Sonic Café, from 1967’s Dimensions & Extensions album that’s the amazing Sam Rivers, welcome to the Jazz Club at the Sonic Café. This is episode 368 and I’m your host Scott Clark. Thanks for dropping by. This time the Sonic Café presents a set of great vintage jazz pulled mostly from the 1960’s, arguably one of the most productive and creative era’s for great acoustic jazz. We’ll here from many of the greats including John Coltrane, Yusef Lateef, Wayne Shorter, Hank Mobley, Eric Dolphy, Donald Byrd, Joe Henderson, Gene Ammons, Pepper Adams and of course more. So kick back and enjoy this great mix of vintage jazz, from our Jazz Club, located just down the steps in the lower level of the cafe. From 1962 here’s the Cannonball Adderley Quintet, and we’re the Sonic Café.
Song 1: Precis (2008 Digital Remaster) (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) Artist: Sam Rivers LP: Dimensions & Extensions (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) Yr: 1967 Song 2: Bohemia After Dark Artist: Cannonball Qunintet LP: Dizzy's Business Yr: 1962 Song 3: Impressions Artist: John Coltrane LP: The Lost Album Yr: 1963 Song 4: Playful Flute Artist: Yusef Lateef Quintet LP: The Sounds of Yusef Yr. 1957 Song 5: The Albatross Artist: Wayne Shorter LP: Second Genesis Yr: 1960 Song 6: The Breakdown Artist: Hank Mobley LP: Roll Call Yr: 1960 Song 7: G.W. Artist: Eric Dolphy Septet with Donald Byrd LP: Paris ‘64 Year: 1964 Song 8: Our Thing Artist: Joe Henderson LP: Our Thing Yr: 1963 Song 9: Blue Ammons Artist: Gene Ammons LP: Boss Tenor Yr: 1960 Song 10: Hellure (How Are You're) Artist: Pepper Adams Quartet LP: Ephemera Yr: 1973 Song 11: Milano Artist: The Modern Jazz Quartet LP: Django Yr: 1954
About the Producer:
Scott Clark has always had a lot of music in his life. Growing up outside of Chicago, he was mesmerized early on by the radio of the sixties and seventies and began collecting records at a very early age. From 45’s and LP’s to cassettes and CD’s and now digital… he really never stopped. Today everything in his library is digitized because he got sick of lugging all that stuff around.
The concept for the Sonic Café is to deliver the high production values and feel of the radio he grew up listening to. But unlike the tight, repetitious playlists of those commercial stations, feature a massive range of artists, genres and tunes. The whole idea is to package it in an eclectic, engaging, no repeat format that brings both new and old together in a unique, entertaining, and most importantly fun and fast paced way. There’s really nothing on the radio today, or in the past, that compares with it.
About the Sonic Café:
The show is set in an imaginary cafe overlooking the Pacific Ocean on the Central Oregon Coast. The cafe serves up eclectic, intelligent music, comedy and pop culture. The program originates on the Oregon coast in the Pacific Northwest, so the imagery is not a huge stretch.
Each program is 58:00 minutes in length leaving room for station ID, promos and PSAs. Each episode is .mp3 encoded at a constant rate of 256kbps and ready for broadcast.
An episode is released each week. All episodes are evergreen; never focusing on time of year, weather, month, holidays, events etc. so each show is timeless. All music is presented in a no repeat format. Once a song airs in an episode it never airs again. Episodes may be downloaded and grouped together to quickly create program blocks of two, three, four or more hours in length.
The Sonic Cafe has a Facebook page (facebook.com/SonicCafeRadio) where complete show notes and playlists are presented for each episode. Listeners can also reach the show producers via email (SonicCafeRadio@gmail.com)