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  Utrecht, Netherlands
Tuesday, April 11, 2006

The John Sinclair Radio Show #81
Mega Platen, Jaarbeurs Utrecht
Sunday, April 9, 2006 @ 4:00- 5:00 pm [20-0611]

Henk Botwinik and I took the train over to Utrecht this Sunday afternoon with Sascha Kinsella to make a program at the spring edition of Mega Platen, or what I call the Giant Record Show, at the Jaarbeurs exhibition hall. We were here in November and are happy to see our friend Cas Bosland, the organizer of the temporary "vinyl capital of Europe," as he calls his 25-year-old operation. I get to talk with a young woman named Fay Lousley who's a professional theramin player from Amsterdam, and Jaap Schut of the Rock & Art Hall of Fame/Dutch Pop Museum in the Hook of Holland, and there's music from the Pin Stripe Brass Band, Professor Longhair, Dr. John, Glen David Andrews, Louise Bogan (misannounced on the show as Louise Johnson), the Forgotten Souls Brass Band, a track from the forthcoming Criss Cross album by John Sinclair & Mark Ritsema, and a cut from the forthcoming Blues Scholars album Natural From Our Hearts that's dedicated to Frantic Ernie Durham, who's featured in the first installment of our new program series Vintage Radio Vaults on Radio Free Amsterdam.

Listen here: #81 Mega Platen, Jaarbeurs, Utrecht, April 9, 2006 (.mp3)

Playlist #81:

[01] Opening Music: Pinstripe Brass Band: Higher and Higher with Intro & Opening Tokes from The Dolphins with Henk & Sascha
[02] Professor Longhair: In the Wee Wee Hours
[03] Dr.

Bessie Before

John: Sweet Home New Orleans
[04] Comments & Conversation with Amsterdam musician Fay Lousley
[05] Glen David Andrews: Reefer Song
[06] Louise Bogan: Shave 'Em Dry
[07] Forgotten Souls Brass Band: Funky Nuts
[08] Comments & Conversation with Jaap Schut of Rock & Art Hall of Fame/Dutch Pop Museum
[09] John Sinclair & Mark Ritsema: april in paris
[10] Closing Comments & Outro
[11] John Sinclair & His Blues Scholars: Train Fare Home

Hosted by John Sinclair for Radio Free Amsterdam
Produced & Engineered by Henk Botwinik at Jaarbeurs Utrecht
Executive Producer: Sascha Kinsella
Special thanks to Cas Bosland and Gus McIlhenny
Sponsored by Mr. Gus, The Dolphins and Mega Platen

©(P) 2006 John Sinclair. All Rights Reserved.

Posted @ April 10, 2006



Steve Gebhardt sadly reports that the great Cincinnati deejay Oscar Treadwell passed away last week. I'm going to attach a poem from the book of monk that's dedicated to him but actually refers to the Bird tune and to a trumpet player called George Treadwell, who married Sarah Vaughan and managed her career and also managed the Drifters, one of the greatest vocal groups of all time.


from thelonious: a book of monk

#22

"an oscar for treadwell"

for paul lichter, ron esposito
& the great oscar treadwell


shoot a straight line
back thru time, from the 6th of june
1950, midway
thru the 20th century -

shoot it thru the centerpoint
of a human triangle
made of spirit & flesh,
monk & bird & dizzy -

shoot it back to the end
of the 1930s
in new york city,
harlem, clark monroe's

uptown house
at 132nd st.

Bessie Smith

& 7th ave,
on the old site of the rhythm club,
where the set started at 4:00 am

& the house band was bird sometimes,
vic coulson & george treadwell on trumpets,
allen tinney piano, ebenezer paul
on bass, & from brooklyn

a very young max roach
at the drums - & leading the band,
the man with the plan so tight
that they named the joint after him,

clark monroe,
"the dark gable,"
with a sharp eye for business
& a regular hit for the band

in midtown, every night
from 9 pm to 3 am,
7 days a week
with every 7th week off -

georgie jay's 78th st. taproom
employed this splendid ensemble
with clark monroe doing his little dance steps
fronting the band all night

& then they would tear off
to harlem & hit
after the taproom gig
from 4 to 8 am

at the uptown house
seven mornings a week, all juiced up
& ready to cook thru dawn
with anybody who was ready to sit in -

the clark monroe outfit
set the pace
with its tight little arrangements
& the trumpet of vic coulson

& players would come up to monroe's
from all over town,
after their gigs,
or if they were in the city

with the big bands that toured
they would come up to harlem
& get with what was happening
in the jazz center of the world,

where the cats who could really play
were cutting a new edge
on the shape of the music, pointing it
into the future, out in

front of them, where they could kick it
square in the ass
& make it go
where it had never gone

before-in 1942
when the new music
called bebop was new, like even before
it was called bebop, & monk

& bird & dizzy
were wild young men of music
with insane ideas
& incredible technique,

desperate
to push the music
forward,
at clark monroe's uptown house

where coleman hawkins & roy eldridge,
say, & five cats from the glenn
miller band, plus lester young,
billie holiday,

a few students from columbia
including jack kerouac
& jerry newman, who took down the music
on his little wire recorder

that his daddy bought him for college,
plus some sailors on leave,
whores, pimps, & dope sellers,
young musicians like monk

& benny harris, there might be
dexter gordon in town from the west coast
with the benny carter orchestra
& more cats from harlem

with their lady friends,
this would be the crowd
between 4 and 8 in the morning
when the music would start to take off

& bird would play some shit on "cherokee"
that would make people's jaws drop,
whew,
where did this motherfucker come from,

thrusting his intelligence & drive
into the heart
of the old music, cutting a new channel
where something could be said

about what was happening right now,
bam,
bop,
splee dooley ooo bop,

this was the way so many people
had been feeling inside, & say dizzy
climbs up on the stand
& puts in his 200 million dollars' worth

& suddenly there is monk
at the piano, & kenny clarke
`klook mop' on drums,
& coleman hawkins says whoah, let me

get up there with these young bloods
& feel this out for myself,
ba-weep,
spla-doop,

sploo-eee doolee ree-bop,
this is the shit,
blooo-wee bop she bam,
the heavens opened up & the holy feeling

entered the participants
from above & below, until they were infused
with the new spirit
of the new music,

blue-eee bop,
beee-eee-eee-bop,
bird & monk & dizzy
wailing thru the harlem night

at clark monroe's uptown house,
turning on the world
& spinning it around
on a whole different axis





--kansas city, mo
november 14, 1986/
detroit
may 27/july 22/september 28, 1987


© 1987, 2006 john sinclair.

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