RIFFFIN’S RUNDOWN FOR WEEK, 8/12/08, 8.35PM, AT NEWSTALK 93FM.
Live stream www.newstalk93fm.com
MONDAY: Three sides of Duke Ellington. As pianist/composer. As Orchestral leader/composer. Finally, an Ellington singer , Betty Roche sings some of his classic songs.
TUESDAY: Italian trumpeter, Enrico Rava’s album “Full Of Life”, finds Rava, leading a pianoless Quartet, including a baritone saxophone, that reminds of Chet Baker and Gerry Mulligan.
WEDNESDAY: Archie Shepp and Abdullah Ibrahim, aka Dollar Brand, make a duo , a high level music conversation, by two great artists, totally in tune with one another.
THURSDAY: In a matter of weeks, music has lost, Miriam M akeba, and now Odetta, the voice of America’s Civil Rights Movement. Riffin pays tribute to a powerful voice.
FRIDAY: The promising Jamaican/Kenyan duo, the Neutral Sisters, Kyra and Bianca Noons, has suffered a setback. The death of Bianca, means her sister must go it alone. Riffin features the Neutral; Sisters.
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