot!
	1:00pm Stork: ↳ Song: "Rawalpindi Blues" by "Carla Bley / Paul Haines" ❤️❤️❤️
	1:06pm zzz: unmistakable Don Cherry on that escalator over the hill track. Tony Williams Lifetime is so intense!
	🥁 1:06pm Mxter Baba: greetings, Irene and WFMU folx in the stream!
	1:06pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ Mxter Baba @1:06 Hiya Baba!
	🥁 1:07pm Sean in Bristol UK: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @1:06 Hey Andrew
	🥁 1:08pm Sean in Bristol UK: ↳ Mxter Baba @1:06 Salutations, Baba
	1:09pm WM: Wait… Vashkar was written by CB? I bought Emergency when it first came out in 1970. It was - and still is - one of my favorite records, but I never realized one of the best songs on the record was written by CB.
	🥁 1:09pm David (in London): ↳ Mxter Baba @1:06 Mx Beekins!
	🥁 1:11pm Mxter Baba: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @1:06 hey there, A in T! S in B! D (in L)!
	1:12pm Stork: Be a leader - listen to Irene and Peter!
	1:12pm Stork: ↳ Stork @1:12 ugh - who wrote that?
	1:13pm alanr: Paul Haines was around the NYC scene, friends with Michael Snow, Roswell Rudd, and others in NYC in the early 60s. He helped do recordings on his reel to reel, including the NY Art Quartet. So, this put him into the mix of the new music scene at the time
	🥁 1:14pm David (in London): Ida was a good south London girl.
	1:14pm Irene Trudel: ↳ Mxter Baba @1:11 Hi Mxter Baba!
	1:15pm alanr: His poetry to very open and sometimes odd, which was reflected in a conversation we once had about remembering those days. He was too obtuse (I was recording on video) to use in my NY Art Quartet doc. A sweet, friendly, but obtuse guy.
	1:15pm WM: Recently I discovered on YouTube video of Tony Williams Lifetime on the Beat Club in 1970. And the band includes Jack Bruce! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNfy3Urhtsc
	1:15pm WM: Recently I discovered on YouTube video of Tony Williams Lifetime on the Beat Club in 1970. And the band includes Jack Bruce! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNfy3Urhtsc
	1:16pm alanr: Yes, Escalator was simply a document of the making of the recording. Fun to see a lot of familiar musicians in their much younger days and a hilarious retake and retake and retake (audio) of Jack Bruce in a sound booth
	1:17pm Dean: Haines recorded Albert Ayler's Ghosts, per wikipedia!
	1:17pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ WM @1:15 Thanks for the link WM.
	1:18pm Peter K.: ↳ WM @1:15 Jack Bruce was actually a member of the Tony Williams Lifetime for a minute. He's on at least a few tracks of the band's second album. The group disbanded after that, and later incarnations never quite captured the magic of the original.
	🥁 1:18pm Mxter Baba: Most def gotta go back to the archives and listen to this entire program from the start!
	🥁 1:20pm David (in London): I like to imagine that back in the 60s and 70s, if Nino Rota was commissioned to do a high profile score, Ennio Morricone would stomp about the house swearing and breaking things. And vice versa.
	1:20pm zzz: the Hal Willner tribute records are so wonderful
	🥁 1:20pm WR: A well written article I found in the playlist comments of Rich in Washington's most recent Friday Drummer stream show that has some interesting details about Escalator Over the Hill as well as overview of Carla's life and career: thequietus.com...
	🥁 1:24pm Mxter Baba: ↳ David (in London) @1:20 that sparks my imagination to play each other's soundtracks to the movies that used the other one!!!
	1:25pm Irene Trudel: ↳ WR @1:20 Thanks for pointing that out, WR!
	🥁 1:25pm Michael 98145: This is great
	🥁 1:27pm David (in London): ↳ Mxter Baba @1:24 Good call! Worth trying I reckon. Hmm, watching The Godfather with the soundtrack of The Thing playing - that could prove interesting...
	1:27pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ WR @1:20 Thanks for the link WR.
	🥁 1:27pm Mxter Baba: ↳ WR @1:20 oooh, coool! thanks WRkins!
	1:28pm WM: In 2007 Bill Laswell put out an expanded and remastered version of TWL Turn It Over on which Jack Bruce can be heard more prominently than the original release. You can find it on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUYUAtox95Y
	🥁 1:28pm Mxter Baba: ↳ David (in London) @1:27 right?!??!?!
	1:31pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Misterioso (Monk)" by "The Carla Bley Band" This is a great compilation, Hal Wilner empresario!
	1:36pm Soule: Good morning, Irene Trudel and other fellow admirers of Carla!
	1:36pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ WM @1:28 Thanks WM.
	1:36pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ Soule @1:36 Hi there Soule!
	1:37pm WM: The connections continue for me… As a kid I saw the movie The Trouble with Angels (1966). Its features Hailey Mills as a rebellious student at a Catholic Girls’ School and Rosalind Russelll as Mother Superior. I liked it as a kid and still think it’s a pretty good film. As it turns out it was directed by Ida Lupino. I wonder if IL ever heard CB’s composition.
	1:40pm Soule: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @1:36 Hi, Andrew! Good to see ya.
	1:41pm Irene Trudel: Good day to you, Soule!
	1:43pm Dean: Just sent you an interview with Carla from a 2012 issue of Musician, Irene.
	1:43pm Irene Trudel: ↳ WM @1:37 Amazing how many connections there are!
	1:43pm Soule: ↳ WM @1:37 My wife and I have watched "The Trouble With Angels" many times. "Scathingly brilliant idea" is a phrase we use often. Ida Lupino directed 3 episodes of "Gilligan's Island."
	1:44pm Irene Trudel: ↳ Dean @1:43 Thanks Dean!
	1:44pm WM: Tangential to CB’s career, I’d like to mention No Answer - music by Michael Mantler with words taken from Samuel Beckett’s novel How It Is.CB plays piano with Jack Bruce on bass & vocals and Don Cherry on trumpet. For many years I couldn’t find it online but then recently it turned up. Well worth a listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWOekc5aNA0
	1:45pm Dean: Geez, D. Sharpe played in one of her big bands. You know, later day Modern Lovers drummer.
	1:45pm Soule: ↳ WM @1:44 I agree, Michael Mantler's "No Answer" is great.
	1:48pm Irene Trudel: ↳ WM @1:44 Another great link to check out! I think Peter and I will be spending the evening watching You Tube.
	1:49pm alanr: wow.... that was quite Monkish, baby, baby!
	1:52pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Sing Me Softly of the Blues" by "Carla Bley / Ste... Swallow is the guitar-iest bass player ever!
	1:53pm Dean: Swallow's work with Giuffre is similar.
	🥁 1:54pm Michael 98145: This is going to be an excellent archive show ...
	1:57pm WM: Both Ida Lupino and Carla Bley produced accomplished works long before the term Feminism was ever whispered. I don’t think they ever put themselves in a special category of Women Artists, they just instinctively produced first rate works with out stopping to classify themselves. (This is meant not as a criticism of anyone but only as to a compliment to artists beyond classification.)
	2:00pm Soule: ↳ doctorjazz @1:52 There's a Jazz Weekly interview where Swallow talks about being attracted to the guitar-ish aspect of the instrument, but continues, "On the other hand, I have also kind of insisted whenever anybody asks over the years, that it is a bass, that even though it doesn't look like an acoustic bass and sound like an acoustic bass, it is there to perform the same functions." www.jazzweekly.com...
	2:01pm WM: I that last comment does not seem too cranky or argumentative... now that I think of it...
	2:03pm Dean: Marian McPartland wasn't an important composer?
	2:05pm Dean: "Feminism" as politics/ideology was first uttered before the end of the 19th C.
	2:05pm WM: First like should read "I hope that..."
	2:06pm Stork: ↳ Michael 98145 @1:54 I concur.
	2:06pm WM: @Dean: I stand corrected.
	2:06pm Peter K.: ↳ Dean @2:03 She was a great pianist and a pretty good composer but not, in my opinion, an important one.
	2:06pm joe mulligan: it seems that Carla influenced "Chilly" Gonzales
	2:09pm Dean: Fair enough, Peter K.
	2:10pm Dean: Then how about Nina Simone?
	2:13pm doctorjazz: ↳ Soule @2:00 Thanks for the link, Soule (he can definitely comp like a bassist, but when he's soloing on the upper register, he sounds like a guitar player; you can tell it's not, but it's pretty close).
	2:13pm Stork: ↳ Song: "Dance Class (Live)" by "George Russell Sextet" Great track!!
	2:15pm Soule: ↳ doctorjazz @2:13 Yes - to me it often sounds like the low end of Larry Coryell's guitar in particular.
	2:15pm Irene Trudel: ↳ Dean @2:10 I think Nina is up there too, but different. She was focused more on songs and Carla on instrumental music.
	2:17pm Stork: ↳ Dean @2:10 I think Nina was transcendent on so many levels - I'm not sure she can be fairly compared to Marian McPartland
	2:17pm Dean: Also fair.
	2:19pm Dean: That @2:17 was meant for Irene, but applies as well to Stork. I agree that Nina transcends so many musicians in so many ways. I also recognize that Mary Lou Williams and Carla Bley delivered more in the way of long-form work.
	2:20pm Stork: ↳ Dean @2:19 Just to clarify: I love Marian M's music, her pianism, and her radio show!!
	2:20pm Dean: Last night Alan Broadbent performed two works he introduced explicitly as composed by women, "Struttin' With Some Barbecue," and "Lullaby of the Leaves."
	2:22pm WM: To continue my personal process of association... The first NRBQ record also contained a version of Sun Ra's Rocket Number 9. I at least knew about Sun Ra by then but that version of R#9 was probably the first Sun Ra composition I ever heard. I went on to become a huge Sun Ra fan. I first heard the Arkestra live in 1973 and the performance was eventually released on CD as Concert for the Comet Kohoutek. So I can honestly brag that I have been listening to both Sun Ra and Carla Bley for the last 50 years.
	2:22pm Dean: I'm partial to this oldie but goodie: https://www.discogs.com/release/5479575-Marian-McPartland-At-The-Hickory-House
	2:23pm Stork: ↳ Song: "The Opening; Interlude (Shovels); The Survivors; ... I was waiting with baited breath for this rekkid!!
	🥁 2:25pm BLCKDGRD: Checking in late, thanks for this, will listen to the first 140 minutes once they're archived!
	2:26pm Irene Trudel: I love Marian's "Ambiance" album. When I briefly worked for NPR's NY bureau, I recorded an interview at her house.
	2:26pm Soule: ↳ Stork @2:23 Yes! Hurray for Genuine Tong Funeral!
	2:27pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ Soule @2:26 Agreed!
	2:29pm Dean: So cool, interviewing Marian! All this talk of female artists puts me in mind of Jessica Williams, whom we lost last year. Saw her live only once, in SF. Or did I see her a second time at Piedmont Piano?
	2:34pm Soule: ↳ Stork @2:20 AND there's a great episode of Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz with Carla and Steve!: www.npr.org...
	2:35pm Stork: ↳ Dean @2:29 I'm also a fan of Jessica Williams. She was a double threat as a classical and jazz player. Love the album Birks Works
	2:36pm Stork: Whadda show!! Whadda duo!! Thanks, Irene & Peter. This is just pure joy!!
	2:37pm doctorjazz: ↳ Stork @2:35 Also dig Jessica Williams, discovered her not long ago.
	2:42pm Peter K.: ↳ Stork @2:36 Thanks for the kind words, Stork. We love Carla Bley and were happy to have the chance to show it!
	2:42pm Irene Trudel: ↳ Stork @2:36 Aww, shucks! It was really fun spreading our love for Carla.
	2:43pm doctorjazz: Almost the end, so glad you could do a tribute to Carla Bley, I also love her music (been missing any WFMU tributes that may have happened). Thanks, Irene and Peter!
	2:47pm Irene Trudel: Thanks for all the kind words everybody! We could go another three hours I'm sure, but we must make way for Wendy. I'll be back next Monday at noon with some Halloween foolishness. Stay streaming for Wreck Your Own Adventure, up next! wfmu.org...
	2:47pm Andrew in Toronto: What a classic episode! Thanks Irene and Peter!
	2:47pm WM: Great show! Thank you and WFMU for allowing me to ramble, rant, reminisce and make recommendations. I'll make a point of listening to your show from now on.
	2:48pm Irene Trudel: ↳ WM @2:47 Thanks so much, WM!
	2:49pm Stork: ↳ WM @2:47 ramble, rant, reminisce and make recommendations. - Those are just 4 of the traits one must have as a DJ.
	2:49pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "America The Beautiful (Medley)" by "Charlie Haden... Lovely, Lovely, Lovely!
	2:49pm Irene Trudel: ↳ Stork @2:49 You got that right, Stork!
	🥁 2:50pm Mxter Baba: ah, thank you, Irene—what a glorious tribute this has been. Thanks, everyone who supports WFMU!
	2:52pm Peter K.: ↳ Stork @2:49 Rambling, ranting, reminiscing and making recommendations: These are a few of my favorite things!
	2:53pm Peter K.: Thanks for listening, everyone. Thanks to Irene for allowing me to share the airwaves with her. And thanks to Carla Bley for being Carla Bley.
	2:53pm WM: Thanks to everyone for your indulgence.
	2:54pm Soule: ↳ Peter K. @2:53 Thank you, Irene and Peter, for this show. A lovely tribute.
	2:54pm doctorjazz: ↳ WM @2:47 What else is a chat board for?
	2:55pm erik-O-vert: Super Duper extra thanks to ALL who participated today sharing and delving (as always) with all the Link-y delights and discoveries! Y’all are the best community.
	2:57pm Listener Robert: Yay!
	2:57pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Reactionary Tango" by "Carla Bley" One of my favorite Bley tunes, was on constant repeat mode on my turntable when I first got it.
	🥁 2:57pm WR: Many thanks, Irene and Peter for this loving tribute. Onward.
	2:59pm alanr: FANTASTIC SHOW!!!!!! THANK YOU PETER & IRENE!!!!!
	🥁 2:59pm David (in London): Thanks for a great show today, Irene.
	2:59pm Listener Bryan (the Professor): Thanks, Irene!
	2:59pm Stork: THANKS U TWO!

Irene Trudel: Playlist from October 23, 2023

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